Hey kids! Collect The Whole Set!

Here is a cool collection of Damon Recording Studio acetates and pressings, from Kansas City, MO.
All the white label 45s are acetates except for the Apparitions, which you can see is pressed on thick vinyl and has a rounded lip and deadwax number. The Blue velvets is a conventional pressing.

These photos of Vic Damon cutting acetates at the Damon Recording Studio are from the University Of Missouri archives. Anyone who supposes that independent studios of the 50s and 60s were operating in a lo-fi environment, needs to look at pictures like these and compare to today's laptop recording studios.
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More photos and story here:
http://brusheswithgreatness.net/wordpress/?p=168

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Here's a series of Charay releases. Charay is one of two prolific labels owned by Major Bill Smith based out of Fort Worth. Major Bill's other label was Soft, which will be featured next. In later years, Major Bill was a proponent of the "Elvis lives" theory.

The top row is more pop than garage (The Sirs is a rocking' intro), but I like 'em anyway. The other 3 rows are pretty solid garage crunch. I'm missing Willie Hobbs & The Dirte Four (have the Mercury pressing), and The Canadian Rogues "Keep In Touch" (have the Palmer pressing).

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bosshoss said:
I am absolutely sure this is not the entire set of garage-worthy Era releases. Here's a very well-researched discography (although it's missing the Ambertones shown in my shot). Surely some of the other ones listed from '64-'69 must have that garage sound? Sci-Fi's is an instro.

http://www.globaldogproductions.info/e/era.html

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"Clap your Hands" was not issued on Era originally - it was first on the Rayjack label and then, Newman. Newman had distribution from the Era family of labels. Due to the continued popularity of the disc in the Los Angeles area Era reissued the tune as part of the "Golden Era" 45rpm reissue series a few years later.
 
I would not be surprised to discover that there are more pic sleeves for JCP label performers that have not surfaced to date. At least for the four digit label number series that began following the last 4 digit number release by the Nightwalkers.
I know of sleeves for the Kays Combo, Britt Brothers, Nightwalkers, Embers, Dayv Butler (JCP 1032)
 
bosshoss said:
I am absolutely sure this is not the entire set of garage-worthy Era releases. Here's a very well-researched discography (although it's missing the Ambertones shown in my shot). Surely some of the other ones listed from '64-'69 must have that garage sound? Sci-Fi's is an instro.
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The only relevant one I know of which is missing is the Hungry IV - mentioned in TBM.
 
Here's a copy of Mark Prellberg's Free Flight, Dove Recording Studio 2LP compilation. To the left is an acetate LP containing 6 cuts by The Magpies, including their best cut featured on Free Flight, "Never See Her Again". There are 5 other Magpies tunes from the same session, all unreleased. "Everybody's Fool" is not on the LP acetate, but was the flip side of a different 7" acetate of "Never See Her Again".

Top centre is the legendary acetate "He's In Love With Himself" / "I Just Don't Know". When Free Flight was released, the identity of the group was listed as "unknown artist" due to the absence of labels on the acetate. The group has recently been confirmed as The System, see link below.
http://minniepaulmusic.com/?page_id=6581

At top right is the Calico Wall's "I'm A Living Sickness" Dove acetate which was also never released in the '60s, but has been compiled several times since, including on 45.

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