1961
1025
Ray Jackson, “Tears of Tomorrow” /“Echo Mountain”
10/27/58
1026
Royce Porter, “Lookin’” /“I Still Belong to You”
1958
1027
Country Johnny Mathis, “Lonely Nights” /“I’ve Been Known to Cry”
1958
1029
Ted Doyle, “He Made You Mine” /“I’m All Wrapped Up”
1958
1030
Rufus Thibodeaux, “Cameron Memorial Waltz” /“Mean Autry”
1958
1033
Patsy Timmons, “I Understand Him” /“Step Aside Old Heart”
1958
1035
Sonny Hall, “Men Do Cry” /“The Day You Walked Away”
1958
1036
Dave Edge, “I Kept It a Secret” /“I Didn’t Think It of You”
1958
1037
Eddie Noack, “I Don’t Live There Any More” /“Walk ’Em Off ”
11/11/58
1038
Gaston Ponce Castellanos, “Que-Chula-Estas” /“Si-Yo-Te-Quiero”
1959
1041
Jerry Lynn, “Bugger Burns” /“Queen of the Moon”
1/4/59
1042
Merle Kilgore, “It’ll Be My First Time” /“I Take a Trip to the Moon”
1/5/59
1043
Harry Choates, “Poor Hobo” /“Opelousas Waltz”
1/29/59
1044
Harry Choates, “Port Arthur Waltz” /“Honky Tonk Boogie”
1/30/59
1047
Ray Campi, “Ballad of Donna & Peggy Sue” /“The Man I Met”
2/6/59
1048
Cecil Bowman, “Man Awaitin’” /“Justice of Love”
2/10/59
1052
Benny Barnes, “Happy Little Blue Bird” /“Gold Records in the Snow”
2/25/59
1053
Bill Kimbrough & The Townsmen, “Chantilly Lace Cha Cha” /“Egg Head”
3/6/59
1054
Country Johnny Mathis, “From a Kiss to the Blues” /
3/7/59
“Since I Said Goodbye to the Blues”
1055
Ray Jackson, “Tea Leaves Don’t Lie” /“What Makes You Cry”
3/10/59
1057
Ted Doyle, “One More Heartache” /“Just for the Thrill”
3/22/59
1060
Eddie Noack, “A Thinking Man’s Woman” /“Don’t Look Behind”
4/2/59
1064
Rufus Thibodeaux, “Sauce Piquant” /“Louisiana Festival”
4/22/59
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Dee Mullins, “I’ve Really Got a Right to Cry” /“The World’s a Lie”
4/22/59
1069
Glenn Barber, “Most Beautiful” /“Your Heart Don’t Love”
May 1959
1074
Johnny Forrer, “My Blues” /“The Real Thing”
6/10/59
1076
Tommy Durden, “Deep in the Heart of a Fool” /
6/16/59
“The Bee (That Won the Baseball Game)”
1078
Country Johnny Mathis, “I Don’t Know How I Can Live” /“Run Please Run” 6/20/59
1079
Patsy Timmons, “Answer to Life to Go” /“I’ve Got It”
6/20/59
1080
William Tell Taylor with Jimmy Heap & The Melody Masters,
6/25/59
“I Can’t Ever Free My Mind” /“Uh Huh”
1081
Tibby Edwards, “Memory of a Lie” /“One More Night”
6/26/59
1085
Cecil Bowman, “Cotton” /“Curse of Wine”
7/10/59
1089
Jimmy & Johnny, “My Little Baby” /“All I Need Is Time”
8/13/59
1090
Margie Word, “Takes a Lot of Heartaches” /“I Shot Sam”
8/16/59
1093
Claude Gray, “Loneliness” /“Best Part of Me”
8/22/59
1094
Eddie Noack, “Man on the Wall” /“Relief Is Just a Swallow Away”
8/23/59
1095
Ted Doyle, “One Step Ahead of Sorrow” /“Just One More Glass”
8/24/59
1097
Dave Edge, “Wham Bam” /“Nights of Loneliness”
8/28/59
1098
Glenn Barber, “New Girl in School” /“Go Home Letter”
8/27/59
1099
Shirley Rucker, “I Hear Your Footsteps” /“You Take More Than I Can”
8/30/59
1105
William Tell Taylor, “Angel of Love” /“Love Is Everywhere”
10/18/59
1108
Leon Payne, “Brothers of a Bottle” /“Mitzie McGraw”
10/22/59
1109
Patsy Timmons, “Branded for Life” /“My Philosophy”
10/23/59
1110
Cecil Bowman, “Sweet Cake & Kisses” /“Tea Leaves Don’t Lie”
10/21/59
1114
Johnny Nelms, “Yoshe” /“Memories for a Pillow”
11/26/59
1118
Claude Gray, “Family Bible” /“Crying in the Night”
12/18/59
1119
Country Johnny Mathis, “Come On In” /“The Chances Are”
1/2/60
1124
Eddie Noack, “Shake Hands with the Blues” /“Sunfl ower Song”
2/5/60
1128
Glenn Barber, “The Window” /“Another You”
2/19/60
1129
Herbie Remington, “Coo Coo Creek Hop” /“Chime Out for Love”
2/24/60
1130
Country Johnny Mathis, “Caryl Chessman” /“Tears and Gold”
2/29/60
1131
Willie Nelson, “What a Way to Live” /“Misery Mansion”
3/11/60
Paul Buskirk & His Little Men featuring Hugh [Willie] Nelson, March
—
“Nite Life” /“Rainy Day Blues” [unissued: independently released 1960
on Rx Records 502]
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Harry Choates, “Basile Waltz” /“Tondelay”
3/12/60
1133
William Tell Taylor, “Sweet Dreams of You” /“Seeing Is Believing”
3/3/60
1134
Danny Ross, “The Things I Cannot Change” /“Jose”
3/14/60
1135
Link Davis, “Waltz of the Jambalaya” /“Big Coonie”
3/14/60
1137
Reece Brothers, “Jail Break” /“Run Away”
3/31/60
1138
Leon Payne, “There’s No Justice” /“With Half a Heart”
4/1/60
1144
Claude Gray, “Leave Alone” /“My Party’s Over”
5/6/60
1145
Cecil Bowman, “Most Beautiful” /“Whispering Lies”
5/20/60
1146
Ted Doyle, “The Life You’ve Lived” /
May/June
“My Baby’s Gone Again”
1960
1148
Eddie Noack, “Too Weak to Go” /“Firewater Luke
”
June 1960
1149
Charles Drake, “A Fool’s Careless Life” /“She Wore Another Name”
June 1960
1150
Leon Payne, “Blue Side of Lonesome” /“Things Have Gone to Pieces”
June 1960
1152
Country Johnny Mathis, “When I Came through Town” /
6/12/60
“Only Time Will Tell”
1153
Perk Williams, “You Traveled Too Far” /“You’re Not My Angel Anymore”
7/21/60
1154
Claude Gray, “Homecoming in Heaven” /
Aug. 1960
“When the Light Shines in the Valley”
1157
Fitz Morris, “Fishing Tales” /“Edge of Paradise”
Aug. 1960
1165
Mac McGee, “A Lock without a Key” /“I’ve Closed the Door”
10/6/60
1166
Al Dean, “Handful of Ashes” /“Horses Carry Tales”
10/10/60
1168
Nick Williams & The Treece-Reece Trio,
11/8/60
“Springtime in Heaven” /“How Many Heartaches”
1177
Treece-Reece Trio, “When the Hurt Hurts No More” /
1/21/61
“Teen Age Loneliness”
1178
Johnny Nelms, “Old Broken Heart” /“I’ve Never Had the Blues”
2/3/61
1182
Perk Williams, “What More” /“Are You Trying to Tell Me Goodbye”
2/7/61
1186
Herbie Remington, “Fiddleshoe” /“Soft Shoe Slide”
3/3/61
1191
Link Davis, “Come Dance with Me” /“Five Miles from Town”
3/31/61
1192
Al Dean, “I Need No Chains” /“A Girl at the Bar”
5/2/61
1195
Johnny Nelms, “Picture in My Heart” /“Half Past a Heartache”
7/1/61
1203
Booth Kinner, “This Lonesome Pillow” /“So Lonesome”
7/1/61
1204
Mac McGee & The Texas Ramblers,
6/6/61
“Move Over Conscience” /“I’d Better Run”
1205
Cecil Bowman, “Lay Your Hoe Down” /“This World Will Be So Lonely”
7/14/61
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Danny Reeves, “I’m a Hobo” /“Bell Hop Blues”
7/25/61
1218
Al Dean, “I’ll Win Again” /“One Heartache from the Blues”
9/29/61
1220
Eddie Noack, “It’s Hard to Tell an Old Love Goodbye” /
10/18/61
“Love’s Other Face”
1222
Harry Choates, “Oh-Meon” /“Big Woods”
10/29/61
1225
Dave Edge, “Chained to a Love” /“Tears That I Wasted”
11/29/61
1226
George Jones, “Maybe Next Christmas” /“New Baby for Christmas”
11/30/61
1235
George Cooper, “I Finally Broke the Spell” /“The Ways of Life”
3/26/62
1236
Jerry Jericho, “Just for the Thrill” /“Tears Fall Again”
4/9/62
Eddie Noack, “The Same Old Mistakes” /“You’ve Got a Woman”
—
[unissued]
1239
Billy Western, “Worn Out Words” /“His and Hers”
6/6/62
1240
Al Gressett & The Texas Ramblers, “Do You Realize” /“You Gotta Hurry”
8/23/62
1245
Billy Western, “My Blue Room” /“Say When”
2/8/63
1247
Johnny Nelms, “I’m So Ashamed” /“The Sulfur Queen”
3/12/63
1248
Tex Wayne, “Angel with a Pony Tail” /“Standing at the Crossroads”
4/20/63
1252
Billy Western, “Home’s Not Where My House Is” /“Love Enough”
6/22/63
1256
Tex Wayne, “She’s Lying Again” /“My Party’s Over”
2/20/64
1257
Truitt Forse & Jerry Lynn With Benny Leaders Band,
3/10/64
“Searching for Someone” /“Fool You Fool”
1260
Don Gilbert, “Your Time for Tears” /“With Open Arms”
3/27/64
1270
Stoney Stark, “Face in the Crowd” /“Your Conscience Will Hurt”
10/21/64
IX. Kangaroo Records
Singles produced at Gold Star Studios, ca. 1958–1959
101/102
The Dolls, [?, unknown titles]
103/104
Albert Collins And His Rhythm Rockers, “Freeze” /“Collins Shuffl e”
105/106
Joe Hughes and His Orchestra, “I Can’t Go On This Way” /
“Make Me Dance Little Ant”
107/108
Henry Hayes and Orchestra, “Two Big Feet” /“Call of the Kangaroo”
109/110
Henry Hayes And Orchestra, “It Takes Money” /“Stop Smackin’ That Wax”
111/112
Little Joey Farr, “I Want a Big White Cadillac for Christmas” /“Rock ’n’ Roll Santa”
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X. Gulf Records (Label reactivated by Bill Quinn)
Singles produced at Gold Star Studios, ca. 1959–1962
101
Harold Casner, “That Is Why” /“Marker in Your Heart”
62760/62761
Sleepy LaBeef, “I Can’t Get You Off My Mind” /“I Found Out”
62762/62763
Jerry Bryan [And The] Houndogs, “Vampire Daddy” /“Walking Out”
1630/1631
Mel Douglas and The Nu-Notes,
1962
“Dream Girl” /“Forever My Darling”
1633
Virgil Gage, “I’m Still in Love with You” /“I Live You”
1962
1640/1641
Lucy Lynn, “Ist Es Den Liebe” /“Bright Lights”
1962
XI. Sarg Records
Singles produced at Gold Star Studios, 1955–1960
136
Link Davis, “Cockroach” /“Big Houston”
1955
137
Floyd Tillman, “Baby I Just Want You” /“Save a Little for Me”
1955
Coye Wilcox, “Bird’s Nest on the Ground” /
1955/56
—
“Don’t Take My Love” [unissued]
140
Al Parsons & The Country Store Boys, “Wait for Me Baby” /
May 1956
“Memories of Yesterday”
144
Johnny Carroll, “The Stars Came Down from Heaven” /“I’ll Think of You”
1956
147
Al Parsons & The Country Store Boys,
1956
“Darling, I Still Dream of You” /“Why Can’t You Be True”
148
Al Urban, “Lookin’ for Money” /“I Don’t Want to Be Alone”
1956
154
Al Parsons & The Country Store Boys,
1956
“You’ve Done Her Wrong” /“I Got You Where I Want You”
155
Dick Fagan, “Love Is Like the S
un” /“My Aim in Life”
1956
158
Al Urban, “Won’t Tell You Her Name” /“Gonna Be Better Times”
1958
—
Dick Fagan, “This Lonesome Road” /“Blues in My Heart” [unissued]
1958
174
Al Urban, “The Last Heartache” /“Street of Memories”
1960
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XII. Various labels owned by Huey P. Meaux
Singles recorded and produced at Gold Star/SugarHill Studios, 1964–1988
for American Pla-Boy, Crazy Cajun, Jetstream, Pacemaker, Pic 1, Teardrop, Tribe, Tri-Us, Typhoon, Ventura
american pla-boy records *
1977
Heather Black, “There” /“Circles”
1972
1980
Doug Sahm, “El Paso Train” /“Ain’t Nothing Wrong with You”
1976
1983
Donny King, “I Played That Song for You” /“Mathilda”
1984
Jesse Lankford, “I’ll Have to Be with You Again” /“Take Your Time”
1984
Ron Arledge, “Woman of the World” /“You Can’t Get There from Here”
1985
John Craig Stout, “Louisiana Funk Homegrown” /“Lovin’ Cajun Style”
1975
1986
Clarence Henry, “We’ll Take Our Last Walk Tonight” /“In the Jailhouse Now”
1986
Ron Wayne, “Country’s Got the Slows” /“Warmed Over Coff ee”
1987
Jerry Biscamp, “Since Baby’s Back Again” /“You’re the One I Love Tonight”
1988
Sandra Morrison, “It’s You” /“What Might Have Been”
1989
Tommy Mclain, “Baby Jesus” /“Carefree Moments”
1990
Clarence Henry, “We’ll Take Our Last Walk Tonight” /“You Can Have Her”
1991
The Nashville Rebels, “A New Girl in Town” /“The Rains Came”
1992
Heather Black, “Cajun Blue” /“Harris County Jail”
1992
John Craig, “JJ” /“We’ve Seen Worse Times”
1993
Tommy McLain, “Real Rock & Roll” /“Sister Caroline”
1994
Tommy McLain, “Wild Side of Life” /“When It Rains”
1995
Billy Johns, “Dreams” /“Feel It”
1995
Harvey Thompson, “Ride This Train” /“What I Want What I Need”
1996
Tommy McLain, “Dim Lights Thick Smoke” /“Just Out of Reach”
2025
Donny King, “The Flame of Love Too Low” /“Woman of the Worlds”
2026
Freddy & Manuel, “I’m Up on the Right Track” /
“Flying My Way Back to Texas”
2031
Johnny Cantrell, “Come to Me” /“I’m Lonestar Lonesome Tonight”
1986
8000
Mel Garrett, “Hello Whiskey Again” /“I Can’t Hold a Candle”
* Note: This label inexplicably twice assigned the catalogue numbers 1984, 1986, 1992, and 1995—in each case to a diff erent artist performing a diff erent pair of songs.
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