October 3, 1958 : Second recording session for CLIFF RICHARD at EMI's
Abbey Road studio in London, resulting in his next single, "High Class
Baby" b/w "My Feet Hit The Ground" (Columbia DB 4203).
Also recorded is "Don't Bug Me Baby", which originally went unreleased.
Personnel is probably : Ernie Shear and Ian Samwell (guitars) ; Frank
Clarke(bass) ; Terry Smart (drums).
 
October 7, 1958 : MERRILL MOORE records another four tracks for an album
of piano instrumentals (see also September 15 & 23, 1958) : "Nobody's
Sweetheart", "Jumpin' at the Woodside", "Somebody Stole My Gal" and "Lazy
River". For some unknown reason, Capitol decides not to release the LP
and the twelve tracks will stay on the shelf until Merrill's Bear Family
2-CD "Boogie My Blues Away" (BCD 15505, 1990).

October 9, 1958 : BUCK OWENS is in Hollywood at the Capitol Recording
Studio. He records "Walk The Floor" and "I'll Take Chance On Loving You"
for his new single (Capitol 4090, November) plus "Second Fiddle" and 
"My Everlasting Love" for a subsequent single (Capitol 4172, March 1958).
Personnel : Buck Owens (vocals / guitar / leader) ; Ralph Mooney (steel
guitar) ; Al Williams (bass) ; Pee Wee Adams (drums) ; George French
(piano) ; Jelly Sanders (fiddle).
Producer is Ken Nelson.   

October 9, 1958 : An evening session for EDDIE COCHRAN at Goldstar Studio
in Hollywood.
Eddie Cochran (vocals / guitar) is accompanied by : Guybo (electric bass) ;
Earl Palmer  (drums) ; Ray Johnson (piano) ; (possibly) Jerry Capehart
(tambourine).
After finishing "Let's Get Together", the feeling was that the song wasn't 
dynamic enough. Eddie and Jerry retitled the song "C'mon Everybody" and
a new backing track was recorded, this time with stops at the end of each 
verse in order to emphasise the song's new title. The speeded-up master 
of "C'mon Everybody" was released on Liberty 55166 in November, coupled
with the previously (July 7) recorded "Don't Ever Let Me Go". "Let's Get 
Together" survived as a master and was issued on the 1962 Liberty LP
"Cherished Memories" (LBY 1109), as was "I've Waited So Long", which Eddie
had recorded on October 1, 1958. On October 16, Eddie was back in the
studio (Liberty Custom Recorders), with the Blue Caps, to record the
backing track for "Don't Wake Up The Kids" (Freedom 44005). The vocal by
the Four Dots (including Jewel Akens) was overdubbed later. 
 
October 10, 1958 : RUTH BROWN records rock 'n' roll versions of her 1952-53
R&B hits "Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean" (Atlantic 2008) and "5-10-15
Hours" (Atlantic 2015). The flip-sides of these two singles, respectively
"I'll Step Aside" and "Itty Bitty Girl", are also laid down at this New
York session.
Personnel includes : King Curtis (sax) ; Wendell Marshall (bass) ; Belton
Evans (drums).
Production by Leiber and Stoller.
 
Monday October 13, 1958 : THE EVERLY BROTHERS record their next single,
"Problems" b/w "Love of My Life" (Cadence 1355), for release in November.
The usual Nashville session men are present : Chet Atkins, Hank Garland 
and Ray Edenton (guitars) ; Lightnin' Chance (bass) ; Buddy Harman (drums) ;
(and this time no Floyd Cramer, but) Marvin Hughes (piano).
 
October 13-17 and 20-21, 1958 : GENE VINCENT has recording dates on no less
than seven days this month.
"You Are The One For Me", "Maybe", "In Love Again", "I Can't Believe You
Want To Leave", I Got To Get You Yet", "My Heart", "Maybellene", "I Might
Have Known", "My Baby Don't Low", "Ready Teddy" and "Vincent's Blues" will
appear on the LP "Sounds Like Gene Vincent" (Capitol T 1207), released in
May 1959 (added with a twelfth track, "Now Is The Hour", previously recorded
in March, 1958).
"Say Mama" b/w "Be-Bop Boogie Boy" is chosen for the next single (Capitol
4105), follwed by "Who's Pushing Your Swing" b/w "Over the Rainbow" (Capitol
4153).
"The Night Is So Lonely" (b/w "Right Now" from a December 1957 session) will
be used for a future single (Capitol 4237), just like "Anna Annabelle" (b/w
"Pistol Packin' Mama" from a May 1960 session, Capitol 4442).
"Lonesome Boy", "Rip It Up", "High Blood Pressure", "Gone Gone Gone" and a
new version of "Important Words" will find a place on the LP "The Crazy Beat
Of Gene Vincent" (UK Capitol T 20453, 1963).
Finally, "Beautiful Brown Eyes" is released on the LP "A Tribute To My Best
Friend" (French Capitol 2C 066-81618, 1974).
Gene is accompanied by : Johnny Meeks (lead guitar) ; Grady Owen (bass guitar) ;
Clifton Simmons (piano) ; Clyde Pennington (drums) ; Jackie Kelso (tenor sax) ;
Alexander Nelson and Plas Johnson (baritone saxes) ; Gil Bernal and Herbert
Steward (saxes).
Producer is Ken Nelson.
Location is the Capitol Tower in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
 
October 19, 1958 : At Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville, BRENDA
LEE records six tracks : the Xmas single "Rockin' Around the  Christmas Tree"
b/w "Papa Noel" (Decca 30776, charted in 1960, 1961 and 1962, but not after
its first release in 1958), "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home"/
"Hummin' the Blues Over You" (Decca 30806) and "Let's Jump the Broomstick",
released on Decca 30885 in April 1959. The sixth song, Buck Ram's "Heading
Home" becomes an LP track.
Boots Randolph makes his first of many appearances on a Brenda Lee session,
along with the usual Nashville crew (Garland, Bradley, Moore, Cramer, the
Anita Kerr Singers).

On October 21, Cliff Richard recorded a further six tracks (all covers) for
the LP "Jack Good's Oh Boy" (Columbia PMC 1072), which also featured tracks
by the John Barry Seven, the Dallas Boys, Vince Eager, Peter Elliott, Cuddly
Dudley, Neville Taylor and the Cutters, and the Vernons Girls.
 
October 21, 1958 : Unaware that this will be the last formal recording session 
of his life, BUDDY HOLLY (without the Crickets) enters the Pythian Temple in
New York City for his "string session", produced by Dick Jacobs. Four tracks
are laid down. Paul Anka's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (a last-minute addition)
is recorded in one take. It will be released on January 5, 1959 (Coral 62074),
coupled with the Boudleaux/Felice Bryant song "Raining In My Heart". "True Love
Ways" and "Moondreams" were two sides of one 45 in the UK in 1960, but in the
USA "True Love Ways" was coupled with "That Makes It Tough" (Coral 62210,
release date June 29, 1960).
The violinists for this session were recruited from the New York Philharmonic
and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
The other musicians included Al Caiola (guitar) ; Sanford Bloch (bass): Ernest
Hayes (piano) ; Abraham "Boomie" Richman (tenor sax).
 
October 21, 1958 : CHUCK BERRY returns to the Chess Studio in Chicago for two
tracks : "Little Queenie" (Chess 1722, released in March 1959) and "That's My
Desire", which becomes the B-side of his next single, "Anthony Boy" (Chess
1716).
Chuck Berry (vocals / guitar) is accompanied by : Johnny Johnson (piano) ;
Willie Dixon (bass) ; Fred Below (drums).
 
October 21, 1958 : RICKY NELSON records two Dorsey Burnette compositions,
"One of These Mornings" (included on Ricky's third LP, "Ricky Sings Again",
Imperial LP 9061) and "It's Late", for release on Imperial 5565 in February
1959.
Location: Master Recorders on Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood. Production as
usual by Jimmie Haskell.
 
October 27, 1958 : NEIL SEDAKA's first RCA session, at RCA Victor Studio A on
24th Street in New York City. Two versions of "No Vacancy" are recorded, the
second of which (in stereo) has remained unissued until the recent release of
the box-set "The Complete Neil Sedaka 1956-1966" (Bear Family BCD 16535). 
"All I Need Is You" will end up on Neil's first LP and there's also a first
attempt at "The Diary".
Personnel includes King Curtis (sax) ; Everett Barksdale and Kenny Burrell
(guitars).
Producer is Bob Ballard.
Neil will return to the studio on October 30 and records a new version of
"The Diary", which is chosen for single release in November, coupled with
"No Vacancy" (RCA 47-7408). The rocking "(Stop!) You're Knockin' Me Out" is
also laid down on this day, and will be selected for the album "Rock with 
Sedaka (RCA LP 2035, April 1959). 

October 30, 1958 : FATS DOMINO arrives at Master Recorders in Hollywood.
He is accompanied by New Orleans session men : Herb Hardesty (tenor sax) ;
Walter 'Papoose' Nelson (guitar) ; (joined in the studio by three ace West
Coast session men :) Earl Palmer (drums) ; Plas Johnson (tenor and baritone
sax) ; Red Callender (bass).
Producer is Dave Bartholomew. 
First recorded is a new version of "If You Need Me", which will become the
B-side of "Country Boy" (Imperial 5645) in January 1960. "Hands Across the
Table", "So Glad" and a second attempt at "The Sheik of Araby" will end up 
on three different LP's. "Margie" (previously attempted on September 23) is
chosen for single release in April 1959 (Imperial 5585). For some unknown
reason, the excellent "Darktown Strutters' Ball" stays on the shelf until 1987,
when it first came out on a Dutch Liberty LP (Don't You Know, BOSP 10),
which I bought for this track only. First CD release on the EMI 4 CD-set in 
1991 ("They Call Me the Fat Man...").
 
October 1958, unknown dates : DUANE EDDY records six tracks for his first
LP, "Have Twangy Guitar, Will Travel" (Jamie LP 3000, released in January
1959) : "Detour" (also issued as a single, Jamie 1117, in December 1958),
"I Almost Lost My Mind", "The Lonesome Road", "Loving You", "Anytime" and
"Three-30 Blues" (which, according to Steve Douglas, took two and a half days
to record, and - abbreviated from 3:30 to 2:14 - became the B-side of "Yep!" 
in the US, on Jamie 1122).
Personnel: Duane Eddy, Corki Casey and Donnie Owens (guitars) ; Jimmy Simmons
(string bass) ; Al Casey (piano) ; Steve Douglas (sax) ; Robert Taylor (drums);
The Sharps (vocal chorus).
Location: Ramsey Recorders in Phoenix, Arizona. Production by Lester Sill and
Lee Hazlewood.

With thanks to Tapio Vaisanen and Henk Gorter.

Additions and corrections welcome.
 
Dik

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