I became highly desperate when looking at Sammy Marshall's 45cat entry. 71 records and many of them seem to be from different artists of the same name. He was possibly the same artist who had a joint release with Les "Carrot Top" Anderson on the Springfield, Arkansas, based Patmar label. Maybe he was also the same who recorded for Allstar, K-Ark, Pleasant Valley or Belle Meade? I did not know until fellow blogger Bob pointed me towards his research. According to Bob, Sammy Marshall's real name was 1940 in Franklin, Kentucky, as Mark Stewart Simpson. He recorded for Hi and Judd as Mark Taylor, for the Globe Studio in Nashville as Sonny Marcell or Sammy Marshall, and as Ben Tate and Marc Stewart for other labels.
Since I cannot tell you anything substantial about the artist, we continue with the record label. Between 1960 and at least 1964, the label released several discs of various musical genres. There was rockabilly, country music, instrumental rock'n'roll, and pop music. And there was Sammy Marshall with "Kiss Me Good-Bye, Tomorrow", which I would call popular music, too. Marshall shared the disc with John Greer's take on the John Roddie song "(Oh, Ho, Ho, Ho) Heartaches".
If anyone has more information on Sammy Marshall or SPA Records, please feel free to leave a comment or contact me via e-mail.
See also
• The United Southern Artists label
Sources
• 45cat entries for Sammy Marshall and SPA Records
• SPA Records Rockin' Country Style entry
2 comments:
All records listed at 45cat are from the same artist whose only "regular" records are as by Mark Taylor on Hi and Judd (1958-1959). Real name : Marc Stewart Simpson. A rather mediocre singer, if you ask me...
See https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/3131175-Mark-Taylor-26
See http://www.songpoemmusic.com/labels/globe.htm
See https://rcs-discography.com/rcs/search.php?type=acode&key=tayl5000
if it appeared on SPA, it was perhaps via Carl Friend, always ready to collect a few pennies...
On Carl Friend, see my latest post here:
https://oldwaxxiv.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-fugitive.html
You have dug up some great info there, Bob. On Sammy Marshall as well as on Carl Friend and Lance Roberts. Thanks for the info!
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