Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 02 Nov 13 - 08:42 PM

It would be nice to have some biographical information
for the many performers who appeared during the folk scare.

I've found nothing about June Bugg, other than a mention in
BILLBOARD Nov 16, 1963 indicating she had signed an exclusive
contract with GEORGE ALPERT, president of MOUNT VERNON MUSIC.

The Guitarist on her album, and it's various incarnations,
is "Howard David." There is a Howard David who is listed as
co author with Ronny Lee of "Mofr Folk Strums for Guitar" published
by SAM FOX Publishing. It included a   7" instructional disc.
Anyone know if it is the same person? Still around?? perhaps he would have information about June Bugg.....

The album was released on the PALACE label, which was
a subsiiary of Buckingham Records address given as 500 Fifth Avenue.,
which may indicate it was part of RECORD HUNTER Store and/or Remington/Continental Records.

George Alpert was also associated with BUCKINGHAM.

PALACE M-757/PST-757 Hootenanny Folk Festival
The Increduble Voice of June Bugg
Howard David, guitar
liner notes: George Alpert
A1   Copper Kettle 2:51   
A2   Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 2:08   
A3   Lord Lovel 2:16   
A4   All My Trials 3:58   
A5   Blow The Candle Out 2:08                                  -
A6   Kumbaya 2:39
B1   House Of The Rising Sun Blues 2:09                         -   
B2   Darling Corey   1:35
B3   Many Thousands Gone 1:45 [No More Auction Block]
B4   Jesse James 2:37                                           -
B5   Every Night When The Sun Goes In 3:21   
B6   Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You 2:50   

timings taken form mp3 download version availabe
at Amazon and CDUniverse. Track sequence varies.

Her recordings were also released on the following - information
is from record labels and catalog entries - I do not have the recording to verify the accuracy of this information.

PALACE 771 NINA SIMONE
according to 1965 Billboard report on "misrepresentoors" and
suit against Buckingham filed by the NY Assistant Attorney General,
the track PORGY is by June Bugg.
A1 Porgy

PALACE 802 NINA SOMONE The Second Album
A3 House of the Rising Sun
A4 Darling Corey
A5 Many Thousands Gone
B1 Copper Kettle
B2 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
B3 Lord Lovel
B4 All My Trials
B6 Kumbaya
"Sassy" June Bugg & Howard David, guitar

VERNON V-523 In The Summer of His Years - JFK tribute
A1 In The Summer of his Years
A5 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
B2 Soldier Man
B4 Waken from Thy Slumber

DO NOT KNOW WHICH TRACKS by which performer on the following:
PALACE (Continental) M-769 IN THE SUMMER OF HIS YEARS
Hettie London with the Castle Guitars
June Bugg with Howard David, guitar.
A1 In The Summer Of His Years
A2 Many Thousands Gone
A3 Every Night When The Sun Goes In
A4 Darling Corey
A5 I'm Gonna Leave You
B1 Copper Kettle
B2 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
B3 Lord Lovel
B4 All My Trials
B5 Kumbaya


Best wishes, Thomas.

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: GUEST,David 2002
Date: 29 Oct 13 - 12:36 PM

There is currently a young artist named Jake Bugg whose parents were musicians. Although the name of the mother isn't mentioned, that could be his mother. Just a thought.

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: GUEST,Warwick Slade
Date: 03 Oct 12 - 10:56 AM

Joeboy may have a point. A June Bug is a beetle and the LP came out just as the Beatles hit America. I love a conspiracy theory.

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: Bettynh
Date: 02 Oct 12 - 07:53 PM

Available as a mp3 download from Amazon

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: GUEST,Guest - Lin
Date: 02 Oct 12 - 01:03 AM

I posted a thread a few years ago asking about June Bugg, an Ameican folk singer who had one LP out in the 60's. Read through all the other posted messages after I posted my message, so just thought I would bring it up again as it has been a few years now. Still interested to find out if anyone at this time has heard anything else
about this folk singer? I do have the one LP as I mentioned in first thread. Thank you. She had lovely voice!

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: DebC
Date: 01 Jan 12 - 05:56 PM

And June Bugg re-surfaces. Thanks for the head's up on the LPs, Maeve. I may just spend the $5 and buy one, if only for nostalgia's sake.

Deb

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: maeve
Date: 01 Jan 12 - 07:24 AM

And eBay has some of her albums for sale.

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Jan 12 - 07:00 AM

Google as somw downloads from her Album

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: GUEST,Joeboy
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 10:24 PM

She sounded so like Joan Baez I always wondered if someone hadn't just ripped off some Baez tracks and repackaged them with a made up name.

Pretty odd in this day of the inet for a performer to have left absolutely no trail beyond the album itself. And then, the initials are the same.

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: GUEST,Guest - Lin
Date: 01 May 10 - 01:14 AM

Debra:

Glad to hear from someone who knew of June Bugg. Do you still have the album? I have mine somewhere.....not sure where as I have some records in boxes in a storage unit. You'd think with a name like June Bugg, you would have heard something more about her but I could never find any information. Did your mother bring home a lot of folk records when you were little? Many obscure ones like June Bugg?

Lin

Subject: RE: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: DebC
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 07:08 PM

I do I do I do!!!!! I have wondered about her for years as it was through her that I first heard all the usual folk songs: All My Trials, Blow The Candle Out, etc.

I must have been about 4 or 5 years old when my Mom brought that LP home and I wore the thing out listening to it.

I have mentioned her in another thread http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=75122#1834698 and no one seems to know what ever happened to her.

Glad you brought her up, Lin.

Debra Cowan

Subject: Folk singer from the 1960's - June Bugg
From: GUEST,Guest - Lin
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 05:34 PM

Does anyone remember a folk singer from the 1960's called, June Bugg?
I have one LP and it may be the only record she ever made.
I cannot seem to find anything about her and if she did record any other records? What became of her? She had a really nice voice and of course an unusual name. Don't know if that was her real name or not but that is the name on the folk album from around the mid-60's.