House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music)
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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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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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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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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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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
60621
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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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]