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Country and crossover since 1920s and my favorite artists of all genres too...
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Ray Lunsford

*08-11-1908, +17-10-1981
2nd version
by Dick Grant, Praguefrank
SESSIONS see also Jimmie Skinner
1955 Cincinnati, OH - Ray Lunsford (Ray Lunsford [vcl/el mandolin], Jimmie Skinner [rh gt] + unknown musicians. Producer: Estel Lee Scarborough)
001 45-226-A COUNTRY PICKIN’ Excellent EX 226
002 45-226-B RED WING Excellent EX 226
1956 Cincinnati, OH - Ray Lunsford & Electric Mandolin (Producer: Estel Lee Scarborough)
003 CP-1078 BLUE GRASS BLUES Excellent EX310
004 CP-1079 UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE Excellent EX 310
early 1957 Cincinnati, OH - Ray Lunsford & Electric Mandolin (Producer: Estel Lee Scarborough)
005 CP 1187/ST-2559 CARROLL COUNTY BLUES Excellent EX 309 Starday 45-296
006 CP-1188/ST-2560 MT. VERNON RAG Excellent EX 309 45-296
Excellent 309 leased to Starday in 1957
Spring 1958 Cincinnati, OH - Ray Lunsford & Electric Mandolin/*Ralph Bowman [vcl] (Producer: Estel Lee Scarborough)
007 CP-1450 TRAGEDY OF THE SCHOOL BUS* Excellent EX 400
008 CP-1451 SHEILA Excellent EX 400
ca 1959 Cincinnati, OH - Ray Lunsford (Producer: Estel Lee Scarborough)
009 I DON'T LOVE NOBODY Sage 45-285
010 RUSTIC DANCE Sage 45-285
011 RED WING Sage 45-285
012 PICKIN' AROUND Sage 45-285
tracks above were leased to Sage Records


SINGLES
Excellent
EX-226 Country Pickin’ / Red Wing – 55 (rev. Dec. 24)
EX-310 Under The Double Eagle / Blue Grass Blues – 07-56 (rev. Aug. 4)
EX-309 Mt. Vernon Rag / Carroll County Blues – 05-57 (reissued on Starday 45-296 in May 1957)
EX-400 Sheila / Tragedy Of The School Bus – 58 (rev. May 5)
Sage
(EP)
45-285 I Don't Love Nobody / Rustic Dance / Red Wing / Pickin' Around - 59

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Michel Ruppli, not only for his books which I use daily, but also for a large amount of rare and unpublished data from his giant archive.
Thanks to all my friends - country music fans - in Czech Republic - Vladimir Pikora, Michal Gololobov, Milos Holecek, Tony Foglar, Rene Pavlik and Petr Vitous.
Thanks to Mario Manciotti for sending session details daily
Thanks to Kurt Rokitta for a lot of session info
Thanks to Bill Daniels for sharing a lot of labels info
Thanks to Lillies Ohlsson for many western swing contributions.
Thanks to Dick Grant for many artists files
Thanks to Thieu Van De Vorst for a lot of additions and corrections
Thanks to Goran Adolph for many rare albums info
Thanks to Hans Sandberg for many rare session data
Thanks to Chris Huskey for many sessions info.
Thanks to Kittra Moore for musicians and recording data
Thanks to Dik de Heer for many additions on rockabilly.
Thanks to Luiz Roberto Costa for helping me with the western genre.
Thanks to Wolf Ruediger Sommer, who not only sent me additional data, but is also watch-dog, correcting my typos and other errors.
Thanks to Robert Platt for priceless info on Canadian (but not only) artists.
Thanks to Phil Watson for hard work on Crown Prince of country music discography. Thanks to Walter Gabriel for filling the gaps in track listings of rare albums and various artists compilations.
Thanks to Kent Heineman for many independent recordings info
Thanks to Ken Nelson for bluegrass and more additions.
Thanks to Tony Middleton for RCA session info.
Thanks to Xavier Maire for interesting additions and for info on his website www.bopping.org.
Thanks to Henk Scholts for long time cooperation.
Thanks to Richard Price for miscellaneous session information
Thanks to Carl G. Cederblad for additions to sessionographies
Thanks to Paul Urbahns, Marc Alesina, Bill Millet, Bengt Wahlström, John Morris, Dominique Anglares, Pierre Monnery, Jeremy Roberts, Ben Collins, Alex Frazer-Harrison, K.F.Raizor, Ed Tabor, Mario Wildner, Ole Skjoldhøj, Eileen Sisk, Per Kammersgaard, David Bussey, Bill Marks for rare info on their favorite artists.
Thanks to Reginald Bartlette for info and additions of Columbia custom numbers.
Thanks to Katarina Fromm for various singles info.
Thanks to many others who sent some info - all are important.
Thanks to Richard Weize for his idea to produce projects, which have small commercial potential, but huge value for collectors - I spend a lot of money buying boxes and CDs, sometimes mainly because of the accompanying discographies.
Thanks also to Patrick Milligan, who created many discographies for Bear Family projects
Thanks to Marek Bozickovic for picture in head
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