WARRIOR 507

artist: DOUG SAHM with THE PHAROAHS
label: WARRIOR WA 507
release: July 13, 1959, USA, 7" 45rpm
A-side: If I Ever Need You (2:10)
(Sahm)
B-side: Crazy Daisy (2:25)
(Warner - Sahm)
comment #1:

wrong songtitle is printed on A-side
Doug is singing: "If You Ever Need Me"

PHARAOHS is spelled as PHAROAHS.

comment #2:

written in innercircle of vinyl:

A-side:
JEFF SMITH'S TEXAS SOUND STUDIOS      5927A-1        WA507A-1

B-side:
WA507B        JEFF SMITH'S TEXAS SOUND STUDIOS      5927B     

comment #3: release date: source BillBoard Pop review
comment #4: the promo copy has a "NOT FOR SALE" stamp on both sides
comment #5:

excerpt from the liner notes on DOUG SAHM - SAN ANTONIO ROCK (NORTON CED-274):

For the fourth and final take of Crazy Daisy, recorded at Texas Sound Studios in early 1958, Doug recruited a vocal group from the West Side, the Pharaohs (Randy Garibay, Duke Anthony, Richard Garza, Joe Perez, and Oscar Cavazos) ran into Doug at a teenage dance at the King Clubs. "When Doug heard us sing," Garibay recalls, "he said, 'Man, I've gotta do something with you guys.'" The musical accompaniment is the Knights, with a simular line-up to that listed above except that Bobby Jett now handles tenor sax. Embellished with the Pharaohs' full harmonies and punctuated with a savage guitar solo from Doug, this final take of Daisy was destined to become a Texas rock and roll classic. After several month of experimenting, Doug - who was, incidentally, in the tenth grade at the time of this session - and E.J. finally had the record they wanted.
Yet, over a year passed before Crazy Daisy was finally pressed as Warrior 507. Billboard reviewed it on July 13, 1959, clumsily declaring Daisy to be "blues" and the flip side If You Ever Need Me "rockabilly" in an otherwise lukewarm critique. Luckily, San Antonio teenagers disagreed. Daisy was a local jukebox hit that summer, and Sahm was on his way.
The popularuty of Warrior 507 surprised Henke, whose previous releases had done nothing. "Doug's record was the talk of the town, man," he remembers. "We were getting a lot of publicity. I loaded up 1500 records in my trunk, put the wife and kids in the car. I was headed for the jukebox operators from here to South Texas . . . I sold all 1500 in three days."

(complete liner notes)