Salvaged and Restored -
The Shady Dell
Record Collection!
Vol. 14: Long Lost Dell Songs
from the Fall of 1959
BEWARE! NOTHING CAN
PREPARE YOU FOR...
JUKEBOX GIANTS
THAT TIME FORGOT!
Hello, friends! Dell Rat Tom
welcoming you to volume 14
of my exclusive 36-part
Shady's Place series
SAVED
BY THE
DELL
Today, you will travel
back to the fall
season of
1959
and find yourself
standing before
the Dell jukebox.
Those dimes
and quarters
you brought
along are
burning
a hole
in your
pocket...
so why not
feed them
to the record
machine and
play some
of the great
Dell songs
from the
fall of '59?
This series was made possible by Jim Sieling, my good friend
in York, and the husband of John Ettline's niece Nancy.
Jim Sieling
(faithful friend of The Dell)
As you recall, Jim acquired the Dell's Seeburg jukebox (below)
and many of the records that played on it through the decades.
Keep in mind that the Dell had two jukeboxes - one in Helen's
snack bar up at the house, the other down in "The Barn" -
the dance hall John had built onto the barn and garage.
When Jim took possession of the Dell's record collection,
he discovered, to his dismay and ours, that many of
the discs had been improperly handled and stored.
Simply put - they were filthy.
Mice (Dell rats?) had made a home among the records, and at least
one snake (a Violet Hill viper?) had slithered in looking for a meal.
Jim undertook the mammoth job of cleaning, organizing and cataloging
the records, then sent me the finished alphabetical list. There are 6,065
records on Jim's list including Christmas records, 12,130 songs in all!
My series brings you the 180 best Dell jukebox songs from 1955
through 1963, a period long before I arrived on the scene.
This series is dedicated to
the memory of Nancy Sieling.
Nancy Sieling
(faithful friend of The Dell)
Nancy, who was John Ettline's niece and Jim's wife, passed away in 2020.
Over the years, Nancy's generous contributions of pictures, information
and Shady Dell memorabilia greatly enhanced the quality of both of my
Dell-themed blogs. We have Nancy to thank for rescuing many of the
Dell's priceless platters when they were art risk of being thrown into
a trash dumpster and destroyed, hence the name of my series...
SAVED BY THE BELL DELL
Of course, we also have Jim to thank for tackling the enormous
task of cleaning, organizing and cataloging these 6,065 records!
Okay, it's time to use your imagination. Pretend that you are
at the Dell looking at the musical menu on the jukebox.
Scroll down and play the next 5 Dell songs.
BEWARE AND BEHOLD...
LISTEN AND LEARN...
AS WE EXPERIENCE...
JUKEBOX GIANTS
THAT TIME FORGOT!
The records and pictures are arranged in chronological
order, allowing you to trace the evolution of the
"Shady Dell Sound" and clothing styles
month by month through the years.
You know the drill.
ENJOY THE VINTAGE FASHION
PARADE AND FANZINES.
CLICK ON PICTURES OF
RECORDS TO PLAY SONGS.
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1959
SAVED BY THE DELL
DELL SONG 66
SAVED BY THE DELL
DELL SONG 67
SAVED BY THE DELL
DELL SONG 68
SAVED BY THE DELL
DELL SONG 69
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 1959
SAVED BY THE DELL
DELL SONG 70
Once again I thank our late, great friend of the Dell,
Nancy Sieling, and her husband Jim, for doing the
good work of preserving the Shady Dell legacy for
future generations. We owe you a debt of gratitude.
Stick around. You'll hear more long lost songs
of the Shady Dell... the moldy oldies, dusty discs,
colossal fossils and rusty relics we like to call...
JUKEBOX GIANTS
THAT TIME FORGOT!
coming up on the next exciting edition of...
SAVED BY THE BELL DELL
I enjoyed the fashion aspect of this post more than the music I think. Don't get me wrong -- the music was just as fine as always, just a bit on the slow side for me this morning. The magazine covers and movie posters were a nice touch, as well. The magazines made me laugh out loud a couple of times!
ReplyDeleteI hope you're enjoying your summer!
Hi, Ashton!
DeleteI'm excited, dear friend, because you claimed the Early Bird prize this month! Thanks for coming right over on a Saturday morning. I hope your weekend is off to a great start.
I'm happy that you enjoyed the fashion show that gave us a look at clothing styles for women in the fall of 1959.
In this series, some sets of five Dell songs contain big hits that most people know. This particular batch contains five that are relatively obscure. "I Thank The Moon" by The Crests was released on the B side of "Pretty Little Angel." Neither side charted. Pookie Hudson and his doo-wop R&B group The Spaniels are best known for their 1954 top 5 hit "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite" which was used in the soundtrack of American Graffiti. Three years later, the group did well with "Everyone's Laughing," but the single featured in today's post, released in October, 1959, and containing "These Three Words" b/w "100 Years From Today," failed to make the chart. "Just To Be With You" by the Brooklyn group The Passions was only a minor hit that peaked nationally on Billboard at #69. "Shadows" by Fred Parris and his group the 5 Satins, only made it to #89 on the pop chart, while cracking the top 30 on the R&B chart. Many 1950s R&B and doo-wop ballads are drop-dead slow. Like you, I do not prefer that style.
Yessum, some of the magazine covers of the period are funny - either intentionally or unintentionally. You should show Alexis the girl and her wiener dog on the covers of Calling All Girls.
Thank you again for being first through the door. Have a safe and happy weekend, dear friend Ashton!
You don't see cigarette ads anymore. I hardly even see anyone smoking anymore, at least here. Cigarettes are so expensive now.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing the Vincent Price movie poster. I love him. And the girl and her dog, I love that dog.
Those dresses are something. A couple of them look like the dresses we made in Home Economics back in high school. lol
Unfortunately I didn't recognize any of the songs.
I hope you have a lovely week.
Hi, Mary!
DeleteYAY, dear friend! The blog gremlins allowed your comment to sail right through again this time. Thanks for finishing second in the race, thereby taking home the silver.
Yessum, cigarette advertisements were everywhere in the late 1950s, and that ad for L&M brand boasts a testimonial from tough guy Western hero James Arness, star of the hit TV series Gunsmoke (and the sci-fi horror film The Thing). Thanks for letting me know you rarely see people smoking in your vicinity. I agree. The habit has become so expensive that people are quitting for that reason alone.
Vincent Price was my favorite horror movie actor. Typically, his villainous characters exhibited a dash of whimsy, making him great fun to watch. In my den, I have framed posters of four spooky movies in which Vinny had a starring role: The Haunted Palace, The Raven, Tower Of London and The Masque Of The Red Death. Everybody seems to love the Calling All Girls magazine covers that appear in this series. I'm glad I discovered them. Show them to my buddy Falcor!
These songs are pretty obscure, and it doesn't surprise me that you never heard them before. Thanks again for dropping by. I'll be over to see you tomorrow morning, dear friend Mary. In the meantime, have a pleasant day out there in Vegas!
Hi Shady! Sorry I'm late to the party, but I was out of town. Pat was holding down the fort, but didn't have permission to use my laptop!
ReplyDeleteAs usual, this is a delightful collection of advertisements, fashion, and yes... dinosaurs! However, none of the music rang a bell for me this time.
I hope you and Mrs. Shady are enjoying your summertime!
Hi, Kelly!
DeleteThanks for coming by on your Saturday to take the bronze, dear friend! I hope my buddy Pat cracked the whip and kept Grady, Fred and your other canines in line while you were out of town. I'll bet your outdoor dogs are really minding this dreadful heat wave. It was around 96 in my neighborhood today.
I'm pleased that you enjoyed scrolling down and gazing at the ads and mag covers in this edition of Saved. I'm sure you noticed that Sandra Dee and Debbie Reynolds were the hot female celebrities during this period, and teen idols Edd "Kookie" Byrnes and Fabian were the hot male celebs at the time. Yessum, I am still bringing you two new and different dinosaur pictures in every volume. Starting with Vol. 19, however, I will need to start repeating dino images. Be sure to show Pat the mischievous sausage hound on the covers of Calling All Girls. Don't feel badly about not knowing these songs. I was only familiar with one of them myself.
Thank you again for dropping in, dear friend Kelly. I am always happy to see you. Please take good care of yourself and your bowwows until we meet again when I return with my next post around the middle of July.
Of the five songs, all of which are new to me, I'd have to say "Shadows" by The 5 Satins is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the reference book The Q Guide to Classic Monster Movies, The House on Haunted Hill was one of several horror movies towards the end of the 1950s starring Vincent Price that inspired Roger Corman to cast him in the House of Usher in 1960, the most expensive (and first Technicolor) movie made by independent studio American International Pictures at that point. That film's success led to a unique contract with AIP that Price would make horror movies (but not other kinds) exclusively for them, which of course led to him becoming the biggest horror star of the 1960s.
Hi, Kirk!
DeleteThanks for hustling over on the weekend to experience Vol. 14 of my series Saved By The Dell. It doesn't surprise me that you and other friends never heard these dusty old records pulled from the Dell jukebox. Only one of them, "Just To Be With You," was familiar to me before I "vetted" Jim's list of songs for use in this series. I met lead singer Fred Parris circa 1979 when the 5 Satins appeared at a venue in Lancaster, PA. He was a heck of a nice guy. Fred died in January, 2022, at age 85.
Thanks for providing background on horror movie titan Vincent Price and the late great producer/director Roger Corman, king of low budget, quick 'n' dirty horror and exploitation films. Produced and directed by William Castle, House On Haunted Hill is one of my favorite movies of any genre, delicious fun from start to finish, and so is the Castle/Price shocker The Tingler. I have also seen the other two spookers referenced in this post, Roger Corman's Wasp Woman and Attack Of The Giant Leeches, the latter produced by Gene Corman, Roger's younger brother with whom he often collaborated. Along with dozens of films produced and/or directed by Roger Corman, I have seen several that Gene presided over including Night Of The Blood Beast, Beast From The Haunted Cave, Tower Of London (I have a framed poster), and the mid 60s teenspoitation beach party musical comedies The Girls On The Beach, Ski Party and Beach Ball. I found this laudatory assessment of Gene Corman on Wiki: << According to Filmink "One of the side effects of Roger Corman’s fame was the relegation of his producer brother Gene to the shadows of film history. This was both unfair and unfortunate since Gene not only played a crucial, often overlooked part in his brother’s story, he had a fine career of his own." >> Gene Corman died in 2020 at age 93.
Thanks again for joining the fun this time around, good buddy Kirk. Take care and I hope to see you again when I return with a new post next month!
Somehow, I deleted everything I wrote. I'm falling asleep while writing this! Love these old songs snd knew most of them except for the last 2. That first song, watching the video, I was gobsmacked because the last man, with his girlfriend, looks like my dad when he was young. The same forehead, eyes and jaw.
ReplyDeleteI love the 50s fashion although I could do without those sweaters and the big crenoline. That is a huge skirt...lol. the women look so smart and elegant. Now they wear a t-shirt and pajama bottoms.
L9ve House on Haunted Hill. It would have been cool to see it in the theatre with all the extra stuff happening when you were seated. I must watch WASP woman...that's a classic. I think the actress just passed away this year or last year..maybe I'm wrong
This was great and thank you for sharing I sent a l9bg email and am sorry if it was too TMI. I hope you like the pictures of Harley and our new addition to the family, little Lexi. Take care and have a wonderful day and weeks ahead.
Hi, Birgit!
DeleteI'm delighted to see you, dear friend! Thanks for stopping by to view the latest installment of Saved By The Dell. I'm sorry you were so sleepy that you accidentally deleted everything you wrote. I appreciate you patiently composing a second comment. In fact, you left two identical second comments! :) That being the case, I am going to leave both of your comments intact and submit my reply twice. That way, it'll make it appear as if my post is receiving more comments than it actually is. :)
I'm glad you were able to Name That Tune 3 times out of 5. That beats my score! I checked out that Crests video and, by golly, I agree. The guy looked just like your dad at that age.
Yessum, it's a jarring juxtaposition to compare the smart, elegant clothing styles of yesteryear with the frumpy outfits on many of today's women.
I'm pretty sure I saw House On Haunted Hill in a theater when it was first released. It has remained one of my favorite horror films ever since. Here's a cool piece of trivia. (SPOILER ALERT) The skeleton that comes out of the wall at the end of the movie and pushes scheming wife Annabelle into the vat of acid is listed in the credits as follows:
Skeleton - Skeleton
Wasp Woman star Susan Cabot died many moons ago, Birgit. She was murdered in 1986 by her own dwarf son, Timothy, who bludgeoned her with a weightlifting bar. His defense was that she attacked him first and he was given a slap on the wrist. Timothy's alleged biological father was King Hussein of Jordan with whom Susan had a 7-year affair. Timothy died in 2003.
The mysteries continue, Birgit. I gather that you tried to send me an email with pictures of Harley and Lexi. I received no emails from you in recent weeks. If you still have it, you you please resend? I am very interested in hearing how things are going with you and learning who (or what) Lexi is. Thank you for your efforts!
Please take good care of yourself and my good buddy Harley, dear friend BB. I look forward to getting back together with you sometime next month!
Somehow, I deleted everything I wrote. I'm falling asleep while writing this! Love these old songs snd knew most of them except for the last 2. That first song, watching the video, I was gobsmacked because the last man, with his girlfriend, looks like my dad when he was young. The same forehead, eyes and jaw.
ReplyDeleteI love the 50s fashion although I could do without those sweaters and the big crenoline. That is a huge skirt...lol. the women look so smart and elegant. Now they wear a t-shirt and pajama bottoms.
L9ve House on Haunted Hill. It would have been cool to see it in the theatre with all the extra stuff happening when you were seated. I must watch WASP woman...that's a classic. I think the actress just passed away this year or last year..maybe I'm wrong
This was great and thank you for sharing I sent a l9bg email and am sorry if it was too TMI. I hope you like the pictures of Harley and our new addition to the family, little Lexi. Take care and have a wonderful day and weeks ahead.
Hi, Birgit!
DeleteI'm delighted to see you, dear friend! Thanks for stopping by to view the latest installment of Saved By The Dell. I'm sorry you were so sleepy that you accidentally deleted everything you wrote. I appreciate you patiently composing a second comment. In fact, you left two identical second comments! :) That being the case, I am going to leave both of your comments intact and submit my reply twice. That way, it'll make it appear as if my post is receiving more comments than it actually is. :)
I'm glad you were able to Name That Tune 3 times out of 5. That beats my score! I checked out that Crests video and, by golly, I agree. The guy looked just like your dad at that age.
Yessum, it's a jarring juxtaposition to compare the smart, elegant clothing styles of yesteryear with the frumpy outfits on many of today's women.
I'm pretty sure I saw House On Haunted Hill in a theater when it was first released. It has remained one of my favorite horror films ever since. Here's a cool piece of trivia. (SPOILER ALERT) The skeleton that comes out of the wall at the end of the movie and pushes scheming wife Annabelle into the vat of acid is listed in the credits as follows:
Skeleton - Skeleton
Wasp Woman star Susan Cabot died many moons ago, Birgit. She was murdered in 1986 by her own dwarf son, Timothy, who bludgeoned her with a weightlifting bar. His defense was that she attacked him first and he was given a slap on the wrist. Timothy's alleged biological father was King Hussein of Jordan with whom Susan had a 7-year affair. Timothy died in 2003.
The mysteries continue, Birgit. I gather that you tried to send me an email with pictures of Harley and Lexi. I received no emails from you in recent weeks. If you still have it, you you please resend? I am very interested in hearing how things are going with you and learning who (or what) Lexi is. Thank you for your efforts!
Please take good care of yourself and my good buddy Harley, dear friend BB. I look forward to getting back together with you sometime next month!
Some of the fashions are a hoot.
ReplyDeleteA couple of those movies have been done by RiffTrax.
Awesome that Nancy also saved stuff from the Dell.
Hi, Alex!
DeleteThanks for taking a peek at the post, good buddy!
You're right. The low budget/no budget horror flicks released in 1959 and referenced in this edition of Saved are ideal targets for the RiffTrax treatment. It's good to know the films didn't take themselves too seriously in the first place. Horror king Vincent Price was the perfect casting pick for such films.
Thanks for helping me acknowledge our late, great friend Nancy Sieling for her abundant contributions to the Shady Dell legacy, which include rescuing thousands of jukebox records from the trash dumpster.
Enjoy the rest of your month, good buddy Alex, and look for me to return to blogging around the middle of July. Until then, take care!
Seeing Doris Day on the cover of Motion Picture reminded me that she had a TV show I liked watching as a kid. The previous weekend, we watched an old film that she starred in with Jimmy Stewart, The Man Who Knew Too Much. It's an excellent Alfred Hitchcock production. We enjoyed this old movie. Vincent Price is one of my favorite horror film actors. He had such a creepy persona. Many years ago in our new era of streaming, we viewed the original The House On Haunted Hill which is much better than the remake. To see Debbie Reynolds on the magazine cover makes me a wee bit sad thinking how she and daughter Carrie Fisher passed within days of each other. This is another great edition of old Dell classic tunes. "I Thank The Moon" sounds the most familiar familiar of your set. I enjoyed listening to all of the records Nancy savaged from the trash dump. What a shame had these been lost!
ReplyDeleteI trust all is well on your end, as it is here. I thank you for popping by CAAC for a visit and reminder of recent post and presences in Blogosphere. I hope you have a lovely summer, dear friend!
Hi, Cathy!
DeleteI'm excited to see you, dear friend! Thanks for making time to visit Shady's Place during your summer break. I appreciate that!
You also brought up some interesting topics in your comment. I too remember The Doris Day Show, although I didn't watch it regularly, and I loved the Hitchcock film you mentioned that paired Doris with Jimmy Stewart. We studied The Man Who Knew Too Much in my college course on the history of the cinema. In the picture, as you recall, Doris sings her Academy Award winning song "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)." I also agree with you that the original House On Haunted Hill starring Vincent Price is far superior to the 1999 remake that stars Famke Janssen. Famke plays a main character in Hemlock Grove. a dark, creepy TV series that I recently watched and highly recommend. Yessum, Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds died only one day apart, one of the saddest occurrences in show biz history.
Apart from the recent heat wave, we are doing well. An unexpected storm last evening broke the drought and lowered temperatures significantly. We are loving our lives here in the north. I wish you a restful Fourth of July holiday and safe travels out and about this summer. Thanks again for your kind visit and comment, dear friend Cathy!
Wow, I'm super behind Shady! I haven't blogged or even visited blogs until tonight! I love this post with all the cute fashion that was happening when I was 6! Give me that yellow sweater with the belt...yes please! I'm an old movie lover but not so much the sci-fi and wasp women! However, A Summer Place was just on the telly a few weeks ago. I really like that movie and have to laugh at how prim and proper it all was suppose to be while all the smoldering love affairs from parents to their kids was going on! Sandra Dee was always so pretty. I think there's a Gidget moviethon coming soon. Well, it's late but I just had to stop by and say happy summer season to you and I'm not sure if your weather was as hot and humid like ours was but I'm sure it would remind you of Florida! Thankfully it's much more Ohio like now! I've been busy here at the Pines with lots of projects and also working that's cutting into my blog time and fun time. This summer will be over and I feel like I'm missing it! So forgive me for my lateness and I hope all is well with you and Mrs. Shady!
ReplyDeleteHi, YaYa!
DeleteI'm thrilled to see you, dear friend! Thanks so much for coming by!
Yessum, this series will end at a point on the timeline when you were still only 10 years old, requiring you to reach deep into your memory banks for the songs in this series and to remember what the clothing and hair styles were like when you very young. I'm glad you have fun scrolling through the ads and magazine covers. You would indeed look great in that yellow belted sweater.
As you pointed out, this edition of Saved By The Dell gives us a look at some of the top celebrities of the time period. They include Gunsmoke star James Arness, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, teen singing idol Fabian, Debbie Reynolds and Doris Day, plus Sandra Dee and Troy Donohue, the good looking young stars of A Summer Place. Sadly, neither one of them was destined to enjoy what could be considered a long life. Troy was only 65 when he died in 2001 a few days before the terror attacks, and Sandra was only 62 when she died in 2005. Last, but not least, this installment also reminds us that the regular studio dancers on American Bandstand had become celebrities by 1959 and that everyone was paying attention to the pretty "Halo Girl" in print ads and on TV commercials.
Yessum, we had that awful heat dome over us for a couple of weeks and not much rain to speak of. The lawns were turning brown. We were fortunate to receive some rain overnight last night and it will be a little cooler today. A few days ago, I phoned my brother in Florida. It was 96 degrees in my neck of the woods here in the north, but only 93 in his part of the Sunshine State, reminding me that, in summertime, it is often hotter here in the north than it is on the peninsula where I used to live.
Thank you again for your kind visit and comment, YaYa. Even though I am technically "off duty" now until my next post is published in mid July, I'm going to keep watching for your next report from The Pines and pay you a visit when it appears. After all, you are a member of the elite "Decade+ Club," one of my oldest blog friends, and that means a lot to me. Please give my sweetie Annabelle a good scratching for me and take her out to see the Alpaca and the Yeti. Enjoy the rest of your week and month, dear friend YaYa!