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Art Rupe, legendary record
producer & founder of SPECIALTY RECORDS Photo Images665 Disney
1965 Oscar Winners. Robert
and Richard Sherman. Troy Cory, Bob
Roberts Actually, says Troy Cory in a
recent Celebrity Scene story
with
Pete
Allman, about his
early days in Hollywood, "it is my understanding
that Art Rupe's very first taste of the record
business occurred when he joined his friend, Robert
Sherman (b. 1920/June/14, Indianapolis, IN), a
songwriter, record producer and his UCLA classmate.
They started ATLAS RECORDS in 1944.
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History
of Specialty Records - TCS
Interview.
02-Excerpts
from Troy Cory Interview, about his early days in
Hollywood as a recording artist, and song writer.
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FOR FULL TCS Pete Allman
INTERVIEW.
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Atlas Records released some of the 1st
recordings by The Nat King Cole Trio, Johnny
Moore's Three Blazers with Charles Brown, Al Sack
and Frankie Laine. It was a short stay (4 months),
just long enough to convince Arthur Goldberg
(Rupe's real name) that he wanted to start up his
own label, JUKE BOX RECORDS.
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According to the 1946/August/10 Billboard
issue, Rupe's share of JUKE BOX was sold to Al
Middleman (of Sterling Records) who had joined him
a few months earlier. According to the agreement,
Rupe became the owner of the masters he produced
for Roy Milton, The Sepia Tones and The Buddy Banks
Sextet (with The Blues Man and The Blues Woman).
The masters were released on Rupe's new label -
SPECIALTY RECORDS. Middleman continued the JUKE BOX
Records from his New York City office. - See
eRIC
Leblanc
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Larry Williams - 1957 to 1959, singer -
songwriter - pianist, was one of the first black
"rock 'n roll stars" for Specialty; and Troy
Cory - 1957 to 1959, singer - songwriter, was the
label's first white recording artist.
•
• It
was during the last days of Specialty Records,
in 1957, that
Sonny Bono heard Troy Cory performance in a
high school Christmas play, and soon thereafter was
signed as Specialty artist. It was also the same
year Little Richard left Specialty to become a
preacher, and like Richard, Rupe changed his
outlook on life, thus one of the reasons as to why
Rupe was swayed by Sonny Bono and René Hall
to sign Troy. The other reason was the success
Randy Wood of Dot Records was having in making
itself into a major record company with Pat Boone,
and the new rock-a-billy
sound.
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Troy first single was a rock-a-billy upbeat sound,
arranged by René Hall and produced by Sonny
Bono, Troy's A&R rep, "I'm
Just A Lost Ball In High Weeds and the old Gene
Austin song, "Yearning". René Hall
(guitar), Plas Johnson (tenor sax), Lee Allen
(tenor sax) and Earl Palmer (drums), were featured
on most of Troy's early rock
recordings.
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During this same period, Rupe with the help of
Sonny Bono, was able to make Lloyd Price's former
valet, singer, Larry Williams into a Little Richard
- sound-a-like clone. Williams hits included "Just
Because," "Peaches and Cream," Short Fat Fannie,"
and "Bony Moronie." The last two made it to
the top ten. William sides featured a few of
Sonny Bono songs and pioneer players like
René Hall (guitar), Plas Johnson (tenor
sax), Lee Allen (tenor sax) and Earl Palmer
(drums), Hungary Williams (drums). Williams died in
1980 at age 44.
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If
you listen close to Williams recordings, you'll
hear a voice sound resemblance that was picked up
by Rod Stewart in the 60s. Click Here To
View the sound recorded at Troy Cory's Vine Street
Video Center in 1978.
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Sam Cooke dissatisfied with singing only
gospel music wanted to sing pop. Rupe was afraid
Specialty would lose of Cooke's gospel audience if
he began releasing him singing pop.
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The end of 1957 saw Specialty with three top ten
records "Bony Moronie," "I'll Come Running Back to
You," and "Keep
A-Knockin'."
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1958 saw Specialty's last Top Ten record "Good
Golly Miss Molly, " a Little Richard master from
1956. Troy Cory's new single, Down
On The Beach and Just One More Chance
(1958) produced by
Sonny, failed to hit the
charts.
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That, and the Sonny Bono, Troy Cory and Tip Tobin
efforts to effect a "special" comedy team dj show,
an outer space movie deal, the loss of Little
Richard, the break up of Rupe's marriage, and the
feeling that he should have listened to the lyrics
of Sam Cooke's hit, "Darling You Send Me" a little
closer, before letting him go, caused Rupe to lose
interest in the record business.
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Having made big bucks from other financial business
interest, and tired of the many music and
publication business headaches, he turned the
day-to-day operations over to others, and moved his
offices to the building that's now the West
Hollywood City Hall. Of course, Sonny Bono became
Sonny and Cher, Mayor of Palm Springs, then a
member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Bono'slife was cut tragically short January 5,
1998, when he was killed in a skiing accident in
South Lake Tahoe, California.
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Troy Cory's first recordings / Lost
Ball and
Down
On The
Beach, were
Produced and Directed by Sonny Bono. Musical
Arrangements by Rene Hall and Ray
Stanley
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• 620 - Troy Cory : I've Just Lost A Ball In
High Weeds / Yearning
(1957)
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• 646 - Troy Cory : Down On The Beach / Just
One More Chance (1958)
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Back in the days of
Specialty Records, Art Rupe, Larry Williams, Sonny
Bono, Lloyd Price, René Hall,
Robert "Bumps" Blackwell and Little Richard,
Troy remembers his friend Little Richard as having
been a force to wrecken with. Pianist Larry
Williams was one of the first black "rock 'n
roll stars" for Specialty and teenybopper
Troy Cory-Stubblefield was signed up as the label's
first white artist.
••••
Little Richard (Richard
Wayne Penniman) passed away Saturday, June 9, at
his family home in Tullahoma, Tennessee. He was 87
and had been battling bone cancer.
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early 1956, he formed an honored foundation of
rock. Richard was one of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame's inaugural inductees in 1986, and he received
the Recording Academy's lifetime achievement award
in 1993.
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The Georgia native exerted
profound influence on the Beatles and many other
legends to follow, including James Brown (who
succeeded him in one of his early bands), Jimi
Hendrix (one of his backup musicians in the
mid-'60s) and Bruce Springsteen.
••••His
first top hit (1956) "Long Tall Sally," made the
top 10, and was joined there later by "Jenny
Jenny," "Keep a Knockin' " and "Good Golly, Miss
Molly," and "Tutti Frutti." Richard's other notable
singles were "Rip It Up," "Slippin' and Slidin'
(Peepin' and Hidin')" and "Lucille. Most of his
songs bore his credit as a co-writer.
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In the mid-'50s he met
R&B star Lloyd Price, who advised him to
contact his label, Specialty Records. Richard sent
a demo tape to the Los Angeles company, whose
owner, Art Rupe, was looking for someone to compete
with Atlantic Records' new sensation Ray
Charles.
••••Sensing
some potential in the urgent voice on the crude
tape, Rupe signed Little Richard and dispatched
producer Robert "Bumps" Blackwell to record him in
New Orleans in September 1955, with the cream of
the city's studio players, including saxophonist
Lee Allen and drummer Earl Palmer.
••••
Later Richard began
recording religious music, and in 1962 he took an
offer to tour England singing gospel songs. But
when he saw the audience response to Sam Cooke, one
of his opening acts, he dusted off the old hits.
Little Richard was back.
///
••••
Rupe, who
was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
in 2011, died Friday (April 15) at his home in
Santa Barbara, California.
••••
Music
executive Art Rupe, whose Specialty Records was a
premier label during the early years of rock'n'roll
and who helped launch the careers of Little
Richard, Sam Cooke and many others, has died. He
was 104.
••••
He was born
Arthur Goldberg, the son of an Austrian immigrant
laborer, in Greensburg, Pa., on Sept 5, 1917, whose
passion for Black music began through hearing the
singers at a nearby Baptist church. He studied
at
Art Rupe,
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the
University of California, Los Angeles, and after
considering a career in movies decided on music
instead. He co-founded Juke Box Records in the
mid-1940s, but soon left to start Specialty.
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legendary record producer & founder of
SPECIALTY RECORDS, signed Troy Cory to his first
Record Contract in 1957. Rene Hall and Sonny Bono,
produced the songs.
TVInews - By Pete Allman: Excerpts from Troy
Cory Interview, about his early days in Hollywood
as a recording artist, and song writer
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