33.45.78 All Vinyl Radio Show
with Steve Fruitman
#428
April 18, 2022
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Journey To The North
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Side A


1.   Blackie & The Rodeo Kings: North – 2013 *
2.   Jim Magill & His Northern Ramblers: Northern Hoedown – 1952 *
3.   Jake Doell: Beauty of the North – c1963 *
4.   Loewen Family Orchestra: Northern Trappers’ Rendezvous – 1960 *
5.   Elliot Brood: Northern Air – 2011 *
6.   John Steins & Scott Sheerin: Night Sky – 1981 *
7.   Stompin’ Tom Connors: Going Back Up North – 1967 *
8.   Ken Stoltz & The Nightlife Band: The Northern Memories – 1974 *
9.   Ted Wesley: Northland’s Destiny – 1972 *
10. William Tagoona: Northern Man – 1981 *
11. Lee Cremo: Cock of the North – 1972 *
12. Thomas Dolby: Flying North – 1982
13. The Beatles: Only A Northern Song – 1967
14. Village STOP: North Country – 1969 *
15. Buffy Saint-Marie: Native North American Child – 1972 *
16. Bob Dylan w Johnny Cash: Girl From The North Country – 1969
17 . Sunparlour Players: North – 2009 *
18. Toronto Philharmonia Orchestra: North Country – 1967 *
19. Rocco Granata: Marina – 1959

Side B

1.   Diamond Joe White: Northern Journey – 1981 *
2.   John Arpin: Same Damn Song – 1971 *
3.   Johnny Horton: North To Alaska – 1960
4.   Ian Tyson: The North Saskatchewan – 1974
5.   Juupie Arnaituk: How Northern Quebec Was Discovered – 1987 *
6.   Mac Beattie & Ottawa Valley Melodiers: Northern Ontario Blues – 1969 *
7.   Russ Conway: I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles – 1959
8.   Ryan’s Fancy: Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen – 1971 *
9.   Bill Houston: Northern Journey – 1975 *
10. Hank LaRiviere: the Northern Cannonball – 1939 *
11. Bill Garrett: Northshore Train – 1979 *
12. Stan Rogers: Northwest Passage – 2019 *
13. Frank Zappa: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance – 1961
14. The Grievous Angels: The Great North Wind – 1988 *
15. Justin Rutledge: North Wind – 2016 *
16. Cat Stevens: Northern Wind – 1967
17. Cano: Spirit of the North – 1980 *
18. Kent Brockwell: Northshore Yodel – 1972 *

CanCon = 80%

And Now for The Particulars:

Side A

1.   Blackie & The Rodeo Kings: North
(Tom Wilson)
45 single bw South: FU:M Records  FUM036
Nashville,  Hamilton,  Victoria
Colin Linden: acoustic guitar, dobro, vocals
Tom Wilson: acoustic guitar, lead vocal
Stephen Fearing: acoustic guitar, vocals
Johnny Dymond: bass
Gary Craig: drums
John Whynot: organ

Produced by Colin Linden  2013
Recorded by John Dymond and Colin Linden at Pinhead Recorders, Nashville TN
Mastered by Craig Calbi and Steve Falone at Sterling Sound, NYC

The band was formed in 1996, in Hamilton, Ontario.  Colin Linden started Blackie and the Rodeo Kings as a tribute to one of their favorite Canadian folk artists, the singer-songwriter Willie P. Bennett. Their name was taken from Bennett's 1978 album Blackie and the Rodeo King. This is from a 45 single released in 2013; the flip side of the record is “South” which I’ll play in the next hour.

2.   Jim Magill & His Northern Ramblers: Northern Hoe Down
(J Magill)
Square Dances EP: London Records BEP 6140
Toronto ON
Jim Magill: fiddle
Others not listed
Produced 1952

Jim (James Creighton) Magill b. Northern Ireland 1902 / d. Toronto 28 Jan 1954 (52)

3.   Jake Doell: Beauty of the North
(Jake Doell)
Echoes of the Canadian Rockies: Continental / Maple Leaf CML 1002
Vancouver BC
Jake Doell:
Jerry Doell:
Ed Isaak: lead vocals
MK Shannon:
Ed King:
The Valentines: bg vocals
Produced by Jake Doell, c1963
Recorded by Keith Spencer
Cover from Canadian National Railways photo

4.   Loewen Family Orchestra: Northern Trappers Rendezvous
(Jack Loewen)
A Folksong Portrait of Canada: Mercury 769748000-2
The Pas, MB
Jack Loewen
Martha Loewen
Marvin Loewen
Anne Loewen
Shirley Davidson
George Davidson

Produced by Samuel Gesser, 1994
Recorded 1960

Originally recorded on Folkways FW8764

5.   Elliot Brood: Northern Air
(Elliot Brood)
Days Into Years: Paper Bag Records PAPER061LP
Toronto ON
Casey Laforet: guitar, bass pedals, lap steel, banjo, bass, mandolin, vocal
Mark Sasso: banjo, guitar, vocal, harmonica
Stephen Pitkin: drums, piano, vocal
Produced by Elliott Brood, 2013
Engineered by John Critchley, Elliott Brood and Ryan Fields
Recorded at Green Door Studio, Avening Town Hall and Parkside Drive Studios, Toronto
Mixed by John Critchley and Elliott Brood
Mastered by Ron Skinner at Headling North Mastering

Active Years from 2002 till the present day.

After moving from their hometown of Windsor, Ontario to Toronto, Mark Sasso and Casey Laforet got together with Stephen Pitkin to form The Brood. They released their first EP, recorded at home, in 2004. For “Days Into Years”, the band were mostly inspired by a visit to the Etaples Military Cemetery during a tour through France.

6.   Steins & Sheerin: Night Sky
(Steins / Sheerin)
Midnight Light: Contemporary Music From The Yukon: Rivertown Records JSSS 3939
Dawson City, YT
John Steins: 12 string guitar
Scott Sheerin: soprano sax
Produced by David Essig - 1981
Recorded by Daniel Lanois at Grant Ave. Studios, Hamilton
Cover Illustration: John Steins
Photography: Cheryl Hassard
http://www.johnsteins.com

From the liner notes on the back cover: “On the last day in the studio Scott and I sat down and improvised this piece. It pretty well sums up how we feel about the Yukon and the north in general. A very special place.

John Steins is currently living in Dawson City and working as a printmaker @johnsteins. He also served as Mayor for Dawson City. Scott Sheerin is a spritual healer now living in North Carolina. He uses his flute to help heal people. The photography was done by a neighbour of mine, Cheryl Hassard. She gave me this copy of the album.

7.   (Stompin’) Tom Connors: Going Back North
(TC Connors)
The Northlands’ Own: Rebel Records CLPS 1067
Halton Hills, ON
Stompin’ Tom Connors: guitar, vocal
John Irvine: fucked up bass
Produced by John Irvine, 1967

The first had been issued as The “Northlands’ Own Tom Connors”, released before he adopted the Stompin’ moniker, on Rebel Records. The original producer, John Irvine, butchered it up by trying to add electric bass to the songs himself (although he didn’t know how to actually play the instrument!). When Tom regained the rights to the album, the original Rebel recording master conveniently “couldn’t be found”  so Tom had to re-record two entire albums again for his new label, Dominion  Records. (His second LP, “Tragedy Trail” had also been released by Irvine on Rebel Records as ‘Tom Connors On Tragedy Trail’ and suffered the same fate). And for the covers, they had to add ‘Stompin’ on the Dominion releases.

The Northland’s Own has since been reissued on Boot, A-C-T and Capitol Records but was mistakenly retitled ‘Northlands Zone’ when it was re-released, in 1973, on Tom’s own Boot Records label. Apparently, Tom wasn’t very pleased about the title being misspelled.

8.   Ken Stoltz & The Nitelife Band: The Northern Memories 
(Al Oster)
The Third World Sings: Beaver Records BEA 002
Vancouver
Fred House: lead vocals
Stan Bell: steel guitar
Ken Stolz: Bass
Wayne Schedel: Drums
Jigger Pine: Guitar
Melodie Stolz: Piano

Produced by Jake Doell, 1974
Recorded at Sound Canada Studios, Toronto
Compilation Album Produced for Frontiers Foundation Operation Beaver

Operation Beaver, a Canadian charity organization founded in 1964 as an Aboriginal Christian camp.

9.   Ted Wesley: Northland’s Destiny
(Bob Ruzicka)
Straight North: Damon Records DA 1004
Yellowknife NT
Ted Wesley: vocals
Others not listed
Produced by Garry McDonnall, 1972
Recorded by Don Paches at Damon Recording Studios, Edmonton AB

Ted Wesley first came to the North at the age of 16, and went to work for Discovery Gold Mine north of Yellowknife. He claimed: “I lied to them, told them I was 18,” and the north has been his home ever since. “The North imposes a need for a person to come to terms with themselves and, for me, that means coming to terms with my music and making it the music of the land.” He was born in Abercorn, Zambia when it was still called Northern Rhodesia, of Polish refugee parents. When he was six the family moved to England and a few years later emigrated to Edmonton. He made a great impression as an Elvis impersonator at Yellowknife pubs before getting into covering the songs of Bob Ruzicka and Al Oster.

10. William Tagoona: Northern Man
(William Tagoona)
Northern Man: Boot Records / CBC Northern Services – NCB 500
Fort Chimo QC
William Tagoona: guitar, vocal
Dougie Trineer: bass
Paul Gurry: electric guitar
S Bougie: drums
Produced by Les McLaughlin, 1981
Recorded in Ottawa

William Tagoona b. Qamani’tuaq, (formerly Baker Lake), in Nunavut , 1952.

Tagoona  attended residential school in Churchill, Manitoba and completed high school in Ottawa.  Before he was taken away from his family, he fronted the first Inuit rock band in the Northwest Territories when he was 12, back in 1964, called ‘The Harpoons’. From an early age he wrote all his songs in Inuktitut. He released two LPs (in the early 80s) produced by CBC Northern Services and currently works for CBC News in Nunavut, hosting a program called Tuttavik.

11. Lee Cremo: Cock of the North
(Trad)
Lee Cremo & The Eastern Variation: Audat Records 477-9010
Eskasoni, Cape Breton Island NS
Lee Cremo: fiddle
Gabriel Sylibay: bass
Wilfred Paul: lead guitar
Joseph MacMullen: piano
Peter Stevens: drums
James Poulette: rhythm guitar

Produced by Dr. A Feeney, 1972
Recorded by Mas Kikuta at Audio Atlantic, Halifax NS

Lee Cremo b. Barra Head, Nova Scotia 30 December 1938 / d. 10 October 1999 Eskasoni, NS)

Cremo made his first LP in 1968 for Liberty Records (Champion Fiddler LM-903) and recorded six other albums released in the 1970s on the Audat label. In 1995 he released The Champion Returns, which was voted best First Nations recording at the 1996 East Coast Music Awards.

He won as many as eighty awards throughout his career, including the Maritime Old Time Fiddling Championship, "Best Bow Arm in the World" at the World Fiddling Championships in Nashville, Tennessee, and "Canadian Champion" at the Alberta Tar Sands Competition. Lee performed at the opening of the Expo 67 and at the launch of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

12. Thomas Dolby: Flying North
(Thomas Dolby)
45 single bw She Blinded Me With Science: Harvest Records B 5204
London UK
Thomas Dolby: Computer and Drum Programming, Lead Vocals
Justin Hildreth: Drums
Kevin Armstrong: Electric Guitar
David Birch: Guitar
Lesley Fairbairn: bg vocal
Produced by Thomas Dolby, 1982
Mastered By Gene Thompson

Thomas Morgan Robertson b. London UK Oct 14, 1958

Since there was already a Thomas Robertson on the British music scene in the early 1970s, Robertson changed his last name to Dolby. He was always fiddling around with electronic devices so his friends nicknamed him Dolby. He fought with Dolby Laboratories, who developed the Dolby noise reductions systems, over the use of the Dolby name and won his case. He’s currently a Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.

13. The Beatles: Only A Northern Song
(George Harrison)
Yellow Submarine: Apple Records SW 153
London UK
George Harrison: vocals, Hammond organ, additional organ, dialogue, noises
John Lennon: glockenspiel, piano, dialogue, noises
Paul McCartney: bass guitar, trumpet, noises
Ringo Starr: drums, noises
uncredited but played by the Beatles: timpani, Mellotron
Produced by George Martin, 1968
Released Jan 13, 1969

Harrison wrote "Only a Northern Song" out of dissatisfaction with his status as a junior songwriter with the Beatles' publishing company, Northern Songs. The lyrics and music convey his disenchantment at how the company retained the copyright for the songs it published, and at how, following its big public listing, in 1965, the major shareholders of the company profited more from his songs than he did. The recording features a Hammond organ, played by Harrison, and an overdubbed montage of orchestral sounds, like trumpets, which were made on one of the first Mellotrons.

The title, "Only a Northern Song", related to The Beatles being from Liverpool, in the north of England.

14. Village STOP: North Country
(Fraser Loveman)
45 single bw Vibration: Ruby Records T-56194, 5
St. Catherines ON
Fraser Loveman: vocal
Paul Marcoux: lead guitar
Nick Urech: bass
Steve Urech: rhythm guitar
Jim Hall: drums
Produced by Fraser Loveman, 1969
 
The band started in 1965 and went through several lead singers as they changed from pop to psychedelic styles. Finally they brought in Fraser Loveman, former singer of another St Catherines band, The British Modbeats. However they only managed to produce this one (collector’s item) 45.

15. Buffy Sainte-Marie: Native North American Child
(Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Moonshot: Vanguard Records – VSD 79312
Piapot Cree First Nations Reserve, SK
Buffy Sainte-Marie: vocal, guitar
Charlie McCoy: electric guitar, harmonica
Billy Sanford: guitar
David Briggs: keys
Norbert Putnam: bass
Kenny Buttrey: drums
Produced by Buffy Sainte-Marie & Norbert Putnam, 1972
Recorded by Gene Eichelberger at Quadrafonic Studios, Nashville TN

Beverly Sainte-Marie b. Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan February 20, 1941

Buffy was signed to Vanguard records and began releasing albums for that label beginning in 1964. Nine years and ten albums later, she released Native North American Child, her last album for Vanguard, in 1974. The song, however, was also featured on her 1972 album ‘Moonshot’.

16. Bob Dylan  & Johnny Cash: Girl From The North Country
(B Dylan)
Nashville Skyline: Columbia Records - KCS 9825
Woodstock, NY
Kenny Buttrey
Charles McCoy
Pete Drake
Norman Blake
Charlie Daniels
Bob Wilson
Produced by Bob Johnston, 1969
Recorded by Charlie Bragg & Neil Wilburn, Nashville TN

Robert Allen Zimmerman b. May 24, 1941 Duluth, Minnesota

The song was written following his first trip to England and finished in Italy in December, 1962, upon what he thought to be the completion of his second album. It is debated as to whom this song is a tribute. It was originally released on Dylan’s second album, The Freewheeling Bob Dylan and re-recorded with Johnny Cash in February, 1969. Over the decades it has been recorded by the likes of Pete Townsend, Altan, Joe Cocker, Tom Northcott, The Clancy Brothers, Rod Stewart, Neil Young, Black Crows – to name a few.

The impact of this song as a Dylan-Cash duet was really one of the first country-rock crossover songs at a time when ‘Nashville’ was openly hostile to bands like ‘The Byrds’ and ‘Flying Burrito Brothers’ where were embracing real country music as rock bands.

  
17 . Sunparlour Players: North
(Andrew Penner)
Wave North: Outside Music – 2333990482
Toronto ON
Jeremy Strachan: Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
Dennis Van Dine: Bass, keys, Glockenspiel, Percussion, Banjo, Accordion, Handclaps, Vocals
Adriana Maria Pera: Cello
Choir – Andy Bunker, Emily Scheer, Erin Brandenburg, Kat Burns, Kimwun Pereline, Nat Van Dine
Michael "Rosie" Rosenthal: Drums, Accordion, Glockenspiel, Banjo, Bass, Vocals, Handclaps
R.J. Satchithananthan: Trombone
Bryden Baird: Trumpet
Fiona Stewart: Violin arrangements 
Andrew Penner: Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Bass, Keys, Percussion, Handclaps
Produced by Jeremy Backofen & Sunparlour Players, 2009
Recorded at The Woodshed by Chris Shreenan-Dyck & Junkshop/Factory Theatre by Dave Mackinnon
Mixed By Ian McGettigan at Parkdalien Studio
Mastered By Tim Branton at Joao Carvalho Studios

Andrew Penner grew up on a farm near Leamington, ON in the region nicknamed Canada's "Sun Parlour", thus their name. Based in Toronto, the band released its debut album Hymns for the Happy in 2006.

18. Toronto Philharmonia Orchestra: North Country
(Neil Chotem)
Heritage: Canadian Folk-Inspired Compositions: Dominion Records – 1372
Toronto ON
Victor Feldbrill: conductor
Produced by Louis Applebaum, 1967
Recorded at Massey Hall, Toronto

Victor Feldbrill. Conductor, violinist, b Toronto 4 Apr 1924 / d. June 2020

"Heritage" was commissioned by The St. Laurent Shopping Centre in Ottawa, 1985, and Feldbrill was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Recorded at Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall.

Vintage Voices Segment 3: Guest DJ Ermelinda

19. Rocco Granata: Marina
(R Granata)
45 single bw Manuela: Delahay Records DS 1002
Italy
Rocco Granata: vocals
Others not listed
Produced 1959

Rocco Granata b. 16 August 1938 (83) Figline Vegliaturo, Italy

Side B

1.   Diamond Joe White: Northern Journey
(J White)
High Rider: Stony Plain Recording Co SPL 1040
Calgary AB
Diamond Joe White: guitar, vocal
Ran Casat: piano
Tom McKillop: sax
Dick Kruger: steel
Jack Hiles: drums
Nathan Tinkham: guitar
Dave Wilke: mandolin
Roy Warburst: fiddle
Kim Kreamer, harmonica, bg vocal
Jeff Farley: stand up bass
Loretta Logan, Joanne Kuntz, Ken Christopher, Penny White: bg vocals
Produced by Ron Casat and Gabriel Boucher, 1981
Recorded by Gabriel Boucher and Steve Graupe at Smooth Rock Studios, Calgary
Mixed by Boucher, Casat and Graupe

2.   John Arpin: Same Damn Song
(Gene MacLellan)
Barroom To Baroque: Canadian Talent Library: 477-5148
Toronto ON
John Arpin: piano
Art Devilliers: acoustic guitar
Neville Barnes: electric guitar, banjo
Paul Fortier: bass
Willie Cantu: drums
Bill Richards, Gerard Kantarjian, Isidore Desser: violins
Walter Babiak: viola
Ron Laurie: cello

Produced by John Arpin, 1971
Recorded by George Semkiw & Hayward Parrott at RCA Studios, Toronto

John Arpin b. 3 December 1936 Port McNicoll ON / d. 8 November 2007 (70)

This Toronto based musician recorded more than sixty albums, mostly of ragtime, Broadway music, pop music, and classical music. In June 1998, he won the Scott Joplin Award from the Scott Joplin Foundation of ‘Sedalia, Missouri’. Ragtime great Eubie Blake pronounced John Arpin "the Chopin of Ragtime. He also composed the theme for TVOntario's children's show, The Polka Dot Door.

3.   Johnny Horton: North To Alaska
(M Phillips)
45 single bw The Mansion You Stole: Columbia Records 4-41782
Los Angeles CA
Johnny Horton: guitar, vocal
Tommy Tomlinson: bass
Others not listed
Produced by Don Law, 1960

John LaGale  Horton (b. Los Angeles April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960)

North To Alaska was used in the 1960 starring John Wayne and Stewart Granger. Horton died in an automobile accident 5 November 1960 shortly after the song was released. He began releasing records back in 1952 but it took him a few years of duds before hitting the charts with “It’s Springtime In Alaska”, followed by “The Battle of New Orleans” and “Sink The Bismarck”.

He made his final public appearance at the "Skyline Club" in Austin, Texas, on Friday night, November 4, 1960, the same venue where Hank Williams made his final public appearance in late December 1952.

4.   Ian Tyson: The North Saskatchewan
(Ian Tyson)
Ol’ Eon: A&M Records – SP 9017
Pincher Creek AB
Ian Tyson: vocal, guitar
Red Shea: lead guitar
Pee Wee Charles: steel
Dave Brown: drums
Jim Morgan: bass
Gord Flemming: piano
Sylvia Tyson, Ed Wideman, Adam Mitchell, Neil Nelles, Myrna Lorrey: bg vocals
Produced by Adam Mitchell, 1974
Recorded by Phil Sheriden at Thunder Sound, Toronto

Ol’ Eon was the first solo album by Ian Tyson, fresh out of The Great Speckled Bird and just about to break up with Sylvia. Produced by ex-Pauper, Adam Mitchell.

5.   Juupie Arnaituk: How Northern Quebec Was Discovered
(Juupie Arnaituk)
Things Around Us: CBC Northern Services – WRC1-5654
Wakeham Bay QC
Juupie Arnaituk: vocal
Randall Prescott: bass, harmonica
Mitch Pouliot: drums
Gary Spicer: guitar, dobro
Ed Bimm: keys
Produced by Les McLaughlin, 1987
Recorded by Bob Peladeau in Ottawa

I’ve got one CBC album and a 45 of this guy but I can’t find much information about him. The liner notes talk about Inuit but say nothing about him!

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Northern Service Broadcast Recordings were produced (mostly in Ottawa) between 1980-1992. The collection consists of recordings featuring mostly indigenous artists.

6.   Mac Beattie & Ottawa Valley Melodiers: Northern Ontario Blues
(Mac Beattie)
In Stereo – By Request: Banff Rodeo SBS 5312
Arnprior ON
Mac Beattie: vocal, drums
Gaetan Fairfield: guitar
Reg Hill: fiddle
Jimmy Mayhew: piano
Hubert Brisson: bass
Gordon Summers: electric guitar
Produced by George Taylor, 1969
Recorded by Gaetan Desbiens at Stereo Sound Studios, Montreal

Hockey mad Mac wrote this song as he travelled through Northern Ontario en route to Nanaimo BC, in 1939, where he joined the fledgling Nanaimo Clippers as their goal tender. I’m not too sure when he began playing it publically, but he didn’t actually record the song until 1969. It’s got great chords and captures the mood and feel of the northland and mentions my home town of Timmins.

7.   Russ Conway: I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
(Kenbrovin / Kellett)
Songs To Sing In Your Bath: Columbia UK 1149
Bristol UK
Russ Conway: piano
Produced by Geoff Love, 1959

Trevor Herbert Stanford b. 2 Sept 1925 Bristol / d. 16 Nov 2000 (75) Eastbourne, Sussex

Russ Conway is the epitome of the term, Recording Artist. He recorded three albums in 1959 and made a slew of them throughout the ‘60s and continued at that output until well into the 1980s. People that made good, dependable, dancing music for hairdos and suits.

8.   Ryan’s Fancy: Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen
(Mary Webb)
An Irish Night At the Black Knight Lounge: Marathon Records – MS 2105
St John’s NL
Dennis Ryan: vocals, tin whistle, mandolin, fiddle
Dermot O’Reilly: vocals, lead guitar, mandolin
Fergus O’Byrne: vocals, banjo, mandolin, guitar
Produced by Jack Boswell & Bill Bessey, 1971
Recorded live at the Black Knight Lounge,Halifax NS by Jack Hutchison & George Taylor

They were active from 1969–1983 and were originally members of the Sons of Erin

The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen song is a Scottish song written by Mary Webb for a home sick Aberdonian lass who she worked with in a hospital kitchen. Mary Webb was English and lived in London and had never been to Aberdeen. Her fellow worker was invited to Mary's house for tea and when they were talking about Aberdeen Mary asked if that was where the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, could be seen. Mary Webb composed the words to Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen to cheer up the homesick woman. Mary died age 88.

9.   Bill Houston: Northern Journey
(B Houston)
The King of White Otter Lake: Lone Wolf - LW1405CD
Thunder Bay, ON
Bill Houston: 12 string guitar, harmonica
Grit Laskin: banjo, folk guitar, mandolin
Produced by Shelby M Gregory, 1975
Recorded at Eastern Sound, Toronto, and Creative Electronics Studios, London ON
Re-Mastered by Paul Mills & Rob Jardine

10.   Hank LaRiviere: The Northern Cannonball
(Henri LaRiviere)
78 rpm Single bw Hooray For Camp Borden: RCA Victor 4685
Hawkesbury ON
Hank LaRiviere: guitar, vocal
Produced 1939

Henri LaRiviere b. Hawkesbury ON Jan 23, 1917 / d. May 7, 1996 London ON

Taken from an old 78 of Eric Wilson. Hank LaRiviere, who also went by the stage name of Hank Rivers, was originally known as The Singing Soldier.

11. Bill Garrett: Northshore Train
(Bill Garrett)
Bill Garrett: Posterity / Woodshed Records PWS 014
Montreal QC
Bill Garrett: guitars, vocals
Curly Boy Stubbs: guitar
Pepe Francis: electric guitars, dobro
David Essig: mandolin
Ron Dann: pedal steel, dobro
Kim Brandt: bass
Dave Lewis: drums
Produced by Paul Mills, 1979
Recorded by Daniel Lanois at Grant Avenue Studios, Hamilton ON
Cover by Ian Bell

Bill Garrett was a CBC radio producer / engineer who was right into folk music. He eventually teamed up with a CBC contemporary, Paul Mills who went by the stage name of Curly Boy Stubbs. Together they played gigs for over 20 years and helped form the nucleus of Borealis Records with Grit Laskin and Ken Whiteley. This is the only solo vinyl  output by Garrett, recorded by Daniel Lanois at Lanois’s legendary Grant Avenue Studios.

12. Stan Rogers: Northwest Passage
(Stan Rogers)
The Best of Stan Rogers: Borealis Records BVL 262
Ancaster ON
Stan Rogers, vocals
Garnet Rogers: vocals
David Alan Eadie: vocals
Chris Crilly: vocals

Produced by Paul Mills 1981
Compilation Produced by Ariel Rogers, 2019
Recorded by Declan ODoherty at Springfield Sound, October 1980
Mixed at Springfield Sound by Paul Mills and Declan ODoherty
Digital vinyl mastering by Joao Carvalho and Bill Garrett at Carvalho Mastering, Toronto
Art design by A Man Called Wrycraft

13. Frank Zappa: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
(Frank Zappa)  
The Lost Episodes: Rykodisc RCD 40573
Los Angeles CA
Frank Zappa: guitar
Chuck Grove: drums  
Caronga Ward: bass
Tony Rodriguez: alto sax
Chuck Foster: trumpet
Danny Helferin: piano

Produced by Frank Zappa, 1961
Recorded by Paul Buff at Buff Studios, Cucamonga

This is the first of 3 different versions of the song Zappa recorded. He used hired jazz musicians. At the time, Zappa was playing in a jazz band, playing cocktail lounges performing standard jazz tunes and going crazy. The band was called Joe Perrino and The Mellotones. The owner of Pal Records and studio, Paul Buff, sold his lease to young Frank who got totally absorbed into production, renaming the place Studio Z. Police were skeptical about the place and sent an undercover cop in to commission a party tape which Zappa was able to provide (coz he was starving). The tape contained women having orgasms although there were no actual sex acts happening. But Zappa got busted for conspiracy to manufacture pornographic material and suspicion of sex perversion and spent ten days in jail and Studio Z was closed down. Frank later used the orgasm tape behind the last song on The Mothers’ second album, Absolutely Free, in a song called America Drinks And Goes Home, probably a satirical homage to Joe Perrino and The Mellotones.

His brief imprisonment left a permanent mark, and was central to the formation of his anti-authoritarian stance. Zappa lost several recordings made at Studio Z in the process, as the police only returned 30 out of 80 hours of tape seized. Eventually, he could no longer afford to pay the rent on the studio and was evicted. Zappa managed to recover some of his possessions before the studio was torn down in 1966.

14. The Grievous Angels: The Great North Wind
(Chuck Angus)
Tout Le Gang: Moose Records 001
Cobalt / Toronto / Belleville, ON
Michelle Rumball – lead vocals
Chuck Angus – guitar, vocals
Tim Hadley – stand up bass
Peter Jellard – accordion, vocals
Pete Duffin – drums, vocals
Produced by Andrew Cash & Grievous Angels, 1988

From the cassette release of the Grievous Angel’s first album with the original members of the band. With Chuck’s permission, I renamed my original CIUT radio program (Mariposa Folkwaves 1988 – 89) after this song and used it as a theme song. The show ran from 1989 to 1999. (After that, I began Back To The Sugar Camp). The album never got re-released for CD. The Angels just released a new vinyl LP in 2021 – I’ll play you something off it next week.

15. Justin Rutledge: North Wind
(Brenley MacEachern / Lisa MacIsaac)
East: Outside Music OUT9102
Toronto
Bass: Kyle Cunjak
Drums, Percussion: Sly Juhas
Guitar, Keyboards, Horns, Voice: Daniel Ledwell
Guitar, Voice: Justin Rutledge
Pedal Steel Guitar: Asa Brosius
Piano, Electric Piano [Wurlitzer]: Steve O'Connor
Producer, Engineer, Mixed by  Daniel Ledwell, 2016
Mastered by J LaPointe at Archive Mastering, Minevill NS
Recorded at Echo Lake Studios, Echo Lake NS

Justin Rutledge b. Toronto January 3, 1979

Rutledge was born and grew up in the Junction neighbourhood in Toronto. He dropped out of the University of Toronto to do music full time and it payed off. He’s toured Canada, the UK, the United States and Europe. East is the seventh studio album, recorded in Halifax. He currently resides in Prince Edward County.

16. Cat Stevens: Northern Wind
(Cat Stevens)
New Masters: Derem DTS 18010
London UK
Cat Stevens: guitar, piano. vocals

Produced by Mike Hurst, 1967
Recorded at Decca Studios, West Hampstead UK

Yusuf Islam b. Steven Demetre Georgiou  21 July 1948, Marylebone, London UK

Northern Wind is as song about the death of Billy The Kid.

17. Cano: Spirit of the North
(Wasyl Kohut)
Spirit of the North: A&M Records SP 9040
Sudbury ON
Marcel Aymar: lead vocals, acoustic guitar
David C. Burt: electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Michel Dasti: drums, percussion
John Doerr: bass, trombone
Michael Kendel: vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, electric guitar
Wasyl Kohut: violins
Rachel Paiement: lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Produced by Luc Cousineau and John Red Mitchell 1980
Recorded by Hayward Parrott at various locations around Toronto
Mastered by George Graves at The Lacquer Channel, Toronto

CANO evolved out of the Sudbury based ‘Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario’.  They performed in both official languages. The band was formed in the fall of 1975. Spirit of the North, a compilation issued in 1980, traced CANO's integration of pop, rock and jazz influences into what was originally a folk-based style. Other well known musicians who have played or recorded with CANO include Ben Mink (who replaced Wasyl Kohut who passed away), Kim Deschamps (who played with Cowboy Junkies); percussionist Matt Zimbel (Manteca). Various members of the co-operative band backed Daisy deBolt on some of her late 1970s and early 80s albums when she was living in Sudbury.


18. Kent Brockwell: North Shore Yodel
(Kent Brockwell)
The Old Country Feeling: Cynda Records CNS 1013
Peterborough ON
Kent Brockwell: vocal, dobro
Others unlisted
Produced by Fred McKenna, 1972
Recorded at Captain Audio Studios, Toronto by Jim Morgan

Kent Brockwell (1922-1998)

A farmer who loved the dobro, nearly blind, the man could sing. He loved to roll to the North Shore Yodel; country music was how he played. It wasn't unusual to hear Kent play at old time Jamborees, fall fairs and dances. He was as old time as it gets in country music, singing about the places he knew. A good friend of Stompin' Tom Connors and yet there was barely a whisper after he died.




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