KB-145 - SOMA 1041

TONY GRISE and his Orchestra

55

KB-145A - Blue Stardust  (No Publ.)

KB-145B - I’m Just A Rover  (No Publ.)

SOMA 1041

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

KB-144 = KAY BANK LP 144

Edward D Berryman feat St. Marks Cathedral Choir

55

KB-144A - Love Devine All Love's Excelling / Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind / Sanctus From The St. Cecelia Mass

KB-144B - Come Sweet Death / Toccata From The Fifth Organ Symphony

KAY BANK LP 144

Minneapolis, MN

Source: Discogs

KB-141 - KAY BANK LP 141

ST PAUL CATHOLIC SEMINARY CHOIR

55

KB-141A - Ecce Quomodo Moritur   (No Publ.)

                Libera Me Domine   (No Publ.)

                Ecce Sacerdos Magnus   (No Publ.)

                O Quam Suavis   (No Pul.)

KB-141B - Quam Dilecta Tabernacula Tua  (No Publ.)

                Emitte Spiritum Tuum   (No Publ.)

                Tu Es Sacerdos In Aeternum  (No Publ.)

                Jerusalem Surge   (No Publ.)

KAY BANK LP 141

Seminary Chapel, St Paul, MN

KB-140 - KAY BANK LP 140 (Updated 5 Jan 2020)

ST PAUL CATHOLIC SEMINARY CHOIR

55

KB-140A - Side One

KB-140B - Side Two

KAY BANK LP 140

Seminary Chapel, St Paul, MN

KB-129 - KAY BANK 129

The Barbarettes

55

KB-129A - It May Sound Silly

KB-129B - My Baby Don’t Love Me No More

                Muskrat Ramble

KAY BANK 129

Minneapolis, MN

KB 98/121 - SOMA 1018

Ray Stolzenberg And His Northern Playboys

??

KB 98 L – Northern Schottische

KB 121 L – Jolly Coppersmith

SOMA 1018

Minneapolis, MN

Unsure where this fits or when it actually came out. Been suggested that this is a reissue of two former Soma Releases, but I have no details. What the "L" code stands for is also a mystery.

KB-116 - KAY BANK LP 116

Southwest High School Choir

55

KB-116A - Side One

KB-116B - Side Two

KAY BANK LP 116

Minneapolis, MN

KB-92 - Apostolic Bible Institute Chorus

Apostolic Bible Institute Chorus

55

KB-92A - I know A Name

KB-92B - Holy Be Thy Name

KAY BANK 92

Minneapolis, MN

KB-90 - NORTH STAR 2012

MA-SEECH

55

KB-90A - Dora

KB-90B - Blackjack Boogie

NORTH STAR 2012

St Paul, MN

(Issued on both 45 and 78rpm formats)

KB-89 - NORTH STAR 2011

ANDY WALSH and the Barn Dance Gang

55   (BB = 14 May 55)

KB-89A - Play An Old Time Waltz

KB-89B - A Lifetime Of Lovin’

NORTH STAR 2011

St Paul, MN

SUNSET VALLEY BARN DANCE (KSTP), St Paul, MN

Stanley E. Hubbard, President and General Manager of KSTP back around 1943, told us in the "Deluxe Edition Favorite Songs KSTP Sunset Valley Barn Dance" that KSTP began a series of Saturday night broadcasts in the fall of 1940 that were known as the "Sunset Valley Barn Dance". The idea was to bring to listeners, young and old alike, '...true American folk music in its original form'. The show had staying power and our research has shown it lasted well into the 1950s.

He wrote that hundreds of thousands of fans had attended the shows in the two and a half years it had been on. These shows featured songs of 'hearth and home', 'breakdowns and fiddle tunes', 'ringing banjo melodies', 'harmonica blues' thrown together with a dash of comedy for good measure.

And well it should have been successful. For the producer of KSTP's Sunset Valley Barn Dance was David Stone, who had previously served in a similar role on WSM's Grand Ole Opry. The show had it all and had performers of every type, much the way the early Opry started. Old-timers entertaining the audiences with their fiddles and banjos. The youngsters of the day did the polkas and schottisches.

In an 1953 article in Cowboy Songs, they asked what made a 'Barn Dance' tick and they listed several ingredients of which the KSTP Sunset Valley Barn Dance had, too. First, there was the fiddles, the guitars and accordions not to mention a great deal of spirit, the love of the old-time music and an understanding and feeling why it lives on and on.

Around 1953 or so, Andy Walsh was the main singer and guitarist on the show and he tried to explain it too. He said he had tried thousands of times to think it through, but admitted freely:

"It's beyond me. I love to play'em and sing'em, and the folks still ask for them. That's enough."

Andy Walsh

The show had a couple of notable fiddle players. One was Fiddlin' Russ, who was born and raised on a farm in Minnesota. He said he could remember being held on his dad's lap as he fiddled into the night for the neighborhood gatherings for a barn dance. Another was Dusty Lane and the two of them would often get together for some twin fiddle magic.

They tried to stay true to the old folk tunes of the past. But perhaps sensing that times were changing, noted that many of their artists were writing their own original tunes.

Noted personalities in the song folio were Brooks Henderson, Cal Karnstedt, Ben Leighton, and Jimmie Valentine.

David Stone also produced the Sunrise Roundup on KSTP back then, too. And they said used his knowledge and experience gained at the Grand Ole Opry to help guide the shows. He was said to have revived the old-time dances and was credited to the square-dance revival in the northwest back then.

Back then, KSTP was 1500 on your AM Dial, a 50,000 watt station. It was said to have an unusual directive antenna array that took the 50,000 watts and created a 133,500 watt night-time impact westward of the Minneapolis-St.Paul area to reach a broader listening audience.

The talented cast of the KSTP Barn Dance in 1953 did more than just the Barn Dance show. They appeared twice a week on a show called "County Road 5" that featured visiting rural families. The other three days of the work week, they appeared on the "Mainstreet" program that featured hillbilly and western folk music as they called it then.

(Source: Hillbillymusic.com)