Dick Fagan & The Scores, "Rain, Rain"/"Nothing Really Shakes Me," Sarg 160-45 (rel. July 1958)
Here's another Dollar Bin Doozy© that I came across last Saturday. In another moment of not expecting records to show up, 31 of them did, including three upgrades to the collection. There's a lot of obscure Black vocal groups, good teeners and a couple of outre novelties. Today's record was the lone representative of rockabilly, but it's a good one--and a rare one--and given the weather forecast for much of the Pacific Northwest, an apt song for the moment. Dick Fagan came from Houston, Texas, which had a large talent pool of country, blues, r&b and rock 'n' roll artists. He made six sides for the Sarg label, out of Luling, TX, which at present has a population under 6,000 people. Charlie Fitch started the label in 1954 and ran it into the late 1970s. Willie Nelson, Doug Sahm, Link Davis, Adolph Hofner and other lesser-known names made their first recordings--or early sides--for Sarg. Teenager Fagan approached Sarg in 1957. His first single was a st...
