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June 22 1956: Allan Mix, bassist for Rhinoceros, Cheyenne Winter, and Skylark is born in Edmonton. 1959: Alan Anton, bassist for the Cowboy Junkies is born in Montreal. 1964: Bobby Curtola‘s “As Long As I’m Sure of You” enters the Canadian charts at # 16. 1968: “How’d We Ever Get This Way” by Andy Kim …
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 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 8 1932: Guy Lombardo tops Billboard’s chart with “Paradise.” 1971: The Bells are on American Bandstand, where they lip synch “Stay Awhile” and “Fly Little White Dove, Fly.” 1975: Paul Anka tops Canada’s singles chart with “I Don’t Like To Sleep Alone.” 1976: April Wine‘s THE WHOLE WORLD’S GOIN’ CRAZY album is #1 in …
May 6 1945: Former Jon Lee & The Checkmates and Rhinoceros singer John Finley is born in Toronto. 1957: Jerry Fielden of Arapacis is born in Montreal. 1973: Famed conductor Sir Ernest MacMillan, ‘Canada’s\ musical knight’, passes away in Toronto. While in Germany at the Bayreuth Music Festival, the First World War broke out, and …
April 30 1962: Longtrain, Steele/MacLeod, and Headpins bassist Danny Latham is born in Weyburn, Sask. 1967: Ian and Sylvia Tyson perform at New York’s Carnegie Hall for the first time. 1969: Dianne Brooks releases her debut single, “Walkin’ On My Mind.” 1971: Neil Young peaks at #93 on Billboard’s chart with “When You Dance I …
April 23 1923: The New Symphony Orchestra, which would become the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1927, gives its first concert ever at Massey Hall. 1967: Buffalo Springfield is on TV, performing “Mr Soul” and “Go and Say Goodbye” on the debut of ABC’s short lived Go! 1973: Lisle‘s “Sweetheart” reaches #28 on the Canadian country …
April 18 1944: Producer George Semkiw is born in Stanislav, Ukraine. 1966: “Daydream” by The Lovin Spoonful, which features Canadian Zal Yanovsky, peaks at #1 on Canada’s singles chart RPM. 1970: The Guess Who‘s “No Sugar Tonite” debuts and peaks at #39 in its only week on Billboard’s top 40 list. 1973: Rush‘s show …
April 7 1908: Percy Faith is born in Toronto. 1945: Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians debut on the Billboard pop chart with “My Heart Sings” which peaks at #21 & charts for only one week. 1952: Singer/songwriter/producer Gilles Valiquette is born in Montreal. 1967: Gordon Lightfoot releases his sophomore album, THE WAY I …
April 3 1943: Richard Manuel, keyboardist for The Band, is born in Stratford, Ontario. 1947: James Leroy is born on a farm near Cornwall, Ontario. 1961: Paul Anka appears on CBS-TV’s “Make Room For Daddy.” 1961: The folk duo Malka and Joso make their onstage debut at Toronto’s Lord Simcoe Hotel. 1971: Poppy Family end …