Australian singles charts:
The songs by the music promoter, described as “vanity” recordings (see below), were released in 1959 but didn’t make the Australian charts.
Songwriter:
Lee Gordon
Producer:
Lee Gordon
Record label of Australian release:
Leedon
Get the Message
She’s The Ginchiest
Wikipedia:
Lee Gordon was an American entrepreneur and rock and roll promoter who worked extensively in Australia in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Gordon’s jazz and rock ‘n’ roll tours had a major impact on the Australian music scene and he also played a significant role in the early career of pioneering Australian rock’n’roll singer Johnny O’Keefe, serving as his manager.
Gordon’s Leedon record label was quite successful with its early releases. Gordon himself made two ‘vanity’ recordings, credited to himself as composer, in which he expounded Beat-style spoken word lyrics over a ‘cool’ jazz backing performed by uncredited musicians. The two tracks, Get The Message and She’s The Ginchiest were released on Leedon during 1959, but it is not known if Gordon recorded the tracks in Australia before he left (although She’s The Ginchiest contains a reference to the Sydney suburb of Paddington), or whether they were cut in the US and sent back to Sydney for release.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Gordon_(promoter)
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