Gregmark Music Inc., has re-released a limited first run (400 copies) of Barbara Dane’s, 1960 single, “I’m on My Way / Go ‘Way from My Window” (3 Trey Records) on 7” vinyl and digital download at BandCamp.
In 1960, I recorded a 45 rpm single for the Trey label, one of those Hollywood start-ups whose proliferating offices were “in the glove boxes of their cars,” as people in the industry joked. But the two partners, Lester Sill and Lee Hazlewood, were far from pretenders, already very deeply enmeshed in the music industry. In fact, American pop music would have been very different without the two of them. Sill was an all-around music executive who actually brokered the partnership between songwriters Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller and managed the Coasters, one of the most popular West Coast R&B groups of the day. He survived a long, involved relationship with the legendary, and now infamous, Phil Spector. His partner in Trey Records, Lee Hazlewood, was a singer, songwriter and producer who made his biggest marks working with Nancy Sinatra.
— Barbara Dane, This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song, Heyday Books (2022)
Prior to Dane’s passing (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024) , Lonnie Sill, of the Lester Sill dynasty, was introduced to the Dane family to negotiate a 2023 television placement for the iconic title song. Barbara Dane (Barbara Jean Spillman) had not been resting on her laurels in her golden years. In addition to her memoirs cited above, a documentary film about her life, The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane (2023), is currently in the film festival circuit. Separately, Dane is portrayed by singer/actor Sarah King in A Complete Unknown (2024), a film based on the book, Dylan Goes Electric! (2015), by Elijah Wald.
The original 1960 pressing I’m on My Way / Go ‘Way From My Window was produced by Lester Sill and Lee Hazlewood on 3 Trey records, under their Debbie-Jo (ASCAP) publishing imprint belonging to Gregmark Music Inc.
A cryptic article in SFGATE states that Casey Kasem began spinning “I’m on My Way” at KEWB radio and pushed “the blond bombshell’s” single to #17 on their “Fab 40” survey. I believe that this led to the release of the LP, On My Way, on Capitol Records in 1962 with a different recording of “On My Way” as the title track. The original 3 Trey version is preferred version among collectors and the Northern Soul movement with prices on Discogs ranging from $225.00 to $315.00.
Vinyl purchase link: https://gregmark.bandcamp.com/album/im-on-my-way
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