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!
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You
Lonnie McDowell
Scorpion SCS-0005
1978
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You
Homeless Child
Still Loving You
Travelin' Wanderin' Man
Fallin'
Here Comes The Reason I Live
Are You Leading Me On
All I Want Of You
Heart
Lucky Day
If You Like Herbie
Herbie Smith
Astral Seven Records - Dayton, Ohio
ASA 59270
Queen City Album - Cincinnati, Ohio
7082N2
So Darlin'
Sweet Baby's Love
All Towns Look Alike
Four Seasons
To Keep From Going Home
I'm Part Of The Crowd
So Wild Over You
Too Much Cryin' Goin' On
Hard Times
This Ain't No Threat (It's A Promise)
Downtown Knoxville
They Don't Make'em Like They Used To
By Request
Herbie Smith
Astral 7 Records - Dayton, Ohio
ASA-7001
To Keep From Going Home
How's My X Treating You
China Doll
Your Tender Loving Care
Field Of Yellow Daises
She Called My Baby
My Baby Walks All Over Me
Alone With You
Mystery Train
I Forgot To Remember To Forget
Crystal Chandeliers
Six Days On The Road
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
