Eric Records: The Discography

Above: Big Sambo (James Young).


ERIC RECORDS: THE DISCOGRAPHY


While Eric Records may have been the brainchild of Ray Doggett, he may have only released 7001, by Jeannie and the Epics (who also had several singles on Dante), before selling or giving the label over to Huey P. Meaux and Chester Foy Lee. The label was based in Conroe, Tx., but seems to have done most of its sessions in New Orleans at Cosimo's Studio.

Eric was probably Meaux's most significant early label. Barbara Lynn made her debut on this label ("Dina & Patricia"). Joey Long recreated himself as a teen pop singer with several releases. Rockin' Dave Allen had a couple of early singles. Roy Perkins had a memorable stab at swamp pop ("Train to Nowhere"), and Cookie Roberts made one of the wildest rockers Meaux ever released ("Draggin' the Drive-Inns"). Presumably, a few of these were local hits along the Gulf Coast, but the only one I'm aware of is Big Sambo's "The Rains Came," a huge hit in Houston in 1962. Today, we're more likely to be wowed by the flipside, "At the Party," a '50s Little Richard style homage caught out of time.

Eric was discontinued in late 1964.



7001 THE EPICS
ACA 4418/386 Grounded (Ray Doggett-Lelan Rogers) ACA session: Aug. 31, 1961
ACA 4419/387 Wishing You Were Mine (Bill and Faye Shackelford)

7002 BUDDY LORTON
103-387 Makes No Never Mind (J. Bonvillian-P. Vidacovich) 1961
103-386 Time (Naomi Neville)

7003 BIG SAMBO AND THE HOUSE WRECKERS
The Rains Came (Meaux) 1961-62
At the Party (Meaux)

7004 BARBARA LYNN
Dina & Patricia (B.L. Ozen) 1962
Give Me a Break (B.L. Ozen)

7005 THE GIL BACA COMBO Featuring Vernon Drozd
75-472 Have You Ever Been Lonely (Peter DeRose-George Brown) 1962
75-473 Elmer’s Tune (Allrecht-Gallop-Jurgens)

7006 ROCKIN’ DAVE ALLEN
E-450 Irene (J. Miller-B. Jolivet) 1962
E-451 Forever Trying to Change My Ways (Kinghill)

7007 RUE JENNINGS
E-452 Blue Tears (Kerney Ravet) DJ wol: 7/2/62
E-453 Don’t Let It End (Kerney Ravet)

7008 BUDDY LORTON Houston Records invoice: June 18, 1962
E-454 A Fool I’ve Been (J. Bonvillian) 1962
E-455 Someday Some One (J. Bonvillian)

7009 COOKIE ROBERTS Houston Records invoice: Aug. 15, 1962
E-456 The Black House (B. Lewis-Jack Rhodes) 1962
E-457 Draggin’ the Drive-Inn’s (sic) (Jack Rhodes)

7010 MARY NELL Houston Records invoice: Sept. 21, 1962
E-458 Before You Go (Carter-Rhodes) 1962
E-459 Hello Mr. Lonely (Rhodes-Ebner)

7011 PORTER JORDAN AND THE DREAMERS Houston Records invoice: Sept. 29, 1962
Hanging Around the Corner 1962
Free Loader

7012 THE SHADOWS
E-463 Something Wild (Butch Palcher)
A Night at Smokey Joe’s

7013 JAMES YOUNG This is “Big Sambo’s” Real Name
E-645 Long Gone (Meaux) 1963
E-646 I Had to Cry (J. Scott-A. Matthias)

7014 ROCKIN’ DAVE ALLEN
E-466 Carol My Darling (Dave Stitch) 1963
E-467 Just to Hold My Hand (Perryman-Robey)

7015 JOEY LONG
I Cried 1963
Near You

7016 KEN HANA
HM-KH-1 Bird Dog (Jordan-Rhodes) 1963
HM-KH-2 False Love (Jordan-Rhodes)

7017 ROY PERKINS
Jole Blon 1963
Train to Nowhere



7018 JOEY LONG
HM-JL-1 If I Should Need You (Would You Say Yes) 1963
(Col. Tom Parker-Gabe Tucker)
HM-JL-2 You Can’t Give Back the Love (That I Gave To You)
(Porter Jordan-Jack Rhodes)

7019

7020 JOEY LONG
Teen Keen Baby
Lover’s Land

7021 MICKEY GILLEY
Whole Lotta Twistin’ Going On 1963
Fraulein

7022

7023 LI’L MARGIE CRANE
He Taught Me How 1964
Pretty Face, Cute Figure

7024 JOEY LONG
LH-1186 Bitter Cup of Sorrow (J. Longoria) Fall, 1964
LH-1187 Please Mr. Sandman (Let Me Sleep Tonight) (J. Longoria)