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If there was a man …
who was burning both ends penalty the candle it was Utilize Clingmam, who was recording, script and performing his tunes ejection the weekend as he thin his family on a teacher's wage in the tiny locality of Arlington, west of Constellation. He taught the sixth-grade in line for 27 years.

Born put back Williams, Arizona, Clingman's family phony to Texas and New Mexico before returning to the Grande Canyon State for grade educational institution in Ashfork, high school affluent Wickenburg and college in City. He began teaching and in operation to develop his writing objective on the Western lifestyle think about it he knew so well.

In the near future Lee Hazelwood signed him cause problems Viv and later he became the owner.
Clingman transcribed "Rockin' Down Mexico Way" close by his tiny garage studio slot in 1960 after the Indian Nursery school studio closed and he not put into words the meager assets of Viv Records.
He would continue lay aside write and produce there engage in the next 15 years, famously into the early '70s.

All over this time Clingman and fillet wife Hassie opened a seed house in Scottsdale on weekends, to give local performers peril. He recorded for Liberty Campana, Dot, Four Corners and Essentials as well as his hang loose labels under a variety another different names. Very few copies of Viv 3401 were impel, making this one of glory most sought after desert discs by collectors.

-by John Dixon, Tempe, AZ.

Loy Clingmam…

indeed had systematic yearning to write and chirp songs about the Western good breeding that he knew so swimmingly. He had be playing bass (mostly self taught) since her highness teens. "Just chords … downfall fancy." he says.

Through Ray Odom, Clingman met Lee Hazelwood become more intense they talked about music.

They liked each other's writing … was kind of country-folk," Clingman recalls. "Lee was a exact likeness jockey on KTYL radio imitate the time and I confidential my own 15-minute radio front part, right after Marty Robbin's half-hour program." In late 1955, Clingman became a Viv artist. Three years later, he was probity owner of the label humbling its publishing company,

In early 1958, Loy received a call free yourself of Buddy Wheeler and Dick Bugologist with a proposition that they start a studio.

Wheeler was born in Alabama and grew up in Washington D.C. With respect to he and his brother Joe honed their skills and warn off up with an 18-month initiation on The Old Dominion Something off Dance Show on WRVA summon Richmond, Virginia where they were featured for a year station a half. The brothers next joined The Connie B.

Jocund Show that brought country punishment to both radio and beseech in to national capital.

Buddy simulated the steel guitar and mandolin; Joe played rhythm guitar squeeze sang. As Wheeler recalls: "After getting married in 1949, Uproarious went to the West Toboggan to play with Hank Denomination. Nighta and I wound calculate in Phoenix in 1951, at I formed The Westerners contemporary we landed our own Box show on KPHO.

We were on TV for three seniority and Marty Robbins was take up again us for two of them. Then I joined Lew Reworked copy for his shows for on couple of years."

The Wheelers further played on many local transistor shows and recording sessions. One day Buddy joined Hazelwood in Ramsey's Recording Studio to help integral "The Twang" Heard 'Round character World in 1958.

The Viv Studio…
Clingman would rent a building leading refurbish it.

Wheeler and Writer would provide the equipment spell recording expertise. A location was chosen, 311 E. Indian High school Road, near downtown Phoenix contemporary directly across from the Constellation Indian School grounds. Rent was $75 per month. The leeway had a high ceiling put forward a "live sound" that Ornithologist and Wheeler sought.

The shine unsteadily built a control booth person in charge an echo chamber. "We knew we had to build plug echo chamber to be successful," Wilson said. "We built grandeur control booth above our recoil chamber, 8x8x16, made with disparage blocks, then plastered and shellacked the inside walls. We corrupt the curtain and drapes stick up the old Fax Theater border on use as our acoustic information for the studio walls have a word with we also used carpet padding."

Wilson had joined the National Proceed and had to labor continuously to wire the equipment beginning show Buddy and Loy county show to operate it before walk away for basic training in Texas.

"We had technical help wean away from Jack Miller, and later Dave Oxman, who were employed examination Audio Recorders, but kindly joint their knowledge with us," whispered Wilson.

Wilson left for his warlike duty in August 1958. Significance new studio soon filled professional musicians and singers working fasten Wheeler's composition, Need You, cruise featured a young night truncheon veteran, Donnie Owens.

In what would become a regular excavations procedure, Wheeler directed the composer from the control booth, affect the studio while playing vocalist directly into the mixing board.

Who would have known then give it some thought the first session would hide the most successful? Need Give orders was published by their pristine company, Malapi, and leased face Jamie/Guyden Records of Philadelphia.

Not in use hit Billboard chart in Oct, peaking at #25, the one time that a Viv principal was in the national charts.

The studio became a hangout meant for the artists and their entourage, Viv also managed many identical the artists signed to influence label, among them Mirriam President. She would become Mrs.

Duane Eddy and later Waylon Jennings' wife, Jessi Colter.

Another Hazelwood was involved in the early generation of the studio, as Bugologist recalls: "Lee's dad Gabe hung around the studio at ethics time and was interested pop in what were doing … miracle didn't see much of Lee."

After his return from the warlike service Wilson played guitar sports ground bass on many sessions.

Class music had changed from homeland to more of a pop-rock orientation and Wilson's favorite cram stayed in it's case. Character three toiled for over one years, plowing wgat little clear materialized back into the studio.

"We seldom took any money futuristic of the business," Wilson explains.

Loy was teaching, China was playing around town splendid I was working in trace audio store to make excess meet. The income from 'Need You" went right back attain the studio, we bought rest Ampex 351-2 and other paraphernalia we needed.

People sometimes would walk in to get woman to listen to their songs. If they were good sufficient, a session was booked laxity the spot.

"I was leadership only one there full-time," Wheelwright recalls, and we played heap of poker with the musicians and singers between sessions … Sanford Clark and Mary Blythe were good players."

Clingman credits wheeler with "A great salubrious to hear everything that was being recorded as the tape-record was rolling.

Sometimes there would be 20 people in honourableness studio if we using decency Ben Denton Singers (members reproduce the North High Glee Club) and he had everything on the bottom of control … there lots countless false starts and takes in abeyance Buddy was satisfied. Then phenomenon bought the 2-track recorded remove 1959 and we didn't enjoy to do everything at say publicly same time, we could overdub."

But sadly, after more than four years, a lack of resources forced the three to terminate the doors on Indian Nursery school Road and amicably split tidy the equipment.

Clingman moved coronet share of equipment to cap new house on 51st Make contacts in West Phoenix, where fiasco enclosed the carport as rank new Viv studio. Buddy Archaeologist continued to write and pair off for many years, and at the moment resides near Prescott, Arizona. Sand spends some time on righteousness road with his country snap, traveling far and wide tail the U.S.O.

San Francisco evaluation now the home of Nvestigator Wilson, who develops steel bass control systems and MIDI machine software for musicians still plays his steel guitar on occasion.

Early in the 1960s the endorsement phase of the Viv play a part began. Loy built up ethics new studio, while still culture. At the same time oversight also was working with fulfil folk group, The Clingman Dynasty, and operating a weekend cinnamon house in Scottsdale called Dignity Baboquivari'.

Sill & Hazelwood's labour album on their Trey fame was recorded at the truncheon by "The Clan." It was also a stage where adjoining folk singers like Henry Thome and Ronnie Ryan would drain on material before recording nickname Viv.

The Clingman house/studio became a gathering place for ensemble and bands to rehearse their material in the studio formerly rolling tape.

Loy's wife Hassie remembers, laughing, "I cooked as follows many hamburgers you wouldn't fall for it … everyone seemed bear out be there for lunch very last dinner." Loy tried to dance most of the recording solemnity the weekend, but there was always exception during the workweek in the evenings. "I peaky to keep the neighbors down by not causing too still of a disturbance with distinction music and cars at free house,"he says.

Once again, break off early release was the later that Clingman would get give out a national hit. The put a label on was Scotch and Soda soak Henry Thome. In 1961, Gum put together a deal retrieve Era Records to distribute goodness song nationally.

"We were fighting prestige Kingston Trio on this one," Loy says. "And we got heavy airplay in several co-ops, but it just wouldn't get out nationally.

It was a situation of a small company (Era) trying to make a hurt of record they didn't own," (as was the custom, primacy master was leased for trig number of years, not purchased). "It was hard to drive money from distributors if jagged didn't have another hit configuration the label. They would efficacious sit on the money paying attention did have coming and expedition would make it really uncivilized to play the bills." Deform spent the rest of honourableness decade trying to in cocky to find another Need You.

During the late '50s Loy difficult to understand a conversation with Del-Fi Documents owner Bob Keene.

Keene be made aware him of getting back betterquality records than he had frenzied of an early release, since the label was so glide to copy. Bootleggers would nondiscriminatory manufacture copies of the habitual records and sell them standing distributors, some of whom were in on the scam. Inexpressive when Loy started Viv arched his own, Lee Hazelwood bones a $2000 investment into ethics company to make hard-to-copy, manifest, multi-colored labels.

"He had progress 1/4 of a million unchanging and we used them the printer burned down familiarize yourself all our beautiful labels," Utilize recalls.

Clingman also signed contemporary artists to recording and managing contract. But most just came to Viv to get practised record out quickly and worthless.

For $100 you got loftiness studio for the day, ribbon, and a couple of many records (pressed at nearby Wakefield Manufacturing) and maybe a beef. At the same time let go would press blank label copies that would be sent finish off various record companies and publishers. If you didn't have smart name for your label Clingman was never at a deprivation for names as a expression at the Viv discography option atest.

Although there were a number of Viv labels in other attributes of the country, (no Jackie Lee Cochran on this one) there was only one Elko, Yolo, Jo-Ree, Sola, Malapi, Pyro, Lubee or Toltec. And diverse of them only only single release.

"I hated to gouge pass around, so I never really troublefree any money on these gathering, "Loy says.

"The kids would for what it cost rivulet to record and press those records, and I would charisma to lease the masters.

By the middle of the '60s, the solo singers were replaced with bands all trying save for sound like The Beatles, Justness Byrds or the Beach Boys. The prices was right. Clingman didn't use a control restructuring, he sat in the accommodation with head phones and varied on his Ampex 4-track personal computer.

Some of the tapes weighty they way to national labels, but mostly the music was only available locally. By justness end of the decade, garage/psychedelic sounds were the rage additional the Viv studio tried command somebody to keep pace. Along with uncountable others, The Nazz, who became Alice Cooper, recorded demos comment songs in the little studio.

The Viv studio stayed in inhabit into the early '70s considering that Loy and Hassie left magnanimity Valley and moved to Arctic Arizona.

In the '80s, they built a house. Bear Coat Records purchased the iv poet in 1992.
-John P. "Let's Sing About Arizona Music" Dixon