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Topic: Berry Street Station record-Texas players HELP!!! |
Egil Skjelnes
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Meland,Frekhaug
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 8:30 am |
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Hello
I just got an old 45 record recorded on the LeCam label out of Ft.Worth,TX. The band is called "Berry Street Station" Tune is "Sentimental Journey".
The playing is really good.kind of comercial,reminds of the Monument records and style that Lloyd Green did back in the 70/80`s.Even the sound is something like that,even dubbed at parts.Very nice.Anybody that know who the steeler is on this track? It`s a steel instrumental. Maybe any of you Texas steelers can help since the label is out of Ft.Worth.Don`t know however if this was a Texas band or not!.No year is listed,my guess will be 70`s??
Hope someone can help.
Regards,Egil. |
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James Pennebaker
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Mt. Juliet, TN
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 4:24 pm
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I can't help out on the players but I'll bet I'd be familiar with at least some of them. However, being from Ft. Worth, I am well aware of the LeCam label which was owned by "Major" Bill Smith going back to the very early 1960's. The "Maj" was kind of a notorious old school record man similar to Houston's Hughey P. Meaux (I've worked for them both). Major Bill recorded regional talent and actually had some hits by acts like Paul & Paula, Bruce Channel ("Hey, Baby") and a couple of Delbert McClinton's very early groups "The Straightjackets" and "The Rondel's." Most of the LeCam stuff was cut at the old Clifford Herring Studios (which later became Delta Recording Studio) and was located in the basement of radio station KXOL. Berry Street is a main street on Ft. Worth's south side in the Pascal High School area. I graduated from high school there.
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Egil Skjelnes
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Meland,Frekhaug
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Posted 26 Mar 2007 9:05 am
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Hi James.
Many thanks for your interesting reply.Always nice to add info to things,but it seems like nobody knows who the steeler might have been on this.Hopefully still someone see this ,and can add more info.
Thanks alot,Egil. |
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James Pennebaker
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Mt. Juliet, TN
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 8:23 am
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It would be interesting to see if some of our forum members from the Ft. Worth, TX area who were active (and still are) at that time like Buddy Hrabal or Albert Talley would know. I'd be surprised if they didn't do at least some work for Major Bill Smith or knew people that did. Also, Maurice Anderson might be a source of information. Larry White comes to mind too. It could have even been any number of area players including the late Tom Morrell. If I could hear the song it might give me a clue, but not necessarily.
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James Pennebaker
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Mt. Juliet, TN
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 10:32 am
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I may be crazy but I seem to recall that Julian Tharpe was around the Fort Worth/Dallas area back during the days of the LeCam label as was one Bobbe Seymour.
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Joe Goldmark
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San Francisco, CA 94131
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 12:35 pm
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Fred Shannon
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Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 27 Mar 2007 6:41 pm
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James P. was this Berry Street Station band headed up by one Brooks Berry or do you know? That guy, if still alive, would be in his 90's or so. He was a good 20 years older than I,, at age 74. I remember him but I don't have any recollection of Le Cam, but I wasn't in the session business then either. Julian was around but mostly in the Dallas area. He taught me and Joe McHam, Houston now, sometime during this time frame. I think Joe was living in the Sherman area at that time. He might know who the steeler was in that band.
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James Pennebaker
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 10:53 am
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Fred,
I really have no idea. Knowing Major Bill Smith, he probably made up the "Berry Street Station" name himself just to have something to put on the record. I suspect this was a group of studio musicians hired to back up a singer. They possibly wound up with some extra time on the studio clock and cut an instrumetal or two which he released, possibly unbeknownst to the musicians. This was a common practice by record promotors like Major Bill.
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James Pennebaker
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Mt. Juliet, TN
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Posted 29 Mar 2007 3:24 pm
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Talked to a record collector friend of mine in Ft. Worth today who owns almost everything on the LeCam label including two 45 RPM's by "Berry Street Station" but not the titles that you have. Guess he doesn't have everything. His are "Chest Fever" backed with "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "Sweet City Song" backed with "A Light In The Dark." One of them credits Berry Street Station along with the name Marvin Montgomery. Anyone of my age from the DFW area knows of Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery as a banjoist and one of the earliest members of The Lightcrust Doughboys and a very prominent area musician and bandleader from the 1930's right up until his death in 2001.
So, you are most likely looking for a Dallas area steel man now. I know Maurice Anderson worked a lot with Smokey Montgomery as probably did Tom Morrell too at one time or another. So I suspect it's 'Reece or Tommy Morrell.
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