KB-705 - SOMA SACRED 705

The Lofthus Sisters

58

KB-705A - I Want To See My Saviour

KB-705B - Let Me Burn Out For Thee

SOMA SACRED 795

Minneapolis, MN

KB-703 - FUTURE 2201

FIVE SPOTS  feat Don Glenn

Mar 58   (BB = 31 Mar 58)

KB-703A - Get With It   (Earl Barton Music)

KB-703B - It’s You (Who Stole My Heart Away)   (Earl Barton Music)

FUTURE 2201

Batesville, AR  (Earl Barton)

(Record pressed by Kay Bank - Labels by King. There maybe more than one pressing of this disc. Session directed by Billy Walker.)

Both sides are terrific rockers from Earl Barton's label. I don't believe the Five Spots have anything to do with the band of the same name who appeared on Soma Records.

Source: Terry Gordon

KB-700 - MINNESOTA CENTENNIAL 1095

THE APOLLO CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS

58

KB-700A - Minnesota Hail To Thee   (Melrose Publ.)

KB-700B - This Is My Country   (Words And Music Publ.)

MINNESOTA CENTENNIAL 1095

Minneapolis, MN
(Uses a Soma catalogue number.)

KB-698 - ECHO 698

Clarence Coffel

58

KB-698A - Some Day

KB-698B – A Nation’s Prayer

ECHO 698

Minneapolis, MN

Source: Jay Stern

KB-688 - WCCO RADIO LP 688

Various Artists - “Minnesota Milestones No. 1”

58

KB-688A - "No. 1 Ox Carts To Rockets" Side 1

KB-688B - "No. 1 Ox Carts To Rockets" Side 2

WCCO RADIO LP 688

Minneapolis, MN

This is No. 1 in a 12-part, LP set. The material on this long-playing record was originally prepared for broadcast by WCCO Radio, in commemoration of the 1958 Minnesota Statehood Centennial Year.

"MINNESOTA MILESTONES
Official Minnesota Statehood Centennial radio broadcasts dramatizing 100 years of Minnesota progress and the future.

WCCO Radio, Minneapolis St. Paul
Good Neighbor to the Northwest

EACH PROGRAM in this series dramatizes one subject in the life of the people who built Minnesota. Each was broadcast twice in 1958 by WCCO Radio as the outstanding radio activity of the Minnesota Statehood Centennial year.

The WCCO Radio Department of News and Public Affairs prepared the scripts. They were written by Charles Serjeant, news editor, from research by Loren Kallsen and the Minnesota Historical Society. The WCCO Radio Program Department produced the broadcasts with Hank Basayne as director. Narrators are Cedric Adams, noted newscaster, Bob DeHaven, master of ceremonies, and Dr. E.W. Ziebarth, foreign affairs analyst and WCCO's education consultant.

Original broadcasts were sponsored by Twin City Federal Savings and Loan Association. Transcriptions were made available as a public service of WCCO Radio at $2.50 for single copies, $25 for a set of 12, payable in advance."

Source: Discogs

KB-686 - Minnesota Centennial 1094

Ramona Gerhard with The Arbach Singers

58

KB-686A - My Minnesota Home                                             (RHB Publ.)

KB-686B - Mighty Minnesota                                                 (RHB Publ.)

MINNESOTA CENTENNIAL 1094

Minneapolis, MN

KB-674 - GAITY 674

THE BLUE KATS

Mar 58

KB-674A - Oh Yeah   (No Publ.)

KB-674B - Be Bop A Lula   (No Publ.)

GAITY 674

Minneapolis, MN   (David Hersk)

The Blue Kats were from Robbinsdale, MN. Bob Elster, Bob Ruth, Jud Sheridan, Doug Fredlin and George Seibert played regularly at the Crystal Coliseum where  national acts on tour would turn up to play. The band contacted Gaity Records via an add in the Yellow Pages and recorded the first bonafide Rock and Roll record on the label. David Hersk pressed a 1000 copies on blue wax and the band did their best to sell as many as possible at gigs. "Oh Yeah" is a pretty good primitive rocker, whilst the flip side cover of Gene Vincent's "Be Bop A Lulla" was described by Billy Miller of Norton Records as "....sounds like it was croaked by a well sloshed glee club." Praise indeed!

The Band, after a change of drummers, morphed into the manic Sonics and cut another Gaity disc, "Marlene" and "Minus One Blast Off" - one of the most frantic rockers ever waxed!. (It's not the same Sonics as the northwest legends of 60's fame). (MC)

Source: Terry Gordon 

KB-671 - SOMA 1093

ERNIE RECK And His Country Playboys

58

KB-671A – Sputnik Polka (RHB Pub.)

KB-671B – Lowenbrau Laendler (RHB Pub.)

SOMA 1093

119 North 9th St, Minneapolis, MN   (Amos Heilicher)

KB-670 - SOMA 1092

ERNIE RECK And His Country Playboys

58

KB-670A – Arcadia Polka (RHB Pub.)

KB-670B – Huntsmen Waltz (RHB Pub.)

SOMA 1092

119 North 9th St, Minneapolis, MN   (Amos Heilicher)

KB-663 - GAITY 663

THE SINGING BURCHES

58

KB-663A - Feeling Mighty Fine   (No Publ.)

               Wait A Little Longer   (No Publ.)

KB-663B - You Don't Have To Walk Alone   (No Publ.)

               Climbing Up The Mountain   (No Publ.)

GAITY 663

Minneapolis, MN   (David Hersk)

I'd like to state that I have never, ever heard a bad record on Gaity. So I would very much like to hear these sides. The Label is known better for ferocious rockers, fiery instrumentals and some super-rare vocal group stuff. Not sure what this music is - Gospel? Country? You know, for a very small private operation, Mr Hersk always seemed to create a huge sound and the recordings always seem to be really high fidelity. 

Just had a thought, if some of the early Gaity records were issued a few years before (say 55 - 57) and some were issued on 78rpm speed - well - can you imagine "Bloodshot" by the String Kings on a 78? Would blow the cones in every speaker! 

Yet, it wasn't actually Mr Hersk who recorded these tracks. Although the session was booked, he was out of town. Here's what Mr Hersk had to say when asked by Derik Olsen:

"I was going out of town and my mom set up the recording date.  Since I was not there Joe Beck (who had American Recording Company on Washburn Ave South) did the recording and Kay Bank mastered and pressed it.  I had forgotten all about it, It must have been 1956 or 57."

Still, now that I've heard the record, I still stand by my "Not A Bad Record" on Gaity, even if it isn't the label owner behind the desk.