FEBRUARY 2007 ISSUE #159 Inside:

‘ Now, Ladies & Gents ‘ Club Services ‘ Thanks For the Music

‘ Group/Solo Effort

RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR VIEW FROM THE TOP Congratulations to the 2007 office team you elected to run your club. They include: Bill Donohue, President; Les Knier, Vice President; Erna Welcome to another year of Reinhart, Secretary and Charlie collecting with the Keystone Record Collectors! Reinhart, Treasurer. I want to thank all elected and appointed officers They are all committed to do the best they can for you, for their commitment to the club for 2006. A however, they can’t do it all alone. Volunteer your time, expertise, comments and knowledge. Please help them special thank you to the officers who stepped up make our club and show even more effective. and performed double duty while I had some personal items to take care of. Thank you to all At the January Business meeting, following the announcement of the election results, all of the current members for their votes of support for the 2007 appointed officers were reappointed for 2007. They include: officer team and myself. Steve Yohe, Show Coordinator; Bob “Will” Williams, Site Coordinator; Doug Smith, Phone Reservations; Phil As you know, we are changing vendor table size Schwartz, Special Projects Coordinator, Les Knier, Web from 6 foot to 8 foot, allowing for what we thank Site Coordinator, Ron Diehl, Club Photographer, B. Derek will be a more efficient operation. This brings up Shaw, Newsletter and Communications and Dave Schmidt, another situation that we need to take into newly named Show Flyer Guru. These 12 people work consideration: dealers renting tables and leaving tirelessly (and without pay) to bring you a great show each early, some as early as 10:30 or 11:00 a.m. month. If you get a chance, thank them for their commitment to our club. I’m sure there are many reasons that could arise This “gang of twelve” is not a closed group. We welcome causing vendors to leave early. We are asking anyone else who wants to roll up their sleeves and volunteer dealers to keep it to a minimum and that if you for your club, our club. If interested, let any of the folks have to leave early rent only one table. There are mentioned above know about your desire to help. We’ll put other dealers and members who would like to rent you to work. also. To have empty tables for the second half of I can’t share this final thought often enough - I share it all the day does not help promote the show or the time in the monthly cyber KEY-NOTES e-mail. (By the encourage other dealers to stay the full day. way, if you have an e-mail address and are not getting monthly e-mail newsletter from us, we can solve that As always we ask that you help promote the KRC problem. Send an e-mail to: [email protected] and and the Music Expo. I hope you you will be added to this valuable service that is getting rave will also help to increase our membership by reviews from members.) getting friends and others to join the organization. Anyway, if you operate a music store or mail order service, By doing so, you are helping to keep us financially feel free to promote OUR show on your web site in e-mails and printed materials and include flyers in customer orders sound. Member dues help support the club in you ship. Put a link on your website to the club’s website: many ways. Should membership shrink, we would www.recordcollectors.org If you are a club or mobile DJ, have to find other ways to support the club. It please take show flyers to your gigs to help spread the takes a lot of volunteers and financial support to word. If you are on-air talent at a radio station, please give put on a quality show every month. our club and show a plug. Everyone is encouraged to take a quantity of the maroon on gray paper 2007 Show Date The music industry has changed in many ways in Flyers to place in your corner of the world. It’s hard to recent years. We must change some also if we imagine that after 27+ years, there are some Central want to continue to put on a show every month. Pennsylvanians and others who do not know about the show. Your help can help solve that Keep looking, keep collecting, keep in tune to the Musically Speaking, problem. See Show Coordinator music and the club. Steve Yohe at the club table or myself and we will arm you with an William Donohue ample supply of flyers. 2007 KRC President B. Derek Shaw KEY-NOTES Editor The more we ALL promote OUR show,

& Communications the more successful we ALL will be. [email protected] That’s the bottom line! PAGE 2 KEY NOTES #159 FEBRUARY 2007 FRIENDS OF THE LANCASTER KRC in 2007 COUNTY LIBRARY & KRC TEAM UP EACH SHOW 9 AM TO 3 PM SECOND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH LANCASTER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA Many of our members who have FLYERS ARE AVAILABLE, SO TAKE SOME AND SPREAD THE WORD! attended the book sales hosted by the ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR WANT LIST ITEMS. Friends of the Lancaster County BUSINESS MEETING FOLLOWS EVERY OTHER SHOW AT 3:30PM, Library, are aware that there are (DURING THE MONTH THERE IS NO KEY-NOTES) PLAN TO BE THERE. always large amounts of records included in the sale. This event, which AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, is conduced twice per year (spring and A MESSAGE FROM SHOW fall) at the Overlook Skating Rink, Lititz COORDINATOR STEVE YOHE… SOMEONE ELSE’S Pike, Lancaster, is one of the largest of it's type in the world. Recently, WITF- HOLY GRAIL FM Radio, the Central Pennsylvania Because of numerous requests from club Maybe a KRC member public broadcasting affiliate, donated members over the years, KRC will be can help. Jerry Falk, who their entire record collection to the examining various ways to handle the lives in the Midwest is Lancaster County Library. Due to the time period before our 9 AM official looking for an elusive size (over 10,000) and quality of this opening time at the Pennsylvania Jimmy Clanton religious extraordinary classical collection, the Music Expo. As a result, we are advis- recording, from the late Friends of the Library have partnered ing all those members who like to shop eighties or early nineties. with KRC to appear at the Pennsyl- early and all vendors to locate their Mr. Clanton became born- vania Music Expo on a regular basis 2007 KRC membership cards for what- again at some point. in 2007. Tom Miller, who heads up ever new policy we may adopt some Jerry is seeking informa- the classical records sorting and pricing time later this year. No details are tion from this geography for the library will be one of the volun- available yet, and we're still committed since Jimmy was appar- teers who will be selling items, begin- to keeping our show open to the public ently a resident of Lititz ning at the March 11th show. This with free admission from 9 to 3. The during the aforemen- special selection of classical and opera area of concern for many vendors and tioned time frame. Does will be available for sale next to the other members is vendor set-up time anyone have any informa- KRC stand. If you or a friend is inter- (from the time the doors open sometime tion? Doug Smith did a ested in classical records, don't miss around 6:30 or 7 AM until 9). Some brief web search and did this opportunity. These records are in possibilities to think about for that time not find anything of real excellent condition, and there are some period are vendor only and/or vendor value. very unique and rare recordings all and member only time slots with a hefty priced considerably below market admission charged for nonmember early Call Jerry at 563-382-3755 or 262-248- 6739. value. All proceeds benefit the Lancas- shoppers before 9. If the pre-show ter County Library. admission would be made high enough, more people may be encouraged to join. FOR Large 12-Inch Dance/ Again no decision has been made except LE to investigate possibilities. Having a SA Collection current membership card in your pos- session when any changes take effect will definitely be to everybody's benefit. A s reported in the December entirety (no 2006 issue of KEY-NOTES, picking) for longtime friend and supporter $2500. At KRC salutes our of KRC, Ken Long, passed less than a away in November, after a dollar per men & women in KRC INFO LINE lengthy and courageous LP, this uniform who are (717) 898-1246 battle with pancreatic cancer. would give a CALL ANYTIME! diligently defend- In addition to his award dealer a KRC Remembers: ing our freedom. winning photography, Ken wonderful was a popular club/mobile DJ opportunity Ken Long in the 1970s and 80s. Ken's to sell them wife of nearly 20 year, Phyllis at a profit, or a private Long, is interested in sell- collector a chance to add ing his lifelong collection of many titles to his or her

12-inch dance mix sin- collection. Condition varies Issue #159, February 2007 gles. There are also a from gently played to new. If EDITOR: B. Derek Shaw GRAPHICS & LAYOUT: Scott L. Shermeyer number of full-length LPs in interested, please contact CONTRIBUTORS: B. Derek Shaw, Bill Donohue, Steve Yohe, Karen this collection, mostly in the Phyllis at [email protected] Hostetter, Doug Smith, Phil Schwartz PHOTOS: B. Derek Shaw, Wikipedia website category of dance/ or call (717) 291- CHANGE OF ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1516, Lancaster, PA 17608 disco. There are big hits, and 2121. Some of the records NEWS/PHOTOS/IDEAS: 329 Rathton Rd., York, PA 17403-3933 lots of obscurities on small, have been alphabetized, and [email protected] independent labels. The an appointment can be made (Deadline for #160 is March 11th) collection total over 2900 to inspect the entire collec- Names in bold type are members of Keystone Record Collectors records, and is for sale in it's tion. FEBRUARY 2007 KEY NOTES #159 PAGE 3

THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC A farewell to some of the who passed away in 2006: January 6th: Lou Bobby Harden, 70, country singer. Falls"), lung can- Rawls, 72, jazz and cer;16th: Freddie June 2nd: Vince Welnick, 55, member of singer, lung Willis, (age?), The Grateful Dead, suicide and: Des- and brain cancer; 8th: baritone and music mond Dekker, 64, who brought Jamaican Johnny Fortune, 62, director for the ska music to the world (“Israelites”), Surf guitarist, Calvanes, colon heart attack; 9th: Vern Williams, 76, vocalist, session cancer; 21st: bluegrass mandolin player and singer; , diabetic- Freddy Fender Sandy West, 47, 3rd: Johnny Grande, 76, pianist, member related heart failure; drummer and of 's backing band, The Com- 19th: Wilson Pickett, 64, soul vocalist with The Runaways, lung cancer. ets, complications arising from cancer; singer, heart attack; 27th: 6th: Billy Preston, 59, keyboardist/singer November 1st: Buddy Killen, 73, record Gene McFadden, 56, Philadel- ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from producer and founder of Dial Records, phia singer and Nothing") known for his work with the pancreatic cancer; 3rd: Paul Mauriat, 81, (McFadden & Whithead), Beatles, malignant hypertension leading French musician (L'Amour Est Bleu), cancer. to kidney failure; 26th: Stephen Tiger, Love Is Blue; 6th: Robert Jance Garfat, February 6 th: Richie 57, member of Native American band 62, (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show), Schwartz, 63, the original Tiger Tiger who performed with Jimi motorcycle accident; 10th: Gerald Wilson Pickett first tenor of The Quotations; Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, recipient of a Levert, 40, R&B singer and son of The 12th: Lenny Dee, 83, Native American Music Association O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, heart organist/composer (Plantation Boogie) Lifetime Achievement Award, head injury attack; 17th: Ruth and club owner; 17th: Bill Cowsill, 58, and: Johnny Jenkins, 67, blues guitarist Brown, 78, blues singer, lead singer of The Cowsills, emphysema who influenced and Jimi complications following a and other ailments. Hendrix, stroke. heart attack and stroke; 21st: Robert Lockwood March 1st: Johnny Jackson, 54, former July 3rd: Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Jr., 91, Mississippi Delta drummer for , stabbing; Blue Note Orchestra and musician on blues guitarist and singer, 3rd: Charlie Hodge, 71, guitarist and early Tamla sessions, stroke; 7th: Syd Ruth Brown respiratory failure; 23rd: backup singer for Elvis Presley and Barrett, 60, founding Anita O'Day, 87, jazz Graceland resident, lung cancer; 6th: member of Pink Floyd, singer, pneumonia; 24th: Walter Booker, King Floyd, 61, New Orleans soul singer; pancreatic cancer; 9th: 72, jazz bassist with the Cannonball (Groove Me), complications of a stroke Milan Williams, 58, Adderley Quintet, cardiac arrest; 26th: and diabetes; 17th: Narvin Kimball, 97, keyboardist, founding Tony Silvester, 65, Panama-born soul banjo player, founding member of the member of R&B/funk band singer with The Main Ingredient. Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the the , cancer; Gentlemen of Jazz; 25th: Buck Owens, 26th: Floyd Dixon, 77, R&B December 2nd: Mariska 76, star, heart attack. pianist, kidney failure. Syd Barrett Veres, 59, Dutch singer of , hit #1 on April 5th: Gene Pitney, August 3rd: Arthur Lee, 61, leader of the Billboard Hot 100 in 66, singer and song- the psychedelic band Love, leukemia 1970 with "Venus", cancer; writer, heart disease; and: Richard Barrett, 70, legendary 9th: Fred Marsden, 66, 11th: June Pointer, 52, born singer-songwriter- British drummer for Gerry former producer responsible for hundreds of Gene Pitney & the Pacemakers, cancer member classic vocal group harmony sounds in and Georgia Gibbs, 87, Mariska Veres of The P o i n t e r the 1950s and 60s. The original lead singer ("Kiss of Fire") Sisters, ca n c e r ; singer of the Valentines, prostate known for her work on Your Hit Parade, 20th: Phyllis A. Carr, 66, cancer; 4th: John Locke, 62, former leukemia; 11th: Walter Ward, 66, lead original member of the keyboardist of Spirit; 10th: Barbara singer of The Olympics, unspecified York doo-wop group, George, 63, R&B-singer (“I Know”), lung illness; 17th: Denis Payton, 63, British "The Quintones,” breast infection; 14th: Johnny Duncan, 67, June Pointer saxophone player for The Dave Clark cancer; 22nd: Kay country singer and songwriter ("She Can Five, cancer; 23rd: Charlie , 81, Finegan, 95, 1940s big Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime",), British comedian, actor and singer (My band singer; 23rd: Phil Walden, 66, heart attack; 21st: Buck Page, 84, Boomerang Won't Come Back), stroke- founder of Capricorn Records, cancer; western musician and founder of the related illness; 24th: Bonnie Owens, 76, country music original Riders of the Purple Sage; 22nd: singer; 26th: Daniel McKenna, 54, Bruce Gary, 55, drummer with The 25th: James former guitarist for the band Toby Beau, Knack, lymphoma; 23rd: Maynard Brown, 73, (The apparent suicide. Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, Godfather of Soul) kidney and liver failure. soul singer and May 1st: Johnny Paris (Pocisk), 65, th bandleader, heart saxophonist (Johnny & the Hurricanes); September 11 : Al Casey, 89, Phoe- failure related to 13th: Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, R&B nix/L.A. based rock, country and session th pneumonia. musician, founder of Heatwave; 18th: guitarist; 19 : Danny Flores, 77, Kenneth Scott, 70, singer-songwriter saxophonist and vocalist on ' elected to the Hall of Fame 1958 hit "Tequila", pneumonia; 23rd . James Brown with The Strikes, complications from a th th October 13 : Jennell Hawkins, (age?) stroke; 19 : Freddie Garrity, 65, singer singer-pianist with Richard Barrett and with “Freddie and the Dreamers”, heart st previously lead singer on the Dreamers, problems; 21 : Billy Walker, 77, country th long illness after a stroke in 2005; 14 : Sources: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: music performer and member of the www.wikipedia.org, club members and others. th Freddy Fender, 69, Mexican-American Grand Ole Opry, traffic accident; 30 : singer ("Before the Next Teardrop THE FLIP SIDE KEY NOTES #159 FEBRUARY 2007 By Karen Hostetter By B. Derek Shaw THE GROUP EFFORT THE SOLO EFFORT Special to Key-Notes

candidates. (Smooth jazz, Seasoned songwriter and adult contemporary and jazz musician Richard soft rock formats espe- Walton takes a leap of faith cially) with his first vocal effort, Vessel, a sincere foray into • Junction is the best spirit-filled lyrics supported offering by RWG since with light, catchy beats. 1993’s Savannah Blue, a Close followers of Walton’s standard in the modern music will recognize some of jazz sound. the songs compiled here since he is as at home in • No doubt, the trademark music ministry as he is on The Richard Walton Group unified sound continues the jazz circuit. Well-placed, Walton, who is an accom- is back! Mid-Atlantic fans and it shows. hand-picked talent round out plished musician and band have been waiting pa- • The half dozen band this sincere, upbeat album. leader, is able to carry those skills over to vocal perform- tiently for their fourth members allow a half Walton partnered with ance as well. He takes the effort and it was worth dozen other seasoned contemporary songwriter/ the wait. musician, Joe Spatarella, on spotlight at just the right players to guest on the moment and knows the This review will take on a disc. That’s collaboration three of the songs - Lost Inside her Smile, tender strength of good backing bit of a different form this at its best. lyrics beautifully arranged vocals as well. time. What artists are • will with Jacob Yoffee’s tenor sax The only missed-opportunity most seeking are quotes approve of their treat- floating dreamily through it; is on Light of the World, (and in the case of elec- ment of his 1973 classic, Revelation, dynamic, which is a beautiful worship tronic media, sound-bites) Golden Lady, the only powerful testament; and piece that doesn’t build quite that they can lift and use cover on this collection. Queen and the Castle, vocals enough. At the end, the in promotional and a little confusing in the choir should just take over, marketing strategy and • Play it, play it, play it! beginning but a tight compo- drowning out Walton’s vocal material. So this review My favorite tracks are: sition of , keyboards, lead. will be comprised of bullet the title one, Junction, and synthesizer keeps it on Most songs are a little long track. points… Find an Out, Lost Inside for radio play, but pop this • Every cut works. Her Smile, and It’s In Believe, written with Janet CD in your car when you There Somewhere. Gross, a fellow member of have a little time to spend to • All tracks are prime the Baltimore rejuvenate your soul. I also regional radio airplay Association, lifts the spirit like the delicate and with both lyrics and melody. light harmony on the bonus Lost Within These Words, a track, but you will have to For more information, visit: www.notlaw.com mellow mix, offers another get the CD to know what Yoffee-infused tenor sax that that is. I’m not saying. just glides through the entire song.

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