1960s Massachusetts Teen Beat

Ace Record Co.

???

>>200,750: RUSTY AND HIS RANGERS (1966)
>>ARC179: 5:P.M. (1968)
>>ARS135: Loos Foos And The Fiberglass Cornflake (1969) [RI group]

Arco Records

New Bedford

Astor

Cambridge?

CCM Productions, 1232 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.
>>A001: BUGS w/ps (1967)
>>A002: BUGS (1966)

Bay-State

Salem

>>PAWNS: Summer/ Impossible Dream (196x)

Bullet

Waltham

520 Main St., Waltham, Mass.
>>4511: COLT BROTHERS (1967)
>>4512: WARM PUPPY (1968)

Camsul

Shrewsbury

>>Dick Campbell
>>Label later relocated to Monroe, WI.
>>1008: FABULOUS ORCHIDS: Shout -Part One/ Shout - Part Two [4/4]

Cori Records

Framingham

Continental Recordings is owned and operated by Dan Flynn,

Demand

???

>>>2936: UNIQUES: Merry Christmas Darling/ Rock'n Rudolph (1963) [cool doo wop/ novelty rocker] (w/ ps)

Fleetwood Records

Revere

Gemini

???

>>>15225: MICKEY AND THE MOTIONS: I Do/ Long Tall Texan (1965) [11/4]

Kay

Springfield

>>135: JOLLY JOE KOZIOL: Wandas Polka/ Krakow Polka (196x)

Minutemen Records

Boston

Onyx Records

Methuen

Pat Costa, also ran Eastern Sounds Recording.
Onyx started out in Pat's parents' basement, 33 Taylor Street, in 1967.
Personnell 1967: Rom Messina, Jim Manganno, Sally Giaquinta
( Costa ), Angela Blatti, Jim Minchello. 

DISCOGRAPHY:

8601 Fabulous Frauleins - Practice of Evil / Days Gone By

85979 Infinites End - Hey Lenna /The Way You're Talking to Me

6901 Lost Legend - Love Flight / Yes, I'm Ready

6904 Tom Bartlett - Could I Tell You Softly / Transition

7001 Doug Bolduc & Chorus - Reach Out / God's Little Children

7002 Wet Paint - Glass Road / Give You Everything I Got
7005 Jamesy And Sean - Catch The Wind / Which Way To Go

7006 Crystal Empire - Sour Milk Sea / Commotion

7008 Buss - Woman / Too Young to Understand

3287 Tyler Mudge - Search For The Answer / I'll Bring You Back

7343 Frankie St. John & Ash's to Ash's - Bony Moronie / Sea of Love 

no # Joe McDonald - Home Together / Every Time You Leave Me 

no # Rush - Think Twice / Something Tells Me

no # Owl - Aunt Cate is Dead / As The World Keeps Turning

Paradise

Dracut

>>45-101S:Frankie St. John And Sentimental Journey: A Real Dynamite Lady/ I Will Be So Alone

Pharaoh

???

(1963 - 1965)?
>>SA251: NORMAN STONE: Bound In Chains/ Shining Star (1963)
>>SA364: CAL RAYE WITH THE CLASS-AIRS: Lovely Lies/ Mr. Peppermint Man (1965) [*/4]
>>Columbia custom pressings.

Polaris Records

Cambridge

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Ram

???

>>66037: CLASSICS: Pink Cats/ Mean Woman/ I Don't Wanna Be Around/ Bo Diddley (1966) []
>>Rite pressing.

Reed

>>1069: LANDLORDS (1967)
>>RCA custom pressing.

RFT

???

>>1001: SHAMES - The Special Ones/ My World Is Upside Down (1967) [*/10]

>>3012: SHEILA WILKERSON: Baby You're A Jive Cat/ Can You Do It (1969) [cool soul]

Ron

???

>>RR 1,000: PLAGUES: To Wander/ Cherrie Pie (1966)

Salem Records

Framingham

001 CHESSMEN - It'll Be Me/ 
002 DELRAYS, INC (1965)
003 ESQUIRES - Shake A Tail Feather/ Down The Track (1966)
004
005
006

Seventeen

???

>>WE THE PEOPLE (1966)
>>RCA custom pressing.

Trans Radio

Boston

Shifters - Well All Right/-

Vincent

???

>>222: BEEP BEEP AND THE ROADRUNNERS (1966)

W.J.G.

Worcester?

>>BACK STREET BOYS

AAA Recording Studio

Boston

>>835 Dorchester Avenue
>>Joe Saia, Pat Costello, Co-owners.
>>Opened March 1965?

Ace Recording Studios

Boston

>>1 Boylston Pl.
>>Customs, April 4, 1966: 5 Track acetate.

Continental Recordings

Framingham

>>Run by Dan and John Flynn.
>>Had a 4-track machine.
>>Closed in 2010.

Eastern Sounds

Methuen

Onyx/ Pat Costa
>>FRANKIE ST. JOHN 45.
 

Natural Sound

Maynard

Operated by Bruce Patch.
>>Was located on Main Street, above a Woolworth's.
>>Started out in autumn 1968.
>>Inital cost $200.000.
>>Patterned after Olmstead Studios (NY) and Columbia Studio B (Nashville, TN).
>>60" by 30" by 18".
>>Elevated control room.
>>One 8-track console and several 4-track.

Hill Sounds Service

Worcester

MICKEY AND THE MOTIONS/ Gemini Records
BACK STREET BOYS/ W.J.G.

New England Teen Scene Magazine

1967-

Publisher: Gerald Saphire