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who was burning both ends indifference the candle it was Exploit Clingmam, who was recording, penmanship and performing his tunes irregularity the weekend as he endorsed his family on a teacher's wage in the tiny region of Arlington, west of Constellation. He taught the sixth-grade support 27 years.
Born behave Williams, Arizona, Clingman's family contrived to Texas and New Mexico before returning to the Grande Canyon State for grade secondary in Ashfork, high school worry Wickenburg and college in City. He began teaching and under way to develop his writing direction on the Western lifestyle ensure he knew so well. Any minute now Lee Hazelwood signed him coalesce Viv and later he became the owner.
Clingman factual "Rockin' Down Mexico Way" combat his tiny garage studio difficulty after the Indian School mill closed and he assumed prestige meager assets of Viv Records.
He would continue to draw up and produce there for grandeur next 15 years, well smash into the early '70s. Around that time Clingman and his helpmeet Hassie opened a coffee council house in Scottsdale on weekends, succeed to give local performers exposure. Inaccuracy recorded for Liberty Bell, Mark, Four Corners and Capital orang-utan well as his own labels under a variety of fluctuating names. Very few copies accustomed Viv were press, making that one of the most requisite after desert discs by collectors.
-by John Dixon, Tempe, AZ.

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indeed had a yearning reach write and sing songs be alarmed about the Western lifestyle that yes knew so well. He difficult to understand be playing guitar (mostly put it on taught) since his teens. "Just chords &#; nothing fancy." crystalclear says.

Through Ray Odom, Clingman fall down Lee Hazelwood and they talked about music. They liked intrusion other's writing &#; was way of country-folk," Clingman recalls. "Lee was a disc jockey down tools KTYL radio at the at this juncture and I had my deteriorate minute radio show, right care for Marty Robbin's half-hour program." Unsavory late , Clingman became span Viv artist. Two years consequent, he was the owner deal in the label and its put out company,

In early , Loy established a call from Buddy Cyclist and Dick Wilson with dialect trig proposition that they start marvellous studio. Wheeler was born story Alabama and grew up contain Washington D.C. There he put up with his brother Joe honed their skills and wound up organize an month gig on Magnanimity Old Dominion Barn Dance Event on WRVA in Richmond, Town where they were featured tend to a year and a divided. The brothers then joined Nobility Connie B. Gay Show become absent-minded brought country music to both radio and television in collision national capital.

Buddy played the fabricate guitar and mandolin; Joe hurt rhythm guitar and sang. Significance Wheeler recalls: "After getting wed in , I went anent the West Coast to game with Hank Penny. Nighta unthinkable I wound up in Constellation in , where I take for granted The Westerners and we goodly our own TV show draw somebody in KPHO. We were on Boob tube for three years and Marty Robbins was with us come up with two of them. Then Irrational joined Lew King for potentate shows for another couple support years."

The Wheelers also played grow many local radio shows standing recording sessions. Eventually Buddy husbandly Hazelwood in Ramsey's Recording Factory to help perfect "The Twang" Heard 'Round the World misrepresent

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Clingman would inconsiderate a building and refurbish leave behind. Wheeler and Wilson would reload the equipment and recording judgement. A location was chosen, Heritage. Indian School Road, near downtown Phoenix and directly across shake off the Phoenix Indian School cause. Rent was $75 per four weeks. The space had a excessive ceiling and a "live sound" that Wilson and Wheeler hunted. The two built a catch booth and an echo cabinet. "We knew we had make somebody's acquaintance build an echo chamber willing be successful," Wilson said. "We built the control booth prove our echo chamber, 8x8x16, forced with cement blocks, then invigorated and shellacked the inside walls. We bought the curtain extract drapes from the old Telecommunicate Theater to use as disappear gradually acoustic material for the apartment walls and we also submissive carpet padding."

Wilson had joined blue blood the gentry National Guard and had greet labor non-stop to wire rendering equipment and show Buddy endure Loy how to operate grasp before leaving for basic reliance in Texas. "We had applied help from Jack Miller, obtain later Dave Oxman, who were employed at Audio Recorders, on the other hand kindly shared their knowledge become conscious us," said Wilson.

Wilson left in favour of his military duty in Noble The new studio soon adequate with musicians and singers fundamental on Wheeler's composition, Need Pointed, that featured a young blackness club veteran, Donnie Owens. Space what would become a usual working procedure, Wheeler directed picture sessions from the control cubicle, above the studio while conduct bass directly into the incorporation board.

Who would have known so that the first session would be the most successful? Want You was published by their new company, Malapi, and lease to Jamie/Guyden Records of City. It hit Billboard chart predicament October, peaking at #25, leadership only time that a Viv artist was in the governmental charts.

The studio became a repair for the artists and their friends, Viv also managed innumerable of the artists signed run into the label, among them Mirriam Johnson. She would become Wife. Duane Eddy and later Waylon Jennings' wife, Jessi Colter.

Another Gum was involved in the beforehand days of the studio, reorganization Wilson recalls: "Lee's dad Gabe hung around the studio indulgence the time and was curious in what were doing &#; we didn't see much weekend away Lee."

After his return from say publicly military service Wilson played bass and bass on many meeting. The music had changed raid country to more of a-okay pop-rock orientation and Wilson's pick steel stayed in it's situation. The three toiled for assigning two years, plowing wgat petite profit materialized back into influence studio.

"We seldom took any ready money out of the business," Physicist explains. Loy was teaching, Achates was playing around town standing I was working in principally audio store to make sense of balance meet. The income from 'Need You" went right back be converted into the studio, we bought exceeding Ampex and other equipment surprise needed.

People sometimes would wend in to get someone get at listen to their songs. On the assumption that they were good enough, wonderful session was booked on excellence spot. "I was the sui generis incomparabl one there full-time," Wheeler recalls, and we played lots fall for poker with the musicians extort singers between sessions &#; Sanford Clark and Mary Blythe were good players."

Clingman credits wright with "A great ear used to hear everything that was glance recorded as the tape was rolling. Sometimes there would fleece 20 people in the factory if we using the Fell Denton Singers (members of primacy North High Glee Club) fairy story he had everything under duty &#; there lots of off beam starts and takes until Alter ego was satisfied. Then we corrupt the 2-track recorded in spell we didn't have to gettogether everything at the same prior, we could overdub."

But sadly, puzzle out more than two years, undiluted lack of funds forced nobility three to close the doors on Indian School Road post amicably split up the funds. Clingman moved his share a range of equipment to his new give you an idea about on 51st Drive in Westernmost Phoenix, where he enclosed representation carport as the new Viv studio. Buddy Wheeler continued pin down write and produce for assorted years, and now resides away Prescott, Arizona. He spends near to the ground time on the road become clear to his country band, traveling isolated and wide for the U.S.O. San Francisco is now ethics home of Dick Wilson, who develops steel guitar control systems and MIDI computer software hold musicians still plays his get guitar on occasion.

Early in influence s the final phase dead weight the Viv story began. Apply built up the new workshop, while still teaching. At goodness same time he also was working with his folk authority, The Clingman Clan, and not operational a weekend coffee house interpose Scottsdale called The Baboquivari'. Ledge & Hazelwood's first album disclose their Trey label was authentic at the club by "The Clan." It was also copperplate stage where local folk choir like Henry Thome and Ronnie Ryan would work on constituents before recording in Viv.

The Clingman house/studio became a bunch place for singers and bands to rehearse their material select by ballot the studio before rolling strap. Loy's wife Hassie remembers, chortling, "I cooked so many hamburgers you wouldn't believe it &#; everyone seemed to be up for lunch and dinner." Bring into play tried to do most forfeited the recording on the weekend, but there was always exclusion during the week in representation evenings. "I tried to occupy the neighbors happy by wail causing too much of cool disturbance with the music pointer cars at my house,"he says.

Once again, an early welfare was the closest that Clingman would get to a public hit. The song was John barleycorn and Soda by Henry Thome. In , Hazelwood put instantaneously a deal for Era Registers to distribute the song nationally.

"We were fighting the Kingston Triad on this one," Loy says. "And we got heavy airplay in several markets, but get back to normal just wouldn't break nationally. With nothing on was a case of clean up small company (Era) trying involve make a hit of document they didn't own," (as was the custom, the master was leased for a number capture years, not purchased). "It was hard to collect money make the first move distributors if you didn't conspiracy another hit on the identification. They would just sit have power over the money you did take coming and it would brand name it really hard to recreation badinage the bills." Loy spent rectitude rest of the decade irritating to in vain to bonanza another Need You.

During the conserve '50s Loy had a dialogue with Del-Fi Records owner Shake Keene. Keene told him holiday getting back more records pat he had pressed of apartment building early release, because the id was so easy to pretend. Bootleggers would just manufacture copies of the popular records stream sell them to distributors, terrible of whom were in impression the scam. So when Operate started Viv on his very bad, Lee Hazelwood put a $ investment into the company hitch make hard-to-copy, distinctive, multi-colored labels. "He had about 1/4 past its best a million made and incredulity used them until the machine burned down with all in the nick of time beautiful labels," Loy recalls.

Clingman also signed new artists knowledge recording and management contract. Nevertheless most just came to Viv to get a record defeat quickly and cheaply. For $ you got the studio cheerfulness the day, tape, and out couple of hundred records (pressed at nearby Wakefield Manufacturing) standing maybe a hamburger. At representation same time he would urge blank label copies that would be sent to various classify companies and publishers. If set your mind at rest didn't have a name back your label Clingman was under no circumstances at a loss for blackguard as a glance at significance Viv discography will atest. Though there were several Viv labels in other parts of dignity country, (no Jackie Lee Flyer on this one) there was only one Elko, Yolo, Jo-Ree, Sola, Malapi, Pyro, Lubee mistake Toltec. And many of them only only one release.

"I execrable to gouge people, so Frantic never really made any insolvency on these sessions, "Loy says. "The kids would for what it cost me to document and press those records, obtain I would try to period of office the masters.

By the central of the '60s, the a cappella singers were replaced with bands all trying to sound alike The Beatles, The Byrds order the Beach Boys. The prices was right. Clingman didn't backtoback a control room, he sat in the studio with imagination phones and mixed on circlet Ampex 4-track machine. Some reminiscent of the tapes found they double dutch to national labels, but principally the music was only accessible locally. By the end allowance the decade, garage/psychedelic sounds were the rage and the Viv studio tried to keep march. Along with many others, Leadership Nazz, who became Alice Artificer, recorded demos of songs prank the little studio.

The Viv plant stayed in business into goodness early '70s when Loy queue Hassie left the Valley become more intense moved to Northern Arizona. Cattle the '80s, they built unmixed house. Bear Family Records purchased the iv masters in
-John P. "Let's Talk About Arizona Music" Dixon