MAPHIS with JOE MAPHIS & ORCHESTRA, ROSE LEE
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Stats: Rose Maphis (d. 2021)
Misc Notes:
"Billed as 'Mr. and Mrs. Country Music,' the Maphises rose to prominence in the 1950s as members of the cast of Town Hall Party, a pioneering TV barn dance seen on KTTV in Los Angeles. On the strength of Ms. Maphis’s exuberant stage presence and her husband’s dazzling guitar work, the couple — often in matching Western-wear suits — helped give birth to the unfettered West Coast country music scene later associated with Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. The Maphises achieved early acclaim with “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music),” a twanging barroom lament released by Okeh Records in 1953." [Text courtesy The New York Times, 10.29.21] "
“'There was a real separation between the music on the West Coast and in Nashville,' Ms. Maphis said in a 1998 interview with Vintage Guitar magazine. 'On the West Coast, people danced, and bands had drummers ... All the people getting up and dancing while you were performing, that was strange to us,' she elaborated. 'West of the Mississippi, people danced. East of the Mississippi, they watched and listened.'”
SEE ALSO:
1.) MAPHIS, JOE
MISC NOTES:
Produced by Bob Gibson & Rick Keefer
At least some discs issued promotionally in brown sleeves with the following rubber stamped in large, red letters on one side:
ENCLOSED YOU'LL FIND
THE NEW SOUND OF
ROSE LEE MAPHIS
LOCATION: Vancouver, WA
RECORDING PERSONNEL:
RECORDING STUDIO: Gibson Studios
RECORDING ENGINEER:
FORMAT: disc
SIZE:7"
SPEED:45 rpm
DISC NOTES:
STEREO / STEREO
Known Label Designs:
1RA.) A - B retail label. Blue and black background. Vertical RIPCORD RECORDS left of spindle hole in blue, black and white. All other numerals and lettering black. Ripcord Records - A Division of Gibson Enterprises, Vancouver, Wash. arced along bottom right edge of label.
A-SIDE MATRIX:
1RA.) S 45 - 009 - 1
A-SIDE STAMPER CODE:
1RA.) S - 45 - 009 A (etched)
A-SIDE COMPOSER: Jimmy Holder
A-SIDE PUBLISHER: Ripcord Music (BMI)
B-SIDE MATRIX:
1RA.) S 45 - 009 - 2
B-SIDE STAMPER CODE:
1RA.) S - 45 - 009 B (etched)
B-SIDE COMPOSER: Hobert E. Brown
B-SIDE PUBLISHER: Ripcord Music (BMI)