Stepheny Album DiscographyThe Stepheny label was started in 1956 in Evanston, Illinois. The founder and president of the
company was Norman Forgue. The company recorded popular, rhythm and blues and jazz. Most of the
album releases were jazz and Dixieland, but a great R&B vocal group appeared on MF-4001, First
Date with the Ebon-Knights. The record is very rare and very desirable to vocal group collectors.
Stepheny Records went out of business in late 1962, with Forgue selling off his recording equipment in
June, 1963.
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The Stepheny label is off white with black printing. There is a 1/8 inch yellow band around the perimeter of the label. "Stepheny" in red script above and to the left of the center hole and a picture of a woman to the right of the logo. The labels for mono (far left) and stereo (near left) are nearly identical except the stereo label has "STEREOPHONIC" printed near the top. |
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MF 4000 (mono)/LR 8000 (stereo) Series: | |
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MF 4000/LR 8003 - Jazz in Orbit - Bob Davis Quartet [5/58 mono, 1960 stereo] Adam's
Evening/Windy City/Darn That Dream/Blues In Orbit/Dr. Pepper/Cherokee//Buzzy/Star Eyes/I
Remember April/Sometimes I'm Happy/Up In Ray's Pad/Deedee's Dream
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MF 4001 - First Date with the Ebon-Knights - Ebon-Knights [5/58] This album was issued
in mono only. First Date/Stop The World/Only, Only You/Poor Butterfly/I'm Confessin'/Do You
Know/Georgia//Lonesome Road/Lover Come Back To Me/Why Don't You Happen To Me/Falling In
Love/Blues In The Night/That's The Way The Ball Bounces/Numma Numma
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MF 4002/LR 8001 - Club Basin Street - Danny Alvin's Kings Of Dixieland [5/58 mono,
1960 stereo] South Rampart Street Parade/Just A Closer Walk With Thee/Dippermouth Blues/Bill
Bailey/All of Me/Sheik of Araby//Riverside Blues/I Used To Love You/High Society/Sunny Side of the
Street/After You've Gone/Basin Street Blues
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MF 4003/LR 8002 - Reno Plays Nevada - Reno Tondelli [5/58 mono, 1960
stereo] Nevada/Love Is Just Aroung the Corner/Reno-Valted/Let's Get Away From It All/How About
You/Give Me The Simple Life/I Hadn't Anyone Till You//Easy Living/In A Calm/Nostalgia/Deep
Purple/Portrait Of Jenny/Caprice Viennois
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MF 4004 - Jack Fascinato Arranges Things - Jack Fascinato [5/58] This album was
issued in mono only. Happy Medium/Aba Da Aba Du/Drum City/There Will Never Be Another
You/Diggin' Duggan/Be My Lovin' Baby/Fifty Fathoms//Rainbows In The Sky/I'm Alone But Never
Lonely/Custer's Last One-Night Stand/Tea For Two/Road Runner/The Moment We Met/I Love To Sing
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(No number: matrix J7OP-3429/30) - Stepheny LP Sampler - Various Artists [5/58] This album was issued in mono only. Dr. Pepper - Bob Davis Quartet/Sometimes I'm Happy - Bob Davis Quartet/Windy City - Bob Davis Quartet/In A Calm - Reno Tondelli/I Hadn't Anyone Till You - Reno Tondelli/Reno-Vated - Reno Tondelli//High Society - Danny Alvin's Kings Of Dixieland/Sheik Of Araby - Danny Alvin's Kings Of Dixieland/Dippermouth Blues - Danny Alvin's Kings Of Dixieland/The Moment We Met - Jack Fascinato/Custer's Last One Night Stand - Jack Fascinato/Happy Medium - Jack Fascinato | |
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MF 4005 - Johnny Pate at the Blue Note - Johnny Pate [8/58] This album was
issued in mono only. Dancing On the Ceiling/What A Difference A Day Made/It Might As Well Be
Spring/Falling In Love With Love/All The Time/Old Devil Moon//I Surrender Dear/Yvonne/Tea For
Two/Pennies From Heaven/Carmen's Chaser/Slaughter On 10th Avenue
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MF 4006/LR 8004 - First Time Out - Bob Centano & Twenty-One Others [1958]
Centano's Theme/Taboo/Something Else/I'll Remember April/Slow Stroll//I'm Always Chasing
Rainbows/Come Rain Or Come Shine/El Sueno De Centano/Secret Love/I'm Glad There's You
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MF 4007 - Amanda Ambrose Swings at the Black Orchid - Amanda Ambrose [12/58]
This album was issued in mono only. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You/You've Got Me Crying
Again/Time After Time/My Melancholy Baby/There Will Never Be Another You/Everywhere//This Can't
Be Love/Someday Sweetheart/A Good Man Is Hard To Find/Honeysuckle Rose/Taking A Chance On
Love/Close Your Eyes
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MF 4008/LR 8006 - Fredie Wayne And His Orchestra - Fredie Wayne & His Orchestra
[1959 mono, 1960 stereo] Fredie's Blues/Paladium Swing/In The Blue Of Evening/Harlem
Mambo/Cherry//Evelina/My Funny Valentine/Shine/One For Janet/The Gold Digger's Song
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MF 4009 - Be Our Guest - Various Artists [1959] This album was issued in mono only. Be My Guest - Buccaneers/Over And Over Again - Buccaneers/My Dog Has Fleas - Martha Tilton/That's The Way It's Gotta Be - Martha Tilton/Just Because You're Mine - Jack Halloran Quartet/If The Good Lord's Willing - Jack Halloran Quartet//If My Heart Could Only Talk - Buccaneers/Let's Drink To Happiness - Buccaneers/The Knockin' Song - Martha Tilton/Dancing By Myself - Martha Tilton/I Guess It Must Be Love - Jack Halloran Quartet/I'm Alone But Never Lonely - Jack Halloran Quartet | |
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MF 4010 - I Can't Hide the Blues - Harvey Ellington [1959] This album was
issued in mono only. I Can't Hide The Blues/Why Was I Born/Powder Your Face With Sunshine/Maybe
You'll Be There/Then I Saw You//One Way Ticket/Moonlight Becomes You/Wonderful One/Sunday,
Monday, Or Always/Squeeze Me In Somewhere
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MF 4011 - Aboard the Dixie Hi-Flyer - Miff Mole & His Dixieland Band [1959] This album
was issued in mono only. Fidgety Feet/For Me And My Gal/There'll Come A Time/Exactly Like
You/Dreaming By The River/St. Louis Blues//Miffany/Jimtown Blues/Who's Sorry Now?/Wolverine
Blues/Dixieland One-Step/Haunting Blues
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MF 4012 - Smooth Man - Bobby Christian & His Orchestra [3/59] This album was issued
in mono only. My Theme/Yesterdays/Misirlou/River's End/Caravan/Figments/Always//Tootie Flutie/East
Avenue Express/Noodlin' & Doodlin'/Boola/I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles/Grasshopper Jump/Indian Hop
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MF 4013 - [Not issued - Triskaidekaphobia strikes again] | |
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MF 4014 - Campus Queens - Dale Hamilton & His Orchestra [1959] This album was
issued in mono only. Soft Winds/You Go To My Head/Satin Doll/Our Love Is Here To Stay/Cry Me A
River/Sandy//They Can't Take That Away From Me/What's New/What A Difference A Day
Made/Jaywalk/My Funny Valentine/Barney's Blues
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MF 4015 - The Romantic Style of Russ Carlyle - Russ Carlyle [1960] This album was issued in mono only. I've Waited Oh So Long/Happy and Free/Strangers In Paradise/Think of Pleasant Things/Only One/I May be Wrong/Where You Belong/Imagine/You're Wrong/Where You Belong/Imagine/You're Keeping a Secret/Dreaming of Love/Josephine/Donna Mia/Ready to Fall in Love/Moonglow | |
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MF 4016 - Dance To Music Smooth As Glass - Don Glasser & His Orchestra featuring Lois
Costello ("Miss Energy") [1961] This album, despite the "MF" prefix, was issued in stereo only.
Anything Goes (Instrumental)/Medley: Tell Me That You Don't Love Me Tonight - I Really Don't Want To
Know/Skirts/Instrumental Medley: Because Of You - Oh! - Your Eyes Have Told Me So/Won't You Come
Home Bill Bailey?/Tea For Two Cha Cha (Instrumental)//Sweet Georgia Brown (Instrumental)/Medley:
Yours Is My Heart Alone (Instrumental) - Everywhere You Go - It's A Lonesome Old Town
(Instrumental)/Charley My Boy/Medley: Pretty Baby - You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me - Was That
The Human Thing To Do/Maryland My Maryland/Tango Of The Roses
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MF 4027 - Come...Spend An Evening With Us And Dance...Dance...Dance - Don Glasser,
Lois Costello & His Orchestra [1962] Lois Costello, Don Glasser's wife, was the vocalist. The odd,
out-of-sequence catalog number was assigned just before the label shut down. In fact, remaining copies
of this LP were bought by the Cha Cha label, another Chicago outfit, and sold as Cha Cha C-1451. Ain't
She Sweet/Medley: Anema E. Core-Non Dimenticar-Arrivederci, Roma/Exactly Like You/Medley: Blue
Hours-Melody Of Love/Mack The Knife/Cocktails For Two Cha Cha//Makin' Whoopee/12th Street
Rag/Frankie/Wolverine Blues/Rumba Medley: Petticoats Of Portugal-Linda Mujer/Medley: The Party's
Over-Lights Out
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