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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

At Home WIth Bob Ward

Star Dust
At Home With Bob Ward At The Hammond Organ
Encores - Music To Live By
Continental Records Of California

As far as I can tell, this artist and record company is lost to history.

I bought this album for the great cover art and the disc itself which is pressed on a great translucent yellow plastic.

The album notes indicate that the photo was actually taken in Bob's home in Monterey Park, CA. The notes go on to list, by full name, all the folks in the photograph... including the people in the mirror reflection! This photo is a simple snap shot of Bob, the ladies man, in his living room. Pass around the Highballs folks! Let's get this party started.

4 comments:

  1. But it's FUN to look at the cover while you drift off to la la land! And yellow vinyl! How fun!

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  2. There is a small wikipedia entry on the record company...

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  3. Utah 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.

    My record collecting pals call me "Windbag"

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  4. Additional info for my last post:

    Continental 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

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