Emma At The Royal

Bali Hai

Emma At The Royal
Lehua Records SL 7026
1976

Emma Veary live at The Monarch Room Of The Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

Live Hawaiian Party - Sam Makia And His Hawaiian Islanders

Beyond The Reef

Live Hawaiian Party
Sam Makia And His Hawaiian Islanders
Tifton International TS 83

Recorded live at Bill Green's Golden Dragon - "Malia" Polynesian Room – Asbury Park, NJ.

No mention online of either Sam Makia or The Gold Dragon. From the photos the room is a box with drop ceilings, a few plastic trees and tropical print drapes over the windows. Fun!

On With The Show - Gary Edwards & Sage

Live And Let Die

On With The Show
Gary Edwards & Sage
Micah Records MR100
Creative Workshop - Nashville, Tennessee

An act whose talent agency was located in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Greek Tones - Translations

Ertha Ke Pali (Vango Pavloudis)

The Greek Tones
Translations
Jewel Records - Cincinnati, Ohio - JRC 80876
Engineer - Rusty York
1980

John Goulandris - Bouzouki
Alex Layliev - Percussion
Vango Pavloudis - Keyboard, Bass and Vocals

The Gary R. Smith Company

Desperado

The Gary R. Smith Company
Rite Record Production - Cincinnati, Ohio - 36907

Cincinnati, Ohio area group made up of Gary Smith, Charlene Davidson, Bill Jolliff, Dan Burton and Tim Short. I think many of these folks were studio musicians who played on many locally produced recordings.

The Wild and Mild Sides of Woody Martens

Caravan (Wild And Mild)

Full Album

The Wild and Mild Sides of Woody Martens
Recorded Live in the Fox's Lair of Reynard's Restaurant, Lake Worth, Fla.
Distributed by Danwood Enterprises - Farmland, Indiana
Art Records - ALP-46

1967 (mentioned in an Billboard Magazine/Muntz Stereo ad)

Woody's Mood
Woody Martens At The Hammond Organ
Art Records - ALP-70-S

From the back cover: The organ is a Hammond, model B-3, equipped with two Fisher K-10 space-expander reverberation units. A Leslie speaker, model 31-H, a Leslie speaker, model 122-R, and a Hammond PR-40 are used as tone cabinets. All effects, sounds, and rhythm accompaniment are produced by the artist and the organ - none by artificial means.

These are outstanding private press albums. Apparently Martens made at least two albums. Whoever owned the jacket/album pictured above slid the Woody's Mood LP in with the Wild and Mild jacket. I've included samples from both records. I also found a third LP online titled Wild & Woody.

Martens was inventive, creating a variety of sonic effects to help sell the songs he was covering. It's difficult to date the Wild And Mild album, but at the very least Marten was heavily influenced by exotica. He may have been influenced by Korla Pandit, but that is an just an assumption on my part. This is one of the better space age organ LPs I've heard.

The Woody's Mood LP, recorded live sometime later, features Marten was backed by drums (although the drum levels are low and don't do much in the way of support). This LP features more of a standard 60s lounge groove.

Apparently Martens passed away from cancer at the age of 56 in 1992.

Also see: Woody's Mood (Art Records ALP-70)

Ron Libby - Shine On

Just The Way You Are

My Love Does It Good

Ron Libby
Shine On
Whirl-A-Way Records - Falmouth, ME - WAW 72641
Queen City Album - Cincinnati, Ohio - 101021