HISTORIC | Bands
Above! The Original cuffs & Sleeves, then the Jivers! Here is Dawson Smith with his solo effort “I Don’t Know If I Can Make it!”(click play)
Dawson “Sweetcake” Smith,
Robert Tanner, L. A. Brown, Melvin Lewis, here they are, The Jivers!
(CLICK HERE) to hear “Sweet Memories” by the Jivers on “youtube!”
(CLICK HERE) to hear “Tell me your Name” by the Jivers on “youtube!”
This shot below was taken at a recent party at “Sweetcake’s” house! Look at the bid below for a Jivers record on e-bay$$!
It’s gonna be superbad!! The Dynatones will be at the Hunton Y!” That is what it sounded like over the radio! Oliver Burks, Larry Scott, Larry Dorsey, Ricardo Abbott, Nat Reeves, Jimmy Abbott, Roy Patterson, and Lover Everett! The Dynatones!
(CLICK HERE) Check out Nat Reeves and his Jazz group on “youtube!”
note: Dynatones picture courtesy Lover Everett.
Remember Donnie Brown and Rebirth? (CLICK HERE) To hear “Fool I was” on you tube! (CLICK HERE) Here is a link to a song by Lynchburg’s own Deleesa Carr on “You Tube!” thanks…Da’ Lad!
BY THE WAY…AFTER SEEING THAT JIVERS RECORD ABOVE ON E-BAY, I’LL BET YOU WENT DIGGING THROUGH YOUR COLLECTION DIDN’T YOU?? THERE WERE ONLY 500 PRINTED UP, SO IF YOU HAVE ONE…IT IS REALLY VALUABLE, ESPECIALLY OVERSEAS!
I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR BAND PICTURES FROM THE PAST FOR THIS PAGE! I AM LOOKING FOR “FUTURE SHOCK,” THE LATE RONNIE WILKERSON’S BAND? I AM ALSO LOOKING FOR THE LATE W.A. ROSS’S BAND THE IMPROVISED SOUND OUT OF FARMVILLE, AND GREGORY & THE MG’S?
The local Bluenotes! Albert Mallet, Betty Haley Scott, Russell Wright, Joe Bradshaw, Stewart Moore, Deams Melvin, Hank Mason, Bip Daniels, Ernist Deane, Vincent Quarles, & Dawson Smith! |
****Click or the desired picture to make it larger…..right click your mouse to print it**** Let’s take time to remember the late Joe Bradshaw! Joe played for the local Bluenotes, and the Epics. Joe had a unique style of putting “now” at the end of a line in a song to make it his own! Here is “Try Me, & Hold On I’m Coming!”
(CLICK HERE) To hear Ron, Joe, and The Lynchburg Bluenotes sing “Go Away & Stay!”
Below are pictures of the guys in the band I played for…The Virginia Wolves! Perry Smith, George “Speedy” Walker, Jessie Griffin, Kenny Banks, Jimmy Abbott, lead singer-Milbert “Piggy” Megginson, Walter “Snooky” Wood, Ronnie Rathers, Ricardo Abbott, and Danny Stamps. Click play on the player below and check out the our band at the First Colony Teen Party at the Paramount theater in 1966? The late Stan Jayson from WLLL radio is the M.C!
(CLICK HERE) Ronnie Rathers on “you Tube!” To listen to Ronnie Rathers from his latest CD!
(CLICK HERE)! ****** new Above…. The Improvised Sound band and show out of Farmville, Va. This group was managed by the late W.A. Ross, owner of the Starlight Club in Buckingham County back in the day! note…Anyone knowing any members still around please contact me!
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Above, here are the Vistatones! James Melvin, Ronnie Coleman, Perry Brice, Ernest Coles, Bernard Coleman, Michael Cook, Danny Farmer, Victor Fowler, Alonzo Walthall and Lewis Brown. Above…Rebirth! Ronnie Hall, Rod Garland, William Robinson, George Rucker, Donnie Brown, and Joe Russell! Elvis DeLoatch is also heard on “Fool I Was!” |
Early Vistatones! The top band in the land…early Vistatones! l-r, Leonard Coleman(mgr.), Lewis Brown, Ronald Coleman, Talmadge Coleman, Bernard Coleman, George Melvin, and his organ “Miss Lucy”! |
THIS PAGE IS A REFERENCE BOOK FOR WHO SANG WITH WHAT BAND IN THE AREA! A LOT OF GUYS PLAYED WITH MULTIPLE BANDS, OR LEFT ONE GROUP TO JOIN ANOTHER! THIS REFERENCE IS TAKEN FROM THE PROGRAM GUIDE OF JOHN PRICE’S BAND ’02 REUNION SHOW AT DUNBAR!