EARNEY VANDAGRIFF
SESSION DISCOGRAPHY
EARNEY VANDAGRIFF and The Big “D” Boys
Jim
Beck Studio, 1101 Ross Avenue Dallas,
Tx. February 1953
(vcl/gtr); plus Unk Musicians
Producer:
FL-113/RR-113/ GUEST STAR IN HEAVEN) (A Tribute To Hank Williams) Flair 1006, Rural Rhythm 501, Rural Rhythm 45-501, Starday 191
2288 (Vandagriff)
(BMI) Starday
45-191
(Vandagriff)
(Starrite BMI)
FL-114/RR-114/ I KNOW I’M FALLING IN LOVE Flair
1006, 501, 45-501, 191
2289 (Vandagriff)
(BMI) Starday
45-191
(Vandagriff)
(Starrite BMI)
NB(1):
FLAIR 1006 released 1953.
NB(2): RURAL RHYTHM 501/RURAL RHYTHM 45-501 released 1955.
NB(3):
STARDAY 191/STARDAY 45-191 released May 1955.
EARNEY VANDAGRIFF-1 Jim Beck
Studio, 1101 Ross Avenue Dallas,
Tx. 1953
JOYCE LOWRANCE and EARNEY VANDAGRIFF-2
Earney (vcl-3/gtr); Joyce
Lowrance (vcl-4); Donald “Don” Messick (stl gtr); plus Unk Musicians
Producer
SP-718-45 WISHING IS ALL I CAN DO -1-3 Specialty
SP-718-45, Rural Rhythm 504, Rural Rhythm 45-504
(E. Vandagriff-D. Messick)
(Venice-BMI)
XSP-718-45 HUSH MONEY -2-3-4 XSP-718-45, 504, 45-504
(J. O’Neal) (Venice-BMI)
NB(1): SPECIALTY SP-718-45/XSP-718-45 released September 1953.
NB(2): RURAL RHYTHM 504/RURAL RHYTHM 45-504 released 1956.
EARNEY VANDAGRIFF poss Jack
Starnes House, Voth Road Beaumont,
TX. ca. January 1954
(vcl/gtr); plus Unk Musicians
Producer:
Harold Westcott “Pappy” Daily
ST-2063 WHERE
YOU BEEN Starday
128, El Toro ETCD CH101
(Vandagriff) (Starrite BMI)
ST-2064 ALABAMA
BLUES 128
(Vandagriff) (Starrite BMI)
ST-2065 HELPLESS HANDS Starday
(Uniss)
(Vandagriff) (Starrite
ST-2066 STRICTLY ON THE BALL Starday
(Uniss)
()
NB(1): STARDAY 128 released February 1954.
NB(2): EL TORO ETCD CH101 “COLLECTOR’S CHOICE, Vol.1. “TEXAS
FEVER” released Spain 2009.
EARNEY
VANDAGRIFF Jim
Beck Studio, 1914 Forest Avenue Dallas,
Tx. 1955
(vcl/gtr); plus Unk Musicians
Producer:
RU-502/ YOU CAN’T COME IN Rural
Rhythm 502, Rural Rhythm 45-502, Rural Rhythm 511
RR-511B (Vandagriff) (Sage Brush Music-BMI) Rural
Rhythm RR-45-111B, Buffalo Bop Bb CD-55186
Lenox
CD-1010, Jasmine JASMCD-3595/6
RU-503Re-1 SWAMP WATER Rural
Rhythm 502, Rural Rhythm 45-502
(J. Tyler-J. O’Neal) (Sage
Brush Music-BMI)
NB(1): RURAL RHYTHM 502/RURAL RHYTHM 45-502 released 1955.
NB(2): RURAL RHYTHM 511/RURAL RHYTHM RR-45-111 released 1957.
NB(3): BUFFALO BOP Bb CD-55186 “ROCKABILLY WILDFIRE” released
Germany 2007.
NB(4): LENOX CD-1010 “HILLBILLY ROCK, Vol.1.” released France
NB(5): JASMINE JASMCD-3595/6 “HILLBILLY BOP, BOOGIE & THE
HONKY TONK BLUES, Vol.4. 1956-1957” released United Kingdom 2010.
JOE POOVEY and EARNEY VANDAGRIFF and the Big “D” Boys-1
JOE POOVEY and the Big “D” Boys-2
EARNEY VANDAGRIFF-3
JOE POOVEY And EARNEY VANDAGRIFF-4
JOE POOVEY-5 Jim Beck Studio,
1914 Forest Avenue Dallas, Tx. October 1955
Arnold Joseph “Joe” Poovey
(recit-6/vcl-7); Earney Vandagriff
(vcl-6); “Tex” Ray Crutsinger (ld gtr); Buddy Griffin (rhy gtr); Donald
“Don” Messick (stl gtr); William “Bill” Simmonds (pno); Harlan Powell (pipe);
John “Johnny” Hicks (tuned whiskey glass); William “Bill” Noble (stg bs).
Producer:
Johnny Hicks
RR-503-A/ CHRISTMAS
FILLED WITH CHEER -1-3-4-6 Rural Rhythm 503, Rural
Rhythm 45-503, Rural Rhythm RR-45-511B
RR-511B/X-463 (E. Vandagriff) (Sage Brush Music Pub.
Co. BMI) Rural
Rhythm RR-45-511B, Rural Rhythm XMAS RR-503
Dragon Street DCD-70199, Rollercoaster RCCD-3037
RR-503-B/ SANTA’S
HELPER -2-5-7 Rural Rhythm 503,
Rural Rhythm 45-503, Rural Rhythm RR-45-511A
RR-511A/X-464 (B.A. Poovey) Rural
Rhythm RR-45-511A, Rural Rhythm XMAS RR-503
Dragon
Street DCD-70199, Rollercoaster RCCD-3037
Buffalo
Bop Bb CD-55095
NB(1): RURAL RHYTHM 503/RURAL RHYTHM 45-503 released November
1955.
NB(2): RURAL RHYTHM 503/RURAL RHYTHM 45-503 reviewed Billboard
C&W Saturday 12th December 1955.
NB(3): RURAL RHYTHM RR-45-511 (EP) released November 1957.
NB(4): RURAL RHYTHM RR-45-511 (EP) released TWICE with ONE
different recording.
NB(5): RURAL RHYTHM XMAS RR-503 released November 1962 on Sky
Blue label.
NB(6): RURAL RHYTHM XMAS RR-503 released November 1963 on Sky Blue
label.
NB(7): RURAL RHYTHM XMAS RR-503 released November 1964 on Sky
Blue label.
NB(8): DRAGON STREET DCD-70199 “GREATEST GROOVES: “GROOVEY” JOE
POOVEY” released 1999.
NB(9): ROLLERCOASTER RCCD-3037 “GREATEST GROOVES: “GROOVEY” JOE
POOVEY” released 1999.
NB(10): BUFFALO BOP Bb CD-55095 “ROCKABILLY XMAS” released
Germany 2000.
EARNEY VANDAGRIFF Dallas,
Tx. 1957
(vcl); Unk (ld gtr); prob
Buddy Griffin (rhy gtr); Bill Simmonds (pno); Bill Noble (stg bs); Unk (dms).
Producer:
RR-511A BE-BOP
SANTA CLAUS Rural
Rhythm 511A, Rural Rhythm RR-45-511A
(Vandagriff) (Sage Brush BMI)
RR-511B ATOMIC
KISSES Rural
Rhythm 45-45-511B
(Vandagriff-O’Neal) (Fairway
BMI)
EARNEY VANDAGRIFF , Tx. Unknown
Date
(vcl/gtr); plus Unk Musicians
Producer:
A CHILD LEFT TO STRAY (Uniss)
(Vandagriff) (Acuff-Rose BMI)
DISCOGRAPHY
compiled by DICK GRANT & AL TURNER with acknowledgements to the late Joe
Poovey, the late Bernice Poovey , Steve Hathaway & Frantisek Frank.