House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music)

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by Andy Bradley, Roger Wood


  1955

  189

  Sonny Burns, “Six Feet of Earth” /“You’ll Look a Long, Long Time”

  1955

  190

  Sonny Fisher, “Hey Mama” /“Sneaky Pete”

  5/14/55

  192

  Smokey Stover, “You Wouldn’t Kid Me, Would You” /

  1955

  “It’s Easier Said Than Done”

  194

  R. D. Hendon and His Western Jamboree Cowboys,

  June 1955

  “Big Black Cat” /“Four Walls (Around My Heart)”

  196

  Glenn Barber, “Poor Man’s Baby (And a Rich Man’s Dream)” /

  1955

  “Married Man”

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  197

  Jack Hammonds, “Mr. Cupid” /“That’s the Way to Fall in Love”

  1955

  198

  Gene Tabor, “A Real Gone Jesse (I’m Hot to Trot)” /

  1955

  “I’m Not the Marrying Kind”

  199

  Fred Crawford, “Cain’t Live with E’m!! (Cain’t Live

  8/20/55

  without E’m!!” [sic]/“What’s on Your Mind”

  201

  Eddie Noack, “Wind Me Up” /“If It Ain’t on the Menu”

  1955

  202

  George Jones, “Why Baby Why” /“Seasons of My Heart”

  8/22/55

  203

  Biff Collie, “Goodbye, Farewell, So Long” /“Look on the Good Side”

  1955

  204

  Jimmy Lee Durden and The Drifters, “What Can I Say” /“Reconsider”

  1955

  205

  Jack Derrick, “Rainbow of Love” /“Waitin’ and Watchin’”

  1955

  207

  Sonny Fisher, “Rockin’ and Rollin’” /“I Can’t Lose”

  Sept. 1955

  208

  Leon Payne, “I Die Ten Thousand Times a Day” /“We’re on the Main Line” 1955

  209

  Sonny Burns, “A Real Cool Cat” /“Frown on the Moon”

  9/24/55

  212

  Harry Choates, “Poor Hobo” /“Opelousas Waltz”

  1955

  [reissue of Gold Star masters]

  213

  Eddie Noack, “Fair Today, Cold Tomorrow” /“Don’t Worry ’Bout Me Baby” 1955

  214

  Glenn Barber, “Ain’t It Funny” /“Livin’ High and Wide”

  11/19/55

  215

  Leon Payne, “Christmas Love Song” /“Christmas Everyday”

  Dec. 1955

  216

  George Jones, “What Am I Worth” /“Still Hurtin’”

  1/14/56

  218

  Fred Crawford, “Just Another Broken Heart” /“Me and My New Baby”

  1956

  219

  Buddy Dee And String Band, “Swamp Water Drag” /

  1956

  “Cherokee Ride” /“String Band Rag” /“Shuffl

  e the Blues” [EP]

  220

  Leon Payne, “You Are the One” /“Doorstep to Heaven”

  1956

  223

  Sonny Burns, “Satan’s a-Waitin’” /“Girl of the Streets”

  1956

  224

  Harry Choates, “Port Arthur Waltz” /“Honky Tonk Boogie”

  1956

  [reissue of Gold Star masters]

  225

  Eddie Noack, “When the Bright Lights Go Dim” /

  1956

  “It Ain’t Much But It’s Home”

  228

  R. D. Hendon and His Western Jamboree Cowboys,

  3/24/56

  “We Smiled” /“Don’t Push Me (Let Me Fall)”

  229

  Rudy Grayzell, “The Moon Is Up (The Stars Are Out)” /“Day by Day”

  3/17/56

  230

  Biff Collie, “Doodle Doo” /“Empty Kisses”

  1956

  231

  Bill Mack, “Fat Woman” /“Kitty Kat”

  March 1956

  232

  Leon Payne, “Two by Four” /“You Can’t Lean on Me”

  1956

  233

  Larry Nolen and His Bandits, “Ship Ahoy” /“Lady Luck”

  1956

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  234

  George Jones, “Your Heart” /“I’m Ragged But I’m Right”

  1956

  235

  Link Davis, “Sixteen Chicks” /“Deep in the Heart of a Fool”

  4/21/56

  236

  Benny Barnes, “Once Again” /“No Fault of Mine”

  5/5/56

  237

  Neal Merritt, “What’s the Diff erence” /“You Had to Do Me Wrong”

  1956

  238

  Johnny Nelms, “Tribute to Andy Anderson” /“Everything Will Be Alright”

  1956

  239

  Jimmy Lee Durden and The Drifters, “I Miss Her So” /“Since Yesterday”

  1956

  240

  Thumper Jones [George Jones], “Rock It” /“How Come It”

  5/5/56

  241

  Rudy “Tutti” Grayzell, “Duck Tail” /“You’re Gone”

  5/5/56

  242

  Link Davis, “Sixteen Chicks” /“Grasshopper Rock”

  5/12/56

  243

  Fred Crawford, “Rock Candy Rock” /“Secret of My Heart”

  1956

  244

  Sonny Fisher, “Little Red Wagon” /“Pink and Black”

  6/9/56

  245

  Rock Rogers [Leon Payne], “Little Rock Rock” /“That Ain’t It”

  1956

  246

  Eddie Noack, “For You I Weep” /“You Done Got Me”

  1956

  247

  George Jones, “It’s OK” /“You Gotta Be My Baby”

  1956

  248

  R. D. Hendon and His Western Jamboree Cowboys,

  1956

  “The Waltz of Texas” /“Lonely Nights”

  249

  Glenn Barber, “Shadow My Baby” /“Feeling No Pain”

  1956

  250

  Leon Payne, “All the Time” /“One More Chance”

  1956

  251

  Biff Collie, “Joy Joy Joy” /“All of a Sudden”

  1956

  252

  Bill Mack, “Cat Just Got in Town” /“Sweet Dreams Baby”

  7/28/56

  253

  Rocky Bill Ford, “Have You Seen Mabel” /“Mad Dog in Town”

  July 1956

  254

  Sonny Burns, “Think Again” /“If You See My Baby”

  1956

  255

  Link Davis, “Don’t Big Shot Me” /“Trucker from Tennessee”

  1956

  256

  George Jones, “Boat of Life” /“Taggin’ Along”

  8/11/56

  257

  Amos Como, “Hole in the Wall” /“Heartbroken Lips”

  Sept. 1956

  259

  Larry Nolan And His Bandits, “Golden Tomorrow” /“I Wonder”

  1956

  260

  Neal Merritt, “No One But You” /“Someday You’ll Pay”

  1956

  262

  Benny Barnes, “Poor Man’s Riches” /“Those Who Know”

  1956

  263

  Johnny Tyler, “Lie to Me Baby” /“County Fair”

  10/6/56

  264

  George Jones, “Gonna Come Get You” /“Just
One More”

  9/15/56

  265

  Bob Doss, “Somebody’s Knocking” /“Don’t Be Gone Long”

  10/13/56

  266

  James O’Gwynn, “Losing Game” /“If I Never Get to Heaven”

  1956

  267

  Leon Payne, “A Prisoner’s Diary” /“Sweet Sweet Love”

  1956

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  268

  Louisiana Lannis, “Much Too Much” /“Muscadine Eyes”

  1956

  270

  Rudy “Tutti” Grayzell, “You Hurt Me So” /“Jig-Ga-Lee-Ga”

  11/3/56

  271

  Jeanette Hicks, “Extra-Extra” /“Cry Cry (It’s Good for You)”

  1956

  272

  Fred Crawford, “Lucky in Cards” /“I Learned Something from You”

  1956

  273

  Harry Choates, “Allons a Lafayette” /“Draggin’ the Fiddle”

  1956

  [reissue of Gold Star masters]

  274

  Smokey Stover, “Now” /“My Building of Dreams”

  1956

  275

  Link Davis, “Bayou Buff alo” /“Would You Be Waiting”

  Dec. 1956

  276

  Eddie Noack, “The Worm Has Turned” /

  1956

  “She Can’t Stand the Light of Day”

  277

  Harry Carroll, “Checkerboard Lover” /“Two Timin’”

  1956

  278

  Tibby Edwards, “I Don’t Want to Say I Love You” /“Fool That I Was”

  1956

  [reissued on Mercury]

  279

  George Jones and Jeanette Hicks, “Yearning” /

  1956

  Jeanette Hicks, “So Near (Yet So Far Away)”

  280

  Bill Mack, “It’s Saturday Night” /“That’s Why I Cry”

  2/2/57

  281

  Neal Merritt, “I’ve Got to Cry” /“The Funniest Feeling”

  1957

  282

  Slim Watts, “Painted Lady” /“Tu-La-Lou”

  Feb. 1956

  283

  Larry Fox, “Don’t Hold Me Close” /“Guilty Heart”

  1957

  284

  Harry Choates, “Tondelay” /“Basile Waltz” [reissue of Gold Star masters]

  1957

  285

  Jimmy Lee Durden, “Time Heals Everything” /“No Mistake”

  1957

  286

  Jimmy Logsdon, “No Longer” /“Can’t Make Up My Mind”

  1957

  287

  Margie Singleton, “One Step (Nearer to You)” /“Not What He’s Got”

  1957

  292

  Sleepy LaBeef, “All Alone” /“I’m Through” [reissued on Mercury]

  May 1957

  293

  Link Davis, “Slippin’ and Slidin’ Sometimes” /“Allons a Lafayette”

  May 1957

  294

  Eddie Skelton, “Let Me Be with You” /“My Heart Gets Lonely”

  5/27/57

  295

  Herbie Remington, “Remington Swing” /“Ragged But Right”

  1957

  299

  Jimmy and Dorothy Blakely, “Runaway Heart” /

  June 1957

  Jimmy Blakely, “Crazy Blues”

  301

  Utah Carl, “Sometime” /“Lovin’ You”

  1957

  302

  Arlie Duff and The Duff Family, “What a Way to Die” /

  July 1957

  “You’ve Done It Again”

  309

  Margie Singleton, “My Picture of You” /“Love Is a Treasure”

  1957

  310

  Jack Cardwell, “Once Every Day” /“Hey, Hey Baby”

  8/26/57

  313

  Bill Mack, “Million Miles Away” /“Cheatin’ on Your Mind”

  9/30/57

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  314

  Fred Crawford, “You’re Not the Same Sweet Girl” /“By the Mission Wall”

  8/26/57

  315

  Eddie Skelton, “That’s Love” /“No Sweetheart Tonight”

  9/16/57

  316

  Eddie Noack, “Scarecrow” /“Think of Her Now”

  1957

  319

  The Davis Twins [with] Sleepy Jeff ers, “Pretending Is a Game” /

  8/26/57

  “My Blackbirds Are Blue Birds Now”

  320

  The Marksmen, “You Hurt Me So” /“Don’t Gamble with My Heart”

  Sept. 1957

  321

  Rudy “Tutti” Grayzell, “Let’s Get Wild” /“I Love You So”

  Sept. 1957

  322

  Utah Carl, “Stormy Skies” /“Don’t Go Wrong”

  1957

  323

  Margie Singleton, “Take Time Out for Love” /“Beautiful Dawn”

  1957

  331

  Link Davis, “Waltz of the Jambalaya” /“Big Coonie”

  1957

  332

  Herbie Remington, “Station Break” /“Slush Pump”

  1957

  334

  Eddie Noack, “Dust on the River” /“What’s the Matter Joe?”

  1957

  336

  Cecil Bowman and The Arrows, “Blues around My Door” /“Too Late”

  1958

  356

  Roger Miller, “Can’t Stop Loving You” /“You’re Forgetting Me”

  late 1957

  401

  Benny Barnes With The Echoes,

  1958

  “You Gotta Pay” /“Heads You Win (Tails I Lose)”

  424

  Frankie Miller, “Blackland Farmer” /“True Blue”

  1956–1957

  [recorded 1956, released 1959]

  718

  Roger Miller, “Playboy” /“Poor Little John”

  late 1957

  VI. Starday Records

  Long-play albums containing tracks recorded at Gold Star Studios, 1956–1969

  101

  George Jones, Grand Ole Opry’s New Star

  1956

  [same title reissued on Mercury]

  102

  Various Artists, Hillbilly Hit Parade

  1956

  125

  George Jones, The Crown Prince of Country Music

  1961

  151

  George Jones, The Fabulous Country Music Sound of George Jones

  1962

  335

  George Jones, George Jones

  1965

  344

  George Jones, Long Live King George

  1965

  366

  George Jones, Story

  1966

  401

  George Jones, Songbook & Picture Album

  1967

  440

  George Jones, Golden Country Hits

  1969

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  VII. Mercury Records

  Long-play albums containing tracks recorded at Gold Star Studios, 1957–1965

  20282

  Various Artists, Hillbilly Hit Parade

  1957

  [diff erent material than the Starday LP of same title]

  20306

  George Jones, 14 Top Country Favorites

  1957

  20328

  Various Artists, Hillbilly Hit Parade Vol. 2

  1958

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  George Jones, Greatest Hits 1

  1961

  60624

  George Jones, Country and Western Hits

  1961

  60793

  George Jones, Novelty Side

  1963

  61048

  George Jones, Country and Western No. 1 Male Singer

  1965

  VIII. D Records

  Singles produced at Gold Star Studios, 1957–1964

  1000

  Tommy Wood [aka Eddie Noack],

  1957

  “My Steady Dream” /“Can’t Play Hookey”

  1001

  Al Travis, “He Brought Us Together” /“Mom and Dad Love You Too”

  1/1/58

  1002

  Wortham “Slim” Watts, “Lonesome” /“Cotton Picker”

  5/31/58

  1003

  Utah Carl, “Treasured Memories” /“Never Meant for Me”

  4/29/58

  1005

  Tony Douglas, “World in My Arms” /“Baby, When the Sun Goes Down”

  6/30/58

  1006

  James O’Gwynn, “Changeable” /“Talk to Me Lonesome Heart”

  6/30/58

  1007

  Margie Singleton, “Shattered Kingdom” /

  1958

  “I Want to Be Where You’re Gonna Be”

  1008

  The Big Bopper, “Chantilly Lace” /

  6/30/58

  “Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor”

  1009

  Sonny Hall & The Echoes, “My Big Fat Baby” /

  1958

  “Gonna Pack Up My Troubles”

  1010

  Les Cole & The Echoes, “Rock-a-My Baby” /“Bee Boppin’ Daddy”

  1958

  1011

  Johnny Dollar, “No Memories” /“Walking Away”

  1958

  1012

  Ray Jackson, “Texas-Alaska” /“Alaska”

  7/14/58

  1013

  The Four B’s, “Love Eternal” /“I Played the Fool”

  2/3/58

  1014

  Bobby Moncrief, “Don’t Hold Me to a Vow” /“Here Is My Heart”

  1958

  1016

  Eddie Bond, “The Blues Got Me” /“Standing in Your Window”

  8/7/58

  1017

  Glenn Barber, “Hello Sadness” /“Same Old Fool Tomorrow”

  1958

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  1018

  Doug Bragg & The Drifters, “Daydreaming Again” /

  1958

  “If I Find My Dream Girl”

  1019

  Eddie Noack, “Have Blues Will Travel” /“The Price of Love”

  1958

  1020

  Dee & Patty, “Ohh-Wow” /“Sweet Lovin’ Baby”

  1958

  1021

  Johnny Forrer, “Fool’s Paradise” /“Understand”

  1958

  1022

  James O’Gwynn, “Blue Memories” /“You Don’t Want to Hold Me”

  1958

  1023

  Harry Choates, “Draggin’ the Fiddle” /“Allons a Lafayette”

  1958

  [reissue of Gold Star masters]

  1024

  Harry Choates, “Jole Blon” /“Corpus Christi Waltz”

  1958

  [reissue of Gold Star masters]

  1024

  Harry Choates, “Jole Blon” /“Draggin’ the Bow” [second reissue]

 

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