Bruce Channel - Dan Folger - Dick Glasser - Bobby Skelton - Dale Ward

Spike, Rockin' Ronnie, And Paul "Hit Man" Urbahns present:

"Music is fun for everyone"

News! Paul "The Hit Man" Urbahns has a new website @ www.hitrecordsofnashville.com . It's still under construction but please stop by and while you're at it visit his new Hit Record discussion group @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HitRecords

The Project
OK . Come clean! If you visited this site we know that you have a certain fondness for this low budget sound-a-like record label. You either loved them or hated them. One thing is certain, a lot of talent recorded for Hit Records of Nashville. Some are familiar names [ Sandy Posey AKA Betty York, Sherry York ,Betty Richards, & Sandy, and Bobby Russell , Jalopy Five, Beasts, & The Doodles] and some completely dropped off the radar. Most artists names used by Hit Records were completely fictionous while artists Bobby Russell , John Preston, Herbert Hunter , Alpha Zoe, Benny Lattimore [Latimore] and others used their real names on occasion. Do you have info on this label or the artists? We want your input. Email us @ The Hit Record Project Please include HIT RECORDS in the subject area. Any typo's on this site kan bee blamed on Jamie - The Monkee Junkee. ~Spike

Work in progress. Click here for a very incomplete Country & Western Hits section. Locating info on these records appears to be a much more difficult task and will take longer to complete. If you have any in your collection and would like to contribute please contact The Hit Record Project . Include C & W HITS in the subject area.

NEW! Check out "The Hit Man's" Top 10 collectable Hit Records


I recently talked to Alpha Zoe. She is truly a superstar.

Alpha Zoe


The buzz on Buzz Cason


The John Preston Story

Hear Hit Records @

Coming Soon - Bill Beasley Biography

Spike, Aloha and Wow! I am the son of Bill Beasley who founded Hit Records. I
can't believe you have a site on all this stuff. My late Dad would have
been amazed at the interest this many years later. How can I help? I am
interested in buying MS, Hit, Spar, Songs of Faith, Tennessee and
Republic products, etc. Martin Hawkins (england) has a book coming out
soon about Dad's career. Dad founded Republic, Tennessee,
Hit, Spar, Modern Sound, Songs of Faith and two or three more which
escape me at the moment. Kirk
kbezly@earthlink.net


Connie Sue Landers died Jan. 30,2005. She was 60. She previously had her own group Connie & The Cones and recorded for Hit Records. She was also a popular sessions singer in Nashville for many years.


Paul "The Hit Man" Urbahns did it! He has completed the Hit Record discography! Now you know why we call him "The Hit Man"! ~Spike

"Spike here they are:
Project Complete. I just found the credit for 333 last week. Paul Urbahns - The "HIT" Man

#333 The Fantastics - Lady Willpower / Bobby Sims - Here Comes The Judge
#341 Steve Miller - Light My Fire / Chords - Hush
#351 Steve Miller - I Love How You Love Me / Jenny and The Jewels - Love Child
#354 Jalopy Five - This Magic Moment / The Ckassmates - Crimson and Clover"


The Hit List. The guys that put this project together.

Rockin' Ronnie is looking for Hit records to complete his collection. Please EMAIL him if you have any you want to sell or trade. Ronnie has been collecting records for almost forty years and loves the obscure artist because they have not been "played to death" by every oldies station in the world. 

Paul Urbahns would also like to hear from you if you have Hit records to sell or trade or songs recorded by Hit regardless of the label they were released on [Examples - See Hit #2 & #11 below]. Paul has been collecting and doing research on Hit Records for over 30 years. He is our resident "Hit Man" for details on the record label and artists. Paul has a wealth of information on Hit but can always use more . If you have any info on the artists or their whereabouts , or if you are one of the artists that recorded for Hit , please contact him at his EMAIL address.

Sp!ke , like Ronnie loves the obscure artist. He also is a big fan of recording artists that write their own material , tiny record labels , and just about anything that has to do with 50's & 60's recordings. In his spare time he works on discographies and websites. EMAIL Spike.

Jamie The Monkee Junkee - Super Monkees fan , great guy , and my son [Spike Jr]. He is a full time Monkee nut and in his spare time he helps with this website , doing all of the typing and trying to read my handwriting. Email him.

Hit Records - "Music is fun for everyone"

Update: Rockin' Ronnie has provided scans of Hit Record numbers 221 and 256 . Click here

Visit the Hit Record Trivia Area or click the button next to the artist
It should be noted that a more accurate discription of the artists listed on Hit labels should be "recorded as...." since most artists names are fictionous as listed and often shared with other artists.

Section A - #1 thru #100

Section A #1 Thru #100 Section B #101 Thru #200 Section C #201 Thru #355

#1-20 [1962]

#01 Herbert Hunter [AKA Leroy Jones] - The Twist / Herbert Hunter - Twistin’ the night away

#02 Ed Hardin - Good luck charm / Herbert Hunter - Slow twistin’ *See note 1 at bottom of page

#03 Ed Hardin -Young world / Herbert Hunter - Lover please *See note 2 at bottom of page

#04 Peggy Thompson - Love letters / Peggy Thompson - Soldier boy

#05 Jim Porter *See note 3 at bottom of page - Doctor Feelgood / Bill Austin - Shout

#06 Bill Austin - If A Woman Answers / Bill Austin - Dear one

#07 Peggy Thompson - Mashed potato time / Ed Hardin - She cried

#08 Herbert Hunter - Twist twist, senora / Hit Combo - Stranger on the shore

#09 Hit Combo - Soul twist / Ray Fowler - What’d I say

#10 Johnny Keaton - P.T.109 / Tom Walls - Funny way of laughin’

#11 Bill Austin - Shout Shout / Herbert Hunter - Hide nor hair *See note 4 at bottom of page

#12 Charlie Jarrett - Old rivers / Connie Dee - Everybody loves me but you

#13 Ed Hardin - Follow that dream / Ed Hardin - Lovers who wander

#14 Connie Dee - Second hand love / Herbert Hunter - I can’t stop loving you

#15 Benny Lattimore - Snap your fingers / Peggy Thompson - I sold my heart to the junkman

#16 Fred X. Brown - The man who shot Liberty Valance / Fred X. Brown - It keeps right on a-hurtin’

#17 Joe Cash - Steel guitar and a glass of wine / Peggy Gaines - Playboy

#18 Farley Wayne - That’s old fashioned / Farley Wayne - Wolverton Mountain

#19 Jimmy Lucas - Roses are red / Peggy Gaines - Gravy

#20 Music City Orchestra - Stripper / Tom Walls [w/Ray Stevens as the voice for Speedy]- Speedy Gonzales

#21-40 [1962]

#21 Dick Swift - Sealed with a kiss / Bill Arndt - Breaking up is hard to do

#22 John Dunn - Ahab the Arab / Herbert Hunter - Dancin' party

#23 Connie Landers - Heart in hand / Harvey Frolic - Things

#24 Herbert Hunter - Bring it home to me / Peggy Gaines - Locomotion

#25 Herbert Hunter - Right string, but the wrong yo-yo / Herbert Hunter - You don't know me

#26 Boots Purcell - Rinky dink / Connie Landers - Vacation

#27 George Killebrew - She's not you / Sandy Gold - Sheila

#28 Bill Murphy - Devil Woman / Ed Van Zandt - Little Diane

#29 Frank Clark - Ramblin' Rose / Fred York - Send me the pillow that you dream on

#30 Barney Fox - Teenage idol / The Four Chellows - Sherry

#31 Alpha Zoe - You beat me to the punch / Mitch Lucas - Patches

#32 Dave Grundy - Green Onions / Ed Mendel - I remember you

#33 Ed Hardin - Only love can break a heart / Leroy Jones *See note 5 at bottom of page - Do you love me

#34 Connie Landers - He thinks I still care / Katy Richards - All alone am I

#35 Ed Hardin - Return to sender / Sandy Carmichael - Don't go near the Indians

#36 Gleams - He's a rebel / Ward Oliver - Next door to an angel

#37 Chellows - Big girls don't cry / Sandy Atkinson - Mama sang a song

#38 Dacrons - Don't hang up / Bill Carmichael - Limbo rock

#39 Boots Purcell - Desafinado / Lucille Johns - Release me

#40 Connie Landers - Bobby's girl / Peggy Gaines - Ride

#41 thru #60 [1962/63]

#41 Alpha Zoe - Keep your hands off my baby / Leroy Jones - You are my sunshine

#42 Dan Rubin Orchestra - Lonely Bull / Tides - Telstar

#43 Connie Landers - My coloring book / Fred York - Go away, little girl

#44 Alpha Zoe - Everybody loves a lover / Ed Hardin - Love came to me

#45 Bill Carmichael - It's up to you / Peggy Gaines - Tell him

#46 Connie Landers - I'm gonna be warm this winter / George Killebrew - Half heaven, half heartache

#47 Herbert Hunter - Loop de loop / Joe Cash - The night has a thousand eyes

#48 Connie Landers - Shake me, I rattle / Woody Martin - My dad

[1963]

#49 Jackie Ott - From a jack to a king / Music City Orchestra - Walk right in

#50 Bob & Bobbie - Hey Paula / Dave Gibson - I saw Linda yesterday

#51 Chellows - Walk like a man / Leroy Jones - Send me some lovin'

#52 Ed Hardin [Hit #52 also listed as Rett Hardin] - You're the reason I'm living / Larry Dexter - Ruby Baby

#53 Leroy Jones - Let's limbo some more / Sylvia Richards - Blame it on the bossa nova

#54 Alpha Zoe - Let's turkey trot / Ed Hardin - One broken heart for sale

#55 Clara & Cleftones - Our day will come / Kathy Taylor - End of the world

#56 Dacrons - South Street / Tony Christopher - What will my Mary say

#57 Connie Landers - Follow the boys / Dacrons - He's so fine

#58 Bob & Bobbie - Young lovers / Jackie Ott - Out of my mind

#59 Fred York - Don't be afraid, little darlin' / Jimmy, Joe & Betty - Puff the magic dragon

#60 Fred X. Brown - Can't get used to losing you / Leroy Jones - Baby workout

#61 thru #80

#61 Connie & Clara - I will follow him / Herbert Hunter - Take these chains from my heart

#62 Clara Wilson - Don't say nothin' bad / Music city five - Pipeline

#63 Bobby Russell & The Tennessee Three - Reverend Mister Black / Bobby Russell - Little band of gold

#64 Chellows- Ain't that a shame / John Campbell - If you wanna be happy

#65 Alpha Zoe - Da doo ron ron / Clara Wilson - Foolish little girl

#66 Bobby Russell - Still / Katy Richards - Losing you

#67 Marty Wood - Eighteen yellow roses / Marty Wood- I love you because

#68 Connie Landers - It's my party / Leroy Jones - Another Saturday night

#69 Frank Clark - Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer / John Preston - Blue on blue

#70 Alpha Zoe - Hello stranger / Music City Chorus & Orchestra featuring Samayami - Sukiyaki

#71 Jimmy & Joe - Surf city / Clara Wilson - Easier said then done

#72 Music City Five - Memphis / Sylvester McCord - Tie me kangaroo down, sport

#73 Leroy Jones - No one / Thomas Henry - So much in love

#74 Henry Frolic - Ring of fire / Henry Frolic - On top of spaghetti

#75 Jimmy, Wayne & Betty - Blowin' in the wind / Wayne Harris - Devil in disguise

#76 Music city five - Wipe out / Katy Richards - Judy's turn to cry

#77 Dick Martin - Hello muddah, hello faddah / Chellows - Candy girl

#78 Herbert Hunter - Twist it up / Betty Scott - My whole world is falling down

#79 Leroy Jones - Hey girl / Ricky Dickens - If I had a hammer

#80 Dot Hester - My boyfriend's back / Sammy Fox - Monkey time

#81 thru #100

#81 Jalopy Five - Surfer girl / Dacrons - Then he kissed me

#82 Bill Austin - You can never stop me from loving you / Fred York - Blue velvet

#83 Georgettes - Be my baby / Belles - Sally go 'round the roses

#84 Fantasies - Mickey's monkey / Fantasies - Cry baby

  • Fantasies - Mickey's monkey
  • The Chords - Mickey's monkey

#85 Connie Dee - Hello heartache, goodbye love / Ricky Dickens - Sugar shack

#86 Kathy Taylor - I can't stay mad at you / Wayne Harris - Wonderful, wonderful

#87 Ed Harris - Donna prima Donna / Music city Five & Ten [5 & 10] - Washington square

#88 Berry Bradley - That Sunday, that summer / Jimmy, Wayne & Betty - Don't think twice, it's alright

#89 Dotty & Dan - I'm leaving it up to you / Tennessee Six & Four [6 & 4]- Down at papa joe's

#90 Leroy Jones - It's alright / Connie Dee - She's a fool

#91 Music City Five - Maria Elena / Harvey Frolic - Matador

#92 John Preston - Walking proud / Marty Wood - Five hundred miles away from home

#93 Tom Tripp - Since I fell for you / Betty Coleson - Dominique

#94 Roamers - Be true to your school - Joanne Kay - Wonderful summer

#95 Scotties - Popsicles & icicles / I. Kadez Louie Louie

#96 Fred York - There, I said it again / Belles - You don't have to be a baby to cry

#97 Georgettes - Quicksand / Leroy Jones - Loddy Lo

#98 Ricky Dickens - Midnight Mary / Ed Hardin - Drip Drop

#99 "John Fitzgerald Kennedy A Memorial Album." Part 1 & Part 2. This was the only picture sleeve issued on Hit . ~ Fact and scan courtesy Paul W. Urbahns

#100 Wayne Harris - Forget him / Jalopy Five - Drag City

Click here for #101 thru #200

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