At Home With Bob Ward
Encores
Music To Live By
Continental Records Of California
Continental Records Of California
V13917
From the back cover: The Front Cover Picture - Once again we take you to the living room in Bob's home, in Monterey Park, California. Standing at left in the red dress is Carol Rugraff. Reflected in the mirror in the blue dress is Alice Ward, Bob's lovely wife and next to her is their son Barry, whose sister Roberta didn't quite manage to get into the picture. Standing at the right side of the organ is Charlene Johnson in the lace dress and next to her in the blue floral dress is Dorothy (D.A.) Nissle. These lovely lasses are close friends of the Wards and are asking for an "Encore" during this evening of beautiful music. Bob, of course, replied, as you may hear on this album.
International Hop
Can Can
Clarinet Polka
Hernado's Hideaway
My Wild Irish Rose
Yankee Doodle Dandee
A Sermon In Tempo
Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life
The Bells Of St. Mary's
When The Saints Go Marching In
Come Come Ye Saints
In Three Quarter Time
The Skater's Waltz
Tammy
Memories
After The Ball
Let's Get Dreamy
With My Eyes Wide Open
Dream
Over The Rainbow
Star Dust
But it's FUN to look at the cover while you drift off to la la land! And yellow vinyl! How fun!
ReplyDeleteThere is a small wikipedia entry on the record company...
ReplyDeleteUtah Mormon guy who worked in a California grocery store and serenaded customers with his organ playing skills. He made a previous album, probably using the same amateur photos shot in his home. Century Records is a private/vanity press label that was run out of Saugus, California, from the late '50s to maybe 1973, mostly recording college and high school concerts and performances, and amateur guys like Bob Ward (albums dates maybe 1961?) who paid out of their own pocket to record and sell these kind of Lps. I have a copy of his previous Lp, yellow wax, which has a 4.98 list and a $2-3 store price tag. I believe he died in Rexburg, Idaho.
ReplyDeleteMy record collecting pals call me "Windbag"
Additional info for my last post:
ReplyDeleteContinental Records:
C-101, BELOVED MORMON HYMNS by Crawford Gates
C-102, THE THREE D'S SING SONGS FOR L.D.S. CHILDREN
C-103, THE THREE D'S SING SONGS OF OUR HERITAGE
The BELOVED MORMON HYMNS was advertised in the Dec, 1964 edition of an LDS mag, THE IMPROVEMENT ERA. The Three D's had a short-lived relationship (2 Lps and a few 45s) with Capitol in '64-'65, as replacement "folkies" for the departing Kingston Trio. One of my neighbors, across the street at the time, wrote the liner notes referenced in the Crawford Gates' Lp.
Continental Record Company
PO Box 63
Provo Utah
Per the ad in THE IMPROVEMENT ERA.
If interested contacting me, I'm in Salt Lake City. Email is: breauwindbag@yahoo.com. Windbag