I just got another copy of Gene Marshall's Version of "What Do You Say Baby Beautiful Joyce", as well as another JOiFU 45. So I'll present 'em both here.
If you don't recall, here's the "origin story" once again. On Bob Purse's "The Wonderful and the Obscure", he uploaded a Mike Thomas 45 with an intriguing song on this post.
In doing an online search for that title, I found out that song-poem legend Gene Marshall did another version! Apparently, the lyric-writer, and/or "Beautiful Joyce" herself, reconfigured the words, sent them to another song-poem company, then had that version pressed on their own "vanity label". I uploaded this 45 on one of my previous "S&B" blogs.
Here are the labels from the copy I already had.
Now I have another copy, with a cacophony of promotional blurb-ness (if there's such a word) on the front of its paper sleeve.
For the heck of it, here are those 2 songs again. I'm gonna dispense with the corny "band names" that are given on these labels.
What Do You Say Baby Beautiful Joyce - Gene Marshall Download
Diane No. 2 - Gene Marshall Download
Now for the next record in my collection, another JOiFU 45!
Big Beat Daddy - Vicki Download
I wondered if there was any song-poem singer named Vicki who this could be. Then, I heard her sing. It isn't Vicki Farrell, is it?! If so, this is more than 10 years after "Absolutely Positi'vly Love", and several years after "You Can't Make Me Over". And hey, she talks on this one! I'm glad to own my first Vicki Farrell 45 ("if so", of course)!
Tell You Again - Mike Rogers Download
I don't think I heard him on any song-poems, but then again, I haven't heard every song-poem ever made. Mike gives us another reference to "beautiful Joyce" and her "beautiful voice" in this song.
Now, here's hoping I can find that album, or that JOiFU 156 45. Until then, goodbye,
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