the-speiginer-family.com

Our family's history, one memory at a time…

The Louis S. Speiginer contribution to American Music- Actual Recordings


Below pictured are the actual sides A and B of the record that Uncle had pressed and sold. There was an album that contained "Louie's Guitar Boogie" and a 78 that is available via iTunes. Additional works are added as researched and are included below:

Stacks Image 509
Sundown was recorded in 1949 and issued on the Colonial label.
Stacks Image 2623
Got you on my mind - Released 1947: Uncle plays the lead as the song starts.
Stacks Image 507
Louie's Guitar Boogie - Recorded 11/20/1947 by: Louis Speiginer
Stacks Image 1892
Side "A" -Very hard to research/find due to the family name being misspelled as: "Spreigneir"
Stacks Image 1899
Side "B" -Very hard to research/find due to the family name being misspelled as: "Spreigneir"
Stacks Image 1920
How I hate to see Christmas Come Around - Released 10/18/1947 by: Louis Speiginer and his Orchestra, aka. Lou Spreignier and his Orchestra


Lastly, Dad and Uncle would always say that Uncle developed a style of playing that was "an original" and so many later copied him but never gave him credit. Here is a very informative quote that backs their words spoken in the late 1950's. It reads:

"The second disc -- Guitar Boogies, Sax Screamers, Gospel Roads -- includes classic songs from great singers who influenced Fifties rock'n'roll and the British blues boom of the early Sixties: it opens with Arthur Crudup's That's All Right Mama from '46 (which Elvis famously kicked off his career with), moves into Big Joe Williams' Baby Please Don't Go (which Van Morrison and the Animals covered) and Louis Speiginer's Guitar Boogie was adapted by every plank spanker from Chuck Berry to Jeff Beck."


Source: http://www.elsewhere.co.nz