33.45.78 All Vinyl Radio Show
with Steve Fruitman
#359
December 21, 2020
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Hour One

1.   The Diamonds: She Say Dum Dooby Doom – 1959 *
2.   Ritchie Knight & The Midnights: Charlena – 1963 *
3.   Canadian Zephyr: That’s Alright Mama - 1980 *
4.   Leonard Cohen: Suzanne – 1967 *
5.   Charlie Pride: I’m Just Me – 1971
6.   Bob May: Christmas At Moosonee – 1976 *
7.   Echoes of Bluegrass: Some Broken Hearts Never Mend *
8.   John Borra: Off My Feet – 2020 *
9.   A Neon Rome: Society Rag – 1986 *
10. Charlie Pride: Is Anyone Goin’ To San Antone – 1972
11. Paul Brunelle: Le chanteur Canadien – 1965 *
12. Al Baekeland: Always Late With Your Kisses – 2019 *
13. Peter & Mary: Shake The Dust *
14. Les Maronets: Ca recommence – 1964 *
15. Anne Murray: Thirsty Boots – 1970 *
16. Glenn Koudelka: Wolf Winter – 1975 *
17. Marilyn Reddick: Santa’s Dream – 1956 *

Hour Two

1.   McKenna Mendelson Mainline: Don’t Buy Me No Goose For Christmas, Grandma – 1969 *
2.   Ben Mink: Talk Is Cheap – 1980 *
3.   Dawson City: Coming To Get Ya – 1980 *
4.   Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck: Times Are Changing – 1969 *
5.   Rita Chiarelli: Our Love Is Over – 1978 *
6.   Crash Vegas: Sky – 1989 *
7.   Cowboy Junkies: Working On A Building – 1988 *
8.   Mary Margaret O’Hara: My Friends Have – 1989 *
9.   Misty Fire: Who Am I – 1972 *
10. Raoul Duguay: El Hsarrk – 1976 *
11. Plastic Cloud: Epistle To Paradise – 1969 *
12. Stephen Fearing: The Things We Did – 2018 *
13. Blue Rodeo: One Day – 1988 *
14. Prodigy: Scared Of The Future – 1981 *
15. Walter Ostanek: La Ronda Polka – 1981 *

CanCon – 94%

And Now for The Particulars:


Hour One

1.   The Diamonds: She Say Dom Dooby Doom
(Mann / Anthony)
45 single bw From The Bottom Of My Heart: Mercury Records  71404X
Toronto ON
Dave Somerville: lead  d. 2015
Evan Fisher: tenor
Mike Douglas: baritone  d. 2012
John Felten: bass  d. 1982
Produced 1959

In 1953 Dave Somerville, while working as a sound engineer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, met three other guys one evening who liked to sing as much as he did. They decided to form a stand-up quartet called The Diamonds. The group's first performance was in the basement of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Toronto singing in a Christmas minstrel show. The audience's reaction to the Somerville-led group was so tremendous that they decided that night they would turn professional. After 18 months of rehearsal, they drove to New York and tied for 1st Place on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. The prize of being guest artist for a week on Godfrey’s show led to a recording contract with Coral Records.  Biggest Hit: Little Darlin’ 1957

RIP Doug Chappel 1943 - 2020

2.   Richie Knight & The Midnights: Charlena
(Manuel Chavez / Herman Chaney)
45 single bw You’ve Got The Power: Arc Records – 1028
Toronto ON
Mike Brough, sax
Doug Chappel, bass
Richie Knight (Hubbard), vocal
Barry Stein, drums
George Simkiw, guitar
Barry Lloyd, piano
John McCanliss, guitar
Producer Not Listed, 1963

Doug Chappel b. Toronto January 16, 1943 / d. December 3, 2020, Niagara Falls ON

Chappel was stricken with the music disease after getting to attend an Elvis Presley concert at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in 1957. Two years later he was playing bass in bands and joined Richie Knight & The Mid-Knights in 1961. The band had a number 1 hit in 1963 with their cover of “Charlena", which was unheard of for a Canadian band at the time, and stayed on top for two weeks.

He joined A&M Records of Canada in 1971 and went on to serve as president of the Canadian divisions of Island Records, Virgin Records and Mercury/Polydor before retiring in 1997.
The first band he signed, in December 1986, was The Northern Pikes.

Chappel also served on various committees and boards of the music industry.
Denise Donlon, former president of Sony Music Canada, wrote of Chappell: “His love for music and joie de vivre for our industry was unparalleled. Such a drag his friends can’t gather to tell tall tales.”


3.   Canadian Zephyr: That’s Alright Mama
(Arthur Crudup)
Zephyr: RCA Victor – KKL1-0356
Richmond Hill ON

Garth Bourne: lead vocal, bass
John Howard: vocal, keys
John Hayman: vocal, guitars
Joe Linge: drums
Produced by Jack Feeney, 1980
Recorded at RCA Studios, Toronto

Richmond Hill band formed as The Four Jacks in 1969 and after a name change in 1971, scored twenty country hits till disbanding in the mid-1980s. I used to see them perform at the old Concord Tavern, now the spiritual home of Long & McQuade at Bloor and Ossington.

4.   Leonard Cohen: Suzanne
(L Cohen)
Leonard Cohen: Columbia - CS 9533
Montreal QC
Chester Crill
Chris Darrow
Solomon Fieldhouse
David Lindley: guitar
Produced by John Simon, 1967
Recorded at Columbia Studio E, NYC

RIP Charlie Pride 1934 – 2020 (86)
   
5.   Charlie Pride: I’m Just Me
(Glenn Martin)
The Best of Charlie Pride Vol: II: RCA Victor LPS 4682
Sledge, Mississippi
Charlie Pride: vocal
Henry Mancini Orchestra
Produced by Jack Clement, 1971
Recorded by Leslie Ladd, Tom Pick at RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, Tennessee

Charley Frank Pride b. Sledge, Mississippi March 18, 1934 / d. December 2020

Charlie Pride may not have written this song but her sure made it his own! He scored 52 top ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country charts between 1966 and 1987. He started out as a baseball pitcher in the Yankees’ system in what was then called the “Negro American League”. Later, after an injury, he was traded with another player to another team for their team bus. He stated in his autobiography: “(He) and I may have the distinction of being the only players in history traded for a used motor vehicle”. After tryouts in the early 60s with the Angels and The Mets, he sunk into playing for The East Helena (Arkansas) Smelterites and it was his manager who got him into singing, paying him an extra ten bucks to sing for 15 minutes before each home game.

2000 inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
2010 became part-owner of the Texas Rangers


6.   Bob May: Christmas at Moosonee
(Barney McCracken)
Songs of Barney McCracken: Sourdough - BCR-1002
Grimsby ON
Bob May: guitar, vocal
Produced by Barney McCracken, 1976

Bob May b. Grimsby ON, 1948.

Bob May taught school in Kirkland Lake ON where he met Barney McCracken (The Barde of the North) in 1975. He currently lives in Lindsay, ON.

Barney McCracken (b. Englehart ON circa 1905) began writing verse & prose while in his twenties at Northern Academy, Monteith ON.
He produced two albums of his Songs of Barney McCracken on Sourdough Records, sung by a variety of northern artists. I found copies of these at the Northern bookstore (when it was still there) in Latchford ON.

7.   Echoes Of Bluegrass: Ralph Stanley Sing On
(C Love)
Country Poor and Country Proud: Sweetgrass - SGLP 0185
Oshweken / Brantford ON
Shin Van Every: vocal, bass
Claude LePrieur: fiddle
Kevin Sullivan: guitar, mandolin
Garret Doyle: banjo
Produced by Echoes of Bluegrass, 1985
Recorded by Doug Biggs and Rick Hutt at Cedar Tree Recording Studio, Kitchener ON

A. Sharon Van Every b. Ohsweken, Six Nations, Ontario / d. circa 1989

8.   John Borra: Off My Feet
(John Borra)
Blue Wine: Cousin Jeb Records JEB 007
Toronto
John Borra: guitar, vocal, harmonica
Michael Boguski: keys
Dani Nash: vocals
Glenn Milchem: drums
Sam Ferrera: vocals, tambourine
Produced by John Borra, 2020
Recorded by John Borra at Johnny MacLeod’s Studio, Toronto
Mixed by John Borra
Mastered by Peter J Moore at the E Room, Toronto

You see on Twitter (a lot) people asking: “Who’s the most underrated so and so?” But if I had to pick a singer/songwriter from Toronto, I would choose someone like John Borra. He just released ‘Blue Wine’ on vinyl and it’s too bad he can’t be out there performing them for you so consider buying this one for someone. It’s a really good album, a little quirky, a little edgy, and totally John Borra. Released ‘the year of the plague’. Mastered really well for vinyl.

9.   A Neon Rome: Society Rag
(A Neon Rome)
New Heroin: New Rose Records, ROSE111
Toronto ON
John Borra: bass
Neil Arbick: vocals
Kevin Nizel: guitar, piano
Bernard: synths
Ian Blurton: drums
Produced by A Neon Rome with Andrew St. George, 1986
Recorded by Andrew St. George at Comfort Sound Studios, Toronto

10. Charlie Pride: Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone
(Glenn Martin / Dave Kirby)
The Best of Charlie Pride Vol. II: RCA Victor LPS 4682
Sledge Mississippi
Charlie Pride: vocal
Produced by Jack Clement 1970
Compilation LP Produced by Jack Clement, 1972

The song was also a popular part of the repertoire of Texas musician Doug Sahm, who recorded it in 1973, then again in 1991 with his group, the Texas Tornados. Also recorded by Nancy Sinatra in 1971.

11. Paul Brunelle: Le chanteur canadien
(Paul Brunelle)
Bonjour Mes Amis! ¬ RCA Victor Gala Series ¬ CGP 192
Granby QC
Paul Brunelle: guitar, vocal
Produced 1965

Paul Brunelle b. June 10, 1923 /  November 24, 1994 (71)

Considered the pioneer of country music in Quebec made his first 78 in 1944 and recorded well into the 1970s. He also broadcast a program on CKAC in 1945, and apparently sold 200,000 copies of "Cruel Destiny." Brunelle continued his career until early 1980, when a cancer of the throat forced an end to his career as a musician
   
12. Allen & Charlie: Always Late With Your Kisses
(Lefty Frizzell / Blackie Crawford)
Seven Country Music Favourites: Dog In The Window Records 2019
Calgary AB

Allen Baekeland: vocals, acoustic guitar
Charlie Veilleux: steel
Derek Pulliam: bass
Ross Watson: drums
Jonathan Lewis: violin, viola
Brooker Buckingham: lead guitar
Tim Leacock: mandolin
Produced by Derek Pulliam, 2019

Allan Baekeland b. Calgary November 6, 1959 / d. May 23, of cancer (60) Calgary

Performed in various bands, most notably Lost & Profound (five yrs), The Hackmores & The Rembetika Hipsters. Baekeland and Terry Tompkins formed psych-rock band The Now Feeling in 1983 and released one album before starting ‘Lost and Profound’ with vocalist Lisa Boudreau; they relocated to Toronto in 1985. That’s when he decided to get a job as a letter carrier with Canada Post. In fact, we worked together.

13. Peter & Mary: Shake The Dust
(Alan McRae)
Peter & Mary and Friends: Sam Cat Records – WRC1 601
Hampton NB
Peter Jansen: guitars, banjo, vocal
Mary Kingsley: guitar, vocal
Peter Willsher: steel, guitar
Alan Lucie: bass
Rod Windram: drums
Jose Garcia: castanets
Produced circa 1977

14. Les Baronets: Ça recommence (It starts again)
“It Won’t Be Long”
(Lennon / McCartney)
45 single bw Est-Ce Que Tu M'Aimes: Franco 9347
Montreal QC

Jean Beauline
Pierre Labelle
René Angélil
Claude Menard Orchestra
Produced 1964

15. Anne Murray: Thirsty Boots
(Eric Andersen)
This Is My Way: Capitol Records of Canada 6000 Series – ST 6330
Toronto ON / Springhill NS

Anne Murray: lead vocals
Produced by Brian Ahern, 1969

First Published in Canada – November 17 1969

Anne Murray goes psychedelic with an Eric Andersen song on her Capitol Records of Canada debut.

16. 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, Winnipeg

17. Marilyn Reddick: Santa’s Dream
(F Seigel)
78 rmp: Alvina Records - AL-1016
Toronto ON
Marily Reddick: sultry vocals
The MC Quartet: bg vocals
Harry Harding
Ivor McIvor
Ken Reenie
Ken McRae
Art Snider: keys
Produced by Art Snider, 1956
Recorded in Toronto

Marilyn Doloris Reddick b. Toronto circa 1934

Her father, Harvard Reddick, was a singer in the Commodores, a Toronto novelty quartet. At eighteen she won the Miss Bloor contest organized by the Bloor Street Business Men’s Association of Toronto and collected fifty dollars. She entered the Miss Toronto contest again and placed second. In August 1952, when she was eighteen, she won the title of Miss Canada.

Hour Two

1.   McKenna Mendelson Mainline: Don’t Give Me A Goose For Christmas Grandma
(Mendelson Joe)
Stink: Liberty LBS 83251 / EMI C2 0777 7 26590 2 6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mike McKenna: lead guitar
Mendleson Joe: guitar
Tony Nolasco: drums
Mike Harrison: bass
Produced by Liberty Records Staff, UK, June 11, 1969

My favourite Christmas song of alllll time.

2.   Ben Mink: Talk is Cheap
(Ben Mink)
Foreign Exchange: Passport Records: PB-2024
Toronto ON
Ben Mink: violin, mandolin, guitars
Allan Soberman: bass
Martin Deller: drums
Cameron Hawkins: synths
Mendelson Joe: electric guitar
Produced by Allan Soberman, 1980
Recorded by Danny Lanois at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton ON
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, NYC


Benjamin Mink b. Toronto January 22, 1951

Mink got his start performing with the rock group Mary-Lou Horner, which became the house band at Toronto’s  "The Rockpile" nightclub. They got to open for Led Zeppelin and Muddy Waters, along with being a backup band for Chuck Berry.

Mink was a member of Stringband, played in Murray McLauchlan's Silver Tractors and replaced Nash The Slash in FM. He is best known as a long-time collaborator with Canadian singer k.d. lang, whom he met at Expo '85 while doing a gig with CANO.

Mink was invited to play electric violin on the Rush song "Losing It" from the band's 1982 album Signals and contributed strings to "Faithless" from the 2007 album Snakes & Arrows. He also co-wrote, produced and played guitar on Geddy Lee’s solo album ‘My Favourite Headache’ (2000) .  He’s appeared on albums by Barenaked Ladies, Anne Murray, Dan Hill, Mendelson Joe, Prairie Oyster, Raffi, Jane Siberry, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Valdy, Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLauchlan, Willie P. Bennett, Susan Aglukark, Alison Krauss, Feist, Daniel Lanois, Sarah McLachlan, Roy Orbison, Elton John and Heart.

Ben Mink is one of few people to ever share a songwriting credit with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. In 1997 Mink and k.d. lang were credited as songwriters on the Stones single "Anybody Seen My Baby?". Mink and Lang were given credit before the song was released after Jagger/Richards realized the chorus was very similar to lang’s song "Constant Craving", written with Ben Mink in 1992


3.   Dawson City: Coming To Get Ya
(Randy Dawson)
Q107 Homegrown Album: Basement Records BASE 6002
Peterborough ON
Randy Dawson: guitar, vocal
Others not listed
Produced by Q107, 1980

Beginning in the mid-1970s, Dawson also fronted The Randy Dawson Group and D'Nile Blues Band and Dawson City, gigging mostly in Toronto area. He won the Q107 talent contest in 1980. After that he got into production, songwriting and continues to play gigs.

4.   Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck: Times Are Changing
(McDougal / Law / Caldwell)
1969 Homegrown Stuff (Duck/Capitol) ST-6304
Vancouver, BC
Pat Caldwell: vocals, tambourine, harmonica
Charlie Faulkner: bass, vocals
Roger Law: lead guitar, vocals
Hugh Lockhead: drums
Don McDougall: lead vocals, guitar
Produced by Robin Spurgin, 1969
Recorded at Vancouver Recording Company studios

5.   Rita Chiarelli: Our Love Is Over
(Rita Chiarelli)
45 Single: Mad Iris Music WRC3-714
Hamilton ON
Rita Chiarelli: guitar, vocals
Produced 1978

Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Chiarelli began performing in Ronnie Hawkins' band in the early 1980s. She subsequently spent several years in Italy. When she returned to Canada, she quickly attracted the attention of film director Bruce McDonald, who included her "Have You Seen My Shoes?" on the soundtrack to his 1989 film Roadkill.

She went on to record Cuore: The Italian Sessions, an album of Italian folksongs, at a concert in Thunder Bay, Ont, in 2006.

It is extremely important to note that if you look up Rita’s name (from Hamilton) you’ll find a death notice, but it’s for someone with the same name born in 1925.


6.   Crash Vegas: Sky
(M McAdorey / C Cripps)
Red Earth: Risque Disques 17 0771
Toronto ON
Colin Cripps: guitars, dobro, mandolin
Jocelyne Lanois: bass
Michelle McAdorey: lead vocals
Ambrose Pottie: drums
Sammy Vegas: lead guitar
Malcolm Burn: keys
Produced by Malcolm Burn, 1989
Recorded by Malcolm Burn and Mark Howard at ESP, New Orleans
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, NYC

Crash Vegas formed in 1988 and disbanded in 1996. They were the brainchild of Michelle McAdorey and Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor who, due to Blue Rodeo commitments, left the band and was replaced by Colin Cripps. Jocelyne Chantal Lanois is a Canadian musician, bass player and songwriter from Hull, Quebec, who has been a member of the bands Martha and the Muffins and Crash Vegas. She has also had touring stints as bass player with Ani DiFranco and Chris Whitley, and played on Sarah McLachlan's album Solace. She is the sister of record producer Daniel Lanois. Lanois left the band on acrimonious terms after the release of Red Earth and their label Risque Disque went bankrupt, leaving the band in limbo. McAdorey was the niece of the late Canadian television and radio personality Bob McAdorey. She now lives near Peterborough and recently released a new album.

7.   Cowboy Junkies: Working On A Building
(Trad)
The Trinity Sessions: RCA Victor 8568
Toronto ON
Margo Timmins: vocal
Michael Timmins: guitar
Peter Timmins: drums
Alan Anton: bass
John Timmins: guitar
Kim Deschamps: steel, dobro, slide
Jaro Czerwinec: accordion
Produced by Peter Moore, 1988
Recorded by Peter Moore at Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto, November 27, 1987

This is an age-old African-American spiritual that has been in the repertoires of B.B. King, The Carter Family, Elvis, Bill Monroe and John Fogerty. The Carter Family recorded it back in 1934. BB King learned it as a street musician way back. So The Junkies ethereal rendition is just stark and boldly beautiful.

8.   Mary Margaret O’Hara: My Friends Have
(Mary Margaret O’Hara)
Miss America: Virgin Records: VL 2559
Toronto ON
Rusty McCarthy, guitar
Hendrik Riik, bass
Michael Sloski, drums
Produced by Mary Margaret O'Hara and Michael Brook, 1988
Recorded by Paul Cobbold at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales UK; Joe
Primeau at Phase One Studios, Toronto; Stephen Traub at Comfort Sound, Toronto
Mixed at Comfort Sound by Michael Brook and Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mastered at The Townhouse, London UK


9.   Misty Fire: Who Am I
(Dominique Poirier)
45 Single bw Cries of a Gambler: Fundy Records FSC 109
Saint-Paul de Kent, NB
Dominique Poirier: vocals
Leo Beliveau: guitar, vocals
Leandre Leger: bass
Alfred Vienneau: lead guitar
Jean Maurice Roy: drums
Produced circa 1972
Recorded in Sackville NB

These guys got together in the early 1970s and got quite popular along the Acadian shore of New Brunswick. This was their only release, from around 1972, but the band did stay together until the latter part of the 70s and have since reformed from time to time.

10. Raôul Duguay: El Hsarrrk
(Raôul Duguay)
L'Envol: Capitol Records Canada – SKAO 70-042
Val d’Or QC

Raôul Duguay: vocal, trumpet
André Angelini: guitars
Jimmy Tanaka: bass
Rôbert Bôuthillier: keys
Rôger Walls: trumpet
Jean-Pierre Carpentier: trombone
Richard Beaudet: sax
Gilles Schetagne: marimbas, xylôphone, vibes
Chris Castle: drums, percussion
Produced by Marcellô De Lambre, André Angelini and Raôul Duguay, 1976
Recorded by Michel Ethier

Raôul Duguay b. February 13, 1939 (77), Val-d'Or QC

has been an active performer since 1966.

He was considered to be like the Frank Zappa of Quebec. He spelled his words with circumflexes and umlauts where none should exist; used weird spelllings and effeccccts; blended traditional forms of turlotte in with experimental jazz in complicated arrrrangementtts.
 
He met Walter Boudreau in 1967, and the two artists formed L'Infonie shortly thereafter. This project was intended both as a music group and a new approach to collective improvisation; Duguay published its manifesto in 1970. The group released a number of albums on the avant-garde side of Quebec's progressive rock and jazz-rock scenes before dissolving in 1973. A sovereignist, he described Canada as a father who "never gave mother [Quebec] an orgasm." He went on to release 13 solo albums and several books of poetry.


11. Plastic Cloud: Epistle to Paradise
(Don Brewer)
The Plastic Cloud: Allied Records 10
Bay Ridge ON
Don Brewer (guitar, vocals)
Brian Madill (bass)
Michael Cadieux (guitar)
Randy Umphrey (drums)
Produced by Bill Bessy and Jack Boswell, 1969

Apparently, only 500 copies of their album were released. Bay Ridge is a part of Pickering, Ontario, located near the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Bill Bessy worked with executive producer Jack Boswell with Allied and Marathon Records, mostly producing country music. This is one of their few forays into pop rock. An Epistle to Paradise!


12. Stephen Fearing: The Things We Did
(S Fearing / Tom Allen)
The Secret of Climbing: Rega Records ENS 004
Victoria, BC

Stephen Fearing: guitar, vocal
Produced by Roy Gandy, Gary Bennett and Stephen Fearing, 2018
Recorded on Analogue tape by Roy Gandy and Gary Bennett at Roy's Place, Essex
Vinyl Cutting by Ray Staff at AIR Studios, London
Pressed by Pallas Group GmbH

A fabulous, new record recorded for vinyl on analogue tape, no overdubs, live off the floor. The way things used to be. Just Stephen and his guitar! And believe me: he doesn’t need anyone else backing him up!

13. Blue Rodeo: One Day
(Greg Keelor / Chris Cuddy)
Diamond Mine: Risque Disque / WEA - 25 62681
Toronto ON
Cleave Anderson: drums
Jim Cuddy: guitar
Bazil Donovan: bass
Greg Keelor: guitar
Bob Wiseman: keys
Produced by Malcolm Burn & Blue Rodeo, 1989
Recorded by Ike Zimble
Mixed by Mark Howard at The Studio, New Orleans
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, NYC

band formed in 1984
Diamond Mine is the second album

14. Prodigy: Scared of the Future
(Kevin Chorlerton)
Saskatchewan Seeds: CHAB 800
Moose Jaw, SK
Randy Reibling: bass, guitar, syknth, vocal
Kevin Chorlerton: electric guitar, 12 string, vocals
Blair Polishuk: drums, vocals
Produced by Prodigy, 1981
Recorded by Gerry Galla at Studio West

15. Walter Ostanek Band: La Ronda Polka
(Arr by Walter Ostanek)
A Wonderful World of Polkas And Waltzes: World Renowned Sounds Inc WRP 10014
St Catherines ON
Walter Osatnek: piano accordion
Joey Miskulin: piano accordion, piano
Pig Robbins: piano
Murray McFadgen: vocals
Norm Kobal: sax, clarinet, flute
Ken Senko, Pete Wade or Chip Young: guitar, banjo
Richard Ostanek or Henry Strzelecki: bass
Mark Habat or Jerry Kadone: drums
Produced by Walter Ostanek, 1981
Recorded at Rainbow Recording Studios, Niagara Falls ON by Brad Murphy or
Recorded at Marjon Recording Studios, Hermitage Pennsylvania by Johnny Krizancic
Recorded at Peppermint Recording Studios, Youngstown Ohio by Gary Rhamy
Mixed by Gary Rhamy
Honda Motorcycle by Roy C Duncan, Jr.


Ladislav John Ostanek b. Duparquet, QC 20 April 1935 (ageless)

Canada’s undisputed Polka King!

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