I Got The Message / Lady in the Moon
Overall (HWD) (sleeve): 7 × 7 1/8 in. (17.78 × 18.098 cm)
This single, produced by Celestial Records, features Bob Alexander (b. unknown) on vocals backed by the Floyd Standifer Orchestra. The side A song, “I Got the Message,” was written by Tom Ogilvy (1916-2000) and Ellen Ogilvy (1922-2010) who owned their own record company, Seafair Records. The writers of “Lady in the Moon,” on side B, are Myrlin Parker (b. unknown) and Tom Ogilvy.
Celestial Records was the in-house label of Dimensional Sounds Inc., a recording studio founded in 1952 in Seattle, Washington. The studio is best known for selling pre-recorded reel-to-reel tapes, but expanded to recording high-quality, Seattle-area Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Rockabilly on vinyl records.
7” phonograph record with white and light blue label. Side A text, printed in dark blue, reads: “Celestial Records / Grosvenor House / ASCAP – 1:58 / 108-A / I Got the Message / (Ogilvy-Ogilvy) / Bob Alexander / with Floyd Standifer Orchestra” Side B text, printed in dark blue, reads: “Celestial Records / Grosvenor House / ASCAP – 1:56 / 108-B / Calypso Vocal / Lady in the Moon / (Parker-Ogilvy) / Bob Alexander / with Floyd Standifer Orchestra”
Brown paper album sleeve.
