SESSION DISCOGRAPHY * ALBUMS DISCOGRAPHY * SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY

Country and crossover since 1920s and my favorite artists of all genres too...
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Tommy Downs

by Michel Ruppli, Mario Manciotti, Praguefrank
SESSIONS

1955 poss. Chicago, IL – Tommy Downs
001 LOVE INSURANCE Tiffany 45-1316 Kentucky Artists 932
002 I STOLE MY NEIGBOR’S WIFE 45-1316 Kentucky Artists 932
1956 poss. Chicago, IL – Tommy Downs
003 G8OW-2927? THAT’S WHY I CRY Tiffany 45-1321
004 G8OW-2928? FOOL’S ROMANCE Tiffany 45-1321
26 April 1961 unknown – Tommy Downs
005 UP WITH THE GLASSES Kernel 45-105
006 BIG INDIAN  Kernel 45-105
April 1963 King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Ave., Cincinnati, OH – Tommy Downs
007 K11548 MY MAKE BELIEVE BABY King 45-5919
008 K11549 BIG DEAL 45-5770
009 K11550 I CAN’T GET AROUND TO GETTING OVER YOU 45-5919
010 K11551  WHY DO TODAY WHAT I CAN PUT OFF 'TILL TOMORROW  45-5770
July 1963  poss. King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Ave., Cincinnati, OH – Tommy Downs
011 K11655 WILD CATTER  45-5796
012 K11656 BIG CASEY 47-5796
ca 1963 unknown – Tommy Downs
013 DON'T LET ME CROSS OVER Country & Western Hits 201
014 SLIPPING AROUND Country & Western Hits 201
015 ROOM FULL OF ROSES 202
016 2003 IS THIS ME CW 3001
017 2004 DON'T LET ME CROSS OVER CW 3001
1968 unknown – Tommy Downs
018 WORLD'S BIGGEST FOOL SPS 303
019 I'LL GO HOME AND CRY ALL NIGHT SPS 303


SINGLES
Tiffany (1955-56)
45-1316 Love Insurance / I Stole My Neigbor’s Wife – 55 (also on Kentucky Artists 932)
45-1321 That’s Why I Cry / Fool’s Romance - 56
Kernel (1961)
45-105 Up With The Glasses / Big Indian - 61
King
45-5770  Why Do Today What I Can Put Off'til Tomorrow / Big Deal – 07-63
45-5796  Big Casey / Wild Catter – 09-63
45-5919  I Can’t Get Around To Getting Over You / My Make Believe Baby - 08-64
Country & Western Hits
201 Don't Let Me Cross Over / Slipping Around – ca 63
202  Not What I Had In Mind (By Rink Hardin) / Room Full Of Roses (By Tommy Downs) – ca 63
CW 3001 Is This Me /  Don't Let Me Cross Over – 63
Spar (1968)
SPS 303 World's Biggest Fool / I'll Go Home And Cry All Night – 11-68 (rev. Cashbox Nov. 23)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Michel Ruppli, not only for his books which I use daily, but also for a large amount of rare and unpublished data from his giant archive.
Thanks to all my friends - country music fans - in Czech Republic - Vladimir Pikora, Michal Gololobov, Milos Holecek, Tony Foglar, Rene Pavlik and Petr Vitous.
Thanks to Mario Manciotti for sending session details daily
Thanks to Kurt Rokitta for a lot of session info
Thanks to Bill Daniels for sharing a lot of labels info
Thanks to Lillies Ohlsson for many western swing contributions.
Thanks to Dick Grant for many artists files
Thanks to Thieu Van De Vorst for a lot of additions and corrections
Thanks to Goran Adolph for many rare albums info
Thanks to Hans Sandberg for many rare session data
Thanks to Chris Huskey for many sessions info.
Thanks to Kittra Moore for musicians and recording data
Thanks to Dik de Heer for many additions on rockabilly.
Thanks to Luiz Roberto Costa for helping me with the western genre.
Thanks to Wolf Ruediger Sommer, who not only sent me additional data, but is also watch-dog, correcting my typos and other errors.
Thanks to Robert Platt for priceless info on Canadian (but not only) artists.
Thanks to Phil Watson for hard work on Crown Prince of country music discography. Thanks to Walter Gabriel for filling the gaps in track listings of rare albums and various artists compilations.
Thanks to Kent Heineman for many independent recordings info
Thanks to Ken Nelson for bluegrass and more additions.
Thanks to Tony Middleton for RCA session info.
Thanks to Xavier Maire for interesting additions and for info on his website www.bopping.org.
Thanks to Henk Scholts for long time cooperation.
Thanks to Richard Price for miscellaneous session information
Thanks to Carl G. Cederblad for additions to sessionographies
Thanks to Paul Urbahns, Marc Alesina, Bill Millet, Bengt Wahlström, John Morris, Dominique Anglares, Pierre Monnery, Jeremy Roberts, Ben Collins, Alex Frazer-Harrison, K.F.Raizor, Ed Tabor, Mario Wildner, Ole Skjoldhøj, Eileen Sisk, Per Kammersgaard, David Bussey, Bill Marks for rare info on their favorite artists.
Thanks to Reginald Bartlette for info and additions of Columbia custom numbers.
Thanks to Katarina Fromm for various singles info.
Thanks to many others who sent some info - all are important.
Thanks to Richard Weize for his idea to produce projects, which have small commercial potential, but huge value for collectors - I spend a lot of money buying boxes and CDs, sometimes mainly because of the accompanying discographies.
Thanks also to Patrick Milligan, who created many discographies for Bear Family projects
Thanks to Marek Bozickovic for picture in head
And last but not least I would like to thank all who visit this blog - they come from more than 100 countries.