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May 26 1940: Levon Helm, drummer and vocalist for The Band, is born in Marvell, Arkansas. 1945: Garry Peterson, drummer of The Guess Who is born in Winnipeg. 1966: The Guess Who, featuring both Chad Allan and Burton Cummings, are at the Winnipeg Football Stadium for Bang-A-Rama. 1973: Anne Murray enters the US charts with …
May 25 1963: Hank Snow peaks on Billboard’s country chart at #9 with “The Man Who Robbed The Bank At Santa Fe.” 1969: Lighthouse make their first ever appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York. Everyone in attendance is given a copy of their debut album. 1974: Gordon Lightfoot peaks on Billboard at #26 with …
May 24 1938: Tommy Chong, guitarist for Little Daddy and the Bachelors, later renamed Four Niggers and a Chink, and then Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers is born in Edmonton. He’s best known as half of Cheech and Chong. 1956: One-time Magic Circus and Paupers member James Houston is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1969: …
May 23 1964: Hank Snow peaks on Billboard’s country chart at #11 with “Breakfast With The Blues.” 1966: Leonard Cohen makes his first ever TV appearance, performing “The Stranger Song” on Take Thirty on CBC. 1970: The Guess Who end a three-week run atop Canada’s RPM singles chart with “American Woman.” 1971: Morse Code Transmission …
May 22 1950: Gary Weeks of Gary & Dave is born in Charlottetown, PEI. 1957: CHUM AM switches to a “Top 50” format, and begins its own chart. 1959: Lisa Dalbello is born in Toronto. 1967: Dan Roberts, bassist for Crash Test Dummies is born in Winnipeg. 1967: The Rabble, The Isabella Blues Band, and …
May 19 1943: Composer and synthesizer musician John Mills-Cockell is born in Toronto. 1946: Trevor Veitch, renowned producer and member of 3’s A Crowd, is born in Vancouver. 1951: Max Webster drummer Gary McCracken is born in Sarnia, Ontario. 1970: The Guess Who top Billboard’s chart with “American Woman.” 1972: Brian Sklar and the Prairie …
May 18 1948: Bill Wallace of Gettsybyrg Address, Brother and Guess Who fame is born in Winnipeg. 1951: Charity Brown is born as Phyllis Boltz in Kitchener, Ont. 1956: Mark Bradac of Teaze is born in Windsor, Ontario. 1967: Neil Young & Crazy Horse are in Providence, RI for a pair of shows that night …
May 16 1931: Ted Kowalski of The Diamonds is born in Toronto. 1950: Hank Snow releases the single, “I’m Moving On.” 1960: Multi-style fiddle master and world renowned artist Calvin Vollrath is born in St Paul, Alberta. 1966: The Mamas & Papas, which features Canadian Denny Doherty, begin a three-week run atop Canada’s singles chart …
May 10 1965: Hal Willis’ “Klondike Mike” tops Canada’s country chart for the second time. It stayed there for three weeks a couple of months earlier, and this time spends two weeks on top. 1977: Rush is in Milwaukee for a show at the Convention Centre. They play “Xanadu” for the first time, before A …
May 9 1909: Fiddle great Don Messer is born in Tweedside, NB. 1914: Hank Snow is born in Brooklyn, NS as Clarence Eugene Snow. 1953: Connie Kaldor is born in Regina, Sask. 1959: Paul Anka and Ronnie Hawkins are both performers on Dick Clark’s “Beech-Nut Show.” 1966: “Until It’s Time For You To Go” by …