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Country and crossover since 1920s and my favorite artists of all genres too...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Roy Duke

Roy James Duke *11-04-1922 Rutherford County TN
by Praguefrank, Michel Ruppli, Shane Hughes, Thieu Van De Vorst (on www.rockabillyhall.com)
SESSIONS
1953 Birmingham AL – Roy Duke
001 MY HEART CAN'T TALK Mart 1001
002 GOO GOO EYES Mart 1001
14 August 1955 Nashville, TN – Glenn Douglas & Roy Duke
003 MB-8956 YOU JUST STOOD THERE Dot 45-1268
004 MB-8957 STANDING AT THE END OF THE WORLD 45-1268
early 1956 Music City Recordings, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN - Roy Duke  (Roy Duke [vcl], Hank Garland [gt], + unknown musicians)
005 SO-88/89832 HONESTY Reject 1002 Decca 9-29962
006 SO-89/89831 BE-HAVE, BE-QUIT OR BEGONE  Reject 1002 Decca 9-29962 /BCD 15971
Decca assigned master numbers on May 11
BEAR FAMILY BCD 15971 THAT’LL FLAT GIT IT VOL.9/ROCKABILLY FROM THE VAULTS OF DECCA RECORDS (GER, 2001)
9 June 1956 Music City Recordings, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN - Roy Duke (Roy Duke [vcl], Hank Garland [gt], Bob Moore [bass] + unknown musicians)
007 100214/NA 9405 HONKY TONK QUEEN 9-30095
008 100215/NA 9406 FROM MIDNIGHT TILL DAWN unissued
009 100216/NA 9407 GOOD MORNING WORLD unissued
010 100217/NA 9408 IT’S BEEN THE TALK ALL OVER TOWN 9-30095
20 February 1957 Bradley Film & Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN - Roy Duke
011 101947/NA 9665 BEHAVE YOURSELF unissued
012 101947/NA 9666 I MEAN I’M MEN 9-30325
013 101948/NA 9667 FROM NOW ON unissued
014 101949/NA 9668 HARD HEARTED MAMA 9-30325

SINGLES
Mart (1953)
1001 My Heart Can't Talk / Goo Goo Eyes – 53
Dot (1955)
45-1268 You Just Stood There / Standing At The End Of The World – 09-55 w. Glenn Douglas
Reject (1956)
1002 Be-Have, Be-Quit Or Begone / Honesty – 04-56 (rev. Apr. 21, reissued on Decca 9-29962 in July 1956)
Decca (1956)
9-30095 Honky Tonk Queen / It's Been The Talk All Over Town – 10-56 (rev. Oct. 27)
9-30325 Hard Hearted Mama / I Mean I'm Mean – 03-57

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Thanks to Michel Ruppli, not only for his books which I use daily, but also for a large amount of rare and unpublished data from his giant archive.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
And last but not least I would like to thank all who visit this blog - they come from more than 100 countries.