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EARLY 50s BUDDY REYNOLDS ARAGON 45
Here is a well used but still playable early 50s Canadian
C&W 45 from the pride of Falkland, B.C. - Buddy Reynolds.
Buddy made a lot of nice records for the little Aragon label
and later recorded for Zero, a label better known for releasing
Loretta Lynn’s first couple of singles.
We heard Centipede on the Aug 21 Western Hour edition of RRR.
…if I were a little old centipede with a hundred thousand arms,
I’d hug you a hundred thousand times tonight…
Aragon was one of the first if not the first record label in Western Canada. Label founder and owner Al Reusch launched Aragon in 1947 to record some bagpipe records. Country music was where they ended up making their name though; recording artists such as Keray Regan, Buddy Reynolds, Evan Kemp, The Calgary Range Riders, The Sons Of The Saddle, Bob Regan, Lucille Starr, The Rhythm Pals etc. They later went on to record some of Vancouver’s (indeed, Canada’s) first rockabilly records (check out Bear Family’s Real Gone Aragon CD) with rockin’ platters by the Prowlers and the Stripes. You’ll be hearing loads of Aragon records on future editions of ‘The Room’.
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