I have had better luck than I expected locating ARC albums with Hit Records and Country & Western Hits masters. That is once I found out I was looking for. ARC...
Hi Paul,     Just a guess, but they were probably from the Embassy label in England. I know ARC had a lot of Embassy tracks on their LP's and even...
Hi Paul, Jeff L and I are working on a Hit Article for a magazine at the moment, I wondered if you'd be so kind as to comment and add to our efforts. I will...
I'd like a little information on this song. My wife has it and was wondering if it was an original or a copy. I saw in a posting that an instrumental version...
... It is an original composition credited to Norris and Richards which was actually William Beasley and his wife Dorothy Jean Beasley. The song was issued on...
Hi All.. How neat that this forum has arrived.I remember the "Hit Records" '45's being packaged in those "box'o'45's that the drug store by the tracks sold...
Hi Derek: Glad I'm not the only one that remembers these packets. I bought a lot of them. However, the ones I bought never had any of the Hit 45s in them. I...
... Paul answers, and the secret is which company was putting together the packs. There were several in the country doing it. Cut-outs as the industry called...
I remember a "Drug store"/train station place . I grew up in Long I.ny and my fatherused to commute from The Albertson Station. 'Twas there that place...
good evening! great to find this site... I have many pleasant memories of buying Hit Records at our neighborhood grocery store back in the early sixties......
... Please let us know where and when. It is interesting to hear these stories. ... I have posted a label scan to Hit Records album Number 1 in the file area....
Ken, I am trying to read the credits on the bottom of the scan of the 8 track "Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women." The first line looks like, (P) Spar...
Hi Paul, Â Â Â Â The second line is:Â (P)Â Sicom Electronics Corporation 1975, which must have been the company that manufactured the 8-track. Â Ken ... ...
The Holiday Hits series of Christmas songs was used in the Hit Records and Country & Western Hits racks during the 1963 Christmas season, but continued to be...
Hello Paul,Nice to hear from you.Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.Kind Regards,Bob Lusty. ... From: paulurbahns <paul.urbahns@...> Subject:...
Hi Paul, Question for you. Was there a Current Hits volume 20? Volume 19 uses Hit #137 to Hit #142. Current Hits volume 21 (that I have), starts with Hit...
... Hit LP 420 CURRENT HITS VOLUME 20 ISSUED SEP 1964 Tobacco Road; Baby Don't You Do It; Making A Fool Of Myself; Little Honda; Ride The Wild Surf; I'm...
Hi Paul,Happy New Year. Â Did you hear the BBC Radio 2 programme "The Wonderful Sound of Woolies" (Woolworths stores where Embassy Records were Sold),it was...
Our own Bob Lusty was interviewed briefly for a new BBC Radio 2 documentary on the custom labels available at Woolworth stores in the UK. Woolworth's chain ran...
Rockinbee here, As far as I know the closest that the "Embassy" records got to the States, was in Canada where our friends at "Arc Records" used several of...
Hello Ken,Good to hear from you. Â I know Mike Redway had records released in the States,however they were not Embassy titles. As you state Embassy were...
I've been in the hospital lately so been a little slow on activity but I have posted two songs to the file area. Recorded in 1965 and 66 during a period when...
Has anyone mentioned (or know anything about) this blog, Tobaldolang's House of Music. It has numerous soundalike albums including many Hit releases. ...
Hit did two versions of Born To Lose. The sound-a-like of the Ray Charles hit was issued on Spar 725 by Herbert Hunter. I don't have that one if anybody does...
Hi Paul,    The albums on Dolangs blog are ones I posted originally at rockhall.ro originally. I allowed Dolang to repost them on his blog. I want to...
Paul, Thios female version of "Born to lose" definiteley sounds to me like Margie Singleton is singing it. That was the first impression I had it when I heard...
... Good call Carl, as Kirk Beasley (son of Bill) mentioned when he heard the song, that sometimes the individual members of the Margie Singleton Singers would...
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