[78-L] All Spice Records

[davdieh at aol.com]

Belmont made a couple of country records for Bullet and also Excelsior. Her picture graced the cover of Song Hits in 1946. She's still alive, BTW. If you think Waco is dull, try Paris, Texas. The main attraction is a statue of Jesus in cowboy boots at the cemetery. The local paper carried news of every yarn shoppe and hardware store opening but not a word about Swing Records. The address given in the city directories is in a residential neighborhood, presumably where Jimmy and Dorothy Mercer lived. Recording was usually done in Dallas. Dunno if he had a press in the garage, the quality was so dreadful. At one point I thought Mercer might have used Sonora but even that would have been better than what Swing put out. I believe Zest was another of his party labels along with a bunch of blank label stuff.
David Diehl

 

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This is for David Diehl but also for anyone who can point me to more information 
about All Spice/Royalty/Swing/Personality.

All-Spice was a party label produced by the owners of Royalty Records in Paris, 
Texas.

A couple of months ago in Waco, that great party town, I came across some All 
Spice 78s and had no idea of their origin until I turned one over and found that 
the other side had a Royalty label on it.  

Googling All Spice led me to David's website and his excellent information.

Last week in Shreveport I found two 78s on the Personality label and I suspect 
this is part of the Royalty empire because the label design is identical to 
Royalty including the three type faces used.

I also have two Swing 78s that site Paris, Texas, on their labels.  These are 
western swing 78s.  One is by Roy Lee Brown, younger brother of Milton.

Any info on All-Spice/Royalty/Swing/Personality would be very much appreciated.

The following have All-Spice labels on both sides:

no # Red Riding Hood/no # Rip Van Winkle
no # He Don't Wanna /no # Good Man Is Hard to Find
no # Row Row Row/no #  Argentina
DB-1 Row Row Row /no # Argentina
DB-1 Row Row Row/ DB-6 Good Man Is Hard to Find
DB-2 Down Argentene Way/DB-5 Mrs. Rip Van Winkle
DB-4 Red Riding Hood/DB-8  He Don't Wanna

These have Royalty labels on both sides:

DB-1 Row Row Row/DB-6 Good Man Is Hard to Find
DB-4 Red Riding Hood/DB-8 He Don't Wanna

This one has a Royalty label on one side and an All-Spice label on the other

Royalty label DB-6 Good Man Is Hard to Find/All-Spice label  DB-1 Row Row Row

All sides are by Dale Belmont/The Cover Girl Comedienne/Johnny Cola Trio.

The only references I've found to Dale Belmont are a Time magazine story about a 
dispute over a photo of Dale in a tight sweater and that she was married to a 
partner of Jack Ruby's.


Bill McClung
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