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A Fan and her Gifts May 2010
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Photos by: Dave Crimmen
Me and the guys will be playing the Westmoor High School Class Reunion of 1960-61. Floran Tomola, one of the girls on the committee, came to my gig at the Pacifica Farmer's Market and brought me some really cool gifts. I just HAD to show them off to you so here we go:
From 1959, here's the picture Sleeve to one of Fabian's biggest hit singles "Turn Me Loose" It's in MINT condition too! I remember my sister Ginny, that's short for Virginia buying this one.
Here's the back side to the sleeve. The actual record is worth about $1.00 buut I've seen the sleeve at record swap meets go for up to $30.00. When I told my sister this she turned green.
Okay, here's the actual record that my sister bought. You can see she wrote her name and telephone number on it. Lots of girls did this so when they went to each other's "Pajama parties" they could keep track of whose records belonged to who. What happened to my sister's copy of the picture sleeve you might ask? Well, I remember one day she put on this "Hot Flamenco Pink" lip stick, planted a kiss on the face of Fabian and then taped it onto the wall in her bedroom. Are ANY of you record collectors out there cringing right now?
For all of you folks interested in my book on Broadmoor, you ought to note that our phone number, in 1959 did NOT have an area code. Our phone number also did NOT a numeric prefix in 1959, ( i.e. 755 ) the number was PL 5 or PLAZA 5-6058. It became 755-6058 in the late 1960's
Here's the picture sleeve to one of James Darren's biggest hits from 1961
Ed "Kookie" Burns starred in the T.V. show "77 Sunset Strip". Here's the picture sleeve to his duet with Connie Stevens "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb". Hey, where's Connie, shouldn't SHE be in the picture too? Who can forget the immortal lyrics "Baby, you're the ginchyest" ? ;-)
The picture sleeve to Louis' 1964 hit. Inside however was an E.P. from his then former label Decca Records. Dunno how it wound up in this sleeve but it's a pleasant surprise.
Here's a cover for an Ink Spots an E.P. There's no copyright date on it but I'm guessing it's very early 1950's because the back cover doesn't advertise any records by Bill Haley and his Comets.
There's a version of "My Prayer" on here, a song later made a hit by the Rock 'n Roll group the Platters. A coincidence, not really, the Ink Spots had a manager named Buck Ram who went on to manage, produce and write hit songs for the Platters. Buck actually patterned the Platters after the Ink Spots, sort of a Rock 'n Roll version of them. A little bit of Rock 'n Roll History for Y'All.
Thanx Floran for the great gifts. I hope all of you out there in Rock 'n Roll land liked this too. If you went to Westmoor and graduated 1960 or 1961, LEMME know and I'll hook you up with her.
I'll plant you now and dig you later
Dave