MITCHELL TOROK

first version:

78rpm
pics 40283
artist: MITCHELL TOROK
with LOUISIANA HAYRIDE BAND
label: ABBOTT 140
release: 1953, USA, 10" 78rpm
1953, USA, 7" 45rpm
A-side: Caribbean (2:30)
(Mitchell Torok)
B-side: Weep Away (2:43)
(Mitchell Torok)
comment #1: See the wrong spelling of "Caribbean" on the 45.
comment #2:

recording details:

May 1953, (01:00-05:00) KWKH Studio, Shreveport, Louisiana; Producer: Fabor Robison.

Mitchell Torok - vocal, guitar
unindentified - guitar
James Clayton "Jimmy" Day - steel guitar
"Sonny" Harville - bass
Ron Lewis - drums
Joe Herman "Big Red" Hayes - fiddle
Kenneth Allen "Little Red" Hayes - fiddle
Floyd Cramer - piano

   
   
Canadian release:
artist: MITCHELL TOROK
with LOUISIANA HAYRIDE BAND
label: QUALITY 1151
release: 1953, Canada, 10" 78rpm
A-side: Caribbean
(Torok)
B-side: Weep Away
(Torok)
   
   
   
United Kingdom release:
pics 70089
artist: MITCHELL TOROK
with the LOUISIANA HAYRIDE BAND
label: LONDON HL.8004
release: 1953, United Kingdom, 10" 78rpm
A-side: Caribbean
(Mitchell Torok)
B-side: Weep Away
(Mitchell Torok)
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

alternate version:
pics 40244
artist: MITCHELL TOROK
label: GUYDEN RECORDS 2018
release: 1959, USA, 7" 45rpm
A-side: Caribbean (2:30)
(Mitchell Torok)
B-side: Hootchy Kootchy Henry (2:40)
(Mitchell Torok)
comment #1: The recording details of this alternate version are the same as the details of the first version.
   
   
   
U.S. album release:
artist: MITCHELL TOROK
label: GUYDEN RECORDS GLP 502
title: CARIBBEAN
release: 1960, USA, LP
A-side:
  1. What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You
  2. Mexican Joe
  3. You  Are The One
  4. Guardian Angel
  5. I Want To Know Everything
B-side:
  1. Little Hoo Wee
  2. A Rose Covered Garden
  3. When the Stars Get In Your Eyes
  4. Big-A-Jig-A-Boom
  5. Johnny’s Gone Away To College
comment: mono LP