George Stonebreaker on Bejay

George Stonebreaker & the Spydells - Just Talk (Bejay BJ 62080), unknown year

Today’s 45 was released a bit later than my usual selections. It’s from 1980 by an artist called George Stonebreaker. Not much is known about him and from what I read, he was not a professional musician but kept music more as a hobby.

George Williams Stonebreaker III was born 1947. From the information I could turn up, it seems that he spent his early life in San Diego, California, where he met his future wife Vee. His obituary stated that he lived an exciting and busy life, flying airplanes and building steam engines among the many occupations. He also collected Egyptian artifacts.

He made a couple of recordings in the mid to late 1970s and the early 1980s. One of his early discs was for the Nashville based King’s Music City label with a band called the Spydells. Around that time, he and his family had relocated to the Fort Smith, Arkansas, area. In 1980, Stonebreaker and the Spydells recorded for Ben Jack’s Bejay label out of Fort Smith, and the song “Just Talk” is featured today from this single. By the way, the flip side was by a singer called Ann Armstrong (maybe a member of the Spydells) with a song called “Open Road”. Both songs were written by Ludy Qualls but I really don’t have any clue to her identity.

Stonebreaker continued to life in Fort Smith, where he died in 2013 at the age of 66 years.

See also
• Ben Jack on Bejay

Sources
• Discogs
• Find a Grave entry