White Whale Records - the singles list

White Whale Records [the real one & not the new upstart in Canada] was an indie label out of California that lasted for 5 or 6 years. It appears that no one else has taken the time to compile a complete listing (on the web), though you can't blame them. Many of the artists were and are mostly unknown; the highly successful group 'The Turtles' being the obvious exception.  

This page is a work in progress - updates may be intermitant. All information contained herein is only as accurate as the sources referenced. Multiple sources are always preferred but often do not exist.  If [when] you can offer a correction or an addition, please contact me - dainecity at MSN.com  - and use the words 'White Whale' in the subject field. Thanks!

Image scans found here are the best available to me. They are all borrowed from other websites; with permission when possible. Reading the label on a vinyl record may be the only way to confirm it's existence. It would be nice to continue to use them. 

This compilation is not about profit, however, if the use of an image causes you even one sleepless night - dainecity at hotmail.com - please call me. Credits &/or links to originators are included whenever possible.

I have yet to see a US single with sides designated as A or B, though the Canadian discs on Quality Records do. Most of the list below pairs up the sides randomly.

'unknown' means unknown to me.

For the album discography check out this great site.

Contributors include:
Chris (NJ) for offering his expertise & some great links. If you dig Garage Rock - especially obscure & impossible to find tracks - you need to check out his site: http://www.garagehangover.com/ 
Steve E. (California) who owns a few of the discs listed below - thanks!
Helge M. (Germany) a lover of 60s music, who keeps sending me label scans & info to fill in the blanks - thanks!
Gary M. (Wisconsin) who happened by and had some info I needed. *see #325 below.

I hope I've covered everything. Now for the compilation!

#1 was actually #222. The Turtles - it ain't me babe [a Dylan cover] b/w almost there [1965] *Quality Records handled the Canadian releases. They would later use a variation of the White Whale label. London Records appears to have been the UK partner - possibly for all of Europe. The label was used in Australia [and area?] with different numbering. [I have my own copy of this record!]
#223 Matthew Moore Plus Four - codine / you've never loved before [found at ugly-things.com]
#224 the Turtles - let me be / your maw said you cried
#225 the Answer - I'll be in / while you smile [info here]
#226 Jan Davis - ? / ? [an L.A.-based surf guitarist]
#227 the Turtles - you baby / wanderin' kind [image]
#228 lyme & cybelle - follow me / ? [image]
#229 lyme & cybelle - ? / ? [not verified]
#230 New Orlean's Public Library - trippin' down sunset / Kelly's dream [image] [I have a copy of this one.]
#231 the Turtles - come back / grim reaper of love
#232 Lyme & Cybelle - if you gotta go, go now / I'll go on ['Lyme' was actually a young Warren Zevon, 'if you gotta' is a Bob Dylan cover]  [image]
#233 Everpresent Fullness - wild about my lovin' / fine and dandy [image] 1966 Also exists with 'Doin' a Number', an instrumental, instead of 'fine & dandy'. [info] [I have a copy of this one.]
#234 the Turtles - we'll meet again / outside chance [I have a copy of this one.]
#235 The Drongos - under my thumb / if you want to know [read this]
#236 Nino Tempo & April Stevens - all strung out / I can't go on living baby without you [1966] [image] [their discography here]
#237 the Turtles - making my mind up / outside chance
#238 the Turtles - can I get to know you better / like the seasons
#239 John's Children - smashed! blocked! / strange affair ['smashed' is from the legendary "Orgasm" album, the group featured Marc Bolan pre [T-Rex] for a short stint & Jeff Beck even played on a track. For info on this group click here & here [image] [I have the Orgasm cd.]

#240 Kris Jenson - good pop music / I love to call you sweetheart [sold on eBay for $41.99 - Feb2007]
#241 Nino Tempo & April Stevens - the habit of loving you baby / you'll be needing me baby [1967][image]
#242 The Ambertones - ninety-nine & half / you don't know like I know [image] [I won this record on eBay and it was broken into 4 pieces when it came through the mail slot. So I clicked together the otherwise mint disc and recorded both sides without difficulty! As far as I can tell it's a rare one.]
#243 Smokestack Lightnin' - Nadine / crossroads blues [*a blues rock outfit based in San Francisco. They released one album & a batch of singles] 1967 [image]
#244 the Turtles - happy together / like the seasons [image] [I have my own copy of this record!]
#245 lyme & cybelle - song #7 / write if you get work [image]
#246 Nino Tempo & April Stevens - wings of love / my old flame
#247 XL's - wheels [image]
#248 Everpresent Fullness - darlin' you can count on me / yeah!
#249 the Turtles - she'd rather be with me / the walking song [image] [I have my own copy of this record!]

#250 the Brothers - today is today / [it'll all wash away] with the rain [image] I spoke with a member of this group & have begun to post info here.
#251 the Turtles - guide for the married man / think I'll run away  ['Guide' is the title track for the 1967 movie of the same name. More info here.] [image]
#252 Nino Tempo & April Stevens - I can't go on living without you, baby / little child [image]
#253 Dalton & Montgomery - all at once / tomorrow's women
#254 the Turtles - you know what I mean / rugs of woods and flowers [image/image] [I have my own copy of this record!]
#255 the Brothers - love story / the girl's alright [image]
#256 Smokestack Lightnin' -  look what you've done / got a good love [image]
#257 the Committee - California my way / you for weren't it if [image]
#258 Harper & Rowe - keep on dancin' / on the roof top [image]
#259 Walter Scott - just you wait / silly girl [image] [I have my own copy of this record!]
#260 the Turtles - she's my girl / chicken little was right [image]
#261 Laughing Gravy - vegetables / snowflake on laughing gravy's whiskers [Vegetables was written by Brian Wilson [Beach Boys] & Van Dyke Parks. The 'Gravy' were really Dean Torrence [Jan & Dean], Brian Wilson, & American Spring. Laughing Gravy was the name of Laurel & Hardy's dog in Hal Roach's 1931 movie 'The Chimp'.] [info here] [image]
#262 Deni Lynn - don't ever hurt me [1968] [found here]
#263 Odyssey - little orphan Annie / little girl, little boy [image]
#264 the Turtles - sound asleep / Umbassa and the dragon [1968] [image]
#265 the New F.B.I. Band - the ballad of Bonnie & Clyde [1968] [found here] [I have my own copy of this record!]
#266 unknown
#267 Bobby Lile - time to be a woman / down comes the world [1968]  [image] [found here]
#268 Nino Tempo & April Stevens - let it be me / wings of love [image]
#269 the Time Zone - space walker / ? [found at ugly-things.com]

#270 Rockets - hole in my pocket / let me go [1968] [image] [Danny Whitten was in this group before Neil Young's Crazy Horse] [more here, here] [I have my own copy though it's a promo with 'HOLE' on both sides]

#271 Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Ooh Poo Pa Doo / the Habit Of Lovin' You

#272 the Bears - goin' it alone / work it out that way [found at ugly-things.com] [image on the way]

#273 Turtles – The Story of Rock and Roll / Can’t You Hear The Cows [1968] [image]

#274 the Family Frog - Help (lennon&McCartney) / Mighty Quinn (Dylan) [image]

#275 Professor Morrison's Lollipop - you got the love / gypsy lady [info here][image] My sources tell me that this is well-known Lincoln, Nebraska group THE COACHMEN.

#276 the Turtles - surfer Dan / Elenore [1968] [image}

#277 J.K. & Co. - break of dawn / ? [1968] [the 32 second opening track from 15 yr old Jay Kaye's album 'Suddenly One Summer'] [image] [info]

#278 the Hangtown Fry – the quiet side of love / te quiero [image]

#279 the Rainy Daze - make me laugh / my door is always open [1968] [*Psychedelic pop combo formed in Denver, CO, in 1965. They later changed some members and became ‘Horses’ giving a young Don Johnson his first professional gig. More info here.]

#280 unknown
#281 unknown
#282 Jerry O - funky four corners / soul lover [found at MusicStack.com] [image]
#283 unknown

#284 Deni Lynn – where was your heart / ?

#285 unknown

#286 the Kinfolk - little green apples / ? [image is dj copy with same track on flip}
#287 Rene & Rene - lo mucho que te quiero [the more I love you] / mornin' [1968][image] [I have my own copy of this record!]

[also found as 'lo mucho que te quiero b/w Lloraras which translates from Spanish as 'you cried']

#288 Professor Morrison's Lollipop - Angela / duba duba do [1969]

#290 the Christmas Spirit - christmas is my time of year / will you still believe in me
[apparently this was The Turtles and Linda Ronstadt]
#291 unknown as yet
#292 Turtles - you showed me / buzz saw
#293 Professor Morrisons's Lollipop - oo-poo-pah Susie - Bubblegum geniuses Kasenetz & Katz were involved on this track.
#294 Artie Resnick – Balloon Man / Here We Go
#295 Sugar and Spice – cruel war / not to return
#296 Jerry O – Soul Sister / Huckle buck
#297 Charles E. Funk Rebellion – Lovin’ Cup / peaches
#298 Rene & Rene – You Will Cry / Las Cosas
#299 Triste Janero - Rene de Marie / in the garden [1969] [found here]
#300 Dobie Gray - Rose Garden / where’s the girl gone [info] [I have my own copy of this record!]
#301 Horses – Class Of '69 / Country Boy
#302 Ambertones - a million tears / little bit of lovin', 1969 [info found in 'FUZZ, ACID & FLOWERS' - otherwise unverified]
#303 Rene & Rene - Enchilada Jose / ?
#304 Little Joe And The Latinaires - Why Don't You Write Me \ Crazy Baby
#305 Zebra - Bring Me To My Knees [I have my own copy of this record - a promo with the same song on both sides]
#306 The Turtles [69] house on the hill b/w come over
#307 Kenny Lynch – along comes love / sweet situation
#308 the Turtles - you don't have to walk in the rain / come over
#309 Plant & See - Henrietta / Put Out My Fire

#330 Dobie Gray – do you really have a heart / what a way to go [image]

#331 Kenny O'Dell - Groovy Relationship / ? [image]

#332 unknown

#333 the Clique – I’ll hold out my hand / soul mates [image] [I have a copy of this one.]

#334 the Turtles – Lady-O / somewhere Friday night [image] (1969)

#335 Bittersweet - the shadow of your love / my darkest hour [insertPicHere]

#336 Whitherspoone – Jennifer Tomkins This one confirmed with image sent by DAN from somewhere on planet earth. He also said that Jennifer Tomkins was also released on the Musicor label by Street People and it's most likely the same band. I love extra info like that. Thanks! [added Oct 2, 2007]

#337 Chief Wing Nut - war dance (added June 16, 2007)

#338 the Clique – sparkle and shine / I’m Alive

#339 Lincoln Mayorga – Suite: Judy Blue Eyes / Ah! Sweet Eros

#340 the Dedications - Teardrops [image]

#341 The Turtles - who would ever think that I would marry Margaret? / we ain't gonna party no more (1970)

#342 Dobie Gray – honey, you can’t take it back [image]

#343 Ginger Ale - the flood / ? [found here]

#344 Bazooka - Look At You Now / Yours Till Forever [image]

#345 Freddie Allen - we've only just begun [image] [Yes! Written by Paul Williams! The same tune made hugely famous by The Carpenters (if you like that sort of thing) & Freddie recorded it first...on White Whale!] [info found here]

#346 Steel Wool – No Sugar Tonight / ? [Steel Wool was an alias of the band ‘The Knickerbockers’. The song originally by The Guess Who. I have a copy of this one.]

#347 unknown

#348 unknown

#349 unknown

#350 Turtles - Is It Any Wonder / ?

#351 the Dillards - One Too Many Mornings  / Turn It Around [band info]

#352 Spinx - Marian / Murdock 9-6182 Produced by Red Bullet who, Helge tells me, had connections with Holland's 'Golden Earring' [Radar Love] & 'Shocking Blue' [Venus]. [image on the way]

#353 Feather - Friends / Salli [1969] [image] [I have a copy of this one.]

#354 Shake - two of us / ? [found at ugly-things.com]

#355 unknown

#356 Troy - stand and be counted / ? This one sold for $40.99US on ebay, Oct2006.

#357 Billy Peek - It came out of the sky [wr: John Fogarty] b/w population explosion

#358 Steel Wool - Hold On, I'm Comin' [wr: Hayes & Porter] b/w ?

#359 the Dillards - Comin' Home Again / Fields Have Turned Brown

#360 The Reivers - Revolution In My Soul / constantly [interesting story behind this 'group'] [image]

#361 unknown

#362 unknown

#363 Bobby Pickett - monster man jam [1970] [*his most famous tune was 'the Monster Mash' - on London label]

#364 Turtles – think I’ll run away

#365 Bobby Pickett - Monster Concert / ?  [image]

#366 unknown

#367 the Clique – Judy, Judy, Judy / ?

#368 Liz Damon's Orient Express - Your're Falling In Love  / 1900 Yesterday [1970] [image] [info, info]

Naturally I've become interested in what the songs actually sound like. But the label has been difficult to find so far [Turtles lp's being the exception]. I did pick up my first single by The Clique, with that wonderful & original version of SUPERMAN as the b-side!. However, there are copies of tracks by numerous White Whale artists to be found in thrift stores. I am a collector of those old K-Tel-type compilations on vinyl and I have aquired a few [usually for $1] containing the following tracks:

'24 Power Hits', Syndicate SH 910 [Canada]

#276 Elenore by The Turtles

#287 lo mucho que te quiero by Rene & Rene

#295 Cruel War by Sugar and Spice

'24 Dynamic Hits by 24 Original Stars', Syndicate SH 920 [Canada]

#323 Sugar on Sunday by the Clique

#292 you showed me by The Turtles

*and that's just 3 examples!!

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last update - November 07 2007