RED RIDER - As Far As Siam LP 81 w Breaking Curfew LP 84 w TOM COCHRANE & RED RIDER - st LP 86

REPOST and ADD ON:  Well this is an ancient DU blog post I did because I was always a big fan of their big hit song "Lunatic Fringe" so I am missing much.  However, unwittingly I pulled out Tom's debut this week not knowing who he was only finding it at Goodwill one day long ago.  And he has a  few albums as well (plus his big hit "Life Is A Highway") as the missing Red Rider to explore so may revisit in the future....for now enjoy!  Per Discogs:  Red Rider was formed in Toronto in 1975 when Peter Boynton (keyboards, synthesizers, vocals), Ken Greer (guitars, keyboards, backing vocals), and Rob Baker (drums) joined up with Arvo Lepp (guitar) and Jon Checkowski (bass) .

Real Name:  Thomas William Cochrane

Profile:  Born in Lynn Lake, Manitoba 1953, Tom Cochrane joined the Canadian rock band Red Rider in 1978, initially as their lead singer and songwriter. Red Rider was known for its blend of rock with thoughtful lyrics, achieving significant success in Canada with hits like "Lunatic Fringe" and "Boy Inside the Man." By 1986, the band was renamed Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, reflecting Cochrane's central role. They released several albums, including some notable hits, but never achieved the same level of success in the United States. The group disbanded in 1990, after which Cochrane embarked on his solo career.

Solo Career Highlights: 1991 - "Life Is a Highway": Cochrane's solo career took off with this international hit from his album "Mad Mad World." This song became his signature tune, earning him widespread recognition beyond Canada and leading to diamond certification for the album in Canada (over a million copies sold).

Awards and Recognitions: Cochrane has won eight Juno Awards, is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and has received honors like the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2009.

Humanitarian Work: Beyond music, Cochrane is known for his significant charitable efforts, including travels to Africa with World Vision, highlighting his commitment to social causes.

Later Years: Cochrane has continued to tour and perform, often with former Red Rider members, maintaining a strong presence in the Canadian music scene. His song "Life Is a Highway" saw a resurgence when covered by Rascal Flatts for the soundtrack of the movie "Cars" in 2006.

https://bestfile.io/wRGODsKSSfm0J0F/file

DAN HILL - st LP 75 w Hold On LP 76 w Longer Fuse LP 77 w Frozen In The Night LP 78 w If Dreams Had Wings LP 80 w Partial Surrender LP 81

REPOST and ADD ON:  Added the one right above with the classic 'The Nice Price" sticker that I got this year from Goodwill.  This begins a three part series with the two below this post as:  The Big Three Mellow Rock as title.  Actually I was one record short or I would have included Robert John with his 'Sad Eyes' hit that goes right along with some of these on my old K-Tel compilations having 'Shannon' from Henry Gross and On and On by Stephen Bishop below that post.  Stuff in between Dan Fogelberg's all-time classic "Longer" and Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald singing 'What A Fool Believes" seems to cover the theme.  I will post the three Robert John records next week.

Per Discogs:  Real Name: Daniel Grafton Hill IV

Profile:  Daniel Grafton "Dan" Hill IV (born June 3, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter

https://bestfile.io/en/zFgXhGe4O5IKWzc/file

GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA - ROCK OF AGES tape 97

 This meets the weekly Jesus music theme and cassette a week theme and he also holds the Guinness World record for singing in person to the most people--220 Million people total.  Per Discogs:  Profile: Canadian-born, American bass-baritone singer and composer of gospel music,  Born: February 1, 1909 in Winchester, Ontario, Canada  Died: April 16, 2013 in Montreat, North Carolina, USA

A Grammy winner, Shea has recorded approximately 500 vocal solos, with orchestral accompaniment, arranged and conducted by well known musical directors, such as Hugo Winterhalter, Ralph Carmichael, Bill Walker, Nathan Scott, Norman Leyden, Jimmy Owens, Kurt Kaiser, Danny Davis, Charles Grean, and Radio City Music Hall Organist, Ray Bohr.

https://bestfile.io/en/h6zxAuTzU5eCwMI/file

GLENN GOULD - THE MOZART PIANO SONATAS, VOL. 3 LP 72

 For this post for the weekly classical theme, I inserted some piano-playing two sides piano cheat sheet note cards that had fallen from some other Goodwill vinyl so I tucked them in here.  Per Discogs:      Real Name:  Glenn Herbert Gould (né Gold)

Profile:  Born: Glenn Herbert Gold, 25 September 1932 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:  Died: 4 October 1982 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (aged 50)

Glenn Gould was a Canadian pianist, known especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his eccentric piano technique and personality.

He recorded most of Bach's keyboard works, all of Mozart's sonatas, all five of Beethoven's piano concertos and 23 of the 32 piano sonatas, the complete piano works and Lieder of Arnold Schoenberg, works by Sibelius, Bizet, Richard Strauss and Paul Hindemith.

Gould was also a composer, writer, lecturer, and producer of radio documentaries and television programs.

Gould assumed the parts of fictitious characters such as: "dean of British conductors", Sir Nigel Twitt-Thornwaite; a German critic, Dr. Herbert von Hochmeister; and a New York cab driver, Theodore Slutz of Brooklyn Heights. Other alter egos were Dr. Karlheinz Klopweisser, a German composer and critic; Sir Humphrey Price-Davies, a "BBC-type pedagogue"; Duncan Haig-Guinness, a Canadian radio producer; and two psychiatrists, S.F. Lemming, M.D., and Wolfgang von Krankmeister. He even published certain articles under the name "Herbert von Hochmeister". Some of these characters were used on Glenn Gould - The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album.

https://bestfile.io/en/qDJQjlxFD7HSKqe/file

TIMBERCREEK - HELLBOUND HIGHWAY LP 75

 A huge thanks to Josef(Austria) for suggesting this album along with a missing New Riders of The Purple Sage album "Gypsy Cowboy" he said should have paved the way for this band's success instead of obscurity all below this post) as it has a great Grateful Dead type groove going for it the whole album.  I thus got into the spirit and bumped up the Collector's Choice band 'Mountain Bus' this week along with some other similar music excursions for the series all right below that happened to 'fit in'.  Enjoy!!!!

https://bestfile.io/en/etExMWK3MFuWFvG/file

Ellison - st CD 71 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Canadian (Québec) band based in Montreal. Only one album is known. The bassist Richard Arcand and the singer Vincent Marandola were in a band called 'Johnny Peace' since 1967. In 1969 the guitarist Christian Vaeillant and the drummer Robert Cager joined and Ellison was formed. They were part of l’Association Des Orchestres (under the direction of Jean-Claude Brosseau) wich were specialize in Quebec's underground music, hard rock and blues.In 1971 they made most of their shows on college's campus and in schools and begun creating a popularity.

In March 1972, they started recording their only album with the help of the label Supreme and released it on October 27, 1972 at the Campus Pont-Viau.

On March 31, 1973 Ellison made a show in Montreal and since then no more show were mentionned.  They were one of the most prolific band in the underground music scene with ExCubus (Incubus), Expedition, Lasting Weep and many more.

https://bestfile.io/en/PoWqUk0BqBusw5A/file

 

Emigré - Emigré CD 79 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Not much on discogs so here are the members:  Barry Keane, Bruce Ley, Chris Vickery, Ian Guenther, John Shand, Mitch Lewis & Willi Morrison

https://bestfile.io/en/Ahx9L5PcmuQPU0E/file

Eddie Schwartz - All Our Tomorrows CD 09 - cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Real Name:  Edward Sydney Schwartz

Profile:  b. December 22 1949.

Canadian singer and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for penning the Pat Benatar classic "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"!!!!

https://bestfile.io/en/cEhobii5zfDie2z/file.

ROBERT LAFOND - EXTASIAS tape 91

 Second of three tapes and with some green on it.  Not much about this on Discogs except this: composer, arranger, keyboardist, producer, and engineer and from Canada like 'Connecting Consciousness' meta channel...a good guy, eh!

https://bestfile.io/by1aCllrDgPBCI8/file

MAYNARD FERGUSON M.F. HORN 4 AND 5 - LIVE AT JIMMY'S 2LP 74 w MAYNARD FERGUSON AHO - ECHOES OF AN ERA '61 2LP 72

REPOST and ADD ON:  Following the St. Patrick's Day posts this year of albums with GREEN on them somewhere we have a duesy with his double album here and a nice sleeve of key jazz releases in this Echoes series--some of which I have posted.  Great grooves on the new double!  What I wrote last time:  For Camarillo Brillo whose been mining the good bar band releases here lately.  This is a great double album that ripped to digital pretty good even with scratches and mold on cover.  Per Discogs:  Real Name: Walter Maynard Ferguson

Profile: Canadian jazz trumpeter, and bandleader.

Born: 4 May 1928 in Verdun, Montreal, Canada.

Died: 23 August 2006 in Ventura, California, USA (aged 78).

https://bestfile.io/eXcKMvFaIeg8K37/file

Awarded the Order of Canada in 2005

Echoes And A Dream - st CD 73 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Rarest Canadian private press.. only 150 copies known to be made.  Notable for having a Led Zeppelin cover song "Thank You"

Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country

Style: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock

https://bestfile.io/en/3DbpPF7w6RQJh4F/file

WINTLEY PHIPPS - I CHOOSE YOU AGAIN LP 84

Starting out the Valentine's Day posts today.  Per Discogs:  Wintley Augustus Phipps, Sr. (born January 7, 1955) is a Trinidadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, minister, and founder of the U.S. Dream Academy, Songs of Freedom Publishing Company, and Coral Records Recording Company. He features a booming bass-baritone voice, usually singing inspirational gospel music. He is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister.

Phipps was born in Trinidad and Tobago, but at an early age moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He attended Mount Royal High School in Town of Mount Royal. He attended Kingsway College in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, a Seventh-day Adventist academy, and later Oakwood College, a Seventh-day Adventist college (university since 2007) in Huntsville, Alabama, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology. Phipps would go on to earn a Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University, a Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Wintley Phipps served as senior pastor to several churches in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, including the Capitol Hill and Seabrook Seventh-day Adventist Churches. He currently serves as pastor of the Palm Bay Seventh-day Adventist Church in Palm Bay, Florida. Wintley is married to Linda Galloway, whom he met at Oakwood.[4] They have three sons: Wintley II, Winston Adriel, and Wade Alexander.

https://bestfile.io/en/euNO0M0pdYcQPbj/file

Esthero - Breath From Another CD 98

 Getting some requests for old triphop so here's one with our old rap scene boss Slug from Atmosphere chiming in on the hit song opener with Meesah called Breath From Another which was what got me to buy it.  Here is the skinny on this cool band:  Esthero (/ɛsˈtɛroʊ/ es-TERR-oh; born Jenny-Bea Englishman on December 23, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney. Esthero is a portmanteau of "Esther the hero"; she claims to have gotten the name by combining the name of the heroine (Esther) and last line ("If I am to be the hero, then I cannot fly from darkness") of the film from Sylvia Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar (1963).

Esthero's sound characteristically features her voice over a mix of mellow bass lines, jazzy trumpets, classical guitar and hip-hop. She is sometimes compared to artists Björk, Portishead, Billie Holiday, and Sade. She has co-produced the majority of the material she performed. Later female artists who count Esthero among their influences include Res, Fergie and fellow Canadian Nelly Furtado.

https://bestfile.io/en/3chYsmuB3D5ydOl/file

Jackal - Awake CD 73 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Going out of alphabetical order this week to grab a couple selections for this series with a Halloween bent.  Per Discogs:  Jackal was formed in 1969 by the Kellesis brothers (Chris on keyboards and Jack on bass) with high school friend Charlie Shannon on vocals. They filled out the ranks with several other members in their infancy while playing the B circuit around Toronto. They wrote some material while developing a progressive, psychedelic hard rock sound, and were seen by Art Snider one night in a bar, who quickly signed them to a management and recording deal. Snider, a native of Ottawa, was behind the record company Chateau at the end of the 1950s and founded in late '67.

With the band rounded out by guitarists Steve Hayward and Dave Bernard, and drummer Lois Mutton, they worked with producers Dan Goldberg and Bob Stright in the spring of '73. They became one of the first acts to record for Snider's new venture, Periwinkle Records, releasing their debut album Awake a few months later. The bulk of the writing on the eight tracks was done by the Kellesis brothers, with Hayward penning two himself - the tempo-changing flowery-acid trip Sunny Side of he Day and Lost In the World. Heavy in sound, the band was likened to early Deep Purple, Rory Gallagher, Budgie, and fellow Torontonians..The songs relied heavily on fuzz guitar effects mixed with a raspy delivery from Shannon, and often extended keyboard and organ solos front and centre. Other noteable cuts included How Time Has Flown, In the Heavens and the title track.

No singles were released, contrary to Snider's modus operandi - whose labels were renowned for churning out acts on a steady basis in the hope of landing 'that one big hit. But with Jackal's songs more often than not exceeding the usual three-minute frames to get any airplay, and with little money to fund promotions or tours, the album quickly disappeared and became a collector's obscurity. Within a year or so of its release, the band also drifted into oblivion, with the members picking up new gigs in different bands off and on, but eventually all got day jobs and left the business all together.

Not to be mixed up with Jackyl.

https://bestfile.io/en/tWOKkxLUw0UgyXu/file

DISKO BAND - HUSTLE HITS LP 76

This is a very fine sounding copycat band or per the comment from George Dimakis on the recent mecca of copycat tunes by T.E.J. records he schooled me on the theme:  This is not a band. It is a studio project just like Disko Band. I'm really curious if they are actually the same as their version of Fly Robin Fly sounds exactly the same. Disko Band released it a year before Dimensional Sound on their album Hustle Hits on Canada.  Enjoy!

https://bestfile.io/en/HlTBIJkkJmSreKx/file

SMALL WONDER - st LP 76 w Growin' LP 77

REPOST Request:  What I wrote before:  A big thanks to ClassicMusic20 for suggesting the band as the first album is a quirky rocker that sticks!

https://bestfile.io/en/66Tsd60BuDbnMwK/file

PETER PRINGLE - st LP 76 w Singles 77-81 w Rain Upon The Sea CD 81 w Fifth Avenue Blue CD 82 w Fantasies CD 84

REPOST Request:  Well believe it or not I just watched a movie a few weeks ago from a Hollywood boxset and sure enough Peter Pringle was playing at the end.  The movie is called "Toby McTeague" and it was shot primarily in the small town of Sainte-Rose-du-Nord, Quebec.

The film received two Genie Award nominations at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987, for Best Cinematography (René Verzier) and Best Original Song ("Cold As Ice" by Peter Pringle and Kevin Hunter). A minor controversy resulted when the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television mistakenly omitted "Cold As Ice" from the first ballots sent out to Academy votershttps://bestfile.io/en/BBzwNklmEXE1NGT/file

SPOONS [CAN] - Stick Figure Neighbourhood LP 81 w Arias & Symphonies CD 82 w Talkback CD 83 w Bridges Over Borders CD 86 w Vertigo Tango CD 88

REPOST and ADD ON:  O.K. got the spoons bands sorted out and added Spooner at bottom but still can't find anything I may have had by a band I saw at the El Rey that year I worked in L.A. called Spoon who put on such a grand show.  Oh well, had all these but the first album I ripped and posted long ago from defunct blog 80sOnSpeed unopened so have a ball!  Cheers.

https://bestfile.io/en/bSetUILgv1ebDKi/file

Christmas - Christmas CD 70 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  Canadian heavy psychedelic group from Oshawa, Ontario, formed in 1969 and active until mid-70s.

After two albums both issued in 1970, around 1973 they decided to made a slight adjustment to their name to become THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS also releasing in 1974 a new album called "Lies to Live By". At this point the band veered towards a more folk and progressive sound without forgetting their roots in hard rock. In 1975 the band disbanded.

https://bestfile.io/en/Aukjte5vhqHyPb5/file

Cargo - Front Side, Back Side CD 69 w Simple Things CD 70 15 -cc

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE:  Per Discogs:  A dreamy, garage-psych driven rock band, with some mild prog jazz... from Toronto Canada

Bruce Oxley: lead guitar

Mike Proudfoot: guitar, piano

Garth Vagan: bass

Norm Foster: drums and percussion

https://bestfile.io/en/RmyA43OQNv3O2ON/file