Budget label, a product of Synthetics Plastics Company of Newark, New Jersey.
Bob
Lenox, whoever he really was, got his assumed name when he did first a
Hula Love cover, originally a hit for Buddy Knox, for Promenade Records.
That
was the gimmick often used at Promenade, recording sound-a-like covers
of the hits of the day, and billing the singer-for-hire with a moniker
vaguely reminding the original. That's how you can find on
Promenade such artists as John Garrison (Wilbert Harrison, Kansas City), The Grasshoppers
covering The Crickets, Dottie Gray covering Doris Day, Dick Stetson
(Stood Up, Ricky Nelson), or even Eli Whitney (Elvis Presley)Bob Lenox, who are you really?
I assume this - and likely some of them you mentioned - were recorded by Carl Burckhardt at Rite. If I'm not mistaken, this version of "Rock and Roll Music" was also released on Gateway under the name of "Happy Harris."
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