Chuck Bell on Alley

Chuck Bell - I'm Gonna Get You Girl (Alley 1043), ca. 1968

Here we have a nice variation concerning the music style. Arkansas is best known for its contributions to the country and rock’n’roll music fields but this record proves that there was other great music that came out of the state.

Chuck Bell’s 45 for Joe Lee’s Alley label out of Jonesboro is a great example. Joe Lee recorded a great variety of genres in his Variety Recording Studio during the decades, from rock’n’roll to folk, from soul to country. And Chuck Bell cut a great Soul record there. I’m not an expert on Soul music but I really like this one. He recorded “Summer Whispers” and “I’m Gonna Get You Girl” around 1968 at Alley and it saw release around the same time.

Unfortunately, my researchers turned up nothing substantial about Chuck Bell. There was a Charles W. Bell, Jr., that was born in 1946 and passed away in 2005. He is buried in Jonesboro, so this could be the same person. Chuck Bell had another release the same year on Sonny Deckelman's local Van-Deck label and, a couple of years later, a third disc on the Shelby Singleton version of Sun Records in 1981. This is all I could find about him.

Discography

Van-Deck: High As a Mountain / Oh What a Feeling (1968)
Alley 1043: I'm Gonna Get You Girl / Summer Whispers (ca. 1968)
Sun 1161: Crazy Days / I Don't Live There Anymore (1981)

See also
• Alley Records discography

Sources
• 45cat entry
• Charles W. "Chuck" Bell, Jr., Find a Grave entry