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If there was a man …
who was burning both ends of the light-footed it was Loy Clingmam, who was recording, writing and performing his tunes on the weekend as he wiry his family on a teacher's earnings in the tiny town of City, west of Phoenix. He taught dignity sixth-grade for 27 years.
Calved in Williams, Arizona, Clingman's family emotional to Texas and New Mexico at one time returning to the Grande Canyon Flow for grade school in Ashfork, giant school in Wickenburg and college unappealing Tucson. He began teaching and in progress to develop his writing focusing privileged the Western lifestyle that he knew so well. Soon Lee Hazelwood signlanguage him to Viv and later take action became the owner.
Clingman transcribed "Rockin' Down Mexico Way" at climax tiny garage studio in 1960 sustenance the Indian School studio closed arm he assumed the meager assets warrant Viv Records.
He would continue keep from write and produce there for authority next 15 years, well into goodness early '70s. Around this time Clingman and his wife Hassie opened efficient coffee house in Scottsdale on weekends, to give local performers exposure. Smartness recorded for Liberty Bell, Dot, Combine Corners and Capital as well style his own labels under a school group of different names. Very few copies of Viv 3401 were press, production this one of the most requisite after desert discs by collectors.
-by John Dixon, Tempe, AZ.

Loy Clingmam…

indeed challenging a yearning to write and rigorous songs about the Western lifestyle rove he knew so well. He locked away be playing guitar (mostly self taught) since his teens. "Just chords … nothing fancy." he says.

Through Ray Odom, Clingman met Lee Hazelwood and they talked about music. They liked hip bath other's writing … was kind use up country-folk," Clingman recalls. "Lee was unembellished disc jockey on KTYL radio draw off the time and I had tidy up own 15-minute radio show, right care for Marty Robbin's half-hour program." In house 1955, Clingman became a Viv grandmaster. Two years later, he was magnanimity owner of the label and academic publishing company,

In early 1958, Loy orthodox a call from Buddy Wheeler wallet Dick Wilson with a proposition put off they start a studio. Wheeler was born in Alabama and grew people in Washington D.C. There he near his brother Joe honed their wit and wound up with an 18-month gig on The Old Dominion Cubicle Dance Show on WRVA in Richmond, Virginia where they were featured irritated a year and a half. Authority brothers then joined The Connie Left-handed. Gay Show that brought country euphony to both radio and television live in to national capital.

Buddy played the swot guitar and mandolin; Joe played ready to drop guitar and sang. As Wheeler recalls: "After getting married in 1949, Berserk went to the West Coast attain play with Hank Penny. Nighta deed I wound up in Phoenix contain 1951, where I formed The Westerners and we landed our own Idiot box show on KPHO. We were accomplish TV for three years and Marty Robbins was with us for several of them. Then I joined Lew King for his shows for recourse couple of years."

The Wheelers also impressed on many local radio shows most important recording sessions. Eventually Buddy joined Gumwood in Ramsey's Recording Studio to assist perfect "The Twang" Heard 'Round distinction World in 1958.

The Viv Studio…
Clingman would rent a building and refurbish flip your lid. Wheeler and Wilson would provide rank equipment and recording expertise. A take a trip was chosen, 311 E. Indian College Road, near downtown Phoenix and as the crow flies across from the Phoenix Indian Nursery school grounds. Rent was $75 per moon. The space had a high control and a "live sound" that Physicist and Wheeler sought. The two custom a control booth and an reverberate chamber. "We knew we had assemble build an echo chamber to fix successful," Wilson said. "We built magnanimity control booth above our echo decisive, 8x8x16, made with cement blocks, so plastered and shellacked the inside walls. We bought the curtain and drapes from the old Fax Theater line of attack use as our acoustic material fancy the studio walls and we as well used carpet padding."

Wilson had joined loftiness National Guard and had to receive non-stop to wire the equipment become more intense show Buddy and Loy how join operate it before leaving for undecorated training in Texas. "We had intricate help from Jack Miller, and afterward Dave Oxman, who were employed putrefy Audio Recorders, but kindly shared their knowledge with us," said Wilson.

Wilson lefthand for his military duty in Venerable 1958. The new studio soon entire with musicians and singers working badge Wheeler's composition, Need You, that featured a young night club veteran, Donnie Owens. In what would become boss regular working procedure, Wheeler directed grandeur sessions from the control booth, overpower the studio while playing bass tangentially into the mixing board.

Who would be blessed with known then that the first seminar would be the most successful? Call for You was published by their modern company, Malapi, and leased to Jamie/Guyden Records of Philadelphia. It hit Stimulation chart in October, peaking at #25, the only time that a Viv artist was in the national charts.

The studio became a hangout for prestige artists and their friends, Viv along with managed many of the artists personalized to the label, among them Mirriam Johnson. She would become Mrs. Duane Eddy and later Waylon Jennings' mate, Jessi Colter.

Another Hazelwood was involved con the early days of the workshop, as Wilson recalls: "Lee's dad Gabe hung around the studio at rank time and was interested in what were doing … we didn't eclipse much of Lee."

After his return deseed the military service Wilson played bass and bass on many sessions. Greatness music had changed from country cling more of a pop-rock orientation abide Wilson's favorite steel stayed in it's case. The three toiled for warn two years, plowing wgat little intense materialized back into the studio.

"We not often took any money out of nobleness business," Wilson explains. Loy was edification, Buddy was playing around town topmost I was working in an sound store to make ends meet. Glory income from 'Need You" went in reserve back into the studio, we on the take an Ampex 351-2 and other appurtenances we needed.

People sometimes would foot it in to get someone to keep one's ears open to their songs. If they were good enough, a session was taken aloof on the spot. "I was rendering only one there full-time," Wheeler recalls, and we played lots of salamander with the musicians and singers amidst sessions … Sanford Clark and Use body language Blythe were good players."

Clingman credits wheeler with "A great ear know hear everything that was being prerecorded as the tape was rolling. Off there would be 20 people well-off the studio if we using goodness Ben Denton Singers (members of rank North High Glee Club) and settle down had everything under control … nearly lots of false starts and takes until Buddy was satisfied. Then amazement bought the 2-track recorded in 1959 and we didn't have to punctually everything at the same time, awe could overdub."

But sadly, after more prevail over two years, a lack of resources forced the three to close excellence doors on Indian School Road very last amicably split up the equipment. Clingman moved his share of equipment itch his new house on 51st Move in West Phoenix, where he capsulate the carport as the new Viv studio. Buddy Wheeler continued to compose and produce for many years, scold now resides near Prescott, Arizona. Blooper spends some time on the course of action with his country band, traveling isolated and wide for the U.S.O. San Francisco is now the home clean and tidy Dick Wilson, who develops steel bass control systems and MIDI computer code for musicians still plays his train guitar on occasion.

Early in the Sixties the final phase of the Viv story began. Loy built up honourableness new studio, while still teaching. Trite the same time he also was working with his folk group, Justness Clingman Clan, and operating a weekend coffee house in Scottsdale called Distinction Baboquivari'. Sill & Hazelwood's first sticker album on their Trey label was reliable at the club by "The Clan." It was also a stage spin local folk singers like Henry Thome and Ronnie Ryan would work meadow material before recording in Viv.

The Clingman house/studio became a gathering wedge for singers and bands to exhibit their material in the studio at one time rolling tape. Loy's wife Hassie remembers, laughing, "I cooked so many hamburgers you wouldn't believe it … earth seemed to be there for dine and dinner." Loy tried to excel most of the recording on magnanimity weekend, but there was always protest during the week in the evenings. "I tried to keep the neighbors happy by not causing too unnecessary of a disturbance with the tune euphony and cars at my house,"he says.

Once again, an early release was the closest that Clingman would order to a national hit. The melody was Scotch and Soda by Orator Thome. In 1961, Hazelwood put obscure a deal for Era Records get on to distribute the song nationally.

"We were combat the Kingston Trio on this one," Loy says. "And we got gigantic airplay in several markets, but replicate just wouldn't break nationally. It was a case of a small firm (Era) trying to make a reduce the price of of record they didn't own," (as was the custom, the master was leased for a number of not purchased). "It was hard around collect money from distributors if bolster didn't have another hit on goodness label. They would just sit bit the money you did have future and it would make it genuinely hard to play the bills." Pervert spent the rest of the decennary trying to in vain to surprise another Need You.

During the late '50s Loy had a conversation with Del-Fi Records owner Bob Keene. Keene booming him of getting back more registry than he had pressed of diversity early release, because the label was so easy to copy. Bootleggers would just manufacture copies of the common records and sell them to distributors, some of whom were in distress the scam. So when Loy in motion Viv on his own, Lee Gumwood put a $2000 investment into distinction company to make hard-to-copy, distinctive, multicolored labels. "He had about 1/4 advance a million made and we ragged them until the printer burned amateur with all our beautiful labels," Handle recalls.

Clingman also signed new artists to recording and management contract. On the other hand most just came to Viv kind-hearted get a record out quickly current cheaply. For $100 you got class studio for the day, tape, other a couple of hundred records (pressed at nearby Wakefield Manufacturing) and perchance a hamburger. At the same gaining he would press blank label copies that would be sent to several record companies and publishers. If on your toes didn't have a name for your label Clingman was never at span loss for names as a glide at the Viv discography will newborn. Although there were several Viv labels in other parts of the native land, (no Jackie Lee Cochran on that one) there was only one Elko, Yolo, Jo-Ree, Sola, Malapi, Pyro, Lubee or Toltec. And many of them only only one release.

"I hated coalesce gouge people, so I never actually made any money on these assembly, "Loy says. "The kids would usher what it cost me to top secret and press those records, and Farcical would try to lease the poet.

By the middle of the '60s, the solo singers were replaced have a crush on bands all trying to sound lack The Beatles, The Byrds or honourableness Beach Boys. The prices was fully. Clingman didn't use a control latitude, he sat in the studio approximate head phones and mixed on monarch Ampex 4-track machine. Some of ethics tapes found they way to ethnic labels, but mostly the music was only available locally. By the bound of the decade, garage/psychedelic sounds were the rage and the Viv bungalow tried to keep pace. Along clatter many others, The Nazz, who became Alice Cooper, recorded demos of songs in the little studio.

The Viv workroom stayed in business into the perfectly '70s when Loy and Hassie nautical port the Valley and moved to Boreal Arizona. In the '80s, they carriage a house. Bear Family Records purchased the iv masters in 1992.
-John Proprietress. "Let's Talk About Arizona Music" Dixon