I find that it's been more than six months since I featured Sammy Marshall, and thought I'd better remedy that. Here he is, on the tiny, tiny Sigmar Records label. This label seems to have been created in order to have a place for the Globe Records song-poem factory to release songs written by a Mr. or Ms. Severtson, and is only documented to have released two 45s (although there may, of course, be more).
The first side - "Rainbow in Your Sky" - is a pretty typical Globe production, sounding like it's from early in their existence. It's got a bouncy feel, some nice echoey production and guitar playing that sounds a bit like Les Paul on an off day, but otherwise a bit sterile (Globe leaned further and further into that sterile sound as time went on).
Download: Sammy Marshall - Rainbow In Your Sky
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On the flip side, "The Old Songs", is about just that. It's just about as bouncy as the other side, but less engaging, at least to my ears. And the song-poet made his or her job a bit easier by shoehorning in the names of at least a half-dozen "old songs", rather than writing a complete lyric from scratch.
Download: Sammy Marshall - The Old Songs
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