WES BRYAN ON RANDY WOOD'S RANWOOD RECORDS

 

From a recent e-Bay auction, featuring "To Be Alone" and "One Summer Night."

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Now in 1957 Randy Wood sold ownership of the label to Paramount Pictures but he was the President for the company for another ten years. He left to co-founded the Ranwood Records Label with Lawrence Welk.

(256) CHANTAYS PIPELINE

Thank you to the YouTube contributor who posted this historical music video of the Chantays on Lawrence Welk show. Lawrence had a son who was into the music business - the rock and roll business as it existed at the time - as well. No doubt he told dad to have the Chantays on the show because surf or rock n roll was a real departure for Lawrence. This was recorded in 1962 and the show is from 1963!



Click on the link title above to get to the Chantay's own website... and yes they are also performing this summer in Southern California.

(184) PAT BOONE MIGHT'VE BEEN ELVIS' BIGGEST COMPETITOR ! 12 GOLD RECORDS BY 1961

My voice had once been compared to his...You may find this hard to believe today, but there was one person who was better liked during the early Rock and Roll era by the general public than Elvis, and that was Pat Boone, who never did have that dark edge of a Rock-a-billy artist that Elvis had and had a wider audience.

Now friends, we're still in the cover tune era here, so you'll find if you look at who recorded what and when you'll find that songs that Pat recorded were later recorded by other artists we mention. For instance, Pat recorded "Moody River," in 1961 and the next year Johnny Burnette recorded it. So do you think I was pitching songs to Pat?

You'd better believe it. Pat started his own publishing company called Cooga Mooga! (Guess who eventually did some work for Pat there?)

Here's Pat on the Lawrence Welk show singing "Moody River," and then Johnny Burnette's 1962 version, as presented by YouTube video-ers. As Lawrence mentions, Pat had 12 Gold Records by the time he did this show.

Pat Boone on the Welk singing "Moody River."

Johnny Burnette covering "Moody River," (and sounding very Elvis-like.)

Now a little later, when Frank Sinatra gets his own label, Reprise, he records "Moody River" too. Here's his swinging 60's version. My co-worker at American Music, Jimmy Bowen went to Reprise as Frank's producer.

No replacement for Johnny Burnette. Frank's version of "Moody River." VIDEOS RELACED APRIL 2011

(139) PAT BOONE's 1961 #1 HIT MOODY RIVER

You may recall from an early blog that my voice was being compared to Pat Boone's. Well Pat was out in Los Angeles - another Southern boy from Nashville, Tennessee - before I moved out and his career was doing really well. In 1961 he had a #1 hit with "Moody River."

THIS BLOG POST UPDATED MAY 26, 2010 by Christine Trzyna

NEW! A link to PAT BOONE's OFFICIAL WEB SITE and YouTube presented videos of Pat on the Lawrence Welk show when he had 12 number one hits to his name already!