Welcome to The Motel Lounge! What's your poison? This album blog features a variety of unusual vinyl finds from the days when the only way to reach an audience was for the artist to custom press their own LPs that could be sold in the lounge settings, private parties or weddings at which they performed. I'm here to have fun and hope you will share in my process of discovery!
Woman On My Mind
Burch Ray
Produced by Burch Ray
Yellowstone Records
LSP-1719
Banks Of The Yellowstone
Summertime Blues
The Snowflake
Songs That I Sing
Well... All Right
Diggy Liggy Lo
Woman On My Mind
Ballad Of The Snake River Bridge
Greenback Dollar
Playground
Frustrated Lady
Expressions
Teddy & Nanci
Silvercloud Records SLP 1004
1977
Gypse Free
Torn Between Two Lovers
(Lead Me On) This Is The Night For Love
E Kuu Morning Dew
Do The Funky Hula
Outrageous
I Like Dreamin'
Just Express Yourself
What I Did For Love / The Way We Were
I'm Movin' In
An Evening With Wanda
Production and Engineering: Jan Eden
Photography: Bob Doeppers
Liner Notes Notes: Art Harris
Jacket Design: Jane Ford
Garden Of Eden Records - Indianapolis, Indiana
From the back cover: Across from the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway on West 16th Street where the 500 Mile Race is held each May is the unofficial home of one of Indiana's best-known supper club songstresses... Wanda Louise Schafer. Wanda, who belts out songs like the late Sophie Tucker while accompanying herself on the piano, has worked with some of the great names in music... Jack Teagarden and Dizzy Gillespie... "Even Dan Rowan and Dick Martin when they were making $500 a week apiece. "One of her memorable engagements was in the Mermaid Room of the Park Sheridan, in New York.
Beginning in Anderson, Indiana, Wanda started singing on radio station WHUB when she was ten. Her stage career began at fourteen in Anderson with her uncle Wanda describes as a "stand-up vaudeville comic."
The entertainment career began so early was postponed while she raised six children. The urge to sing again was song, and she resumed singing at the Shamrock in Anderson where she played for nine years before coming to Indianapolis in 1957. There were seven great years at LaRue's Supper Club before she moved to Al Myers. Later she went to Fort Wayne, Indiana to be the songbird in the Gilded Cage.
Wanda "retired" in 1965 to marry Otto Schafer, a well-known Indianapolis Motor Speedway figure. It was through him she began her "love affair" with the Speedway and its personages. This close association with the Speedway was on of the reasons Wanda decided to "stay close to the track" when she returned to the Indiana entertainment scene.
Cotton Fields
Sarah
He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
Secondhand Rose
Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue
Bye Bye Blackbird
Music, Music
Georgia On My Mind
Kansas City
Sentimental Journey
Canadian Sunset
It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
As Time Goes By
Always Together
Close To You
Make The World Go Away
Spanish Eyes
Green Apples
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
If I Had My Way
Lonely Wine
I Fall To Pieces
The Many Mood Of Bob Braun
Arranged by Chuck Sagle
Produced by Lewis Chitty
Recorded At Monument Studios - Nashville, TN
Engineer: Mort Thomasson
Wrayco Records - Baltimore, MD
WSLP-101
Working Man's Prayer / I Believe
To Wait For Love
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Let Time Have Its Way
Green, Green Grass Of Home
Make It With You
I Believed It All
Big Blue Diamond
Quiet Show
Anyone Can Move A Mountain
Here's Your Request
Coburn's Colony Club Combo
Cover and Notes by "Red" Ashely
Photography by Don Johnson
Recorded At The Studio Of Film Associates, Inc. - Dayton, Ohio
Request Records - Dayton, Ohio
Queen City Album - Cincinnati, Ohio
71056
From the back cover: Every evening at 9:00 o'clock (except Sunday), Bill Coburn and his Combo step into the spotlight at Dayton's own Colony Club. The beat is counted and Vic Tooker vocalizes on "Don't Forget Our Monday, (or whatever-day), Date" ... And it seems that the steady fans of the combo have kept that date, many, many times over the ten years that Bill's Band has been featured at the Colony!
Clementine
Memories Of You
Caravan
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
Dixie Banjo Medley
Sweet Georgia Brown
Jazz Me Blues
Satin Doll
Waitin For The Robert E. Lee
Wolverine Blues
The Three Of Us
Artist's Records - Cincinnati, Ohio
721021
Windmills Of Your Mind
Little Help From Our Friends
We've Only Just Begun
If
I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
Evil Ways
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Joy To The World
