The Fugitives - "Fugitive"

Remember this great post from 2011? Well here finally is the flip side to Freeway.
"Fugitive" by The Fugitives!



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The Fugitives - Freeway (Update! 9/3/11)

I was recently contacted by Dion(Alan) Smith, the man who wrote this song. This is from the email he sent me.

I can give you the whole back story...I wrote it ("Freeway") and played it when I was in high school.
Also placed it with the label (when I was about 16 years old), driving my mom's '59 Hudson
Hornet from Phoenix AZ to "Hollywood".
It was first released on Arvee, then Russel Sims, who had made stampers unbeknownst
to myself (and then 'run out of Phoenix') saw Dollar $igns and released the same session on his
own label from...Memphis, I believe. There's quite a story there, including some 'teenage
espionage', another session of the same tune with the help of LeRoy VanDyke
("Just Walk On By, Wait On The Corner" fame).

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The Fugitives - Freeway

This is another one that I played the heck out of as a kid. It's a rockin' little instrumental number from 1960 with some great sax licks in it. I could not find much information about The Fugitives, but evidently this track was first released on the SIMS Records label prior to the Arvee issue.
The Arvee Label was formed in 1959 as a subsidiary of the High Fidelity Recording Company. The "Arvee" name was derived from Richard Vaughn, the company president's initials, "R.V." The output of the label was popular music and rhythm and blues.