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 about 15 years after "Absolutely Positi'vly Love", and maybe 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,
and...
M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S
Gotta love that typed sleeve for the blue label. And both sides of the Orange one are winners! Most particularly: Mike & that Nashville Jamband.
ReplyDeleteA Purse named Bob sent me here to discover Big Beat Daddy, which seems to have a lot of Ain't We Got Fun in it. Thanks much!
ReplyDeleteWhat a blast from the past! I worked at QCA (Queen City Album), the pressing plant in Cincinnati that did many records on the J.O.i.F.U. label. I was there when Big Beat Daddy was pressed. I worked in the Quality Control department and spent many days laughing and scratching my head at some of these crazy records. I think I kept a copy of this one, and probably still have it somewhere. It was always nice to get a job for something other than the hillbilly gospel records that QCA pressed so many of. Thanks for reminding me how much fun that job was 50 years ago!
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