Welcome to OHIO MOON Records

Welcome to OHIO MOON Records, the home page of singer, Alan Cassaro (aka as Alan Leatherwood, Lane Cassaro). We're an indie label based in Cleveland Ohio. If you like Roots Rock and Roll, Rockabilly, Tex-Mex and Folk music, you've come to the right place.

Just Released in JUNE, 2010.

Click here to preview and/or buy the CD.

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In 2009, OHIO MOON RECORDS issued THREE CDS of vintage Sixties studio recordings and demos by Alan, including his first studio recordings for Honolulu's MAHALO Label, his recordings for the INTEGRITY label, his OLD TOWN recordings, as well as many other artists that Alan produced in the studio during the Swingin' Sixties, along with his partner, Bob Scherl. There are plenty of great studio tracks and demos. Three Cds -over 90 songs in all!

The CDs are each available at CD Baby.

Just click on each CD picture for song titles, liner notes, and ordering information. Or You can buy them directly from our pressing factory's store by clicking HERE.

“This is where my career in music was launched. My family was living in Hawaii because my dad, a career soldier, was stationed at Schofield Barracks. My next door neighbor got me an auditon with a local record label in Honolulu. I made my first record in 1962 when I was 18 years old during my senior year at Leilehua High School. The record label called me “LANE CASSARO” back then. I had a radio hit on the islands with “HICKORY DICKORY DOCK”. Both sides of that record are on the CD. This CD consists of the songs that I probably would have chosen to record for an actual record album if I had gotten that far. The record company had suggested that I write songs for a potential followup, and maybe an album in the near future. Besides those songs, there is a TV appearance, also some live performances with my group “SANDY AND THE ETHEREALS”, and a great jam session with Rob "Swifty Albright” and super lead guitarist, Bill Bartlett, back when he was still playing rockabilly guitar! The fidelity is a bit patchy in spots, but these 31 songs are some of my earliest recordings. They're all included to document my earliest beginnings as a singer/ songwriter. "
	"When I returned to Cleveland, Ohio from Hawaii in 1963, my best pal, Bob Scherl, and I started a record label, INTEGRITY RECORDS. We only had two releases before Bob got drafted, which put an end to the releases. But, we had started out with really big plans, and we wrote and recorded a lot of good stuff. The band on most of the studio tracks were members of "Tom King and the Starfires". A few months after our last session together they put out their own single," Time Won't Let Me", and changed their name to "The Outsiders". I wasn't surprised they were a hit; they were the best band in town when we worked with them. In hindsight, this is probably some of the best work I ever did in the studio. I was lean, mean, 21, and on top of the rocket! Everyone predicted I'd be a star. But after Bob got drafted, I wasn't sure what to do. There are 30 tracks on the CD."
"After Bob got drafted, I had to make new plans. I took some of the songs I'd written and went to New York City to try to pitch them to Gene Pitney. And while I was at Bell Studios remixing "PRETTY GIRL YOU'RE LYING", Hy Weiss of OLD TOWN RECORDS walked in smoking a big cigar and sat in the corner and watched. After awhile he said, "That sounds like a hit." Hy and I talked for a while and soon we cut a deal and he put it out on his label. Wouldn't you know it, the throwaway "b" side, "MAKE BELIEVE" got great reviews in all of the music trade papers. But the "British Invasion" was going full steam ahead, and it soon blew most of us Americans out of the water, and off the radio - including my "Spotlight Pick of the Week" from CASHBOX Magazine. The CD starts off with those two sides. Somehow Bob Scherl got lucky, because the army stationed him right here in Cleveland. At the end of his work shift we were able to work on music again, and we started producing other artists. Some of it was pretty wild, a bit more British sounding. Kind of Pre-PUNK ya know? At first Bob and I thought the English music was kind of silly and pretentious, so we did most of it with our tongues firmly planted in our cheeks, as you might be able to tell from listening to the pre-production demos. The MISSING LYNX got a deal with DYNO TONE records because of the demos we did with them. And the HUMAN BEINZ did one of the songs on their hit album. Carl Maduri did one of our compositions, "BLUE LIGHTS" with Sherry Starlyn, long before he was having hits with Wild Cherry and Maureen McGovern There are a lot of good studio tracks and and rockin' demos; 30 songs in all."

Our "GHOST TRAIN" CD tribute from 2008 zeroes in on some of the greatest rockers to ever walk the planet, the real pioneers of Rock and Roll; never to be forgotten. Most of the tracks were newly recorded, and there are some pretty elaborate productions on here, all styles!

Sample and download the album at CDBABY.COM

I changed my name professionally to Alan Leatherwood back in 1966, and I performed that way for the last 43 years. We got great reviews and response from our first CD, "Rock, Bop, Folk and Pop-Volume One"

Sample ALL the songs at CD BABY.

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