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RISING SONS LABEL ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
Rising Sons was a short-lived Monument subsidiary label.The mono issues used the RSM-7000 series,
with the stereo issues being in the RSS-17000 series. The stereo numbers are used here for
convenience.
The Rising Sons logo was four stacked arrows at a 45 degree angle pointing upward and to the right.
The album label was glossy black with silver print, with a thin horizontal white line just above the title,
about a third of the way down from the top. Two sets of parallel thin vertical white lines, about a fourth of
the way in from each edge, went from the horizontal line to the top of the label, resulting in the thin white
lines looking not unlike the front of a set of bib overalls. At the left side of the center box is the logo, with
the four arrows in blue, purple, yellow, and orange from the top to the bottom, and "RISING SONS" in
white to the right of the arrows.
RSS-17000 - Everlasting Love - Robert Knight [1967] (12-67, #196) Everlasting Love
(S)/Somewhere My Love (S)/Sandy (S)/Somebody's Baby (S)/The Letter (S)//My Rainbow Valley
(S)/Never My Love (S)/Rachel The Stranger (S)/It's Been Worth It All (S)/The Dance Of Love
(S)/Branded (S)
SOUND STAGE 7 LABEL ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
Sound Stage 7 was a subsidiary of the Monument label. The first Sound Stage 7 label was red with
black printing. "SOUND 7 STAGE" above the center hole and Distributed by Monument Record Corp. at
the bottom of the label. The second Sound Stage 7 label was black with silver printing. Above the center
hole is "SOUND" in white above "STAGE" in white on a blue "7", below the 7 was a multicolor bar. At
the bottom of the label is "A Division of Monument Record Corp". The third Sound Stage 7 label, used
while Monument was distributed by CBS, was brown with black print, with the logo on the top (white "S"
with a grey shadow, black "7", just above the words "SOUND STAGE 7"). Around the bottom of the label
is (in caps) "A division of Monument Record Corporation - Distributed by CBS Records, 51 W. 52nd St.,
N.Y., N.Y."
The mono issues used the SSM-5000 series, while the stereo issues used the corresponding
SSS-15000 series. The stereo numbers are used here for convenience.
SSS-15000 - Down at Papa Joe's - Dixie Belles [1963] (Down At) Papa Joe's (E)/Bo
Weevil (S)/Telling Lies (E)/Why Don't You Set Me Free (S)/Good Night Irene (S)/Way Down Yonder In
New Orleans (S)//Bourbon Street Parade (S)/Forever Forever (S)/Swanee River (Where They Rock All
Night) (S)/Rock Rock Rock (E)/I Told You So (S)/Southtown U.S.A. (M)
SSS-15001 -
SSS-15002 - Soul in His Music, Music in His Soul - Roscoe Shelton [1966] You're Living
Too Fast/My Eyes (I Can Cry If I Want To)/Easy Going Fellow/Love Comes And Goes/Keep Your Mind
On Me/The Fire Still Burns//Strain On My Heart/Mastermind/I Know Your Heart Has Been Broken/My
Best Friend/Worry/Who Walks In (When I Walk Out)
SSS-15003 - Simon Pure Soul - Joe Simon [1966] Too Many Teardrops/Travelin'
Man/Nobody But You/My Special Prayer/What Makes a Man Feel Good/That's All I Want/Teenager's
Prayer/Girl's Alright/Long Hot Summer/When a Man Loves a Woman/Most of All/Too Many Rivers
The following albums were issued in stereo only:
SSS-15004 - No Sad Songs - Joe Simon [1968] (You Keep Me) Hanging On/My Special
Prayer/Long Hot Summer/No Sad Songs/I Worry About You//Nine Pound Steel/Put Your Trust In Me
(Depend On Me)/Traveling Man/In The Same Old Way/Can t Find No Happiness/Come On And Get
SSS-15005 - Simon Sings - Joe Simon [1969]
SSS-15006 - The Chokin' Kind - Joe Simon [1969] (6-69, #81) Baby Don't Be Looking In
My Mind/(Sittin' On The) Dock Of The Bay/Little Green Apples/Lonely Man/Yours Love/Help
Yourself/Wichita Lineman/Don't Let Me Lose The Feeling/I'm Too Far Gone To Turn Around/In The Still
Of The Night (I'll Remember)
SSS-15007 - Ella Washington - Ella Washington [1969] Stop Giving Your Man Away/Sit
Down And Cry/Sweeter And Sweeter (Ray Ray Ray)/Starving For Love/Fragile/He Called Me Baby//I
Want To Walk Through This Life With You/Doing The Best I Can/The Affair/All The Time/This Bitter
Earth
SSS-15008 - Joe Simon... Better than Ever - Joe Simon [1969] (11-69, #192) San
Francisco Is A Lonely Town/After The Lights Go Down Low/I Got A Whole Lot Of Lovin'/In The
Ghetto/It's Hard To Get Along/Rainbow Road/Silver Spoons And Coffee Cups/Straight Down To
Heaven/Time And Space/When/Wounded Man
SSS-15009 - The Best of Joe Simon - Joe Simon [1970] (12-72, #147) Baby Don't Be
Looking In My Mind/The Choking Kind/Farther On Down The Road/It's Hard To Get Along/Message
From Maria/Moon Walk, Part 1/My Special Prayer/Nine Pound Steel/Put Your Trust In Me (Depend On
Me)/Teenager's Prayer/Yours Love/(You Keep Me) Hangin' On
Sound Stage 7 releases under the Columbia distribution and numbering system:
KZ-31916 - Greatest Hits - Joe Simon [1972] Misty Blue (S)/Farther On Down The Road
(S)/Teenager's Prayer (S)/Moon Walk, Parts I & II (S)/Put Your Trust In Me (Depend On Me) (S)//It's
Hard To Get Along (S)/Hangin' On (S)/The Chokin' Kind (S)/Message From Maria (S)/My Special Prayer
(S)
KZG-32536 - The World of Joe Simon - Joe Simon [1975] (2-LP set) Disc 1:
Someone To Lean On/Dreamin'/Yours Love/Come On And Get It/No Sad Songs//Nine Pound
Steel/Looking Back/It's Too Late/Travelin' Man/Message From Maria; Disc 2: Today I Started
Loving You Again/I Worry About You/The Girl's Alright With Me/Too Many Rivers/Can't Find No
Happiness//Who's Julie/In Reach Of Your Arms/Twinkle/What Make A Man Feel Good/Silver Spoons
And Coffee Cups
BZ-33879 - The Chokin' Kind/Better Than Ever - Joe Simon [1975] (2-LP set) Reissue of
Sound Stage 7 SSS-15006 and Sound Stage 7 SSS-15008 as a 2-LP set.
PZ-34318 - See the Light - Eddie Russ [1976]
Sound Stage 7 Post-Columbia releases:
SP-5000 - The World of Joe Simon - Joe Simon [1976] (2-LP set) Reissue of KZG-
32536. Disc 1: Someone To Lean On/Dreamin'/Yours Love/Come On And Get It/No Sad
Songs//Nine Pound Steel/Looking Back/It's Too Late/Travelin' Man/Message From Maria; Disc
2: Today I Started Loving You Again/I Worry About You/The Girl's Alright With Me/Too Many
Rivers/Can't Find No Happiness//Who's Julie/In Reach Of Your Arms/Twinkle/What Make A Man Feel
Good/Silver Spoons And Coffee Cups
SP-1500 - Beginnings - Ann Sexton [1977]
Thanks to Leif Sandsjo, Henrik Andersson, and Phil Healy.
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