Today's post is sort of a follow-up to the Merigail Moreland page I posted a few weeks ago. Heard on a few of the tracks for that day was Merigail's father, Mr. Donovan Moreland. Today I've provided several tracks featuring Don Moreland, either alone or as part of a group, as well as a few other tracks heard on the same tapes as these tracks, recordings I believe that Mr. Moreland was likely involved in as well.
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01. Don Moreland - Why (3:04)
02. Don Moreland - Pennies From Heaven (Joke Version) (Live) (1:55)
03. Don Moreland - Why (Live) (2:15)
04. Don Moreland - September Song (Live) (2:59)
05. Don Moreland and Herb - Songs of Tomorrow, Part One (5:05)
06. Don Moreland and Herb - Songs of Tomorrow, Part Two (3:43)
07. Don Moreland and Herb - Songs of Tomorrow, Part Three (5:53)
08. Rose Ramirez - Come Back (2:15)
09. Unknown Vocal Group - Backfire (Version One) (2:17)
10. Unknown Vocal Group - Backfire (Version Two) (2:19)
11. The Notables - The Notables (8:51)
Image: Acetate
For the background on how I came across these tapes, please see the previous post on Merigail Moreland. Incidentally, in my own blog, I have posted several other Merigail Moreland tracks, including tracks I left out of the 365 days posting, and several songs she recorded around 1980, recordings which I received in the mail the same week that Merigail's post appeared in this blog.
Don Moreland's recording have relatively little in common with his daughter's recordings, but their is a fairly wide variety here, from standard pre-rock-era pop music to an almost song-poem like segment, to parodies of singing commercials, meant to sell the talents of the singers.
I have learned from his family that Don Moreland worked in the last days of Vaudeville, and played guitar and sang in a group, The Three Oxford Boys, after being in the Navy, and that this group appears in the film "DuBarry Was a Lady" (1943). Around that same time, Don and his wife had a daughter, and eventually moved to southern Wisconsin. This was followed by a move to Rolling Meadows, IL, where he became involved in Chicago area radio, nightclubs and advertising. Everything heard here was recorded during the 1950's, after Don's career in Chicago began."
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There was a store in Bristol, Tenn. that closed down a couple of years ago. It was primarily a book store, but it also sold such things as old records, old stereos. and reel-to-reel tapes. The material here comes from a couple of those reels that I bought.
The first entry here is a 10 inch I found at a garage sale. It caught my eye right away, the fellow on the cover gave me a feeling like he was really determined to walk down that road of revolution, but if he could, he would walk right over and kick my ass. So i bought it, the RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN a ballet performed by the Peking Opera Troupe recorded by the China record company, 1972...now chinese opera is very strange to western ears, but quite enjoyable.
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These are female employees of the former Dutch national post and telephone company PTT, singing foreign tophits on side A and Dutch traditionals on side B. I transferred the A-side for you, as they are the most peculiar, at least in my opinion. According to the sleeve notes they were known from television performances at the Protestant Christian Broadcasting Society, NCRV. Perhaps that explains why this was released by BmG records, a label only known by religious recordings: BmG = Band met God = Bond (or link) with God.
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In 2003 on the first run of the