User talk:Derek R Bullamore/sandbox

Let me know if you want his birth details... and his middle name. However improbable, it must be the truth.... ! Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:05, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please. Cheers, - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 17:32, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Caron Nimoy Rayford, born February 13, 1969, Smith County, Texas. Source: Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Provo, UT, USA: Original data: Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche. As they say, “Insufficient facts always invite danger.” Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:59, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, ta muchly. "May the force be with you" - hang on a minute, that's not right is it ?! Maybe "She won't take much more of this Captain" is a bit closer - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 18:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"That's My Man"

No evidence that it reached the national pop chart or R&B chart, I'm afraid.... Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:20, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Funny, cos I was just about to ask you on that very point. I could not find any hard evidence to back the claim up. I'll tone down the wording a tad, bearing in mind that two or three 'reliable sources' cite the '"fact". Thanks,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:40, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Should it be the Clara Ward Singers, by the way? Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:59, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - duly amended and up on the mainframe, as it were. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:39, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Qualls

According to BARE, he was born John Henry Miles - Qualls was the name of his stepfather. I'll be away from tomorrow - shall I edit your sandbox? (as the vicar said to the actress....) Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:51, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please... as the Bishop said.... - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:55, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox-fiddling now completed.... Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:04, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dorothy Ellis

Just found this, and this... etc. Worth an article? Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:09, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cor, thanks. I have been messing around the Dirty blues article in recent times, a subject matter I find endlessly and oddly fascinating. I noticed neither Dorothy Ellis nor "Drill Daddy Dill" had an article and, in my initial research digging, seemed to find far more about the recording than the singer. So I started composing the draft song article that you may well have noticed. The major reason I did not go down the singer line was that the only biographical information I could then find was in a German language blog.

I have now unearthed this and that which, along with your kind offerings above, inspires me to write two articles. Just when I could do with a serious rest ! Watch this space, as it were, as this rapidly aging, serial Wikifool, sweats blood for nowt. But, as ever, cheers, - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:52, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Having spent some time on this, I am not entirely convinced that this is the same Dorothy Ellis - there is nothing in her newly unearthed biological information that mentions her, even in passing, recording a couple of singles in 1952 for Federal Records. Which seems odd, given that she clearly was not one to hide her light under a bushel. Any thoughts ? - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 16:44, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

PS. For example, and assuming the dates are correct, she would only have been just months over 16 years old at the time of 'her recordings.' - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 16:47, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Both Discogs, and the people on the forum, seem to think it is the same person. Maybe she didn't want to draw attention to her more juvenile efforts.... There's an article here (on p.4) that says she started singing on stage at the age of 7, but.. I agree it's not proven. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:27, 3 September 2022 (UTC) PS: She's also mentioned here. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:31, 3 September 2022 (UTC) PPS: And here she (or somebody) is in BARE. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:36, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've asked on a forum populated by people more expert than either of us (Bob Eagle, etc), but haven't got a definitive answer yet on whether they are the same person. Another source here - don't know if it adds anything... Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:38, 4 September 2022 (UTC)..... and just now a musician from Oklahoma City, Joel Dilley, has simply said "Yes, same Dorothy Ellis." So, I would go with it. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:50, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your efforts. I have been 'going with it' in the latter half of today, and am near to completing the draft article. Definitely tomorrow now before I 'publish'. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:22, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]