Sunday, December 21, 2008

Hope Griffith, Lubbock



Chester Oliver of Seminole began his Blue Moon label in the fall of 1956, just a few months after the release the Teen Kings' "Ooby Dooby" on Je-Wel. The first Blue Moon release would be a local Spanish single. The second and final release on Blue Moon would come from the pretty Hope Griffith. On these two Christmas numbers Hope approaches the throatiness of Eartha Kitt.

At the time of these recordings Hope was a regular performer on Lubbock radio and tv.

Blue Moon would become Triple-D and well... you know...

We'll be back after Christmas with some great Odessa doo wop.

4 comments:

Jukeboxmafia said...

Very nice...

andrewbrown said...

Wow. This is unbelievably bad.

Rocky Lane said...

Apparently Mr. Brown doesn't know wonderful simple music when he hears it. Probably has no taste in music at all.

Please, keep putting gems like this up as often as you can and please ignore the peanut gallery.

Thanks.

WESTEX said...

Nahhh... I (almost) completely respect Brown's taste in music. His dedication to any and all things Tiny Tina is a bit weird, but other than that...