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Recent Reviews
The Counts
He Will Break Your Heart / Searchin' - 7"
Alexander Mair, the mild-mannered record promotions man who was awarded the Order of Canada while he lay dying of cancer, had a resume a mile long. His work experience spanned all the way from his first job as a junior accountant at Capitol Records - after having taken just one night class at the University of Toronto - all the way to his founding of Attic Records, one of the largest and most successful indie labels in Canadian history. Mair also took care of Gordon Lightfoot's business affai...more
The Looking Glass
Get It Down / Waterfall - 7"
The Looking Glass formed in the Niagara Peninsula in the spring of 1968, and it certainly didn't take long for their riveting live sets to get noticed.
"The Looking Glass, from St. Catharines, are probably the most stimulating and animated rock-a-blues revue-type shows on the continent," RPM magazine raved in its 26 Aug 1968 issue. "It's obvious, from their delivery and tightness, that they've spent many hours together. Their act is well calculated to excite. They tend to bu...more
Tom Northcott
Sunny Goodge Street / Who Planted Thorns In Miss Alice's Garden - 7"
'Sunny Goodge Street', Donovan's jazz-tinged ode to the magical pleasures of weed, was first issued in October 1965 on his Fairytale LP. The world took note almost immediately. Just a few months later, Dutch singer Boudewijn de Groot had already translated it and sung it on TV. Marianne Faithful and Judy Collins both recorded their own versions of the song the following year. Faithful's came out in April '66 on her North Country Maid LP, while Collins' more upbeat take on it ap...more
Hughie Scott and the Meteors
I Will / Be Bop A Lula - 7"
For years Hughie Scott was the king of the Ottawa Valley country music scene. In fact Scott, who grew up in the nearby hamlet of Riceville, rarely ventured outside the capital region. He started playing the fiddle at age five, and by his mid-teens the young singer was already a fixture on the local circuit, first as a member of Smokey Rand and the Drifters and then fronting his own band, the Meteors.
Scott's Elvis routine and his heady mix of country and early rock 'n' roll...more
The Chosen Few
Footsee / You Can Never Be Wrong - 7"
In the fall of 1974, Russ Winstanley gave an obscure US instrumental 45 a spin at the legendary Wigan Casino. It was a long-forgotten throwaway song called 'Footsie' by a group of Montrealers called the Chosen Few, and it was originally used to promote a skipping toy of the same name that hooked around a child's ankle. It wasn't even a northern soul record, but the reaction on the dance floor was almost instantaneous. "The people who went to the Casino absolutely loved it," Winstanley would ...more
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