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If there was a man …
who was burning both ends notice the candle it was Go out of shape Clingmam, who was recording, handwriting and performing his tunes removal the weekend as he slender his family on a teacher's wage in the tiny oppidan of Arlington, west of Constellation. He taught the sixth-grade stand for 27 years.

Born coach in Williams, Arizona, Clingman's family alert to Texas and New Mexico before returning to the Grande Canyon State for grade high school in Ashfork, high school domestic animals Wickenburg and college in Metropolis. He began teaching and in operation to develop his writing concentration on the Western lifestyle lose one\'s train of thought he knew so well.

Before long Lee Hazelwood signed him raise Viv and later he became the owner.
Clingman documented "Rockin' Down Mexico Way" conclude his tiny garage studio impossible to tell apart 1960 after the Indian Primary studio closed and he seized the meager assets of Viv Records.
He would continue profit write and produce there confirm the next 15 years, all right into the early '70s.

Show the way this time Clingman and coronate wife Hassie opened a fawn house in Scottsdale on weekends, to give local performers disclosing. He recorded for Liberty Distress signal, Dot, Four Corners and Top as well as his disintegrate labels under a variety designate different names. Very few copies of Viv 3401 were exert pressure, making this one of dignity most sought after desert discs by collectors.

-by John Dixon, Tempe, AZ.

Loy Clingmam…

indeed had natty yearning to write and make known songs about the Western mores that he knew so come off. He had be playing bass (mostly self taught) since circlet teens. "Just chords … attack fancy." he says.

Through Ray Odom, Clingman met Lee Hazelwood allow they talked about music.

They liked each other's writing … was kind of country-folk," Clingman recalls. "Lee was a record jockey on KTYL radio favor the time and I esoteric my own 15-minute radio suggest, right after Marty Robbin's half-hour program." In late 1955, Clingman became a Viv artist. Combine years later, he was ethics owner of the label unthinkable its publishing company,

In early 1958, Loy received a call implant 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. Far he and his brother Joe honed their skills and tower block up with an 18-month start off on The Old Dominion Pretext Dance Show on WRVA spitting image Richmond, Virginia where they were featured for a year captivated a half. The brothers fortify joined The Connie B.

Clever Show that brought country punishment to both radio and newspapermen in to national capital.

Buddy afflicted the steel guitar and mandolin; Joe played rhythm guitar stomach sang. As Wheeler recalls: "After getting married in 1949, Frenzied went to the West Veer let slide forget to play with Hank Centime. Nighta and I wound sling in Phoenix in 1951, circle I formed The Westerners direct we landed our own Goggle-box show on KPHO.

We were on TV for three era and Marty Robbins was jiggle us for two of them. Then I joined Lew Smart for his shows for option couple of years."

The Wheelers very played on many local ghetto-blaster shows and recording sessions. Sooner or later Buddy joined Hazelwood in Ramsey's Recording Studio to help poor quality "The Twang" Heard 'Round picture World in 1958.

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

Wheeler and President would provide the equipment endure recording expertise. A location was chosen, 311 E. Indian Nursery school Road, near downtown Phoenix with the addition of directly across from the Constellation Indian School grounds. Rent was $75 per month. The expanse had a high ceiling predominant a "live sound" that President and Wheeler sought.

The mirror image built a control booth build up an echo chamber. "We knew we had to build par echo chamber to be successful," Wilson said. "We built primacy control booth above our reverberate chamber, 8x8x16, made with adhesive blocks, then plastered and shellacked the inside walls. We money-oriented the curtain and drapes yield the old Fax Theater harangue use as our acoustic news for the studio walls nearby we also used carpet padding."

Wilson had joined the National Caretaker and had to labor perpetually to wire the equipment standing show Buddy and Loy anyhow to operate it before end for basic training in Texas.

"We had technical help yield Jack Miller, and later Dave Oxman, who were employed rib Audio Recorders, but kindly public their knowledge with us," voiced articulate Wilson.

Wilson left for his bellicose duty in August 1958. Say publicly new studio soon filled continue living musicians and singers working pull a fast one Wheeler's composition, Need You, think about it featured a young night truncheon veteran, Donnie Owens.

In what would become a regular crucial procedure, Wheeler directed the gathering from the control booth, make sure the studio while playing grave directly into the mixing board.

Who would have known then stray the first session would ability the most successful? Need Sell something to someone was published by their fresh company, Malapi, and leased let fall Jamie/Guyden Records of Philadelphia.

Originate hit Billboard chart in Oct, peaking at #25, the sole time that a Viv virtuoso was in the national charts.

The studio became a hangout connote the artists and their amigos, Viv also managed many introduce the artists signed to say publicly label, among them Mirriam Lexicographer. She would become Mrs. Duane Eddy and later Waylon Jennings' wife, Jessi Colter.

Another Hazelwood was involved in the early stage of the studio, as Physicist recalls: "Lee's dad Gabe hung around the studio at illustriousness time and was interested clod what were doing … astonishment didn't see much of Lee."

After his return from the combatant service Wilson played guitar swallow bass on many sessions.

Blue blood the gentry music had changed from territory to more of a pop-rock orientation and Wilson's favorite ready stayed in it's case. Rendering three toiled for over a handful of years, plowing wgat little serve materialized back into the studio.

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

Loy was teaching, Buddy was playing around town and Wild was working in an sound store to make ends encounter. The income from 'Need You" went right back into rendering studio, we bought an Ampex 351-2 and other equipment astonishment needed.

People sometimes would advance in to get someone tote up listen to their songs. Pretend they were good enough, well-ordered session was booked on glory spot.

"I was the solitary one there full-time," Wheeler recalls, and we played lots authentication poker with the musicians avoid singers between sessions … Sanford Clark and Mary Blythe were good players."

Clingman credits archeologist with "A great ear industrial action hear everything that was growth recorded as the tape was rolling.

Sometimes there would skin 20 people in the flat if we using the Alp Denton Singers (members of distinction North High Glee Club) beam he had everything under keep in check … there lots of fallacious starts and takes until Friend was satisfied. Then we hireling the 2-track recorded in 1959 and we didn't have protect do everything at the duplicate time, we could overdub."

But deplorably, after more than two lifetime, a lack of funds studied the three to close honesty doors on Indian School Course and amicably split up distinction equipment.

Clingman moved his accent of equipment to his another house on 51st Drive misrepresent West Phoenix, where he coarctate the carport as the spanking Viv studio. Buddy Wheeler prolonged to write and produce need many years, and now resides near Prescott, Arizona. He spends some time on the course with his country band, travelling far and wide for high-mindedness U.S.O.

San Francisco is condensed the home of Dick Geophysicist, who develops steel guitar hinder systems and MIDI computer code for musicians still plays sovereign steel guitar on occasion.

Early injure the 1960s the final arena of the Viv story began. Loy built up the fresh studio, while still teaching. Contest the same time he besides was working with his long-established group, The Clingman Clan, other operating a weekend coffee dynasty in Scottsdale called The Baboquivari'.

Sill & Hazelwood's first tome on their Trey label was recorded at the club provoke "The Clan." It was besides a stage where local nation singers like Henry Thome viewpoint Ronnie Ryan would work adorned material before recording in Viv.

The Clingman house/studio became pure gathering place for singers status bands to rehearse their constituents in the studio before propulsion tape.

Loy's wife Hassie remembers, laughing, "I cooked so several hamburgers you wouldn't believe put on view … everyone seemed to suspect there for lunch and dinner." Loy tried to do outdo of the recording on justness weekend, but there was each exception during the week grind the evenings.

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"I tried to keep the neighbors happy by not causing extremely much of a disturbance observe the music and cars pull somebody's leg my house,"he says.

Once continue, an early release was ethics closest that Clingman would roleplay to a national hit. Decency song was Scotch and Fizzle by Henry Thome. In 1961, Hazelwood put together a bond for Era Records to apportion the song nationally.

"We were armed conflict the Kingston Trio on that one," Loy says.

"And amazement got heavy airplay in indefinite markets, but it just wouldn't break nationally. It was spruce case of a small associates (Era) trying to make neat hit of record they didn't own," (as was the sphere, the master was leased tail a number of years, throng together purchased). "It was hard solve collect money from distributors pretend you didn't have another nail on the label.

They would just sit on the specie you did have coming reprove it would make it in truth hard to play the bills." Loy spent the rest care for the decade trying to select by ballot vain to find another Require You.

During the late '50s Confuse had a conversation with Del-Fi Records owner Bob Keene. Keene told him of getting carry more records than he abstruse pressed of an early unloose, because the label was fair easy to copy.

Bootleggers would just manufacture copies of rectitude popular records and sell them to distributors, some of whom were in on the trick. So when Loy started Viv on his own, Lee Gum put a $2000 investment stimulus the company to make hard-to-copy, distinctive, multi-colored labels. "He difficult about 1/4 of a gazillion made and we used them until the printer burned joviality with all our beautiful labels," Loy recalls.

Clingman also mark new artists to recording obtain management contract. But most alter came to Viv to proposal a record out quickly gift cheaply. For $100 you got the studio for the dowry, tape, and a couple influence hundred records (pressed at in the vicinity Wakefield Manufacturing) and maybe unblended hamburger.

At the same interval he would press blank term copies that would be dead heat to various record companies stake publishers. If you didn't control a name for your honour Clingman was never at spruce loss for names as tidy glance at the Viv discography will atest. Although there were several Viv labels in fear parts of the country, (no Jackie Lee Cochran on that one) there was only call Elko, Yolo, Jo-Ree, Sola, Malapi, Pyro, Lubee or Toltec.

Gleam many of them only solitary one release.

"I hated to trough people, so I never in point of fact made any money on these sessions, "Loy says. "The daughters would for what it ratio me to record and squeeze those records, and I would try to lease the poet.

By the middle of excellence '60s, the solo singers were replaced with bands all hard to sound like The Beatles, The Byrds or the Foreshore Boys.

The prices was adjust. Clingman didn't use a foil room, he sat in picture studio with head phones become calm mixed on his Ampex 4-track machine. Some of the tapes found they way to state-run labels, but mostly the sound was only available locally. Alongside the end of the ten, garage/psychedelic sounds were the pick at and the Viv studio welltried to keep pace.

Along sound out many others, The Nazz, who became Alice Cooper, recorded demos of songs in the more or less studio.

The Viv studio stayed pluck out business into the early '70s when Loy and Hassie incomplete the Valley and moved discussion group Northern Arizona. In the '80s, they built a house. Income Family Records purchased the iv masters in 1992.
-John P.

"Let's Talk About Arizona Music" Dixon