Flip singles 1955-56

Flip 501   Carl Perkins
Movie Magg / Turn around (February 1955)

Recorded late 1954 or early 1955, SUN Studio, Memphis Tennessee
Carl Perkins (vcl/gtr); Jay Perkins (gtr); Clayton Perkins (bs); W S Holland (dms)

Flip 502   Bill Taylor & Clyde Leoppard's Snearly Ranch Boys
Lonely sweetheart / Split personality (probably February 1955)

Recorded February 1955, SUN studio, 706 Union, Memphis Tennessee.
Bill Taylor (vcl); Smokey Jo Baugh (pno/vcl b-side); Buddy Holobaugh (gtr);
Stan Kesler (steel gtr); Clyde Leoppard (dms)

Trumpeter Bill Taylor later recorded on numerous labels, including Pen Records.

Flip / SUN 503   Charlie Feathers
I've been deceived / Peepin' eyes (March 1955)

Re-released as SUN 503 after a legal battle with Flip Records, Los Angeles CA.

Recorded February 17 / March 2, 1955, 706 Union, Memphis Tennessee.
Charlie Feathers (vcl/gtr); Quinton Claunch (gtr); Stan Kesler (steel gtr);
Marcus Van Story / William Diehl (bs); Bill Cantrell (fiddle)

Flip / SUN 504   Miller Sisters
Someday you will pay / You didn't think I would (April 1955)

Re-released as SUN 504 after a legal battle with Flip Records, Los Angeles CA.

Recorded March 14, 1955, 706 Union, Memphis Tennessee.
Elsie Jo Miller (vcl); Mildred Wages (vcl); Quinton Claunch (gtr); Roy Miller (gtr);
Stan Kesler (steel gtr); Marcus Van Story (bs); Bill Cantrell (fiddle); Charlie Feathers (spoons)

Flip / SUN 227   Rosco Gordon
Just love me baby / Weeping blues (September 1955)

Flip / SUN 228   Smokey Joe [Baugh] & the Clyde Leoppard Band
The signifying monkey / Listen to me baby (September 1955)

Note that only the (non union) Flip label version credits the Clyde Leoppard Band

Flip / SUN 237   Rosco Gordon
"The chicken" (dance with you) / Love for you baby (December 1955)

This was the last record issued both on the SUN and Flip labels.
Note the early West Coast 'Delta' pressing on top with erraneous label logo.

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