12/05/2025
Only thing that is gonna fix my fever..
I purchased a 45 rpm record years ago at a thrift store. It caught my eye because it had a San Antonio address on the label. What information about this recording label do you have? All information on label is listed here: Misty 755 Steves San Antonio Texas 78210/A Sabre Production/Produced by Frank Jones/Clock Pub. Co BMI-2:30 Record 1062 and 1063/(Artists) Jody & Fay Frymire/(Songs) “Thanks a Lot” (and) “I've Waited a Lifetime for You.”
— B. Brown
The Frymires were a couple; their marriage made local news when they wed in 1956 during her senior year at Boerne High School, which at that time forbade married students. Jody was then a Camp Stanley statistical clerk, a former cowboy from a ranching family in Jarrell who had been lead singer of the Western Drifters Country Dance Band from the 1950s. The bride was 17; he was 25. They formed a band, the Western Stars, in 1960 and played regularly until 1980, “when the pressures of their busy microfilming company left too little time for musical engagement,” according to a story about a reunion tour throughout Central Texas in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, July 14, 1989.
The country-and-western band played area dances and opened for national touring artists such as George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Pride and Ernest Tubb. The Frymires wrote “many songs and produced several records,” the reunion article says. The Light, Dec. 19, 1969, notes that the Western Stars were “favorites of the C&W crowd in Medina, Uvalde, Bandera and Comal counties.” In the 1989 article, Fay Frymire said, “Our audiences dance their feet off.”
Despite the school controversy over its beginnings, the Frymires’ marriage lasted until his death Nov. 1.
Sabre Productions Inc. released music and comedy recordings from 755 Steves Ave. from the late ’60s until 1973, when the property at that address was sold. The company did some mail-order sales and offered its “production staff and facilities to artists and songwriters to cut a record (at) a reasonable price (with) financing arrangements” in a Light advertisement, June 14, 1969.