Item: LP

Artist: Matys Brothers

Title:  from the Showboat in Las Vegas

Year: 1970s

#S5-9071

Label: Studio 5

Neatly Personalized and Signed on the Back Sleeve.  

Great Rockabilly-Polka-Jazz Band Performers from the Chester, Pennsylvania area

Condition: LP Outer Sleeve is in Excellent shape.  

Nice clean personalized autograph by all the band members on the back. 

Original (Paper) Inner Sleeve is in Excellent Shape.  

Vinyl is in VG shape - Light wear - Well kept and Maintained.  

Great one to listen to or frame.  

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Very Hard to find.  This is the only copy of this release on eBay (at time of listing)

This one is looking for a good home to take care of it.

Don't let someone else buy this and let this one slip by vinyl collectors....

Plenty of listings & auctions to be listed.  Proceeds will be heading to one of our local effective charities and help pay for my daughter's college books and other costly things....  All who bid/buy you have my deepest thanks to help further her indoctrination um errr, education 😁

 

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The Matys Brothers were an American  musical act made up of the four Matys brothers, and their sister Vera for a time, were born and raised in , in the  area . The quartet's first record, "Muskrat Ramble," released on the  label, was a big hit in 1954, and by 1956 the group was part of 's talent and booking stable and recording for . The members of the band were Emil on saxophone, John on bass and violin, Gene on drums, and Walt on accordion

History[]

On August 28, 1957, the Matys Brothers appeared on  performing "Muskrat Ramble" and "Crazy Street". "Muskrat Ramble" was a 1954 chart entry in Cashbox and Variety.

In 1958, the Matys Brothers made two records for Haley's Clymax record label, one of which, "Crazy Street," co written by Haley, later was considered a rockabilly classic. On this song and the three others recorded for Clymax, the Matys Brothers were backed by members of Bill Haley's band,  (several of their recordings were also written by members of Haley's group. Later, the Matys Brothers grew to rely on their own instrumentation (Walt: the accordion, John: the bass and fiddle, Emil: the sax, and Gene: the drums. Gene and Emil could play any instrument you put in their hands) and began recording  music for the Sunnyside and Select labels during the late 1950s and early 1960s. "Rummy Polka" was a hit for them in 1959, and the Matys Brothers scored their biggest hit in 1963, "?"

In the 1960s and 1970s, the brothers, John, Walt, Emil and Gene, toured the west coast. They appeared in the 1960s at The Showboat in Las Vegas, The Holiday Hotel downtown Reno, Nevada, and The Commercial Hotel in . The brothers also incorporated comedy into their act, some rehearsed, but most of them did not.

Some of the brothers struggled, at times, to maintain normal family life due to the late hours and the demanding travel, that was a part of their profession. Emil has a daughter, Terri, that was born during his first marriage to Mertis. After a divorce, he then married the band's singer Maria Carmen and they have one son, Marc. Gene had two children with his first wife, Wanda, they were Tom and Diane, that ended in divorce. He then married Pearl and had two sons, including Gene Jr. After his second marriage, Gene married Donna and had two children Ross and Tanna. Emil lived in Elko, Nevada and died on May 5, 2008; Gene died 12 October 1993 in Elko.

Emil was not only remembered for his years of entertaining with the Matys Brothers, but also for the time and efforts he spent voluntarily while working with high school musicians, during the last several years of his life in Elko.

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