with Steve Fruitman
#152
December 12, 2016
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For Greg
Hour One: Hear this show now
Hour Two: Hear this show now
Hour One – Proper Military Titles in Titles of Songs1. The Beatles: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 1967
2. TV Theme Song: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon 1955
3. Schooner Fare: Twa Recruiting Sergeants (trad) 1983
4. Phil Silver’s TV Theme Song: Sgt Bilko (John Strauss) 1955
5. Weddings, Parties, Anything: Sergeant Small (Tex Morton) 1988
6. Ian & Sylvia: Captain Woodstock’s Courtship (trad) 1964 *
7. Jackson Hawke: Dancing With The Captain (Dominic Bugatti / Frank Musker) 1977 *
8. Gallagher & Lyle: Call For The Captain (Gallagher / Lyle) 1977
9. Blues Image: Ride Captain Ride (Blues Image) 1970
10. Tamarack: Bold General Wolfe (trad) 1983 *
11. Spirit of the West: General Guinness (trad) 1986 *
12. Elvis Costello: Oliver’s Army (Elvis Costello) 1979
13. Pink Floyd: Corporal Clegg (Roger Waters) 1968
14. Lindisfarne: Marshall Riley’s Army (Alan Hull) 1978
15. Paul McCartney: Admiral Halsey (Paul & Linda McCartney) 1971
16. The Byrds: Captain Soul (Chris Hillman / Roger McGuinn / Michael Clark / David Crosby) 1966CanCon = 29%
Hour Two – to Greg Lake & December
1. King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man (Fripp / McDonald / Lake / Giles / Sinfield) 1969
2. King Crimson: I Talk To The Wind (Ian McDonald / Pete Sinfield) 1969
3. King Crimson: Epitaph (Fripp / McDonald / Lake / Giles / Sinfield) 1969
4. The Strawbs: Autumn (John Hawken / David Cousins) 1973
5. Glenn Koudelka: Wolf Winter (Glenn Koudelka) 1975 *
6. Joan MacIsaac: Wintersong (Joan MacIsaac) 1982 *
7. Klaatu: December’s Dream 1981 (John Woloschuk / Dee Long / Terry Draper) 1981 *
8. Syrinx: December Angel (Syrinx) 1971 *CanCon = 50%
Total CanCon = 36%
And Now for The Particulars:
Hour One – Proper Military Titles in Titles of Songs1. The Beatles: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: Capitol Records Canada – 2653
Liverpool UK
Paul McCartney – lead vocal, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, lead guitar
John Lennon – backing vocal
George Harrison – backing vocal, lead/rhythm guitar
Ringo Starr – drums
George Martin – organ, producer
Neill Sanders – French horn
James W. Buck – French horn
Tony Randell – French horn
John Burden – French horn
Produced by George Martin, Feb – March 1967
Recorded at EMI Studios, Abby Road by Geoff EmerickThe song written by Paul McCartney about a Beatles alter-ego band. Many people thought that McCartney’s OPP badge on the sleeve of his costume on the inside cover meant Officially Pronounced Dead. However, it was a gift given to him by an Ontario Provincial Police Officer Glenn Hickingbottom on the tarmac of Toronto’s Malton Airport in September, 1964. Hickingbottom rose to the rank of Chief Superintendent of the OPP and died in 1994.
2. TV Theme Song: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon 1955
Richard Simmons (d. January 11, 2003 aged 89) starred as the lone Mountie in the Yukon Territory during the Klondike gold rush of 1898. It also starred his dog, Yukon King and his horse, Rex. The series ran from 1955-58 and was actually produced in Colorado. It was originally a radio program called Challenge of the Yukon that began on Detroit's station WXYZ in 1938. The program was actually based on the exploits of a real-life Northwest Mounted Police officer named Sam Steele (5 January 1848 – 30 January 1919) who was the only Canadian law enforcement officer during the gold rush and saved numerous lives. He rose to the level of Major-General.
3. Schooner Fare: Twa Recruiting Sergeants (trad)
Day of the Clipper: Outer Green Records – OGR-8878
Portland MA
Steve Romanoff: vocal, guitars, banjo
Chuck Romanoff: vocal, guitar, banjo
Tom Rowe: vocal, bass
Produced by Outer Green Records - 1983
Recorded by Jim McPhillips at Clockwerke Studios, Auburn, Maine
Mixed by Tome RoweThis band got together in 1975 and, without any personnel changes, remained in tact until Tom Rowe died in 1994. Since then the Romanoff brothers have played as a duo. Day of the Clipper, their first album, was originally released in 1979.
A recruiting sergeant is a British or American soldier of the rank of sergeant who is tasked to enlist recruits. The term originated in the British army of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A recruit would be given the King's shilling as a mark of the contract made. One of the tricks of the trade was to put a shilling into a mug of ale, and if a lad accepted it and found the shilling, a contract was made. This partially explains why there is glass at the bottom of many pewter mugs. The legend is that the glass bottomed tankard was developed as a way of refusing the King's shilling, i.e. conscription into the British army or navy. The drinker could see the coin in the bottom of the glass and refuse the drink, thereby avoiding conscription.
4. Phil Silvers TV Theme Song: Sgt Bilko (John Strauss) 1955
Philip Silversmith b. May 11, 1911 Brooklyn, New York – d. November 1, 1985 (aged 74) Century City, CA
The Phil Silvers Show a.k.a Sgt Bilko: a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army.5. Weddings, Parties, Anything: Sergeant Small (Tex Morton)
Roaring Days: WEA 25 54301
Melbourne, Australia
Pete Lawler - bass guitar, vocals
Marcus Schintler - drums, vocals
Dave Steel - guitar, vocals
Mick Thomas - guitar, vocals
Mark Wallace - piano accordion, keyboards, vocals
Produced by Alan Thorne 1988Robert William Lane in Nelson, New Zealand, also credited as Robert Tex Morton 30 August 1916. Morton died in Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital on 23 July 1983, after a short battle with lung cancer. He was like Canada’s Wilf Carter: a real pioneering cowboy recording artist.
WPA covered Tex Morton’s 1930 song Sergeant Small about the Queensland Railway Police. Morton’s version of it was banned soon after its release in Australia. Sergeant Small was a well-known police officer stationed at Roma in south-west Queensland. In the depression years, many men on the dole were obliged to travel the country searching for work. With virtually no money, many ‘swagmen’ would jump on a freight train. Sergeant Small developed a cunning approach. He would kit himself out as a bagman trying to find some space on a goods train for himself and he'd surreptitiously approach each carriage and ask if there was any room inside and many a concealed bagman would answer back and thus give himself up.
In 1938, the very talented New Zealand country and western singer then in Australia, Tex Morton, decided to write a song about Sergeant Small and it got a lot of airplay. Unfortunately, Sergeant Small took exception to this and his threats to sue resulted in the song being withdrawn from both broadcast and sale.
6. Ian & Sylvia: Captain Woodstock’s Courtship (trad)
Northern Journey: Vanguard Records - VSD-79154
Pincher Creek AB / Toronto ON
Ian Tyson: guitar, vocal
Sylvia Tyson: vocal
Monte Dunn: 2nd guitar
Eric Weissberg: bass
Recorded by the Vanguard Recording Society, New York City – 1964Out of the Child Ballad collection, number 46. A very old folk song! This version was taken from the collecton of Nova Scotia folklorist Dr. Helen Creighton from ‘Song and Ballads from Nova Scotia.
7. Jackson Hawke: Dancing With The Captain (Dominic Bugatti / Frank Musker)
Jackson Hawke: Columbia PES 90417
Sault Ste Marie ON
Tim Ryan, guitar
Bob Yoemans, guitars, keys
Gene Falbo, bass
Gary Hyolt, guitars
Larrie Londin, drums
John Lissauer, piano, flute
Don Lorusso, guitar
Produced by Bob Gallo 1977
Recorded by Rick Capreol & John Naslen
Mixed by Andy Hermant & Hayward ParrottThe song was originally recorded in 1976 by Paul Nicholas (who played Dougie Shears in the movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1978). He ended up an old man on British sitcom The East Enders. His and Jackson Hawke’s versions are the only two known recordings of it.
8. Gallagher & Lyle: Call For The Captain (Gallagher / Lyle)
Love on the Airwaves: A&M Records – SP 4620
Largs, Scotland
Benny Gallagher - vocals, piano, keyboards, bass guitar, percussion
Graham Lyle - vocals, guitar
Alan Hornall - bass
Iain Rae - Piano, Organ, synthesizer
Ray Duffy - drums
Jimmy Jewell - saxophone
John Mumford - trombone
Produced by David Kershenbaum – 1977
Recorded by Geoff EmerickFormed McGuinness Flint in 1970 by former bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, former drummer with John Mayall; plus vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle who first started playing together in 1959. They were signed by The Beatles to write for Apple Records' artists. Went on to have a major songwriting and performing career.:
9. Blues Image: Ride Captain Ride (Blues Image)
Open: Atco Records SD 33-317
Tampa FL
Mike Pinera Lead vocals, Lead guitar
Malcolm Jones Bass
Joe Lala Percussion, Vocals
Skip Konte Keyboards
Manny Bertematti Drums
Kent Henry Guitars
Produced by Richard Podolor 1970
Recorded by Bill CooperTheir 2nd LP featuring hit song Ride Captain Ride. They became the houseband in Tampa at a venue that featured Cream, Grateful Dead before moving to LA. Were basically 1 Hit Wonders. Only percussionist Joe Lala went on to greater heights, played in CSNY & Steve Stills’ Manassas.
10. Tamarack: Bold General Wolfe (trad)
A Pleasant Gale: SGB Records JM-83132
Guelph, ON
Randy Sutherland: lead vocal, guitar
James Gordon: tambour, vocals
Jeff Bird: double bass, fiddle, harmonica, tin whistle
Produced by Tamarack - 1983
Recorded at Elora Sound Studios, Elora, ON by Bill MatherMajor General James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759)
The story of General Wolfe’s final battle on the Plains of Abraham in the battle for Quebec. A brigade major at the age of eighteen, he was a lieutenant-colonel by the age of twenty-three. Following the success of the Siege of Louisbourg he was made commander of a force which sailed up the Saint Lawrence River to capture Quebec City. After a long siege Wolfe defeated a French force under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm allowing British forces to capture the city. Wolfe was killed at the height of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham due to injuries from three musket balls.The song is also know as Brave Wolfe. The first and one of the finest of the native Anglo-Canadian ballads, 'Brave Wolfe' describes the British victory on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Composed soon after the battle, it seems to have been patterned on an old British love lament called 'The Blacksmith'. It circulated widely throughout the British colonies, appearing in many New England broadsides and songbooks of the 18th and 19th centuries, and survived in oral tradition in both Newfoundland and Nova Scotia well into the 20th century. But not to anyone’s surprise, not in Quebec.
11. Spirit of the West: General Guinness (trad)
Old Material 1984-1986: Stony Plain Records SPL 1141
Vancouver BC
Geoffrey Kelly: flute, bodhran, whistles, vocals
John Mann: guitar, vocal
J Knutson: bass, vocal
Produced by Ron Obvious - 1989
Recorded & Mixed by Ron Obvious live at Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 198612. Elvis Costello and The Attractions: Oliver’s Army (Elvis Costello)
45 single bw My Funny Valentine: Radarscope Records – ADA 31
London UK
Elvis Costello: guitar, vocal
Steve Nieve: piano
Bruce Thomas: bass guitar
Pete Thomas: drums
Produced by Nick Lowe - 1979
Recorded by Roger BechirianDeclan Patrick MacManus (born London UK, 25 August 1954)
the Oliver in question is Oliver Lyttelton, Churchill's President of the Board of Trade in the early stages of the Second World War. The Protected Occupations Act meant that any man not compelled to join the forces due to critically required trade skills was dubbed to be part of "Oliver's Army"
Said Costello: “The song was based on the premise 'they always get a working class boy to do the killing'. I don't know who said that; maybe it was me, but it seems to be true nonetheless. I pretty much had the song sketched out on the plane back to London."
13. Pink Floyd: Corporal Clegg (Roger Waters)
A Saucerful of Secrets: Capitol - ST 6279
London / Cambridge UK
David Gilmour – electric guitars, lead vocals (verses and bridges), kazoo
Nick Mason – drums, percussion, lead vocals (verses)
Rick Wright – Farfisa organ, lead vocals (choruses)
Roger Waters – bass, backing vocals
Norman Smith – voice
Produced by Norman Smith 1968
Recorded at Abby Road Studios, Studio 3This is the only PF song to feature Nick Mason on lead vocals.
The song is about a shell-shocked soldier who lost his leg in World War II. It is the first mention of war in a Pink Floyd song, something that would become a common theme in Roger Waters' lyrics, Roger having lost his father thus in 1944. Waters later claimed that the song was actually about his father.14. Lindisfarne: Marshall Riley’s Army (Alan Hull)
Back And Fourth: ATCO Records – KSD 38-108
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Alan Hull: acoustic guitars, piano, vocals
Simon Cowe: electric and acoustic guitars, banjjo, mandolin, vocals
Ron Clements: fretless bass, fiddle
Ray Laidlaw: drums
Ray Jackson: mandolin, harmonica, percussion, vocals
Produced by Lindisfarne - 1978
Recorded by Pat Moran, Dave Charles, Phil Dunne, Stuart Epps at By Moonlight and RockfieldJarrow, in County Durham, was once the scene of major shipbuilding and steel works. After the depression, most of the town’s workers were unemployed, and despite promises by the national government to fix things, nothing transpired.
David Riley was the chairman of Jarrow Borough Council in northern England, and told a rally of the town's unemployed in July 1936: "If I had my way I would organise the unemployed of the whole country ... and march them on London so they would all arrive at the same time. The government would then be forced to listen, or turn the military on us". Thus, Marshal Riley’s Army.
Simon Cowe: d. September 30, 2015 Toronto, moved to Toronto in 1994 to run The Lakeside Brewing Coand brewed beers for my local, The Feathers pubLindisfarne was formed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England in 1968
15. Paul and Linda McCartney: Admiral Halsey (Paul & Linda McCartney)
Ram: Apple Records – SMAS 3375
UK
Paul McCartney - lead, harmony and backing vocals, bass, piano, keyboards, guitar
Linda McCartney - harmony and backing vocals
David Spinozza - guitar
Hugh McCracken - guitar
Denny Seiwell - drums
Marvin Stamm - flugelhorn
New York Philharmonic
Produced by Paul and Linda McCartney - 1971
Recorded at:
Columbia Recording Studio, New York
A&R Recording Studios, New York
Sound Recording Studios, Los AngelesActually 2 songs: "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", hit No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 on 4 September 1971, the first post-Beatles song to do so. McCartney said, "As for Admiral Halsey, he's one of yours, an American admiral", referring to Fleet Admiral William "Bull" Halsey (1882–1959). Admiral Halsey was an authoritarian figure who ought to be ignored. But the song won Paul a Grammy Award nonetheless.
16. The Byrds: Captain Soul (Chris Hillman / Roger McGuinn / Michael Clark / David Crosby)
Fifth Dimension: Columbia Records – CL 2549
Los Angeles CA
Jim McGuinn - lead guitar, vocals
David Crosby - rhythm guitar, vocals
Chris Hillman - electric bass, vocals
Michael Clarke - drums
Produced by Allen Stanton 1966
Recorded at Columbia Studios, HollywoodHour Two – Greg Lake - December
1. King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man (Fripp / McDonald / Lake / Giles / Sinfield)
2. King Crimson: I Talk To The Wind (Ian McDonald / Pete Sinfield)
3. King Crimson: Epitaph (Fripp / McDonald / Lake / Giles / Sinfield)
In The Court of the Crimson King: Atlantic Recording Corp SD 8245
Greg Lake: vocal, bass
Robert Fripp: guitar
Michael Giles: drums
Ian McDonald: reeds, woodwinds, vibes, keys, mellotron
Pete Sinfield: words & illumination
Produced by Greg Lake and King Crimson - 1969
Recorded by Robin Thompson at Wessex Sound Studios, London
Cover art by Barry Godber, commissioned by Pete Sinfield
http://www.king-crimson.com/Gregory Stuart Lake (10 November 1947 Poole, Dorset UK – 7 December 2016 London)
discovered rock and roll in 1957 when he bought Little Richard's "Lucille". Started taking guitar lessions when he was 12 with the same man who taught Robert Fripp. After performing with several local groups he was approached by Fripp, who was then trying to put a band together, to be load vocalist and bass player.
Fripp had been playing with the Giles brothers, Peter and Michael, as Giles, Giles and Fripp. After moving to London, they recorded an album but never actually played a live gig in the year they stayed there. Eventually Peter Giles, the bass player, decided to quit the band so instead of recruiting two new members, Fripp asked Lake to do both jobs. The result was King Crimson. During the preperations for recording In The Court of the Crimson King, their producer Tony Clarke walked away, leaving the production work in the hands of the band. Lake actually did most of it and should be recognized as the real producer. (The production (and royalty to go with it) is held by King Crimson).
After touring the US with warmup band The Nice, Lake and Keith Emmerson decided to form their own group with Carl Palmer. He laid down the vocals for Crimson’s second album, In The Wake of Poseidon but the bass playing was played by Peter Giles. After this Lake joined ELP.
He was a Lucky Man! ELP needed just one more song to round out their first album so Lake suggested Lucky Man, a song he had written when he was 12 years old. The origin of the song, as stated by Greg Lake in interviews, is that it was the first song he wrote, when his mother bought him a guitar at the age of 12. With the first chords he learned (D, A minor, E minor, and G), he wrote an acoustic version of the song. It went on to be his legacy song, one of the first rock songs to feature a moog synthesizer solo. On it Lake plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, vocals. His autobiography, aptly entitled Lucky Man, will be published next September.
4. The Strawbs: Autumn (John Hawken / David Cousins)
Hero And Heroine: A & M Records SP 3607
UK
David Cousins: guitars, vocals
Dave Lambert: guitars, vocals
John Hawken: keys
Charles Cronk: bass, synths
Rod Coombes: drums
Produced by David Cousins and Tom Allom 1974
Recorded by Tom Allon and Freddy Hansson at Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen, Nov 19735. Glenn Koudelka: Wolf Winter (Glenn Koudelka)
Painted Lines: CB Productions - BC-101
Lafleche SK
Glenn Koudelka, guitar
Donn Zueff, fiddle, banljo, dobro
Tim Krieser, bass
Gary Arnusch, drums
Mark Rutherford, piano, flutes
Ron Halldorson, steel guitar
Harold Vogt, violin
Cielio Ritagliati, violin
Klara Belkin, cello
Cathy Clark & Julie Opocensky, harmony
Produced by Colin Bennett 1975
Recorded at Century 21 Studios, WinnipegThe Saskman by Glenn Charles Koudelka is a book about a British born Canadian musician who played Irish music in a German restaurant in Mexico.
6. Joan MacIsaac: Wintersong (Joan MacIsaac)
Wintersong: Mad Mansion Music MMM 001
Edmonton AB
Joan MacIsaac: vocals, acoustic guitars
Lyall Steel: classical guitar, tenor banjo
Allan Davison: bass
Mike Harney: drums
Mairi MacLean, Allan Stein, Connie Kaldor: bg vocals
Produced by Lyall Steel 1982
Recorded by Mo Marshall at Woodbend Studios, Devon AB Feb June, 1982
Mastered by George Graves at Lacquer Channel, TorontoJoan MacIsaac was a Canadian folk singer & songwriter. She was born on April 13, 1955 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She passed away from Cancer on August 19, 1991 at the age of 36, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
7. Klaatu: December’s Dream 1981 (John Woloschuk / Dee Long / Terry Draper)
Magentalane: Capitol Records of Canada 6000 Series ST 6487
Toronto ON
John Woloschuk - vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, vibraphone, sitar, vibes, orcana, piano, glockenspiel
Dee Long - vocals, electric guitar, mandolin, slide guitar, Korg synthesizer
Terry Draper - drums, percussion, Polymoog synthesizer, trombone, tambourine, vocals
George Bertok - piano
Produced by Klaatu - 1981
Recorded at ESP Studios, Buttonville ON8. Syrinx: December Angel (Syrinx)
Long Lost Relatives: True North Records TNX 5
Toronto
John Mills-Cockell: synths, keys
Doug Pringle: sax, guiro, bongos, bells
Alan Wells: congas
Produced by John Mills-Cockell & Eugene Martynec 1971
Recorded at Eastern Sound Studios, Thunder Sound, Pathe-Humphries & Bay Studios, Toronto by Dave
Kalunbach, Don Stewart & Bill Roncken
Mastered by Bob D'OrleansMills-Cockell Born: May 19, 1943 (age 72), Toronto is a graduate of The Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto. In 1967 he won a BMI Award to Student Composers for his Movements for Orchestra and Reverberation for Solo Trombone and Two Stereo Tapes.
Allan Wells - percussionist (deceased 3 November 2010)LONG LOST RELATIVES is a record that almost didn't happen. While laying down tracks at Magic Track Recording Studios, an accidental fire destroyed much of the studio and all the equipment inside. Undeterred, the band carried on when a group of loyal fans and fellow musicians decided to hold a benefit show for them, cramming over 2,000 people into a the St Lawrence Market hall. Now that's Toronto!
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