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(THOSE) ROGUES
Bryan Primeau (organ, vocals) / Rick Rogers (guitar) / Terry Davey (sax) / Harvey Bell (bass) / Mike Jargan (drums) / Debbie Lori Kaye (vocals)
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, band (Those) Rogues began their career in the early ’60s with regular shows at the Moose Hall in Thessalon, Ontario. They then began playing at The Peppermint Hall filling in for the Fireflies who were taking a trip. They then moved over to the former Knights of Columbus Hall. In 1964, the band recorded a ten song LP with local producer John Holt and a few acetates were given to each of the band members. A copy was sent to CKCY and received some moderate airplay. A disc jockey at CKCY asked the band if his daughter, Debbie Lori Kaye could sing with them. She auditioned and joined the band after which they toured for nearly a year before she left to be on ‘The Tommy Hunter Show’. This encouraged the band and producer Holt to journey to Toronto and record in a proper studio. Davey didn’t want to risk losing his job at Algoma Steel and stayed behind (he would later form another band called The Bishop’s Court Trio). (Those) Rogues went to Arc Studios in Toronto on February 26, 1967 with Marshall Shapiro engineering two songs. “(Wish I Could) See You Again” b/w “Girl” was released on Holt’s Algoma Records and the band achieved some notoriety when they came back home. They would even be the backing band for Bobby Curtola at the Sault Ste. Marie Memorial Garden. After the Rogues, Primeau would join many touring bands and artists back in the Soo including Cal McQuiggan And The Changes, Louis Cormier And The Acadians, The Sound of Evolution (1970), The Flipside (1972), Black Dirt Road and, finally, Seafox. Primeau continued playing part time until about 2003. A copy of the singles sold on Ebay for $2300 in 2007. with notes from Linnea Primeau and Terry Davey. [also see DEBBIE LORI KAYE]

Singles
1967 (Wish I Could) See You Again/Girl (Algoma) ST-53

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“12”
Alias for Montréal, Québec artist Jacques Prevost. His lone single, “Une Vie Comme Ca,” was produced by Gene Williams.

Singles
1981 Un Vie Comme Ça/L-O-R-I (Rio) RIO-726

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12 GAUGE
Bruce Blackwood (bass, vocals) / Jimi Hynes (drums) / John Hutton (guitar, guitar synth) / Mark Murphy (vocals, keyboards)
From Newfoundland.

Singles
1980 I Saw You On The Telephone/Innovations (Quay/Clode Sound) CS-8010

Albums
1983 First Shot [4-sing 12″ EP] (Hoop) HP-1

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13 ENGINES
John Critchley (guitar, vocals) / Grant Ethier (drums, vocals) / Jim Hughes (bass, vocals) / Mike Robbins (guitar)
Formed in the mid-80s as The Ikons, the members were York University students trying to get by on rock and roll and beer. The released a self-titled cassette in 1986 before making waves on Detroit radio where they would straddle the border town nightclubs between the Motor City and Windsor with a new name in honour of the motor trade – 13 Engines. While in Detroit they recorded two independent albums for Nocturnal Records – ‘Before Our Time’ (1987) and ‘Byram Lake Blues’ (1989). The latter spawning a college radio hit single in the song “Beached”. They soon came to the attention of SBK Records and their major label debut, ‘Blur To Me Now’, was produced by the late David Briggs (Neil Young, Alice Cooper). The album spawned two medium rotation singles with “Big Surprise” and “King of Saturday Night” allowing them the freedom to tour across the country. However, they would soon lost their US distribution deal with SBK and a disappointing promotional push in light of such label mates as Vanilla Ice making 13 Engines a low priority. EMI Canada kept the band on the high profile list and made a legitimate bubbling under hit of their next album ‘Perpetual Motion Machine’ in 1993 – which landed them a coveted spot on the first annual Tragically Hip ‘Another Roadside Attraction’ tour. The CD launched two heavily played singles/videos in “More” and “Smoke & Ashes”. As the alternative scene became more mainstream it seemed that 13 Engines’ time had come. They released  ‘Conquistador’ in 1995 and called it a day; John Critchley runs a very successful recording studio in Toronto called Green Door, and has won a JUNO Award for his production work.

Singles
1989 Beached (Nocturnal)
1991 Big Surprise (SBK/Capitol)
1991 King Of Saturday Night (SBK/Capitol)
1993 More (EMI)  CDPRO-710
1993 Ignition (EMI) CDPRO-711
1993 Smoke & Ashes (EMI)
1993 Bred In The Bone (EMI) CDPRO-809
1995 Slow [2-song EP] (Nettwerk/EMI) CDPRO-9606
1995 Beneath My Hand [7″ FlexiDisc] (Evatone/Sunsheets/EMI)
1995 Personal Golem/Waterfall [7”] (EMI) SPRO-1131
1995 Tailpipe Blues (EMI) CDPRO-1160

Albums
1987 Before Our Time (Nocturnal)  NOT-1
1989 Byram Lake Blues (Nocturnal)  NOT-2
1991 Blur To Me Now (SBK/Capitol)  CDP-96207
1993 Perpetual Motion Machine (EMI)  C2-80043
1995 Conquistador (Nettwerk/EMI) 32349
1996 Perfect Largeness – The Nocturnal Years (1987-1990) (Nocturnal) 466810
2017 Brave  New Waves Session [LP] (Artoffact) AOF-308

as THE IKONS
1986 The Ikons [cassette] (independent)

Compilation Tracks
1991 “Kings of Saturday Night” and “Suffocate” on ‘No Flies Here!” (SBK/Capitol) DPRO-5397
1993 “More” on ‘New Stuff Two’ (MMS) NSCD-002
1995 “Tailpipe Blues” on ‘Triple Scoop 3’ (EMI) 438358

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2 LINE FILLER
1992-1994 line-up: Matt White (guitar, vocals) / Allan Shaw (guitar) / Kevin Mellors (drums) / Paul Schedlich (bass)
1996 line-up: Matt White (guitar, vocals) / Jon Drew (drums) / Patrick Dupuis (guitar) / Simon Head (bass, vocals)
1997 – 2000 line-up: Matt White (guitar, vocals) / Al Biddle (drums) / Colin Clark (guitar) / Mike Calder (bass) / Nick Pye (bass)
Formed in 1991 in Pickering, Ontario by Matt White. The band would release several albums with various line-ups until finally calling it a day in 2000. Almost every ex-member, except White, would go on to play in Dead Season.

Singles
as 2 LINE FILLER
1992 Reinforced Arms For A Better Life [2-song 7″] (Me First) MF-1
1994 It’s Time/Leave//[split w/FADEAWAY [7″] (Last But Not Least) LAST-001
2018 Hades [DigiFile] (2 Line Filler)

as TWO LINE FILLER
1996 Two Line Filler [2-song cassette] (New Red Archives – US)

Album
as 2 LINE FILLER
1993 Trash [5-song cassette EP] (2 Line Filler) 2LF-1
1994 So Far Lost (Break Even Point/Cargo) BEP-94CD21

with PEZZ with 2-LINE FILLER
1996 Pezz With 2-Line Filler (Bittersweet) BSR-203CD

as TWO LINE FILLER
1995 Listener (New Red Archives – US) NRA-60CD

Compilation Tracks
1992 “Need To Help” on ‘Stereophonicus Disruptus (The Compilation)’ (Input Rage) MISC-D9264
1995 “Sorry” on ‘A Benefit Compilation Brought To You By Mayfly’ (Mayfly – US)
1995 “Can’t Beak My Pride” on ‘Hardcore Breakout USA Volume 2’ (New Red Archives – US) NRA-19CD
1995 “Can’t Beak My Pride” on ‘Skaters Gear 6’ (Jimco – JAPAN) JICK-89643
1996 “I’m Just Fine” on ‘A Document Of Nothing’ (Second Nature/Structured) SN-02
1998 “Home” on “At War With Society’ (New Red Archives – US) NRA-100CD
1998 “Can’t Beak My Pride” on ‘Punk Breakout USA’ (Flavour Of Sound – JAPAN) TFCK-87587
1999 “Home” on ‘Mighty Attack’ (Flavour Of Sound – JAPAN) TFCK-87619
2003 “Can’t Break My Pride” on ‘Hardcore Breakout USA 1, 2, 3,… [3CD] (New Red Archives – US) NRA-98CD
2012 “Openly” on ‘ Hardcore Breakout – Essential Punk’ (New Red Archives – US)

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20th CENTURY REBELS
Adrian Miller (vocals) / Dennis Hutchinson (organ) / Devon Martin (keyboards, vocals) / Nathan Blackburn (bass) / Topo Davis (guitar) / Derrick Whonder (drums) / Tony White (drums) / Roscoe (trombone) / Locksley Blades (tenor sax, percussion) / Eric deGroot (trumpet, percussion)
Toronto-based Reggae band formed in the early 1980s. Devon Martin would go on to have a brief major label solo career in the 1990s. The 20th Century Rebels still perform live. [also see DEVON]

Albums
1983 Rebelution [5-song EP] (Rebelution) REB-001

Compilation Tracks
1983 “Movin'” on ‘Q107 Homegrown – Volume V’ (Attic) ATT-1225

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222’s
Chris Barry (vocals) / Pierre Major (guitar) / Joe Cerratto (bass) / Louie “Louie” Rondeau (drums)
At age 15, and still in Junior High School, singer Chris Barry started his music career by launching the Montreal punk band 222’s (named after a pain reliever). After the release of two singles and the recording of an aborted LP for a Montreal drug lord (who wanted the band to release a pop record), 222’s high tailed it out of Montreal to Toronto where they weren’t able to sustain themselves and dissolved. Chris Barry headed to England where he would team up with ex-Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, then onto the Southern Death Cult before Ian Astbury laid claim to the name and Barry found himself broke and without a band. Barry returned to North America and reformed the 222’s in Montreal with former members Pierre Major and Joe Cerratto. Later, with the addition of Andre Gagne and Richard Paul, they became 39 Steps and released several albums as well as playing themselves in the Woody Allen movie ‘Hannah And Her Sisters’. A collection of archived material was released in 2007. The group reformed in 2012 and released a new vinyl LP on Rave-Up Records called ‘She Wants Revenge’. with notes from Mary Lou and Chris Barry. [also see 39 STEPS]

Singles
1979 I Love Susan/The 1st Studio Bomb (Rebel) RB-7901
1981 La poupee qui fait non/La poupee qui fait non (instrumentale) (Gamma) AA-1703

Album
2006 Montreal Punk ’78 -‘81 (Sonik’s Chicken Shrimp) SCS-006
2012 She Wants Revenge (Rave-UP – Italy) RUR-067

Compilation Tracks
2005 “Hold Up” on ‘Only in Canada, Eh 77-81 Volume 1’ (Punk History Canada) PHC-CD-0101

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25IÈME RÉGIMENT, Le
Robert Métayer (bass) / Réjean Ruel (vocals, organ) / Michel Desjardins (drums; 1966-1967) / Guy Limoges (guitar; 1966-1967) / Jean-Louis Leclerc (drums; 1966-1967) / Yves Ladouceur (guitar; 1966-1967) / Maurice Métayer (drums; 1967-1971) / Karol Dicaire (guitar; 1967-1970) / Réal Latendresse (guitar; 1967) / Georges Thurston (vocals; 1969-1971) / Réjean Légaré (piano; 1969) / Pierre Martin (drums; 1969) / Raynald Chaumont (guitar; 1970-1971) / Richard Gendreau (bass; 1971)
Formed in St-Jérôme, Québec in 1966.

Singles
1967 Lucie sous un ciel de diamants/Mammy (Apex) 13489
1968 C’est le temps d’aimer/C’est bon signe (Apex) 13499
1968 Un petit bonhomme avec le nez pointu/Roulez-roulez  (Apex) 13511
1968 Les fraises et les framboises/Chin chin (Apex) 13517
1969 Le petit toutou/Ma guitare d’amour (Apex) 13523
1969 Respectachin/Cupidon (Pop Apex) P-1007
1970 Le temps de l’amour/Super man (Canusa) C-410
1970 Venus/Aimez-vous les uns les autres (Révolution) R-2019
1970 Ballade/Toute all-dress (Révolution) R-2029
1970 Trop mélangé/L’ange de Los Angeles (Révolution) R-2032
1971 Crescent Street/Au ciel (Élite) EL-7034
1971 Le temps de l’amour/Hello hello! (Denon) CD-1004

Albums
1969 Le 25ième Régiment (Lero) LS-767
1970 Ecology (Trans-Canada) TC-779

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3’s A CROWD
Brent Titcomb (vocals, guitar) / Trevor Veitch (vocals, guitar) / Donna Warner (vocals) / Colleen Peterson (vocals, guitar; replaced Warner) / David Wiffen (vocals, guitar)  / Ken Koblun (bass; replaced Smith) / Comerie Smith (bass; replaced Koblun three times) / Wayne Davis (bass; replaced Smith) / Sandy Crawley (vocals, guitar) / Bruce Cockburn (vocals, guitar) / Dennis Pendrith (bass; replaced Davis) / Richard Patterson (drums)
3’s A Crowd was formed in August 1964 in Vancouver by folk musician and comedian Brent Titcomb and singer/comedian Donna Warner after she had moved to Vancouver to check out the local folk scene. Shortly afterwards, local guitarist Trevor Veitch, who had joined in on a number of occasions during the pair’s many ‘kitchen jams’, made it a trio. By January 1965, the trio made their debut at Vancouver’s Bunkhouse coffeehouse under the name The Bill Schwartz Quartet. By May 1965 the trio became 3’s A Crowd as suggested by Titcomb’s friend King Anderson. In June they appeared on the cover of the ‘TV Times’. The group then sent a demo tape to Sid Dolgay (ex-The Travellers) who had become a manager for his own company Universal Performing Artists (UPA). Dolgay invited the trio to Toronto to perform in Yorkville and soon became their manager. Through the remainder of 1965 the trio toured with occasional help of bassist Brian Ahern (ex-The Bad Seeds). By January 1966 they had found their way out to the Maritimes and were then joined by bassist Koblun (ex-Neil Young & The Squires). Koblun would leave for Los Angeles after receiving a call from Stephen Stills to join his new group Buffalo Springfield; The gig lasted a week (during which time Comrie Smith would fill in) and Koblun returned in time for a stint at Yorkville’s famed Riverboat Coffeehouse in Toronto. The final night’s performance was taped for CBC -TV’s ‘The Juliette Show’. Following an April 1966 run in Detroit, Michigan, Koblun left the band again from an apparent drug related problem and 3’s A Crowd had to re-hire Comrie Smith. By September the band won a JUNO Award for ‘Best Folk Group of 1966’ and soon received a recording contract from Epic Records in New York to record eight songs. A trip to New York ensued, and with a session drummer in tow, they proceed to record their debut single “Bound To Fly”. By the Fall of 1966 Koblun had regained his capacities as a musician and rejoined the group in time for “Bound To Fly” to become chart bound. In January 1967, the single was released in the UK at the same time Koblun left to re-join Buffalo Springfield. Smith is asked to replace Koblun for a third time. While playing in Ottawa in March of 1967 the band runs into singer/songwriter David Wiffen during his stint with Ottawa folk-act The Children. Both Wiffen and The Children’s drummer, Richard Patterson, climbed aboard 3’s A Crowd. With a new, invigorated line-up, the act toured and appeared on television several times with their second Epic single, “Honey Machine”, which profiles the act as a comedy troupe which caused a furor within the band. 3’s A Crowd soon ended their association with Epic Records. A summer tour took them across Canada and in August they appeared at the Mariposa Folk Festival with the likes of The Kensington Market, Buddy Guy and others. By fall of 1967 Koblun once again rejoined the band (having been kicked out of Buffalo Springfield and several other acts during the interim). 3’s A Crowd appeared at Expo ’67 in Montreal, Québec as representatives of the Ontario Pavillion. As luck would have it, Warner’s boyfriend, who was chaperoning Denny Doherty and Cass Elliott of The Mamas & The Papas, convinced the duo to stop by during the 3’s a Crowd’s performance. Cass Elliott fell in love with the act, telephoned ABC-Dunhill Records president Jay Lasker, and a demo session was quickly arranged in New York. While in New York, the band recorded three songs at Bell Studios with producer Rick Shorter and managed to squeeze in several gigs including one at the legendary Bitter End club. In October, 1967, 3’s A Crowd returned to Montreal to appear at the Canadian Pavilion Feature Stage at Expo ’67. However, Warner’s health had taken a turn for the worse and singer Colleen Peterson, a close friend of the group, substituted for her on this and later occasions. Dunhill signed 3’s A Crowd and, by mid-October, the band was whisked off to Los Angeles with their road manager, David McLeod, as sessions began in Studio 3 at Western Recorders with engineer Chuck Britz and Dunhill staff producer Steve Barri. Recording continued for nearly four weeks and shortly thereafter, the group returned to Toronto to appear on their own national CBC-TV special called ‘Our Kind of Crowd’ with guest spots by comedian Richard Pryor and, then, unknown folk singer Joni Mitchell. With another residency at Toronto’s Riverboat Coffeehouse, Koblun left the band for what would be the last time and was replaced by local bassist Wayne Davis. The preview single for their Dunhill debut LP – a two sided cover tune folk-fest with Murray McLauchlan’s “Coat of Colours” backed by Bruce Cockburn’s “Bird Without Wings” – entered the RPM charts shortly before year’s end. In February 1968 3’s A Crowd’s debut album, ‘Christopher’s Movie Matinee’, was released in Canada on RCA/Victor Records. With “Coat Of Colours” still charting, the group embarked on a tour of Western Canada. As the tour moved on through Vancouver and down the west coast into California, group members Patterson, Titcomb and Warner, along with Jim & Jean narrowly avoided being arrested at Buffalo Springfield’s famous Topanga Canyon drug bust. The next single was a cover of Dino Valenti’s “Get Together” and backed by David Wiffen’s “Drive You Away”. 3’s A Crowd then performed at Massey Hall with members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. By late April the band had taped another TV show while “Get Together” would finally chart on RPM. Alas, by May, Warner had dropped out of the group permanently due to her continual health problems. With Colleen Peterson unable to join on a permanent basis, Veitch and Titcomb decided to pursue other career interests. With two concerned investors hoping to reap a return on their investment, the band’s manager Sid Dolgay then decided to create a new version of 3’s A Crowd. So, in July 1968 Wiffen and Patterson returned to Ottawa, where they were joined by the now available Peterson and guitarist Sandy Crawley (ex-The Children). The new line-up was made complete with the addition of guitarist/vocalist Bruce Cockburn (ex-Olivus) and bassist Dennis Pendrith. 3’s A Crowd returned to the road as opening act for The Turtles and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, as well as a one-off engagement supporting The Grand Funk Railroad. During this period, investor Harvey Glatt produced a music video of the group performing Cockburn’s “Electrocution of The Word”, which was shown at the Youth Pavilion of Ottawa’s Central Canadian Exhibition. The band would also appear on investor Sid Banks’ CBC variety show entitled ‘One More Time’, as a means of recouping his investment. In early 1969, and the TV series behind them, Glatt booked the group on a spring tour of US Universities and Colleges. Unfortunately, Crawley had already been offered some acting work and dropped out. The remainder of the band took the gig and toured for two months through the Southern US. 3’s A Crowd’s final performance would be in April 1969 in Columbia, South Carolina; Colleen Peterson would remain there on an extended holiday, while the others returned to Canada to pursue separate projects. She would later move to Nashville and finally back to Canada for a mildly successful solo career before passing away from complications due to cancer in October 1996; Veitch was part of Tom Rush’s band but is best known for writing the English translation of Laura Branigan’s international hit “Gloria”. He would also do soundtrack work including music for children’s TV shows ‘Clifford the Dog’ and ‘The Care Bears’; Cockburn would sign a solo deal with True North Records and has gone on to record over 30 solo albums; Pendrith joined Toronto funk band Simon Caine for one album and then became an integral member of both Cockburn and Murray McLauchlan’s backing bands; Patterson rejoined several ex-Esquires in Ottawa as Canada Goose before freelancing for many Canadian name acts as well as managing the reformed Five Man Electrical Band. He died after a long illness on April 3, 2011; Wiffen moved briefly to Oakland, California to record his second solo album, ‘David Wiffen’, and has continued to this day as a successful solo artist; In August 1997 3’s A Crowd members Cockburn, Crawley, Patterson and Wiffen re-united at the Ottawa Folk Festival for a special reunion concert that included all the members of their previous band The Children. Adapted from notes by Nicholas Warburton and John Einarson, with permission from Richard Patterson. [also BRENT TITCOMB, DAVID WIFFEN, BRUCE COCKBURN, COLLEEN PETERSON, THE CHILDREN]

Singles
1966 Bound To Fly/Steel Rail Blues (Epic/Columbia) 5-10073
1967 Honey Machine/And Then The Sun Goes Down (Epic/Columbia) 5-10151
1968 Bird Without Wings/Coat of Colours (RCA Victor) D-4120
1968 Let’s Get Together/I Don’t Wanna Drive You Away (RCA Victor) D-4131

Albums
1968 Christopher’s Movie Matinee (RCA/Victor) DS-50030

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357
G. J. MacFarlane / B. Hosegood
From Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Singles
1980 Hey Loser/The Trip (Hot Wax/Sunshine) HW-002

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39 STEPS
Chris Barry (vocals) / Pierre Major (guitar) / Richard Paul (guitar) / Joe Cerratto (bass) / Andre Gagne (drums)
39 Steps – named after the classic Hollywood movie of he same name – evolved out of the ashes of Barry, Paul, and Cerratto’s Montreal punk band 222’s. In 1984, six months after their formation, they recorded and released a self-titled EP on Line Records. With a move to New York City instigated by ex-Montreal patriot and manager Steven Shipp (Bootsauce, Cycle Sluts From Hell), they answered a cattle call in 1985 for a band to appear in Woody Allen’s movie ‘Hannah And Her Sisters’. They sent a tape and photo, auditioned for Allen and ended up performing their song “Slip Into The Crowd” at CBGB’s in the film. After touring the EP and gaining MTV exposure, a full length album called ‘Slip Into The Crowd’ followed in 1987 on RCA Records out of New York. They were soon dropped by RCA and then signed to Chrysalis in 1989, but Chrysalis wanted another Slaughter to add to their roster and 39 Steps took exception to the insult. Despite recording a new record with Blondie’s Chris Stein, no album was released and a protracted two year battle ensued. 39 Steps decided to wait out the length of the contract. In 1991, Joan Jett saw the band and became a fan. The group still had control over the Chris Stein material and headed back into the studio with Jett’s producer John Alosa and engineer Glen Robinson (13 Engines, GWAR, VoiVod) to produce their long awaited follow up entitled ‘Neon Bible’ in 1993. The record was released on Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna’s Blackheart Records. “(All Roads Lead To) Babylon” was released as the single/video which received moderate rotation on MTV, but it seemed that 39 Steps aggro-rock had passed its prime with the onslaught of the grunge movement which effectively buried their final output – 1995’s ‘Nude In the City’ EP; Chris Barry would go on to form Pillbox in New York City before heading back to Montreal for new music project called Acrylic. In 2006 he formed The Throbbing Purple with drummer John Lalley (Bootsauce, Groovy Religion, Rusty) for one album. He also reformed the 222’s in 2012; Cerratto would go on to form Medicine Men. with notes from Mary Lou and Chris Barry. [also see 222’s, THROBBING PURPLE]

Singles
1986 Stay Faithless (Line)
1987 Slip Into The Crowd/She (TGO/RCA) TGS-1030
1993 (All Roads Lead To) Babylon (Blackheart/Cargo)

Albums
1984 39 Steps (Line) L-222
1987 Slip Into The Crowd (TGO/RCA) TGLP-006
1993 Neon Bible (Blackheart/Cargo) JJ-0008
1995 Nude In the City [5-song EP] (Real Good Dave) 101

Compilation Tracks
1989 “City of Vice” on ‘Rodney Bingenheimer Presents K-ROQ’ (K-ROQ – US)

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T.B.A (1)
Doug Riley (keyboards, vocals)
Following the break up of Doug Riley’s band Dr. Music,  he released a one-off solo single under the moniker T.B.A. in 1975.

Singles
1975 Summer In Canada (Vocal)/Summer In Canada (Instrumental) (Polydor)  2065-262

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T.B.A. (2)
Glenn Schellenberg (keys, vocals) / Dianne Bos (keys, vocals) / Glen Binmore (guitar) / Brian Skol (drums) / Andrew Zealley (synthesizer) / Danny Colomby (bass; added)
Toronto, Ontario’s Glenn Schellenberg (The Dishes) and Andrew Zealley (The Biffs) formed this short-lived synth-pop act in Toronto who were managed by Martha & The Muffins’ Carl Finkle. Their self-titled EP on Fringe Product received plenty of airplay for its single “Love Across the Nation” in 1982. Bos, Skol and Zealley would go on to form Rhythm Method which evolved into Perfect World in 1984.

Singles
1982 Love Across the Nation/Treat Me Like That (Fringe Product) FPS-3005

Albums
1982 TBA [4-song EP] (Fringe Product) FPE-3005

Compilation Tracks
1983 “Through My Fingers” on ‘Smash ’83’ [cassette]

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TACOY RYDE
Jerry Woolsey (vocals) / Barrie Nighswander (guitar) / Duane Smith (bass, guitar, keyboards) / Dennis Meneely (keyboards) / Bill Hobson (drums) / Paul “Brink” Di Cola (percussion) / Dale Ladouceur (Chapman stick, vocals) / Al Brant (vocals; 1990)
Long-time veterans Tacoy Ryde from Stettler, Alberta, was founded by Woolsey, Nighswander, Meneely and Hobson in 1966. The band added Smith and Di Cola in 1968. As time progressed they made the transition through every musical trend. They moved to Edmonton in 1973. In the spring of 1980 the band recorded their first single at Homestead Recorders with manager Larry Wanagas (k.d. Lang, Big Sugar, The Trews). The single, “Is There a Reason” b/w “Don’t Let Me Be Alone” was released and received airplay regionally. These were the days of six-nighters back-to-back across the country, with a solid fan base in several major cities. Tacoy Ryde was also becoming a full-fledged reggae band. They were now being booked to open for major reggae acts such as Jamaica’s Third World Band and England’s Steel Pulse. By 1982, the time was ripe to record an album. The band headed to Pinewood Studio in Vancouver with producer Claire Lawrence (Chilliwack, Hometown Band). The album consisted of original reggae material but upon completion, the band was unable to secure a record deal so the album was shelved and to this day remains unreleased. In late 1983, under pressure to change their name and move in a more pop direction Tacoy Ryde became JATO (which the band jokingly claim means ‘Jet-Assisted-Take-Off’) and signed with an upstart label from Vancouver, Parallel One, run by Gordon Sinclair and Scott Andrews. Their debut album was recorded by Bob Rock and produced by Declan O’Doherty at Little Mountain Sound in Vancouver. The singles “She’s Got” reached No. 74 on the national charts and “Lake Of Fire” reached No. 90. The album achieved minimal attention and with the demise of Parallel One Records not long after the band was put on hold in 1988. In 1990, without lead singer Woolsey, the band returned to their original name of Tacoy Ryde. The band forged ahead without a lead singer until meeting up with Al Brant while performing a tribute on Jimi Hendrix’s 50th birthday. Shortly after this, drummer Bill Hobson’s future wife, Dale Ladouceur, joined the band on Chapman Stick. By 1995 the band was a regular fixture on the Edmonton club scene. Tacoy Ryde soon began recording their debut independent CD. ‘Here’s The Picture’ was released in 2003 and songs like “Where’s Doug” and “Ojo Grises” ranked in the top 15 most played songs on CKUA Radio. With notes from Ken Ames and Dawn Woolsey. [also see JATO]

Singles
1980 Is There a Reason/Don’t Let Me Be Alone (Bumstead) BUM-802

Albums
2003 Here’s The Picture (independent)

Compilation Tracks
1980 “Out of the Blue” on ‘Homegrown Album Eighty’ (K-97) ROK-80-001

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TALK
Born: Nick Durocher in Stittsville, Ontario
At 18, Nick Durocher chose the name TALK as his professional pseudonym. He moved to Toronto working to pay the bills in the gig economy, and spent his free time writing music. When the first COVID lockdown occurred in March 2020, he moved back to his parents house in Stittsville, Ontario. It was there that he wrote the song “Run Away To Mars.” He uploaded the song to social media in 2021 and he racked up worldwide streams of 400,000 in about 18 months. With its debut as a backing track to clips on TikTok, “Run Away To Mars” streams broke the 30 million stream barrier. Durocher soon signed a record deal with Capitol Records, and watched as the song charted high in Europe and South Africa, eventually reaching No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart at the beginning of 2023. The song has now reached over 130 million streams. Subsequent songs have debuted on the ABC-TV series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, and TALK has written the theme song for the CBS-TV series ‘Tracker.’ Songs have also appeared in the Sony PlayStation video game ‘MLB The Show 2023.’ He has since toured Europe, as well performing at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Festival d’été de Québec, and the Calgary Stampede. TALK has opened shows for Imagine Dragons, as well as Shania Twain. He even did 26 shows in North America with Young The Giant and Milky Chance. In 2024 he toured the US and Canada, and was nominated for several JUNO Awards. with notes from Nick Krewen.

Singles
2021 Run Away To Mars [DigiFile] (Range/Capitol)
2022 How To Save A Life [DigiFile] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2022 Run Away To Mars (Strings Version)/Run Away To Mars (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2023 Afraid Of The Dark [DigiFile] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2023 Spotify Singles [2 songs DigiFile] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2023 I’m One OF The Rest (From The CBS Original Series “Tracker”) [DigiFile] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2023 La Ziguezon (Live) (Doogood/Range/Capitol)

Albums
2021 Talk To Me [5-song DigiFile EP] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2023 A Little Bit Happy [3-song DigiFile EP] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2023 A Little Bit Happy (Live) [4-song DigiFile EP] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2023 Wasteland [4-song DigiFile EP] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)
2023 Lord Of The Flies & Birds & Bees [DigiFile] (Doogood/Range/Capitol)

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TALL NEW BUILDINGS
Jian “Jean” Gomeshi (vocals) / Murray Foster (bass) / Tracy Jones (guitar) / Reno Manfredi (keyboards) / John Ruttle (drums) / Steve Lance [aka Steve Cohen] (drums; replaced Ruttle)
Tall New Buildings started as a high-school project in 1983 in Toronto, Ontario. The group soon split up during the first year of University and re-assembled when Ruttle took a year off so they could pursue their craft seriously. The performed on the Queen Street circuit and caught the attention of Main Man Productions who helped them cut a 12″ single for the song “Fashion In Your Eye’. It was released on High Rise Records and produced by Gordon Deppe (Spoons) at Sound Path Studio in Oakville, Ontario. The song received airplay on CFNY-FM and a rough video got attention from MuchMusic. Ruttle soon returned to University to complete his studies and was replaced by Lance. After struggling for another year, they were picked up by manager Jeff Rogers who got them signed to Sommersault Records (Candi & The Backbeat) where they released the 4 song EP ‘Breaking Her Walls’ in 1987. The EP broke through commercially on CFNY-FM and the video on MuchMusic reached No.5. Gomeshi and Foster would go on to form a cappella comedy group Moxy Früvous; Gomeshi would later be caught up in a national scandal in 2014. [also see MOXY FRÜVOUS]

Singles
1986 Fashion In Your Eye/Swimming Pool of Crisis [12”] (High Rise)
1987 Breaking Her Walls (Somersault) SOM7-105

Albums
1987 Breaking Her Walls [4-song EP] (Somersault) SOM12-05

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TALLMUD, Les
Jean-Pierre Armand (vocals, guitar) / Brian Pilon / Norman Sauriol / Guy Cinq-Mars
Les Tallmud formed in high school at the end of 1964 and their name was chosen randomly out of the dictionary – Talmud – which means a book of Jewish law. Armand suggested adding an additional “L” to the name to make it unique and Les Tallmud was born.After months of rehearsals playing British Invasion standards from the likes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and the Animals, they performed at their first gig at their high school, École St-Jean de Laval, in December 1965. After making the usually rounds at school dances, youth centres and other venues suitable for musicians their age they attract a manager in Jean-Claude Brosseau from the Association of Montreal Musicians. In 1966 they began getting professional booking through Pierre Gravel of the PG Granby Agency who soon became their new manager. The band released four singles between 1967 and 1968 but never quite hit the big time; Jean-Pierre Armand would form the duo Armand & Letourneau with Pierre Robert Létourneau.

Singles
1967 Avoir Raison/Un Autre Ami (Sonore) S-8007
1967 J’ai cru a mon rêve/On est heureux (RCA Victor International Canada) 57-5737
1968 As-Tu vu ma fille Mr. Jones/Nous sommes des rêveurs (Carrousel) CR-36
1968 Prends ma guitare/À l’école (Carrousel) CR-51

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TAMBLYN, Ian
Born: Ian Gordon Tamblyn on December 2, 1947 in Fort William, Ontario
Ian Tamblyn grew up in Fort William, Ontario and then studied at Trent University where he graduated in 1971 before deciding to settle in Chelsea, Québec. Through his school years he played the coffee houses as a folk singer-songwriter. He decided to take his act ‘pro’ and released his first album, ‘Moose Tracks’, in 1972. The album was recorded in only one take at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto, Ontario and limited to 200 copies on independent label Barge Records. After signing a deal with Ottawa’s Posterity records he released his self-titled, full-length, debut album in 1976. The record would win a JUNO Award for ‘Best Folk Music Recording’ in 1977. ‘Closer To Home’ followed in 1978 before Tamblyn decided to start his own North Track label imprint. The first album for his own label was ‘When Will I See You Again’ in 1980 which Tamblyn affectionately considers to be his real ‘first album’. ‘Dance Me Outside’ followed in 1983 and was recorded with the short-lived Ian Tamblyn Band featuring Brian Rading on bass, Dave Binder on guitar and Bruce Wittet on drums. In the late fall of 1986, Tamblyn received a commission from the Canadian Museum of Nature to present a concert celebrating their forthcoming bird exposition. Bird enthusiast and recorder, Monty Brigham, provided field recordings of birds while others were purchased through the sound library at Crawley films. The album based on this material, ‘Over My Head’, was recorded in less than a week, and has since sold over 100,000 copies. ‘Ghost Parade’ was released in 1987 and only on cassette as the industry began shifting to the more expensive medium of compact discs. In 1989 Tamblyn released his second album in a planned ‘environmental’ series called ‘Magnetic North’. Work began on it in 1984 when Tamblyn was asked to be an artistic observer on a scientific expedition to the Chukchi Sea – north of the Bering Strait – to study the feeding habits of gray whales and walrus. Tamblyn earned his diving license and worked with the scientists collecting samples. In off hours he collected audio sounds from the north and incorporated them into the album’s songs. The record was nominated for a JUNO Award for ‘Best Instrumental Album’ in 1990. In 1992 ‘Through the Years: ’76 – ’92” was released as a collection of Tamblyn’s first 15 years of commercial recordings and included five new songs. Tamblyn has continued on a steady path of recording instrumental music albums inspired by the environment and his further travel adventures to remote places such as the north shore of Lake Superior and the Nahanni River. In 2008 Tamblyn, along with other folk artists such as Bruce Cockburn released a 2CD tribute CD to Canadian songwriter and poet William Hawkins entitled ‘Dancing Alone’ which Tamblyn produced. He is currently finishing up his fourth album in the ‘Four Coast’ Project which has so far featured ‘Superior: Spirit & Light – Four Coast Project Vol. 1’ (2007), ‘Raincoast – The Four Coast Project  Vol.2’ (2008) and ‘Walking the Bones – The Four Coast Project Vol. 3’ (2010) which is Tamblyn’s 34th album; Tamblyn is also a noted playwright. His works include: ‘Dream Children’ (1976), ‘Northern Affairs’ (1984), ‘Somebody Get Me a Job’ (1987), ‘Legends of the Northern Swamp’ (1990), ‘Land of Trash (1991), and ‘Day in the Night of Zephyr Fallutyn’ (1995; Tamblyn was given the prestigious Order of Canada in 2021 “…for his enduring contributions as a folk music icon, adventurer, and cultural ambassador for Canada.” with notes from Ian Tamblyn.

Singles
1976 One of These Days/Guitar Truck Drivin’ Man (Posterity) PT-101
1976 Paris Afternoon/Holiday Parade (Posterity) PT-102
1978 Take Me Home/Love Will Away (Posterity) PT-104

Albums
1972 Moosetracks (Barge) QCS-933
1976 Ian Tamblyn (Posterity) PTR-13002
1978 Closer to Home (Posterity) PTR-13005
1980 When Will I See You Again (North Track) NT-05
1986 Over My Head (North Track) NTCD-1
1987 Ghost Parade [cassette] (North Track)
1989 Magnetic North (North Track/Holborne) NTCD-2
1990 Magnetic North [re-issue] (True North) TNT-78
1991 Days Of Sun & Wind (Voice & Guitar) [cassette] (North Track)
1992 Through the Years: ’76 – ’92 (North Track) CD NT-14
1994 Antarctica (North Track) NTCD-3
1995 The Middle Distance (North Track) NT-17
1996 Lost Visions, Forgotten Dreams /  / Quêtes et Songes Hyperboréens (Canadian Museum Of Civilization)
1997 The Body Needs to Travel (North Track) NT-20
2000 Voice in the Wilderness (North Track) NT-21
2002 When Will I See You Again/Ghost Parade (North Track) NT-22/23
2002 Like the Way You’re Tinkin’ (North Track) NT-24
2003 Closer To Home (Air Mail Archive – JAPAN) AIRAC-1019
2004 Angels Share (Sea Lynx) 6-29048-06952-9
2005 Machine Works (North Track) NT-26
2007 Superior: Spirit and Light – The Four Coast Project: Vol.1 (North Track) NT-27
2008 Antarctic Songbook (Students On Ice) ITCD-2008
2008 Raincoast – The Four Coast Project: Vol. 2 (North Track)
2009 Willisville Mountain (Sea Lynx) 6-25989-63332-4
2009 Gyre (North Track)
2010 In Dreams Behold – Celtic Project [Digi File] (independent)
2011 Walking the Bones – The Four Coast Project: Vol. 3 (North Track) NT-34
2014 Walking In The Footsteps (Sea Lynx) 8-89211-12545-6
2014 The Labrador (The Four Coast Project: Volume 4) (North Track) NT-37
2018 Let It Go (Sea Lynx) 0-61297-59734-5
2021 A Longing For Innocence (Sea Lynx) 0-61297-74663-7

with THE IAN TAMBLYN BAND
1982 Dance Me Outside (North Track) NT-07

Compilation Tracks
1979 “Guitar Truck Drivin’ Man” on ‘Collage’ (Bytown) BFFTF-1
2000 “Gather Me Round” on ‘Hillside Festival Volume One 1999’ (Hillside Festival)
2000 “Woodsmoke And Oranges” on ‘Canadian Roots 2000’ (Vogue) VRI-002
2001 “The Quiet Place” on ‘The Ottawa Folklore Centre 25th Anniversary Album’ (independent) OFC006-25
2008 “Tell Me That Story” and “Midnight Gambler” on ‘Dancing Alone – Songs Of William Hawkins [2CD] (True North) TND-519

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TAME AND TALKING
Jonathan Clark (bass) / Rob Greenway (drums) / Robin Brooks (guitar)
A three-piece post-punk act from Toronto, Ontario that released one EP; Greenway has kept busy in the intervening years as vocalist, drummer, and CD graphic artist. He has released ten CD’s since 1995 under the studio pseudonym Brilliantfish. with notes from Rob Best.

Albums
1985 Tame And Talking [5-song EP] (Surn) SURN-001

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TAME APES
Robert E. Swanson / Vic Couture / Tom Hawkins (banjo) / Harry Aoki (bass, harmonica) / George Zukerman (bassoon) / Lloyd Arntzen (guitar) / Wally McSween (vocals)
From Vancouver, British Columbia. Robert E. Swanson was a logger and railway safety inspector for the British Columbia government for many years. With his love of steam trains he invented the train horn that is now in standard use on locomotives all over the world. He was also responsible for Vancouver’s O Canada Horns including those on the British Columbia ferries and at NHL hockey games. He was also a poet and nicknamed ‘Bard of the Woods’ by those who knew him. During the 1930s he began writing down the stories and the balladry of those in the BC logging camps. He wrote four chapbooks of folk verse and ballads in the 1940’s and 1950’s. In 1969 he teamed up with Vic Couture to set a number of these works to music and under the name Tame Apes (which was an old loggers’ expression) they released an album called ‘Songs of the West Coast Logger’ in 1970. By the 1980s he did regular tours reading poetry and singing as part of a performing troupe. Swanson died in 1994 at the age of 89. Currently Swanson’s works carry on as part of a musical revue by the Other Guys Theatre Company under the title “Good Timber: Songs & Stories of the Western Logger”.  with notes from the Other Guys Theatre Company.
 
Albums
1970 Songs of the West Coast Logger (MCA) 7011

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TANAKA, Jimmy
Drummer from Montreal, Québec. Would go on to join studio group Taxi. [also see TAXI (3)]

Singles
1976 Un Kâo Kâo/Ramiriqui (Airedale) LUC-53

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TANKHOG
Stephen Hamm (bass) / Terry Russell (drums) /  David Mawhinney (guitar) / Shane Davis (guitar) / Bruce Kane (vocals)
Following the dissolution of Vancouver, British Columbia band Slow, half the band became © [aka Copyright] while Stephen Hamm and Terry Russell formed Tankhog. The band’s debut album, ‘House of Beauty’ was produced by Dave Ogilvie (54.40, Skinny Puppy) and Ken “HiWatt” Marshall. [also see SLOW, COPYRIGHT]

Singles
1991 So What/[split w/WINDWALKER] (Mint) MRS-001
1992 The Freight Train Song/Jealous Trains (Mint) MRS-002

Albums
1992 House of Beauty (Zulu) ZULU 4-2

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TANZEN
Pete Palazzolo
From Windsor, Ontario; Palazzolo is the Principal at the Canadian Conservatory of Music.

Singles
1986 Chains of Love/ [split w/LEGION] (JLT) JLT-28601

Albums
1988 Piece by Piece (JLT)
2018 Piece by Piece: The Lost Melodic Jewels Collectors Series – Vol. 1 (Steelheart Memories) SMM-1853

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TAPESTRY
Judi Jensen (vocals) / Jack Winters (acoustic guitar) / Heather Winters [nee Woodburn]
Formed in Montreal, Tapestry was led by writer/composer Jack Winters with vocals by Toronto session singer Judi Jensen and Montreal’s Heather Woodburn. The trio was signed to Polydor Records in 1971 and released their first single, “Love Me Brother”, from their self-titled debut was produced by The Bells’ Cliff Edwards the same year. A second album, ‘Country Music’, found the trio in the media frenzy of the Maple Music Junket in 1972 with a showcase at the legendary Playboy Club. By 1973 the trio became the duo of Winters and Woodburn with the assistance of studio musicians for their third full-length album ‘Down By The Maple River’. Several singles were released including the title track, “California,” and “Everything Is Bringing Me Down,” but with no major chart action. As Tapestry wound down, Winter released several solo singles as part of his deal with Polydor. [see JACK WINTERS]

Singles
1971 Love Me Brother/Coming Into Los Angeles (Polydor) 2065-091
1972 Begin With You And Me/Country Music (Polydor) 2065-120
1972 The Music Doesn’t Seem To Be Going Anywhere/I Believe In Loving You (Polydor) 2065-152
1973 Down By The Maple River/Cowboy Song (Polydor)  2065-192
1973 Everything Is Bringin’ Me Down (Runnin’ From the Years)/[same] (Polydor) 2065-177
1973 California/Silver Bird (Polydor) 2065-204

Albums
1971 Tapestry (Polydor)
1972 Country Music (Polydor)
1973 Down By Maple River (Polydor) 2424-078

Compilation Tracks
1972 “Love Me Brother” on ‘Maple Music Vol.1’ (MMJ) MMJ-1

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TARIQ
Born: Tariq Hussain in 1968
Québec-born singer songwriter started his artistic career as an actor and pursuing a Bachelor Of Arts degree in Theatre Arts. He took a year off to decide what to do with his life, hopped in his car and drove until his trek landed him in Whistler, British Columbia. After doing odd jobs that were less than fulfilling he decided to head back to Québec and finish school. Canadian comparative literature failed to fill the void of his wanderlust and began seriously to contemplate a musical career. At the same time he decided to leave his small town existence in Cowanville, Québec. His musical pursuits led him to Calgary where he’d quickly developed a following from the locals — especially other area musicians. In 1996, Tariq released his first, independent, CD ‘Splat’, which did well on college radio and caught the attention of EMI who signed the songwriter to a deal in 1997. In 1997, he released his major-label debut, ‘The Basement Tapes’, which featured the first single/video for “Chevrolet Way”, which was filmed just outside Toronto by Huevos Rancheros’ videomaker Robert Cuffley. The second video/single was “Not a Just Waiter.”

Singles
1997 Chevrolet Way [3 mixes] (EMI) CDPRO-1511
1997 (Not Just) a Waiter [3 mixes] (EMI) DPRO-1583
2001 Liberal Guy/Liberal Guy (Edit) (Tariq/Page)

Albums
1995 Splat (Funky Chicken) FUNCH-01
1997 The Basement Songs (EMI) 55282
2001 While You’re Down There (Tariq/FACTOR) THCD-2001
2005 Goodbye Lonely (Tariq/FACTOR) THCD-2005
2015 Moonwalker [5-song EP] (Headless Owl) 003

Compilation Tracks
1996 “(Not Just) A Waiter” on ‘Impact Music Volume Twelve’ (MMS) IM-012
1997 “Chevrolet Way” on ‘Ear Conditioning’ (EMI) 833136

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TARRIS, Donn
Former member of 1970’s Vancouver, British Columbia act Airborne who released one album, ‘Songs For the City’, in 1977. Tarris would leave the group and release his first solo album later that year. He has since become an in-demand multi-instrumentalist and producer from his homebase on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. [also see AIRBORNE]

Albums
1977 Party (Remembering) RR-001
2002 Twilight (independent)
2003 When Night Has Fallen (independent)

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TARRY, Michael
Born: Michael Terry McDermott in Lees (Oldham), England
Died: April 15, 2013 in Marmora, Ontario
Michael Terry McDermott emigrated to Canada from England in 1958. By the mid-1960s he found himself in two bands – Milestone and Susan Taylor & The Peytons. By 1968 he had gone solo and was soon signed to Columbia Records. The first single in late 1968 entitled “All That I Love” managed to barely scrape RPM’s Top 100 singles chart with a peak position of No.92. The follow-up, “If You Believe”, never made the Top 100 but managed a decent 6 week run in the summer of 1969 on RPM’s Weekly CanCon chart. The next three singles had no showing on the RPM charts. Tarry was soon without a label. By 1973 he had signed to Reprise Records and soon had a charted hit with the song “Rosalie” which peaked at No.8 on The RPM Top 100 singles chart in the summer of 1973 and managed a modest showing on the Country Chart as well. The follow-up, “Forgotten Man”, managed to reach No.52 on the RPM Top 100 chart. The third single, “Memories”, became Tarry’s second biggest hit peaking at No.13 on the RPM Top50 Pop Playlist Chart in early January 1974. Tarry passed away in his home town of Marmora, Ontario on April 15, 2013. with notes from Paul Weber.

Singles
1968 All That I Love/You’re Young You’ll Forget (Columbia) C4-2848
1968 If You Believe/Such A Long Time (Columbia) C4-2863
1969 Neighbours At the Zoo/A Dime’s Worth (Columbia) C4-2877
1969 What’s Your Name/Earth Ran Away With The Spoon (Columbia) C4-2878
1969 Sometimes You’re Up/Silent People (Columbia) C4-2922
1973 Rosalie/Just a Feeling (Reprise/WEA) CR-4017
1973 Forgotten Man (Reprise/WEA) CR-4020
1974 Memories/Grow Back the Roots (Reprise/WEA) CR-4024

Albums
1973 Michael Tarry (Reprise/WEA) RSC-8007

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TASSI, Madonna
Madonna Tassi is a dance artist from Toronto, Ontario who released several singles in the 1980s through Spin Records. She also did backing vocals for solo artist Johnny D. in 1984.

Singles
1984 Needing A Night Like This/No Chains (Spin) HBP-345
1985 You Can Break My Heart Anytime/[same] (Spin) HPB-845
1987 Forever After/[same] (Spin) HPB-1345

Albums
1986 Man of My Dream (Spin)

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TASTE
Mik Ireland (vocals) / Trever Parisian (bass) / Gabriel Tracey (drums, vocals) / Michael Tottrup (guitars) / Ian Somers (guitar, vocals)
From Vancouver, British Columbia; Ian Somers would go on to Limblifter.

Albums
1993 Taste (RockStar) RSR-9301

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TASTE OF JOY
Michele Gould (guitar, vocals) / Corinne Culbertson (bass) / Todd Oliver (drums, percussion)
Following the demise of her previous act, Lava Hay, singer-songwriter Gould decided to pursue her first love for rock music, and formed Taste of Joy. On the back of her existing relationship with Nettwerk Records they released 1995’s ‘Trigger Fables’ which was produced by Gould’s husband Vincent Jones (Grapes of Wrath) and featured contributions by Brilliant Orange’s Mark Findler. Nettwerk brokered a deal with Edel Records in Germany and Taste Of Joy would tour Europe on the back of two singles – “Maybe In Time” and “Dear John”. The band was dropped from Nettwerk soon after and Taste of Joy split up in 1997.

Singles
1996 Maybe In Time (Nettwerk) W2-3087
1996 Maybe In Time [3-song EP] (Facedown/Edel – GERMANY) 86475-FAC
1996 Dear John [4-song EP] (Edel – GERMANY) 86925-FAC

Albums
1995 Trigger Fables (Nettwerk) W2-30089

Compilation Tracks
1995 “Waiting In Time” on ‘Decadence [5CDs] (Nettwerk) W2-30100

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TATE, Richard
Born: 1949 in Montréal, Québec
Singer and drummer Richard Tate would started his musical career as a member of Les Mersey’s in 1964. Following the band’s split in 1969, he would play in Angelo & Eighteen, Aut-Chose, Beauregard, Violletti & Ste-Claire, La Révolution Française, before taking on a lengthy solo career in the 1970s. His debut album for Deram Records in 1974 was produced by Tony Roman, and featured some of Quebec’s hottest musicians including Michel Pagliaro, Nanette Workman, Walter Rossi, and Denis Lepage. His second, self-titled, album featured assists from David Hood, Roger Hawkins, Jimmy Johnson, Pete Carr, Barry Beckett, Doug Riley, plus Judi Richards, and Mary Lou Gauthier from Toulouse on backing vocals. His third release, a reworking of 1976’s ‘Richard Tate’ album, was augmented with additional material recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama with the Muscle Shoals Horns, and the songs re-written in English. [also see LES MERSEY’S, LES SINNERS, AUT’CHOSE, LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE]

Singles
1974 Road Runner/J’viens De M’reveiller (Deram) DF-506
1974 L’Harmonie De Ma Vie/Ce N’est Jamais Mon Tour (Deram) DF-529
1976 Non Non Man/La Route Qui Monte (Les Disques Martin) M-10704
1976 A Cause D’Un Seul Mot/Qu’On Soit Up Ou Down (Les Disques Martin) M-10707
1977 Desir De Femme/Petite Fille (Les Disques Martin) M-10709
1977 Fill My Life With Love/Watch What You Do (ABC/DOT/GRT) 1022-21
1977 Fill My Life With Love/Crazy Baby (ABC – UK) ABC-4220
1977 She’s Got The Time To Love Me/Watch What You Do (ABC – US) AB-12291

with ANGELO FINALDI ET RICHARD TATE
1972 Le Sorcier Le Maudit/Pas Fou (Extra/Trans-Canada) EX-7726

with ANGELO & EIGHTEEN [AKA RICHARD TATE]
1972 Midnight Flight/Flight 2 (RAK – UK) RAK-137

Albums
1974 Tate À Tête (Deram) XDEF-103
1976 Richard Tate (Les Disques Martin/Trans-Canada) M-16202
1977 Richard Tate (ABC/GRT) 9022-1016

Compilation Tracks
1974 “L’Harmonie De Ma Vie” on ’20 Succès’ ((Juke Box International) TV-DISC-74005
1976 “Non, Non, Man” on ‘Les Super Succès De 76’ (K-Tel) KF-125
1977 “Fill My Life With Love” on ‘Star Power’ [2LP] (K-Tel) TC-245

with ANGELO & EIGHTEEN [AKA RICHARD TATE]
2008 “Flight 2″ on ‘Weekend Breaks Volume One’ [12”] (B-Music – UK) BMWB-001
2009 “Flight 2” on ‘Saint Etienne Present Songs For The Dog & Duck’ (Ace – UK) CDCHD-1244
2009 “Flight 2” on ‘The Hunters & The Gatherers’ (Oi Polloi/Finders Keepers – UK) PICASOUNDS-01
2011 “Flight 2” on ‘Jarvis Cocker Supports Finders Keepers’ (Finders Keepers – UK) HELPFK-001
2019 “Flight 2” on ‘The Pop Genius Of Mickie Most’ (Ace – UK) CDMOST-1528
2021 “Flight 2” on ‘Elephant Stomp (12 Instrumental Freaky Stomper Rock Gems From 70s)’ [LP] (Naughty Rhythm) NRR-008LP

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TAU CETI
Dan Klauss (guitar) / Alice Gauthier (keyboards) / Barry Calnan (drums).
Tau Ceti was formed in 1984 from the ashes of the Calgary, Alberta garage band Chronological Order. The band worked to write original songs with the intent of recording, playing many Calgary landmarks along the way: The Long Bar, Ten Foot Henry’s, The National Hotel, and moving on to play bigger venues like Mac Hall Ballroom at the University of Calgary. Tau Ceti was the first Calgary band to headline at The Center for the Performing Arts. Along with vinyl output, they had two videos that received airplay on MuchMusic entitled “Radiation” and “San Francisco” which was added to regular rotation for several weeks. The band had some commercial airplay on CBC Brave New Waves and Calgary FM stations with the song “And I Wonder”. The group split up in 1987. Calnan currently lives in Houston, Texas working as an engineering designer, still playing with an original project, and is an endorsee for Pintech Electronic Drums; Gauthier has her own Internet company based in Montreal and has continued as a visual artist creating with oil and charcoal. Klauss lives in L.A.

Singles
1985 And I Wonder/San Francisco (Small Horse, Big Apple) SHBA-7-1
1986 Radiation/Bathed In Dark Light [12″] (Small Horse, Big Apple) SHBA-12-001
1986 So Far [5-song 12” EP]  (Tau Ceti) TAU-MINI-12

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TAXI (1)
Jim Norris (drums, vocals) / Fred Cacciotti  (guitar) / Steve Malison / Ray Chaput / Jorma Larton
Originally known as The Beasties, Taxi hailed from Sudbury, Ontario. After relocating to Toronto in the fall of 1967 to try and catch a break they auditioned at The Hawk’s Nest for several agents. Terry Philion of Canada General Artists signed them and their first gig was opening for Mandala in Collingwood. They would perform all over Southern Ontario and even played Yorkville at El Patio. They opened shows for the likes of Grant Smith & The Power, Shawne & Jay Jackson And the Majestics, and the Guess Who (at the Canadian National Exhibition) in 1968. The same year they released a single on Boo Records but after it failed to stir interest the band parted ways and Jorma Larton returned to Sudbury to start University. The remaining members became The Tote Family and were signed to Yorkville Records. Following an unsuccessful set of singles they went through a line-up shuffle, changed their name again to SeaDog, and signed with the MUCH label. With notes from Jorma Larton and Doug Varty. [see TOTE FAMILY, SEADOG]

Singles
1968 Grampa Frisby/Next Exit – Finch Avenue (Boo)  BOO-1

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TAXI (2)
Angelo Piraino (guitars, vocals) / Pete Arena (bass, vocals) / Frank Piraino (drums, vocals)
London, Ontario music students from Fanshawe College.

Albums
2001 City of Lights [6-song EP]

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TAXI (3)
Chuck Chandler (keyboards, synthesizer) / Nick Pregino [aka Nick Prigioniero] (lead vocals, harmonica, bass) / Derek Kendrick (drums) / Marty Simon (drums) / Jean Millaire (guitar) / Jimmy Tanaka (percussion)
One off studio project out of Montreal formed by Chandler and Pregino; Pregino would go on to join the Lavender Hill Mob (with Chuck Chandler), followed by Beau Geste; Marty Simon (ex-The Sharks), would do solo work under the name Jonathan Mars, and play drums on sessions for the likes of Brian Eno and Mick Jagger; Derek Kendrick (ex-Les Rockers, Moonquake) would go on to join De Cloxx; Jean Millaire (ex-Expedition) would go on to join Corbeau. [also see MARTY SIMON, JIMMY TANAKA]

Singles
1980 Crying/Save Me Tonight (Apex/MCA) AP-95560
1980 Back In Your Arms/[same [12″] (Apex/MCA) A45-2303
1980 On The Street/Back In Your Arms [12″] (Apex/MCA) A45-2305

Albums
1980 Taxi (Apex/MCA) APL-1602

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TAXI CHAIN
Grier Coppins (vocals, guitar, bagpipes, tin whistles) / Josh Hicks (drums, percussion) / Denis Mohammed (bass) / Ayron Mortley (guitar, mandolin, vocals) / Jim Bish (saxophone, flute, vocals, piccolo, blues harp)
Formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1993.

Albums
1996 Bagpipe Juke Joint (Blue Chains) D-002
1999 Sadness and the Good Doctor (Blue Chains) D-003
2004 Smarten Up! (Northern Blues) NBM-0019
2007 Glimmer of Light (Blue Chains) D-004

as GRIER COPPINS & TAXI CHAIN
1993 Pinocchio’s Broken Heart (Blue Chains) D-001

Compilation Tracks
1995 “Cheer My Baby Up For Christmas” on ‘Stuck On a Cold Steel Pole’ (Duke Street) DSRSD-31097

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TAYLOR AND THE VANCOUVERS, Bobby
Thomas “Tommy” Chong (guitar, vocals) / Robert “Bobby” Taylor (lead vocals) / Edward Patterson (guitar) / Wes Henderson (bass) / Robbie King (keyboards) / Ted Lewis (drums)
The band Little Daddie And The Bachelors had a regional Vancouver hit called “Too Much Monkey Business” before renaming themselves satirically as Four Niggers And A Chink. Needless to say they lost any fans they may have had. With a change in personnel, they regrouped as Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers and were discovered at the Elegant Parlour by Diana Ross during an appearance in the city with The Supremes. She contacted her Motown Records label boss, Barry Gordy Jr., who immediately signed them to his fledgling Gordy imprint. He was so impressed he produced their first album personally. The album featured the American hit single “Does Your Mama Know About Me” which stayed on the Billboard Charts for ten weeks. The album also spawned two lesser selling singles in “Malinda” and “I Am Your Man”. The band split up in 1969 and Tommy Chong would go on to international fame as half of the comedy duo Cheech And Chong. Bobby Taylor, meanwhile, did a brief solo stint and would eventually end up working for Motown to discover a family act from Gary, Indiana called The Jackson 5; Taylor died  of Leukemia in a Hong Kong hospital July 22, 2017.  [also see BOBBY TAYLOR, LITTLE DADDIE & THE BACHELORS]

Singles
1968 Does Your Mama Know About Me/Fading Away (Gordy/Motown – US)  G-7069
1968 I Am Your Man/If You Love Her (Gordy/Motown – US)  G-7073
1968 Malinda/It’s Growing (Gordy/Motown – US)  G-7079
1989 Do Unto Others/Do Unto Others (Instrumental) (Nightmare – UK) MARE-82

Albums
1968 Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers (Gordy/Motown – US)  GLPS-930
1990 Find My Way Back (Motorcity) CDMOTCLP-46

Compilation Tracks
1969 “It’s Growing” on ‘Motown Gold – Volume 3: 1968-1969’ (Tamla Motown – Netherlands) 5C-180-96012/13
1969 “Malinda” on ‘Tamla Motown Is Hot, Hot, Hot!’ (Tamla Motown – GER) STM-1003
1986 “Does Your Mama Know About Me” on ’20 Hard-to-Find Motown Classics Volume 1′ (Motown) MCD-09061MD
1990 “Does Your Mama Know About Me” on ‘Made In Canada – Volume Three: Eclectic Avenue’ (BMG) KCD1-7158
1992 “Does Your Mama Know About Me” on ‘Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 (Motown) 636312
2007 “Does Your Mama Know About Me” on ‘Power to the Motown People: Civil Rights Anthems and Political Soul 1968-1975 (Motown – UK) 9800901

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TAYLOR, Bobby
Born: Robert Taylor in 1934 in Washington, DC
Died: July 22, 2017 in Hong Kong
Former member of Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers who would release a solo album post-break up and continue releasing intermittent singles. His biggest claim to fame would be to discover a family singing quintet from Gary, Indiana called The Jackson 5; Taylor died  of Leukemia in a Hong Kong hospital July 22, 2017. [also see BOBBY TAYLOR & THE VANCOUVERS]

Singles
1969 My Girl Has Gone/It Should Have Been Me Loving Her (Gordy) G-7092
1970 Oh, I’ve Been Bless’d/Blackmail (V.I.P./Motown) VIP-25053
1971 Hey Lordy/[same] (Mowest) MW-5006F
1972 There Are Roses Somewhere in This World/It Was a Good Time (Sunflower – US) SUN-126
1973 I Can’t Quit Your Love/Queen of the Ghetto (Tommy – US) ZS7-1751
1974 A Stop Along the Way/[same] (Integra) 103
1974 Walk Walk Walk/It’s Funny (KaJo) 2201
1975 Don’t Wonder Why/Why Play Games (Playboy) 6046
1976 Gypsy Woman/[same] (Ultra – US) 100
1977 I’ll Be Moving On/A Stranger (Chytowns – US)  104
1977 Uh-huh Sometimes/You’re Just What I Need (Chytowns – US) 108
2000 You Can’t Hide from Love/You Can’t Hide from Love (Instrumental)
2004 Ooo Baby, Baby/Ooo Baby, Baby (Instrumental)
2005 Clouds Without Rain
2005 Sexy Lady

with BOBBY TAYLOR & THOM BELL [aka BT AND TB]
1975 I Can’t Quit Your Love/Queen of the Ghetto (Philadelphia International – US)
ZS8-3571

with BOBBY TAYLOR & THE JIVES
1978 Seven Steps To An Angel/Ubangi Stomp (Astra) A-1016

Albums
1969 Taylor Made Soul (Gordy/Motown – US) GLPS-942
2003 Together
2006 Bobby Taylor: The Motown Anthology (Motown – UK) 983-851

Compilation Tracks
1973 “I Can’t Quit Your Love” on ‘Phillybusters – The Sound of Philadelphia’ (Philadelphia International – US) PIR-65869
1994 “Don’t Be Afraid” on ‘Tamla Motown Connoisseurs (Motown)

with BOBBY TAYLOR & THOM BELL [aka BT AND TB]
1976 “I Can’t Quit Your Love” on ‘Philadelphia Sound – Special Discotheque Vol. 4’ (Philadelphia International – Netherlands) PIR-81131

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TAYLOR, Joani
Joani Taylor initially worked as a session singer both in the studio and on Canadian television including work on ‘The Judy And Jim Show’ in 1973 as part of a backing trio that also included Pat Hervey and Michael Vincent. She would weave in and out of solo record deals in the 1970s and 1980s doing Pop music, but Taylor would soon earn the distinction of being named “First Lady of the Jazz Ballad.” Her voice can be heard on thousands of film scores, commercials and recordings where she worked with a variety of luminaries from Bryan Adams and Stevie Wonder to James Galway, David Foster, Cannonball Adderley, and Miles Davis. Taylor has flown worldwide to perform for audiences in concerts and festivals. She has won nominations and awards for her work in both Canada and the USA. Taylor has recorded several singles and recorded five albums, not including the compilations she has been featured on.  With notes from Joani Taylor.

Singles
1976 Y’Look Good To Me/Help To Keep The Dream Alive (Polydor) 2065-329
1981 In the Dark/So Lonely Here Today (A & M) AM-556

Albums
1989 Absolutely Joani Taylor (Ballad) 1514
2008 In My Own Voice (Wetcoast) 1780C

as JOANI TAYLOR WITH THE DAVE ROBBINS ORCHESTRA AND THE NUMERALITY SINGERS
1970 Joani (Radio-Canada) LM-417

with JOANI TAYLOR & BOB MURPHY
2002 The Art of the Jazz Ballad (Bob Murphy Studio) CD-1780A
2003 The Wall Street Sessions (Roadhouse)

as JOANI TAYLOR WITH RUSS TAGGART & FRIENDS
2003 State of Grace

with JOANI TAYLOR featuring PJ PERRY WITH MILES BLACK & NEIL SWAINSON
2018 In a Sentimental Mood (Cellar Love) CL-111517

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TAYLOR, Julian
Singer-songwriter, and producer formerly in the band Staggered Crossing. He has recorded several solo albums as well as releases with The Julian Taylor Band featuring David Engle (keyboards), Jeremy Eliot (drums), and Steve Pelletier (bass). [also see STAGGERED CROSSING]

Albums
2009 Blank Tape Levy (Bent Penny) 0001
2017 Absence Of The Sun (Howling Turtle) 0004
2020 The Ridge (Howling Turtle) HT-010578
2022 Beyond The Reservoir (Howling Turtle) HT-197820221

with THE JULIAN TAYLOR BAND
2012 Hey Hey Two Two [7-song EP] (Howling Turtle) 0003
2014 Tech Noir (Howling Turtle) 270198
2015 Desert Star [5-song EP] (Aporia) APO-070-CD
2016 Desert Star (Aporia) APO-074-CD
2019 Avalanche (Gypsy Soul/Fontana) GSR-010

Compilation Tracks
with THE JULIAN TAYLOR BAND
2019 “Back Again” on ‘Mariposa 2019’ (Mariposa Folk Festival) MAR-2019
2021 “Set Me Free” on ‘Un-Herd…Volume 87’ (RNR Magazine – UK) RNR-87

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TAYLOR, Lauren
Singing by the age of five years-old, Lauren Taylor impressed her grade school with a rendition of “Wind Beneath My Wings” and decided right then that she wanted to be a singer. Over the next ten years, Lauren worked hard to develop her craft and build her performing experience. Every Sunday she traveled from her Montreal home to Ottawa to study with a top-notch vocal coach, then spent hours practicing every day after school. To test her fledgling musical wings, Lauren performed at dozens of concerts and community festivals. She competed in prestigious singing contests, including the American Guild of Music vocal talent competition, where she won a record five gold medals in the R&B/Pop category. All the while, Lauren waited anxiously for the right time to bring her lifelong love of singing to the highest level. With her father as management partner, the two planned out her next move following her sixteenth birthday which was to record a pop album. As a team, they began to make important contacts. This lead to a meeting with established songwriter/producer John Farley (Roch Voisine, Melanie Stewart, Nancy Martinez, Martine St-Clair). Recognizing her talent, Farley began to work with Taylor to develop original material to suit her vocal style. With a professionally produced demo in hand, Taylor was signed to Montreal-based Soft Cell Records in September 1999. An album entitled “Let Me In Your Heart” followed on the heels of the first single “I Will.” The album would be re-issued in Japan on Avex Trax renamed ‘Dance With Me’ featuring a remix of the song ‘Without U’ by Zi-Zone.

Singles
2000 I Will (B’T Buzz/Soft Cell/DEP)
2000 She’s Not The One [3 mixes] (B’T Buzz/Soft Cell/DEP) SFT2-4523

Album
2000 Let Me In Your Heart (B’T Buzz/Soft Cell/DEP)
2000 Dance With Me (Avex Trax – JAPAN) AVCD-11841

Compilation Tracks
2000 “Without U” on ‘Abest Tracks ’00 12 (Avex Trax) AVCS-10381

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TAYLOR, Lydia
Originally from Sudbury, Ontario, vocalist Lydia Taylor’s musical career began while singing in various high school bands while growing up in Mississauga, Ontario. During the mid-1960s she was one of the first Go-Go dancers hired at the Brass Rail under the name Toby J. Scott. Her ambition was to be a singer, however, and she worked her way around the Southern Ontario music circuit as a member of the all-girl group The Starlettes. She would eventually leave to front a rock group called Trixter, and finally, a break came in the mid-1970s when she was initially signed to a publishing demo deal with RCA Records. After a lone single, “Love a Little Harder” (along with a French version of the same song), failed to make waves at radio in 1976, she was back to pounding the pavement in search of a record deal. Then, while performing in Toronto in 1978 she was spotted by Cliff Hunt, and signed to Hunt Management as well as Hunt’s label Falcon Records (which also featured Zon). She continued playing live while she and guitarist Richard Zwicewicz began writing songs. With a guest appearance on Helix’s song “You’re a Woman Now,” the duo entered Phase One studio in North Scarborough, Ontario where Zwicewicz and Robert Leth co-produced her self-titled debut for Cliff Hunt’s Falcon Records label in 1979. A touring band was assembled that included Zwicewicz (guitars), Dan Donovan (bass), Andy Artfield (keyboards), and The Stampeders’ Gibby Lacasse (drums), and the ensemble hit the road to promote the album. Taylor was then nominated for a ‘Top Female Vocalist of the Year’ at the JUNO Awards and eventually won. Next, the road tested Lydia Taylor Band returned to Phase One studio in 1980 to record a new album which was produced by Bob Gallo and Don Lorusso. 1981’s ‘Lydia Taylor Band’ album was released on Passport Records and spawned two singles – “Some Guys” and “Miracles”. Taylor would win a JUNO Award for ‘Most Promising Female Vocalist’ in 1983. The band’s sophomore release would be the Phase One recorded ‘Bitch’ EP in 1983 which also spawned two singles before Passport Records went bankrupt. A third cross-Canada tour followed and Taylor found herself opening for heavier female-fronted rock acts like Lee Aaron, Toronto, and The Headpins. But as new wave and synth-rock took over commercial radio Taylor’s brand of hard rock fell out of favour, and she wasn’t able to secure another record deal. Eventually, Lydia Taylor left the music business. with notes from Bill Carter, and Lydia Taylor.

Singles
1976 Love A Little Harder/Love A Little Harder (Instrumental) (RCA) PB-50226
1976 Donne Moi Ton Amour/Donne Moi Ton Amour (Instrumental) (RCA) PB-50227
1979 Do Wah Diddy/I’m A W.O.M.A.N. (Falcon) FAL-1001
1979 Dreamer/He’s A Rebel (Falcon) WRC3-919/FAL-1002
1980 You’ll Like It/Tuff Stuff (Falcon) FAL-1004

with THE LYDIA TAYLOR BAND
1981 Some Guys/Cut-Throat (Passport/A & M) PS-501
1981 Miracles/Leave Me Alone (Passport/A & M) PS-503
1983 Bitch (Short Version)/Bitch (Long Version) (Passport/A & M) PS-507
1983 You Talk Tough/Modern Lies (Passport/A & M) PS-509

Albums
1979 Lydia Taylor (Falcon) FAL-80001

with THE LYDIA TAYLOR BAND
1981 The Lydia Taylor Band (Passport/A & M) PL-5001
1983 Bitch (Passport/A & M) PL-3007

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TAYLOR, R. Dean
Born: Richard Dean Taylor on May 11, 1939 in Toronto, Ontario
Died: January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California
R. Dean Taylor started his career in his home of Toronto in 1961 playing piano and singing with various groups at all the big Toronto clubs as well as recording several singles for the Audiomaster label that were poor quality and received little if no airplay. In 1962 he recorded the single/demo “At the High School Dance” for Amy-Mala Records which gained him a bit of attention to which Taylor took the advice of a friend and pursued his dreams in Detroit. Motown’s Brian Holland offered him a position as a ghostwriter for the label and later he would finally be recognized for this talent on such songs as “I’ll Turn To Stone” (The Four Tops), “Love Child” and “I’m Livin’ In Shame” (The Supremes), and “All I Need” (The Temptations). While developing his production techniques, Taylor recorded “Gotta See Jane” on his own which hit the Top 20 in England. Motown Records owner Berry Gordy Jr. decided to take a chance with Taylor on his newly established white artist’s label Rare Earth from which they released “Indiana Wants Me” in 1970. The song went to No.1 in Canada and peaked at No.5 on the Billboard Top40 September 19, 1970. Following the release of his debut album, “Gotta See Jane” was re-released and went Top 10 in Canada. R. Dean Taylor continued writing and producing for various artists throughout the ’70’s. He also had a U.K. hit single in 1974 (No.36) with “Window Shopping”. Taylor made a brief, unsuccessful comeback attempt in 1981/82; Taylor caught COVID-19 and spent the last year of his life at home with hospice treatment. He died January 7, 2022. with notes from Brian Salmons.

Singles
1961 At The High School Dance/How Wrong Can You Be? (Barry) B-3023X
1962 I’ll Remember/It’s A Long Way To St. Louis (Barry) B-3099X
1962 We Fell In Love As We Tangoed/Beautiful Dreamer (Barry) B-3140X
1965 Let’s Go Somewhere/Poor Girl (VIP/Tamla Motown) V-25027
1967 There’s A Ghost In My House/Don’t Fool Around (VIP/Tamla Motown) VIP-25042
1970 Gotta See Jane/Don’t Fool Around (Rare Earth) R-5004
1970 Indiana Wants Me/Love’s Your Name (Rare Earth/Phonodisc) R-5013
1971 Ain’t It A Sad Thing/Backstreet (Rare Earth/Ampex) R-5023
1971 Gotta See Jane/Back Street (Rare Earth) R-5026
1971 Candy Apple Red/Woman Alive (Rare Earth) R-5030
1972 Taos, New Mexico/Shadow (Rare Earth) R-5041
1973 Reservation of Education/Shadow (Rare Earth – UK) RES-111
1973 Bonnie/Sweet Flowers (Jane/GRT) 1212-1001
1974 There’s A Ghost In My House/Let’s Go Somewhere (Tamla Motown) TMG-896
1974 Who Will Wipe My Tears Away (The Ragdoll Song) /Mandy (Jane/GRT)
1212-1002
1974 Window Shopping/Bonnie (Polydor – Germany) 2058-502
1974 Don’t Fool Around/Poor Girl (Tamla Motown – UK) TMG-909
1975 Walkin’ In the Sun/Who Will Wipe My Tears Away (The Ragdoll Song) (Jane/GRT) 1212-1004
1975 Let’s Talk It Over/Mama I Will (Jane/GRT) 1212-1005
1976 We’ll Show Them All/Magdalena (Jane/Polydor) 2065-288
1976 Bonnie/Hannah (Jane/Polydor) 2065-309
1976 Closer My Love/Daddy’s Got a Gun (Jane/Polydor) 2065-328
1977 Dixie’s Hands/Bonnie (Jane) JR-2058
1979 Raggamuffin
1981 Let’s Talk It Over /Add Up the Score (20^th Century Fox) TC-2510
1982 Out In the Alley/Bonnie

Albums
1970 I Think, Therefore I Am (Rare Earth) RS-522
1971 Indiana Wants Me (Rare Earth/Tamla Motown) STML-11185
1974 R. Dean Taylor (Sounds Superb – UK) SPR-90007
1975 L.A. Sunset (Polydor – UK) 2383-339
2001 The Essential Collection (Spectrum – UK)  544 515-2

Compilation Tracks
1969 “Gotta See Jane” on ‘Motown Gold – Volume 3: 1968-1969’ (Tamla Motown – Netherlands) 5C-180-96012/13
1969 “Gotta See Jane” on ‘Tamla Motown Is Hot, Hot, Hot!’ (Tamla Motown – GER) STM-1003
1971 “Gotta See Jane” on ’20 Explosive Hits 71 (HMV – Australia) TVSS-7
1971 “Indiana Wants Me” on ‘Motown Chartbusters Volume 6 (Tamla Motown – UK) STML-11191
1972 “Taos New Mexico” on ‘The Rarest on Earth (Rare Earth – Germany) 1C048-93653
1988 “Gotta See Jane” on ‘Motown Hits of Gold Volume 2 (Motown) WD-72402
1988 “Indiana Wants Me” on ‘Motown Hits of Gold Volume 5’ (Motown) WD-72405
1988 “There’s A Ghost In My House” on ‘Motown Hits of Gold Volume 7 (Motown) WD-72407
1990 “Indiana Wants Me” on ‘AM Gold – 1970 (Time-Life – US) AM1-02
1990 “Indiana Wants Me” on ‘Platform Soul’ (K-tel – UK) ONCD-3456
1990 “Indiana Wants Me” on ‘Super Hits of the ’70s: Have a Nice Day – Vol. 3 (Rhino) R2-70923
1990 “Indiana Wants Me” on ‘Made in Canada, Our Rock ‘n’ Roll History – Volume Two: Into the 70’s (BMG) KCD1-7157
1997 “There’s a Ghost In My House” on ‘Soul Survivors’ (Telstar – UK) TCD- 2869
2001 “There’s a Ghost In My House” on ‘The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter…Ever! (Circa – UK) VTDCD-377
2003 “Indiana Wants Me” on ‘The Ultimate American Revolution Collection’ (WEA) 60351
2003 “There’s a Ghost In My House” on ’60’s Soul Mix’ (UMTV) 980- 814-4
2004 “Gotta See Jane” on ‘Sounds of the Sixties – Soul Classics (Time-Life) TL-SCC/25
2004 “There’s a Ghost In My House” on ‘This Is the Modern World’ (UMTV) 9819443
2007 “There’s a Ghost In My House” on ‘Motown Gold – The 1970’s (UMTV) 5304235
2007 “Indiana Wants Me” on ‘The Magic of Motown (Motown – UK) 9823271
2008 “There’s a Ghost In My House” on ‘A Complete Introduction to Northern Soul’ (Universal – UK) 531-261-8
2011 “There’s a Ghost In My House” on ‘Before The Fall’ (Ace – UK) CDCHD-1299

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TAYLOR, Seph
Born: Edward Joseph Taylor

Singles
1976 Sam/Can’t Come Home (Hippopotamus) HIP-87205

with SEPH TAYLOR MOB
1971 Ridin’ The Wind/Muscatel Blues (Lily) LR-451

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TAYLOR, Stephanie
Born: Stephanie Lillian Taylor in 1942.
Stephanie Taylor was a singer whose first taste of the limelight began as one third of vocal group The Girlfriends with Diane Miller and Rhonda Silver to cover hit songs of the day and back guests on the daily after school show ‘Music Hop’ hosted by Alex Trebek. The Girlfriends were a hit, recording for MGM Records in New York. When a similarly-named group saw them they changed their moniker to The Willows and scored big with “My Kinda Guy”. The Willows then opened several Canadian shows for The Beach Boys. The trio also sang their first national commercial for a popular teen beauty treatment. When ‘the show ‘Music Hop’ (and subsequently The Willows) came to the end of its run, Taylor became a choral singer for the likes of The Laurie Bower Singers and the Sycamore Street Singers. Following an appearance with Hagood Hardy’s Montage in 1969, Taylor was able to release a solo album in 1970 produced by Doug Riley entitled ‘I Don’t Know Where I Stand’. Stephanie Taylor would go on to do back-up vocal session work for a number of other Canadian artists including Larry Mattson, Cliff Edwards, The Johnny Burt Orchestra, and Eric Robertson (who she would marry). She also made regular TV appearances on ‘Keith Hampshire’s Music Machine’, ‘The Bobby Vinton Show’, and hosted ‘Canadian Express’ in 1978. In later years she returned to choral singing with both Hampton Avenue and The Canadian Singers; Stephanie Taylor died in 2009. [also see THE WILLOWS, SYCAMORE STREET SINGERS, LAURIE BOWER SINGERS]

Singles
1975 Standing Room Only/Play With Me and Talk With Me (RCA Victor) PB-50143
1976 Satisfying Love/After the Thrill Is Gone (RCA Victor) PB-50204

Albums
1970 I Don’t Know Where I Stand (CBC Radio) LM-84

Compilation Tracks
1978 “Satisfying Love” on ‘The Hits of Opry North’ (RCA Country Club) KEL1-8101

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TAYLOR, Susan
Born: 1949
Susan Taylor worked at Toronto radio station CKFH’s as the music librarian, and one of two programmers, when she was 17. Meanwhile, she was also working part time as the singer in her own band Susan Taylor And The Peytons. After a prominent appearance during the Toronto Sound concert at Maple Leaf Gardens with other well known Toronto artists on September 24, 1966, Taylor was signed to Yorkville Records as a solo artist. Her first single was a cover of Tim Hardin’s “Don’t Make Promises,” which would peak at #29 on the CHUM chart during the week of March 27, 1967. A second Hardin song, “Reason To Believe,” would end up as the B-side to her follow-up single “If You Love Me.”

Singles
1967 Don’t Make Promises/Twelfth Of Never (Yorkville) YV-45005
1968 If You Love Me/Reason To Believe (Yorkville) YV-45014

Compilation Tracks
1967 “Don’t Make Promises” on ‘Yorkville Evolution’ (Yorkville) YVM-33001
1968 “If You Love Me” on ‘CTV’s After Four’ (Yorkville) YVM-33003

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TBTBT [aka Too Bad To Be True]
Jeremy Robinson (vocals) / Al Cox (vocals) / Ishaka Dodd (vocals) / Frankie Scarcelli (vocals)
Short-lived R & B boy band from Montréal, Québec.

Singles
1993 One Track Mind (ISBA) CDNK-871
1993 Get Down To It [6 song 12”] (Cold Chillin’ – EUR) PRO-A6797

Albums
1993 Too Bad To Be True (ISBA) ISCD-2049

Compilation Tracks
1993 “One Track Mind (I-Roc-Ex House Mix)” on ‘Energy Rush’ (Quality) QCD- 2032
1994 “One Track Mind” on ‘Awesome 3’ (PolyTel) 516-680-2
1994 “Get Down To It” on ‘The Hit List’ (MCA) MCASD-11177

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TCHIR, Trevor
From Edmonton, Alberta.

Albums
2005 Wooden Castles Fall (Trevor Tchir) TPT-003V

Compilation Tracks
2010 “Avalon” on ‘Great Northern Revival: Notes From The Edmonton Underground Vol. 2’ (NoteBook)

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TCHUKON
Warren “Slim” Williams (keyboards) / Kathleen Dyson-Oliver (vocals, guiar) / Harold Fischer (bass) / Ingrid Stitt (saxophone) / Eric Roberts (drums)
Tchukon was a soul act featuring some of Montreal’s best voices (including Kat Dyson of Kat Mandu) formed in 1984. After releasing several regional singles on Six A.M. Records, Tchukon worked their way through the ranks to become finalists in the 1986 season of American talent contest TV show ‘Star Search’ hosted by Ed McMahon. Following their win, Tchukon released one album on Aquarius Records and managed modest airplay with the songs “Fatal Attraction” and “Let’s Talk”; Kat Dyson would continue as a session singer before gaining international success as a guitarist for the likes of Cyndi Lauper, Prince & The New Power Generation, Donny Osmond, Michael Jackson and Colin James among others; Williams and Fischer would go on to do session work with Watson Beasley, Freddie James, Maurice Massiah, and Veronique Beliveau.

Singles
1984 Plastic People/Love’s Gonna Get Cha (Six A.M.) GHX-002
1984 Plastic People/Love’s Gonna Get Cha [12″] (Six A.M.) GHX-12002
1984 Love’s Gonna Get Cha (6:20)/Love’s Gonna Get Cha (4:35) [12″] (Six A.M.)
GHX-12004
1987 Fatal Attraction/Don’t Matter To Me (Aquarius) AQ-6029
1987 Don’t Matter To Me (Dance Version)/Fatal Attraction (3:46) [12″] (Aquarius)
AQ-12029
1987 Let’s Talk/Principle of Emotion (Aquarius) AQ-6031
1988 I Live Inside Your Heart/[same] (Aquarius) AQ-6034

Albums
1987 Here and Now (Aquarius) AQR-546

Compilation Tracks
1986 “Promised Land” on ‘The Winners Album: Star Search’ (MCA) MCA-5732

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TEA FOR THE VOYAGE
Brett McDonald (vocals) / Garett Barr (bass, vocals) / Alec Donaldson (guitar, violin, banjo, vocals) / Sean Donaldson (drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals) / Taylor Donaldson (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, flute, keyboards, organ, trombone, vocals) / Pete McNichol (trumpet, vocals) / Dave Perreault (baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, fife, vocals) / Chris Sandiford (trombone, vocals)
Formed in Kingston, Ontario in 2004.

Albums
2007 Tea For the Voyage (Nanobot) 63447956451
2009 Gimme Dem Beets!! (Nanobot) 84302

Compilation Tracks
2007 “Toast” on ‘Nanobot Records Presents Turbo Zombie Uppercuts Volume 1’ (Nanobot)

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TEA PARTY, The
Jeff Martin (vocals, guitar) / Jeff Burrows (drums) / Stuart Chatwood (bass)
The three members of Windsor-based Tea Party have been friends for most of their lives, playing in bands through high school together and apart. In July of 1990 Jeff Martin and Stuart Chatwood were coming from yet another failed Toronto band, and called their friend Jeff Burrows (who had just been fired from a band himself) to come and be part of a gig they had coming up back in Windsor. The Stickmen was born from that gig. Deciding from the beginning to do as much as possible for their career, they recorded and released an independent CD which got them a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music Canada, and eventually landed them a recording deal with EMI Music Canada. This was due partly to the fact that the CD stayed on Sam The Record Man’s independent charts for over a year, and partly to a series of showcase gigs for A&R reps from most of the major labels. Continuing with their conviction of doing things for themselves, Martin insisted that he be allowed to produce the first album but the label waffled, so he took the band to Vermont to record and produce four tracks to prove to the label executives he could do it. He came back with six completed tracks, and those combined with six from the independent release resulted in Splendor Solis, released in 1993. The hype about the band before the CD was released was quite vast, and the album did not disappoint; it received rave critical and public acceptance and eventually went platinum (100,000 copies) in Canada. Tea Party toured Canada constantly, headlining and as special guests of such luminaries as British psychedelic folk artist Roy Harper. Complications with the release in the US made manager Michael White rethink his strategy and he opted for exposure in Australia. The band played half a dozen gigs Down Under right after Christmas in 1993, helping to push the album to #33 on the Australian charts and warranting a return visit in April 1994; that trip saw seven of their eight gigs selling out. They used a similar approach in Europe, creating a buzz in select markets and then returning to play key gigs that helped build on the momentum; in this way they gained release in more than 20 countries, performing extensively all over the continent. Touring for the band ceased in 1994, and they returned to the studio to flesh out ideas that had popped up while on the road with producer Ed Stasium (Ramones, Living Colour). The results of absorbing different musical styles from their travels was 1995’s The Edges Of Twilight, which features some 31 different instrument sounds and outside help only in the form of a spoken intro to one track by Roy Harper. While some critics jumped on the band’s sound, comparing them to the Doors and Led Zeppelin, others offered even more rave reviews, and the album became an even bigger hit than the first. 1996 saw the band on the road extensively, all across North America, Australia and Europe, selling out everywhere and once again earning rave reviews for their live performance. At the end of 1996, EMI released a six-song, multi-media enhanced CD that featured four acoustic versions of songs from ‘The Edges of Twilight’, a remixed version of “Sister Awake” from the first album, a new song, and full-length videos for two songs, acoustic performances, interviews, and more. To promote this release, the band did a club tour where they brought computers into the room to allow people to view the multimedia track from the CD. In 1997 the band released its latest album, Transmission, featuring the hit single “Temptation”. The band continued to tour extensively to support the material. After the tour ended, Martin and his Australian wife moved out of their three-century-old gothic home in Montreal and into the anonymous hills of Los Angeles. For its fifth full-length album, ‘TRIPtych’, the band made a conscious decision to lighten up without losing its hard edge. The first single, “The Messenger”, followed by “Heaven Coming Down” managed to get them favourable airplay on Rock radio stations. Two more album followed in the 2000s – ‘The Interzone Mantras’ (2001) and ‘Seven Circles’ (2004) – before Martin announced in a press release in 2005 that Tea Party had split up and he would be pursuing a solo career. This was news to Burrows and Chatwood who were expecting to begin work another Tea Party album; Martin did indeed release solo material over the next five years (relocating his family to the UK); Burrows went on to work with Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee in The Big Dirty Band for the ‘Trailer Park Boys’ movie soundtrack before forming supergroup Crash Karma with members of Our Lady Peace and I Mother Earth; Chatwood did production and session work including music for Ubisoft Industries’ ‘Prince of Persia’ video console game; In April 2011 the trio announced they had patched things up and subsequently reunited for tour dates in 2011. The US right wing political group, meanwhile, had added confusion in the world market by naming themselves The Tea Party. The band briefly entertained the idea of selling off their website domain name but instead added a disclaimer: ‘No politics…Just Rock And Roll’. The band released its reunion album, their first in 10 years, ‘The Ocean At The End’ in September 2014.

Singles
1991 Let Me Show You The Door (independent)
1993 The River (EMI)
1993 Save Me (EMI)
1994 A Certain Slant of Light (EMI)
1994 In This Time (EMI)
1994 Midsummer Day (EMI) CDPRO-790
1995 Fire In the Head (EMI)
1997 Touch (EMI)
1997 Temptation (EMI) 884161
1997 Babylon (EMI) CDPRO-1611
1998 Release (EMI) PRCD-8451
1999 The Messenger (EMI) DPRO-1904
2000 Heaven Coming Down/Psychopomp (Live) (EMI) 887521
2000 Walking Wounded (EMI) DPRO-2044
2001 Soul Breaking (EMI)
2004 Stargazer (EMI – AUSTRALIA) PR-578
2004 The Writing’s On the Wall (EMI)
2009 Temptation (Alternate Mixes) [4 mixes Digi-File] (EMI)
2012 Fire In The Head (Live)/[split w/MOROCCAN KINGS] [7″] (veri.live – AUSTRALIS) VL-11
2014 Water’s On Fire (Inside Out)
2018 Black River (Coalition Music)
2019 Way Way Down (Coalition Music)
2020 Everyday Is Like Sunday (Coalition Music)
2020 Isolation [Digi-File] (Eternal Discs)
2021 Hole In My Heart [Digi-File] (Coalition Music)
2021 Summertime [Digi-File] (Coalition Music)
2021 Sunshower [Digi-File] (Coalition Music)

Albums
1991 The Tea Party (independent)
1993 Splendor Solis (EMI) 789419
1995 The Edges of Twilight (EMI) 832350
1996 Alhambra [EP] (EMI) 837240
1997 Transmission (EMI) 855308
1999 TRIPtych (EMI) 496545
2000 Tangents: The Tea Party Collection (EMI) 7-2435 27682-2-6
2001 The Interzone Mantras (EMI) 529721
2004 Seven Circles (EMI) 595477
2014 Icon (EMI/Universal) 0253760898
2014 The Ocean At The End (Anthem/Universal)
2017 Tx20 [4-song EP Digi-File] (Anthem)
2019 Black River [EP] (Coalition Music)
2021 Blood Moon Rising (Inside Out/Sony – Europe) IOMLTDCD-604

Compilation Tracks
1993 “Save Me” on ‘New Stuff Two’ (MMS) NSCD-002
1995 “Inanna” on ‘Triple Scoop 3’ (EMI) 438358
1997 “Temptation (Edit) (Tom Lord-Alge Mix)” on ‘Big Shiny Tunes 2’ (WEA) WTVD-36034
1998 “Temptation (Remix)” on ‘Edgefest 98 Rarities & Collectables’ (EMI) DPRO-1738
1998 “Heaven Coming Down” on ‘Big Shiny Tunes 4’ (EMI) 523067
1999 “Life Line” on ‘Much @ Edgefest 1999’ (MCA)
2001 “Walking Wounded” on ‘Big Shiny Tunes 6’ (Universal) 584097
2001 “Heaven Coming Down” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 2: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (CMC) 0885

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TEAZE
Brian Danter (vocals, guitar) / Chuck Price (guitar) / Mark Bradac (bass) / Mike Zozak (drums) / Lynne Serridge (vocals)
Teaze was formed in Windsor, Ontario in 1975. After a lengthy career and four albums on Aquarius – which included a minor AM Radio hit “Sweet Misery” – the original line-up of the band split up in 1981 but revised versions of the group led by Bradac continued into the mid-80s. One version featured new lead vocalist Lynne Serridge. They would land a track on the annual Toronto Q107 Homegrown album Volume 6; Zozak went on to play in a band called Rude; Bradac owns a collector’s guitar store in Windsor, Ontario and has appeared on Canadian auction TV show ‘Pawnathon Canada’; Danter would go on to produce artists such as Legion.

Singles
1976 Boys Night Out/Dirty Sweet Loving (Force One) FO-1001
1976 On the Loose/I Want You (Aquarius) AQ-5066
1977 Sweet Misery/On the Loose (Aquarius) AQ-5071
1978 Rockin’ With the Music/Dirty Sweet Loving (Overseas – JAPAN) MA-89-V
1979 Heartless World/Back In Action (Aquarius) AQ-5082
1979 Loose Change/Young and Reckless (Aquarius) AQ-5086
1979 Boys Night Out/Roses and Chrome (Aquarius) AQ-5091
1979 Stay Here/Reach Out (Capitol – US) 4737

Albums
1976 Teaze (Eurodisc – France) 913138
1977 On the Loose (Aquarius) AQS-516
1978 Tour of Japan (Aquarius) AQS-520
1979 One Night Stands (Aquarius) AQS-523
1980 Body Shots (Aquarius) AQS-528
1984 A Taste of Teaze (Heavy Metal America) HMUSA-4
1990 The Best of Teaze (Aquarius)

Compilation Tracks
1977 “Sweat Misery” on ‘The Hot Ones’ (K-Tel) TC-247
1980 “Reach Out” on ‘The Rock Album’ (K-Tel) TC-261
1984 “Big Talk” on ‘Q107 Homegrown Volume 6’ (RCA) KQL1-7087
1986 “Boys Night Out” on ‘Metal Killers Kollection Volume 2’ (Castle – EUR) CCSLP-134

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TECHNIQUES BERLIN
Dave Rout (synthesizers, drum machines) / Andreas Gregor (vocals, synthesizers, drum Machines) / Dina Naskos (vocals, synthesizers; Live performances 2013 – present)
Previous members: Daniel Bell (1985-1986) / Desta Williams (1985) / Dale Hanlin (1990-1992) / Kristian Helströmm (1989 & 1991)
St. Catharines, Ontario new wave/synth pop/minimalist synth group formed in 1985 by Rout and Gregor. The duo had experimented with releases under the names !Bang Elektronika, Slam Mechanical, Klinikal Damage Collective, and Panic Orchestra, they settled into their comfort zone with Techniques Berlin. During the 1990s the duo was part of the Digital Poodle collective, but Techniques Berlin celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2020 – performing only once live that year due to the global pandemic; Gregor also has a side project called Agents In Infrared; Rout has several side projects with Datafreq, Wyse, Y’s, Kut 2 Kill, The Beautiful Spies, and Methods Of Dance; Rout and Helströmm were also members of Kinder Atom; Helströmm now records under the name Chromosphere. [also see !BANG ELEKTRONIKA, SLAM MECHANICAL, KLINIKAL DAMAGE COLLECTIVE, PANIC ORCHESTRA, DIGITAL POODLE]

Albums
1989 Machine Language [cassette (Bombshelter) BOMB-005
199? Back Issue Vol.1 (1985-1991) (Bombshelter) BOM-006
199? Back Issue Vol.2 (1985-1992) (Bombshelter) BOM-006b
2004 Back Issue Vol.1 [re-issue (1985-1991) (Bombshelter) BOM-0501
2009 Back Issue Vol.2 [re-issue (1985-1991) (Bombshelter) BOM-0901
2012 Suburban Playgrounds And Concrete Beaches (Fabrika – GREECE) FP-006
2018 Methods Of Danse [cassette (Bombshelter) MXBOMB-001
2018 The 1987 Voice Audio Sessions [cassette (Bombshelter) MXBOMB-002
2017 Breathing [2LP (Nadanna – GERMANY) NADA-6

Compilation Tracks
1988 “Next Day” on ‘6 Months In The Bombshelter’ [cassette (Bombshelter) BOMB-001
1989 “Metropolis” and “Machine Language” on ‘Ground Zero (6 Months Later)’ [cassette (Bombshelter) BOMB-006
1989 “Machine Language” on ‘Rivals Of Medusa’ [cassette (ZOI) ZOI-002
2013 “Metropolis (Live)” on ‘Radio Body Music – Body To Body’ [DigiFile (Radio Body Music) RBM-003
2015 “And You” on ‘Communications From The Bombshelter Volume 2 – Future Past’ [7″ (Bombshelter) [no cat.#
2022 “Love Via Computer (W.E.B Edit) BPM 133” on ‘WEBE Redrums Vol. 4’ [LP (Modo80s Disco) WEBE-004
2023 “Amy” on ‘AMY’ [LP (Hertz-Schrittmacher – GERMANY) HERTZ-2023

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TECHNO TRIBE
Dave Rout (synthesizer, drum programming)
Multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, Ontario.

Albums
1990 A*U*T*O*E*R*O*T*I*K [6-song cassette EP] (Bombshelter) EBOMB-202
Compilation Tracks
1987 “Young Sinner” on ‘Spotlight ’87’ (Summit) QRS-335

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TEDDY BOYS
Paul Asgeirson (guitar, vocals) / Steve Marian (guitar, lead vocals) / George Marian (keyboards, vocals) / Steve Ostick (bass) / Julian Bernas (drums) / Scott Shelson (bass; Berlin only)
Originally called Barrelhouse, the group worked tirelessly around Winnipeg, Manitoba before landing a record deal with WEA Music Canada. They soon became The Teddy Boys and released one album entitled ‘On Air’ which spawned the hit single “He Only Goes Out With The Boys” and the less successful “1,2,3,4 (Love Affair).” George Marian left the group and Ostick was replaced by former Hott Roxx bassist Scott Shelson. The band then changed their name to Berlin. Following the release of Berlin’s ‘Young Warrior’ LP in 1982, the band wound up embroiled in a well publicized lawsuit with the American act of the same name. After years of wrangling, the Canadian act folded due to their heavy legal debt.

Singles
1980 He Only Goes Out With the Boys/Valentino (WEA) BOY-1
1981 1,2,3,4 (Love Affair) (WEA) BOY-2
1981 Things That You Do (WEA) BOY-3

as BERLIN
1982 My World Is Empty Without You/Walking With the Shadows (Freedom) FR-45-028

Albums
1980 On Air (WEA) XWEA-92006

as BERLIN
1982 Young Warrior (Freedom) FR-012

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TEENAGE DANCE BAND
Clint Ryan (vocals, bass) / Dave Wood (guitar) / Bob Scott (guitar) / Steve ‘Butch’ Vasileff (drums) / Sebastian Agnello (piano)
Formed in 1969, the group released one single on Quality Records called “The Ballad Of Bruce T. Higgins”. They continued recording demos into 1970, and eventually became Subway Elvis’s first rhythm section; Sebastian Agnello would go on to a lengthy solo career; Sebastian Agnello died September 29, 2023. with notes from Sebastian Agnello. [also see SEBASTIAN (1)]

Singles
1970 Rip It Up/Ballad Of Bruce T. Higgins (Quality) 1955X

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TEENAGE HEAD
Frankie Venom [aka Frank Kerr] (vocals) / Gord Lewis (guitar) / Steve Park (bass) / Steve Marshall [aka Steve Mahon] (bass; replaced Park) / Nick Stipanitz (drums) / Mark Lockerbie (drums; replaced Stipanitz; replaced Harrison) / Blair “Mojo” Martin (drums; replaced Lockerbie) / Jack Pedler (drums; replaced Martin) / Mark Lockerbie (drums; replaced Pedler) / Dale Harrison (drums; replaced Lockerbie) / Gene Champagne (drums; replaced Harrison) / David Bendeth (guitar; replaced Lewis temporarily in 1980) / Jim Huff (guitar; replaced Bendeth in 1981) / Dave Rave [aka Dave Desroches] (guitar, vocals; replaced Venom) / Trent Carr (guitar; special guest guitarist following the passing of Gord Lewis)
While Nick Stipanitz and Frank Kerr had played in the band Earthmover around 1972, the members of Teenage Head met while attending Westdale High School in Hamilton. They would hang around Star Records in Hamilton listening to the newest punk imports and by 1975 decided to put a band together. They named themselves after the title of the Flaming Groovies song. Star Records owner Paul Kobak saw the band’s enthusiasm and potential, and offered to manage them (leaving the store in the hands of musician Bob Bryden). Kobak would shuttle the band around in his car, acted as roadie and helped finance their road trips and early demos. As the band became busier and more popular, co-managers Jack Morrow John Brower helped with finding Teenage Head places to play – mainly in Toronto – and wanting the band to make money, the plan was to get a record out. Demos for “Picture My Face” and “Tearin’ Me Apart” were cut and they soon had a deal with Inter Global Music who shopped the band to CBS Records affiliate Epic. The songs were polished and released on Epic in May 1978. “Top Down” soon followed and the band found themselves the centre of attention at the ‘The Last Pogo’ in 1978 at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, Ontario. Teenage Head had barely taken the stage when the police showed up to break up the over-capacity crowd. The entire event was captured by Colin Brunton and Head were immortalized without having played a note. In 1979, their self-titled debut, which was poorly recorded, distributed and released by Inter Global, failed to stir any attention and the record company soon folded. But the band’s frenetic live shows – including a memorable performance at the Heatwave Festival (a recording of which became 1984’s ‘Endless Party’) – drew capacity crowds everywhere they played, and the moderate radio exposure raised eyebrows at Attic Records. Their follow-up, produced by David Bowie alumnus Stacy Heydon, was ‘Frantic City’ which spawned the double-sided hit single “Somethin’ On My Mind” and “Let’s Shake” (though Attic had them re-record the latter with less offensive lyrics for radio ears). The album became a multi-platinum seller and was a battle cry for beer swilling, cottage hopping college students across Canada. A riot on June 2, 1980 during their performance at Toronto’s Ontario Place Forum made front page news across the country and prompted Ontario Place management to ban ‘rock acts’ permanently. Attic Records set up a series of showcase gigs in New York City, hoping to attract a US record deal but days before they were to leave Lewis broke his back in a near fatal car accident and the showcase was cancelled. He was temporarily replaced by David Bendeth and, then, Jim Huff but the band decided to wait for Lewis to recover before carrying on. They needed a strong comeback and so, following Lewis’ rehabilitation they headed back into the studio for a new album. Their third album was a repeat of their patented 2 minute Rockabilly-On-Speed vendettas entitled ‘Some Kinda Fun’ which extended the plethora of puking and passing out singles “Let’s Go To Hawaii” and “Teenage Beer Drinking Party” which went on to Gold record status. Manager Jack Morrow convinced the band that they needed a simultaneous US release, which Attic was not able to arrange. After some heated discussions between the label, management and the band, Attic allowed Teenage Head to leave. MCA picked up the band’s option and attempted to market the group as a nifty College pub-rock act and had the band water down their next record – a 5 song EP called ‘Tornado’ — with rockabilly jangly guitar ditties produced by Bendeth. To really put the band in its place, the US arm of MCA refused to release the record unless the band changed its name from Teenage Head to Teenage HEADS so as to not offend the US Parents Music Resource Center who were gunning for anyone deemed to be making unsavoury music. The album failed to launch in the US and MCA soon cut the band loose. A live album, ‘Endless Party’ was released in 1984 on Ready Records but the band was no longer attracting the attention of radio or media (except in the negative). Frankie Venom was living the subject matter of his lyrics and was told by outsiders that he should become a solo artist. He would soon take Mark Lockerbie and form Frankie And The Vipers. The band carried on with Dave Rave (The Shakers) who had been utility member of Teenage Head during recordings and tours and Blair Martin was recruited on drums. However, Martin soon departed and was replaced by Jack Pedler on drums shortly before recording the ‘Can’t Stop Shakin’’ EP and their full-length album ‘Electric Guitar’. The band finally imploded in late 1988 after Rave moved to New York to start what would become a successful solo career with The Dave Rave Conspiracy and later Agnelli & Rave. By early 1989 Venom was convinced to comeback and the original version of Teenage Head with Lewis, Marshall and Stipanitz resumed. Mark Lockerbie rejoined Teenage Head following the second departure of Stipanitz but Head continued doing what they did best – performing live. When Lockerbie broke his arm in 1993 Doug Inglis (Goddo) and Hayden Vialva (The Dice) covered for him while he recovered. During that period Frankie Venom worked with Vialva and fellow Dice member Gary Lima in a brief side project called Frankie And The Blue Angels. Following the re-issue of Teenage Head’s debut album on Other People’s Music in 1996, Teenage Head’s popularity briefly spiked and so they decided to record a new album. ‘Head Disorder’ was released in 1998 but was quickly derailed when lack of proper promotion sank it – and the label that released it. In 2003, without a permanent drummer the band recorded a new ‘best of’ package with surviving Ramones drummer Marky Ramone with producer Daniel Rey. With a potential for great punk-rock marketing, the band launched its own CD release program and licensed the new ‘best of’ and a re-issue of the original production mix of their debut to Sonic Unyon Records in 2006. Tragedy struck on the eve of the band’s digital revival when Frankie Venom died of cancer on October 15, 2008. A version of Teenage Head with guest vocalists – including Pete MacAuley – performed occasionally around Southern Ontario after Frankie’s death. Dave Rave was officially asked to return to the band in 2016 leading to a full-time return for Teenage Head. A new double LP ‘best of’ package was released in 2017 called ‘Fun Comes Fast.’ In 2020 TVOntario aired the documentary ‘Picture My Face: The Teenage Head Story;’ Founding member Gord Lewis was murdered in his Hamilton home in August 2022. with notes from Robert Gronfors, Dave DesRoches, Gary Pig Gold, Paul Kobak, Al Mair, Tim Haffey, Rob Frost, and Mark White. [also see DAVE RAVE]

Singles
1978 Picture My Face/Tearin’ Me Apart (IGM/Epic/CBS) E4-8273
1978 Top Down (New Version)/Kissin’ the Carpet (IGM/Epic/CBS) E4-8337
1980 Somethin’ On My Mind/Let’s Shake (Attic) AT-220
1980 Let’s Shake (New Version)/I Wanna Love You (Live) (Attic) AT-229
1982 Some Kinda Fun/Teenage Beer Drinkin’ Party (Attic) AT-249
1982 Let’s Go To Hawaii/Don’t Toy With Me (Attic) AT-271
1984 Top Down (New Version)/Picture My Face (Live) (Ready) SR-451
1985 Frantic Romantic/I Can’t Pretend (Warpt) WRC3-4037
1986 Frantic Romantic/Get Down (Warpt/Ahed) RC-21-1
1988 Everybody Needs Somebody/Little Girl Don’t You Understand (Fringe) FPS-1784
2020 Drive In [3-song 7″] (Universal) 2-939297

as TEENAGE HEADS
1983 Tornado/Luv For Sale (MCA) MCA-52220
1983 Blood Boogie (remixed)/(I’m Just) Too True (MCA) MCA-52265

Albums
1979 Teenage Head (IGM/Epic) PEC-90534
1980 Frantic City (Attic) LAT-1081
1981 Teenage Head [remixed/re-issued] (Goon Island/OPM) JJ-3255
1982 Some Kinda Fun (Attic) LAT-1124
1984 Live In An Endless Party (Ready) LR-046
1986 Trouble In The Jungle (Warpt/Ahed) WR-924
1987 Can’t Stop Shakin’ [4-song 12″] (Warpt/Ahed) WRC2-5080
1988 Electric Guitar (Fringe) FPL-3064
1988 Frantic City/Some Kinda Fun [2-fer-1 CD re-issue] (Attic)
1996 Teenage Head [remixed album CD re-issue] (OPM/EMI)
1998 Head Disorder (Loud Rock) 5011-2
2005 Teenage Head [original album mix CD re-issue] (Lobotronic/Sonic Unyon)
2008 Teenage Head With Marky Ramone (Sonic Unyon) SNUN-70119
2017 Fun Comes Fast (Warner) 2-939297
2023 Performance Live At Heatwave [LP] (Sing Market) 0RP-0005

as TEENAGE HEADS
1983 Tornado [5-song EP] (MCA) MCA-36001

Compilation Tracks
1981 “Let’s Shake” on ‘Bubble Yum Pink Flash’ (CBS) CSPS-1794
1993 “Let’s Shake” on ‘Caught In the Attic’ [3CDs] (Attic) ATTIC-XX
1996 “Let’s Shake” on ‘Party Time Volume 2’ (SPG) SPG-5001
1998 “Bonerack” on ‘Hard Core Logo – OST’ (Virgin/EMI) V2-79762
1998 “Some Kinda Fun” on ‘Attic Records Limited Twenty5’ [4CD] (Attic) ATTIC-25
1999 “Disgusteen” on ‘Retro 80’s Volume 5: Spiked – A Punk Review’ (EMI) 20022
2000 “All Star” on ‘Allstar Contact: The Ultimate Hockey Album’ (Attic) ACD-1542
2002 “Let’s Shake” on ‘Dock Rock’ (BMG) 9376329
2005 “You’re Tearin’ Me Apart” on ‘Only in Canada, Eh 77-81: Volume 1’ (Punk History Canada) PHCCD-0101
2006 “Dance With Your Doll” on ‘Dave Rave Anthology Vol. 1’ (Bullseye) BLR-CD-2005
2006 “Everybody Needs Somebody” on ‘Dave Rave Anthology Vol. 2’ (Bullseye) BLR-CD-2006

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TEENAGE KICKS
Wayne Scott (vocals) / Tim King (bass) / Tim Scott (guitar) / Rob Sugars (drums)
Initially a Teenage Head tribute band, their 12″ single featured a cover of “I Saw Mommy (Kissin’ Santa)” which was produced by David Bendeth. The B-side, “Here She Comes,” was recorded live at Larry Hideaway in Toronto with Doug McClement’s Comfort Sound mobile studio.
Singles
1982 I Saw Mommy (Kissin’ Santa)/Here She Comes (Goon Island) GOON-002

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TEENYBOPPERS, The
A novelty pseudonym for RPM magazine and Red Leaf Records co-owner Stan Klees (Spec Filter). One single was released called “Dear Mr. DJ” featuring engineer Bill Miller’s re-record of the 1964 Tamarac Records single by Dave Mickie and written by Bobby Dow. The record featured Klees reading a script for DJs to incorporate into their own patter on one side, and the Teenyboppers (featuring three female vocalists) perform on the other side.

Singles
1966 Dear Mr. D.J./[same] (Red Leaf) TTM-622

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TEGAN AND SARA
Tegan Rain Quin (vocal, guitar, keyboards) / Sara Keirsten Quin (vocal, guitar, keyboards)
Tegan and Sara Quin were born September 19, 1980 in Calgary, Alberta. By the age of 15 they were singing, songwriting and playing guitar – initially under the name Plunk. In 1997, they negotiated time at their High School’s recording studio to record two albums worth of rough demos – ‘Who’s in Your Band?’ and ‘Play Day’. The following year they won Calgary’s ‘Garage Warz’ Battle of the Bands competition. With the grand prize money they moved to a better studio and recorded three independent releases entitled – ‘Yellow Tape, ‘Orange Tape’, and ‘Red Tape’ respectively. By 1999 they began recording a professional album featuring several songs found on ‘Red Tape’. The album ‘Under Feet Like Ours’ was released later that year under the name Sara And Tegan which they would later changed after finding that Tegan And Sara was easier to pronounce, remember and would set them apart from other Canadian female singers with the name Sara (a later reprint of the CD would reflect the name change). The duo was then invited by Sarah McLauchlan to play at the 1999 Lilith Fair. After catching a performance by the duo and hearing their CD, Neil Young’s manager signed them to Young’s Vapor Records imprint label. In 2000 they released their major independent album ‘This Business of Art’. With extensive touring – opening for both Neil Young and The Pretenders – they would win the YTV ‘Band/Musical Group Achievement Award. Their second album on Vapor, ‘If It Was You’, was released in 2002 and won a Western Canadian Music Award in 2003 for ‘Outstanding Pop Recording’. With Vapor’s wider distribution in 2004, the band’s third release for the label, ‘So Jealous’ brought the duo wider recognition. Jack White’s band The White Stripes would release a cover version of the Tegan And Sara song “Walking With a Ghost” on an EP of the same name. In 2006 ‘So Jealous’ was nominated for ‘Alternative Album of the Year’ at the JUNO Awards. In 2007, Tegan And Sara’s ‘The Con’ album was released and gave the group an international profile on the back of distribution support from Vapor’s new distributor Sire Records. Tegan & Sara’s tour DVD from 2005, ‘It’s Not Fun Don’t Do It’, would benefit from the album’s high profile by garnering a nominated for ‘DVD of the Year’ at the 2007 JUNO Awards. In 2008 ‘The Con’ was nominated for ‘Alternative Album of the Year’ at the JUNO Awards and the duo opened for Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’ Tour. In 2009 the song ‘The Con’ won Studio8’s ‘Song of August 2009’. By October 2009, Tegan And Sara released the Chris Walla and Howard Redekopp produced ‘Sainthood’ album. They also released a three-volume book set titled ‘ON’, ‘IN’, and ‘AT’, which collected stories, essays, journals, and photos of the band on tour in America in the fall of 2008, writing together in New Orleans, and touring Australia. The trip yielded the first song the duo ever co-wrote together (they usually write all their songs separately). In 2010 ‘Sainthood’ was nominated for ‘Alternative Album of the Year’ at the JUNO Awards and nominated for a Polaris Music Prize. The duo would win the International Achievement Award at the Western Canadian Music Awards. 2011 saw the release of a live CD/DVD combination package entitled ‘Get Along’ which contained three short films titled ‘States’, ‘India’ and ‘For The Most Part’. They also performed at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Fest, and Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest. In 2012 the ‘Get Along’ DVD was nominated for ‘DVD of the Year’ at the JUNO Awards. The same year they began working on the next record with producers Greg Kurstin and, later, Mike Elizondo. A teaser single, “Closer”, was released in 2012. The album is due in 2013 and the working title is ‘Heartthrob’.

Singles
2002 I Hear Noises (Vapor/Sanctuary – UK) SANCD-132
2002 Monday Monday Monday/Come on Kids/Missing You (Vapor/Sanctuary) SANX-147
2003 Time Running (Vapor/Sanctuary) SANX-162
2003 I Hear Noises (Cortex) CORX-106CD
2004 Walking With a Ghost/Love Type Thing (Vapor/Sanctuary – UK ) SANX-S313
2004 Speak Slow/Love Type Thing (Vapor/Sanctuary – UK) SANXS343
2005 Love Type Thing [Digi-File] (Superclose)
2007 Back in Your Head (Vapor/Sire)
2008 The Con (Vapor/Superclose/Sire)
2008 Call It Off (Vapor/Sire)
2009 Hell (Vapor/Sire)
2010 Alligator (Vapor/Sire)
2010 The First (Live) [featuring Dallas Green]/[split w/CITY AND COLOUR] [7″](Superclose/Dine Alone) DAV-027
2012 Closer (Vapor/Sire)
2012 I’m Not Your Hero (Warner – UK)
2012 I Was A Fool [Digi-File] (Vapor/Warner – UK)
2013 Goodbye, Goodbye (Warner – UK)
2013 Guilty As Charged/Run Empty [7″] (Vapor/Warner – US) 537566-7
2014 Everything Is Awesome [featuring The Lonely Island] [Digi-File] (WaterTower – US)
2016 Boyfriend [Digi-File] (Warner)
2016 Stop Desire (Remixes) [3 mixes Digi-File] (Warner)

with TIESTO featuring TEGAN & SARA
2010 Feel It In My Bones (Ultra – US) BLT-288-2P

with MORGAN PAGE featuring TEGAN AND SARA
2012 Bodywork [6-mixes] (Nettwerk – US)

with SULTAN + SHEPARD featuring TEGAN & SARA
2015 Make Things Right (Spinnin’) SP-847

with BEACH BUNNY featuring TEGAN AND SARA
2021 Cloud 9 [Digi-File] (Mom + Pop)

Albums
as SARA & TEGAN
1997 Who’s in Your Band? [cassette] (independent)
1998 Play Day [cassette] (independent)
1998 Yellow Tape [cassette] (independent)
1998 Orange Tape [cassette] (independent)
1998 Red Tape [cassette] (independent)
1999 Under Feet Like Ours [cassette] (S & T) STCD-001

as TEGAN AND SARA
2000 This Business of Art (Vapor) 9-47684
2002 If It Was You (Vapor/Sanctuary) SANCD-132
2004 So Jealous (Vapor/Sanctuary) SANDCD-291
2005 Five Songs From the Phoenix [5 song EP] (Vapor/Sanctuary) VAPDJ-85715
2007 The Con (Vapor/Sire) 2-57465
2007 I’ll Take the Blame [EP] (Vapor/Sire) 400956
2008 Live Session EP (iTunes Exclusive) [Digi-File] (Sire)
2009 Sainthood (Vapor/Sire) 2-52112
2010 Saints: Live (Vapor/Sire) 5-23690
2010 Alligator Remixes [Digi-File] (Sire)
2010 The Complete Recollection: 1999 – 2010 [Digi-Files] (Sire/Warner)
2010 Home Recordings [12″ LP included in ‘The Official Vinyl Collection’] (Vapor/Sire) 523558-1-6
2010 The Official Vinyl Collection [6 LPs] (Vapor/Sire) 523558-1
2010 Daytrotter Studio 10/18/2010 [5-song Digi-File] (Daytrotter)
2011 Get Along [CD+ DVD] (Vapor/Warner) 2-529049
2012 Singles 2002 – 2013 (Warner)
2012 Heartthrob (Vapor/Warner) 2-532232
2014 I Was A Fool Remixed [16 remixes Digi-File] (Vapor/Warner – EUR)
2015 Live At Zia Records [4-song 12″ EP] (Vapor/Warner) 541714-1
2016 Love You To Death (Vapor/Warner) 2-553726
2019 Hey, I’m Just Like You (Vapor/Superclose/Sire) 2-604465
2020 Tonight In The Dark We’re Seeing Colors [LP] (Sire) 093624895060

as TEGAN AND SARA & ALLISON WEISS
2014 Daytrotter Presents No. 16 (Daytrotter) DTP-16

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TELFER, Jay
Born: December 22, 1947
Died: May 20, 2009
Jay Telfer’s mother, Isabel, was Scottish and moved to Moose Jaw in 1913. She became a teacher and met Telfer’s father on a blind date in 1943. The couple soon went to England to aid in the Second World War. They returned to Moose Jaw in 1946. The family moved to Toronto in 1951. Mrs. Telfer returned to teaching in 1953. She also loved to sing, encouraging her three children to do so including an impressionable Jay. Telfer’s first significant singing performance was on the ‘Miss Rose Music Hour’ at age 4 with his brother playing piano in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. By the time he was twelve Telfer was already banging away on a bass drum, and waking the neighbours in Downsview, Ontario at midnight while welcoming 1959 during New Year’s Eve celebrations. Telfer began taking singing seriously alongside the baritone voice of Allan Beattie at a Boy Scout Camp in Algonquin Park. When Telfer moved up from Beverly Hills Jr. High to Downsview High School, Beattie asked if he wanted to join a folk group. Scoot Irwin, Paul Ryan, Beattie and Telfer called themselves The Voyageurs. They even managed to perform some of Irwin’s original songs along with standards of the day. It was those songs that inspired Telfer to start writing songs of his own. They performed at all the Downsview gigs, Folk gigs, and Church gigs. Before long Bernie Finkelstein (Grade 11), Peter Simpson (Grade 12), and a third partner formed Triumverate Management began booking and managing the act. They attempted some recordings, produced by a Toronto folk artist, but after listening to them, passed on the group. Telfer was 14. Their first professional gig was playing the Village Corner Club where they mistakenly only rehearsed one set of material for a three-set performance over the course of the night. Still, the act earned $35 for the show – nearly 1/2 going to Triumverate. The management “contract” deal never worked to everyone’s satisfaction and, so, both the management company and the Voyageurs split up. Later on, Brian Price and and Jay Telfer’s brother Ian sat in the back of English class and quietly hummed and sang harmonies – thus, a new band was begun. Vocalist Price, Ian Telfer(bass) and friends Phil Seon (lead) and Gregory Hershoff (drums) got together in the Telfer family basement in the summer of 1965 while Jay was off teaching guitar. Jay soon joined them on acoustic guitar and everyone sang into the one Kent microphone they had and became The Dimensions. They rehearsed twice at the Telfer’s before Mrs. Telfer had them move out. After that, the group rehearsed about two to three times a week in Hershoff’s basement. Within a month they had their first audition at the North YMHA where they watched The Nomads with Tony Kosinec. As fate would have it, singer Brian Price never showed up leaving the vocal duties to Jay. And because of their outstanding audition, Tony And The Nomads lost their job and The Dimensions took over the Sunday afternoon North York gigs. They soon went in search of a new manager. So Ian Telfer and Price visited the El Patio Club in Yorkville and were re-acquainted with fellow Downsview-ite, Bernie Finkelstein, who was serving coffee. Within a few weeks, he was the band’s new manager and the group was immediately booked into the El Patio. At the end of 1965, Finkelstein moved on to manage The Paupers. The now rechristened A Passing Fancy would continue working by playing nearly every high school in Southern Ontario. The band’s Fan Club president, Barb Young, told them of her friends, record store owner Walter Honsberger and partner Dan Bartollini. The duo began shaping the band’s sound and image as Wal-Dan Management, eventually bringing A Passing Fancy to the doorstep of Columbia Records, where they were signed to a standard six-sides contract (i.e. three singles). They played at Expo ’67 where they jammed in a cultural exchange with Montreal band Les Tetes Blanches. Their popularity grew first with successful touring throughout Ontario and then out to Eastern Canada where radio also embraced them. Jay Telfer was the band’s songwriter (and later composed “Ten Pound Note” for Steel River) for their first Columbia single “I’m Losing Tonight”, released in February 1967 which reached No.22 on the charts by March. The second single, “You’re Going Out of My Mind”, only reached No.37 in June 1967, but they bounced back with the successful “I Believe In Sunshine” in August which had a short four week run at the charts, reaching No.28 in September of that year. When the record was released, A Passing Fancy played at the CHUM booth at the Canadian National Exhibition (with the record played over and over) and signed over 3,000 autographs. Columbia continued with one more single, “People In Me”, in 1967. Price, Seon and Mann were in their second year of University and were unhappy with Jay’s direction. Price quit in March and was replaced by Fergus Hambleton. Another addition was Smith, playing third acoustic guitar. Smith only performed three shows with the group, including the first colour episode of CBC’s “Let’s Go” TV show. After a month, the rest of band had gone their separate ways. Undeterred, Wal-Dan management assembled a new version of A Passing Fancy featuring Fergus Hambleton on lead vocals and recorded additional tracks for the November 1968 self-titled release featuring new tracks and the Jay Telfer Columbia singles (with an altered mix of “People In Me”). Meanwhile, Telfer had been offered a role to star in a stage play called ‘Watch the Birdie’. Sir John A. Records owner John Pozer had relocated to Toronto as his label was in its death throes and he took a gamble licensing two of Telfer’s performances from the play for a single on the label. Alas, the release proved to not sell or even cross promote the play – which had been the intention – and both evaporated into obscurity. In the spring of 1969, after Bernie Finkelstein had stopped managing The Paupers and The Kensington Market, he produced Telfer’s first solo album. As an unreleased album, a host of noted musicians on it: Keith McKie, Malcolm Tomlinson, Louis McKelvie, Alex Dareau, Clive Smith, Murray McLaughlin, Kevin Staples, Fergus Hambleton, Colleen Peterson and it was the first time John Mills-Cockell (Syrinx) had used his synthesizer in a studio. In November 1969 Jay Telfer and Fergus Hambleton (who replaced Telfer in A Passing Fancy) recorded a studio album for Allied Records under the name Goody Two Shoes called “Come Together”. The album was primarily cover tunes and is also noteworthy for lead guitar work by former A Passing Fancy roadie Kevan Staples – better known as half of future shock rockers Rough Trade. In 1970 Steel River recorded Telfer’s song “Ten Pound Note” on the Tuesday label which became a regional hit in Ontario; in 1971 Telfer drummed on Murray McLauchlan’s debut album ‘Songs From the Street’. Telfer, who had a solo career simultaneously with A Passing Fancy (on the Sir John A. label) continued as guitarist with the Toronto stage production of ‘Hair’ and wrote the music and acted/performed in the music revue, ‘Watch the Birdie’. He worked in Vancouver from 1971 to 1973 and wrote and produced jingles for the Social Credit Party, the Liberals and the Conservatives, as well as producing John Laughlin’s album, ‘Morning Moon’ and The Irish Rover’s ‘Live’ album. He also wrote and produced several film scores (including ‘Away the Lines’ with Burl Ives). Telfer signed with Axe Records (owned by Fergus Hambleton’s brother, Greg) in 1973 for a series of singles and one album released in 1974. He completed a cross country tour with duo Gary & Dave to promote the album. During the tour Axe Records lost distribution, and promotion, for the album from London Records. After meeting his first wife, Bonnie Bedelia (from the movies ‘Die Hard’, ‘Heart Like a Wheel’), he moved to Los Angeles. He became a movie script writer for Cannon Films, which included 1977’s ‘Kid Vengeance’ starring Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett and the first draft of ‘Hanna’s War’. He wrote for CTV’s ‘Search & Rescue’ and wrote the novel ‘Business As Usual’. Moving back to Toronto, he was nominated for writing CBC’s 3-part teledrama, ‘You’ve Come a Long Way, Katie’ – a piece on cross-addiction in 1981. After writing for CBC, both radio and TV, he survived a massive stroke in 1984. Following a full year of rehabilitation, he worked his way back up again as a script evaluator for Norstar, Telefilm, FUND and the Ontario Film Development Corp. A Passing Fancy reunited for a one-off date in Yorkville in 1988. In 1990, Telfer moved to Wellington, Ontario to open Jay’s Bed & Breakfast located in a home built in 1885. He hosted and performed at the Prince Edward County Folk Festival in 1992. He re-released many of the ‘Time Has Tied Me’ songs, along with some live performances under the title ‘Heart of Aluminum Foil – Jay’s Greatest Hit and 15 Other Songs’. Telfer returned to school and earned his Social Service Degree and lived with his wife near Belleville, Ontario where he was publisher/editor of an antique collector’s magazine called ‘The Wayback Times’; Telfer had angioplasty surgery to repair his heart in the Spring of 2000, however, his heart eventually failed and he passed away on May 20, 2009; In 2023 it was announced that the former McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto would be renamed after Telfer as the facility would become a music centre. with notes from Jay Telfer and Brian Lindsay. [also see A PASSING FANCY]

Singles
1968 Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness/Watch the Birdie (Sir John A./RCA) SJA-6
1970 High Falootin’/Okuzidoo (Celebration) CEL. 1988X
1973 Time Has Tied To Me/Suite One (Axe) AXE-15
1974 Anything More Than You Smile/10 Pound Note (Axe) AXE 18
1974 I Write Your Name/Yellow Hair (Axe) AXE- 21

Albums
1974 Time Has Tied Me (Axe) AXS-505
1993 Heart of Aluminum Foil – Jay Telfer’s Greatest Hit and 15 Other Songs

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TEMPEST
Lori Spencer (bass, backing vocals) / Gord Peddle (drums, percussion) / Peter Spencer (guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals)

Albums
1993 Dragonfire (Gear Monger) TCD-0593

Compilation Tracks
1993 “Twisted Fate” on ‘New Stuff 6’ (MMS) NSCD-06

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TEN COMMANDMENTS, The
James “Lord” Booth (lead vocals) / Dave Dysart (guitar) / Bash Gordon (guitar; replaced Dysart) / Bob Gould (keyboards) / A.J. Burton (bass) / John Deslaurier (guitar; added) / Ronnie Daytona (drums) / Byron Pickles (guitar; replaced Gordon) / Vincent James (bass; replaced Burton) / Jim Irwin (bass; replaced James) / Bob Ridley (drums; replaced Daytona) / Derek Raby (bass; replaced Irwin)  / Tony Jenkinson (drums; replaced Ridley) / Vash Mochoruk (drums; replaced Jenkinson) / Michele Gould (pedal steel)
In Memphis in 1978 transplanted Torontonian Bash Gordon was performing an acoustic Elvis shtick outside the gates of Graceland during the first anniversary of Presley’s death for fans. One of those fans was an auto-mechanic named A.J. Burton who teamed up with Gordon to tour the US as an acoustic Everly Brothers tribute. They discovered drummer Ronnie Daytona who had been in Steve Cameron’s band Doomed Youth, and was playing with James Lord, Dave Dysart, and Bob Gould (L’etranger) in a garage act called The Ten Commandments. With Burton and Gordon on board, a new Ten Commandments was born in Scarborough, Ontario. Along with Jolly Tambourine Man (ex-Blibber And The Ratcrushers member Stuart Black), they co-hosted Pagan Strudel-Fest Pit nights at Toronto area clubs. The band began getting favourable press around town for their blend of ’60’s garage, punk, and country blues material. Following a career highlight gig opening for LA’s The Gun Club, Gordon and second guitarist John Deslaurier (Doughboys) left, and Byron Pickles was brought in on guitar. Immediately the songwriting began to change and the departure of Daytona (who went on to join Change Of Heart) brought about the new rhythm section of James and Ridley. It was this line-up that recorded a three song cassette. They would follow this well received tape with the full-blown album ‘Weird Out’ in 1987 on the band’s own Sensible Records label. During the recording of the 1988 7″ single “Wherever I Go” they lost drummer Ridley so the band turned to another drummer, Tony Jenkinson, to record their follow-up album ‘Home Fires Burning’ in 1989. The Ten Commandments struggled throughout the early 1990’s before calling it quits and released one more album shortly after disbanding; Dysart went on to form The Supreme Bagg Team. with notes from James Booth.

Singles
1988 Wherever I Go/Suddenly (Sensible) TEN-006
1988 Far Too Far/She Ain’t No Use To Me (Kavern – AUSTRALIA)
1991 Revolution Man/Dark Angel (Sensible) TEN-008

Albums
1986 Pagan Fest A Gogo [3-song cassette] (Sensible)
1987 Weird Out (Sensible) TEN-005
1989 Home Fires Burning (Sensible) TEN-007
1992 Miracle Mile (Sensible) TEN-009

Compilation Tracks
1986 “Unchain My Heart” on ‘Wave From the Grave’ (What Wave) WW#1
1986 “Feel It” on ‘It Came From Canada Volume 2’ (Og) OG-9
1987 “City of People” on ‘Wave From the Grave 2’ (What Wave) WW#2
1987 “Not True” on ‘It Came From Canada Volume 3’ (Og) OG-13
1988 “By My Side” on ‘Disgraceland’ (What Wave) WW#5
1989 “New Trip” on ‘Mr. Garager’s Neighbourhood’ (Og) OG-21
1990 “She Ain’t No Use To Me” on ‘Baloney Sandwich’ (What Wave) WW#12
1991 “Far Too Far” on ‘Eighth Wonder’ (What Wave) #20
1992 “Behind Those Eyes” on ‘What Wave Cat O’ Nine Tails’ (What Wave) WW-21
1996 “Not True” on ‘Time Machine: The History of Canadian 60’s Garage Punk and Surf (1985-95)’ (Stomp) STOMP-008

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TEN SECOND EPIC
Andrew Usenik (vocals) / Daniel Carriere (guitar) / Craig Spelliscy (guitar) / Sandy MacKinnon (bass) / Patrick Birtles (drums)
Edmonton, Alberta band formed in 2002; Following their independent debut album ‘One More For The Road’ in 2004, the band signed with Mississauga, Ontario’s Black Box Recordings for subsequent releases. The band did their final tour in 2014; Carriere and MacKinnon would go on to form Royal Tusk.

Singles
2008 Every Day [featuring LIGHTS] (Atticus Black – UK)

Albums
2004 One More For The Road (Ethics Industries) EI-002
2006 Count Yourself In (Black Box/Universal) BBR-008
2008 Hometown (Black Box/Universal) BBR-014
2011 Better Off (Black Box/Universal) BBR-025

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TEN SECONDS OVER TOKYO
Bil Eldridge (vocals, guitar) / Tom Beaton (guitar, vocals) / Ted Beaton (bass, keyboards, vocals) / Vail “Coma” McColman (drums, keyboards, percussion) / Matt Walsh (bass, vocals)
Formed in Toronto in 1986 as a cover band, they worked the Canadian bar scene. In 1989, Bil Eldridge joined as lead singer. While they continued to tour the bar circuit, they began writing original material. Their self-titled EP was released at the end of 1989 and was met with favourable reviews. Two songs from the release were used in the soundtrack to Bruce McDonald’s movie ‘Roadkill.’ In 1990, Ten Seconds Over Tokyo won the Labatts Blue sponsored ‘Canadian Band Wars.’ Soon after, the band set out on a showcase tour that took them from Seattle to Halifax and back west to Los Angeles, landing a record deal with Polaris/Monogram with distribution through SONY. TSOL would play over 240 shows that year across North America. Their self-titled debut album would be released in 1992 and the band would continue touring relentlessly until disbanding in 1994. 1990 had the band playing over 240 shows in Canada and the USA! This continued on for the next 3 years until they disbanded in early 1994. In 2004, members Bil Eldridge, Tom Beaton, Matt Walsh reunited for a successful show and in 2010 they had a full reunion at Sarnia’s BayFest opening for Weezer. Another reunion took place in February 2011in Sarnia with special appearances by original bass player Ted Beaton and both of Vail McColman’s sons.

Albums
1989 Ten Seconds Over Tokyo [4-song EP cassette] (independent) GL-01-1989
1992 Ten Seconds Over Tokyo (Polaris/Monogram/SONY) POK-2002

Compilation Tracks
1990 “Burning Rain” on ‘Roadkill (OST)’ (Denon) CAN-9006

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TENANTS, The
Andy McLean (guitar) / Gary Brown (vocals, guitar) / Fraser MacDougall (keys) / Derek Gassyt (drums) / Lewis Mele (bass) / Michael Beer (bass)
Tenants formed in Scarborough in 1981 after the chance meeting of Gary Brown and Manchester, England native Andy McLean at a party during Mclean’s holiday in Canada. With MacDougall, Gassyt and Mele they began playing the Toronto Queen Street circuit packing clubs like the Cabana Room. In no time, CBS Records was beating a path to their door and signed the band to their subsidiary, Epic, after having only played 20 gigs as a band. Unfortunately, CBS misread the exuberance of the band’s dance crowd at their dynamic shows and insisted the band record the first album live-off-the-floor for a very small budget. Without the confidence of a seasoned live act, the material suffered and the label was forced to pick the ‘best’ of the sessions to salvage the album under budget. Before the record could be released Mele left and Beer was added to the line-up. Despite the bumpy start, however, the 1982 release of ‘The Tenants’ led to the Top-40 hit “Sheriff” and with a reduced retail cost for the album it went on to sell 250,000 copies. Critics ignored the popularity of the track and instead made an issue of their style which was suspiciously like The Police. Despite such criticisms, the band toured Canada throughout 1983, including opening for Rush at the Montreal Forum and playing a three day festival in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1984, CBS Records doubled the band’s budget for the second album, ‘Visions Of Our Future’, which was produced by Paul Gross and featured Linn drum programming by Lou Pomanti. The record once again sold 250,000 copies and the band came in well under budget. However, the band’s management company had walked away with the money they’d saved back to Australia where the more pressing matter of their other stable act, Men At Work, took precedence. Broke and accountable for the missing funds, the band found itself pressed by CBS to sell more albums to cover the shortfall. In November 1984, Tenants officially disbanded. Gassyt, Beer and MacDougall went on to form a short-lived act called Moving Pictures. Gassyt then formed Anyhowtown with Daphne Diamant in February 1989. McLean and Brown were offered a publishing development deal with Gerry Young of Current Records & Management. Brown however, decided to retire from the performing side of music and opened his own recording studio, Certain Circles. He would also act as manager for 1986 Homegrown finalists Thief. At the end of the ’80’s, Brown attempted to resurrect the Tenants but the other members only agreed under the condition that a record deal could be secured first. Brown and Brian Gagnon (The Hunt) recorded an album’s worth of material to shop to labels and got nibbles from CBS Records once more. However, no concrete deal was tabled and the idea was soon abandoned. Those tapes remain unreleased. Brown became a real estate agent and was, at one time, business partners with Andy Ryan (Eye Eye). He eventually moved to the Peterborough, Ontario area, built a new recording studio and now records and performs country music under the stage name Teek Rivers; McLean would take Young up on his publishing contract offer and form Double Dare with Wendy Lands. After one album he too retired from performing and went on to work at the (now defunct) Intrepid Records. He is one of the founders of the annual Toronto music conference North By North East (NXNE). with notes from Gary Brown and Daphne Diamant. [also see ANYHOWTOWN, DOUBLE DARE]

Singles
1982 Sheriff/What’s In It For Me (Epic/CBS) E4-4333
1982 Sheriff (Short Version)/Sheriff (Long Version) [12”] (Epic/CBS) E4-4334
1983 Look the Other Way/Forget About Forgetting (Epic/CBS) E4-4342
1983 How Do You Sleep At Night/You Don’t Know What I’ve Been Thru (Epic/CBS)
E4-4343
1984 Something Else/Reach Out (Epic/CBS) E4-7005

Albums
1982 The Tenants (CBS) FE-38671
1984 Visions of Our Future (CBS) PC-80094

Compilation Tracks
1983 “Sheriff” on ‘Z99 Hot Rocks’ (CBS) CDN-87
1984 “Sheriff” on ‘Hot Tracks’ (K-Tel) TC-291

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TERENCE
Terence was a pseudonym for singer Terry Black who, at the end of the 1960s, was attempting to shake his pop idol reputation and move into the contemporary adult market. His album ‘An Eye For An Ear’ on Decca was produced by Yorkville Records president Bill Gilliland, Pat Riccio II, and Richard Gael. The album, and a subsequent single on Yorkville, failed to launch Black’s new career so he reverted to his real name, joined Doug Riley’s Dr. Music and managed to land a new solo deal with GRT Records. [also see TERRY BLACK]

Singles
1970 Father, Dear Father/Different World (Yorkville) YV-45022

Albums
1969 An Eye For An Ear (Decca) DL-75137

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TERMINALS, The
From Toronto, Ontario.

Albums
1983 Circuitry [5-song 12” EP] (JMR) SFC-001

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TERMINAL SUNGLASSES
Chris Burns (drums) / Lawrence Joseph (guitars, percussion) / Foster Grant (electronic bass, harmonica, narrator, backing vocals) / George Agetees (drums, cowbell, harmonica, vocals)
From Montreal, Quebec; Burns would go on to join American Devices, Crackpot, and Nutsak. Joseph and Agetees would go on to form Captain Crunch & Let’s Do Lunch.

Albums
1984 Re-Discover Your Mind [4-song cassette] (independent)
1985 Wrap Around Cool (Og) OG-6
2016 Wrap Around Cool [LP re-issue] (Artoffact) AOF-226

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TERRACED GARDEN
Carl Tafel (guitars, keyboards, bass, glockenspiel, marimba, percussion, vocals) / Darrel Flint (bass, pedals, vocals) / Gary Flint (drums) / Simon Jacobs (violin) / Scott Weber (drums) / Jody Mitchell (guitar) / Mark McLay (guitar) / John Doheny (saxophone) / Michael Fitzgerald (French horn) / Peter Weeks (drums) / Phil Dewhurst (drums) / Ian Colvin (flute) / Don Dingwall (piano)
Well received progressive rock band from Toronto that started as a solo project for leader Carl Tafel. After bringing in many players to complete his ‘Melody & Menace’ album 1982, Tafel created a touring band to capitalize on the album’s popularity at college radio. The follow-up album, ‘Braille’ featured a poem etched in braille on the inner sleeve and Scarboro College Radio (CSCR) picked the album as No.16 on the Top Albums of 1984. Both albums eventually went into second pressings after increased demand in Europe and Japan caused initial runs to sell out; Gary Flint would go on to found National Velvet; Jody Mitchell worked for Capitol-EMI in the 1990s. with notes from Steve Haynes and William C. Smith.

Singles
1982 Blobo/Empty Garden (Melody & Menace)

Albums
1982 Melody & Menace (Melody & Menace) CT-1956
1984 Braille (Melody & Menace) CT-1958
1988 Within (Melody & Menace) CT-1960

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terrible Workers
David Humphreys
Solo project by Mean Red Spiders member David Humphreys. [also see MEAN RED SPIDERS]

Albums
2006 Asleep And Dreaming [5-song EP] (Spatial) SR-0001

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TERRY AND THE PYRATES
Glen Daigle (vocals) / Val Ruffo (guitar) / Lance Wright (drums) / Aldur Kunder (organ, keyboard) / Mike Levine (bass) / Terrence “Terry” Walker (vocals; replaced Daigle 1967)
Terry & The Pyrates began as an R & B band called The Dana in 1966. Like many Toronto area groups, they often played the Modern Age Lounge. When singer Glen Daigle decided to go to college in September of 1967, Terry Walker was first choice to replace him. Walker had been an MC and singer at The Modern Age Lounge (occasionally filling in for Roy Kenner when Kenner & The Associates played the room). Walker’s vocal style was different than Daigle’s and the band decided to shift from R & B to Soul and with that a horn section was added. By the beginning of 1968 the band added John Tarsey (trumpet), Peter Misfud (saxophone), and John Rudder (trombone). The band also changed its name to Terry & The Pyrates (a nod to the 1950’s comic strip ‘Terry & The Pirates’). Walker, meanwhile, had a long standing relationship Tommy Trend (aka Merv Buchanan) who was the DJ spinning vinyl at the Modern Age Loung teen hops between sets by the live bands. Buchanan was now producing records – many with Terry McManus – with an eye to releasing them on his new Trend Records label. Terry & The Pyrates recorded their one and only single, “Keep On Dancin’, with Buchanan at his West Hill farmhouse-turned-studio; Levine would join Triumph; Walker would become the vocalist for Electric Messenger featuring Newton Garwood, Greg Carducci, and Steve Cooley; Wright would go on to drum for Brutus, Southcote, Studebaker Hawke, and Roadhouse. with notes from Merv Buchanan.

Singles
1968 Keep On Dancin’/Someone (Trend/Quality) T-1001

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TERRY, Brian
Canadian harmonica player from Montréal, Québec.

Singles
195? In The Mood/Goofie Boogie (Noram/Trans-Canada) 1013

Albums
195? Harmonica De Danse (RCA Victor) CGP-227
195? In The Mood With Brian Terry (Noram/Trans-Canada) NOLP-901
Compilation Tracks
with BRIAN TERRY ET SON ORCHESTRE
196? “Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amours” on ‘ Dansons Le Cha Cha’ (RCA Victor) CGPS-303

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TESKY, Darryl
Born: Darryl Teschke

Singles
1971 I Love You/Oh Lord, What’s Happening (Prawn/London) P.711

Albums
1971 Come With Me (Prawn/London) PS.7101

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TETES BLANCHES, Les [see LES HOU-LOPS]

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TEX PISTOLS, The
Aaron Sklar (drums, vocals) / Brian Sklar (fiddle, piano, lead vocals) / Calvin Vollrath (mandolin, fiddle) / Wayne Kuntz (bass) / Freddie Pelletier (guitar, acoustic guitar) / Ray Bell (guitar) / Al Robertson (saxophone) / Billy Phelps (steel guitar, guitar) / Dave Boone (vocals) / Johnny “Six Pack” Gasparic (guitar) / Rob Anderson (steel guitar, guitar) / Todd Lueck (guitar) / Randy Cornor (guitar)
From Regina, Saskatchewan.

Albums
with BRIAN SKLAR & THE TEX PISTOLS
1998 Not Suitable For Airplay (All Around Country) AAC-8888
2004 AAIIEE!! (All Around Country) AAC-103
2006 Buck U Class Of ’60 (All Around Country) AAC-1960
2012 Daddy On The Radio (All Around Country) AAC-1972

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TEXTURE
Brian Hedberg (lead vocals) / Carmon Leeson (drums, percussion) / David Gould (guitar) / Joel Myers (vocals, bass)
Short-lived band from Vancouver, British Columbia featuring former Rymes With Orange vocalist Brian Hedberg; Myers would go on to the band Cinderpop; Carmon Leeson would go on to join Daytona.

Albums
1995 This Vacant Universe (Texture) TXICD95-1000

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THANES, The
Randy Stewart [aka Randy Rollo] / Treb Allen
5-piece from Kitchener, Ontario. Stewart and Allen would team up again in the 1970s as Randy Stewart – Treb Allen & Company for a remake of Mac Davis’ “I Believe In Music.”

Singles
1968 So Alone/If She Were Here (Jet) JET-4010

as RANDY STEWART – TREB ALLEN & COMPANY
1972 I Believe In Music/Try To Say (Vintage) SCV-1112

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THANTIFAXATH
An anonymous Canadian black metal band based in Toronto, Ontario.

Albums
2011 Thantifaxath [4-song EP s/sided cassette] (Dark Descent – US) DDR-031CS
2014 Sacred White Noise (Dark Descent – US) DDR-099CD
2017 Void Masquerading As Matter [4-song EP] (Dark Descent – US) DDR-193CD
2023 Hive Mind Narcosis (Dark Descent) DDR-292CD

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THEE UPPER CRUST
Alan Wright [aka Cryptic Al] (drums) / Gareth Wynne [aka The Amazing Larry] (lead vocals, tambourine, maracas) / Gord Smithers (guitar) / Grant Shankaruk (bass, backing vocals) / Karen Edgar (organ, backing vocals) /
From Victoria, British Columbia, featuring three former members of The Worst (Smithers, Shankaruk, Edgar).

Albums
1993 Thee Upper Crust [cassette] (Thee Upper Crust) [no cat.#]

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THEORY OF A DEADMAN
Tyler Connolly (lead vocals, lead guitar) / Dave Brenner (rhythm guitar, backing vocals) / Dean Back (bass, backing vocals) / Tim Hart (drums; 2001–2004) / Brent Fitz (drums, backing vocals; 2004–2007) / Robin Diaz (drums, backing vocals; 2007–2009) / Joey Dandeneau (drums, backing vocals; 2009)
Theory of a Deadman was formed in Delta, British Columbia in 2001. The band immediately began writing original material and during a Nickelback post-concert party, singer Tyler Connolly gave Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger a song demo. Kroeger had just launched his own 604 Records label and was looking for an inaugural release. Theory of a Deadman would become the first act signed to the label and Kroeger worked closely with Connolly to co-write songs for the upcoming release. The band’s self-titled debut was released in September 2002. The band would head out on tour opening select shows for Nickelback and then head back to pre-production to work on the next release. In March 2005, Theory Of A Deadman released their sophomore album, ‘Gasoline’, which was produced by Howard Benson and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge. The band hit the road immediately opening shows for Shinedown, No Address, Breaking Benjamin and The Exies among others. The album received wider exposure when tracks from it were used in the 2005 video game ‘Fahrenheit’ (aka ‘Indigo Prophecy’). The band would also do a cover version of World Wrestling Entertainment’s theme song “Deadly Game”. They would also do a cover of wrestler Vince McMahon’s theme song “No Chance In Hell” for a WWE compilation as well as performing the song on the 24th Annual ‘WWE SummerSlam’ broadcast. Theory Of A Deadman released their third album, ‘Scars & Souvenirs’, in 2008 and spawned eight singles: “So Happy”, “By the Way” featuring Chris Daughtry & Robin Diaz, “Little Smirk”, “Bad Girlfriend”, “All or Nothing”, “Hate My Life”, “Not Meant to Be” and “Wait for Me”. They would also make a pit stop appearance at the 2008 JUNO Awards in Calgary, Alberta, as part of their ‘Journey To The Junos’ mini-tour. In the fall of 2008 the played the 96th Grey Cup halftime show, along with Suzie McNeil and Andree Watters. They then headed out on tour with Hinder as openers for Mötley Crüe during into the winter of 2009 culminating in a spot at the ‘Crüe Fest 2’ music festival. In April 2009, ‘Scars & Souvenirs’ had sold 500,000 copies in the US and was certified gold by the RIAA. In late 2010, the band began pre-production for a fourth album. The first teaser single from the album was entitled “Lowlife” and released in May 2011. Another track, “Head Above Water”, co-written with Scott Stevens of The Exies, appeared on the soundtrack to the third transformers movie ‘Dark of the Moon’ in June. Two more Theory Of A Deadman songs were released the same week as the film soundtrack – “Drag Me to Hell” and the second single “Out Of My Head”. The album itself, ‘The Truth Is…’, followed soon after. Theory Of A Deadman would also co-headline the second annual ‘Carnival of Madness Tour’ with Alter Bridge.

Singles
2002 Make Up Your Mind (604/Roadrunner) RR-2018
2003 The Last Song (604/Roadrunner)
2003 Nothing Could Come Between Us (604/Roadrunner) RR-2035
2005 No Surprise (604/Roadrunner) RR-1016
2005 Hello Lonely (Walk Away From This) (604/Roadrunner)
2005 Say Goodbye (604/Roadrunner)
2005 Santa Monica (604/Roadrunner)
2006 Since You’ve Been Gone (604/Roadrunner)
2008 By the Way [w/Chris Daughtry & Robin Diaz] (604/Roadrunner)
2008 Little Smirk (604/Roadrunner)
2008 Bad Girlfriend (604/Roadrunner)
2009 Hate My Life (604/Roadrunner) RR-1017
2009 Not Meant to Be (604/Roadrunner) RR-1148
2010 All or Nothing (604/Roadrunner)
2010 Wait for Me (604/Roadrunner)
2010 So Happy (604/Roadrunner)
2011 Lowlife (604/Roadrunner)
2011 Out of My Head (604/Roadrunner)

Albums
2002 Theory of a Deadman (604/Roadrunner) RR-8618
2005 Gasoline (604/Roadrunner) RR-8323
2008 Scars & Souvenirs (604/Roadrunner) RR-8009
2011 The Truth Is… (604/Roadrunner) RR-7729
2014 Savages (604/Roadrunner) 25396-06272
2017 Wake Up Call (604/Sony) 25396-11232
2020 Say Nothing (Roadrunner) 2-173942
2023 Dinosaur (Roadrunner) 58277837

Compilation Tracks
2002 “Nothing Can Come Between Us” on ‘Big Shiny Tunes 7’ (Universal)
2003 “Point To Prove” on ‘Big Shiny Tunes 8’ (Warner) WTVD-61050
2003 “Make Up Your Mind” on ‘Now! 8’ (EMI) 591083
2005 “Santa Monica” on ‘Big Shiny Tunes X’ (EMI) 41878
2006 “Nothing Could Come Between Us” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 3 – Juno Awards: Celebrating 35 Years of the Best in Canadian Music’ (EMI) 59829

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THICKE, Alan
Born: Alan Willis Jeffrey on March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario;
Died: December 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California
Singer, songwriter, actor Alan Thicke began his career as a Canadian TV host but was also a recording artist. He diversified his talents by writing the theme song for the hit TV game show “Jeopardy”. He also starred on his own short-lived talk show “Thicke of the Night” and became a pop icon as the father on the TV show “Growing Pains.” Thicke died of an aortic dissection while playing ice hockey with his son in Los Angeles on December 13, 2016. Thicke was the father of singer Robin Thicke.

Singles
1969 (Hey Little) Girl/Some Things (Sound Canada) SC-704
1984 Thicke of the Night/Grandma (Atlantic) 7-89701

as A.J. THICKE
1967 Wondrous Bobby Orr/That Boston Dandy (Hockey) T-5715
1967 Wondrous Bobby Orr/That Boston Dandy [re-issue] (RCA) 74-0328

Albums
1970 Alan Thicke (Birchmount) BM-547

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THIEVES, The
Jules Mounteer (drums) / Scott Peters (guitar, vocals) / Shawn Peters (bass, vocals) / Steve O’Brien (guitar, keyboard, vocals)
From Edmonton, Alberta; Scott Peters and Jules Mounteer would go on to join Captain Tractor.

Albums
1984 I See Red [5-song EP] (Rubber) RR-8402

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THIN LINE
Andrew McPherson (vocals, keyboards, flute) / Rolf Dinsdale (guitar) / Tim Crease (bass) / Rick Fry (bass; 1988) / Mario Circelli (drums)
From London, Ontario; Dinsdale would go on to be in SFH (Shit From Hell); Circelli went on to join Thin Raft. He is the former manager at radio station CHRW, and is the head of Forest City London Music Awards; McPherson would go on to form Eccodek and Four 80 East and has several solo releases to his name.

Albums
1987 Clear At Dawn [5-song cassette]
1988 Thin Line [4-song EP]
1988 The Dabin Sessions [6-song EP]

Compilation Tracks
1986 “Burning Leaves” on ‘London Underground – CHRW Compilation’ (Astro)

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THIS “BLUE” PIANO
Colin Cahill (drums) / Ken Ashdown (bass) / Stephen Lamont (guitar, vocals) / Norman MacKay (keyboards, guitar)
This ‘Blue Piano’ were an independent act from Montreal’s West Island formed in 1981. They forged material in crude demo form at home and had Cemental Health Records release their first experiments on cassette under the title ‘Exhibit A’ in 1982. In 1983 the band released their first proper album called ‘Dick And Jane Eat God’ for Cemental Health Records. In 1984, a 4 song demo EP on cassette called ‘NHL Suitcase’ was released. Eventually they were able perform enough to make money to record another proper studio release which resulted in 1985’s ‘The John the Baptiste EP’. Lamont still plays with some law firm work colleagues under the name The Gavelheds playing cover songs and raising money for various charities; Ken Ashdown is the Managing Director of Komrad Communications is an associate of Action Dialogue Inc., a leading conflict management and organization development firm based in Ottawa. Ashdown is also working on the release of a This “Blue Piano” ‘best of’ called ‘Only The Good Live On’ for the revived Waste Island Records label.

Albums
1982 Exhibit A/Live At ‘The Cat’s Paw’ (Cemental Health)
1983 Dick And Jane Eat God (Cemental Health)
1984 NHL Suitcase [cassette] (Waste Island)
1985 The John The Baptist EP (Waste Island)
2004 Exhibit A/Exhibit B – The Sabrina Tapes [CD re-issue] (Cemental Health) EEG-06
2005 Dick And Jane Eat God [CD re-issue] (Cemental Health) EEG-11

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THIS FEAR
John “Jonty” Parker-Jervis (vocals, violin) / Grant Beattie (synthesizers) / Fredrick Patterson (drums) / Brian Repka (bass) / Mark Wasarab (guitars)
From Edmonton, Alberta formed in 1985 and who split up in 1987; Parker-Jervis would join Muster’d Punt; Repka would form the Junkyard Angels;

with notes from Mark Z. Wasarab.

Albums
1986 Darkness Shapes Imagination [5-song EP] (Canada Music Technologies Group)  ST-13-1

Compilation Tracks
1985 “Soldier Of This Fashion” on ‘Homegrown ’85’ (K-97 Album Rock Stereo) ROK-85-004
1992 “Soldier Of This Fashion” on ‘A Canadian Alternative’ (Second Wave) SWM-001

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THOMAS TRIO AND THE RED ALBINO
Jody Richardson (throat, lungs, diaphragm) / Lil Thomas (guitars, vocals) / Linda Kronbergs (keyboards, vocals) / Louis Thomas (drums, grunts and screams) / Danny Thomas (bass, screams)
From St.Johns, Newfoundland; Richardson would go on to join Fur Packed Action; Lil Thomas co-owns Sonic Temple Studio with Louis Thomas.

Singles
1989 Cry/Stars For Pharaohs [7″ (independent) RED7-8901
1993 142 Thru (Cargo) TRACDS-9320

Albums
1989 Jam It In Ya [cassette] (Red) RED-8901
1992 Thomas Trio & The Red Albino (Duckworth) TTRACD-1142

Compilation Tracks
1992 “Fine Print” on ‘New Stuff’ (MMS) NSCD-001
1994 “Sunrising” on ‘A Canadian Alternative Vol III’ (DAHB) SWM-003

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THOMAS, Edie
Born: 1924
Died: January 22, 2014
Nicknamed The Singing Grandmother, Edie Thomas’ passion for music started by entertaining friends and family in her parlour at home. She eventually decided to perform publicly in the early 1960s at clubs and pubs in the Ottawa Valley with Mac Beattie and The Ottawa Valley Melodiers, as well as with Ron McMunn. She would step out on her own performing her own brand of Country music that featured her famed yodeling showcases. In 1970 she was the first artist signed to Snocan Records and released her debut album, ‘The Singing Grandmother,’ that year. She was inducted into the Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1995. Edie Thomas died January 22, 2014. Thomas’ daughter was the late Country singer Shirley Thomas (Sinclair). with additional notes from Larry Delaney.

Albums
1970 The Singing Grandmother (Snocan) SCN-501

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THOMAS, Ian
Born: Ian Campbell Thomas on July 23, 1950 in Hamilton, Ontario
Raised in Dundas, Ontario as the son of a Baptist minister, Thomas first got his musical start at age six after taking piano lessons. By the age of 14 he had graduated to guitar and a year after that he wrote his first original tune. In the mid’60’s he formed the folk trio Ian, Oliver and Nora featuring Oliver McLeod and Nora Hutchinson. By the end of the ’60’s they were joined by Bob Doidge (bass) and Nancy Ward (keyboards, recorder) and called themselves Tranquility Bass. The band would record two singles for RCA and often performed with the Edmonton Symphony and The Hamilton Philharmonic. They split up in the early ’70’s after an album they recorded failed to impress RCA and remains unreleased. Thomas got a day job as a theatre manager in Hamilton. In April 1973, Thomas signed to GRT Records and immediately released “Painted Ladies” which became a monster hit across North American; the song reached No.4 in Canada and No.34 in the United States. He won a JUNO Award for ‘Most Promising Male Vocalist’ that year. During this period he also produced a two-hour CBC Radio show called “The National Rock Works” which also featured comedy and became a showcase for the talents of his brother Dave Thomas – future SCTV alumnus. Over the years Thomas has produced some classic albums including ‘Calabash’ (1976), which was followed by a U.S. tour with his band at that time: Mike Oberle (drums), Juno Award winning graphic artist Hugh Syme (keyboards), Josh Onderisin (guitar), and David Sawyer (bass). His fourth LP for GRT was ‘Still Here’ (1978) and included the hit single “Coming Home”. Thomas’ final album for GRT was ‘Glider’ in 1979 containing the hits “Pilot” and “Time Is The Keeper”. In 1980 Thomas had been picked up by Anthem Records after the demise of GRT and took a run at several more gold albums – ‘The Runner’ (1981) (they same year he also made a guest appearance on the SCTV TV show), ‘Riders On Dark Horses’ (1984) and ‘Add Water’ (1985). It was from these albums that a number of acts would take Ian Thomas songs to the top, including “Hold On” (Santana), “The Runner” (Manfred Mann), “Right Before Your Eyes” (America), “Chains” (Chicago) and “All I Do” (Daryl Braithwaite). In 1991 Thomas joined forces with three other veteran Canadian musicians – guitarist Bill Dillon (Daniel Lanois, Joni Mitchell), drummer Rick Gratton (Rough Trade, Marc Jordan) and bassist Peter Cardinali (Rick James, Oscar Peterson) – to form the Boomers. They’ve become successful in Europe, especially in Germany and have several gold albums under their belts. with notes from Nan Bendall. [also see THE BOOMERS, TRANQUILLITY BASE, BOB & DOUG McKENZIE, LUNCH AT ALLEN’S]

Singles
1973 Painted Ladies/Will You Still Love Me (GRT)  1230-058
1974 Come The Son/Evil In Your Eyes (GRT) 1230-074
1974 Long Long Way/Count Your Blessings (GRT) 1230-076
1974 Mother Earth/it’s Over (GRT) 1230-089
1974 Top Of The World/Wheels On Fire (DJM – UK )  DJS-382
1975 Julie/Star (GRT) 1230-095
1975 The Good Life/Delight From Demoon (GRT)  1230-103
1976 Liars/See Us When You Can (GRT) 1230-112
1976 Mary Jane/Everyday (GRT) 1230-118
1977 Right Before Your Eyes (Rudolph Valentino)/Don’t Want To Love You (GRT)
1230-123
1978 Coming Home/Clear Sailing (GRT) 1230-143
1978 Sally [stereo]/Sally [mono] (GRT) 1230-160
1979 Time Is The Keeper/Beast of Phobia (GRT) 1230-169
1979 Pilot/Voices of the Children (GRT) 1230-177
1980 Tear Down The Walls/I Really Love You (Anthem) ANS-018
1981 The Runner (Anthem)  ANS-028
1981 Hold On/Freefall & Stardust (Anthem)  ANS-032
1981 Borrowed Time/Embers From The Fire (Anthem) ANS-035
1981 Chains/Stringin’ A Line (Anthem) ANS-036
1984 I’ll Do It Right/Riders On Dark Horse (Anthem) ANS-058
1984 Picking Up The Pieces/She Don’t Like You (Anthem) ANS-061
1985 Endless Emotion/Tuck Position (Anthem) ANS-066
1985 Harmony/Video Club (Anthem) ANS-068
1985 Touch Me/Same Colour Eyes (Anthem) ANS-070
1988 Back To Square One (Move On)/Losing Control (WEA)  25-77387
1988 Levity/Let The Stone Roll (WEA) 25-79447
1988 Modern Man/[same] (WEA) PRO-644

Albums
1973 Ian Thomas (GRT) 9230-1037
1974 Long Long Way (GRT) 9230-1044
1975 Delights (GRT)  9230-1054
1976 Calabash (GRT) 9230-1063
1978 Still Here (GRT) 9230-1067
1979 Glider (GRT) 9230-1082
1980 The Best Of… (Anthem)  ANR-1-1024
1981 The Runner (Anthem) ANR-1-1032
1984 Riders On Dark Horses (Anthem)  ANR-1-1044
1985 Add Water (Anthem) ANR-1-1047
1988 Levity (WEA)  25-55561
1995 Looking Back (Anthem/Sony) ANMD-1068
2013 Little Dreams (Alma) ACD-11612
2016 A Life In Song (Alma) ACD-61762
2024 How We Roll

Compilation Tracks
1973 “Painted Ladies” on ‘Sound Explosion’ (K-Tel) TC-213
1973 “Painted Ladies” on ‘ Get It On!’ (Ronco/Columbia Special Products) CSPS-783
1974 “Long Long Way” on ’Hot Hits’ (Jukebox International) 74001
1975 “Mother Earth” on ‘Power Pak’ (K-Tel) TC-223
1975 “Painted Ladies” on ‘Canada Gold – 22 Karat Hits’ (K-Tel) TC-225
1976 “Liars” on ‘Canada’s Finest’ (K-Tel) TC-232
1977 “Coming Home” on ‘The Hot Ones’ (K-Tel) TC-247
1977 “Right Before Your Eyes” on ‘Stars’ (K-Tel) TC-248
1978 “Painted Ladies” on ‘Sizzlers’ (Cymbal/GRT) 9240-1010
1979 “Time Is the Keeper” on ‘Hit Action’ (TeeVee) TA3-2030
1981 “Right Before Your Eyes” on ‘Superstars Salute New Massey Hall’ (CBS/CRIA)
CRIA-2
1988 “Because It’s Christmas” on ‘Reveillon’ (WEA) CDP-632
1990 “Painted Ladies” on ‘Made in Canada, Our Rock ‘n’ Roll History – Volume Two: Into the 70’s’ (BMG) KCD1-7157
1996 “Painted Ladies” on ‘Oh What a Feeling: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (MCA) JUNO-25

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THOMAS, Jackie
One-off dance artist produced by Pat Desario.

Singles
1978 Oui Je T’aime (Baby Lover)/Oui Je T’aime (Instrumental) (Gen) GS-43-002

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THOR
Born: Jon Mikl Thor in 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia
Jon Mikl Thor was first known as a body-builder – he was the first Canadian to win both the Mr. Canada and Mr. USA muscle man titles. He soon became interested in rock and roll and decided to combine the showmanship of body building with the excitement of live rock music in his first band Mikl Body Rock in 1973. With Vancouver guitarist Frank Soda accompanying him the group changed their name to Thor & The Imps who released the album ‘Muscle Rock’ in 1976. Using props and costumes, the highlight of the band’s live shows was having Thor bend steel bars with his teeth and having concrete cinder blocks smashed with hammers on his chest. Following a performance on the ‘Merv Griffin Show’ on North American television, Thor landed a recording contract with RCA Records. Thor’s debut album, ‘Keep the Dogs Away’, was released in 1977 with the title track receiving prominent radio play. The success of his debut plus the albums ‘Gladiator’ (1979) and ‘Striking Viking’ (1980) allowed him to tour Canada and the USA through the remainder of the late ’70s and into the early ’80s. With an appearance at the Marquee Club in London, England in February 1984 he sufficiently impressed Albion Records who signed him to a new record deal. In 1985 he released the new album ‘Only the Strong’ and had success with the songs “Thunder On the Tundra” and “Let The Blood Run Red”. Thor then toured throughout the UK at clubs and festivals including The Great Yarmouth Festival. Several more albums followed – ‘Live In Detroit’ (1985) and “Recruits: Wild In The Streets” (1986). Thor retired from live performances in 1987 and focused, instead, on writing and producing for film. With his own record label up and running, Thor returned to making records in 1997 with the album ‘Ride of the Chariots’. He then hit the road and began performing live again. Thor has continued semi-annual album releases (12 CDs since 1998) and resumed touring several years ago with his guitar cohort Frank Soda; Thor, an avid sports enthusiast, revived the copyrights on the Vancouver Millionaires hockey franchise – who won the Stanley Cup in 1915. He controls the team’s rights and licensed their logo and historical memorabilia to the Vancouver Canucks to preserve the team’s history; In 2011 Thor wrote the film musical ‘Thor – The Rock Opera’ and released the movie’s soundtrack.

Singles
1977 Keep the Dogs Away/Wasted (RCA) PB-50442
1984 Let the Blood Run Red/When Gods Collide (Ultra! Noise/Albion) ION-165
1984 Thunder On the Tundra/Hot Flames (Ultra! Noise/Albion) ION-168
1985 Knock ‘Em Down/Lightning/Anger (Roadrunner – HOLLAND) RR-5513
1986 Search and Destroy (Rock Warrior)

with THOR & THE ASS BOYS
2000 Odin Speaks [4-song EP] (TPOS – US) TPOS-123

Albums
1977 Keep the Dogs Away (RCA) KKL1-0250
1979 Gladiator
1980 Striking Viking
1983 Unchained (Ultra! Noise – UK) NOISE-102
1985 Only the Strong (Viper) VPR-101
1985 Live in Detroit (Raw Power – UK) RAWLP-008
1997 Ride of the Chariots
1997 AnTHORology (Star – US)
1998 Thunderstruck: Tales from the Equinox (Star – US)
2002 Triumphant (Scratch) SCRATCH #43
2003 Mutant (Outlaw) OLR-021
2004 Beastwomen From the Center of the Earth (Antimatter)
2005 Thor Against the World (Smog Veil)
2006 Devastation of Musculation (Smog Veil)
2008 Into the Noise (SDM)
2009 Steam Clock
2009 Keep The Dogs Away: 30th Anniversary (Scratch) SCRATCH-60
2009 Sign of the V (Vulcan Sky) VSR-1915
2010 The Guardian
2011 Thor-The Rock Opera Soundtrack

as JON MIKL THOR
1986 Recruits: Wild In the Streets (GWR/RCA – UK) 24704

as JON THOR
2000 Dogz II (Igroove) CONCEPT-001

with THOR & THE IMPS
1976 Muscle Rock

with TRITONZ
1987 The Edge of Hell (GWR/RCA) GWLP-13
2006 Soundtrack: Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare (La-La-Land) LLLCD-1048

with THOR & THE ASS BOYS
2001 Odin Speaks (Igroove)

with D.O.A. & THOR
2003 Are U Ready (Scratch) TTSDR-0101

Compilation Tracks
2002 “FUBAR Is a Super Rocker” on ‘Fubar’ (Aquarius) Q2-605

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THORNEY, Tim
Born: Timothy Thorney on February 4, 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Died: June 15, 2021 in Collingwood, Ontario
Tim Thorney grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and was already playing guitar by the age of 5. By the time he was 11 he began playing publicly. At the age of 15 he joined the all original heavy rock band Homer who were playing community clubs around town in 1966.Thorney began taking an interest in recording by then and after engineering some roots music with a band called Bullrush he was encouraged by Mike Rheault (Burton Cummings Band) at Rhode Recordings to pursue that end of the business. Thorney then began doing studio session work around Winnipeg both as a writer and a singer. After signing a recording contract with London Records he released his debut album ‘Thorney’s Latest Album’ in 1977 which featured the single “You Mean So Much”. Thorney also started play with Guess Who member Jim Kale’s bands (including a version of the New Guess Who) as a piano player. Burton Cummings, now well into a solo career, would often sit in with the Kale Band to sing and took a shining to Thorney’s album single. Cummings would record the song under the title “Meaning So Much” on the ‘Dream of a Child’ LP in 1979. Thorney then released his second single, “Draggin’ ‘Em Down the Line”, which Cummings, again, recorded for a stand-alone single in 1979. After touring around Western Canada with the band Whakoo, his Winnipeg agent decided to no longer book the act and so, on the advice of Jim Kale hooked up with Toronto booking agent Tom Wilson and headed east. After playing material for Domenic Troiano, the legendary guitarist heard promise in Thorney’s material and helped him network around Toronto. One contact point was singer Lisa Dalbello whom Thorney had met in Winnipeg while they were both signed to London Records. Thorney, Mike Rheault, bassist Scott Smith (Loverboy), guitarist Gary Nichols and drummer Brad Charleton became Dalbello’s backing band. He would subsequently sang on her ‘Pretty Girls’ album and began co-writing songs with her. He would then produce Dalbello’s ‘Drastic Measures’ album. Thorney then won the ‘American Song Festival ’83’ with Dalbello and the pair came in 1st and 2nd place respectively. Thorney expanded is studio session work and eventually assembled a studio project called The Front with Joel Feeney who released two albums on Duke Street Records but never performed live. Thorney would then start working for Canadian producer Harry Hinde as an arranger and worked on various projects with him including two Veronique Beliveau albums. He became adapt at recording French-Canadian singers and did sessions on weekends with veteran producers Terry Brown, Nick Blagona and Domenic Troiano. He was working for former Revolver Records owner Mort Ross at a Toronto jingle house called Players learning to write specifically for moving pictures (TV and film) that turned into a long relationship with advertisers such as Miller Genuine Draft, Pontiac, OV, Molson Canadian, Ford, Eaton’s, and Labatt Blue among others. During the same period Thorney was also producing records for Brian Plummer, Harlow, Lydia Taylor and Terry Crawford. He then co-founded the production company Einstein Brothers with Jody Colero and Guido Luciani. Thorney, Scott Humphrey, Joel Feeney and Bernie Labarge all worked there as writers and programmers. The American band Starship recorded the Thorney/Feeney/Rachel Oldfield song “Trouble In Mind” and songwriter Marc Jordan would later join Thorney and company in the songwriting pool. Thorney worked with Vancouver’s The Hardrock Miners, Don Nielson and Casandra Vasik who recorded songs written by Thorney and MuchMusic’s Erica Ehm. He produced four more Vasik albums and two more Donny Nielson projects. Thorney built his own recording studio and began writing with Alanis Morrisette in 1994. He worked with Morrisette and co-produced her ‘So Called Chaos’ album and the ‘Vancouver Sessions’ with John Shanks in Vancouver. He has also worked on albums with Alex J. Robinson, Argentine artist Devi, and Elana McMurtry among others. Thorney has also managed to record three additional solo albums – ‘Some Other Time’, ‘Extenuating Circus Dances’ and ‘Villa Freud’. Thorney would relocate to Collingwood, Ontario to live, and built a new recording studio there. Thorney died June 15, 2021 after a long battle with kidney disease. With notes from Tim Thorney. [also see THE FRONT]

Singles
1977 Meaning So Much (London)
1977 Draggin’ ‘Em Down the Line (London)
1993 Missing Person (Epic/Sony) CDNK-809
1993 Fortunate Home (Epic/Sony) CDNK-865
1994 Chains [w/CASSANDRA VASIK] (Epic/Sony) CDNK-928
1994 All the Things I Do (Epic/Sony) CDNK-981
1999 Cool (Perimeter/Universal) UMDS-99263
2000 Coat Tails (Perimeter/Universal) UMCR-4021 2

Albums
1977 Thorney’s Latest Album (London) DL-3017
1993 Some Other Time (Epic/Sony) EK-80176
1999 Extenuating Circus Dances (Perimeter/Universal) 81003-0002-2
2011 Villa Freud (Thorniac) Thorniac-007

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THORNLEY, Ian
Born: July 21, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario
Ian Thornley moved from Toronto to Boston to study jazz at The Berklee College Of Music in the early ’90’s. To pass the time he, bassist David Henning, guitarist Brian Doherty, and drummer Forrest Williams would jam together. Eventually they decided to forget school and form a full-time band. Big Wreck was born in 1993. They worked on their original material in Boston but soon relocated to Toronto and try and make a new start in Thornley’s hometown of Toronto. While in Toronto the group attracted the attention of Canadian pollster/music promoter Allan Gregg (former co-manager of the Tragically Hip and now co-owner of Oasis Entertainment). Gregg was a friend of Thornley’s father. Thornley’s dad passed a Big Wreck demo tape to a friend, who relayed it to Gregg. Gregg’s company at the time (also featuring manager Jake Gold), Management Trust, gave Big Wreck cash to record a demo, set them off on tour and, after two years, began bombarding record labels until finally Atlantic Records in the US scooped them up. Thornley, who had always been ‘just a guitar player’, had to learn how to sing just before recording their debut album. They released ‘In Loving Memory Of’ in 1997 along with the first break-away hit in the US – “The Oaf” which went Top10 on Billboard. The follow-up singles, “Blown Wide Open” and “That Song”, did not fair as well on U.S. radio, but as the American market turned a deaf ear, Big Wreck began gaining momentum in Canada, where “That Song” and accompanying video took off. To date the group has sold more than 200,000 copies of their debut in Canada. Big Wreck’s second album entitled ‘The Pleasure and the Greed’ was released in 2001 but failed to perform as well as the debut – mainly due to lack of marketing by the record label. Within a year Big Wreck had split up. Thornley moved back to Toronto. His guitar playing and singing was in demand and he did recording sessions with Nickelback, Sarah Harmer and Stephen Fearing. He then assembled his own band, Thornley featuring Art of Dying’s Tavis Stanley (guitar), The Watchmen’s Ken Tizzard (bass), and Sekou Lumumba (drums). They were signed to Chad Krueger’s 604 Records released their debut album, ‘Come Again’, in 2004. In 2006 Thornley was part of the one-off Big Dirty Band supergroup project assembled specifically for ‘The Trailor Park Boys Movie’. The line-up included Ian Thornley, Care Failure (Die Mannequin), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Geddy Lee (Rush), Jeff Burrows (Tea Party) and Adam Gontier (Three Days Grace). Thornley’s sophomore follow-up was ‘Tiny Pictures’ which was released in February 2009. By 2010 Thornley had begun touring under his own name, and soon invited former Big Wreck guitarist Brian Doherty to tag along with shows billed as “An Evening with Thornley and Big Wreck”. Thornley envisioned bigger and better things for his career and left 604 Records to sign with Rush’s label Anthem Records and SRO Management. In November 2011 Thornley played at the Edmonton Grey Cup Halftime show billed as Ian Thornley And Big Wreck to coincide with the surprise release of a new Big Wreck album entitled ‘Albatross’. The album debuted at No.5 on the Canadian Albums Chart on the strength of the title track as the lead-off single. In February 2012 Big Wreck performed at the Sound Academy in Toronto for a Super Bowl XLVI party. Big Wreck then mounted a Canadian tour from April to July 2012. In 2015, Ian Thornley released a solo album entitled ‘Secrets’ which featured the single “Blown Wide Open” – a new version of the Big Wreck hit. [also see BIG DIRTY BAND]

Singles
as IAN FLETCHER THORNLEY
2015 How Long [DigiFile] (Anthem/OLE/Warner)
2015 Blown Wide Open [DigiFile] (Anthem/OLE/Warner)

with THORNLEY
2004 Come Again (604/Universal)
2004 So Far So Good (604/Roadrunner/Universal) RDRR-10080-2
2004 Easy Comes (604/Roadrunner/Universal) RDRR-10102-2
2005 All Comes Out In the Wash (604/Universal)
2005 Beautiful (604/Universal)
2008 Make Believe (604/Universal)
2009 Changes (604/Universal)
2009 Conscience & Consequence (604/Universal)
2010 Man Overboard (604/Universal)

with BIG WRECK
1997 The Oaf (My Luck Is Wasted) (Edit)/The Oaf (My Luck Is Wasted) (ALbum Version) (Atlantic – US) PRCD-8255-2
1997 That Song (Edit)/That Song (Album Version) (Atlantic/Warner Music) CDN-122
1997 Blown Wide Open (Edit)/Blown Wide Open (Album Version) (Atlantic/Warner Music) CDN-123
1998 Under The Lighthouse (Atlantic/Warner Music) CDN-145
2001 Inhale (Album Version)/Call Out Hook (Atlantic/Warner Music) PRCD-300482
2001 Ladylike (Atlantic/Warner Music)
2011 Albatross (Anthem/Universal)
2014 Come What May (Radio Edit)/Come What May (Album Version) (Zoë/Rounder – US) PRO-RO-0601
2016 Skybunk Marché [DigiFile] (Anthem/OLE/Warner)
2016 Digging In [DigiFile] (Anthem/OLE/Warner)
2017 A Speedy Recovery [DigiFile] (Anthem/OLE/Warner)
2017 You Don’t Even Know [DigiFile] (Anthem/OLE/Warner)
2019 Locomotive [DigiFile] (Thorn In My Side)
2019 Too Far Gone [DigiFile] (Thorn In My Side)
2021 Middle Of Nowhere [DigiFile] (Big Wreck Music)
2022 Spit It Out [DigiFile] (Big Wreck Music)
2022 Better Off/Spit It Out [DigiFile] (Big Wreck Music)
2022 Out To Be [DigiFile] (Big Wreck Music)
2022 Russians [DigiFile] (Big Wreck Music)
2023 Melody & Sound [DigiFile] (Big Wreck Music)
2023 Bail Out [DigiFile] (Big Wreck Music)

Albums
as IAN FLETCHER THORNLEY
2015 Secrets (Anthem/OLE/Warner) 6682522842

with THORNLEY
2004 Come Again (604/Universal) 25396-00052
2009 Tiny Pictures (604/Universal) 25396-00762

with BIG WRECK
1995 Big Wreck [6-song cassette EP (Big Wreck) BWC-001
1997 In Loving Memory Of…(Atlantic/Warner Music) CD-83032
2000 The Pleasure And The Greed (Atlantic/Warner Music) 2-83452
2012 Albatross (Anthem/Universal) 6682521662
2013 Bag Of Tricks [7-song DigiFile EP] (Anthem)
2014 Ghosts (Anthem/Universal) 6682522432
2017 Grace Street (Anthem/OLE/Warner) OLE-32
2018 In Loving Memory Of – 20th Anniversary Special Edition [DigiFile] (Linus)
2019 …But For The Sun (Warner Music) 2-881138
2021 Bag Of Tricks [7-song 12″ EP] (Anthem/Warner Music) ANTH90/91/92
2021 7.1 [5-song EP] (Warner Music) 2-431258
2022 7.2 [5-song EP] (Warner Music) 720010022
2023 7.3 [5-song EP] (Warner Music) 2023032423
2023 7 [tour exclusive cassette] (Big Wreck) [no cat.#
2023 Pages [6-song 12″ EP] (Sonic Unyon) SUNLP-2011
2023 Pages [6-song CD EP] (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-2012
2023 …But For The Sun (Remastered 2023) [DigiFile] (Big Wreck Music)

Compilation Tracks
2004 “So Far So Good” on ‘Going the Distance’ [Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Nettwerk)

with IAN THORNLEY & BRUCE COCKBURN
2010 “Chest Fever” on ‘Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian Celebration of The Band’ (Sony)

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THORSON, Johnny
Known as Canada’s Captain Banjo.

Albums
1969 The Johnny Thorson Banjo Album (Capitol) SN-6315
1972 Banjomania (Westmount) WSTM-7205
1973 Banjo City, Banjo Country (Westmount) WSTM-7316

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THOSE NAUGHTY BOYS
Bobby Gauthier (lead vocals, organ) / Ron Chenier (lead guitar) / Jim Bilodeau (guitar, vocals) / Ted Saucier (bass) / Brian Ferguson (drums) / Jack Ranger (lead guitar; replaced Chenier) / Wayne McQuaid (lead vocals; replaced Gauthier)
Gauthier assembled a rag-tag batch of his Ottawa, Ontario high school friends who had no musical experience in 1965 to create Those Naughty Boys. After only a few rehearsals, the garage band entered H.H. Bloom Studios to cut a demo of two songs – “Can’t Tell You” and “Gone Away” (which would not see the light of day until 1995). Following this, Esquires roadie Don Nicholson became their manager and landed them a record deal with Montreal’s Fantastic Records. Their single “Baby” was released in April 1966 which led to a grueling winter tour of north-east Ontario and Québec. On a trip to Maniwaki, their van flipped on the highway which rattled the band members, but they escaped uninjured. With the money they earned on the road they opened their own nightclub called Club 400 in Cornwall, Ontario where they could play whenever they want and book touring acts traveling the Ottawa to Montreal corridor. By the time their second single, a cover of the Ivy League’s “Somebody Told My Girl”, came out on the Sir John A. label exactly a year after their first, Gauthier had strained his voice and Wayne McQuaid (ex-Eyes of Dawn) was brought in temporarily to fill in for their commitments over the next three months. The song did manage to crack the Top 30 in June 1967. The band was on its last legs at this point and once the shows were done, Gauthier became the new singer for The Eastern Passage; Chenier would go on to a success career in the ’70s and ’80s as the founding member/frontman for heavy metal act Fist.  with notes from Marc Coulavin and Alexander J. Taylor.

Singles
1966 Heart/Baby (Fantastic) FA-3665
1967 Somebody Told My Girl/Tell Me Why (Sir John A.) RG-1020

Compilation Tracks
1995 “Tell Me Why” and “Somebody Told My Girl” on ‘Ottawa Rocks: The Sir John A. Years (1966 – 1968)’ (Sound Investment Enterprises) D-11101

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THP ORCHESTRA
THP #1: Billy Bumpp (vocals) / Debbie Discoe (vocals) / Paul Zaza (bass) / Barry Keane (drums) / Bob Mann (guitar) / Brian Russell (guitar) / Terry Bush (guitar) / Eric Robertson (keyboards) / Brian Leonard (percussion) / Dan Reddick (percussion) / Dave Brown (percussion) / Gary Morgan (saxophone) / Jack Zaza (saxophone) / Roy Smith (saxophone) / Bob Lucier (steel guitar) / Matt McCauley (synth);
THP #2:  Helen Duncan (vocals) / Phyllis Duncan (vocals) / Errol Thomas (bass) / Dick Smith (congas, percussion) / Barry Keane (drums, percussion) / Brian Russell (guitar) / Michael Toles (guitar) / Carl Marsh (keyboards);
One of many studio creations from Ian Guenther and Willi Morrison’s Three Hats Productions. THP’s biggest claim to fame was a Canadian-only recreation of the theme song for the TV show ‘S.W.A.T.’ from their debut album ‘Easy Riser’ in 1976. The song spent a week at No.1 on the CHUM Chart  in February 1976. The follow-up album, ‘Two Hot For Love’ in 1977, produced the hit “Fighting On the Side of Love” featuring singer Wayne St. John. The song peaked at No.11 on the CHUM Chart in January 1977. By album three – ‘Tender Is the Night’ – Guenther and Morrison had created a new version of THP that gelled so well together they were used for later studio ‘bands’ Southern Exposure and Sticky Fingers.

Singles
1976 Theme From S.W.A.T. (Part I)/ Theme From S.W.A.T. (Part II) (RCA/Victor) PB-50179
1976 Dawn Patrol (Instrumental)/[split w/BECKET BROWN] [12”] (RCA/Victor) KPN1-7059
1976 Sugar Sugar/Early Riser (Power Exchange – UK) PX-216
1977 Fighting On the Side of Love [w/Wayne St. John]/Fighting On the Side of Love (Instrumental) (RCA/Victor) PB-50289
1977 Two Hot For Love/Dawn Patrol [12″] (RCA/Victor) KPN1-0232
1978 Black Orpheus (Manha De Carnival)/Crazy, Crazy (Butterfly – US) CM-1204
1978 Two Hot For Love/Dawn Patrol (Butterfly – US) CM-1206
1978 Weekend Two-Step/[same] (RCA/Victor) PB-50503
1978 Tender Is the Night/Main Dance (RCA/Victor) PB-50636
1979 Tender Is the Night/Two Hot For Love (Rocket – UK) XPRES-11
1979 Two Hearts, One Love/Dancin’ Is Alright (Atlantic – US) 3646
1979 Music Is All You Need/Early Riser [12″] (Butterfly/EMI Electrola – GERMANY) 1C-052-62-858-YZ
1979 Good To Me/[split w/VISAGE] [12″] (Atlantic – France) PRO-512
1979 Weekend Two Step/Tender Is the Night (Pathé Marconi EMI – FRANCE) 2C-052-52827
1984 Dancin’ Forever (Long Version)/Dancin’ Is Alright [12″] (Atlantic – EUROPE) 786-952-0

Albums
1976 Early Riser (RCA) KPL1-0154
1977 Two Hot For Love (Butterfly) FLY-005
1978 Tender Is the Night (RCA) KKL1-0291
1979 Good To Me (Atlantic) SD-19257

Compilation Tracks
1976 “Theme From S.W.A.T.” on ‘Mindbender’ (K-Tel) TC-231
1977 “Fightin’ On the Side of Love” [w/Wayne St. John] on ‘Stars’ (K-Tel) TC-248

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THREADS OF FYBRE
Tim Meyer (drums, vocals) / Wayne Diebold (rhythm guitar) / Gary Brenner (lead guitar) / Harold Scheffner (bass)
Threads Of Fybre were from from St. Clements near Kitchener, Ontario. Their lone single was recorded in June 1967 and managed to get local airplay on CHYM; Diebold went on to a solo career. [also see WAYNE DIEBOLD]

Singles
1967 Mama/Believe Me (Cen-Trend) ST-45

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THREE DAYS GRACE
Adam Gontier (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) / Neil Sanderson (drums, percussion, piano) / Brad Walst (bass) / Barry Stock (lead guitar; 2003–present) / Matt Walst (lead vocals, guitar; replaced Gontier 2013)
Norwood, Ontario band Groundswell was formed in 1992 while the members were attending high school. The band consisted of Adam Gontier (vocals), Neil Sanderson (drums), Brad Walst (bass), Phil Crowe (lead guitar), and Joe Grant (rhythm guitar). In 1995 Groundswell released the CD ‘Wave of Popular Feeling’ but by the fall Crowe and Grant quit, effectively disbanding the group. However, in 1997 Gontier, Sanderson, and Walst reconvened under the name Three Days Grace. They relocated to Toronto and soon met producer Gavin Brown. The band and Brown picked material from their songwriting inventory and recorded a demo in 2000 which was submitted to EMI Music Publishing Canada. The publisher asked to hear more material which Three Days Grace and Brown obliged them with. One of the tracks was a song called “I Hate Everything About You”, which the publisher soon used to shop to major labels. Jive Records soon signed the act and the band headed to Long View Farm studio in North Brookfield, Massachusetts to record their debut album. The self-titled album was mixed in Woodstock, New York and released in July 2003. The first single was “I Hate Everything About You” which received heavy airplay and became a charting hit. With the addition of lead guitarist Barry Stock in late 2003, Three Days Grace toured for 18 months on the back of two more singles – “Just Like You” and “Home”. The CD peaked at No.9 on the Canadian Albums Chart and No.69 on the Billboard 200 achieving double platinum sales in Canada and single platinum in the US. In 2004, Three Days Grace was nominated for a ‘New Group of the Year’ JUNO Award. The MuchMusic Video Awards nominated “I Hate Everything About You” for ‘Best Rock Video’ and ‘People’s Choice: Favourite Canadian Group’. Alas, during this period lead singer Adam Gontier developed an addiction to the prescription painkiller, OxyContin. Following the tour, Adam Gontier checked himself into CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) in 2005. With a successful completion of his treatment at CAMH the band isolated itself in a cottage in Northern, Ontario to write the next album – much of it based on Gontier’s struggle with addiction. They emerged 3 months later with their sophomore album ‘One-X’ in June 2006. The album spawned three hit singles in “Animal I Have Become”, “Pain” and “Never Too Late”. The band toured from June 2006 through early 2008 (where they did opening slots with Seether). ‘One-X’ peaked at No.2 on the Canadian album chart and at No.5 on the Billboard 200. “Animal I Have Become” became 2006’s most played Rock song in Canada. Billboard ranked Three Days Grace as the #1 ‘Rock Artist of the Year’ in 2007. The album repeated the debut record’s sales figures with double platinum sales in Canada and platinum sales in the US. Three Days Grace received JUNO Award nominations for ‘Best Group of the Year’, and ‘Album of the Year’ (‘One-X’). The single “Never Too Late” was nominated for ‘Best Video’ and ‘Best Rock Video’ while “Pain” was nominated for ‘Best International Video By a Canadian’ and ‘People’s Choice: Favorite Canadian Group’ at the MuchMusic Video Awards. Three Days Grace split recording of their third album into two blocks between tour dates from March to August 2008 and January to April 2009, at The Warehouse Studio (Vancouver) and Los Angeles with producer Howard Benson. The album, entitled ‘Life Starts Now’, was released in September 2009. The album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The single “Break” was released at the same time as the album and preceded the band’s 20-date Canadian tour which took them through November and December 2009. In January 2010 Three Days Grace toured the US with Breaking Benjamin and Flyleaf for 6 weeks. In March 2010 they launched a US headlining tour in Michigan and ended in April 2010 in Massachusetts. By the fall, they did opening slots with NIckelback and Buckcherry. ‘Life Starts Now’ was nominated for ‘Best Rock Album’ at the 2010 JUNO Awards. More touring followed in 2011 with My Darkest Days, Avenged Sevenfold, Seether, Escape The Fate, and Bullet For My Valentine through October 2011. A sneak peak of their latest album was the new single, “Chalk Outline” in August 2012. On October 2, 2012 the band released their fourth studio album ‘Transit of Venus’. Following the completion of the tour for the album, lead singer Adam Gontier left the band, and was replaced by Matt Walst.

Singles
2004 Wake Up (Jive)
2004 (I Hate) Everything About You/Burn/Are You Ready (Jive/Zomba – US) JDJ- 40079-2
2004 (I Hate) Everything About You (Acoustic Version) (Jive/Zomba – US)
2004 Just Like You (Jive/Zomba/Sony) DPRO-52140
2004 Home (Jive/Zomba – US) JDJ-58244-2
2006 Animal I Have Become (Jive/Zomba – US) 82876-83437-2
2006 Pain (Jive/Zomba – US) 88697-00197-2
2006 Pain (Acoustic Version) (Jive/Zomba – US) 88697-00197-2
2007 Never Too Late/Never Too Late (Acoustic Version) (Jive/Zomba – US) 88697-09127-2
2007 Never Too Late (Pop Mix Alternate Lyric) (Jive/Zomba – US) 88697-16912-2
2007 Riot (Clean Edit) (Jive/Zomba – US) 88697-17048-2
2008 Animal I Have Become/Animal I Have Become (Stripped Acoustic Version) [DigiFile] (Jive/Zomba/Sony)
2009 Break (Jive/Zomba – US)
2009 World So Cold (Jive/Zomba – US)
2010 The Good Life (Jive/Zomba – US)
2012 Chalk Outline [DigiFile] (RCA/Sony)
2013 Misery Loves My Company (Music Video) [DigiFile] (RCA/Sony)
2014 Painkiller [DigiFile] (RCA/Sony)
2014 I Am Machine [DigiFile] (RCA/Sony)
2015 Human Race [DigiFile] (RCA/Sony)
2016 You Don’t Get Me High Anymore [DigiFile] (RCA/Sony)
2020 Somebody That I Used To Know [DigiFile] (RCA/Sony)

Albums
2000 Three Days Grace [4-song EP] (Three Days Grace) [no cat.#]
2003 Three Days Grace Promo EP [5-song EP] (Jive/Zomba/Sony) JSAM-165
2003 Three Days Grace (Jive/Zomba/Sony) 82876-53479-2
2003 Rolling Stone Original: Three Days Grace [4-song DigiFile EP] (Jive/Zomba/Sony)
2006 One-X (Jive/Zomba/Sony) 82876-83504-2
2007 Never Too Late/Pain (Clear Channel Stripped Version)/(I Hate) Everything About You (Clear Channel Stripped Version) [3-song CD Ringle] (Jive/Zomba – US) 88697-17604-2
2007 Pain (+ Acoustic) [3-song DigiFile EP] (Jive/Zomba/Sony)
2009 Life Starts Now (Jive/Zomba/Sony) 88697-46256-2
2011 Lost In You [3-song DigiFile EP] (Jive/Zomba/Sony)
2012 Transit Of Venus (RCA/Sony) 88725-44974-2
2015 Human (RCA/Sony) 88843-09808-2
2018 Outsider (RCA/Sony) 19075-82188-2
2020 Somebody That I Used To Know [4-song DigiFile EP] (RCA/Sony)
2022 Explosions (RCA/Sony) 19439-96343-2

as GROUNDSWELL
1995 Wave of Popular Feeling (PAM) PAM-9605

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THREE ENGINE TRAIN
Dan Ward (vocals) / Brandon Corriveau (drums) / Sean Smith (bass)
Goderich, Ontario band formed in January 2010 by Ward and Corriveau.

Singles
2010 Didn’t Know A Thing About Love
2010 Yesterdays
2010 Good Thing

Albums
2010 Three Engine Train (independent)

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THREE O’CLOCK TRAIN
Mack MacKenzie (vocals, guitar) / Stuart MacKenzie (guitar, backing vocals) / Dave Hill (bass) / Hugh Fisher (bass; replaced Hill) / Pierre Perron (drums) / Stefan Doroschuck (keyboards; 1984-85)
Formed in Montréal, Québec in May 1984, the band began playing small clubs in and around the city before getting to play at the ’84 First Annual Country And Western Jamboree at Wig Wam Beach in Kanawake – the Indian Reservation located across the river from Montreal. They took the name of the gig and applied it to their 1986 debut EP on Pipeline Records. An LP soon followed after their eastern Canadian and US tour called ‘Muscle In’ which was also released on Pipeline. The original band fell apart around 1988, but the MacKenzie brothers reformed Three O’Clock Train in 1989 and released a third album which was recorded at the CBC and released by Justin Time Records in 1991; Just A Memory Records re-issued ‘Wig Wam Beach’ and ‘Muscle In’ as a 2-fer-1 CD in 1996; Mack MacKenzie released a solo album the same year; David Hill would go on to American Devices; The MacKenzie brothers are currently working on a new Three O’Clock Train album for release in 2024. [also see MACK MACKENZIE] with notes from Robert Melanson.

Albums
1985 Wig Wam Beach [6-song EP] (Pipeline) PRP-3382
1986 Muscle In (Pipeline) PD-003
1995 Anthology: Wig Wam Beach/Muscle In (Just A Memory) JAM-9126-2
2016 Train Of Dreams [4-song EP] (Porterhouse) 2013
2018 Cuatro De Los Ángeles [4-song EP] (Three O’Clock Train) TOTR-006

as MACK MacKENZIE | THREE O’CLOCK TRAIN
1991 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (CBC/Justin Time) JTR-8434-2

Compilation Tracks
1988 “Train Of Dreams” on ‘New Music Potion #9’ [cassette] (New Music Seminar)
1988 “Pictures And Songs” on ‘Coast To Coast VI & VII [2LP] (CBC) RV-882
1989 “Wild” on ‘Reargarde Presents The En Garde Compilation’ (En Guard/Cargo) ENG-001
1991 “This Train” on ‘Brave New Waves’ (Variety) VCRCD-1010
1991 “This Train” on ‘CBC Variety Recordings Sampler (For Love Not Money) (Variety)

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THREE PENNY OPERA (1)
Donny Nabess (rhythm guitar, vocals) / Charles Nabess (guitar, fiddle) / Sherman Murphy / Larry Haynes / Jimmy Grabowski (keyboards) / Doug Haynes
Originally playing music together in The Pas, Manitoba starting in 1962, the Métis brothers Nabess relocated to Winnipeg and formed The Midnight Angels. The were signed to Apex Records and released one single in 1967 before hitting the road. Following the end of their Apex deal in 1968 members Donny and Charles Nabess renamed the band Three Penny Opera and toured all over the world. The group lasted until 1992 in various incarnations. For instance Grabowski had been in The Fifth, and Small Wonder before heading to Los Angeles and working under the name Jimmy Philips; Charles Nabess succumbed to cancer in May 2014. with notes from Tracey Nabess and Charles Nabess. [also see MIDNIGHT ANGELS]

Albums
1982 Three Penny Opera (World) WRC1-2103

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THREE PENNY OPERA (2)
Matt Deline (vocals) / Adam Menzies (guitar, vocals) / Hayden Menzies (drums) / Shawn Stapleton (guitar) / Brian Martin (bass)
A post-hardcore band from Ottawa, Ontario who formed in early spring of 1997 in the basement of Adam and Hayden Menzies house. Rounding out the band was Shawn Stapleton and Brian Martin.They ran into Matt Deline at a basement punk show and asked him to sing. Deline’s band 30 Second Motion Picture was in its dying days and he soon joined Three Penny Opera. The band’s first show was May 24, 1997 in Québec City with Fifth Hour Hero. Back in Ottawa they then played with Braid. Three Penny Opera’s 1986 GMC Vandura 2500 tour van would travel over 40,000 kilometres covering 82 shows and three bass players. Brian Martin returned to the band in 1998 draft. Three Penny Opera released two albums on Spectrasonic Sound, one on Troubleman Unlimited and placed two songs on District Skateboards ‘No Time To Heal’ video; Deline went on to play in Slow Parker and makeshift and currently plays with Hayden in The Grey. They released a CD entitled Open Credit on Spectrasonic Sound; Brian Martin played in Slow Parker and currently plays in a new band with Okara’s Andy Cant.

Albums
1997 2GTEG25H2G4503344 [4 song EP] (Spectra Sonic) SS-008
1999 Three Penny Opera (Troubleman Unlimited)
2000 Countless Trips From Here To There (Spectra Sonic) SS-009

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THREE QUARTER STONE
Dan Wray (vocals) / Chris Drone (guitar) / Denis Audet (guitar) / Dave Tonelli (drums) / Rob McIntyre (bass) / Steve DiVenanzo (guitar; replaced Audet 2009) / Ev Locke (drums) / Scott Clarke (bass) / Nathan LeBlanc (guitar)
Chris Drone was a dedicated rocker growing up and wanted nothing more than having a guitar in his hand. At age 14, he got a job working as shipper in a factory and saved up for his first guitar. His parents hoped he’d stay in school. Drone smartly did an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and genetic engineering at McMaster University. He was then accepted to medical school at the University of Toronto and went on to become an anesthesiologist. But music never left his blood. Drone formed the hard rock act Three Quarter Stone in Guelph, Ontario in 2005 with high school singer and friend Dan Wray. With a steady diet of classic Rock, blues and 1950’s straight up Rock ‘N’ Roll, the duo found like-minded band members in second guitarist Denis Audet, bassist Rob McIntyre, and drummer Dave Tonelli. Drone built his own studio from the ground up and in 2006 brought in Goddo frontman Greg Godovitz to produce Three Quarter Stone’s debut album ‘It Starts Right Here…’. for Drone’s Kissing Bridge Records. On a suggestion from Godovitz the album featured a cover version of Sir Cliff Richards’ 1976 hit “Devil Woman” which the band added their personal near-metal touch to. The band then headed out on the road throughout Southern Ontario to promote the record. By 2009 Audet had been replaced by Steve DiVenanzo on rhythm guitar and the band recorded their sophomore follow-up album, ‘Bullet With a Name’, which featured a cover version of Goddo’s “Tough Times”. The first single from the record was the title track which received respectable airplay on Secondary and College radio stations across Canada. Drone continued to tweak the band line-up by keeping Dan Wray but adding drummer Ev Locke, bassist Scott Clarke, and guitarist Nathan LeBlanc and headed back out on the road in 2011 for their ‘Ready-Aim-Fire!’ Tour opening shows for the likes of Lynch Mob, Lizzy Borden, Toronto, Goddo, and Molly Hatchet. In 2011 Three Quarter Stone was also inducted into the ImageFM Hall-of-Fame. IN 2012 they performed with Michael Schenker (MSG), and worked with engineer/producer Dan Hosh (City and Colour) for the 2014 release ‘Round III.’ In 2021, Chris Drone was in a serious motorcycle accident that has left him wheelchair bound. In 2022, Greg Godovitz and producer Eddie Kramer have helped Drone work on a new album of material. With notes from Chris Drone.

Singles
2009 Bullet With a Name (Kissing Bridge)

Albums
2006 It Starts Right Here… (Kissing Bridge) 61119
2009 Bullet With a Name (Kissing Bridge) 2402209
2014 Round III [Digi File] (Kissing Bridge)

Compilation Tracks
2007 “Long Time” on ‘Unsigned, Sealed & Delivered V2.2: In Pop We Trust’ (Bullseye/Frontline) FL-804130

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THREE TO ONE
John Renton (guitar, vocals) / Derek Norris (bass) / Brian Russell (guitar) / Claudette Scritnik [aka Claudette Skrypnyk] (drums)
After leaving The Classics, guitarist Brian Russell formed Three To One in Vancouver in 1966. The band soon relocated to Yorkville in Toronto to try and catch a break. They soon got signed to Arc Records for one single – a cover of Pink Floyd’s “See Emily Play”. The also performed on CTV’s ‘After Four’ TV show and appeared on Yorkville’s tie-in compilation album to the show. They would later change their name to Raja and released one single on Goodgroove Records before calling it quits. Renton would go on to be a successful pop/folk artist signed to Reprise Records; Russell would go on to perform in Doug Riley’s band Dr. Music where he met and married Brenda Gordon – later known as international singing star Brenda Russell. The duo briefly hosted the TV show ‘Music Machine’ before they both headed to Los Angeles to do session work. Brian Russell would become a top session player doing work for Charity Brown, Roger Whittaker, THP Orchestra, Sticky Fingers, Southern Exposure and others. He is now retired and living in Penticton, British Columbia.

Singles
as THREE TO ONE
1967 See Emily Play/Give Me Love (Arc) A-1183

as RAJA
1968 Drifting In The Wind/Realize (Goodgroove) G-5004

Compilation Tracks
1969 “See Emily Play” on ‘CTV’s After Four Presents The Great Groups’ (Yorkville) YVM-33003

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THROBBIN HOODS
Mark Richards (lead vocals, bass) / Buck Moore (lead vocals, guitar) / Martin Dulac (drums)
Toronto, Ontario’s Throbbin Hoods were signed to Raw Energy Records in the 1990’s and released two albums – ‘Ambush’ (1994) and ‘Hot Live Action’ (1996). They are now known as Test Monkey. With notes from Mark Richards.

Albums
1994 Ambush (Raw Energy) RAW-1015
1996 Hot Live Action (Raw Energy) RAW-1057

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THROBBING PURPLE, The
Chris Barry (vocals) / Roger Dawson (bass) / John Lalley (drums) / Dave Macanulty (drums) / Michael Cyr [aka Waxx] (guitar)
Montréal, Québec band formed in 2006 featuring Chris Barry (222’s, 39 Steps, Acrylic, Pillbox) and John Lalley (Bootsauce, Groovy Religion, Rusty).

Albums
2006 Let It Writhe (Sonik’s Chicken Shrimp) SCS-008

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THROBS
Ron “Sweetheart” Collie (vocals) / Michael Lotimer (bass, vocals) / Peter Lotimer (drums) / Jeff Campbell (guitars) / Danny Nordahl (bass; replaced Michael Lotimer 1991) / Ronnie Magri (drums; replaced Peter Lotimer 1991) / Roger Ericson (guitars; replaced Jeff Campbell 1991)
From Hamilton, Ontario.

Singles
1991 Come Down Sister (LP Version)/Ocean Of Love (LP Version) (DGC – US)

Albums
1986 Proud To Be Loud [7-song 12″] (Precision) TT-68601
1990 Tracks Down Hard [6-song EP] (DGC – US)  PRO-C-4198
1991 The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds (DGC – US) DGC-24316

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THRUSH HERMIT
Joel Plaskett (guitar, vocals) / Rob Benvie (vocals, guitar) / Ian McGettigan (vocals, bass) / Michael Catano (drums; 1992-1994) / Cliff Gibb (drums; 1994-1999) / Benn Ross (drums; 1999)
Halifax-based band were originally inspired by fellow Haligonians Sloan who signed the young act to their own label – Murderecords – in 1994. Their first EP, ‘Smart Bomb’, firmly entrenched the act as part of the, then, trendy Cod-Rock movement (which featured Sloan, Hardship Post, Eric’s Trip et al). Thrush Hermit’s love for ’70s rock supergroups like Led Zeppelin and The Band led to their gradual but steady change in direction, which was hinted at during the Edgefest ’95 festival in Toronto when they played an entire set of Steve Miller songs. So, with a bit more experience under their belts, they recorded ‘Great Pacific Ocean’ EP with Steve Albini (Nirvana, Bush) in 1995 in Chicago. With Albini’s knowledge of Canadian rock and significant pull with US major labels, Elektra signed the band in 1996 and backed their first full-length CD ‘Sweet Homewrecker’ in 1997. With reluctance, the label released the single “North Dakota” from the album and after it did no chart action the label set Thrush Hermit into limbo while it focused on other priority acts. Meanwhile, the single did gain nominal success in Canada so the band had to scramble to raise money for a video which helped the album sell respectable numbers for a Canadian debut. However, Elektra paid the band for their troubles and cut them loose in early 1998. Since then, the group has been working with Dale Morningstar (The Dinner Is Ruined) on an independent follow-up. Plaskett has gone on to a successful solo career. with notes from Fred Lajoie. [also see JOEL PLASKETT]

Singles
1993 Ammo (Cinnamon Toast) CT-006
1993 Marya/Simple Universal Leader/Cott (Genius) GENI-JR016
1995 French Inhale/Hated It/Glum Boy (Genius) GENI-JR018
1995 Take Another Drag/Came And Went (Bong Load) BL-23
1997 Giddy With the Drugs/The Ugly Details (Murderecords) MUR-026
1997 Rock and Roll Detective [4 song EP] (Elektra) PRCD-9724
1997 North Dakota (Elektra)

Albums
1992 Nobody Famous [4 song EP cassette] (independent)
1993 John Boomer [cassette] (independent)
1994 Smart Bomb [7 song EP] (Murderecords) MUR-004
1995 The Great Pacific Ocean [6 song EP] (Murderecords) MUR-016
1997 Sweet Homewrecker (Elektra) 61986
1998 Clayton Park (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-049
2010 The Complete Recordings (New Scotland) NSRCD-003

Compilation Tracks
1992 “The Young and the Doomed” on ‘Cod Can’t Hear: The Halifax Independent Musical Festival 1992: Live from the Double Dance’ (DTK) KILCD-011
1994 “Pink Is the Colour” on ‘Trim Crusts If Desired (Cinnamon Toast) CTO-13B

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THUNDERMUG
Joe de Angelis (guitar, vocals) / James Corbett (bass) / Bill Durst (keyboards, guitar, vocals) / Ed Pranskus (drums) / Corey Thompson (drums; 1995) / Justin Burgess (drums; replaced Thompson 1997; bass in 2001)
Formed in London, Ontario, originally as Pink Orange, but eventually changed their name to Thundermug and picked up manager Wyn Anderson. Anderson rallied their cause and was able to secure the band a record deal with Greg Hambleton’s Axe Records in 1972. Their debut album, ‘Thundermug Strikes’, was produced by Greg Hambleton (with engineering by a young Terry Brown) and included the 1972 hit “Africa” reaching the Canadian Top 40. 1973’s ‘Orbit’ album featured the title track as a single which reached the Top 50 that year. It too was produced by Greg Hambleton. With the band’s touring schedule keeping them extremely busy they managed several non-album singles before returning to the studio with producer Greg Hambleton to complete 1974’s Ta-Daa!!. de Angelis quit after the third record and the group continued on as a trio to tour. The group split up shortly after their last charting single, 1975’s “Clap Your Hands And Stomp Your Feet”, made the Top50 in Canada. Durst would perform in ZZTop tribute act Tres Hombres with Gary McCracken (Max Webster) and recorded with another original act called The Brains while Corbett joined Cheryl Lescom’s band. Though Wyn Anderson and the band had parted company during the intervening years, a reunion around the end of the 1980’s was instigated by Anderson and it was this seed that sparked the desire in the band members for a full-fledged reunion. Several years later Anderson put his own money on the line and paid for some recording sessions, as well as everything else necessary for Thundermug to return with a reunited band in 1995 – Durst and Corbett — for a new album (‘Who’s Running My World’) which featured the title track as its first single and video. Successful exposure on radio and television helped the band regain a foothold in the Canadian club scene and the CD went on to have three Top-40 hits at rock radio. The band returned to the studio for the follow-up CD ‘Bang The Love Drum’ in 1997 on the Raven Records label. The band toured as a trio for at least two shows a week with Bill Durst, James Corbett and returning original member Ed Pranskus. With Corbette leaving in 2000 over health reasons and Burgess re-joining on bass followed by a trail of new drummers, the band officially retired its name in 2000 and became Big On Venus. Thundermug were nominated into the London Music Hall of Fame in 2006. Manager Wyn Anderson died in September 1999 after a long illness; Corbett has re-joined Cheryl Lescom’s band; Bill Durst continues his successful solo career. He still regularly performs in and around London, Ontario and environs; in 2020 Axe Records released Thundermug’s 1976 unreleased album as ‘Bill, Jim & Ed’ on CD. with notes from D. Wilding, Nick Bajada, James Mark, Erik Pierik and Greg Simpson.

Singles
1972 You Really Got Me/Will They Ever (Axe) AXE-3
1972 Africa/Help Father Sun (Axe) AXE-4
1972 Page 125/Jane “J” James (Axe)
1972 Orbit/Mickey Mouse Club (Axe) AXE-8
1972 Help Father Sun/You Really Got Me (Ariola – HOLLAND) 12714-AT
1973 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do/I Wanna Be With You (Axe) AXE-16
1974 Let’s Live Together/Penny Baby (Axe) AXE-20
1974 I Feel Lonely/Banga Banga Humpa Humpa (Axe) AXE-28
1974 I Wanna Be With You/[same] (Epic – US) 5-11126
1974 Long Tall Sally (AVCO – US) 4557
1975 Clap Your Hands And Stomp Your Feet/Duckworth Stomp (Axe) AXE-33
1975 Old Songs/Love Is (Axe) AXE-39
1977 Jeanine/Duckworth Stomp (Papillon/Basart – HOLLAND) S-912
1995 Who’s Running My World (Raven)
1995 She Said (Raven)
1995 Blue Water (Raven)

Albums
1972 Thundermug Strikes (Axe) AXS-502
1973 Orbit (Axe) AXS-504
1975 Ta-Daa (Axe) AXS-507
1975 Ta-Daa [re-issue with altered track list] (Axe) AXS-509
1995 Who’s Running My World (Raven) 94712
1997 Bang The Love Drum (Raven)

Compilation Tracks
1975 “Jeanine” and “The Look In Her Eyes” on ‘Heavy Canada’ (Mercury – Denmark) 9299-807
1990 “Africa” on ‘Made In Canada: Volume Three – Eclectic Avenue’ (BMG) KCD1-7158

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THUNDER RIDER
Bruce Corian (guitar) / John “Skull” Blackwing (lead vocals, guitar) / Nick Stilldream (guitar synth, keyboards, backing vocals) / Pat Hammer (drums) / Roberto Deus / Steve Cox / Bryan Clarke (bass) / Luc Defresne (bass, keyboards) / Arian Axmun (guitar, alto recorder, backing vocals)
From Montréal, Quebec.

Albums
1988 Thunder Rider [6-song cassette EP] (Thunder Rider)
1989 Tales Of Darkness And Light [LP] (Dance Plant) DP-1010
2002 Tales Of Darkness And Light – Chapter II [LP] (Thunder Rider) TRP-LP-002

Compilation Tracks
1989 “Rain Dance” on ‘Québec Midem 1989’ (Adisq) MIDEM-CD-1989
1992 “For Christ’s Sake” on ‘Raw M.E.A.T. #3’ (M.E.A.T.) MEAT-003
1992 “Preacher” on ‘Compilation Lilliput Compilation (Boris & Natasha) Lilli-CD001
1995 “For Christ’s Sake” on ‘Ruins – A Compilation Featuring Montreal’s Heaviest-Diverse Bands’ ( Braide-Lexus Productions)
1997 “Blackwing” on ‘Warzone 1’ (Metal Invader – Greece)

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THY FLESH CONSUMED
Daniel Jamieson (guitar) / Dave Burns (guitar) / Gerald Smith (drums) / Peter Mestre (vocals) / Ross Vickers (bass)
From Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Albums
2002 Dawn Of The Impurity Design
2003 End Of Blind Obedience (CDN) CDN-008
2006 Pacified By Oceans Of Blood (CDN) CDN-014
2009 Unrepentant (Diminished Fifth) CD-D5R010

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TIARAS, The
Brenda Russell [nee Gordon] (vocals) / Jackie Richardson (vocals) / Colina Philips (vocals) / Arlene Trotman (vocals)
All female vocal group from Toronto assembled as a studio project by Sound Canada Studio producer Art Snider and performed live with the Luv-Lites as their backing band. The Tiaras would back up other artists like Pat Hervey and Grant Power on studio recordings before releasing their first single in 1968 written by Al Rain entitled “Where Does All the Time Go”. Though it barely charted it was mentioned in Billboard magazine stateside. A follow-up single on the obscure Op-Art label in 1969 was entitled “Foolish Girl” (also written by Al Rain, as was the flipside “Surprise!”); Brenda Russell and husband Brian Russell would go on to be in the Canadian production of Hair as well as being sessions musicians for Doug Riley’s production company at Toronto Sound. They would also become members of Riley’s group Dr. Music; Brenda would later have a massive international solo hit with the song “Piano In the Dark” in 1988; Jackie Richardson would have a substantial solo career, acting career, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2021; Colina Philips is still an in-demand back-up singer.

Singles
1968 Where Does All the Time Go/All I Ever Need Is You (Barry) B-3491X        
1969 Foolish Girl/Surprise! (Op-Art) OPA-1003

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TIBER, River
Born: Tommy Paxton-Beesley

Albums
2013 Synapses (River Tiber) RT-003
2013 The Star Falls [5-song EP] (River Tiber)
2016 Indigo (River Tiber) RT-007

Compilation Tracks
2016 “Gravity” on ‘Red Bull Sound Select For Record Store Day No. 1 Curated By Arts & Crafts’ (Red Bull/Arts & Crafts – US) RBSS-001
2016 “Barcelona” on ‘Mixtape Sixteen’ [cassette] (Urban Outfitters) UOM-16-16
2017 “West [feat. Daniel Caesar ” on ‘LateNightTales’ (LateNightTales – UK) ALNCD-46

with KAYTRANADA Featuring KARRIEM RIGGINS AND RIVER TIBER
2022 “Bus Ride” on ‘Trip-Hop Legends’ [3LP] (Wagram – France) 3418526
2023 “Bus Ride” on ‘Trip-Hop Experience Vol.1’ [2CD] (Wagram – France) 3428562

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TIC TOC
Tevan Kaplan (vocals, drums, percussion) / Ray Borg (vocals, synthesizer, percussion) / Serge Porretta (bass, keyboards) / John DeFino (guitar)
Short-lived act signed to the short-lived Dallcorte Records in 1983. Their debut album, ‘Where the Picnic Was’ was recorded at Studio 306 in Toronto between June and July 1983 and produced by Terry Brown (Rush, Max Webster, Cutting Crew). The album yielded a Top40 hit in the synth-pop song “20 Questions”. However, Dallcorte ran into financial problems and folded, leaving Tic Toc in limbo. The group disbanded shortly after.

Singles
1983 20 Questions/The Village (Dallcorte/RCA)  DL-107
1983 20 Questions (Extended Version/20 Questions//The Village/One For My Baby (and One For the Road) [12”] (Dallcorte/RCA) DEP-1001

Albums
1983 Where The Picnic Was (Dallcorte/RCA ) DLP-0704

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TIELLI, Martin
Known primarily as the vocalist/guitarist in The Rheostatics, Martin Tielli is an accomplished solo artist. He has also been a member of the vocal ensemble The Men’s Choir Of Roncesvalles. [also see RHEOSTATICS, NICK BUZZ]

Albums
2001 We Didn’t Even Suspect That He Was The Poppy Salesman (Six Shooter) SIX-03
2003 Operation Infinite Joy [Limited Edition etched tin box] (Six Shooter) SIX-06
2003 Operation Infinite Joy (Six Shooter) SIX-09
2009 The Ghost Of Danny Gross Part One (Six Shooter) SIX-013
2009 The Ghost Of Danny Gross Part Two (Six Shooter) SIX-016

with DAVE BIDINI, SELINA MARTIN, BARRY MIROCHNICK, FORD PIER & MARTIN TIELLI
2009 Music From Give Hole: Tales Of Hockey Erotica

Compilation Tracks
2003 “I’ll Never Tear You Apart,” “Sergeant Kraulis,” and “Beauty On” on ‘Beauty Passes LIke A Dream” (Six Shooter) SIX-010
2003 “Our Keepers” on ‘More Large Than Earth (We Will Warn The Stars) (Six Shooter) SIX-020
2007 “Beauty On” on ‘Now Available In Europe – Summer 2007’ (Rounder Europe) CRSCD-813

with MARTIN TIELLI, DAVE CLARK
2013 “Slipstream” on ‘The Kennedy Suite’ (Latent) LATEXCD-42

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TIGAN, John

Albums
1991 This Is The Modern Life (Justin Entertainment/MCA) JED-16

Compilation Tracks
1988 “Million Miles” on ‘Great Ontario Modern Rock’ (CFNY-FM) [no cat.#]

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TIGER PEOPLE
One of the many anonymous studio sessions produced by Ben Kaye in Montréal as part of his production agreement with Polydor Records. Possibly the same players as found on Kaye’s studio act Tinker’s Moon.

Singles
1974 Gimmewachoowan (Gimme What You Want)/[same] (Polydor) 2065-240 DJ

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TIME KILLS EVERYTHING
Travis Tomchuk (vocals) / Mike Klassen (vocals) / Topon Das (multi-instrumentalist, programming) / Matthew Friesen (bass, vocals) / Michael Klassen (keyboards, samples, vocals)
Formed in Ottawa in 2003.

Albums
2004 Time Kills Everything (Capital Kill) CKR-01
2005 Out of Progress/[split w/SEIGE OF HATE] [Digi-File] (2 + 2 = 5) 2 + 5 = 18

TIME TWINS
Timeless Torcher [aka Sheila McDonald] (vocals) / Tempus Fugit [aka Elizabeth Kiddell] (vocals, keyboards)
Mystery duo from Toronto, Ontario who were connected enough with the Toronto Queen Street scene that they were able to bring top notch session players to produce their two singles in 1980. Parachute Club drummer Billy Bryans produced both records at Grant Avenue Studio in Hamilton utilizing owner Daniel Lanois as both engineer and guitarist. Other musicians included Terry Wilkins (bass), Peter Hodgson (bass), Dennis Pendrith (bass), Omar Tunnoch (bass), John Bride (guitar), Tony Quarrington (guitar), Wayne Mills (sax), and Ed Roth (clavinet). Bryans also played drums. The second of the two singles, “Wabooba,” was the record that musician Brian Eno heard at Grant Avenue Studio and led to his future work with Daniel Lanois on U2’s ‘Unforgettable Fire’ album. With notes from Nick Jennings, Doug McClement, and Fergus Hambleton.

Singles
1980 Yuri Song/Say Uncle (Royal Family) WRC5-1130
1980 Wabooba/Bitch Silk (World) WRC3-1901

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TIMOON, Adam
Folk singer/guitarist Adam Timoon’s career began in Toronto at the Concerto Cafe in 1957. Spotted by a CBC-TV talent scout, he was signed to a 20 week engagement on the show ‘Cross Canada Hit Parade’. Following a tour of the United States with a quartet he named The Spotlights, Timoon returned to Toronto where, after a lengthy illness, he resumed his career as a solo act. He also wrote and starred in a touring show with his wife, Carol, sponsored by General Motors. For many years he headlined the Seaway Hotel in Toronto, where the Las Vegas Room was renamed Adam’s Inn. His 1990s album “Greatest Hits & Comedy Favourites” featured Robin Hawkins, Terry Danko, Gerry Baird, David Murphy, and Rick Morrison as backing musicians. In recent years he’s been playing retirement homes and corporate events doing music and comedy.

Singles
1956 Repeat After Me/Too Bad (Columbia) 4-40735

Albums
1969 Live (Birchmount) BM-668
1971 Adam Timoon Live! (Celebration/Quality) CEL-1859
1995 Greatest Hits & Comedy Favourites (independent)

Compilation Tracks
1963 “Newfoundland Medley”, “High Barbaree”, “The Frozen Logger”, and “John Henry” on ‘Folk Songs’ (CTL) M-1049

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TIMOTHY
Timothy was former Marshmallow Soup Group member Timothy Eaton and his backing band. They had a short run with “Riverboat Ladies” on the RPM CanCon Top40 chart in July 1972 peaking at No.35. In 1973, the follow-up single – “Rock and Roll Music” – peaked at No.80 on the RPM chart. [also see TIMOTHY EATON]

Singles
1972 Riverboat Ladies/Brotherhood (RCA/Victor) 75-1088
1973 Rock And Roll Music/Tammy Tease (RCA Victor) 75-1108

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TIN ANGEL
Lori Zee (vocals) / Karen Atta (guitars, vocals) / Cindy Dell (bass, keyboards, percussion, vocals) / Julie Last (keyboards, guitars, percussion, vocals) / Sherri Waggoner (drums, percussion)
All female band based in New York signed to Atlantic Records. Their self-titled debut was produced by Jack Douglas at Criteria Studios, Florida. 

Singles
1983 Keep Love Burning (Atlantic) 7-89765

Albums
1983 Tin Angel (Atlantic) 78-00971

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TIN FOIL PHOENIX
Michael Allen Zirk (vocals) / Paul Robinson (bass) / Steven Kray (drums) / Fish (guitar) / Phil Cholosky (guitar) / Yves Gagnon (bass; replaced Robinson) / Lyle Geisbrecht (drums; replaced Kray)
This Winnipeg, Manitoba band formed as a trio in 1997 with Michael Allen Zirk, Steven Kray and Fish. In 1999, Paul Robinson was lifted from another local band and joined as bassist. Two years later, they added another guitarist, Phil Cholosky. In 2001, they released ‘Hurry’, a seven-song EP. Its first single, “Neapolitan”, got a great amount of airplay on Canadian radio. The single helped the group to land a recording contract with 604 Records, the fledgling label co-owned by Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger and entertainment lawyer Jonathan Simkin. When Simkin heard the song on the radio, he was convinced it was a hit and that the band had international appeal. After playing it for Kroeger, the duo moved quickly to sign the act to 604. The 5-piece selected the name Sonic Bloom as a play on the explosive noise that aircraft make when breaking the sound barrier. But, on the eve of releasing their debut across North America, it was discovered that other enterprises held rights to their chosen name in some territories; some months and a name change later, Tin Foil Phoenix emerged. Their debut, ‘Living In The Shadow of the Bat’, finally released in September 2004 features two songs produced by Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger. The video for “Neapolitan” was nominated for a WMCA Award in 2005. In December of 2005 the band released a remake of John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” as a download online. Their sophomore release was ‘Age of Vipers’ in 2007.

Singles
2004 Neapolitan (Single Version) [re-issue] (604/Road Runner/Universal) RR-PROMO-767
2005 Ms. Genova (604/Road Runner/Universal)
2005 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (604/Road Runner/Universal)
2007 Hurry Home (604/Road Runner/Universal)
2007 Not How The West Was Won (604/Road Runner/Universal)
2008 Man Of Constant Sorrow (604/Road Runner/Universal)

as SONIC BLOOM
2002 Neopolitan

Albums
2004 Living In the Shadow Of The Bat (604/Road Runner/Universal) RR-764
2007 Age of Vipers (C-4) C4R-CD-2094

as SONIC BLOOM
2001 Hurry EP [EP]

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TINKER’S MOON
Tinker’s Moon was a studio project created by legendary Montreal producer/manager Ben Kaye and engineer Hubert Liesker who signed a long-term production deal with Polydor Records in the Spring of 1974. With the Bay City Rollers version of “Shang-A-Lang” running up the UK charts, they scooped radio in North America by releasing it in July of 1974 and reached No.23 on the CHUM chart during August of 1974. A second single – “Now That Summer Is Over” – failed to chart at all but 1975’s remake of “Ooh Baby, Baby” managed to reach No.65 on the RPM Top Singles chart in May 1975. Kaye was also key in the careers of Ginette Reno, Patsy Gallant, Michel Pagliaro, Aldo Nova and Roger Doucet as well as an early band of Celine Dion’s husband René Angélil. He died of cancer in 2007.

Singles
1974 Shang-A-Lang/I’m Sad (Polydor) 2065-234
1974 Now That Summer Is Over/Ting A Ling Ding (Polydor) 2065-247
1975 Ooh Baby, Baby/Lover Girl (Polydor) 2065-256

Compilation Tracks
1974 “Shang-A-Lang” on ‘Out of Sight’ (K-Tel) TC-220
1974 “Shang-A-Lang” on ’20 Top Hits’ (Jukebox International) 74002
1975 “Ooh Baby, Baby” on ‘Canada Gold – 22 Karat Hits’ (K-Tel) TC-225

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TITAN (1)
David Roberts (vocals, keyboards) / Peter Large (drums) / John Tate (keyboards) / Dana Westall (bass, vocals; 1976-1979) / Steve “Jughead” Brown (guitar) / Brian Frail (guitar) / Bruce Nelson (guitar, vocals; replaced Frail 1977) / Mark Desjardins (guitar; replaced Brown 1977) / John Biggs (bass, vocals; replaced Westall 1979) / Jim Rice (guitar, vocals; replaced Desjardins 1979) / Moe Lauzon (guitar; replaced Rice 1979) / Ronald E. Mayer (bass; replaced Biggs. 1981) / Greg Bennett (guitar; replaced Lauzon 1983)
John Tate would join Tense; Ron Mayer would end up in Toronto and joined The Killer Dwarfs; Nelson and Roberts continued working together in Bats In The Belfry, Screaming Trees, The Trees, and Fire Rooster. The would reunite Steve Brown in a new band called Blueberry Grunt; John Biggs became a radio disc jockey and TV host before eventually leaving Halifax for radio work elsewhere; Moe Lauzon died in 2017 at the age of 58. with notes from Jim Rice.

Singles
1977 Play Me/Dreamers (Great Eastern Production Co./Solar) SR-5
1978 Won’t You Come With Me/(Why Are You) Leaving Me (Solar) SAR-232

Compilation Tracks
1982 “Midnight Romeo” on ‘Eastern Alliance’ (CBS) ART-100

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TITAN (2)
James (vocals) / Aleks (bass) / Chris W. (guitar) / Brandon (guitar) / Chris M. (drums)
Sludge metal band Titan was formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2006.

Singles
2008 Throne of Blood/[split w/IN FIRST PERSON] (Inkblot) IBR-004

Albums
2007 The Chrysanthemum Pledge (React With Protest) RWP-026
2007 His Eminence/[split w/JUNE PAIK]
2009 Colossus (React With Protest) RWP-044

Compilation Tracks
2009 “Proceed” on ‘React With Protest 2009 Sampler’ (React With Protest)

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TITANS, Les
Raymond Larouche (vocals guitar) / Serge Vachon (bass) / Alain Plante (piano) / Réjean Goyette (drums)
Formed in Amos, Québec as instrumental band Des Jaguars in the early 1960. The then became Les Safari before settling on Les Titans in 1964. The group played all the popular dance halls and became one of the best known groups in Northwestern Québec. In 1966, the group won a competition at Radio-Canada for the program “Jeunesse Oblige.” Following the win, Les Titans recorded their first single “Laisse-moi la nuit” Choc! Records. Made several television appearances including: “Jeunesse d’aujourd’hui” in Montréal, “Jeunesse en orbite” in Trois-Rivières, “Surboum” in Québec City, and “Bonsoir Copains” in Sherbrooke. This was followed by the band’s follow-up single The group recorded a second single, in English, called “Goodbye” in the fall of 1966. In 1967 they moved to the Franco Élite label for their third, and final, single “Pardon.” The band split up in the mid-1970s. With notes from Michael Charbonneau.

Singles
1966 Laisse-moi la nuit/Je n’ai jamais pu te dire (Choc!) C-0052
1966 Goodbye/E veux t’aimer (Choc!) C-0058
1967 Pardon/Tu es la seule dans ma vie (Franco-Élite) FE-9351

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TITCOMB, Brent
Born: Arthur Brent Titcomb on August 10, 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia
He began his career in Vancouver in 1963, combining traditional folk material with a flair for comedy. He soon began working as a duo with singer Donna Warner. By late 1964 they had added Trevor Veitch with vocals and second guitar then made their debut at Vancouver’s Bunkhouse in 1965. The trio then became a full band under the name 3’s A Crowd by adding Ken Koblun (bass) and Richard Patterson (drums). The group released two singles for Columbia Records, appeared at Expo 67, and released one album and two singles for RCA in 1968. The group split up in April 1969 allowing Titcomb to pursue a solo career as a folk singer performing on his own and writing material covered by others. The songs “Sing High, Sing Low” and “I Wish the Very Best for You” were both recorded by Anne Murray plus “Bring Back the Love” with Murray and Glen Campbell. Throughout the 1970s he performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and began working occasionally in the mid-1970s as an actor in radio and TV dramas and commercials. In 1976 he began making annual appearances at Hamilton, Ontario’s Festival of Friends. In 1977 he released the folk album ‘May All Beings Be Happy’ for the Manohar label. He would tour throughout Canada and the United States at the beginning of the 1980s to promote his 1982 album ‘Time Traveller’ plus a stint in Mexico in 1983. At this time he started doing voice-over work in commercials and TV which included voices for characters on children’s TV shows ‘Clifford the Dog’ and ‘The Care Bears’. He also supplied the voice of Sleazy in the animated adult rock film ‘Rock & Rule’. This work led him to start his own workshops to help others with voice ‘toning’ as a therapeutic tool for self-healing. He also created the character Bumble Bill for a children’s concert series at Roy Thomson Hall in 1989. Titcomb songs have also been recorded by The Osmonds, Andy Williams, Ed Bruce, Lyn Dee, Tommy Graham, Bill Hughes, and Karen Jones. He has also appeared on record as a percussion for the likes of Anne Murray (and in her live band), John Allan Cameron, Bruce Cockburn, George Hamilton IV, Noel Harrison, Gene MacLellan, and supplied vocals on recordings by Bruce Cockburn, Don Ross, Oliver Schroer and Daisy Debolt. He is currently a member of LeE HARVeY OsMOND with Tom Wilson (Blackie & The Rodeo Kings). Brent Titcomb is the father of singer-songwriter Liam Russell [aka Liam Titcomb] [also see 3’s A CROWD]

Singles
1975 Sahajiya/Roll Away The Grey//A Falling Star (CBC Radio Canada) LM-295
1977 Flow On the River/I Still Wish the Very Best (Manohar) M-10
1982 No Walls At All/Only Your Heart (Stony Plain) SPS-1020

Albums
1977 May All Beings Be Happy (Manohar) MR-100
1982 Time Traveller (Stony Plain) SPL-1039
1993 Healing of Her Heart (Manohar) MR-102
2002 Beyond Appearances (independent) MR-103

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TITCOMB, Liam [aka Liam Russell]
Born: August 16, 1987 in Toronto, Ontario
Liam Titcomb was raised in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario while growing. He is the son of folk singer-songwriter Brent Titcomb who saw to it that Liam was surrounded by music. His first public performance was at the age of two playing ukulele on stage with his father. By the age of five, Liam was gigging with Brent as backing vocalist and percussionist. After also learning fiddle Liam became an apprentice of Oliver Schroer. By the age of twelve he was already a veteran of folk festivals and would play steel pan with the award-winning Afropan Steelband at the annual Caribana Festival in Toronto. Opening slots for other artists followed and he soon began getting solo engagements as a singer/multi-instrumentalist. His first commercial recording was the song “War” on War Child Canada’s benefit album ‘Peace Songs’. By February 2005, Titcomb had released his self-titled debut album which was produced by Grammy winner Bill Bottrell (Sheryl Crowe, Michael Jackson, Elton John) and Pierre Marchand (Sarah McLachlan). Guest appearances included performances from Kathleen Edwards and Chantal Kreviazuk.The album’s two singles – “Sad Eyes” and “Counting Headlights” – reached the Top20 on Canadian Hot A/C radio charts with “Sad Eyes” peaking at No.9. As an 18 year-old he was touring alongside established artists such as Great Big Sea, Tom Cochrane, David Usher & Colin James. At the 2004 JUNO Awards, Titcomb performed in the (CARAS) Songwriters’ Circle. In 2006, he was nominated for ‘Best New Group Or Solo Artist’ (Hot A/C) at the 9th Annual Canadian Radio Music Awards. After months of hard work Liam released his second album entitled ‘Can’t Let Go’in June 2007. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in the fall of 2006 and produced by Grammy Award winner Jay Joyce (Patty Griffin, Tim Finn, Chantal Kreviazuk, Dixie Chicks, Wallflowers), the album features the song “Love Can” co-written with Andy Stochansky and musical cameos by singer/songwriter Damhnait Doyle (Shaye) and harmonica player Mickey Raphael(The Willie Nelson Band). In 2010, shortly after ending an intense relationship, Titcomb stole away to London for a month-long songwriting retreat. Exploring the UK and forging new friendships, he began writing the material that would eventually become his next album. Among those songs was a demo for the song “Landslide” which landed on the desk of Nettwerk Records C.E.O. Terry McBride. He contacted Titcomb and quickly signed him to the label. Titcomb then spent the next year composing between London and Nashville. He returned to the Nashville studio of producer Jay Joyce in December 2011 and the result was Titcomb’s third album ‘Cicada’ released in 2012. The first single was “Love Don’t Let Me Down”. Titcomb has been touring Canada relentlessly promoting the album through 2012. Titcomb is also an actor who appeared in the Discovery Kids Network TV show ‘Black Hole High’ and the CBC drama ‘Wild Roses.’ Titcomb moved to Nashville and has since changed his professional name to Liam Russell (his mother’s maiden name); Russell became SOCAN’s Creative Executive for Los Angeles and Nashville in July 2023. With notes from Cheryl Russell.

Singles
2004 Sad Eyes (Columbia)
2004 Counting Headlights (Columbia)
2004 Cover of Seventeen (Columbia)
2007 11:30 (Double Dorje/Maple Music)
2011 Silver Bells (Nettwerk)
2012 Love Don’t Let Me Down (Nettwerk)
2012 Into the Mystic (Nettwerk)

Albums
2005 Liam Titcomb (Columbia) CK 81087
2007 Can’t Let Go (Double Dorje/Maple Music) DDR-001
2012 Cicada (Nettwerk) 0-6700-30967-2-0
2013 Shuter Street Sessions (Double Dorje/Maple Music) DDR-002

as LIAM RUSSELL
2018 No Contest [6-song EP] (Slaight) Q202067

Compilation Tracks
2003 “War” on ‘Peace Songs’ (BMG) 491772
2007 “Bandit” on ‘Borrowed Tunes II: A Tribute to Neil Young’ (Universal)

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T.N.T.
Brian Murphy (keyboards) / Claude Caines (bass) / Denis Parker (guitar) / Elaine Kilpatrick (vocals) / Neil Bishop (guitar) / Ted MacNeil (drums)
From Newfoundland.

Singles
1976 Head Over Heels/Hobo Sam (Quay) CS-03
1978 Lonesome Road/Teenage Boogie (Quay) CS-78-02

Albums
1977 T.N.T. (Quay) CS-7801

Compilation Tracks
2002 “Beggar’s Blues” on ‘Oz @ 25 – 25 Years Of Rock On The Rock’ (independent) OZCD-02

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TOBIAS, Ken
Born: Kenneth Wayne Paul Tobias on July 25, 1945 in Saint John, New Brunswick
Tobias worked as a draftsman after finishing school in the early 1960’s and played local venues in Saint John as a guitarist. He even joined a folk group called the Ramblers in 1961. After moving to Halifax in 1965, he became a regular performer on CBC’s ‘Music Hop’ where he met Brian Ahern who formed a band with brother Michael called The Badd Cedes in 1966. They played the usual sock-hops, dance parties and socials locally and were one of three projects Ahern was playing in while performing on the summer replacement TV show ‘Singalong Jubilee’. Ahern’s connections got the band signed to Verve/Folkways where they recorded a number of demos at the CBC in Halifax and later relocated to Toronto to record several sessions for the label. There was an existing band called The Bad Seeds so it was at this point they changed their name to Chapter V and released their only single, “Dolly’s Magic” in 1967. Tobias moved up front – and drummer Calp was added – and sang the flip side. Touring and TV appearances followed – including a stop on CBC-TV’s ‘Music Hop’. As the ’60s wore on Tobias went solo and made his own appearances on ‘Singalong Jubilee’, often in duets with the yet-to-be-famous Anne Murray. He moved back and forth between Halifax and Montreal for three years while living in Montreal. He performed at the legendary Cafe Andre and toured Québec as a member of the group The Crystal Staircase. Having met Righteous Brother Bill Medley during his three years at CBC’s ‘Music Hop’, Tobias was invited to move to Los Angeles where he was hired as a salaried staff writer for Medley’s company. Tobias’s first record, “You’re Not Even Going to the Fair”, was written and produced by Medley. The song earned Tobias his first BMI award for ‘Outstanding Airplay in Canada’. While living in North Hollywood he met legendary songwriter Sharon Sheeley (“Poor Little Fool” for Ricky Nelson; “Dum Dum” for Brenda Lee). Sheeley introduced Tobias to the The Everly Brothers and Ricky Nelson among others. His material began getting placed in the hands of other recording artists starting in 1970. Soon he had several songs generating revenue including “Keep On Changing” for The King Sisters in the UK, “Some Birds” for Anne Murray, “My Songs Are Sleeping” and “Get Yourself Some Sunshine” by the Bells’ Cliff Edwards. It was The Bells’ recording of his song “Stay Awhile” in 1971 which sold over one million copies and reached No. 7 on the Billboard Magazine charts that brought Tobias international attention as a songwriter and led to a record deal. In 1972 Tobias recorded his first album, ‘Tobias/Dream No.2, for MGM/Verve at the MGM Studios in Los Angeles. The title track quickly became a Canadian classic and was followed by the Top10 hit “I Just Want to Make Music” peaking at #13 on the CHUM Chart in Canada. Some of the musicians who contributed to the album included Hal Blaine on drums (Sinatra, Beach Boys, et al), Joe Osborne on bass, Larry Knechtel (Bread) on keyboards, and Larry Carlton (Jazz Crusaders) on guitar. On tour for the album, Tobias appeared in concert with The Everly Brothers not long before they split up. In 1973, Tobias recorded his second album, ‘The Magic’s In The Music’ in London, England at George Martin’s Air Studios. This recording included songs he had written on a recent stay at Neil Young’s ranch in California. The album featured drummer Mike Giles (King Crimson) and bassist Bruce Lynch (Cat Stevens). This album produced the Canadian hit “Fly Me High”. A year later he recorded his third album, ‘Every Bit of Love’, for Attic Records. Produced by Tobias and John Capek, the project harvested four hit singles: “Every Bit of Love”, “Give a Little Love”, “Run Away With Me”, and “Lady Luck”. In December 1975, “Every Bit of Love” peaked in the Canadian Top20. Tobias would be showered with several songwriting awards relating to the success of the album. In the summer of 1976 Universal Studios included his song “Good To Be Alive in the Country” in the hit TV series ‘The Bionic Woman’. The show’s lead, Lindsay Wagner, would sing the song in the episode “Road To Nashville”. In that same year Tobias produced ‘Siren Spell’, his fourth album, which was followed in 1977 by ‘Street Ballet’. In 1978 Ken expanded his music work to Rome, Italy where he collaborated in the writing of the Italian spaghetti western ‘Sella d’Argento’ (aka ‘Silver Saddle/They Died with Their Boots On’), directed by Lucio Fulci. Two successful singles taken from ‘Street Ballet’ had increased the demand for a compilation of Ken Tobias hits and ‘The Ken Tobias Collection – So Far…So Good’ was the result and included “Silver Saddle” which had been released as a single in Europe by Cinevox to promote the movie. In 1983 Ken released “Here You Are Today”, his tribute to his home town of Saint John, New Brunswick for Canada’s first city’s bicentennial. In that same year his Tourism New Brunswick commercial won the prestigious CLIO Award. As primarily an exhibition of his work as a songwriter, in 1984 Ken recorded ten of his most recently penned songs under the album title ‘Gallery’, a co-production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. A second album that year was a venture into music for children via his album ‘Ken Tobias – Friends’. CBS Records added the album to their new children’s label, Kiddin’ Round Records. The title song “Friends” was featured in the 2004 film ‘Chicks with Sticks’. Tobias continued throughout the eighties to be a prolific and all-around creative artist. In recent years his talents have expanded to painting. Over two hundred of his paintings have been sold and are hanging in private homes throughout Canada and the USA. He has written and produced the music for several film and television programs including the 1987 award winning Shelley Saywell documentary ‘Shahira’ and the 1988 award winning film ‘Toronto: Struggle For Neighbourhood’. Also in 1988 Tobias was one of the first Canadian songwriters to be awarded the special Crystal Award by the performing rights society PROCAN in celebration of one hundred thousand performances of his song “Every Bit of Love” on radio. In 1989, he was commissioned by Ballet Jorgen to create music for a feature segment of their new ballet. The result was a work entitled ‘Dreams of a Subtle World’. In 1991, Tobias completed the score for the two-hour television documentary ‘The Greenpeace Years’ which aired nationally on CBC and distributed worldwide. In the fall of 1992 Tobias started production at Toronto’s Reaction Studios for six new songs. The songs were released to Canadian radio in the Spring of 1993 by Pangaea Music. 1993 and 1994 included television and live performances. Also in 1994, he was awarded the SOCAN Classics Award for one hundred thousand performances of his hit “Every Bit of Love” followed in 1995 with the same prestigious award for two more of his songwriting hits: “Stay Awhile” and “I Just Want to Make Music”. In 1998 the book ‘On A Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock’ written by Rheostatics’ guitarist and music journalist Dave Bidini was released with several pages dedicated to the music adventures of Greg Godovitz, Bob Segarini and Ken Tobias among others. In 2002 Tobias performed at the East Coast Music Award’s Songwriters Circle in Saint John, New Brunswick. That same year, he also produced and arranged the self-titled debut CD for Toronto singer-songwriter Kim Jarrett. Tobias hosted a song circle in 2004 for the Saint John “Festival By The Sea” and later performed with Terry Kelly for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. At the 2004 East Coast Music Awards in Newfoundland, he performed at his friend Rylee Madison’s “Behind The Song Cafe”. In the fall of 2007 Ken began recording his first album project in 15 years. The result was 2008’s “From A Distance” album on the Pangea label. He now lives in Saint John, New Brunswick and often plays to packed houses when he performs at the Blue Olive. He has most recently been collaborating with east coast songwriter Jessica Rhaye. with notes from Greg Simpson and Ken Tobias. [also see CHAPTER V]

Singles
1969 You’re Not Even Going To The Fair/This Kind of Feeling (Bell) 810
1971 Now I’m In Love/I Love Ya (MGM/Verve Forecast) 14273X
1971 I’d Like To Know/Swallow Swallow (MGM/Verve Forecast)
1972 Dream No.2/I’m Goin’ Home (MGM/Verve Forecast) 10681
1972 I Just Want To Make Music/Double Cross Woman (MGM/Verve Forecast) MV-10692
1973 Fly Me High/My My (MGM) K-14634
1973 Fly Me High/Clouded Blue (MGM – Holland) K-14634
1974 On The Other Side/[same] (MGM) 14702
1974 Lover Come Quickly/Keep On Changing (MGM) M-14723
1975 Lady Luck/Whatever You Want (Attic) AT-106
1975 Run Away With Me/Whatever You Want (Attic) AT-111
1975 Every Bit Of Love/Dance On The Water (Attic) AT-118
1976 Give A Little Love/If I Could Talk To You (Attic) AT-124
1976 Oh Lynda/Nature’s Song (Attic) AT-136
1976 Lovin’ Forever/Nature’s Song (Attic) AT-148
1977 Dancer/Lovelight (Attic) AT-162
1977 Siren Spell (Da Do)/Oh Lynda (Cinevox – Europe) SC-1102
1978 I Don’t Want To Be Alone/Old Timer (Attic) AT-174
1978 New York City/Blackbird (Attic) AT-184
1978 Silver Saddle/Two Hearts (Cinevox – Europe) MDF-119
1983 Here You Are Today (Theme For Saint John)/[same] (Glooscap)
1984 My Maria/Crazy For Loving You (CBC) LMS-003

Albums
1972 Tobias/Dream No.2 (MGM/Verve Forecast) MGMV-5085
1973 The Magic’s In The Music (MGM/Verve Forecast) SE-4917
1975 Every Bit Of Love (Attic) LAT-1006
1976 Siren Spell (Attic) LAT-1013
1977 Street Ballet (Attic) LAC-1033
1978 The Ken Tobias Collection – So Far So Good (Attic) LAT-1050
1984 Friends: A Kid’s Album of Pop Songs (Kiddin’ ‘Round/CBS) KR-79806
1984 Gallery (CBC) LM-483
1993 Pangea Radio Sampler (Pangea) PMH CD-1001
2008 From A Distance (Pangea) PMH-1002
2011 Secrets EP

Compilation Tracks
1966 “Rich Man’s Spiritual” on ‘Singalong Jubilee Volume III’ (ARC) A-700
1968 “A Little Advice” on ‘Our Family Album – The Singalong Jubilee Cast’ (ARC) AS-785
1974 “Fly Me High” on ‘Music Power’ (K-Tel) TC-214
1976 “Give A Little Love” on ‘Canada’s Finest’ (K-Tel) TC-232
1977 “I Don’t Want To Be Alone” on ‘Music Magic’ (K-Tel) TC-246
1991 “I Just Wanna Make Music” on ‘Made in Canada, Our Rock ‘n’ Roll History – Volume Four: More Great Stuff (BMG) KCD1-7247
1993 “Give A Little Love” on ‘Caught In the Attic’ [3CDs] (Attic) ATTIC-XX
1998 “Every Bit of Love” on ‘Attic Records Limited Twenty5’ [4CDs] (Attic) ATTIC-25

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TOKYO POLICE CLUB
David Monks (vocals, bass) / Josh Hook (guitars) / Graham Wright (keyboards) / Greg Alsop (drums)
Newmarket, Ontario’s Tokyo Police Club was formed in 2005 following the collapse of their previous band Suburbia. They began playing around Toronto and Southern Ontario and were soon invited to play at the Pop Montréal Festival. In short order, they were signed to the Paper Bag Records label which led to Monks and Alsop dropping out of college to pursue music full time. The band released its debut EP, ‘A Lesson in Crime’, in 2006 and landed spots on the annual Edgefest shows and the inaugural launch of Osheaga Festival. In 2007 Tokyo Police Club released their second EP, entitled ‘Smith EP’, and in April they appeared for the first time on US television performing on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’. Also in 2007, they performed at Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot, the Glastonbury Festival, and the Reading and Leeds Festival. During the summer of 2007 they released a teaser single from their upcoming debut album “Your English Is Good”. The full-length album finally materialized in April 2008 on Saddle Creek Records entitled ‘Elephant Shell’. With a second appearance on the ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ performing the lead-off single “Tessellate”, the album would peak at No. 10 on the Canadian Album chart and managed a respectable No.106 on the Billboard 200. They then headed out on several international tour dates including the Roskilde Festival, the Rock Am Ring-Festival, and Street Scene. By the fall of 2008, Tokyo Police Club landed on the last 6 weeks of Weezer’s ‘Troublemaker Tour’ alongside Angels And Airwaves. In the fall of 2008 the band appeared on the television show ‘Desperate Housewives’ as the fictitious band Cold Splash. Shortly before Christmas that year they also appeared live on ‘The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson’. With a switch to Dine Alone Records, Tokyo Police Club’s sophomore album, ‘Champ’, was released in June 2010 and was produced by Rob Schnapf (Saves The Day, The Vines, Sweet Thing). Later that month the band made another return appearance to ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’, performing their new radio single “Wait Up (Boots of Danger)”. The album would peak at No.19 on the Canadian album chart and US sales following the TV appearance peaked at No.56 on the Billboard 200. During that summer they performed at the Bonnaroo festival in the US as well as San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. In March 2011 Tokyo Police Club performed their single “Bambi” on the 40th JUNO Awards telecast in Toronto, Ontario. They then released the cover tune project ’10 Songs, 10 Years, 10 Days’ which featured a cover tune of a song from each year over the previous decade and guest vocalists such as Orianthi, Morgan Kibby and Jamie Jackson. Meanwhile, the band’s video for “Wait Up (Boots of Danger)” was nominated for ‘Best Indie Video of the Year’ by MuchMusic at the MMVA Awards. In 2012, the band toured with Foster the People and Kimbra; Graham Wright also moonlights on CBC Radio 3 and released a solo EP in 2008.

Singles
2006 Nature of the Experiment (Memphis Industries) MI-083S
2007 Cheer It On (Memphis Industries) MI-084S
2007 Citizens of Tomorrow (Memphis Industries)
2007 Your English Is Good (Memphis Industries) MI-093S
2008 Tessellate (Memphis Industries) MI-117S
2008 In a Cave (Memphis Industries) MI-127S
2008 Graves (Memphis Industries)
2010 Breakneck Speed (Memphis Industries)
2010 Bambi (Memphis Industries)
2010 Wait Up (Boots of Danger) (Mom + Pop) MP015-PROMO
2011 Favourite Colour (Mom + Pop)

Albums
2006 A Lesson In Crime [EP] (Paper Bag) PAPER-020
2006 Tour EP [5-song EP] (no label)
2007 Smith EP [EP] (Paper Bag) PAPER-030
2007 Live From Soho (Paper Bag) PBRD-1008
2008 Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek) LBJ-116
2010 Champ (Dine Alone) DA-031
2011 Ten Songs, Ten Years, Ten Days [DigiFile] (Dine Alone)
2014 Forcefield (Mom + Pop) MP-146-2
2018 TPC (Dine Alone) DA-222
2018 Eight Songs Live [cassette] (Dine Alone) DAT-068

Compilation Tracks
2007 “Nature Of The Experiment” on ‘Canadian Blast: The Sound of the New Canada Scene’ (NME – UK) CD07-02
2008 “Tessellate” on ‘Big Shiny Tunes 13’ (EMI)

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TOM & JUDY
Tommy Banks and Judy Singh were a jazz duo from Edmonton, Alberta. Singh had made a name for herself with her debut CBC radio album ‘A Time For Love’ with Banks as her accompanist. Their next project was as duo and they became the first act to release an album on the Canadian GRT Records imprint in 1970. Their debut album, ‘Make Someone Happy’, was released later that year. They also managed radio play in 1971 with the single “It’s Gonna Be Better”.

Singles
as TOM & JUDY
1971 It’s Gonna Be Better/Chelsea Morning (GRT) 1230-03

Albums
as JUDY SINGH
1970 A Time For Love (CBC) LM-91

as TOM & JUDY
1970 Make Someone Happy (GRT) 9230-1000

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TOMLINSON, Malcolm
Born: June 16, 1946 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England
Died: April 3, 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Tomlinson got his professional feet wet in music as the drummer for West London band The Panthers. In 1962 Tomlinson joined Jeff Curtis & The Flames who became the house band at the famous Ealing Jazz Club. The band recorded a five-track acetate with the legendary Joe Meek but Tomlinson left in late 1963 to join The Del Mar Trio. In February 1965, the Del Mar Trio recorded 4 songs for EMI at Abbey Road and two months later they changed their name to James Deane & The London Cats and headed to Germany for a year’s worth of engagements. In June 1966, Tomlinson and James Deane (singer Jimmy Marsh) teamed-up with two members of The Noblemen (Bryan Stevens and Mike Ketley) as The Motivation. The band opened for touring US soul acts like Lee Dorsey and The Coasters. They also did slots with British bands such as The Herd, Cream and The Tremeloes. From April to May 1967 The Motivation spent six weeks in Rome playing at the Piper Club. By early June there was a line-up change and the band re-named itself The Penny Peeps in August 1967. The band soon signed to Liberty Records and recorded two singles in 1968. Another line-up change occurred and the remaining members began using the name Gethsemane. This blues-rock act would then share stages with Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac and David Bowie among others. When lead guitarist Martin Barre joined Jethro Tull in mid-December 1968 Gethsemane broke up. Tomlinson made the decision to move to Canada in March 1969 with Jeff Curtis & The Flames member Louis McKelvey where the were founding members of the band Milkwood. The band performed at the legendary Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert in September 1969 and recorded an album for Polydor Records which was scuttled and never released. Some of the members, including Tomlinson, were tapped to perform on a Jay Telfer (A Passing Fancy) solo album that was also never released. Tomlinson and McKelvey then formed a short-lived act called Damage before parting ways. Tomlinson would do studio work for Montreal, Québec musician/producer Neil Sheppard by appearing on recordings by Sheppard’s band LIFE. In the early 1970s he would also do a brief stint playing drums with Rhinoceros and appeared on unreleased sessions by Rick James & The Stone City Band and would briefly play with Dwayne Ford’s band Bearfoot. Tomlinson decided at that point to take his own path and signed to A & M Records in 1976 as a solo artist. While with the label he released two critically acclaimed (but commercially lukewarm) albums – ‘Coming Outta Nowhere’ (1977) and ‘Rock and Roll Hermit’ (1979) – and toured them with his own Malcolm Tomlinson Band. In June 2007, Tomlinson was included as part of the Summer of Love Yorkville Revival event in Toronto and sat in on drums for both Kensington Market and Luke & The Apostles. The Malcolm Tomlinson Band included Gerry Markman (The Sensations) on guitar, Steve Hunter (Music Director for ‘Hair’ & ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’) on keyboards and session player Glenn Olive on bass; Tomlinson died April 3, 2016.

Singles
1976 Fiddler’s Green/[same] (A & M) AM-1997
1977 Knockin’ My Head/Erica Leigh (A & M) AM-448
1977 Celebrate It/Erica Leigh (A & M) AM-458
1979 Carry the Heart Well/My Kind of Grandma (A & M) AM-476
1979 Rock and Roll Hermit/My Kind of Grandma (A & M) AM-479

Albums
1977 Coming Outta Nowhere (A & M) SP-4649
1979 Rock and Roll Hermit (A & M) SP-4765

with THE PENNY PEEPS
1968 Little Man With A Stick/Model Village (Liberty – UK) LBF-15053
1968 I See the Morning/Curly, The Knight of the Road (Liberty – UK) LBF-15114

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TONGUE FU
Peter Arsenault (bass) / Gene Champagne (drums) / Gord Lewis (guitar) / Greg Brisco (keyboards) / Dave Elley (bass; replaced Arsenault) / Pontiac Lou Molinaro (lead vocals) / Rob Sweeney (guitar, vocals)
Short-lived Hamilton, Ontario supergroup featuring members of The Orphans, The Dinner Belles, All Systems Go, Teenage Head, and Durango 95.

Singles
2015 James Street North [2-song 7″] (Schizophrenic) Schiz-83

Albums
2016 Tongue Fu (Tongue Fu) [no cat#]

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TOO MANY COOKS
Richard D’Anjou (lead vocals, harmonica, guitar) / Dan Georgesco (guitar, backing vocals, keyboards) / Benoit Clément (drums) / J.F. Lemieux (bass) / Catherine Russell (backing vocals)
Too Many Cooks was formed by musical duo Richard D’Anjou and Dan Georgesco in Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, Québec in 1988. Shortly after writing a dozen songs the band was signed to Main Street Records and released their self-titled debut which spawned three singles – “Rita”, “Believe Me Sister” and “Don’t Take Me Away”. After assembling a live act Too Many Cooks began making noises around the Montreal club scene and eventually attracted the attention of A & M Records who had the band re-record portions of their independent album and some newly written numbers for their major label debut, ‘Food Fight’, in 1991. The band launched an east coast tour including Ontario dates opening for Gowan and received substantial airplay on Québec radio. Alas, A & M dropped them after the one album and the group drifted until being picked up by Les Disques Star in 1993. The associated spawned two albums – ‘Turning To Stone’ (1993) and ‘Decadence’ (1995). Another shift over to DEP Records in 1998 led to the release of the ‘Hungry?’ album. By 2000 the band had all but packed it in. They never officially split up, they just stopped playing. D’Anjou left the music business to focus on family life and beating a drug habit while Georgesco joined Les Porn Flakes. It was at a casual performance of that band in 2011 that D’Anjou was asked to jump on stage and sing along to Too Many Cooks songs. The idea was ignited for a reunion and so the duo recorded five new songs and re-mastered the best of their old material for a new album entitled ‘Munchies’ in 2011.  They have been performing live throughout Québec ever since.

Singles
1988 Rita/No Place In Haven (Main Street) MS45-001
1988 Believe Me Sister/Tell Me (Main Street) MS45-002
1988 Don’t Take Me Away/The Other Night (Main Street) MS45-003
1991 Where Have You Been (A & M) AM-10191
1991 Refuse To Die (A & M) AM-10812
1995 When The Gates Come Down/Stop Being a Fool (Star)
1998 Raise Your Glass (DEP) DDM2-4501
2000 All I Want [5 mixes] (A45)
2011 Rev It Up (Wellington/Universal)

Albums
1988 Too Many Cooks (Main Street) MS-33001
1991 Food Fight (A & M) 9173
1993 Turning To Stone (Star) STR-8055
1995 Decadence (Star) STR-8071
1998 Hungry? (DEP) DDM2-1090
2011 Munchies (Wellington/Universal)  614088

Compilation Tracks
1993 “Let’s Stick Together” on ‘New Stuff Six’ (MMS) NSCD-006

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TOP SECRET
George Lagios / Pat Deserio / Yvan Defresne / Zappy / Robert Sevigny

Albums
1979 Top Secret [6-song EP] (Telson/London) AF-2512

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TOP SONART
Claude Frégeau (guitar, vocals) / Gaétan Boudreault (keyboards) / Marie-Josée Morin (lead vocals) / Serge Boudreault (drums) / Éric Coiteux (bass)
From Montréal, Québec.

Singles
1983 Une Soirée//C’est Plus Qu’un Rêve/C’est Plus Qu’un Rêve (Instrumental) [12″ (J.C.) JC-12-019
1985 C’est Pas Nécessaire/Une Soirée (LongLegs/RCA) PB-50818
1985 Temps Libre/C’est Plus Qu’un Rêve (LongLegs/RCA) PB-50842
1986 Donne-Moi Une Chance/Donne-Moi Une Chance (Instrumentale) (LongLegs/RCA) PB-50894
1987 Fauve/Fauve (Instrumentale) (LongLegs/RCA) PB-50916
1987 Musique/Pas De Panique (LongLegs/RCA) JB-50938
1987 Laisse Ta Trace/Laisse Ta Trace (Instrumentale) (LongLegs/RCA) PB-50975

Albums
1985 Top Sonart [5-song EP] (LongLegs/RCA) KXL1-9004
1986 Pas De Panique (LongLegs/RCA) KKL1-0578

Compilation Tracks
1988 “Musique” and “Pas De Panique” on [2CD ‘Québec Midem 1988’ (ADISQ – MIDEM-CD-1988-1)

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TOQUE
Brent Fitz (drums, percussion, backing vocals) / Cory Churko (guitar, keyboards, bass, backing vocals) / Shane Gaalaas (drums) / Todd Kerns (lead vocals, bass)
Canadian supergroup initially paying tribute to classic Canadian rock music, the band has since begun shifting to original music.

Singles
2020 When I’m With You [DigiFile] (K’Eh Tel)
2021 Up To You [DigiFile] (K’Eh Tel)
2022 Can’t Stop It [DigiFile] (Toque)
2023 Never Enough For You (Live) [DigiFile] (Toque)
2023 Something For The Pain [DigiFile] (Toque)
2023 Forever In A Day [DigiFile] (Toque)

Albums
2016 Give’r (K’Eh Tel) [no cat#]
2019 Never Enough (K’Eh Tel) 91043

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TORN & FRAYED
Geoff Shaw (lead vocal, guitars, harmonica) / Barry Gibson (drums) / “Nick Danger” Tilman (lead guitar, vocals) / Tom Bruce (bass, vocals) / Lisa Brazeau (backing vocals, percussion) / Jimmy Green (guitar; replaced Tilman)
From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Torn & Frayed – named after the Stones song – were a solid club act who released their own independent three song single in 1980. A debut album, ‘First Legg’, was recorded at Roades Studio after this and they were soon able to license the album to Boot Records and the album was renamed ‘Not Frayed of Nothin’. Tilman soon left the act and was replaced by guitarist Jimmy Green; Green would go on to play in Winnipeg punk at Personality Crisis.

Singles
1980 Sweet Baby J.R./And You Show Well//Through the Past Darkly (Rabid) R.I.P.-86

Albums
1980 First Legg (Rabid Records)
1980 Not Frayed of Nothin’ [aka ‘First Legg’ re-issued] (Boot) BRP-2108

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TORNADO WARNING
Ron Grace (guitar, bass, vocals) / Jeff Surtees (guitar, lap steel, vocals) / Kevin Barrett (keyboards, vocals) / Ron Clemens (guitar, vocals) / Terry Thorsteinson (bass) / Jim Walker (drums) / Brent Burlingham (drums) / Wayne Pearson (drums) / Dave Cummine (drums) / Danny Fehr (bass) / Mike Kraus (bass) / Glen Hollingshead (bass) / Tom Liska (vocals)
Tornado Warning (also called “The Warning”) was a Saskatoon based rock band that existed from 1979 to 1990. The band played clubs from Saskatoon to Vancouver.  The band recorded five songs for radio station CHAB’s ‘Saskatchewan Seeds’ compilation in 1981. Sessions were produced by Tim Thorney. Engineered by Gerry Golla at Studio West. with notes from Jeff Surtees.

Compilation Tracks
1981 “Take It While You Can,” “Better Days To Come,” “Moving On,” “Weekend Cowboys,” and “Sundog” on ‘Saskatchewan Seeds’ (CHAB) CHAB-800

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TORONTO
Anne Elizabeth “Holly” Woods (lead vocals) / Brian Allen (guitar, vocals) / Sheron Alton (guitar; vocals) / Nick Costello (bass) / Scott Kreyer (keyboards) / Jimmy Fox (drums) / Gary Lalonde (bass; replaced Costello) / Barry Connors (drums; replaced Fox) / Mike Gingrich (bass; replaced Lalonde)
North Carolina’s Anne Elizabeth Woods fronted the band Sass before moving to Toronto from San Francisco in the mid-70’s. While in the band Gambler, Woods met Brian Allen of the band Rose in 1977 and did a vocal appearance on the Rose single “Johnny Law” as Annie Woods. Fast forward a year and Woods, now calling herself Holly Woods, teamed up with Allen and his former Rose bandmate Jimmy Fox (drums), Scott Kreyer (keboards) and ex-Centaurus member Nick Costello (bass) who were all originally natives of New York and had played with Woods in different bands over the years. The final addition was guitarist Sheron Alton (Allen’s then-girlfriend). They dubbed the outfit Sass (after Woods’ previous band), but a bar manager changed it to Toronto minutes before the band went on stage. On the recommendation of Brian “Too Loud” McLeod, the Headpins/Chilliwack manager Steve Propas signed them to his fledgling Solid Gold Records label in 1979. Their debut album for Solid Gold in 1980 was ‘Lookin’ For Trouble’ produced by Chilliwack members McLeod and Bill Henderson. Nearly every track on the album was released as a single and the band achieved heavy airplay for “Even The Score”, “Don’t Stop Me” and the title track. A cover of the Young Rascals’ penned “You Better Run” failed to make the impact that the Pat Benatar version would later achieve. Following a national tour the band retired to Rush’s homebase Le Studio in Morin Heights, Québec for their 1981 follow-up album, ‘Head On’, which was equally as strong at the hands of producer Terry Brown. It spawned the singles “Silver Screen” and “Enough Is Enough”. For economic and practical reasons Toronto was paired down to a 4-piece operation with the loss of Costello and Fox. Connors replaced Fox and former Rose bassist Gary Lalonde replaced Costello for the ‘Get It On Credit’ album in 1982. And the hits kept coming with the title track, “Start Tellin’ The Truth”, “Don’t Walk Away” and their breakaway Top-40 hit “Your Daddy Don’t Know”.  1983’s gimmicky 3-D LP ‘Girls Night Out’ (complete with 3-D glasses and different album cover variations) featured ex-Nightwinds bassist Mike Gingrich and additional drum programming and song arrangements by Jim Vallance. The album spawned the hits “All I Need” and “Ready To Make Up”. The Toronto camp split in two in 1984. Alton and Allen left as did Connors (who joined Coney Hatch). Woods carried on as Holly Woods And Toronto featuring new guitarist Marty Walsh and drummer Paul Hanna and released the album ‘Assault & Flattery’. Produced by Mike Flicker (Heart, Al Stewart) with additional production by Brian “Too Loud” McLeod, the album contained another hit with the Holly Knight/Anton Fig penned “New Romance” (originally recorded by Widow) and a solid duet with Headpins singer Darby Mills on “Cats And Dogs (Stealin’)”. With collapse of Solid Gold Records and its sizeable advance from distributor CBS Records already spent, CBS immediately voided their recording deal and recalled 30,000 copies of ‘Assault And Flattery’ from retail. The band’s tour was was cancelled after only the three shows forcing Holly Woods And Toronto to fold. Woods and Kreyer relocated to Atlanta, Georgia to record with producer Sonny Limbo. But Limbo died during the sessions and the material languished in the vaults. The album was remixed and tweaked and released as a Holly Woods solo project in 2007 called ‘Live It Up’ on Cyclone Records. As a bittersweet footnote Alton and Allen’s demo of the Toronto song “What About Love”, originally cut from the ‘Get It On Credit’ sessions, was re-recorded by Heart and went Top-10 in North America in 1985. It was the failure to place this and other songs on Toronto albums that caused them to leave the band in 1984. Brian Allen became head of A & R for Attic Records and now has his own production company; Alton is mostly retired from the music business and is now an home designer; Lalonde would go on to be a founding member of Honeymoon Suite; Kreyer, Fox and Costello relocated to just outside of Rochester, NY in the small community of Canandaigua, New York. Kreyer would return to Canada to work with Holly Woods again on 2007’s ‘Live It Up’ CD which was the completion of an unfinished Toronto album from 1985; in 2003 Costello and Fox collaborated on contemporary Christian music projects and have their own production company. They write and produce music for various Christian recording acts in the US such as Upper Room” among others; In 2011, Holly Woods and a new Toronto line-up was been assembled by former Coney Hatch drummer Barry Connors to tour Canada once more. The All Star band featured guitarist Steve Shelski (Coney Hatch), keyboardist Ray Coburn (Honeymoon Suite), and bassist Daryl Gray (Helix); A current version of Toronto now tours without Holly Woods; Woods tours as a solo artist now, and currently lives in Haw River, North Carolina; In April 2023, Alton, Allen, Woods, and Kreye launched an official Toronto website and issued a disclaimer to say that they were the only official members of the band – and that any musicians performing under the name Toronto are doing so without permission. with notes from Brian Allen, Sheron Alton, George Thatcher, Holly Woods, Gary Lalonde, Jim Fox, Susan Kreyer, Scott Kreyer, and Brad Trew. [also see ROSE]

Singles
1980 Even The Score/Tie Me Down (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-700
1980 Lookin’ For Trouble/Shot Down (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-701
1980 5035/Delirious (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-702
1980 Still Talkin’ About Love/Someone Will Play The Blues (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-708
1980 Enough Is Enough/[same] (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-713
1981 Silver Screen/Head On (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-715
1982 Your Daddy Don’t Know/Run For Your Life (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-719
1982 Start Tellin’ The Truth/Ya Love Ta Love (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-724
1982 Don’t Walk Away/Why Can’t We Talk? (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-728
1982 Get It On Credit/Why Can’t We Talk? (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-732
1983 Girls’ Night Out/Andrea (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-737
1983 All I Need/The Me Generation (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-742
1983 Ready To Make Up/Standing In (Solid Gold/A & M) SGS-743

as HOLLY WOODS & TORONTO
1984 New Romance (It’s A Mystery)/No More Cliches (Solid Gold/CBS) SGS-753

Albums
1980 Lookin’ For Trouble (Solid Gold/A & M) SGR-1000
1981 Head On (Solid Gold/A & M) SGR-1005
1982 Get It On Credit (Solid Gold/A & M) SGR-1011
1983 Girls Night Out (Solid Gold/A & M) SGR-1016
1984 Greatest Hits (Solid Gold/CBS) SGR-1021

as HOLLY WOODS & TORONTO
1984 Assault & Flattery (Solid Gold/CBS) SGR-1024

Compilation Tracks
1981 “Lookin’ For Trouble” on ‘Superstars Salute New Massey Hall’ (CBS/CRIA) CRIA-1
1982 “Start Tellin’ the Truth” on ‘Hit Explosion’ (K-Tel) TC-276
1982 “Your Daddy Don’t Know” on ‘Electric North’ (K-Tel) TC-277
1982 “Your Daddy Don’t Know” on ‘Blastoff’ (K-Tel) TC-284
1997 “Even the Score” on ‘Contact 4: Overtime’ (Attic) ACD-1494
2001 “Your Daddy Don’t Know” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 2: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (CMC) 0885

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TOTE FAMILY
Jim Norris (drums, vocals) / Fred Cacciotti  (guitar) / Steve Malison / Ray Chaput / Doug Varty (keyboards, vocals) / Mike Argue (guitar, vocals) / Mark Corbin (bass, vocals) 
Originally known as Taxi, this Sudbury-based band moved to Toronto in 1968 and were signed to the Apex label later that year where they changed their name to The Tote Family. They released the single “Alright Mama” in 1969, but failure to chart led to a change in labels, this time with Yorkville where they released “Right Girl” later that year. Success eluded the band and members began leaving for greener pastures – Cacciotti went on to join Homestead, Malison became a digital engineering instructor at Fanshawe College. The final version of the group featuring Norris, Varty, Argue and Corbin would rename themselves SeaDog where they had much greater success. with notes from Doug Varty. [also see TAXI (1), SEA DOG]

Singles
1969 Alright Mama/Leave Me Be (Apex) 77103  
1969 Right Girl/Miles Miles Miles (Yorkville) YVS-45024

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TOTH, Carmen
Carmen Toth was born in Montreal and raised in Fredericton, St. Catharines, St. John’s – where she honed her singing skills in two choirs – and Mississauga. A resident of Toronto since 2001, singer-songwriter musician Toth arrived on the Toronto music scene at an open mic in 2002. Her debut solo EP, ‘Potional,’ was released in 2004. She played the Ontario circuit continuously as a solo artist and in the duo Social Potion with drummer Aaron Jones. They would release a self-titled EP in 2011. In 2016, Toth landed her first ever two-month residency as open mic host at Toronto’s Grover Pub. In 2017, she played the legendary Horseshoe Tavern for the first time, participated in Guinness World Records, record-breaking ‘The longest concert by multiple artists’ event at The Earl of Whitchurch in Ontario and had a six-month monthly residency at The Beach House in Toronto’s east-end (September 2017 to February 2018) She also released a holiday single in 2017 called “This Christmas I’m Giving You Love.” This was followed by her debut EP entitled ‘Safety Net’ in 2018. It was produced by JUNO award-winning producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Derek Downham. Having played NXNE with Social Potion in 2013, Toth scored her own NXNE showcase in 2018 at Cherry Cola’s, and in March 2018, she played a sold-out EP release show at The Paddock Tavern. Toth also played VIA Rail’s national ‘Artists on Board’ program through August and September 2018, travelling to Montreal and Halifax for her first ever east coast tour. with notes from Carmen Toth.

Singles
2017 This Christmas I’m Giving You Love [DigiFile] (independent)

Albums
2017 Safety Net [6-song EP] (independent)
2023 Fix The World (independent)

with SOCIAL POTION
2011 Social Potion [5-song EP] (independent)

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TOUBABOU
Michel Seguin (percussion) / Lise Cousineau (vocals) / Robert Stanley (guitar; 1974-1975) / Michel Dion (bass; 1974-1975) / Yvan Ouellet (keyboards; 1974-1975) / Denis Farmer (drums; 1974-1975) / George Rodriguez (drums; 1975-1977) / Gerry Labelle (flute, saxophone; 1975) / Peter Kisilenko (bass; 1975-1977) / Fred Henke (piano, saxophone; 1975-1977) / Rawn Bankley (guitar; 1975-1977); Marcel Huot (drums; 1975-1977)
From Montreal, Québec; Toubabou was formed in 1974. They released two albums and split up in 1977; Seguin, Cousineau and Ouellet all went on to solo careers.

Albums
1974 Le blé et le mil (Kot’ai) KOT-3305
1975 Attente (Barclay) 80222

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TOUCHÉ
Nancy Nash (vocals) / Rosalind Keene (vocals) / Mary Saxton (vocals)
West Coast disco studio ‘supergroup’; Nash and Saxton would go on to have successful solo careers. [also see NANCY NASH, MARY SAXTON]

Singles
1979 Take a Look (But Don’t Touch)/ Nightrider (Magnum) 1242-8801

Albums
1979 Touché (Magnum) 9242-2002

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TOULOUSE
Mary Lou Gauthier (vocals; 1976) / Heather Gauthier (vocals) / Judi Richards (vocals) / Lorri Zimmerman (vocals; replaced Mary Lou Gauthier) / Liette Lomez (vocals; 1979-1986)
Montreal’s Toulouse were a trio of studio backing vocalists who decided to team up as a group in 1975. Following the release of their self-titled debut in 1976, Mary Lou Gauthier was replaced by Zimmerman Their first single, the French hit “It Always Happens This Way (C’est toujours à recommencer)”, only contained two lines in English but managed to chart outside of Québec. In April 1977 it reached No.39 on RPM Top Singles Chart and No.29 on the CHUM Chart. They were the first bilingual disco who comfortably sang in English and French. With the cross-over potential of the debut, the act re-released the LP in 1977 with all the vocals re-recorded in English for the American market. This move proved successful as the act had subsequent hits in the US including “A.P.B” which also managed to chart on the Canadian east – reaching No.1 on several radio stations. Lomez was added in 1979 when the group signed with CBS Records. Their next, and final, album was ‘Trois Dimensions’ in 1981; Liette Lomez, died on November 17, 2014 from cancer at the age of 61. [also see MARY LOU GAUTHIER, CELINE ET LIETTE, LIETTE ET FRANCOIS, LORRI ZIMMERMAN]

Singles
1977 It Always Happens This Way (C’est toujours à recommencer)/On A Rien A Perdre (Magique/Umbrella) MAG-10
1977 A.P.B./Tonight I Feel Like Dancin’ (Magique/Parapluie) MAG-11
1977 What Would My Mama Say/Tonite I Feel Like Dancin’ (Magique) MAG-12
1977 What Would My Mama Say/Tonite I Feel Like Dancin’ [12″] (Magique) DS-45102
1978 Lindbergh II/Lindbergh II (Instrumental) (Magique) M-3803
1978 365 Jours D’amour/Ca Peut Arriver (Magique) M-3806
1978 Prends-moi Je Veux T’aimer/Trop Tard (Magique) M-3811
1978 Don’t Play With My Heart/Catch The First Thing Smoking (Magique) M-3813
1978 Comme La Lumiere/Tetes En Amour (Magique) M-3814
1979 Funkystation/Je Suis Libre (Magique) M-3815
1979 Je N’ai Jamais Pense/Sans Toi (Magique) MX-3817
1979 Hotesse De L’air/Tout Bas Tout Doux (CBS) C5-4236
1980 Rock My Love/Boogieman (CBS) C5-4242
1980 11 A.M. ‘n Rainin’/Dancin’ Shoes (CBS) C5-4251
1981 Tendre Doux/Trois Dimensions (CBS) C5-4278

as TOULOUSE with ROBERT CHARLEBOUS
1981 Que c’est, que c’est ?/Au bout de mes rêves (CBS) C5-4287

Albums
1976 Toulouse (Magique) M-7601
1977 Export (Magique) M-7603
1978 Taxi pour une nuit blanche (Magique) M-7605
1980 Dangerous Ladies (CBS) PFC-80036
1981 Trois dimensions (CBS) PFC-80053
1993 Best of Toulouse (Unidisc) AGEK-2018

as TOULOUSE & BOULE NOIRE
1977 Potion Magique (Magique) M-7604

Compilation Tracks
1977 “It Always Happens This Way” on ‘Star Power’ (K-Tel) TC-245
1977 “A.P.B.” on ‘Music Magic’ (K-Tel) T-246
1977 “What Would My Mama Say” on ‘The Hot Ones’ (K-Tel) TC-247

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TOWER BRIDGE
Dave Barker (lead vocals, bass) / Lynn “Switch” Smallwood (lead vocals, lead guitar) / Mark Fletcher (keyboards, backing vocals) / Bruce Seat (drums) / Lambros Tsiandos (drums; 1987) / Rick Chaharyn (keyboards, backing vocals; 1987) / Rick Halisheff (lead guitar, backing vocals; 1987)
Music vehicle for Dave Barker who passed away in 1988.

Singles
1986 Perfection/Out Of My Mind Girl (Barkfish) JD-5026
1987 Into Your Heart/Rock And Roll Pt.III (T.A.R.) JD-5027

Albums
1985 Out Of My Mind [4-song EP] (Barkfish) JD-5025

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TOWNSMEN, The
Frank Morrison (vocals) / Andy Legault (guitar, vocals) / Wayne Leslie (bass, vocals) / David Milliken (guitar) / Paul Huot (drums, vocals) / Gary Comeau (guitar) / John Baccho (guitar, vocals) / Buddy Stanton (keyboards) / Greg McGhee (drums, replaced Huot) / Scott Cushnie (keyboards, replaced Stanton) / Jack Arsenault (keyboards, replaced Cushnie) / Jim McIntyre (guitar, vocals) / Lachlan MacFadyen (guitar, vocals)
The Townsmen came together in a twist of happenstance following the break-up of Ottawa’s Esquires. Dave Milliken of burgeoning Ottawa dance hall act The Darnels received a call from The Esquires’ drummer Paul Huot wondering if he, or other members of the Darnels, would care to join Huot and Esquires guitarist Andy Legault in a new band. Darnels’ guitarist Milliken, bassist Wayne Leslie and vocalist Frank Morrison jumped at the chance and The Townsmen were born.  The group went into seclusion and rehearsed for 3 months solid – taking a 5-night a week gig at The Coral Reef Club until emerging with manager Sandy Gardner (The Esquires, The Staccatos) and a record deal with Regency Records. Gardner searched for repertoire that the band could record — mainly picking British records that had not made the charts in Canada. He also tapped Les Emmerson and Vern Craig (The Staccatos, Five Man Electrical Band) to write exclusive material for Frank Morrison and Andy Legault’s voices. To that end, the duo wrote the band’s first single “I’m Such A Dreamer” while the B-side (“Take A Heart”) was taken from a 1965 single by The Sorrows. Their first gig was opening for The Staccatos and M.G. And The Escorts at the Ottawa Coliseum for 3,000 people. The band’s first single, “I’m A Dreamer” (1966), was on its way to No. 18 on the national chart at the time. A national tour followed opening for many of America’s top acts at the time – The McCoys, Gary Lewis And The Playboys and The Young Rascals. By the end of 1966 there was a line-up change with the addition of Bacho and Stanton and the band released more singles. The band had a succession of moderately received singles from 1967 thru 1969 before the band finally packed it in. The band reunited in 1987 for a one-off Ottawa charity gig; Most of the members went on to careers outside of music. Legault unfortunately, passed away; Mouse Hole Music in Ottawa released a comprehensive 2-CD set of all the band’s recordings in 2006 called ‘We’re Doing Fine’; David Milliken died August 3, 2017; Lachlan MacFadyen died December 28, 2014.  with notes from Frank Morrison, Gary Comeau, Ian McLeish, and David Sampson.

Singles
1966 I’m Such A Dreamer/Take A Heart (Regency) R-963
1966 Funny How Love Can Be/Heaven In The Middle of Town (Regency) R-970
1967 The Lion Sleeps Tonight/We’re Doing Fine (Regency) R-973
1967 He’s In Town/Back Yards (Regency) R-975
1968 Rocking Chair/The Jar (Polydor) 540-008
1987 Wind’s Blowin’ Diamonds Tonight/I Can’t Find My Way Home (Ottawa) OR-4201

Albums
2006 We’re Doing Fine – The Anthology (Mouse Hole/Olde CD) CD-2006.8/9

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TRACY KANE
Darryl Gray (bass, keyboards, vocals) / Alton “LT” Lawson (guitar,  vocals) / Kevin McDowell (guitar,  vocals) / Mario Musso (drums, vocals) / Paula Tessaro (co-lead vocals) / Ray Lyell (bass, vocals; replaced Gray 1983) / Dave Kristanovic (guitar; replaced Lawson 1983) / Mike McDowell (drums; replaced Musso 1983) / Leo Neibudek (drums; replaced M.McDowell 1984) / Dave Kristan (guitar; 1984)
Tracy Kane was formed in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1979 out of the ashes of the band Anthym. They chose their name from a misprint of the names ‘Spencer Tracey’ and ‘Carol Kane’ in a TV Guide magazine. The group spent the next few years honing their skills coast to coast on the Canadian bar circuit. Tracy Kane was signed to William Seip Management, the home of fellow indie act Helix, and in the fall of 1982 their self titled 12″ EP was released on H & S Records. After a successful tour of Texas, Musso was replaced on drums in early 1983 by Michael McDowell (Kevin McDowell’s younger brother) and Hamilton vocalist Paula Tessaro was added to the group in a co-fronting position. In July 1983 Gray and Lawson also departed the group and were replaced by Ray Lyell (bass) and Dave Kristanovic (guitar). After a short stint with his own band Nightline, Gray filled the empty bass position in Helix in January 1984. In early 1984 Michael McDowell was replaced on drums by Leo Neibudek (formerly of Helix, Robbie Roxx and Nightline) and after several months with this line-up the group split up;  Lyell began a solo and writing career. Tessaro and Kristanovic started the band Ta-She. Tessaro would later resurface in Ray Lyell’s backing group The Storm along with Dave Kristan; The McDowell brothers went on to work with Niagara songwriter and performer Rick Rose and would later form an acoustic based rock duo called McRhea which would release their debut CD ‘Smoking Can Kill You’ in 1997 which was co-produced by Daryl Gray; Gray would also co-produce and play on “Take This Heart” by Ray Lyell along with fellow Helix member Brent Doerner and frequently played in Lyell’s live band in the 1990’s. with notes from Darryl Gray.

Albums
1982 Tracy Kane [5-song EP] (H & S) HS-111

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TRAGICALLY HIP, The
Gordon Downie (lead vocals) / Paul Langlois (rhythm guitar) / Bobby Baker (lead guitar) / Gord Sinclair (bass) / Johnny Fay (drums)
Originally from the penitentiary town of Kingston, Ontario, The Tragically Hip started playing together with the current, unchanged line-up, in 1983. They chose their name from a skit in the cult classic ‘Elephant Parts’ movie by Michael Nesmith (ex-The Monkees). They toured the rigorous southern Ontario club scene before coming to the attention of MCA Records’ then president Bruce Dickinson who was sufficiently impressed with their performance at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern to sign them to a long-term record deal. Their 1987 eponymous debut EP went completely unnoticed despite the airplay of their first single “Smalltown Bringdown”, but their 1989 follow-up ‘Up To Here’ featured their first breakthrough with two hit singles “Blow At High Dough” and “New Orleans Is Sinking” firmly establishing The Tragically Hips presence on the Canadian music scene. 1991’s ‘Road Apples’ made The Hip a household name with its Don Smith produced slick and jangly catchiness. Three hit singles put the band on the map and they were able to tour Australia where they released a special single for that market with “Twist My Arm”. 1992 saw a quick follow up with the solid ‘Fully Completely’ and the radio/video staples “Locked In The Trunk of a Car” at which time they launched the first of their annual ‘Another Roadside Attraction’ touring sideshows. The festival attracts thousands per city appearance and features the added bonus of dozens of additional acts both from Canada and abroad. Two more singles kept their live momentum rolling with “Courage” and “At the 100th Meridian” at which time they slowed down to record the next album – ‘Day For Night’. Despite all their success, the American market was an elusive dream. The band did sign a US deal through Atlantic to see their album released south of the border, but supporting tours were merely hit and run affairs with the label unwilling to invest in a definitive marketing plan to get the Hip known to the American public. During their tour for ‘Trouble At The Henhouse”, they recorded their show at Cobo Hall Arena-Detroit, Michigan in 1996, the result being “Live Between Us”. The album came out in 1997 and was released, as usual, on Universal in Canada, but their previous distributor, Atlantic US weren’t interested in handling the USA, so the band has been handling their own distribution stateside. The summer of 1998 saw the release of their 8th full-length album called ‘Phantom Power’ which produced five singles including the hit “Bobcaygeon”. It won two JUNO Awards for ‘Best Rock Album’ and ‘Best Album Design’ in 1999. In 2000 the band released ‘Music @ Work’ which reached No. 2 of the Canadian Billboard album chart. It went on to win the 2001 JUNO Award for ‘Best Rock Album. ‘Violet Light’ followed in 2001 and spawned three singles eventually selling platinum in Canada. The Tragically Hip were part of the Queen Elizabeth II Command Performance in October 2002. Their 2004 album release was ‘In Between Evolution’ which reached No. 1 in Canada and sold over 100,000 copies. They also performed at the 92nd Grey Cup halftime show at Frank Clair Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario. Following the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina across the United States Gulf Coast in September 2005, radio stations temporarily stopped playing “New Orleans Is Sinking” in respect to those who lost their lives. Later that year The Tragically Hip released a double CD, double DVD box set entitled ‘Hipeponymous’ which included singles, music videos, the backstage documentary ‘Macroscopic’, the animated film entitled ‘The Right Whale’, two new songs, a live concert entitled ‘That Night in Toronto’, and a 2-CD greatest hits collection entitled ‘Yer Favourites’. The concert and hits collection were also released individually. Grammy Award winning producer Bob Rock produced 2006’s ‘World Container’ which produced four singles, and peaked at No. 1 on the Canadian Rock Music charts. The band opened select tour dates for The Who in the US and they then toured Eastern Canada, Europe, and several more cities in the US. In 2009, Bob Rock returned to the production chair for ‘We Are the Same’. It spawned three singles. George Stroumboulopoulos of CBC-TV’s ‘The Hour’ interviewed the band at their Bath, Ontario recording studio. The interview and a performance of 12 songs were broadcast live in more than eighty movie theatres across Canada. In January 2010, the band performed at the ‘Canada for Haiti Telethon’ to aid Haitian earthquake victims. For their 2012 Gavin Brown produced album release ‘Now For Plan A’, The Tragically Hip played 4 days of street-front matinee shows in Toronto’s Kensington Market in the front window of the Supermarket Club; on May 24, 2016 the Tragically Hip announced they would be playing one last tour as singer Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in December of 2015. The band’s final show was in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario, August 20, 2016. Gord Downie passed away October 17, 2017; Gord Sinclair and Paul Langlois have both pursued solo careers in recent years.

Singles
1987 Last American Exit/I’m A Werewolf Baby (RCA) PB-50994
1987 Smalltown Bringdown/Last American Exit (MCA) MCA-1363
1989 New Orleans Is Sinking/Trickle Down [7″] (MCA – US) CD45-18105
1989 Blow At High Dough (MCA – US) CD45-17901
1989 New Orleans Is Sinking (MCA – US) CD45-18105
1990 Boots or Hearts/I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight) [cassingle] (MCA) MCAC-53797
1990 38 Years Old (MCA) MCAD-9016
1991 Cordelia/Twist My Arm (Live)/New Orleans Is Sinking (Live) (MCA – Europe) MCD-17812
1991 Little Bones (MCA) MCAD-9107
1991 Twist My Arm/Highway Girl (Live) (MCA) MCAD-9145
1991 Long Time Running/New Orleans Is Sinking (Live) (MCA) MCAD-9176
1991 Three Pistols (MCA – US) CD45-1270
1992 Locked In The Trunk of a Car (MCA) MCADS-9266
1992 Courage (MCA – US) MCA5P-2499
1993 At the Hundredth Meridian (MCA – Australia) MCD-30307
1993 Looking For a Place To Happen (MCA) MCADS-9339
1994 Grace, Too (MCA) MCADS-9471
1994 Greasy Jungle (MCA) MCADS-9479
1995 Nautical Disaster (MCA) MCADS-9509
1995 So Hard Done By (MCA) MCADS-9538
1995 Scared (MCA) MCADS-9573
1996 Ahead By A Century (MCA) MCADS 9637
1996 Ahead By A Century/Put It Off (MCA – Europe) MCD 81014
1996 Gift Shop (MCA) MCADS-9659
1997 Flamenco/Flamenco (Live) (MCA) MCADS-96118
1997 Springtime In Vienna (MCA/Universal) UMDS-9773
1997 Don’t Wake Daddy (Universal) UMDS-97117
1998 Something On (Universal) UMDS-98152
1998 Vapour Trails (Universal) UMDS-98190
1998 Fireworks/Fireworks (Clean Version) (Universal) UMDS-98202
1998 Poets (Universal) UMDS-9893
1999 Bobcaygeon (Universal) UMDS-9905
2000 My Music @ Work (Universal) UMCR-4084-2
2000 Lake Fever (Universal) UMCR-4159-2
2001 Freak Turbulence (Universal) UMCR-4254-2
2002 It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken (Album Version)/It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken (Radio Edit) (Universal) UMCR-04757-2
2002 Silver Jet (Universal) UMCR-04846-2
2003 The Darkest One (Universal) UMCR-04960-2
2004 Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park [DigiFile] (Universal)
2004 Vaccination Scar (Universal) UMCR-05217-2
2004 It Can’t Be Nashville Every Night (Universal) UMCR-05273-2
2005 No Threat/Poets (Live From ‘That Night In Toronto’) (Universal) UMCR-05542-2
2006 Twist My Arm/No Threat (Universal – Europe)
2006 In View (Universal) UMCR-05684-2
2006 Yer Not the Ocean (Universal) UMCR-05787-2
2009 Morning Moon (Zoë – US) 0114311292-PSI01
2009 Love Is a First/The Last Recluse [DigiFile] (Universal)
2012 At Transformation [DigiFile] (MapleMusic/Universal)
2014 Radio Show [DigiFile] (MapleMusic/Universal)
2016 Tired As Fuck/At The Hundredth Meridian (US Radio Version) [7″] (Universal) 0255716843
2016 In A World Possessed By The Human Mind [DigiFile] (Caroline International)
2021 Montréal/It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken [featuring FEIST] [2×7″ s/sided Flexi-Disc] (Universal) 4500610
2021 Ouch (Studio Version)/Ouch (Live From Hengelo, NL) [12″] (Universal) 3844808
2023 Bumblebee [DigiFile] (Universal)

with CRASH VEGAS, DANIEL LANOIS, MIDNIGHT OIL, TRAGICALLY HIP
1993 Introduction/Land (Single Version)/Land (Full Length Version) (Cargo) CARCD-703

with SARAH HARMER with THE TRAGICALLY HIP
2002 Silver Road (Cold Snap/Universal) UMCR 4644-2

Albums
1987 The Tragically Hip (MCA) MCA-39116
1989 Up To Here (MCA) MCA-6310
1991 Road Apples (MCA) MCAD-10173
1992 Fully Completely (MCA) MCAD-10700
1994 Day For Night (Universal) MCD-11140
1996 Trouble At the Henhouse (Universal) MCD-81011
1997 Live Between Us (Universal) UMD-81055
1998 Phantom Power (Universal) UMD-81083
1999 1989-1999 (Sire -US) PRO-70024-2
2000 Music @ Work (Universal) 215900
2002 In Violet Light (Universal) 182572
2004 In Between Evolution (Universal) 143106
2004 Beautiful Things (Peermusic – US) 4030883
2004 Hip Live Series – Vol.1 – Molson Amphitheatre – Toronto, ON – July 1, 2004 [DigiFile] (Tragically Hip)
2004 Hip Live Series – Vol. 2 – John Labatt Centre – London, ON – Nov. 27, 2004 [DigiFile] (Tragically Hip)
2004 Hip Live Series – Vol. 3 – Civic Center – Ottawa, ON – Nov. 28, 2004 [DigiFile] (Tragically Hip)
2005 Yer Favourites [2CD] (Universal Music) 0249884291
2005 Hipeponymous [2CD] (Universal Music) 0249884292
2006 World Container (Universal) 170558
2008 Live From The Vault – Vol. 1 – Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Feb. 2, 1995
2008 Live From The Vault – Vol. 2 – Stubb’s BBQ, Austin, Texas, Oct. 26, 2002 [DigiFile] (Tragically Hip)
2008 Live From The Vault – Vol. 3 – Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario, Feb. 6, 2007 [DigiFile] (Tragically Hip)
2008 Live From The Vault – Vol. 4 – La Luna, Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 5, 1994 [DigiFile] (Tragically Hip)
2009 We Are the Same (Universal) 179899
2009 Live From The Vault – Vol. 5 – Avalon, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 6, 2004 [DigiFile] (Tragically Hip)
2009 Live From The Vault – Vol. 6 – Odeon, Cleveland, OH, Aug. 17, 1996 [DigiFile] (Tragically Hip)
2012 Now For Plan A (MapleMusic/Universal) 0114311512
2016 Man Machine Poem (Universal) 0254765442
2017 The Complete Collection 1987-2016 [21LP] (Universal) 0255706562
2021 Saskadelphia [6-song EP] (Universal) 3576897
2022 Live At The Roxy (Universal) 4517761

Compilation Tracks
1995 “Nautical Disaster” on ‘New Voices Vol. 1’ (Rolling Stone – GER) 06/1995
1998 “Emergency” [w/SARAH MCLACHLAN] on ’30 Hour Famine’ (Nettwerk) W2-30126
1996 “New Orleans Is Sinking” on ‘Oh What a Feeling: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (MCA) JUNO-25
2001 “Ahead By a Century” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 2: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (CMC) 0885
2003 “Black Day In July” on ‘Beautiful – A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot’ (Borealis) BCDN-BM500
2006 “Bobcaygeon” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 3 – Juno Awards: Celebrating 35 Years of the Best in Canadian Music’ (EMI) 59829

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TRAIN
Jim Jenkinson (lead vocals, guitar) / Larry Blair (bass, vocals) / Dave Herrington (keyboards, vocals) / Louis Pretile (drums)
With notes from Jim Jenkinson.

Singles
1971 On the Road/I’ve Had It (Vintage) SCV-1175

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TRAIN GANG
Mike Greger (bass) / Neil Haron (harmonica) / Roy Sluiter (vocals, guitar)

Singles
1979 Mississauga Mishap/Come’th The Knight (Newport) WRC3-1026

Compilation Tracks
1980 “Mississauga Mishap (Part I),” “Mississauga Mishap (Part II),” “Mississauga Mishap (Part III),” and “Mississauga Mishap (Part IV),”
on ‘Mississauga “Live”‘ (Ratz) LP-33002

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TRANQUILLITY BASE
Ian Thomas (guitar, vocals) / Oliver McLeod (guitar, vocals) / Nora Hutchinson (vocals) / Bob Doidge (bass) / Nancy Ward (recorder, keyboards) / Steve Hogg (bass; replaced Doidge) / Nick Urech (bass; replaced Hogg)
In the mid’60’s Ian Thomas formed the Dundas, Ontario, folk trio Ian, Oliver and Nora, featuring Oliver McLeod and Nora Hutchinson. By the end of the ’60’s they were joined by Doidge and Ward and called themselves Tranquillity Base. The band would record two singles for RCA – “If You’re Lookin'” (produced by Bill Misener) which went Top30 in Canada, and “In the Rain”, which did not fair as well. The band was best remembered for their phenomenal vocal abilities and often performed with the Edmonton Symphony and The Hamilton Philharmonic. They split up in the early ’70’s after an album they recorded failed to impress RCA, and remains unreleased to this day; Ian Thomas would go on to have a lucrative solo career and become a prominent songwriter for such acts a Santana, America, and Manfred Mann. He joined critically acclaimed The Boomers in the 1990’s and is currently president of the Songwriter’s Association of Canada. His brother is actor and comedian Dave Thomas, a.k.a. Doug McKenzie; Bob Doidge would join the Live It Up Band and even released a solo album. He would become a primary engineer/producer at Daniel and Bob Lanois’ Grant Avenue recording studio in Hamilton; Nancy Ward has continued on as a solo artist. [also see IAN THOMAS, NANCY WARD]

Singles
1970 If You’re Lookin’/Fun (RCA) 74-0330
1970 In The Rain/Day Is Over (RCA) 75-1033

Compilation Tracks
1990 “If You’re Lookin'” on ‘Made In Canada – Volume Two: Into The ’70’s’ (BMG) KCD1-7157

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TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAYMEN
Moe Berg / Chris Murphy / Craig Northey / Steven Page
A Canadian supergroup featuring members of The Pursuit Of Happiness, Sloan, The Odds, and Barenaked Ladies.

Single
2023 Tonite Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love [DigiFile] (Pheromone)

Albums
2023 Explosive Hits Vol. 1 (Pheromone)

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TRANS X
Pascal Languirand (all instruments) / Laurie Gill (vocals;  studio 1983-1986) / Lady D (“vocals”; TV 1987-1994) / Lali (vocals; live 1994-2008) / Cerstin “Cessy” Strecker (vocals; studio 2006) / Corina Lawrence (vocals; 2008-present)
Trans-X is a studio project created by Montreal, Québec’s Pascal Languirand who has used various vocalists to sing his synth-dance productions. Laurie Gill sang lead on the first few Trans-X albums ‘Message On the Radio’ (1983) and ‘Living On Video’ (1986). In 1987 Languirand and his wife, Denise (aka Lady D) relocated to Los Angeles where she lip-synced to Gill’s voice on TV shows. In 1994, Languirand then moved to Barcelona, Spain where he met a Catalan model/vocalist named Lali who performed in a live version of Trans-X starting in 1994. In 2006, Cerstin “Cessy” Strecker was brought in to sing on a remake of “Living On Video” but did not perform live. Languirand began using singer Corina Lawrence in a revamped live/studio version of Trans-X in 2008.

Singles
1983 Message On The Radio/Nitelife [12″] (Matra) 12MA-038
1983 Vivre Sur Vidéo/Digital World (Illusion) ILL-705
1983 Vivre Sur Vidéo/Living On Video [12″] (Illusion) 12IL-1301
1983 3-D Dance/3-D Dance (Instrumental) [12″] (Matra) 12MA-034
1983 3-D Dance/Message On the Radio [4 song 12″] (Matra) CDN-124
1985 Living On Video/Digital World (Image/Matra) 7MAG-704
1985 Living On Video (’85 Mix)/Living On Video (Dub Mix) [12″] (Image/Matra) 12MA-052
1986 Ich Liebe Dich (I Love You)//Ich Liebe Dich (I Love You) (Radio Version)/Ich Liebe Dich (I Love You) (Instrumental) [12″] (Matra) 12MA-1200
1986 Ich Liebe Dich (I Love You)/Something’s In The Air (Image/Matra) 7MAG-705
1986 Monkey Dance/Hey Boy Get It Right [12″] (Image/Matra) 12MA-1202
1986 Monkey Dance/Hey Boy Get It Right (Image/Matra) 7MAG-708
1988 Maria/Dreams I Have Had (Image/Matra) 7MAG-711
1995 To Be…Or Not To Be (Extended Mix)/To Be…Or Not To Be (Instrumental)/To Be… Or Not To Be (Radio Version) [12″] (Picap – SPAIN) 50-0027
1995 A New Life On Video (The Remixes) [5-song 12″] (Quality Madrid – SPAIN) QR-168
2001 I Feel The Passion (Remix) [5 remixes] (Dee-Jay – SPAIN) CDS-172
2010 I Want To Be With You Tonight (Extended Version)/How Long Last Love (Extended Version) (Energy Level – ITALY) EL-005

Albums
1983 Message On the Radio (Matra) MLP-010
1986 Living On Video (Image/Matra/Epic) MLP-016
1988 On My Own (Image/Unidisc) AGE-2006
1995 Trans-X’Xcess (Picap – SPAIN) 90-0063
2001 010101 (Dee-Jay – SPAIN) CD-8142
2003 The Drag-Matic Album (EQ Music/Blanco Y Negro – SINGAPORE) EA-70296
2010 V.S.O.P – The Genuine Recordings From 1994 To 2004 (Oniria International – US) 769076
2012 HI-NRG [DigiFile] (LOV/RECS – MEXICO)

Compilation Tracks
1983 “Vivre sure video” on ‘Humpty Dumpty Rock Music Album’ (Columbia Special Products) CSPS-2342
2000 “Living On Video” on ‘Frosh Eighties’ (Universal) 456025

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TRANSISTOR SOUND & LIGHTING CO.
Jason Churko (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals) / Dino D’Ottavio (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals) / Marty Kinack (drums, keyboards, vocals) / Marcy (second bass, vocals; live only)
Transistor Sound & Lighting Co. was formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1996. With a noteworthy live show and popular early demos the band attracted ViK Recordings who signed them that year. An EP was released in 1996 and a self-titled full-length album followed in 1998. They toured in August 1998 with By Divine Right throughout Southern Ontario. They also played a high profile opening gig with Cracker at Lee’s Palace in Toronto. Emm Gryner was a fan and used them as her backing band on her radio hit “Summerlong” and the song ‘Phonecall 45’ on her major label debut album ‘Public’. Both songs were also released on an Emm Gryner 12″ single. Vik Recordings would eventually restructure during the merging of their parent company BMG with SONY Music and the band’s record deal was not renewed. The group disbanded in 2000.

Singles
1996 Prince Vince/Fast Bus Driver (Makes My Auto Obsolete)//Puddle Cloud, Love Song [7″ purple] (ViK/BMG) 74321-42659-7
1998 Anyways/Mayonnaise (ViK/BMG) KCDP-515145

Albums
1996 Transistor Sound & Lighting Co. [5-song EP] (ViK/BMG) 74321-42660-2
1998 Transistor Sound & Lighting Co. (ViK/BMG) 74321-51396-2

Collaboration Tracks
with EMM GRYNER
1998 Summerlong/Phonecall 45 [7″] (Mercury) MELP-192

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TRANS LOVE AIRWAYS
Steve Banks (vocals, guitar) / Kimi Tallman (bass) / Kenn Bannerman (guitar) / James van Bolhuis (drums)
From Toronto, Ontario.

Singles
1996 Macadamia Man/[split w/GRANNY] [7″] (independent) [no cat. #]

Albums
1995 Beautiful Garage (Trans Love Airways) TLA-2000

Compilation Tracks
1994 “I Think The World Is Coming True” on ‘Elvis Monday Vol. 1’ (Kinetic) KRD-919
1997 “Lemons Fr Everyone” on ‘Animal Magnetism’ (Animal Alliance Of Canada) [no cat.#]

with IT’S PATRICK! With TRANS LOVE AIRWAYS
1994 “City Of Light” on ‘Point North Music Compilation’ (Point North Music Network) PNMN-0003

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TRAPPER
Emm Gryner (vocals) / Sean Kelly (guitar) / Frank Gryner (guitar) / Jordan Kern (bass) / Tim Timleck (drums)
Part-time rock project by singer Emm Gryner (David Bowie) and guitarist Sean Kelly (Crash Kelly/Gilby Clarke/Lee Aaron). With notes from Sean Kelly. [also see EMM GRYNER]

Singles
2014 Grand Bender/The Warrior [cassette] (Dead Daisy) DDR-705

Albums
2015 Go For the Heart [5-song EP] (Dead Daisy)

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TRAPT, The
Aidan Girt (drums)
From Ottawa, Ontario; Girt would go on to join Godspeed You Black Emperor and records solo material under the name 1-Speed Bike.

Singles
1989 A Minute Late…A Dollar Short [4-song 7” EP] (Trashtone Sound Products) WRC5-6071

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TRAVELLERS, The
Jerry Gray (lead vocals, banjo) / Sid Dolgay (mandolin, cello; 1953-1964) / Helen Gray (vocals; 1953-1954) / Jerry Goodis (vocals; 1953-1969) / Ray Woodley (guitar; 1961) / Oscar Ross (vocals; 1953-1955) / Simone Cook [aka Johnston] (vocals; 1954-1968) / Marty Meslin (vocals; 1955-1957) / Jack Lander (bass; 1958-1963) / Joe Hampson (bass; replaced Dolgay in 1964) / Ted Roberts (guitar; 1964-1971) / Don Vickery (drums; 1972) / Pam Fernie (vocals; 1969-1974) / Aileen Ahearn (vocals; 1974)
The Travellers are a Canadian institution and have been together in one form or another since 1952. The founding members were originally singers in the United Jewish Peoples Order and were encouraged to become a folk act by the legendary Pete Seeger himself. Their auspicious debut was a performance at the Chelsea Club in Toronto and by 1954 were making television appearances on CBC’s ‘Haunted Studio’. In 1956 they were finalists in CBC-TV’s ‘Pick The Stars’ and recorded their first album, ‘Across Canada With The Travellers’, in 1957 1961 saw them appearing at the very first Mariposa Folk Festival and touring with the likes of Jacques Labrecque. In 1962 they performed 19 concerts called ‘A Musical Tour Of Canada’ in the former Soviet Union. A 1963 tour also followed with a Royal Command Performance in Charlottetown. The British Royalty visiting were so impressed that the UK had them go over in 1964. Around this time Sid Dolgay was replaced by American Joe Lawrence (husband of Sharon, Lois & Bram’s Sharon Hampson) who reverted back to his real name of Hampson upon joining the band. Ted Roberts, guitar and vocals joined shortly after as accompanist, then musical director, then an equal and important front line member after Ray Woodley’s departure. 1967 was quite prolific with two albums under their belts including a memorial album for Expo ’67. They also toured 100 dates across Canada including jaunts into the Northwest Territories and The Peace River District of Alberta. As the ’60’s progressed they began adding more children’s material and concerts to their agenda. 1970 was particularly notable in that they went to Japan for Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan and entertained Japan’s Royal Family. They recorded their last album at this point as the band’s membership began to change 1971 saw tours for Canadian peacekeepers in Germany and Cyprus with a return visit in 1972 but began reducing their appearances gradually with occasional conventions and children’s shows in the late ’70’. In 1974 Aileen Ahearn (sister of Brian and Nancy), joined the group to replace Pam Fernie and the act has remained unchanged since that time with the occasional return of Sid Dolgay on mandocello. In 1979, the act recorded a new album – ‘Merry-Go-Round’ – for Sharon, Lois & Bram’s Elephant label and produced by Bill Usher. It was nominated for a JUNO Award in 1980. with notes from Joe Hampson, James Allen Gray, and Molten Core.

Singles
1959 This Land Is Your Land/Making Hay (Hallmark) 45-CS-7
1960 Sinner Man/Road To Grand’mere (Hallmark) J-225
1960 The Sound Of Trans-Canada In Airs Canadian (Trans-Canada Air Lines)
1960 Rock Island Line/Black Flies (Columbia) RS-3
1963 Beans, Bacon and Gravy/Something to Sing About (Columbia) C4-2642
1963 Black And White/Wild Goose (Columbia) C4-2646
1964 Times Are Getting Hard/Take Your Sins to the River (Columbia) C4-2651
1965 Goin’ Down the Track/Fare Thee Well (Columbia) C4-2667
1965 I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound/Goin’ Down The Track (Columbia) C4-2677
1965 Take Your Sins To The River/Citadel Hill (CBS – Netherlands) 1.946
1966 100 Years/C’est L’aviron (Arc) A-1157
1966 This Land Is Your Land/Lonesome Scenes Of Winter (Arc) A-1159
1967 Automation/Yahie Miners (Arc) A-1198
1971 Talk About Peace/Goin’ To The Country (Kanata) KAN-1002
1974 Something I Love About This Land/Muk-Tuk Annie (CBC Radio Canada) LM-311

Albums
1957 Across Canada With The Travellers (Hallmark) CS-7
1959 Sing Songs of North America (Hallmark) CS-9
1960 Quilting Bee (Columbia) FL-266
1961 Introducing The Travellers (Epic/Columbia)  LN-24013
1961 Making Hay With The Travellers (Columbia) FL-288
1962 On Tour (Columbia) FL-299
1963 Something To Sing About (Columbia) FL-310
1965 We’re On Our Way Again (Columbia) ELS-103
1966 Still Travelling (Harmony) HES-6003
1967 This Land: The Travellers Centennial Album (ARC) AS-250
1967 A Century of Song (ARC)  AS-261
1968 Sea To Sea, The Iron Miracle (CNE)
1968 Applaud Canada (ARC)  AS-268
1969 Blowing In the Wind (Hallmark) CHM-632
1970 The Travellers Sing For Kids (Caedmon/DC Heath) ML-7001
1970 The Travellers (CBC/Kanata) LM-82
1971 Talk About Peace (Kanata) KAN-3
1980 Merry-Go-Round (Elephant) LFN-8003
1999 This Land Is Your Land 1960-1966 (Sony) ZK-80388
2000 The Best Of The Travellers (Unidisc) AGEK-2325

Compilation Tracks
1963 “Rich Girl, Poor Gal” on ‘Hootenanny No.2’ (Kapp – US) KL-1343
1963 “Lonesome Traveller” on ‘Hootenany No.3’ (Kapp – US) KL-1344
1963 “This Land Is Your Land” on ‘Oxydol Presents Let’s Sing Out’ (Columbia Special Products) XTV-88804
1963 “Mary Anne” and “Sinner Man” on ‘Our Colorful Heritage’ (Columbia Special Products – US) CSP-123
1964 “Mary Anne” and “Lonesome Traveller” on ‘Hootenany ’64’ (Columbia Special Products – US) CSP-128
1964 “This Land Is Your Land” and “Lonesome Traveller” on ‘Columbia Special Products Presents A Limited Edition Of Great Folk Ballads, Country And Western’ [4LP] (Columbia Special Products – US) XSV-86463
1975 “Go Tell It On The Mountain,” “We Wish You A Merry Christmas,” and “It’s Almost Day” on ‘Broadcast Recording’s Christmas Album’ (CBC Radio Canada) LM-427
1982 “Alouette” on ‘The Children’s Collection Volume 1’ (Tapestry) C-101
1984 “Goin’ To The Zoo” and “‘Round The World Medley” on ‘Car Tunes’ [cassette] (Elephant) LFN4-8410
2000 “This Land Is Your Land” on ‘Mariposa 2000’ (Mariposa Folk Foundation) MAR-2000

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TRAVERS, Pat
Born: Patrick Henry Travers on April 12, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario
Pat Travers was raised in Toronto, Ontario and took an interest in guitar at the age of 12. After seeing Jimi Hendrix perform in Ottawa, Ontario, Travers decided to join a band. His first act was Music Machine in his teens followed later by Red Hot, and then Merge who became club favourites around Québec. During this period with Merge he was spotted by Ronnie Hawkins who asked him to play guitar for Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks. His stay was short-lived, however, as Polydor Records in London, England noticed his talents and signed him to a solo recording deal. His self-titled debut album was released in 1976 and in November he appeared on the prestigious German television show ‘Rockpalast’. He toured with a lose group of musicians throughout the next year (which included Nicko McBrain) in support of the two 1977 back-to-back releases ‘Makin’ Magic’ and ‘Putting It Straight’. By the time he released album four, ‘Heat In the Street’, The Pat Travers Band had been born. The line-up included Travers (vocals, guitar), Pat Thrall (second guitar), Mars Cowling (bass), and Tommy Aldridge (drums). The Pat Travers Band toured heavily – particularly as openers for Rush on their ‘A Farewell to Kings’ tour. Then Travers, with band, released a live album entitled ‘Live! Go for What You Know’, which charted in the Top40 on the Billboard 200 which spawned the single “Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)” which scratched the Top20 in the US. With the band on the music industry radar, the 1980 follow-up album ‘Crash and Burn’ yielded the commercial radio hit “Snortin’ Whiskey”. However, with a world tour behind them the band’s final show would be at the Reading Music Festival in England after which both Thrall and Aldridge left the band. Travers and Cowling continued as a trio featuring new drummer Sandy Gennaro and released the album ‘Radio Active’ later in 1981. With a North American co-headlining tour featuring Rainbow the record managed to peak at No.37 on the Billboard 200. However, Polydor Records cited poor sales and dropped Travers. Travers, in turn, sued the label based on a contractual obligation for two more albums and won. 1982’s ‘Black Pearl’ album was the first album owed to the label resulted in vindication for Travers when the record yielded the hit single “I La La La Love You”. Longtime bassist Mars Cowling left the band but Travers brought in second guitarist Jerry Riggs. The follow-up was ‘Hot Shot’ in 1983 and featured the single “Killer”. As a promotion for the record Travers released the 30-minute sci-fi musical video album ‘Just Another Killer Day’. In 1984, Travers went back on tour with Rush. Polydor issued a greatest package that year and then parted company with Travers. By 1986 Travers was without a record contract and returned to playing nightclubs to earn a living. Cowling returned to The Pat Travers Band in 1989 and by 1990, Travers signed licensing deals in several European territories for his album ‘School of Hard Knocks’. An appearance at The Diamond Club in Toronto, Ontario was filmed and a CD was extracted from the audio portion entitled ‘Boom Boom’ in 1991. Travers also appeared on Boston, Massachusetts band Extreme’s 1990 hit single “Get the Funk Out’. Travers then landed a new record deal with American-based Blues Bureau International Records and his debut was 1992’s ‘Blues Tracks’ released in 1992; Travers would record half a dozen albums for the label over the next decade. By 1993, Travers had dissolved the band and began touring as a solo act using local musicians in various cities to back him including gigs around Southern Ontario with The Carpet Frogs in 1995. By the turn of the century Travers was still plying his trade doing regular tours in the US and has ventured to Europe on short club tours. In 2001 he was included in the ‘Voices of Classic Rock Tour’. He also had a minor hit with Leslie West (Mountain) entitled “Rock Forever”. In 2004 he co-launched a new musical project with Carmine Appice (Rod Stewart, Vanilla Fudge, Jeff Beck) and toured the US. The duo has released three albums to date. Travers then assembled The Power Trio playing Classic Rock cover tunes. The band released the album ‘P.T. Power Trio’ in 2003, then Travers released a new solo album entitled ‘PT=MC2’ before reconvening with the Power Trio for a European tour in 2006 and a follow-up album entitled, simply, ‘P.T. Power Trio 2’. The most recent version of The Pat Travers Band features Kirk McKim (guitars, vocals), Sandy Gennaro (drums), and Rodney O’Quinn (bass).

Singles
1976 Makes No Difference/Rock ‘n’ Roll Susie (Polydor – UK) 2058-877
1977 Stevie/What You Mean To Me (Polydor – US) PD-14416
1978 I Tried To Believe/[same] (Polydor) DJ-17
1979 Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)/Go All Night (Polydor) PD-2003
1979 Boom! Boom! (Out Go the Lights) (Live)/Statesboro Blues (Live) (Polydor – UK) POSP-77
1979 Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) (Edit)/Go All Night (Polydor) PD-2003
1979 Hammerhead/Go All Night (Polydor – US) PD-14529
1980 Is This Love/Love Will Make You Strong (Polydor) PD-2080
1980 Is This Love/Snortin’ Whiskey (Polydor – UK) POSP-144
1980 Snortin’ Whiskey/Your Love Can’t Be Right (Polydor – UK) POSP-164
1980 Snortin’ Whiskey/Statesboro Blues (Live) (Polydor) PD-2107
1981 New Age Music/Untitled (Polydor)
1981 I Can Love You/Untitled (Polydor) PD-2168
1981 My Life Is On the Line/Electric Detective (Polydor) PD-2169
1982 I La La La Love You/Amgwanna Kick Booty (Polydor) PD-2206
1982 I La La La Love You/ I’d Rather See You Dead [12”] (Polydor) PRO-189
1982 I’d Rather See You Dead/[same] (Polydor – US) PD-2223
1984 Killer/[same] (Polydor) PRO-270
1984 Hot Shot/Women On the Edge of Love [12″] (Polydor) PRO-292
1990 Only Man/Chevrolet (Intercord – GERMANY) INT-192.701

Albums
1976 Pat Travers (Polydor) PD-1-6079
1977 Makin’ Magic (Polydor) PD-1-6103
1977 Putting It Straight (Polydor) PD-1-6121
1978 Heat in the Street (Polydor) PD-1-6170
1978 The Pat Travers You Missed Mini-Album [EP] (Polydor) PRO-046
1979 Live! Go for What You Know (Polydor) PD-1-6202
1980 Crash And Burn (Polydor) PD-1-6262
1980 Snortin’ Whiskey [6-song EP] (Polydor – UK ) POSPX-164
1981 Radio Active (Polydor) PD-1-6313
1982 Black Pearl (Polydor) PD-1-6361
1984 Hot Shot (Polydor) PDS-1-6388
1985 The Best of Pat Travers: Boom Boom (Polydor)  825-581
1990 School of Hard Knocks (Intercord – GERMANY) INT-145.155
1990 An Anthology Vol. 1 (Polydor) 841-208
1990 An Anthology Vol. 2 (Polydor) 841-209
1991 Boom Boom (Essential – EU) ESSCD-140
1991 The Best of Pat Travers (Polydor) 849-374
1992 BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert (Windsong International) WINCD-017
1992 Blues Tracks (Blues Bureau International) BB-2002
1993 Just A Touch (Blues Bureau International) BB-2014
1994 Blues Magnet (Blues Bureau International) BB-2022
1995 Halfway To Somewhere (Blues Bureau International) BB-2028
1996 Lookin’ Up (Blues Bureau International) BB-2034
1997 King Biscuit Flower Hour (King Biscuit Flour Hour) 108802
1997 Whiskey Blues (Purple Pyramid) CLP-0160
1997 Best of the Blues Plus Live! (Blues Bureau International) BB-2037
1998 Blues Tracks 2 (Blues Bureau International) BB-2038
1998 Born Under a Bad Sign (Dressed To Kill) PATT-33
2000 Don’t Feed The Alligators (Blues Bureau International) BB-2042
2003 Etched In Stone [2CD] (independent)
2003 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Pat Travers (Universal)
2005 PT=MC² (AAO) AAO-40481
2008 Stick With What You Know – Live In Europe (Provogue – EU) PRD-7227
2009 Travelin’ Blues (Blues Bureau International) BB-2067
2010 Fidelis
2011 Boom Boom Live At The Diamond Toronto 1990 (Ear Music – Germany) 206390-ERE
2012 Blues On Fire (Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra) CLP-8991
2013 Can Do (Frontiers – ITALY) FR-CD-608
2014 Live! Snortin’ Whiskey At The Warfield (Purple Pyramid – US) CLP-1940
2015 Live At The Iridium NYC (Frontiers – Italy) FR-CD-677
2019 Live In Concert – April 30th 1981 (Cleopatra/Purple Pyramid – US) CLO-1426

with P.T. POWER TRIO
2003 P.T. Power Trio (Blues Bureau International) BB-2046
2006 P.T. Power Trio 2 (Blues Bureau International) BB-2052

with PAT TRAVERS & CARMINE APPICE
2004 It Takes a Lot of Balls (SPV) SPV-085-69932
2005 Live At the House of Blues (Escapi) NMS-032
2006 Bazooka (Music Avenue) 250140

Compilation Tracks
1994 “I La La La Love You” on ‘Valley Girl [Music From The Soundtrack] (Rhino) R2-71590
2003 “I Don’t Live Today” on ‘Voodoo Crossing: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix’ (Par Media – RUSSIA) PMM-003
2009 “Politician” on “Eric Clapton Salute I Feel Free” (BHP) BHP-30011

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treble charger
Rosie Martin (bass, vocals) / Greig Nori (lead vocals, guitar) / Bill Priddle (vocals, guitar) / Morris Palter (drums ) / Trevor MacGregor (drums)
Greig Nori, Rosie Martin, Morris Palter and Bill Priddle, all friends growing up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario formed NC-17 in the early ’90’s and released several demos before moving to Toronto. It wasn’t long before a U.S. band with the same name sent a lawyer after the Canadian act and rather than fight American legal forces, instead, changed their name to treble charger (no capitol letters) in 1992. Through their own Smokin’ Worm Records label they released their first album ‘nc-17’ – a remix of their first two demo tapes. The band achieved a foothold on the post-grunge alternative audiences and found themselves on the cutting edge of musical technology with a self-created CDRom album called ‘self=title’ in 1995 which was first for a Canadian band. The CDRom track was a helping hand to some 30 acts whom treble charge admired with its complete discographies, biographies and pictures of all the acts included. By 1996, their own label had been absorbed by their distribution label, Sonic Unyon, and the band made its leap to the big leagues with BMG Canada. 1997 saw the recording of a new album at which time drummer Morris Palter was fired after ‘musical differences’ with members over their want to be a power-pop act. Drummer Michael Levesque was brought in to finish the sessions and a replacement drummer, Calgarian Trevor MacGregor (ex-Wagbeard), was located after placing an ad in an alternative music magazine. The album, “Maybe It’s Me” was finally released that year and ESPN picked the track ‘Friend Of Mine’ to accompany their 1997 wakeboarding coverage. After a successful 5 week tour in the US during 1998 with the Foo Fighters, the group realized too late that its core audience, Canada, had not been properly served while the band was pushing its single “Red” and the album didn’t sell well in Canada. The band would split up on February 3, 2006; Priddle would go on to form The Priddle Concern.

Singles
1994 Slight/[split w/PUNCHBUGGY] [7”] (Rightwide) RWR-004
1995 Even Grable (Smokin’ Worm/Sonic Unyon) KCDP-51347
1996 Sick Friend Called (Smokin’ Worm/Sonic Unyon) KCDP-51389
1996 Morale (Smokin’ Worm/Sonic Unyon) KCDP-51361
1997 Friend of Mine (Vik./BMG) KCDP 51464
1997 (Vik./BMG) KCDP-51500
1997 Red (Vik./BMG) KCDP-51560
2000 American Psycho (Vik./BMG)
2001 Don’t Believe It At All (Radio Edit) (BMG) DPRO-52043
2001 Brand New Low (Nettwerk America – US) 33996
2002 American Psycho/Business As Usual/Wear Me Down (Nettwerk – Europe) 550546
2002 Hundred Million (Virgin) 617568

Albums
1994 nc-17 (Smokin’ Worm/Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-013
1995 Self=Title (Smokin’ Worm/Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-020
1997 Maybe It’s Me (Vik./BMG) 214702
2000 Wide Awake Bored (Vik./BMG) 217759
2002 Detox (Network America – US) 30319

Compilation Tracks
1994 “Red” on ‘CFNY 1994 New Music Search (CFNY) 1994NMS
1994 “Albuquerque” on ‘Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young’ (Sony) 80199
1995 “Red (Radio Edit)” and “Even Grable (Radio Edit)” on ‘Rock Hits’ (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-024
1996 “Bubble and Star (Here’s Where the Guitars Come In)” on ‘More of Our Stupid Noise’ (Squirtgun) SQUIRT-CD74
1998 “Fade” on ’30 Hour Famine’ (Nettwerk) W2-30126
1998 “Ever She Flows” on ‘Disturbing Behavior [Motion Picture Soundtrack]’ (Trauma – US) 6474007
1998 “Ever She Flows” on ‘Now We Are 5’ (Sonic Unyon)
1999 “Scatterbrain (Concentrated Mix)” on ‘Much @ Edgefest 1999’ (MCA)
2000 “American Psycho” on ‘Big Shiny Tunes 5’ (Warner) WTVD-39170
2002 “Roller” on ‘Fubar’ (Aquarius) Q2-00605
2006 “American Psycho” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 3 – Juno Awards: Celebrating 35 Years of the Best in Canadian Music’ (EMI) 59829

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TREEHOUSE BEGGARS, The
Tim Beneteau (drums, backing vocals) / Graeme Hulse (bass) / Jamie Jarovi (guitar) / Terry Lusk (vocal, guitar)
The Treehouse Beggars formed in late 1986 in Amherstburg, Ontario (near Windsor) when a cover band that Beneteau and Hulse were in needed a singer. Beneteau invited high school friend and out-of-work drummer Terry Lusk to sing and the band focused on such fare as “Secret Agent Man” and “You May Be Right” for several weeks. Without warning, the band’s guitar player (name lost to history, sadly) joined the Air Force. Again, the lads looked to St. Anne’s High School and tapped alumnus Jamie Jarovi to play guitar. For the better part of a year, the band composed several originals while learning covers – ranging from Bauhaus to Cream to The Jam to Pink Floyd – to fill out their set. The band’s first shows took place in early 1988 in Detroit, Michigan at the historic Vanity Ballroom and other shows in and around the Windsor/Detroit area. In August of that year Jarovi and Lusk, who had grown up in Toronto, convinced the others to move to the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ontario; an earlier plan to emigrate to Boston was scuttled by visa troubles. Prior to leaving the Windsor area, the boys recorded 3 songs with Scott Campbell and Dave Feeny at Nebula and The Tempermill in Detroit. Once in Toronto, the band played the Queen Street West circuit through the rest of 1988 and into 1989 during which time they found time to record 3 more songs with Jamie Stanley at Umbrella Sound. One of these songs, ‘Last Touch’, was released on Bullseye Records’ ‘Unsigned, Sealed and Delivered Volume III’ compilation. It remains the only Treehouse Beggars track to be officially released. In February 1989, the band called it quits. Jarovi and Lusk recorded an updated version of the Umbrella sessions track ‘Belfast’ in October 1992, renaming it ‘Already Dead’. The band regrouped once in 1994 to play a benefit show in Amherstburg and again in 1996 to perform (sans Beneteau) at the wedding of Bullseye Records president Jaimie Vernon; As of 2012, Hulse and Beneteau are working outside of music in the Windsor area; Jamie Jarovi continues to play guitar in and around Toronto; Terry Lusk has been playing drums in Windsor band Waker Glass since their formation in 2010. With notes from Terry Lusk.

Compilation Tracks
1992 “Last Touch” on ‘Unsigned, Sealed & Delivered, Vol. 3’ (Bullseye) BLP-CD-4005

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TREELINE & SEAN BREWER
Shannon Johnson (fiddle) / Clayton Smith (drums) / Tyler Birch (bass, organ, backing vocals) / Sean Brewer (guitar, banjo, vocals) / Tayler Ackerman (lead guitar) / Danny Dyck (guitar, vocals) / Charlie Hase (pedal steel) / Darrek Anderson (pedal steel)
From Edmonton, Alberta.

Albums
2011 Prairie Sentimentalist (Treeline) TLSB-001

Compilation Tracks
2010 “Mile To Stop” on ‘Great Northern Revival: Notes From The Edmonton Underground Vol. 2’ (NoteBook)

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TREE TOPS, The
Jerry Doell (vocals)

Singles
1960 Tree Top/Tinkel Bones (London) 45-M.17114
1960 You Look Forward To Your Wedding/(Legend Of) The Fastest Gun (Zero – US) ZO-108
Compilation Tracks
1981 “Tree Top” on ‘Bison Bop: The Bop That Never Stopped – For A Real Rockin’ Cat Volume 15′ (Bison Bop – Germany) Bb-LP 2018
1996 “Tree Top” on ‘Early Canadian Rockers, Vol. III’ (Collector – Netherlands) CLCD-4432
1997 “Tree Top” on ‘Rock & Roll With Piano Vol.6’ (Collector – Netherlands) CLCD-4467

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TRÈS BIEN ENSEMBLE
Kirk Hudson / Matt James / Kirk Hudson / Yawd Sylvester / Daniel Pacquett / John Jowett (trombone)
Former members of Wayne Omaha reformed with Greg Smith of the Weakerthans. [also see WAYNE OMAHA]

Albums
2012 Do Me The Way You Used To Do Me
2015 Chewin’ The Sun (Tres Bien Ensemble)

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TRENT SEVERN
Emm Gryner (bass) / Dayna Manning (guitar, banjo) / Laura Bates (fiddle, vocals) / Lindsay Schindler (banjo)
This roots music super trio – named after a famous waterway in Ontario – sprang to life in 2012 as a duo through the kinship of Stratford, Ontario natives Gryner and Manning. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2012. Schindler was added in 2015 for their sophomore album ‘Trillium’. To date they are two-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominees. Bates left the group shortly before the ‘Portage’ album. [also see EMM GRYNER, DAYNA MANNING ]

Singles
2017 Save Me (Trent Severn Band)

Albums
2012 Trent Severn (Dead Daisy/Outside)
2015 Trillium (Trent Severn/Fontana North) TS-002
2017 Portage (Trent Severn Band) TS-003

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TREWS, The
Colin MacDonald (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) / John Angus MacDonald (lead guitar, backing vocals) / Jack Syperek (bass guitar, backing vocals) / Rose Murphy (drums; 1996) / Ramsey Clark (drums; 1997-2001) / Sean Dalton (drums, backing vocals; 2001-2015) / Gavin McGuire (drums; 2015 – 2018) / Chris Gormley (drums; 2018 – present) / Jeff Heisholt (keyboards)
Antigonish, Nova Scotia act The Trews formed while the members were in high school as One I’d Trouser during the summer of 1996. By mid-1997 Murphy had been replaced by Ramsey Clark on drums. The group gigged wherever they could in the Maritimes, including at bass player Jack Syperek’s father’s bar – The Marquee – making them quite popular in the region. In 1999 they released the seven song EP ‘Trouser’ produced by Lawrence Currie. Not long after, the band shortened its name to just Trouser but found out another band already existed with that moniker, so they changed it again, this time to the Trews (the Anglicized spelling of the Scottish Gaelic word for tartan trousers). Clark was replaced by Sean Dalton on drums in the spring of 2001. The band soon realized, though, that if they really wanted to succeed, they had to head west to the Southern Ontario region, and try their luck there. The band relocated to Niagara Falls, Ontario in 2001 and moved into a band house together. They soon attracted the attention of manager and Bumstead Records owner Larry Wanagas and released a second 4 song EP, ‘The Trews’, which was produced by Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar), in February 2002. In the summer of that year they entered the ‘Rock Search’ contest held by the St. Catharines, Ontario, radio station 97.7 HTZ-FM and won, garnering attention all over the region. They returned to the studio with Gordie Johnson and in 2003 released their debut album, “House of Ill Fame. The album eventually earned them a Canadian gold record, and logged five rock radio hits: “Every Inambition”, “Not Ready to Go”, “Tired of Waiting”, “Fleeting Trust” and “Confessions”. In fact “Not Ready to Go” made it to number one on Canadian rock radio and was the most played song of 2004 of that genre. They were nominated for ‘New Group of the Year’ at the 2004 JUNO Awards (Canada’s Grammys) and “Not Ready to Go” was nominated for ‘Single of the Year’ the following year. Their second album, ‘Den of Thieves’, was released in 2005 and once again landed them a string of rock radio hits in Canada: “So She’s Leaving”, “Yearning”, “Poor Ol’ Broken Hearted Me”, and “I Can’t Say”. It was also certified gold and was also released in the US and the UK in 2006 and 2007 respectively. In the fall of 2007 they toured for six weeks in Europe opening for British stalwarts Status Quo, earning rave reviews everywhere they went. Their third album, ‘No Time For Later’, was released in 2008 in Canada and earned them two more Juno nominations, Group of the Year and Rock Album of the Year. Already gold in Canada, it has featured four singles: “Hold Me In Your Arms” (the video for which went to number one on MuchMusic), “Paranoid Freak”, “Man Of Two Minds”, and “I Can’t Stop Laughing”. The CD was released in the US in 2009 and the first single, “Hold Me”, garnered them two awards in the US Independent Music Awards before it was even released – the judges’ vote and the Vox Populi vote. They toured for six weeks in the US opening for former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley. A trip to Japan in the fall of 2009 to showcase for talent agents there saw them performing a couple of acoustic shows, and the idea for ‘Trews Acoustic – Friends and Total Strangers’ came to fruition. Recorded over two nights at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto in January of 2009, it was released as a live CD and DVD in October of that year, and spawned a well-received single with a song written and recorded exclusively for the performances, “Sing Your Heart Out”. The band began making trips to the Tragically Hip’s recording studio The Bathouse in Bath, Ontario in early 2010, to start writing and recording new material. They then took a break in the fall to visit Australia for a couple weeks, then a return trip in February 2011 to do a six-week residency at several clubs in Sidney. The album, ‘Hope & Ruin’, was produced by the band’s John Angus MacDonald and Gord Sinclair (The Tragically Hip), and was mixed by Mike Fraser. It was released in March of 2011. The first Canadian single, “Hope & Ruin”, entered Canadian Rock Radio charts in the Top10 within three weeks of its release and the video achieved significant play on MuchMoreMusic. The second single, “The World, I Know”, was their 12th single to make it to the Top10 at Canadian Rock Radio. The third single was “Misery Loves Company”. Meanwhile, the first Australian single, “Hope & Ruin”, gained heavy airplay on the Australian rock radio chain Triple M, and the band toured the continent twice following the CD’s release. The first UK single, “The World, I Know”, was noted in the Top Songs of 2011 by ‘Classic Rock Magazine’, and was included on the magazine’s ‘Best Songs of 2011…So Far Pt. II’. The Trews would tour in the UK twice and released a second single, “Misery Loves Company”. In the US the song “One By One” managed airplay in the Mid-west. With over 200 shows a year the band has managed opening spots for the Rolling Stones, Robert Plant, Guns N’ Roses, Nickelback, Kiss, Cheap Trick, the Tragically Hip, and many others. With notes from John Angus MacDonald and Bumstead Records.

Singles
2003 Every Inambition/Confessions/So Take What You Can (Bumstead) BUM-033
2003 Not Ready to Go (Bumstead)
2004 Tired of Waiting (Bumstead)
2004 Fleeting Trust (Bumstead)
2005 She’s So Leaving (Bumstead)
2005 Yearning (Bumstead)
2006 Poor Ol’ Broken Hearted Me (Bumstead)
2006 I Can’t Say (Bumstead)
2007 Hold Me In Your Arms (Bumstead/UMG)
2008 Paranoid Freak (Radio Edit) (Bumstead/UMG) MRV-12P2
2008 Man of Two Minds (Bumstead/UMG)
2009 (I) Can’t Stop Laughing (Bumstead/UMG)
2009 Sing Your Heart Out (Bumstead/UMG)
2010 Highway of Heroes/Highway of Heroes (Live & Acoustic) (Bumstead/UMG) BUM-103S
2011 Hope & Ruin (Bumstead/UMG)
2011 The World, I Know (Bumstead/UMG)
2012 Misery Loves Company (Bumstead/UMG)
2012 One By One (Bumstead – US)
2012 The Power of Positive Drinking (Bumstead)
2012 Leaps and Bounds (Code One – AUSTRALIA)
2014 What’s Fair Is Fair
2014 Rise In the Wake
2014 New King
2015 Under the Sun
2016 Beautiful & Tragic
2017 Lotta Work/Little Love
2018 The New US
2018 Vintage Love
2018 Bar Star
2019 Touch
2020 God Speed Rebel
2020 ’21
2021 I Wanna Play
2021 Wanderer
2022 The Enemy
2022 Xmas (Christmas Time)
2023 Peace Jam

Albums
2002 The Trews [4-song EP] (Bumstead) BUM-021
2003 House of Ill Fame (Bumstead/Epic/Sony) EK-81151
2004 House of Ill Fame – The Live Cut (Bumstead/Epic/Sony) EK-81211/ESK-1743
2004 Sony/Ericsson Rock With The Trews [3-song EP] NUK-24196
2005 Den of Thieves (Bumstead/Sony-BMG) DDCZ-1390
2005 Den of Thieves [1 song removed; 1 added] (Bumstead/Sony-BMG – US)
2007 Den of Thieves [1 song removed; 3 added] (Bumstead/Soul Food – UK)
2007 Den of Thieves [2 songs added] (Bumstead/TKO Records – Japan)
2007 Out of the Past, Into the Dark [4-song EP] (Bumstead/Future/Classic Rock Magazine – UK) ROC-104-04-07H
2008 No Time for Later (Bumstead/UMG) BUM-081
2009 Acoustic – Friends & Total Strangers (Bumstead/UMG) 110054
2010 Not Ready To Go [4-song EP] (Bumstead/CodeOne – Australia)
2011 Hope & Ruin (Bumstead/UMG) BUM-111
2011 Live From Montréal [6-song EP DigiFile] (Bumstead)
2011 A Trew Holiday Gift [4-song EP DigiFile] (Bumstead)
2012 …thank you and I’m sorry [7-song EP] (Bumstead) TRW-CD-124
2014 The Trews (Home/eOne) TRW-CD-115
2015 Friends and Total Strangers Deluxe Re-Issue (Home/eOne) HOME-CD-0134
2016 Time Capsule (Home/eOne) HOME-CD-0139
2016 The Vault (Pledge Music)
2018 Civilianaires (Cadence) CADCD-6619
2021 Wanderer (Known Accomplica) KACD-011
2023 House Of Ill Fame – 20th Anniversary Box [2LP/1CD] (Nettwerk/Universal)

as ONE I’D TROUSER
1999 Trouser [7-song EP] (Independent) CD-TROU1

Compilation Tracks
2004 “Not Ready To Go” on ‘Going the Distance’ [Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Nettwerk)
2004 “Not Ready To Go” on ‘World Cup of Hockey’ (NHL/NHLPA/UMG)
2007 “Poor Ol’ Broken Hearted Me” on ‘The Bands You Need To Hear (Future/Classic Rock Magazine – UK) ROC-102-02-07
2007 “So She’s Leaving” on ‘Best New Music of 2007 (Future/Classic Rock Magazine – UK) ROC-114-01-08
2007 “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown” on ‘Borrowed Tunes II – A Tribute To Neil Young’ (Universal Canada/Zoom) B-000WE4CV2
2010 “Move To Japan” on ‘Garth Hudson Presents: A Canadian Celebration Of The Band’ (Sony)
2011 “The World I Know” on ‘Splat! Best of the Year…So Far! Pt. II (Future/Classic Rock Magazine – UK) ROC-162-10-11
2012 “Hope & Ruin” on ‘The New Avengers: The Next Generation of Classic Rock Superheroes’ (Future/Classic Rock Magazine – UK) ROC-170-05-12

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TRIBAL EARTH
Michael Bennett (vocals, synths) / Leo Valvassori (bass) / Jerry Mercer (drum programming) / Mike Hicks (guitar) / George Yuri Gorbachow (keyboards) / Geoff Bennett (percussion) / Ron Wetzlauff (synths) / Wayne O’Brien (synths)
7-piece Toronto, Ontario electro-dance act; Mercer would continue as a member of April; Valvassori would join The Carpet Frogs briefly in the 1990s.

Albums
1983 Interaction/Reaction [3-song EP]  (Shape) SHAPE-001

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TRICKY WOO
Andrew Dickson (vocals, guitar) / Jon Fazakerley (bass; 1996) / Sasha Roiz (drums; 1996) / Adrian Popovich (guitar; added 1997) / Eric Larock (bass; replaced Fazakerley 1998) / Pat Conan (drums; replaced Roiz 1999) / Patrick Sayers (drums; 2004) / Alex Crowe (bass; replaced Larock 2005)
The Montréal, Québec band Tricky Woo, named after a fictional dog in the James Herriot novel ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, in 1996. That year they released a 7” single entitled ‘The Claw’ on Mag Wheel Records. In 1997 they signed to Montréal label SSG and released the album ‘Rock and Roll Music, Part 1’. They then added second guitarist Popovich to the line-up. But by the time they recorded their sophomore album ‘The Enemy Is Real’ for Sonic Unyon Records in 1998, Tricky Woo had replaced Fazakerley with Eric Larock on bass. Their third album, ‘Sometimes I Cry’, also featured new drummer Pat Conan who replaced Roiz. The album would prove to be a turning point for the band as it was nominated for ‘Best Alternative Album’ at the 2000 JUNO Awards. The album track, “Easy”, was also used in the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ TV episode entitled ‘The Zeppo’. Popovich left the band in 2000. Their final album was ‘Les Sables Magiques’ in 2001 but the band split up in 2002. A new band featuring Dickson and Justin Tustin of Local Rabbits popped up in 2003 called Soft Canyon. They released one album. But, by 2004, Dickson, Popovich and Larock had reunited and brought along new drummer Pat Sayers to do an impromptu cross-Canada tour. A new studio album, ‘First Blush’, was recorded for the Last Gang label and featured new bassist Alex Crowe.

Singles
1996 The Claw [4-song 7” EP] (Mag Wheel) MAG-015
1999 [Untitled] [4-song 7” EP] (Bittersweet) BIT-002
2000 Trouble/Rock & Roll Gypsy (Estrus – US) ES-7153
2001 Tricky Woo [4-song 10″ EP] (Mag Wheel) MAG-031

Albums
1995 Tricky Woo [4-song cassette EP] (Tricky Woo)
1997 Rock and Roll Music, Part 1 (SSG) SSG-1189
1998 The Enemy Is Real (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-045
1999 Sometimes I Cry (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-061
2001 Les Sables Magiques (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-071
2005 First Blush (Last Gang) Q2-00907
2015 The Children Of [LP] (Yeah Right!) YEAHR-28

Compilation Tracks
1998 “Teenage Hurricane” on ‘Now We Are 5’ (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-051
2003 “Lonesome Road” on ‘Guerilla Jukebox Volume 1: A Tee Pee Records’ (Tee Pee) TPE-047

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TRIGGER HAPPY
Alan Nolan (vocals) / Mark Holman (guitar) / Simon Head (bass) / Yared (drums) / Brad Trojan (bass) / Tim Grant (drums) / Dustin Campbell / Rustin Baldwin / John McNabb / Mark Klucznyk / Tim Hay
From Pickering, Ontario.

Singles
1995 Meathook/Judas//[split w/SIDECAR] [7″] (Fastmusic – US) 20798-A/B

Albums
1992 Disturbo (Epidemic) EPCD92-11
1993 Uncooler (Buddha Dude) BUDDHA-C001-93
1994 Killatron 2000 (Raw Energy) 210192

as THE ALMIGHTY TRIGGER HAPPY
1996 I’ll Shut Up When You Fuck Off (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-031
1999 I Hate Us [LP] (Chase the Glory) CTG-006
2001 Side Of The Road
2004 I Hate Us Even More

Compilation Tracks
1995 “Meathook” on ‘Access III’ (Access Magazine) ACD-003
1996 “Softly” on ‘Punk Uprisings, Vol. 1 (Lookout – US) LO-139
1997 “Meathook” on ‘On the Road Again’ (Raw Energy) RAW-SK8COR
1998 “Died Trying”, “Blood Red and Blue Forever”, and “Surprise Surprise” on ‘As a Matter of Fact’ (Bad Taste) BTR-22
1998 “In Hate” on ‘Now We Are 5’ (Sonic Unyon)

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TRILOGY
Basil Watson (keyboards, bass, guitar, vocals) / Dave Jonsson (drums) / Ed Coppard (vocals, guitar) / Eddie Patterson (bass)
From Vancouver, British Columbia. Coppard and Jonsson had been in The Shockers. Patterson had been in Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers. Jonsson had been in 5 Man Cargo. The band was signed to Polydor and released one single, “Think It Over” in November 1969. It did not chart; Watson would go on to co-found Stallion Thumrock; Jonsson went on to Bowser Moon (with Keith Scott of the Bryan Adams Band) and would become an in-demand session drummer in British Columbia; Coppard would change his name to C.B. Victoria, and become a solo artist before becoming a motivation speaker. He passed away unexpectedly May 9, 2019 while teaching in Japan; Patterson would go to join Skylark and The Hometown Band. [also see C.B. VICTORIA]

Singles
1969 Think It Over/Flowing (Polydor) 540-015

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TRIMBLE TONES
Al Labbe (drums) / Chris Phippard (lead guitar) / Don Wruck (accordion, organ) / Doug Mitchell (saxophone, guitar) / Lloyd Trimble (accordion, organ) / Peter Yur (banjo, violin) / Roy Bradburn (bass)
From Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Albums
1972 20 Old Time Hits (Calart) SSE-7228
1973 20 Old Time Hits Volume 2 (Calart) SSK-7301
1974 Take 30 With The Trimble Tones (Soundaround International/Calart) SSE-7425
1976 Detour To Dancing (Soundaround International/Calart) SSF-7605
1976 Whole Lotta Shakin’ (Soundaround International/Calart) SSE-7615

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TRIPPERS, The
Pat Krupa (bass) / Clancey Solomon (drums) / Miles Krauchi (guitar) / Dave Jasen (keyboards) / Jack Watkins (vocals, guitar)

Singles
1967 The Rains Came/For Your Return (Eagle) ER-126

Compilation Tracks
2005 “The Rains Came” and “For Your Return” on ‘The Eagle Records Collection’ (Super Oldies) SOCD-1
2009 “The Rains Came” and “For Your Return” on ‘The Best Of Eagle Records’ (Super Oldies) SOCD-8

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TRISTAN PSIONIC
Sandy McIntosh (vocals) / Mark Milne (guitar) / Gary “Wool” McMaster (bass) / Doug Lea (drums) / Tim Potocic (drums; 1993) / Peter Kirkpatrick (bass) / April Sabucco (bass) / Rob Higgins (bass)
Tristan Psionic was formed in Hamilton, Ontario in 1991. The band consisted of McIntosh, Milne, McMaster and Doug Lea (ex-Wet Spots). The band then launched its own imprint, Sonic Unyon Records, to release its own product and that of other like-minded local acts. The label would grow to be one of the largest independent labels in Canada. Heimlich Maneuver bassist Peter Kirkpatrick replaced McMaster for the album ‘TPA Flight 028’ before being replaced by Sabucco. Higgins would then replace Sabucco on the ‘Mind the Gap’ album in 2000. The band split up shortly thereafter when McIntosh returned to school to become an architect.

Singles
1999 The Allied Nations Victory [split w/THE PRIMRODS] (Sonic Unyon)

Albums
1992 Psix Psong Demo [6-song cassette]
1993 Pslop EP [6-song cassette] (Sonic Unyon) SUNMC-001
1994 The Sounds of Tristan Psionic (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-012
1996 TPA Flight 028 (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-028
2000 Mind the Gap (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-065

Compilation Tracks
1995 “Black Psabbath Psong” on ‘Rock Hits’ (Sonic Unyon) SUNCD-024
1998 “Just Don’t Care” on ‘Now We Are 5’ (Sonic Unyon)

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TRITON WARRIOR
David Fromstein (guitar, vocals) / Alex Simon (bass) / Ken Ambrose (drums / Keith Syrett (guitar)
Toronto heavy rock band featuring former members of The Cast (Fromstein and Simon) and Mama Moose (Ambrose and Syrett) which formed in 1972. Their name is a variation of UK Prog act Jade Warrior. Late in 1972 they recorded a test acetate for the song “Satan’s Train” which led to a record deal with Vintage Records who requested they re-record it following the addition of new vocalist Joel Cohen at Sound Canada Studios in March 1973. The band split up shortly after the release.

Singles
as TRITTON WARRIOR
1973 Satan’s Train/Sealed In A Grave (Vintage) C-163

as TRITON WARRIOR
2014 Satan’s Train / Sealed In A Grave re-issue (Supreme Echo) SE-10

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TRIUMPH
Gil Moore (drums, vocals)  / Mike Levine (bass) / Rik Emmett (guitars, vocals) / Rick Santers (guitars, keyboards, vocals; added in 1986)  / Phil X [aka Phil Xenidis] (guitars, vocals; replaced Emmett 1992)
Gil Moore (ex-Underworld) and Mike Levine had a plan to build the perfect power trio. They approached Al Mair at Attic Records and told him that if they had a record deal they could successfully lure guitarist Rik Emmett away from his regular music gig as part of the Justin Paige sextet. With contract in hand, Emmett jumped ship and the group Triumph became official in 1975. Their self-titled debut on Attic received little attention in Canada, but journalist David Farrell sent a copy to deejay Joe (“The Godfather of Rock and Roll”) Anthony in San Antonio, Texas, who was so impressed that he helped to get the band a small tour of San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin. The resulting fervor for the band’s album caught the attention of RCA Records in the US, and they subsequently signed the band to a world-wide deal excluding Canada. Thus began the nightmare of label entanglements that marks Triumph’s history – all the albums that were released on Attic in Canada were also released on RCA in the rest of the world, and then when the Attic deal ended, RCA re-released all the albums in Canada as well. When the RCA deal ended, MCA picked up the band and once again re-released all the albums to date. In 1992, they signed with Virgin Records for one album, and now Triumph has their own record label which has also re-released the entire back catalogue with original artwork and liner notes. The second album in Canada, ‘Rock And Roll Machine’, was actually the first US release on RCA (1978) and was released a year after the Canadian Attic release (1977). It featured their first hit single, a remake of Joe Walsh’s “Rocky Mountain Way”, and concert favourites “Rock And Roll Machine” and “Blinding Light Show”. Triumph hit the road and quickly gained a reputation for being a tight bunch of musicians with a pyrotechnic light show that rivaled anything else on the road in those days. After the second album, Triumph had a string of successful releases, all of which went at least platinum in Canada and gold in the US. They continued to tour and sell out everywhere they went, and were one of the featured artists on the US Festival bill in 1983 in the US (from which a commercial video package was released). They’ve been nominated for four JUNO Awards and have been inducted into the Toronto Music Awards Hall of Fame. In 1986, to help beef up the sound both on studio releases and in concert, the trio added a fourth hired hand in veteran Toronto guitarist Rick Santers who filled in on guitar and keyboards. In 1988, however, internal differences of opinion resulted in Emmett opting to leave the band to pursue a solo career. Moore and Levine insisted that it was not the end of the band, but put the group’s ventures on hold while they attempted to sort out the business end of things. Around the same time that Emmett chose to depart, the band invested in the building of a state-of-the-art recording facility in Mississauga, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto; called the Metalworks, they recorded all subsequent studio albums there and today it is one of the most widely respected and busiest studios in Canada. Coming out of the ashes of Emmett’s departure, Moore and Levine held auditions for guitarists in an attempt to go in a different direction with the band. Their first choice, John Sykes, was working with Blue Murder at the time and was not available, so they went with choice #2, Phil X (Frozen Ghost, Aldo Nova, Sidinex). As it turned out, this was a particularly smart move on their part as X fit right in with what they were trying to accomplish. In 1992 they were signed to a new deal with Virgin Records, which released their critically acclaimed ‘Edge of Excess’ album. A live album was released in 1996 on the King Biscuit Boy Flour Hour label. In April 2008 the band was inducted into Canada’s Music Hall of Fame. The original line-up of Emmett, Levine and Moore attempted a reconciliation – even going as far as playing two shows at the Oklahoma Music Festival and the Sweden Rock Festival in Europe which featured second guitarist Dave Dunlop. The crash of the world economy put a crimp in their plans to lunch a full-fledged North American tour and the band returned to their previous commitments. with notes from Bruce Campbell and Al Mair. [also see RIK EMMETT]

Singles
1975 Hobo/Get You Back Into My Life (Attic) AT-115
1976 What’s Another Day of Rock and Roll/Let Me Get Next To You (Attic) AT-149
1977 Rocky Mountain Way/Bringing It On Home (Attic) AT-173
1977 Bringing It On Home/24 Hours A Day (Attic) AT-186
1978 Hold On/Just a Game (Attic) AT-203
1979 Lay It On The Line/American Girls (Attic) AT-213
1980 I Can Survive/Nature’s Child (Attic) AT-222
1980 I Live For The Weekend/Lay It On the Line (RCA – UK) RCA-13
1981 Magic Power/Hot Time (In This City Tonight) (Attic) AT-248
1981 Allied Forces/Hot Time (In This City Tonight) (RCA – UK) RCA-135
1981 Allied Forces/Say Goodbye (RCA – UK) 13035
1982 A World of Fantasy/Too Much Thinking (Attic) AT-281
1983 All The Way/Battle Cry (Polydor) PDS-2225
1984 Spellbound/Cooldown (MCA) 52520
1984 Follow Your Heart/Stranger In A Strange Land (MCA) 52540
1984 Rock Out, Roll On/Killing Time (MCA) 52635
1986 Hold On/Mind Games (MCA) 52718
1986 Mind Games/[same] (MCA) 52744
1986 Somebody’s Out There/What Rules My Heart (MCA) 52898
1987 Just One Night/Hooked on You (MCA) 53014
1987 Let the Light (Shine On Me)/Long Time Gone (MCA) 53227
1988 Never Say Never/Headed For Nowhere (MCA) 53241
1992 Child of The City (Edit) (Virgin) TRPRO-001
1993 Somewhere Tonight (Virgin) TRPRO-002

Albums
1976 Triumph (Attic) LAT-1012
1977 Rock and Roll Machine  (Attic) LAT-1036
1979 Just a Game (Attic) LAT-1061
1980 Progressions of Power (Attic) LAT-1083
1981 Allied Forces (Attic) LAT-1122
1983 Never Surrender (Attic) LAT-1150
1984 Thunder Seven (MCA) MCA-5537
1985 Stages (MCA) MCA2-8020
1986 The Sport of Kings (MCA) MCA-5786
1987 Surveillance (MCA) MCA-42083
1989 Classics (MCA) MCA-42283
1992 Edge of Excess (Virgin) TCD-00120
1996 In Concert (King Biscuit Boy Flower Hour/Sony) 70710-88014-2
2003 Live At The US Festival (TML) TML-79201
2005 Livin’ For the Weekend: The Anthology [2CD]  (Castle) CMEDD-1089
2006 Extended Versions (Sony/BMG) A-702083
2010 Greatest Hits Remixed [CD + DVD] (Frontiers – EU) FRCD-461
2010 Diamond Collection (Frontiers – EU) FRCD-502
2012 Live At Sweden Rock Festival (TML) TML-780136
2021 Live In Cleveland (Round Hill – US) RHRO58-1

Compilation Tracks
1977 “Rocky Mountain Way” on ‘Music Magic’ (K-Tel) TC-246
1979 “Blinding Light Show/Moonchild” on ‘Maxell Rock Sampler’ (RCA) DPL-1-0400
1979 “Hold On” on ‘High Energy’ (K-Tel) TC-255
1981 “Fight The Good Fight” on ‘Rocktober ‘81’ (Attic) ROCT-081
1982 “Hold On” on ‘Street Hits’ (CBS Special Products) CSPS-1953
1984 “A World of Fantasy” on ‘Masters of Metal – Volume 1 (K-Tel)
1984 “Never Surrender” on ‘Masters of Metal – Volume 2 (K-Tel) TC-297
1987 “Lay It On the Line” on ‘White Hot – Masters of Metal’ (K-Tel)
1992 “Troublemaker” on ‘Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth – Movie Soundtrack’
1993 “Hold On” on ‘Caught In the Attic’ [3CDs] (Attic) ATTIC-XX
1996 “Magic Power” on ‘Oh What a Feeling: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (MCA) JUNO-25
1998 “Magic Power” on ‘Attic Records Limited Twenty5’ [4CDs] (Attic) ATTIC-25
2002 “I Live For the Weekend” on ‘Dock Rock’ (BMG) 9376329
2002 “Fight the Good Fight” on ‘Rock All Nite: The Best of ’80’s Metal’ (Flashback – US)
2005 “Tears In the Rain” on ‘Melodic Rock Anthems – The Masters of Melodic Rock’ (EMI – SWEDEN) 563584
2010 “Follow Your Heart” on ‘Classic Rock Presents AOR: Coliseum Rock’ (Classic Rock) ROCS19-11-10
2014 “Magic Power” on ‘Icon: Best Of Canada’ (Universal) 0253776580

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TRIXIE GOES HOLLYWOOD
Robert Craymer (vocals) / Robert T. “Dee” Disher (bass) / Al Logan (guitar) / Kim Lombard (drums) / Joey Ciotti (lead guitar, vocals)
Following his stint in the original line-up of Platinum Blonde (he appeared on their pre-fame single “No Regrets”), Ciotti co-founded Toronto, Ontario club act Trixie Goes Hollywood in 1979. The band would become mainstays on the Southern Ontario and Québec club circuits for eighteen months often filling clubs with underage fans so often several clubs lost their liquor licenses. By 1981 they had imploded. Lombard and Craymer stayed together and formed another band called Big Big Time before Craymerleft for the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and became an interior designer to stars such as Madonna, Sandra Oh and Leonardo DiCaprio with his Robert Craymer Green Furniture & Interior Design collections which now retail in the US and Europe; Ciotti moved to the Dominican Republic and now fronts a band called Culture Shock; Disher and Logan had success in the software industry, while Lombard continued in the music business and then moved into script writing. In 2007 the band reunited to record a 2-minute fan support for the Toronto Maple Leafs called ‘The Leaf Song’. The band posted a video of the song – featuring the members playing an old table-top hockey game – on YouTube in January 2008. The video went viral and within a month the video had 50,000 views. The band played several reunion shows in February of 2008 and donated the money to a charity called Spread the Net – which buys protective mosquito nets to prevent malaria for children in Africa. With notes from Kim Lombard, and Robert Craymer.

Compilation Tracks
1980 “Personality (She’ll Be Mine)” on ‘Q107 Homegrown, Volume 2 (Basement/Attic Records) BASE-6002

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TROIANO, Domenic
Born: Domenic Michele Antonio Troiano on January 17, 1946 in Modugno, Puglia, Italy;
Died: May 25, 2005 in Toronto, Ontario
Troiano was born in Italy but moved to Canada with his family and became a naturalized Canadian in 1955. Growing up in East York, Ontario and began playing guitar at age 15. His guitar playing was soon in demand after making a name for himself as a member of Robbie Lane & The Disciples who became the new Hawks for singer Ronnie Hawkins when the previous Hawks became Bob Dylan’s backing musicians under the their new name – The Band. Following his stint with Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks, Troiano joined The Rogues (later The Five Rogues) featuring George Olliver (vocals), Don Elliot (bass), Josef Chirowski (keyboards), and Penty “Whitey” Glan (drums). In September 1966, the band changed its name to Mandala and would record two singles in 1967 including the Top10 hit “Opportunity”. With a line-up change later that year that brought singer Roy Kenner into the fold, the group scored a second hit with “Love-itis” in 1968 from their debut album ‘Soul Crusade. Mandala played their final gig at The Hawk’s Nest in January 1969 after which Troiano, drummer Whitey Glan and singer Roy Kenner made a musical shift. They added Prakash John on bass and Hugh Sullivan (Mandala) on keyboards and changed their name to Bush. The band released their self-titled album in 1970 on RCA in Canada and Dunhill in the USA. They toured with label mates Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night leading to Three Dog Night’s recording of “I Can Hear You Calling” as the B-side of their hit single “Joy To The World”. The song was co-written by Troiano, Kenner, Glan and Sullivan. Following the break-up of Bush, Kenner and Troiano joined The James Gang as a means to replace Joe Walsh. Troiano simultaneously recorded a self-titled album for Mercury as well as two albums with The James Gang – ‘Passin’ Thru’ and ‘Straight Shooter’ – all in 1972. Troiano recorded his sophomore album ‘Tricky’ in 1973 before getting a call to replace Kurt Winter in The Guess Who. Troiano would appear on the Guess Who albums ‘Flavours’ – which included the hits ‘Star Baby’, ‘Clap For the Wolfman’ and ‘Dancin’ Fool’ – and the band’s final official release ‘Power In the Music’. With the collapse of the Guess Who, Troiano assembled The Domenic Troiano band who were signed to Capitol Records in 1976. Two albums followed – ‘Burnin’ At the Stake’ (1977) and ‘The Joke’s On Me’ (1978). Capitol released eight singles off the two albums including the chart topping disco hit “We All Need Love” in 1979. By 1980 Troiano had formed yet another new band, Black Market, who released one album on El Mocambo Records entitled ‘Changing of the Guard’. He soon moved behind the scenes as both a session player and producer. His guitar work can be heard on recordings by Moe Koffman, Joe Cocker, James Cotton, Long John Baldry and ex-wife Shawne Jackson.  His production work included albums by Kilowatt, David Gibson, Shawne Jackson, John Rutledge and Patria among others. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996.  Troiano also wrote music for television including the series ‘Night Heat’ and ‘Robocop’. Domenic Troiano died of prostate cancer in 2005. In 2006, the Domenic Troiano Guitar Scholarship was founded and offers financial aid to young musicians. [also see BUSH, GUESS WHO, MANDALA]

Singles
1972 The Writings On The Wall/The Wear And Tear On My Mind (Mercury) M-73312
1972 Try/I Just Lost A Friend (Mercury) M-73342
1973 All Night Radio Show/The Greaser (Mercury) M-73379

as TROIANO
1979 We All Need Love/Ambush (Capitol) 72804
1979 We All Need Love (5:50)/Ambush [12”] (Capitol) 75017
1979 Your Past (Is A Part Of You)/Achilles (Capitol) 72810
1979 It’s You/Achilles (Capitol) 72816

with THE JAMES GANG
1972 Looking For My Lady/Hairy Hypochondriac (ABC) 11325
1972 Had Enough/Kick Back Man (ABC) 11336

with THE DOMENIC TROIANO BAND
1977 Lonely Girl/Master Of Concealment (Capitol) 72789
1977 Savour The Flavour/[same] (Capitol) 72792
1977 Savour The Flavour/Burnin’ At The Stake (Capitol – UK) CL-15964
1978 Here Before My Time/Spud (Capitol) 72795
1978 Road To Hell/Maybe The Next Time (Capitol) 72800

with BLACK MARKET
1981 Dr. Dee Jay’s Band/Girls (Black Market/El Mocambo) ESMO-517
1981 Turn Back/The Shooter (Black Market/El Mocambo) ESMO-524

with DOMENIC TROIANO With ROY KENNER
1986 Night Heat/Night Heat (TV Mix) (A & M) AM-716
1986 Night Heat [4 mixes] [12″] (A & M) AM-23044
1987 Night Heat/Thema Uit De T.V. Serie – In Het Holst Van De Nacht [12″] (Ariola – NETHERLANDS) 609.090

Albums
1972 Domenic Troiano (Mercury) SRM-1-639
1973 Tricky (Mercury) SRM-1-670
1979 Fret Fever (Capitol) ST-11932
1996 Troiano Triple Play (1976-1980) (EMI) E2-72438-37359-2-1
1999 The Toronto Sound (Polygram) 453856
2003 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Domenic Troiano (Universal) 0249811687

with THE JAMES GANG
1972 Straight Shooter (ABC) 741
1972 Passin’ Thru (ABC) 760

with THE DOMENIC TROIANO BAND
1977 Burnin’ At The Stake (Capitol) ST-11665
1977 Live At Thunder Sound, Toronto (Capitol) SPRO-11
1978 The Joke’s On Me [4-song EP] (Capitol) ST-1172

with BLACK MARKET
1981 Changing Of The Guard (Black Market/El Mocambo) ELMO-762

Compilation Tracks
with THE DOMENIC TROIANO BAND
1980 “We All Need Love” on ‘Expressions’ (K-Tel) NC-520

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TROIS CLEFS, Les
Fernand Blouin (vocals) / Paul Blouin (vocals) / Richard Archambault (vocals)

Singles
1955 Le Rock ‘N Roll Du Samedi Soir/Innamorata (London) 45-FC.299
1959 Bon Anniversaire/Notre Anniversarie (London) 45-FC.392
1960 Tu Voudrais Me Voir Pleurer/Cachito (pedacito) (London) 45-FC.479
1960 Corazon de Melon/Pepito (London) 45-FC.493
1961 Marie Elena/Mambo Stupide (London) FC.629

Albums
1959 Cocktail Dansant (Disques London) MB.11
1960 Rhythmes Sud-Américains (Disques London) MB.30
1961 Les Belles De Chez-Nous (Disques London) MB.45

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TROOPER
Ra McGuire (lead vocals, harmonica) / Brian Smith (guitar, backing vocals) / Frank Ludwig (piano, keyboards) / Harry Kalensky (bass; backing vocals) / Tommy Stewart (drums; backing vocals) / Doni Underhill (bass; replaced Kalensky 1976) / Rob Deans (piano, keyboards; replaced Ludwig 1979) / Mike Schmidt (drums; replaced Stewart 1987) / Blaine Smith (keyboards; replaced Deans 1987) / Larry Church (bass; replaced Underhill 1987) / Lance Chalmers (drums; 1990’s) / Skip Priest (guitar; temporary fill-in for Smith)
This Vancouver-based group was founded by Ra McGuire and Brian Smith in the late ’60s under the name Winter’s Green who specialized in Doors cover tunes. They released one single on Rumble Records called “Are You a Monkey?” in 1972. An evolved line-up was re-named Applejack in 1972. In September of that year Bruce Allen and Sam Feldman of the Bruce Allen Talent Promotion Agency heard the group and began to book dates for them. Later that year, drummer Tommy Stewart made it a trio, and in 1974 bassist Harry Kalensky was added. In September 1974 Randy Bachman asked the band to play at a dance at the Mormon Church where he was a youth coordinator. He was impressed by their sound and signed them to his Legend label, distributed by MCA. By the time the label released their first hit single, “Baby Woncha Please Come Home” in 1975, they had changed their name to Trooper which would become the name of their first album. For the 1976 follow-up album ‘Two For The Show’, also produced by Bachman, Frank Ludwig was added on piano. The album spawned four singles including two of their biggest hits “Boys In The Bright White Sportscar” and the title track. Bassist Doni Underhill replaced Kalensky in 1976 and appeared on the band’s 1977 LP ‘Knock ‘Em Dead Kid’. Two more chart topping hits followed with “We’re Here For A Good Time” and “Oh, Pretty Lady”. Randy Bachman produced their fourth consecutive album with 1978’s ‘Thick As Thieves’ and produced two more charting singles: “Raise A Little Hell” and the Frank Ludwig sung “Round, Round We Go”. MCA rush released a ‘best of’ in 1979 called “Hot Shots” which would become one of the biggest selling greatest hits packages in Canadian history. But Trooper was unstoppable and released the Howard Steele produced ‘Flying Colors’ that same year featuring two more chart hits “3 Dressed Up As A 9” and “Janine”. In 1979, Ludwig jumped ship to join Randy Bachman’s band Ironhorse and was replaced by Rob Deans. The band’s self-titled album in 1980 launched three singles, but all failed to chart and it would be Trooper’s last release with MCA. Under the auspices of producer Mike Flicker and his Flicker Records, Trooper’s 1982 LP ‘Money Talks’ was distributed by RCA Records. The album spawned four singles but failed to catch fire and the band was soon without a recording contract. The also retired from touring and recording for five years. Trooper had not split up, but McGuire and Smith spent the time writing and assessing the future. In 1987 they returned to a small club in Victoria, BC to overwhelming approval and it led to the band hitting the road again where the majority of a new album would be written. With the help of former MCA president Scott Richards, a loan from FACTOR and Sam Feldman and the use of Tom Lavin’s Blue Wave Studio, Trooper started their own label, Great Pacific Records, and released ‘The Last Of the Gypsies’ in 1989. In 1991, Warner Music released ‘Ten’, their last album. Trooper is still touring across Canada every year but without founding members Ra McGuire and Brian Smith; the band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in May 2023; In April 2024 Paul Laine became the new lead singer for Trooper. with notes from Roger Stomperud, and Al Clarke. [also see WINTER’S GREEN, PAUL LAINE]

Singles
1975 Baby Woncha Please Come Home/Roller Rink (Legend/MCA) MCA-40447
1975 General Hand Grenade/Don’t Stop Now (Legend/MCA) MCA-40480
1976 Ready/I Miss You Already (Legend/MCA) MCA-40659
1976 Santa Maria/Whatcha Gonna About Me (Legend/MCA) MCA-40685
1976 The Boys In the Bright White Sportscar/Waitin’ On Your Love (Legend/MCA) MCA-40999
1976 Two For The Show/Gypsy Wheeler (MCA) MCA-40583
1977 We’re Here For a Good Time (Not A Long Time)/Loretta (MCA) MCA-40738
1978 Oh Pretty Lady/(It’s Been A) Long Time (MCA) MCA-40799
1978 Raise A Little Hell/A Fine Mess (You’ve Gotten Us Into) (MCA) MCA-40924
1978 Round, Round We Go/Raise A Little Hell (MCA) MCA-40940
1978 The Moment That It Takes/Live From The Moon (MCA) MCA-40968
1979 3 Dressed Up As A 9/Mr. Big (MCA) MCA-41115
1979 Janine/Live From The Moon (MCA) MCA-41172
1979 Good Clean Fun/(It’s Been A) Long Time (MCA) MCA-41239
1980 Real Canadians/Go Ahead And Sue Me (MCA) MCA-41301
1980 Are You Still My Baby/Legend (MCA) MCA-51010
1980 Laura/I Don’t Wanna Be Here (MCA) MCA-51063
1982 Only A Fool/lookin’ For Trouble (Flicker/RCA) PB-13085
1982 Money Talks/Any Minute Now (Flicker/RCA) PB-50689
1982 Ready For The Nite/It Comes And It Goes (Flicker/RCA) PB-50712
1982 Could’ve Been Me/Dig A Little Deeper (Flicker/RCA) PB-13312
1989 Boy With A Beat/$100,000.00 (Great Pacific/WEA) 25-75157
1991 American Dream (Great Pacific/WEA) CDN-01
1991 Kids In Love (Great Pacific/WEA) CDN-02

Albums
1975 Trooper (Legend/MCA) MCA-2149
1976 Two For The Show (MCA) MCA-2214
1977 Knock ‘Em Dead Kid (MCA) MCA-2275
1978 Thick As Thieves (MCA) MCA-2377
1979 Flying Colours (MCA) MCA-3173
1979 Hot Shots (MCA) MCA-5101
1980 Trooper (MCA) MCA-5151
1982 Money Talks (Flicker/RCA) AFL1-4318
1982 This Must Be The Place/Money Talks [12″] (Flicker/RCA) DJL1-4325
1989 The Last Of The Gypsies (Great Pacific/WEA) 25-64431
1991 Ten (Great Pacific/Warner Music) CD-74-703
2008 The Best Of Trooper (Universal) 5306578
2010 Hits From 10 Albums (Universal) 0075328715

Compilation Tracks
1981 “Raise A Little Hell” on ‘Superstars Salute New Massey Hall’ (CBS/CRIA) CRIA-1
1982 “Oh Pretty Lady” on ‘Certified Gold’ (K-Tel) TC-278
1996 “Raise a Little Hell” on ‘Oh What a Feeling: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (MCA) JUNO-25
1996 “Raise a Little Hell” on ‘Contact 2! The Second Period / Contact 2! La Dexiéme Période (Attic) ACD-1438
2001 “We’re Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 2: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (CMC) 0885
2001 “Raise a Little Hell” on ‘Ultimate Rock 2’ (Sony) 91480
2002 “We’re Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time)” on ‘Dock Rock’ (BMG) 9376329

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TROUBLE BOYS
Tim Gibbons (guitar) / Ray Curse [aka Ray Farrugia] (drums) / Mike Williams (bass) / Pat Gibbons (vocals, guitar)In 1982 guitarist Tim Gibbons left Hamilton, Ontario band The Shakers to form his own group The Trouble Boys with his brother Pat, ex-Slander drummer Ray Farrugia, and bass player Mike Williams. The band recorded their only album, ‘Pass the Bottle, Baby’ in a single 13-hour recording session. It was released on their own Booze Records label in 1985. There was a second album of 20 tunes recorded and completed, but no labels were interested and the band broke up; Gibbons went on to be a session player of some renown (including work on the Billy-Bob Thornton movie ‘Slingblade’) and occasionally reunites with his former band The Shakers and sits in with The Dave Rave Group. He released a solo album on the Cowboy Junkies’ Latent Recordings label entitled ‘Trail of Smoke’ in 2011. His current band is Tim Gibbons & The Swampbusters; Williams would go on to work with Tom Wilson and Cadillac Bill. He now plays in the Hellbent Rockers. with additional notes from Tim Gibbons.

Albums
1985 Pass the Bottle, Baby (Booze) TB-85

Compilation Tracks
with DAVE RAVE
2006 “Can’t Stop Shakin’” and “Fun, Booze & Corvettes” on ‘Dave Rave Anthology Vol. 1’ (Bullseye) BLR-CD-2005

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TROYKA
Robert “Bob” Edwards (guitar) / Michael Richards (guitar, vocals; later drums) / Ron Lukawitski (bass) / Bob Styrna (guitar)
Michael Richards’ family relocated to Edmonton, Alberta from England when he was quite young. His first band was The Rock Creatures in 1964 where he began writing original songs. This was sometime in 1964. In 1965 Richards went to see Gerry and The Pacemakers, and Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas at the Edmonton Garden. The opening act was a local group called The Strangers. Some time later The Strangers were playing at a small club and Richards went to see them. Richards met their drummer and him his desire to form a group that played original material. Not long after, The Royal Family was born and featured Richards (guitar and vocals), Larry Reese (drums), and Ortegas members Ron Lukawitski (bass) and Bob Edwards (lead guitar). Their first public gig was at the Muk-Luk Mardi Gras in February of 1965. With a fistful of original songs, the band was soon signed to Apex Records who released two singles – “I Told a Lie” b/w “Don’t You Even Want To Know” and “Sometimes” b/w “Solitude”. The Royal Family headlined at the Hullaballo-A-Go-Go at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton. In Fall of 1966, the band decided to leave Edmonton and head east if they were going to hit the ‘Big Time’. With their sights set on landing a major US record deal they headed to Montreal. They played at Expo 67 at the Garden of Stars venue and made soujourns to New York City on a regular basis. While there they recorded with Teddy Randazzo and rubbed elbows with industry heavies but they were never able to attract the attention of a label. The band decided to head back to Edmonton at the end of 1967. After losing their drummer, Richards decided to play drums and they changed their name to Troyka. In 1968, the re-invigorated trio began recording new demos. Richards and his father (the band’s manager) headed down to New York in the fall of 1968 to shop the songs. The material was met with positive reviews but no record deal was forthcoming. Back in Edmonton it was decided that they should build a professional calibre recording studio called Round Sound which Richards’ father built on his own from the ground up. By 1969 they were able to start recording new material. One song, “Natural” was sent to Atlantic Records in New York but didn’t get a response. With a full album complete, Richards went back to New York in August 1969 and began making the rounds at the various labels. As luck would have it, Atlantic’s A & R man Shel Kagan remembered the earlier song submission – but had lost the band’s contact info. After a short meeting Kagan announced he wanted to sign the band. Soon after, Kagan and Gene Paul (Les Paul’s son) fly up to Edmonton and spent time with the band discussing a deal, plotting out marketing for the album and taking the album cover photos. The self-titled debut album was finally released at the beginning of 1970. Troyka played at Fillmore East and Ungano’s in New York and opened for Rare Earth in Washington, D.C. Back in Edmonton they shared bills with Canned Heat and The Byrds. They then headed out on a major tour of US Colleges with Savoy Brown and Family. They played the Eastown Theater in Detroit, Michigan with Blue Cheer and finished up at the Electric Circus in Toronto sharing the bill with Leslie West & Mountain. While Troyka was in Toronto Edwards announced he was leaving the band. Without missing a beat they grabbed guitar player Bob Styrna in Toronto and accompanied them back to Edmonton where they headlined a major concert with the new line-up. By then the band already had a second album in the can but Atlantic passed on the option to release it. Styrna and Richards headed to Los Angeles in the summer of 1970 to shop the album. However, they returned from L.A. empty handed. Undaunted, they recorded a new album with the new line-up. In January of 1971 Richards took another shot at L.A. but was rejected again. Upon his return, Troyka called it quits; Richards spent the next 10 years in Vancouver trying to keep the music going but eventually moved to L.A. in 1984 to seek out a more enlightened spiritual path. He eventually relocated to New Mexico where he still works for the US Postal Service. After discovering a Troyka website online, Richards reconnected with his ex-bandmates 20 years later; Edwards went on to play with Paul Hann, Spiney Norman’s Whoopee Band (with Royal Family drummer Larry Reese and future Stony Plain Records president Holger Peterson), and The Katzenjammers featuring Dixie Lee Innis (Original Caste) before embarking on a solo career where he has released several solo albums including ‘Gigging’, a Rock Musical. He now lives in Victoria, British Columbia; Ron Lukawitski went on to play with The Chris Millinton Big Band, Steve Palmer and is a regular performer on Princess Cruise Lines ships. He currently lives in British Columbia; Troyka reunited  in 2006 and performed for the first time in 35 years October 6 in Edmonton at the Winspear Centre. with notes by Dan Brisebois.

Singles
1970 Natural/Berry Picking (Cotillion/Atlantic) 44062

as THE ROYAL FAMILY
1965 I Told a Lie/Don’t You Even Want To Know (Apex) 76971
1966 Sometimes/Solitude (Apex) 76981

Albums
1970 Troyka (Cotillion/Atlantic) SD-9020

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TRUCK
Bruce Fleming (keyboards) / David Borland (trumpet) / Rob Oliver (saxophone) / Bill Caldwell (guitar) / Sandy MacKay (drums) / Joe Edmonds (saxophone, trombone) / Michael Curtis (lead vocals, flute, percussion, acoustic guitar) / Larry Ernewein (bass, backing vocals) / David VanDuzen (guitar) / Graham Lear (drums) / James Roberts (saxophone) / Joey Miquelon (guitar) / Brian Wray (keyboards, flute, backing vocals) / Gord McKinnon (keyboards, vocals; replaced Wray) / Mike Langford (vocals; replaced Curtis) / Jim Crichton (bass; replaced Larry Ernewin 1972) / Marty Morin (drums; replaced Graham Lear 1973) / Todd Booth (keyboards; replaced McKinnon 1973) / Neil Chapman (guitar; replaced Miquelon 1973) / Paul DeLong (drums; replaced Marty Morin 1974) / Michael Sadler (vocals; replaced Langford 1974)
The band Sound Spectrum featuring Bill Caldwell, Sandy MacKay, Dave Borland, Rob Oliver and Bruce Fleming was formed in 1966 in the tiny Ontario community of Ingersoll. By 1969 they had changed their name to Truck, and moved to a city with a larger music scene – London, Ontario. With a slow and steady stream of performances in southern Ontario, the band began to gain notoriety for its “Keep On Truckin'” posters and bumper stickers. Soon, they began to push their boundaries into Québec. Their biggest gig was the Rockwood Music Festival in Orangeville, Ontario before a crowd of 20,000 people. Other notable gigs included opening slots for ELP, Deep Purple and Fleetwood Mac. They released one album which spawned several singles and even managed to land a track on the ARC Records compilation disc promoting CanCon called ‘Concept’. The group split up after a myriad of line-up changes; VanDuzen went on to perform with Looking Glass, Sea Dog, Ronnie Hawkins, Chuck Berry and other international artists; Lear went on to play with Santana and REO Speedwagon and is currently touring with the Paul Anka Big Band; Morin joined Goddo, and then Wireless with Langford and appeared briefly with the touring version of Klaatu in 1982. He is currently a member of Classic Albums Live; Jim Crichton and Michael Sadler ended up in Saga; MacKay played with The London Set; Hawthorne and moved into jazz where he was nominated for a JUNO Award in 1985 for work with jazz legend Oliver Whitehead and most recently has been in a band called After Four And More with bassist Larry Ernewein in London, Ontario; Chapman went on to co-found Pukka Orchestra and was a member of The Sattalites; DeLong worked with Kim Mitchell and Gowan and in 2015 joined a new version of FM; Fleming ran a music store for awhile and is now a Teacher’s Assistant and church organist in Woodstock, Ontario; Caldwell sells real estate in Ingersoll and is also a concert promoter; Oliver is British Columbia Coast Pilot; Borland went into the graphics business in London, Ontario; Booth owns Little Whirled Records Inc. and has worked as producer, arranger and engineer for artists like Kim Mitchell; Chapman co-founded Pukka Orchestra; Roberts is a session player and sax for hire and has toured with the likes of Rod Stewart; Miquelon joined Bob Seger’s Silver Bullet Band; Edmonds went on to a long professional music career which included a stint with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra in New York City and three years in Las Vegas freelancing and in showbands. with notes from Sandy MacKay, Todd Booth, Gordon McKinnon, David VanDuzen, and Joe Edmonds.

Singles
1972 Canada/Rain (Capitol) 72679
1972 Get It Together/Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow (Capitol) 72687

Albums
1972 Truck (Capitol) ST-6388

Compilation Tracks
1972 “People” on ‘Concept’ [Silver] (Concept 376/Arc) PRP-206

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TRUE CONFESSIONS
Line-up 1: Anna Bourque (bass) / Ruby T’s (vocals) / Alina Solina (keyboards) / Julia Bourque (guitar, vocals) ;
Line-up 2: Julia Bourque (vocals, bass) / Blanche Beube (keyboards, vocals) / Glen Binmore (guitar) / Bryant Didier (bass, vocals) / John Hamilton (drums);
Line-up 3: Julia Bourque (guitar, vocals) / Blanche Beube (keyboards, vocals) / Glen Binmore (guitar, vocals) / Mark Fournier (bass) / Terry McCubbin (drums)
Formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1979, this femme alternative act became quite popular on Toronto’s Queen Street circuit. The group featured future Jane Siberry/Drastic Measures bassist Bryant Didier and former Diodes drummer John Hamilton. They released a single on Bomb Records in 1979, and after several line-up changes they managed a self-titled album which was produced by Greg Warren (Twitch, G.A.S.). with notes from Mark Fournier.

Singles
1979 Give Him A Great Big Kiss/Jimmy’s Fast (Bomb) BOMB-5019
1980 Smokey’s Gonna Twist/Mating Games (Bomb) BOMB-5030

Albums
1981 True Confessions (Bomb) BOMB-7033

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TRUE MYTH
Malcolm McGuigan (vocals) / Tony Cook (guitar) / Bob Stirajs (guitar) / Steve McKenna (bass) / Tom Treumuth (keyboards) / Kirk Devereaux (drums)
True Myth was formed in London, Ontario as an offshoot of a class project by students at Fanshawe College. Tom Treumuth was the brainchild and keyboardist who helped the band secure a deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1979. Their debut album was the first digital album recorded in Canada and the second in the world (the first being Stevie Wonders’ ‘Secret Life of Plants’). Treumuth soon opened his own record label, Hypnotic, and the band switched for their follow-up album ‘Telegram’ in 1981. In the meantime, Treumuth had been moonlighting with another Toronto studio project The Fictions on their debut album in 1980. Treumuth would go on to produce the likes of Honeymoon Suite and dozens of other Canadian acts during the 1980’s many of them on his surviving indie label Hypnotic.

Singles
1981 Give It Up/Thunderchild (Hypnotic/Intercan/Pickwick) CAN-10022
1981 Try A Little Harder/[same] (Hypnotic/Intercan/Pickwick) CANP-10024

Albums
1979 True Myth (True Myth/Warner Bros.) TMD-2020
1981 Telegram (Hypnotic/Intercan/Pickwick) IC-1015

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TRUTHS & RIGHTS
1980s Line-Up: Mojah Mohjah (guitar, vocals) / Vance Tynes / Rudi Quammie Williams / Ovid / Abnadengel / Chico / Ras Ishaka;
2000s Line-Up: Mojah Mohjah (guitar, vocals) / Friendlyness (keyboards, vocals) / Garry Lowe (bass, vocals) / Bernie Pitters (keyboards) / Nigel Murray (drums)Recognized as one of Toronto, Ontario’s premiere Reggae bands; Mojah and Lowe became members of Gordie Johnson’s rock act Big Sugar during the 1990s before reforming a modern version of Truths & Rights.

Singles
1980 Acid Rain/Live-Up (Bucktu) BT-45-1001
1981 Metro’s No.1 Problem/Black Plight (Rhythm) RD-500

Albums
1980 Acid Rain [4-song 12” EP] (Bucktu)

Compilation Tracks
1980 “Acid Rain” on ‘Q107 Homegrown Album Volume 2’ (Basement/Attic) BASE-6002
2001 “Live Up” on ‘The Rebel Zone-Queen Street West’ (Sony) CK-80698

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TÚ
Amanda DiBlasi [aka Pina Di Blasi] (lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, timbales) / Cassandra DiBlasi [aka Josi Di Blasi] (lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, timbales)
Tú featured twin sisters Amanda and Cassandra Di Blasi who were discovered by Platinum Blonde’s management team of Tony Tsavdaris and Bruce Barrow and did backing vocals for Platinum Blonde and Paris Black among others. They were signed to RCA Records and their self-titled debut was released in 1987. The album was produced by Bruce Barrow & Blackwell at Phase One Studios and mixed by Mark S. Berry. Guest musicians included Sascha (drummer for Platinum Blonde), Claude Desjardins (drums), David Bendeth (guitar), Rich Chycki (guitar), Lou Pomanti (keyboards), Paul Markel (keyboards), Bruce Barrow (bass), Dave McLaughlin (bass). All the songs were written or co-written by the sisters except the cover version of Chic’s “Le Freak”. The album spawned a sizeable dance hit with the song “Stay With Me”. The group moved to CBS for the 1989 follow-up album ‘Secrets In The Dark’ produced at Metalworks by the TBA management team with Claude Desjardin. Guests included Rich Chycki, Sergio Galli (Platinum Blonde), Lou Pomanti, and Steve Sexton (Exchange).

Singles
1987 Last Embrace/Office Party (RCA/BMG) PB-50933
1987 Stay With Me/Time Will Tell (RCA/BMG) PB-50944
1987 Stay With Me (Duble Truble Mix)/Stay With Me (Dub Mix) (RCA/Victor) KD-10018
1987 The Language Of Love/Remote Control (RCA/BMG) PB-50976
1989 Stop Breaking My Heart/time Will Tell (CBS Associated/CBS) E4-3016
1989 I Used To Cry/First Things First (CBS Associated/CBS) ZS4-3090

Albums
1987 Tú (RCA/Victor/BMG) KKL1-0585
1988 Secrets In The Dark (CBS Associated/CBS) BFZ-81035
1993 Tú [re-issue] (B.E.I./A & M) 70055-5006-2

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TUBERS
A Mark Jowett (Moev, Cinderpop) project featuring vocal assistance by Téa Petrovic and Kevan Ellis (ex-Cinderpop).

Singles
2011 Tweetybird/The Synthesist [7″] (Popoganda)

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TUESDAY WELD, A
Elisabeth Kurtis (vocals, guitar) / Jonny Dovercourt [aka Jonathan Bunce] (bass) / Kevin Vernhout (drums) / Myke Canzi (guitar) / Omar Sheriff (guitar, backing vocals)
Toronto band featuring members of Sons Of Ishmael (Canzi) and One Blood (Sheriff)
formed in 1992. They would split up in 1994 after releasing one self-titled cassette; Dovercourt would go on to join Neck/Christiana; Kurtis would go on to join Deepspace; Vernhout would join Wilder; Dovercourt would go on to join Secret Agent as well as carve out a solo career under the name Kid Sniper.

Albums
1993 A Tuesday Weld [3-song cassette EP] (independent) 01

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TULPÄ
John Bottomley (guitar) / Chris Bottomley (bass) / Mike Severin [aka Sev Micron] (drums) / Glenn Milchem (drums) / Great Bob Scott (drums)
Chris Bottomley met Severin around 1982 through a mutual friend (Ian Thomson) and they soon started jamming together in Thomson’s bedroom rehearsal spot. John Bottomley was at Fanshawe College studying recording production. When he came back to Toronto, the three started jamming together and developed their sound through a rigorous rehearsal regimen. They officially became a performing unit in 1984 as Private Lives. Their first gig was at Toronto’s Turning Point. After discovering there was already a band from the U.S. with the same name they changed theirs to Samsara, and later, Tulpä. They perfected their chops at house parties and Toronto live venues like Larry’s Hideaway, The Rivoli, Cabana Room, The Beverly Tavern and Lee’s Palace. Tulpa shot to national prominence with a CITY-TV ‘New Music’ expose hosted by Daniel Richler. The band was producing their own videos including the breakout “Initiation Rites” which were crazy theatrical metaphors influenced by their stage show The Tulpä Circus. When they released their first full length record ‘Mosaic Fish’ on England’s Midnight Records in 1984, the ‘Globe and Mail’ took notice and started writing about them. Soon Tulpä was opening for major acts like The Payolas and The Tragically Hip, garnering rare opening act encores. They decided to launch their own national tour. Not content to sit on their laurels, the band headed to New York City in 1986 and played historic punk-rock venue CBGBs. Owner Hilly Krystal liked the band and placed them on some good bills, most notably with Michelle Shocked and Living Colour. They released a live record, “Off the Board – Live at CBGBs” and returned to New York many times as a staple of the CBGBs scene. Tulpä returned to Toronto and had another hugely successful show with Living Colour at The Diamond Club, who was touring with The Rolling Stones at the time. Severin left the band in 1987 for personal reasons and drummer Glen Milchem (Vital Sines, Blue Rodeo) stepped in for a year followed closely by exhibitionist/drummer Great Bob Scott (The Look People). At the apex of their success, infighting and personal rivalry splintered the group and brothers John and Chris Bottomley went on to solo careers. The band reunited for a 25th anniversary show in Toronto in 2010. John Bottomley died unexpectedly April 6, 2011. [also see CHRIS BOTTOMLEY, JOHN BOTTOMLEY]

Singles
1983 Apologize To Your Mother/Mystical Dreams (World) WRC3-2719

Albums
1985 Mosaic Fish (Midnight – UK) CHIME-00.10S
1986 Off The Board – Live At CBGB’s (Off The Board – US)

Compilation Tracks
1986 “Crosses On the Berlin Wall” on ‘Between Today and Tomorrow’ (Midnight – UK) CHIME-00.17L

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TUMBLEWEED
Cathy-Anne Whitworth / Chris Stevens (banjo) / Trisha Gagnon (stand-up bass)
Bluegrass group from Vancouver, British Columbia. The trio was voted ‘Best Bluegrass Band’ by the British Columbia Country Music Association for nine consecutive years; Gagnon was then handpicked by John Reischman to join his band The Jaybirds. She has also released a solo album.

Albums
1994 Living In A Country World (Crooked House) SA-94477CD
1999 Weedgarden (Continental City Song) CSCCD-1010

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TUNDRA
Al Manning (guitar) / Lisa Garber (vocals) / Scott Cushnie (piano) / Glen LeCompte (drums) / Bruce Manning (bass)
Following the break-up of his recording act Sugar Shoppe, Manning formed a quartet bearing his name in Toronto during 1970. The band played show tunes and crooner songs by the likes of Tom Jones, Tony Bennett and Engelbert Humperdinck. With the addition of a fifth member, Manning changed its name to Tundra (or The Tundra in the USA), and signed with A & M as their first ever domestic act in 1970. They had several radio singles, the most successful being “Band Bandit” which was co-written by John Rutter (…And Many Others, Crowbar). The song would be revived and recorded by Paul Clinch as a single on Attic Records in 1979; Cushnie continued to perform and record under the name Professor Piano. He died of unknown cause in 2018; Garber spent time in a duo with Noel & The Red Wedge singer Pat Noel who appeared on CBC Radio & TV. Garber left for NYC to try and land a recording contract which did not pan out. She is now a professor at the University of Toronto; Manning joined a later version of the band Noah in 1972 and, later, Coyote with Gary Comeau who released one single on Capitol in 1976; Al Manning died January 23, 1999. with notes from Greg Simpson, Richard Patterson, and Francis W. Davies.

Singles
1970 Band Bandit/Lord Pity Us All (A & M) AMX-307
1970 Fit to Kill/It’s All Over (A & M) AMX-315
1971 Need Our Love/Travel Days (A & M) AM-318

as LISA GARBER with TUNDRA
1971 Let Me Know/Song For You (A & M) AMX-314

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TUNS
Matt Murphy (guitar, vocals) / Mike O’Neill (bass, vocals) / Chris Murphy (drums, vocals)
A self-proclaimed supergroup featuring Matt Murphy (Super Friendz/Flashing Lights), Mike O’Neill (The Inbreds) and Chris Murphy (Sloan). The name is an acronym for Technical University of Nova Scotia where the Murphy brothers went during their leisure times.

Singles
2016 Mind Over Matter [DigiFile] (Royal Mountain)
2016 Throw It All Away (Royal Mountain)
2018 When You’re Ready/Kiss Yourself Goodbye [7”] (Royal Mountain) RMR-104-7

Albums
2016 TUNS (Royal Mountain) RMR-045
2021 Duly Noted (Murderecords) MUR-067

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TUQUE BLEUE, La
Benoit Massie (accordion, vocals, foot-tapping) / Mathieu Renaud (banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals) / Christian Lavergne (bass, guitar, vocals ) / Mathieu Thibault (bass) / Michaël Paquette-Renaud (bass, piano, vocals) / Véronique Boucher (percussion) / Marc-Antoine Otis (violin, vocals) / Martin Otis (violin, vocals) / Stéphane Malette (violin, vocals) / André Thibodeau (vocals)

Albums
2009 Tricoté Serré (Style Productions Inc.) LTB-2009CD

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TURNER, Kreesha
Born: June 10, 1985 in Edmonton, Alberta
Kreesha Turner was raised in Edmonton and at an early age was attracted to jazz music. At the age of 15 her mother sent her to Jamaica to experience her Mom’s native culture which included singing in the Pentecostal church. She was soon singing gospel in the choir at the Faith Temple Tabernacle in Bayside, Portmore. In 2003, after graduating high school, she became active in the urban/hip-hop community and began to seriously pursue a music career. Keesha Turner won The Bounce (91.7 FM) talent contest in Edmonton in 2005. The prize allowed her to record four songs with Vancouver songwriting/production team Hipjoint Productions. One of the songs from this session, “Bounce With Me,” was brought to the attention of Canadian entertainment manager Chris Smith (Nelly Furtado, Fefe Dobson, Tamia) and led to a successful audition with Virgin Records and signed with them under the Capitol-EMI distribution umbrella. Her debut was ‘Passion’ in 2008 which featured the singles “Bounce With Me,” “Lady Killer” and “Don’t Call Me Baby”. The latter of which became the No. 1 most played Canadian song on Canadian radio in 2008. “Don’t Call Me Baby” would also hit #1 on Billboard’s U.S. Hot Dance Club Playlist. Also in 2008, Turner was nominated for two JUNO Awards for “Best New Artist” and “Best Pop Album of The Year.” Her follow-up sophomore release was the double length album ‘Tropic / Electric’ and spawned three singles – “Rock Paper Scissors,” “I Could Stay,” and “Love Again.” The album gained her another JUNO Award nomination for “Best R&B Album.”

Singles
2007 Bounce With Me (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2007 Simple [6 mixes 12″] (Virgin – US)
2008 Don’t Call Me Baby (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2008 Don’t Call Me Baby (The Remixes) [11 mixes] (Capitol – US)
2008 Lady Killer (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2009 Passion (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2010 Dust In Gravity (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2011 Rock Paper Scissors (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2011 I Could Stay (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2012 Love Again (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2012 Keep Running The Melody (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2013 Gimme’ Dat (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2014 MJ (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2015 Sexy Gal (featuring T.O.K.) (Virgin/Capitol-EMI)
2016 Can’t Wait (featuring KONSHENS)

as KEESHA
2016 Reggae Dancer (featuring SHAGGY & COSTI)

Albums
2007 Passion (Virgin/Capitol-EMI) 09463-76418-2-8
2011 Tropic / Electric (Virgin/Capitol-EMI) 50999-642489-2-9

Collaborations
with DELERIUM featuring KREESHA TURNER
2010 Dust in Gravity

with WALLY LOPEZ featuring KREESHA TURNER
2012 Keep Running The Melody

with DeSTORM POWER featuring KREESHA TURNER
2013 Scattin’ On Me

with DeSTORM POWER featuring KOOWPLAYY AND KREESHA TURNER
2013 Fuckin’ Wit Me

with KY-MANI MARLEY featuring KREESHA TURNER
2015 Champagne Dreams

with MARLEY WATERS featuring KRANIUM, KREESHA TURNER, AND VERSE SIMMONDS
2015 On To You (Remix)

with SULTAN & SHEPARD featuring KREESHA TURNER
2015 Bring Me Back (2015)

with SIYA featuring JAKE&PAPA AND KREESHA TURNER
2016 Bombae

with YONNI featuring R.CITY AND KREESHA TURNER
2016 Like Me Like Dem

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TUULI
Line-up 1 (1996-1998): Jennifer MacIsaac (vocals, guitar) / Claire Blake (bass, vocals) / Swain (guitar, vocals) / Robbie Campbell (drums);
Line-up 2 (1998-2002): Jennifer MacIsaac (vocals, guitar) / Claire Blake (bass, vocals) / A Total Zero (guitar, vocals) / Kathie Wallenbrock (keyboards) / Erin Lang (keyboards);
Line-up 3 (2003-2005): Jennifer MacIsaac (vocals, guitar) / Claire Blake (bass, vocals) / Jen Blackwood (guitar) / Martha Rogowska (guitar) / Sarah Blackwood (guitar) / Naomi Langworthy (drums)
Formed in Toronto in 1997; split up in 2005.

Singles
1999 SPF 5 Million/[split w/THE TRAVOLTAS] (AmPop – US) AmPop-9
2000 You Better Know By Now What I Want For Christmas/[split w/BLACK HALOS] (Sympathy For The Record Industry – US) SFTRI-642
2002 It’s Over (Album Version)/It’s Over (Pop Version) (Linus/Warner) 2-71001

Albums
1999 Hotrods And Honeysuckle [5-song EP] (Tuuli)
2000 Rockstar Potential (Sympathy For The Record Industry – US) SFTRI-621
2001 Tour EP [EP]
2002 Here We Go (Linus/Warner) 2-70003
2002 Here We Go bonus [5-song EP/Enhanced] (Linus/Warner) 2-70003/B

Compilation Tracks
1999 “Girls, Girls, Girls” on ‘Indulgence, Inc.: A Tribute to Mötley Crüe’ (independent) CD-1023
2001 “Accidents Never Happen:” on ‘How Many Bands Does It Take to Screw Up a Blondie Tribute?’ (Sympathy For The Record Industry – US) SFTRI-599-2

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TWAIN, Shania
Born: Eileen Regina Edwards on August 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario
Eileen Edwards was born in Windsor, Ontario but raised in Timmins after she, her divorced mother, and siblings relocated. Her mother remarried and her step-father Jerry Twain (an Ojibway Indian) legally adopted the children at which time her last name changed to Twain. Though they struggled to keep food on the tables there was always an abundance of love and music in the household. Eileen often grabbed a guitar and retreated to the solitude of her bedroom, singing and writing until her fingers ached. Mom noticed her daughter’s talents, and she was soon being shuttled to radio and TV studios, community centres, senior citizens’ homes, and anywhere she could be booked to perform. Later, she spent summers working with her father as foreman of a dozen-man reforestation crew in the Canadian bush, where she learned to wield an axe and handle a chainsaw as well as any man jack. In the winter season, she would sing in clubs and do as many television and radio performances as her studies would allow. At the age of 21, Eileen lost her parents in car crash. She then took the task of handling her parents affairs as executrix of the estate and the responsibility of bringing her three younger siblings to live with her. She managed to keep the household going with a live-in entertainment job at Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville. She cut her teeth doing show tunes and light pop standards. After a couple of years the kids came into their own which reduced many of her responsibilities as a care giver. By 1990 she was completely on her own and she soon decided to adopt the Ojibway name Shania (though she was actually Cree by blood). Through this period her aunt took over managing her career and helped Twain record demos with several different producers, including Harry Hinde and Brian Gagnon. Eventually, she found that Nashville was the place to shop her original songs which eventually landed her a deal with Mercury Records. Although Twain was signed on the basis of her original material, her self-titled debut album in1993 featured only one of her songs – “God Ain’t Gonna Getcha For That” – as executives were nervous about launching a new talent on such green songwriting. The album was filled with the cream of Nashville’s songwriting pool. Alas, the album didn’t exactly set the industry on fire. However, a phone call from a distant admirer, rock producer Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Def Leppard, Bryan Adams) to rally support and believe in Twain’s ability not just as a singer, but a songwriter as well. By December 1993 they’d written half an album’s worth of tunes together and were married before the new year. As 1994 unfolded, they traveled (and wrote) their way across the U.S., Canada, England, Spain, Italy and the Caribbean. They began to lay down basic tracks for the new album in Nashville, later recording overdubs and mixing in Québec. The first teaser single from their collaboration was “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” which entered the Billboard Country Singles chart in January 1994 peaking at No. 11 stateside and No.2 in Canada. Meanwhile, ‘The Woman In Me’ album debuted on the Country Albums chart in February 1994. The next single, “Any Man of Mine” became her first No.1 hit single. The title track them peaked at No.14 followed by three additional No.1 hits – “(If You’re Not in it for Love) I’m Outta Here!”, “You Win My Love”, and “No One Needs to Know” through the remainder of 1995 and into 1996. Two more singles were released in late 1996 with “Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore)”, and the lullaby-hymn “God Bless The Child”, with proceeds from the latter donated to Kids Cafe/Second Harvest Food Bank in the US and the Canadian Living Foundation. Altogether, the singles chart action spanned well over 100 weeks mostly from Twain’s promotional use of videos and extensive television exposure to bring her new rocking country sound to the masses. The album spent 140 weeks on the Billboard Country Music chart prior to her next album. It would eventually sell 12 million copies worldwide. ‘The Woman in Me’ won a Grammy Award for ‘Best Country Album’ as well as the Academy of Country Music award for ‘Album of the Year’. The Academy also named Twain as ‘Best New Female Vocalist’. Billboard honoured Twain as 1996’s #1 Top Country Album Artist. She was also named ‘Favourite New Country Artist’ by the American Music Awards, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards and the World Music Awards. Her videos earned similar awards from CMT, ABC Radio Networks and others. Her third album ‘Come On Over’ was released in 1997 and was produced, once again, by husband “Mutt” Lange. The album rolled out with a modest start in September 1997 following her appearance on the Country Music Awards and quickly found a home nestled near the Top 50 of the Billboard Country Album chart. However, as programmers realized that the album was more pop than country, a storm of cross-over hits from the record began to catapult the album across all radio formats. “You’re Still the One” was the first single to hit the top of the charts followed by consecutive singles/videos that gave Twain a dominant place all over radio with “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”, “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and her duet with Bryan White entitled “From This Moment On”. ‘Come On Over’ would remain on the Country and Pop charts for the next two years, eventually breaking the record as the biggest selling female musician recording of all time at 40 million copies worldwide and the top selling Country album in history. Twain would win four Grammy Awards including ‘Best Country Song’ (“You’re Still the One”) and ‘Best Female Country Performance (“Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”) while Lange won Grammys for writing and producing “You’re Still the One” and “Come on Over” respectively. Despite the album’s run away success it never managed to hit No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart peaking at No. 2 (though it would set a record for the longest number of weeks in the Top 200 at 99 weeks). A complete pop remix of the album was released in Europe in 1999 and Twain was able to have a No.1 album on the UK album chart for 11 consecutive weeks. The album would sell four million copies in Britain and one million in Germany. In 1998 Twain launched her first concert tour with the assistance of manager Jon Landau (Bruce Springsteen). The ‘Come on Over Tour’ would win “Country Tour of the Year” for both 1998 and 1999 at the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards. To capitalize on Twain’s global success, her old demos and recordings from the 1980s with producer Harry Hinde were remixed and released independently in 2001 as ‘The Complete Limelight Sessions’ in October 2001. Twain took two years off to have a baby, changed management and finally went back into the studio with Lange for the November 2002 album release entitled ‘Up!’. Following the success of the remixed version of ‘Come On Over’, ‘Up!’ was released in three different genre formats – country/acoustic (green CD), pop/rock (red CD), and world/dance (blue CD). This time her album debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 selling 874,000 in the first week alone. It remained at the top of the charts for five weeks. Up! reached No.1 in Germany, No.2 in Australia and the Top 5 in the UK and France. In Germany, Up! was certified 4x platinum and stayed in the Top 100 for one and a half years. Once again Twain rode the singles/video charts with “Forever and For Always”, “Thank You Baby”, “Ka-Ching!”, “It Only Hurts When I’m Breathing”, “She’s Not Just a Pretty Face”, and “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!”. By January 2008, ‘Up!’ had sold 5.5 million copies in the US and was certified by the RIAA as 11x platinum. In 2008 Twain and Lange began divorce proceedings effectively stalling the progress of another album. In January 2011 she married Swiss Nestle’s chocolate executive Frédéric Thiébaud and in May Twain released her autobiography, ‘From This Moment On”. At a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville in June 2011, it was announced that Twain would headline her own show entitled ‘Still the One’ at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for two years beginning December 1, 2012. The shows were recorded and a live album was released in 2015. Twain would finally release a new studio album in 2017 entitled ‘Now’.

Singles
1993 You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me (Mercury)
1993 What Made You Say That (Mercury)
1993 Dance With the One That Brought You (Mercury)
1995 Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? (Mercury)
1995 Any Man of Mine (Mercury)
1995 The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You) (Mercury)
1996 God Bless the Child/(If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here (Mercury)
1996 (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here! (Mercury)
1996 You Win My Love (Mercury)
1996 No One Needs to Know (Mercury)
1996 Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore) (Mercury)
1997 Love Gets Me Every Time/(Dance Mix) (Mercury)
1997 Rock This Country! (Mercury)
1998 You’re Still the One (Mercury)1998 When (Mercury)
1998 Honey, I’m Home (Mercury)
1998 From This Moment On (Mercury)
1999 Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (Mercury)
1999 That Don’t Impress Me Much (Mercury)
1999 You’ve Got a Way (Mercury)
1999 Come on Over (Mercury)
2000 I’m Holdin’ On to Love (to Save My Life) (Mercury)
2000 Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) (Mercury)
2002 I’m Gonna Getcha Good (Mercury)
2003 Ka-Ching! (Mercury)
2003 She’s Not Just a Pretty Face (Mercury)
2003 Thank You Baby! (For Makin’ Someday Come So Soon) (Mercury)
2003 Forever and for Always (Mercury)
2003 When You Kiss Me (Mercury)
2004 It Only Hurts When I’m Breathing (Mercury)
2004 Party for Two (Mercury)
2004 Up! (Mercury)
2005 Shoes (Mercury)
2005 Don’t! (Mercury)
2005 I Ain’t No Quitter (Mercury)
2011 Today Is Your Day
2023 Giddy Up

with LIONEL RICHIE featuring SHANIA TWAIN
2012 Endless Love

Albums
1993 Shania Twain (Mercury) 514-422
1995 The Woman In Me (Mercury) 522-886
1997 Come On Over (Mercury) 536-003
2001 The Complete Limelight Sessions (Limelight) LIM-CD-8140
2002 Up! (Mercury) 170-350
2004 Greatest Hits (Mercury) 863-141
2015 Still The One: Live From Las Vegas (Mercury) 0254718514
2017 Now (Mercury Nashville) B0027069-02
2023 Queen Of Me (Republic Nashville) B0036777-02

Compilation Tracks
1998 “The Woman In Me (Needs the Man In You)” on ‘MuchMoreMusic’ (Universal) UMDG2-81074
2001 “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 2: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music’ (CMC) 0885 on
2004 “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” on ‘Going the Distance’ [Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Nettwerk)
2006 “Forever and For Always” on ‘Oh What a Feeling 3 – Juno Awards: Celebrating 35 Years of the Best in Canadian Music’ (EMI) 59829

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TWICE SHY
Steve Revington (vocals, keyboards) / Scott Revington (vocals, guitars)
A brother duo from London, Ontario who released one single “Take Me Dancing” b/w “Heart and Soul”. The recording featured the additional music accompaniment of Auto Records president Paul Brennan (backing vocals), Ian Stewart (bass), Jeff Stevens (drums), Derek Black (Emulator samples), and Duncan Grant (keyboards).

Singles
1987 Tame Me Dancing/Heart and Soul (independent) SR-8802

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TWILIGHT RITUALS
Grant Davidson Ford (lead vocals) / Thomas Payne (guitar, vocals) / Howie Beck (drums, percussion, vocals) / Dennis Mohammed (bass)
From Toronto, Ontario; Beck would go on to join The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir.

Albums
1993 Nazca Runway (Twilight Rituals) TWR-1540

Compilation Tracks
1993 “The Top” on ‘SoundCan: New Stuff Four’ (MMS) NSCD-004
1993 “The Top” on ‘Unsigned Sealed & Delivered – Volume 5’ (Bullseye) BLP-CD-4007
1994 “The Top” on ‘A Canadian Alternative Vol III’ (DAHB) SWM-003

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TWITCH (1)
Rick Laing (vocals, percussion, tambourine) / Ian Steeksma (guitar) / Steven Perry (guitar) / Mike Brown (drums) / Colin Steeksma (vocals) / Dan Reiland (bass) / Bernie Mulatz (drums)
A hard-rock quartet formed in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia out of the ashes of The Cry For Justice in 1971. The original line-up began playing around schools and clubs wearing theatrical make-up and planned stage shows. In late March and early April 1973 the band finished two recording sessions of four songs. Their first single, “Things”, was released in May 1973. A follow-up single, “Sweet Thursday”, was released on the band’s own Bird Records (an acronym for Bernie, Ian, Rick, Dan) in August 1973. Only 100 copies of each were pressed. Laing left in 1973 and was replaced by Ian Steeksma brother Colin. From 1974 through 1978 they changed their line-up several times as well as their style and performed harder edge dark metal and became progressively more theatrical. In 1976 they managed another single called “Mr. Spunk” on Astro Records. Their first two singles were eventually compiled and re-release as a deluxe 7” EP package in 2012 on Supreme Echo Records.

Singles
1973 Sweet Thursday/Country Tune (Bird)
1973 Things/Pick-Up Is Illegal On 401 (Hitchhiker’s Blues) (Demo)
1976 Mr. Spunk/Mess’n With the Bull Gets the Horn (Astro) 100-H
2012 Twitch [4-song EP] (Supreme Echo) SE-05

Albums
2015 Dark Years (Supreme Echo) SE-09

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TWITCH (2)
Garwood Wallace (vocal, guitar) / Bryan Pratt (bass, vocal) / Stephano Leroux (drums; 1979-1980) / Steve Feldman (drums; replaced Leroux 1980-1982)
In 1970, Garwood Wallace put together a London, Ontario based folk-rock group called Breadfeather featuring himself (guitar, vocal), Valerie Hudson (guitar, vocal), Bryan Pratt (bass), and Stan Mitchell (drums). Their regional claim to fame was playing the first ever rock concert at the Ontario Place Forum in June, 1971 produced by singer/songwriter Terry McManus. In the Fall of ’71 Wallace and Hudson joined Terry McManus’s studio band along with bassist John Woloschuk (later of Klaatu). The result was three single releases for A & M Records and an unreleased album. Wallace would later move on to various bands and solo acoustic work as did Hudson (whose song “Stormy Grey” was recorded by Karl Erickson and produced by McManus). Pratt played bass in various pick-up acts with Wallace in the ’70s (and later in the band Kids.) Twitch was formed in 1979 consisting of Wallace, Pratt and Stephano Leroux (drums). Leroux was from North Bay and like Pratt and Wallace, had recently moved to Toronto. The idea was to create a simple, direct, pop/rockabilly trio to play Wallace’s songs. Having long been an admirer of Bob Segarini, Wallace sought him out for guidance after hearing his 1978 Bomb Records release ‘Gotta Have Pop’. Segarini became something of a mentor to Wallace resulting in Wallace playing guitar and singing on the sessions for Segarini’s second solo album ‘Goodbye L.A.’ At one point, Wallace asked Segarini to attend a Twitch showcase at the Nickelodeon on Yonge Street in Toronto. Segarini was impressed enough with the energetic band that he had them open a show for him and his band that same night across town at the El Mocambo. Thus, the very first Twitch gig in front of a live audience was on June 2, 1979 to a packed house. This resulted in a lot of attention from local promoters and the media and Twitch quickly established themselves on the Toronto music scene as a fast, loud power-pop band specializing in nervous rock’n roll. They became the “house opening act” at the El Mocambo for much of the summer of ’79, doing shows with the Ramones, Link Wray, John Lee Hooker, and the Tourists, among others. Segarini also recorded a Garwood Wallace song, “Rock ‘N Roll Moment” for the ‘Goodbye L.A.’ album. In 1980, Steve Feldman, who had played with Pratt in Kids, replaced Leroux as drummer. By the Fall of 1980, Twitch recorded and released “Sad Girl”, their first single and video for Bomb Records. In February 1981, they began the sessions for the Bomb Records album ‘Twitch And Shout’, which was produced by Greg Warren and released in June of that year. ‘Twitch And Shout’ and its first single, “Take It Back”, received a lot of airplay and Twitch played extensively across Ontario, Québec, and the Maritimes. Various factors typical of the music scene in the early eighties contributed to the band’s demise and they played their final show together at Larry’s Hideaway on March 11, 1982. Bryan Pratt currently lives in Stratford; Wallace was the Customer Service Manager for Sam the Record Man’s flagship store in Toronto and is now retired. notes from Garwood Wallace.

Singles
1980 Sad Girl/What Do You Say (Bomb) BOMB-5034
1981 Take It Back/[same] (Bomb) BOMB-5035
1981 Up To You/[same] (Bomb) BOMB-5036

Albums
1981 Twitch And Shout (Bomb) BOMB-7034
2006 Twitch And Shout [re-issue w/bonus tracks] (Bomb) BLR-CD-7034

Compilation Tracks
1981 “Something I Can Touch” on ‘Bomb Catalogue No. 1’ (Bomb) BOMB-1

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TWO FEATHERS, Shannon
Born: Fred Shannon Roulette on September 16, 1936 in Sandy Bay, Manitoba
Freddy Shannon Roulette was a Canadian Aboriginal (Anishinabe) singer/songwriter came to the attention of Manitobans, and then all of Canada, after being signed to the Kanata label in 1972 where he released his first single “The Only Way To Keep It”.  The follow-up was “Separation Blue” on IMI Records – the title track from a highly sought-after independent album by the same name in 1973. From that album was a song called “The Prisoner” which received enough radio play that RCA Records issued is a single. It charted nationally and peaked at No.20 on the RPM Top 100 Singles chart in 1973. RCA failed to follow the record up and Shannon Two Feathers moved to the Maple Haze label in 1975 where he released the single “One Step Outside.” A move to WSM Records came next where he was finally able to record another full-length album called ‘Dreams That Feed A Gypsy’ with producer Wes Dakus at Edmonton’s Sundown Studios. There were several singles released including the title track and “Maria” in 1978 followed by “Listen to the Children” in 1979. Fellow Aboriginal artist Don Stonechild would record Two Feather’s “Child Of Stone” also on the WSM label. Shannon Two Feathers appeared in the National Film Board movie “The Red Dress”, and he wrote soundtrack music for the movie “Poundmaker’s Lounge – A Healing Place” in 1988.  He also illustrated his wife Maria Campbell’s book “People Of The Buffalo”. He was finally inducted into the Manitoba Aboriginal Music Hall Of Fame in 2008. It is believed that he passed away around 2011. No confirmation has been available.

Singles
1973 The Prisoner/Sweet Gypsy Hair (RCA) KPBO-0005
1975 One Step Outside/Smile (Maple Haze) MH-7505
1978 Dreams That Feed a Gypsy/Smile (WSM) CCL 45-507
1978 Maria/ Daddy Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (WSM) CCL 45-510
1979 Listen to the Children/The Singer (WSM) CCL 45-516

Album
1971 Separation Blue (IMI)
1978 Dreams That Feed A Gypsy (WSM) CCL-33-107

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TYLER, Jessica
Born: December 8, 1993 in Toronto, Ontario
Growing up in Ajax, Ontario, Jessica Tyler’s music career started quite young. She performed both the Canadian and American national anthems in front of 19,000 people for the 2006 season opening game of the Toronto Rock lacrosse team at the Air Canada Centre. At 12 years of age, she was the youngest person ever to do so. Following a national casting call in 12 cities in USA and Canada Tyler landed a dancing roll in Disney’s ‘Bella Dancerella High School Musical’ interactive home game that was sold through Wal-Mart’s across North America. Tyler was featured on the box cover. She also supplied the voice to a talking doll that was part of a merchandising campaign for the PBS children’s show ‘Franny’s Feet’. She also appeared in Washington, DC to perform as ‘Franny’ at the National Book Festival sponsored by former First Lady Laura Bush at the Library of Congress. Since the age of 10, Tyler has also done many TV commercials for Disney, Mac’s Milk convenience stores, and Crayola. Developing her chops as a singer-songwriter and guitar player, Tyler accidentally landed a roll on the 9th season of hit television show ‘Degrassi High: The Next Generation’. After performing a song during auditions for a musical guest spot, producers liked her look and personality and decided to add her to the cast as the character Jenna Middleton. Her original songs, “Mr. Perfect” and “Just A Girl” were performed by Tyler on the show and ended up on the show’s seasonal soundtrack CD. She closed out season 9 performing the song ‘I Believe’. Her other popular song, “Shine”, has also been an enormously popular Youtube video. In July 2011 she performed at the Ottawa Bluesfest and had musical accompaniment from her father Rob Tyler (Two For The Show).

Compilation Tracks
2011 “Mr. Perfect” and “Just A Girl” on ‘Degrassi: The Boiling Point – Soundtrack’ (Verve)

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TYME AND A HALF [see NOAH]

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TYRANNA
Vera Skye [aka Rabies] (vocals) / John Zeigler (guitar; 1978) / Ron Partridge (guitar, vocals) / Gerry Smith (bass) / Dave Porter (drums; 1978) / Cleave Anderson (drums; 1979-1980)
Toronto band formed in June 1978 and split up in January 1980; the band featured Cleave Anderson who would go on to The Battered Wives and Blues Rodeo, and Gerry Smith who would co-found The Wayouts.

Albums
2010 Tyranna (Rave Up) RURLP-063

Compilation Tracks
1981 “Back Off Baby” on ‘No Pedestrians’ (Chameleon) CR-535

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TYRO
Harry Moretti (drums) / Blair Warford (guitar, vocals) / Peter LeBlanc (guitar) / Bill Koluk (bass, vocals)
From Cambridge, Ontario. with notes from James Taylor.

Singles
1981 A Little More Time/Told You//City Life/Strong Willed Woman (Silent W. Productions) 810603

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TYSON, Ian
Born: Ian Dawson Tyson on September 25, 1933 in Victoria, British Columbia
Died: December 29, 2022 in Longview, Alberta
Though Ian Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria, British Columbia, he grew up in Duncan, British Columbia. He worked as a rodeo from his teen years into his early twenties. After a bad fall while on horseback, he learned how to play guitar while recovering by listening to records by Country artists such as Wilf Carter. His first public appearance singing, was at the Heidelberg Café in Vancouver in 1956. He also found himself in a Rock and Roll act called Jerry Fyander And The Seasonal Stripes. In 1958, Tyson graduated from the Vancouver School of Art and moved to Toronto where he started a job as a commercial artist. 1959 saw Tyson performing in local clubs and coffee houses solo and on occasion with actor/musician Don Francks. By late 1959 Tyson had teamed up another folk artist from Chatham, Ontario, Sylvia Fricker – writing and performing together. They would play together as a duo professionally for the first at the 1961 Mariposa Folk Festival. From there they would go on to folk clubs like the Cafe-Au-Go-Go in New York where they met music manager Albert Grossman (Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, The Paupers) who would send them through the Catskills Circuit, Chicago and Detroit. He eventually became their manager and landed them a record deal with US based Vanguard Records. Their debut album from 1962, ‘Ian & Sylvia’, did nothing if not make them a fixture of the early 60’s folk boom. The duo continued its remarkable rise in popularity and was inspired by the success of Dylan. Ian managed to write what would become one of the most famous of all folk songs, “Four Strong Winds”, after hearing Dylan do “Blowin’ In the Wind” in 1964. Ian & Sylvia were married the same year and continued working bars and colleges Though not hits for the duo, both “Four Strong Winds” and Sylvia’s first composition ever, “You Were On My Mind”, were successes for Bobby Bare (1964), The We Five (1965), and Crispin St. Peter (1966) respectively. The duo returned to Canada in 1964 and they had a son, Clay. Later, Sylvia would develop throat problems leaving Ian to perform solo to make ends meet. They’d release two more albums for Vanguard before moving to MGM Records in 1967 where the released ‘The Lovin’ Sound’ before being informed by Vanguard that they owed that label one more album. Contractually obligated, Ian & Sylvia delivered 1969’s ‘Full Circle’ to Vanguard before resuming their new relationship with MGM for the ‘Nashville’ album. By then their folk approach had almost completely been buried and a distinct country style had taken its place. As a means to explore this and other musical genres, the duo formed a free-form country-jazz instrumental experiment called The Great Speckled Bird which featured some of the hottest session players in the business – David Wilcox (guitar); Ben Keith (steel guitar), Jeff Gutcheon (piano), Jim Colegrove (bass) and N.D. Smart (drums). The public reaction was scornful but high profile live events like the Atlanta Pop Festival and Festival Express 1970 received better responses, and so they were inspired to release an album as ‘The Great Speckled Bird.’ The album was produced by Todd Rundgren and released on Ampex, but lack of sales and the folding of Ampex forced Great Speckled Bird off the road and unemployed. Ian would soon be asked to host CTV-TV’s ‘Nashville North’ television show which would frequently feature appearances by Sylvia over the course of five years. Sylvia took on the position of hosting CBC Radio’s ‘Touch The Earth’ and in 1973 was signed to a solo record deal with Capitol. Ian would be signed to A & M as a solo artist and eventually Stony Plain and the duo pursued the on-again off-again Great Speckled Bird project. Ian & Sylva played their final public performance in 1975 and The Great Speckled Bird disbanded a year later. The duo divorced the same year and maintained an amicable friendship. Ian Tyson returned to Southern Alberta to his own farm where he trained horses while still continuing to write new music. He would sign with Boot Records in 1978 for the album ‘One Jump Ahead Of The Devil,’ where he began to explore Country and cowboy themes in his music. The following year, Neil Young recorded a version of Tyson’s “Four Strong Winds,” and Tyson would use the royalties for a down payment on his own cattle and horse ranch. It was around this time that he also started playing regularly at Calgary’s Ranchman’s Club. In the early 1980s he signed with Columbia Records and his first album for them was 1983’s ‘Old Corrals & Sagebrush.’ He released a self-titled album in 1984 but the label let him go as public tastes began to shift. Seeing Ian Tyson as the force of Country that he was, Stony Plain Records would sign him next where he would record a dozen albums for the label over the next few decades. Tyson was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, with Sylvia Tyson, in 1992. He then became a Member of the Order of Canada in October 1994. In 2003, Tyson received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. In 2006, Tyson sustained damage to his vocal cords during a concert at the Havelock Country Jamboree followed a year later by a virus contracted during a flight to Denver which changed his vocal range to a sound he would describe as “gravelly”. Undeterred, Tyson released the critically acclaimed ‘From Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories’ album. He was then inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2006. The same year, he and Sylvia Tyson were inducted into the Mariposa Hall of Fame. In 2009, he was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music award as ‘Solo Artist of the Year.’ Tyson’s autobiography, ‘The Long Trail: My Life in the West,’ was co-written with Calgary journalist Jeremy Klaszus and released in 2010. In 2011 Tyson won the Charles M. Russell Heritage Award. Tyson died at his ranch near Longview, Alberta on December 29, 2022, at the age of 89 following several ongoing illnesses. [also see IAN & SYLVIA, GREAT SPECKLED BIRD]

Singles
1973 Love Can Bless The Soul Of Anyone/If She Just Helps Me (A & M) AMX-344
1974 Great Canadian Tour/Spanish Johnny (A & M) AM-360
1974 She’s My Greatest Blessing/Lord Lead Me Home (A & M) AM-379
1975 Some Kind Of Fool/Bonnifield’s Saloon (A & M) AM-387
1975 One Too Many/Faded Blue ‎(Broadland) BR-2165X
1975 Goodness Of Shirley/Faded Blue ‎(Broadland) BR-2146X
1976 Turning 30/Texas I Miss You ‎(Highwood) 77-0276
1977 Beverley/Faded Blue ‎(Highwood) HW-7707
1978 Half Mile Of Hell/One Jump Ahead of The Devil ‎(Boot) BTX-228 1979 Lone Star And Coors/Freddie Hall ‎(Boot) BTX-234
1979 What Does She See/Beverly ‎(Boot) BTX-239
1980 Alberta’s Child/One Too Many ‎(Boot) BTX-268
1980 The Moondancer/Texas I Miss You ‎(Boot) BTX-295
1981 Ol’ Alberta Moon/[same] ‎(Boot) BTX-315
1983 Alberta’s Child/Montana Waltz ‎(Columbia) 38-04234
1983 Old Corrals And Sagebrush/Gallo de Cielo ‎(Columbia) C4-4339
1984 Oklahoma Hills/ Murder Steer ‎(Columbia) C4-7022
1984 Colorado Trail/Sierra Peaks ‎(Columbia) C4-7046
1985 Rocks Begin To Roll/What Does She See ‎(Columbia) C4-7066
1986 Summer Wages/Own Heart’s Delight ‎(Stony Plain) SPS-1046
1986 Navajo Rug/Rockies Turn Rose ‎(Stony Plain) SPS-1048
1986 Cowboy Pride/Claude Dallas ‎(Stony Plain) SPS-1051
1987 The Gift/The Coyote & The Cowboy ‎(Stony Plain) SPSDJ-1056
1989 Cowboys Don’t Cry/Irving Berlin (Is 100 Years Old Today) ‎(Stony Plain) SPDJ-1068
1989 Irving Berlin (Is 100 Yrs Old Today)/Adelita Rose ‎(Stony Plain) SPS-1064

with SYLVIA TYSON / IAN TYSON
1972 Give It To The World [Sylvia] / You’re Not Alone Anymore [Ian] (Columbia) C4-3072

Albums
1974 Ol’ Eon (A&M) SP-9017
1978 One Jump Ahead Of The Devil (Boot) BOS-7189
1983 Old Corrals & Sagebrush (Columbia) PCC-80080
1984 Ian Tyson (Columbia) FC-39362
1986 Cowboyography (Eastern Slope)
1988 Old Corrals And Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain) SPCD-1307
1989 I Outgrew The Wagon (Stony Plain) SPCD-1131
1991 And Stood There Amazed (Stony Plain) SPCD-1168
1994 Eighteen Inches Of Rain (Stony Plain) SPCD-1193
1996 All The Good`uns (Stony Plain) SPCD-1234
1999 Lost Herd (Stony Plain) SPCD-1255
2002 Live At Longview (Stony Plain) SPCD-1282
2005 Songs From The Gravel Road (Stony Plain) SPCD-1305
2008 Yellowhead To Yellowstone And Other Love Stories (Stony Plain) SPCD-1339
2012 Raven Singer ‎(Stony Plain) SPCD-1361
2013 All The Good ‘Uns, Vol. 2 ‎(Stony Plain) SPCD-1367
2015 Carnero Vaquero ‎(Stony Plain) SPCD-1384

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TYSON, Sylvia
Born: Sylvia Fricker on September 19, 1940 in Chatham, Ontario
At a young age Fricker began to sing and decided over time that it was something she wanted to pursue for a living. Despite her parents attempt to discourage her, she headed to Toronto in 1959 to become a professional singer. Not long after working in coffee houses with nothing but an acoustic guitar, her singing voice, and arresting presence, she began to work alongside folk singer Ian Tyson after they two had been introduced by a mutual friend. They went to New York and were managed by Albert Grossman (Bob Dylan, The Band) and then signed to Vanguard Records. They had great success from Ian’s song “Four Strong Winds” and her own “You Were On My Mind.” As the folk scene began to wane in the late 1960s they put together a country rock act called the Great Speckled Bird. Following the collapse of the band, Ian & Sylvia divorced but remained friends. Fricker, now known publicly as Sylvia Tyson, began her solo career in 1975 and was signed to Capitol Records. She ‘Woman’s World’ that year, followed by ‘Cool Wind From The North’ in 1976. Tyson decided to take control of her recordings and created her own label – Salt Records – in 1978. She released ‘Satin On Stone’ the same year. The album was recorded at Grant Avenue Studio in Hamilton – with Bob Lanois producing, and Daniel Lanois contributing guitars to the album. It was followed by ‘Sugar For Sugar – Salt For Salt’ in 1979. She has been nominated seven times for a JUNO Award. Ian & Sylvia were inducted, as a duo, in The Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1992. Tyson would become a board member of both FACTOR and CARAS’ JUNO Awards. She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1994. In 2003, Sylvia Tyson was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. Ian and Sylvia performed “Four Strong Winds” at the 50th anniversary of the Mariposa Folk Festival in 2010. In 2012, she and singer-songwriter Cindy Church wrote a campaign song for the political entity called the Alberta Party. Tyson and Church also performed and recorded in the singing group Quartette with Gwen Swick and the late Colleen Peterson. Tyson has also written two books – ‘And Then I Wrote: The Songwriter Speaks'(co-edited with Tom Russell) and the novel ‘Joyner’s Dream.’ In 2019 Sylvia Tyson was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame for the song “You Were On My Mind.” [also see IAN & SYLVIA, QUARTETTE, GREAT SPECKLED BIRD]

Singles
1975 Régine/[same] (Capitol Records) SPRO-104
1975 Sleep On My Shoulder/[same] (Capitol) SPRO-105
1975 Blind Leading The Blind/Sleep On My Shoulder (Capitol) 72762
1976 River Road/Good Old Song (Capitol) 72768
1978 Love Is A Fire/May You Never (Salt) SR45-101
1979 Sweet Survivor/Woman In Love (Salt) SR45-101-2
1979 Same Old Thing/Lover Stranger (Salt) SR45-102
1985 Up In Smoke/Lover Stranger (Stony Plain) SPS-1036
1986 Long Distance Love/Bitter Pride (Stony Plain) SPS-1039
1987 Denim Blue Eyes/Blame It On The Moon (Stony Plain) SPS-1043
1987 Too Short A Ride/Summer Suddenly (Stony Plain) SPS-1050
1992 Diamond Love (Silver City – US) SCD-2266

with SYLVIA TYSON / IAN TYSON
1972 Give It To The World [Sylvia]/You’re Not Alone Anymore [Ian] C4-3072

with SYLVIA TYSON with GREAT SPECKLED BIRD
1974 New Truckers Cafe/[split w/GREAT SPECKLED BIRD] (Ampex) AC-1353

with SYLVIA TYSON AND LUCILLE STARR
1989 Pepere’s Mill/Le Moulin a Pepere (Stony Plain) SPDJ-1067

Albums
1975 Woman’s World (Capitol) SKAO-6430
1976 Cool Wind From The North (Capitol) ST-6441
1977 Satin On Stone (Salt) SR-101
1978 Sugar For Sugar – Salt For Salt (Salt) SR-102
1978 A Cosmic Christmas (Nelvana) NEL-7801
1986 Big Spotlight (Stony Plain) SPL-1100
1989 You Were On My Mind (Stony Plain) SPL-1140
1992 Gypsy Cadillac (Silver City – US) SCC-2266
2000 River Road & Other Stories (Salt) 23339-4004-2
2001 The Very Best Of Sylvia Tyson – You Were On My Mind (Varèse Sarabande – US) 302-066-228-2
2023 At The End Of The Day (Stony Plain)

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TZAR
Pete Tahan (vocals, bass) / John Tahan (guitars) / Frankie D. Tahan (guitars) / Guy Morin [aka Ludwig Van Guy] (drums)
Originally known as The Teasers, Tzar was formed in 1983 by the brothers Tahan in Orleans, Ontario; the band split up in 1986.

Singles
as THE TEASERS
1981 Love Me Like You Did Last Night/I Love You (independent) CRI-8109

Albums
1985 Players of the Game (Tzar) TZ-1493

Compilation Tracks
1985 “Born To Rock” on ‘Moose Molten Metal (Volume 1) (Capitol) SQ-6520
1985 “One Ticket To Paradise” on ‘Maple Metal’ (Viper/Attic) MVPR-108

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