Dee Mullins & Patsy Timmons

Dee & Patty backstage at the Big "D" Jamboree (?), 1957/8. (photo from writer's collection)

















Married couple Dee Mullins (Dwight Mullinaux) and Patsy Timmons recorded three 45's together. The first one was released on Mercury just after the Mercury-Starday deal was over. First Date/Parking (Mercury 71252) presumably sold well enough that Mercury re-pressed it some time later with the top-side as Our First Date. The second pressing also had slightly different master compared to the original release. The difference is heard at the very end of the song as it wasn't faded as in the earlier release. 

The first pressing - First Date/Parking. Reviewed in Billboard on February 3, 1958.

The second pressing - Our First Date/Parking.

Sound samples from the second pressing.


Hear Our First Date


Hear Parking

Their next release came out on Dixie label. Gee Whiz/Don't Tease Me (Dixie 2006) was reviewed in Billboard on July 14, 1958. I don't have the 45 but the tracks sound very similar to Mercury recordings. It's very possible that they were recorded at the same session. The Dixie 45 was released as Pat & Dee. One of their tracks, One Week Later was released on a Dixie mail order series EP (530) also as by Pat & Dee.

Their final 45 came out on Pappy Daily's D Records. Sweet Lovin' Baby/Ohh-Wow was released on October, 1958.

Hear Sweet Lovin' Baby


Hear Ohh-Wow

Dee & Patty still performed together but they didn't make any records at all. Instead, both Dee Mullins and Patsy Timmons recorded for D as solo artists. They both had already appeared solo on Dixie mail order series EP's. She's No Angel by Patsy and Oh Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again by Dee was released on Dixie 530. Patsy also recorded a Kitty Wells cover I Can't Stop Loving You that appeared on Dixie 532.

Listen I Can't Stop Loving You

Dee had only one 45 on the D label (I've Really Got A Right To Cry/The World's A Lie, D 1066, 1959). Patsy had three, of which the first was I Understand Him/Step Aside Old Heart (D 1033, 1958).

Listen I Understand Him


Listen Step Aside Old Heart

Two more Patsy Timmons releases followed in 1959:

- Answer To Life To Go/I've Got It (D 1079)
- Branded For Life/My Philosophy (D 1109)

Couple of years later Patsy and Dee were divorced and Patsy left the music business.

Dee went on to record throughout the 1960's. I have added his only Mel-O-Dy 45 here as well. Mel-O-Dy was a short-lived Motown subsidiary. Maybe the folks at Motown thought that country music was not their business.
Both sides of Dee's Mel-o-dy 45 was written by Howard Hausey who also wrote some of the biggest hits for Johnny Horton back in the 1950's including Honky Tonk Man, Whispering Pines and Ole Slew Foot. Mel-O-Dy 117 was released in 1964. Al Klein was the producer and it was probably recorded in Dallas, Texas.
Of the songs, Come On Back (And Be My Love Again) was earlier recorded by Mac Curtis on Shalimar Records and in late 1960's Gene Wyatt covered it on Paula Records. Dee Mullins died in 1991.

Listen Love Makes The World Go 'Round, But Money Greases The Wheel


Listen Come On Back (And Be My Love Again)

Sources:

• The Complete D Singles collection Volume 2 booklet by Kevin Coffey
• Billboard magazines
• Rockin' Country Style
  

The Country Kings EP on Empire Records

This here is an EP from Washington, DC Empire records, owned by local DC record entrepreneur Ben Adelman. Adelman worked with both Patsy Cline and Marvin Rainwater early in their careers. The vocalists on this EP are most probably DC artists. Wade Holmes also recorded for 4 Star label in mid-50's. Other singers are unknown to me. I don't think the Eddie Marvin here is the same guy who recorded I'm Packing My Duds & I'm Head-in South for Oakridge Records in Oklahoma.
This EP was released in 1960 and some copies had picture sleeve as well. Sadly, my copy is not one of those.

Listen Honey Baby (vocal - Wade Holmes)


Listen I Need Your Love (vocal - Eddie Marvin - Roy Irvin)

Listen You Can't Hide From Yourself (vocal - Pete Potter - Eddie Marvin)


Listen I'll Just Pretend (vocal - Eddie Marvin)

Two good 45's

Let's start things up with these two very nice (and cheap, too) 45's I just got.

First one is a Lou Josie 45 on Sol Rabinowitz's Baton label from New York. The record was reviewed in Billboard on April 13, 1959:

The reviewer thinks the ballad is the more important side. It's a good one, all right. It reminds me a little of the songs written by Ray Doggett.

Listen: Lonely Years

Lou Josie was born in 1938 in Medina, Ohio. His first two 45's were released on Argo label in 1958. Third one came on New York based Herald label under pseudonym Jimmie King. This Baton 45 was his fourth. After that his fifth 45 was released around 1962 on CRC label again as Jimmie King.
The rockin' side of the Baton single sounds a little like Huey "Piano" Smith's Don't You Just Know It. It's a  good rock'n'roll track that hasn't been reissued.

Listen I'm A Gonna Get-Cha

The other 45 is by the North Carolina group The Chavis Brothers. From 1965, released on Ascot label from New York and custom pressed by Columbia, Humpty Dumpty is a nice garage style rocker.

Listen Humpty Dumpty

The flip side is a slow one. The Ascot 45 was produced by Bill Justis.

Listen Torture Me

More about The Chavis Brothers can be found on RCS.

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