Volume 4, No . 8 Week of October 1Bth, 1965
The music business is a changing business. The COUNTRYmusical fads of yester year are comm ercially INTERNATIONAL MUSIC dead and no o ne knows IN for sure how long the CANADA cash registers wil 1 con tinue singing to today's COUNTRY tunes. That's why many people in the industry looked with skepticism MUSIC at CFGM's switch to a n by al I-country format more GORD than two years ago."Sure MONTH country music is hot SYMONDS now," they said, "But how long will it last?" To add impressive muscles to their logic they pointed to the legion of stations which had hitched their formula-wagons to musical stars. "How long", they asked, "Had singalong music lasted?" And even while CFGM was mak ing the change to country a host of stations were abandoning the folk musii: format. It's evident now that CFGM' s wagon is tied to the music phenomena of the century. Country music has proved as durable as Berlin's "White Christmas". What's more, it's continuing growth in the past year in dicates the peak is still ahead. Here are some suggestions why. MORE STATIONS ARE PLAYING COUNTRY MUSIC More stations continue to play more country music every month. Though country stations were once confined to secondary markets, the trend is to larger metro sta sounds, acceptable to a far large tions taking the plunge into the all-country of the buying public than ever pool . Doing exceptionally well are country Listen to Eddy Arnold's "Make the stations in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Go Away" or Leroy Van Dyke ' s " Just a York, and Seattle. In many cases country State of Mind" and you'll see what I mean. stations have made such inroads into the The days of the fruit jar a nd the wash market that the pop stations have begun to board, the wailing fiddle and the off-key sprinkle country music liberally over their singer are gone. formula. (It does this old hillbilly heart POP ARTISTS HAVE GONE COUNTRY good to hear CFGM blasting away on such Country music has been exposed to the items as Little Jimmie Dickens' "May the world by such giants as Dean Martin, Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose.") Brenda Lee, Johnny Tillotson and, yes, Television, too, has rossed a couple of the Beatles. You can hear country mu sic grappling hooks at the fast-moving country instrumentally on new a lbums by Frank bandwagon. The Jimmy Dean Show below Chacksfie ld, llenry Jerome, The Three and the Tommy Hunter Show here are two Suns, Billy Liebert and J an Garber. If giving increasing attention to news, sports, examples of programs with a country music these people think country music is worth public service presentations and other foundation. Dozens of others, though not singing and playing and coll ecting royal features of high listener interest. Wherever using it in the cellar, have been wise ties from, who are we to argue? a station has switched to country music enough to strengthen their structure against COUNTRY STATIONS ARE GROWING UP and done it in such a way that everyone the ratings storms by adding country music Rapidly disappearing (Thank God!) are connected with th e operation could be above the frost line. (Shindig, llullabaloo, the stations who take an artificial cowboy, proud of what they were doing, a sizeable Steve Lawrence, Lloyd Thaxton, Johnny hand him a random armful of records and a rating increase has followed. Carson, etc.) batch of three minute commercials. The More a nd more we arc moving into an COUNTRY ARTISTS HAVE GONE successful country stations of today have age of spec ia li zation. The secret is to find MODERN a select list of the best music curre ntly a speciality format which will not be obso Without losing the basic qualities which available, tight production, first c lass lete in twelve month s . I predict that hun make country music unique, country record broadcast personalities, and excellent dreds of stations in a nada and the U.S. producers are currently creating magnificenr jingles. They promote shrewdly. They are will "discover" country music very shortly. prove the props. mu s ic became a world fa vo urice, thanks The first s inging s car to appear under largely co the development of the country the s potlight was ' The Dixie Dewdrop', - and western vocal is c. THE GRAND OLE Uncle Dave Macon. During the firs t 15 Although Uncle Dave Ma con had fo r 1 5 years of th e s how, Ma con was th e biggest years been the Opry ' s sing ing s car, the s ingle a ttrac tion. bas ic tal ent was the ba nd. OPRY Ma con ' s pare was more that o f a feat During its primary stages, th e s how was broadcast from the fifth fl oor a t the Nation ured voca lis e in a present day dance band. by Bria n Chalker al Life Bui lding . But, with th e additions to Roy Acuff, Pee We e King, Eddy Arnold, Th e Ryman Auditori the case, newer and larger qua rters were Red Foley, e tc •. Roy Acuff, ch anged this , he reversed um and the W. S.M. bui It on the same fl oor. Wit h the new s tudios in operation , listene rs w ere able the procedure, around 1938. Opry acts of Barndance to watch the performa nce. chose days included Pee Wee King a nd his The Ryman Auditorium in W S M Barn Dance remained as s uc h Golden West Cowboys. One in s trume nta list. Nashville, Tennessee, until 1927 , when it recei ved a ne w title, come singer, in the ba nd, Eddy Arnold, provides the right setting quite accidentally. On chat particular day, sang a song entitl ed ' Mom my, p lease s tay a nd a tm osph ere for the George D. Hay was given the signa l chat home with me '. le s ui te d him so w e ll ch a t world famed Grand Ole the Mu s ic appreciation hour had ended .a nd he was lifted from his s ub-ordinate pos i Opry. Captain Tom Ry- chat the Barn Dance was on the air. He tion with the band. man was the owner of a began th e programme by seating chat the Othe rs soon followed s uit, Red Foley , fleet of pleasure boats o n the Cumberland programme preceding th e Ba rn Da nce, was with 'Smoke on th e water', Ernest Tubb, River during the last 19th century . Ryman's devoted co the classics - mu s ic taken with, ' Watkin' th e floor over you', Ha nk boats featured gambling rooms, and saloons largely from Grand Ope ra. Bue from th en Williams , with, ' Your cheacin' heart' ecc ... a ll luxuriously equipped, which were con on, he would present " The Grand Ol e Here th e n was the bi rth of di e country s idered immoral by Sam J o nes, a noted Opry'' . T he name caught on and the s how singer. Adde d to this came a vase increase revivalist. J o nes, who was th e n holding increased in popul arity. in liste ners . meetings a nd services on th e Union Gos The Opry moves house. Today , th e Grand Ole Opry is famous as pel grounds, c halle nged Ryman to a ttend Country music becomes world favourite. the oldes t continuous commerical radio one of his meetings. Ryman accepted a nd Forced co move o nce more, d ue this s how - 40 uninte rrupted years . Varie ty has bro ught a long his c rew of riverboat ruffi time co a ban o n 'live' audiences, W S M been introduced - gay songs , gags, hymns, ans. They seated ih emselves in the front rented the Hillsboro T heatre in the south ball ads, ins trumentals, e tc. row with the sole intention of heckling wesc pare of the c ity. le became so popular Throughout its h istory, the Opry h as Jones, but Tom Ryman was touched when that on Saturday nigh ts crowds were being seen many greats on its ancient stage, Jones c hose as his s ubject for speech, turne d away. A tabernacle across the Cum Ha nk Wi lliams, Rod Brasefield, Uncle Dave 'Mother'. Ryman was converted ch at very berland River in east Nashv ii le was then Macon, Hawks haw Hawkins, and Cowboy nigh t. It was !hen chat he decided ch a t leased, but being in a ba d location , this Copas, a ll of whom have passed on. Others Jones was too good a preacher to be con was abandoned. The Opry the n move d to include Che e Ackins, P e te Drake, Johnny fined to a humble tent. Realiz ing that some the War Memorial Auditorium in the s hop Cash, Skeeter Davis , Jimmie Driftwood, thing had to be done, Ryman s tarted a fund ping area. J?rior to this move entry to the Flatt & Scruggs, Ma rcy Robbins, Jim to build a tabernacle for all revivalists, Opry had been free , but it was decided to Reeves, T ex Ritte r, Hank Snow, Ferlin regardless of creed. The Ryma n Auditorium charge 25 cents admission . Hus ky, The Jordanaires, Scringbean, was completed in 1892. The Grand Ole Opry h ad now been on Grandpa Jones , Bill Monroe , George Jones, George D. Hay, 'The Solemn Old Judge', the air for fourteen uninte rrupted years . In Johnny and Jack, Kitty We lls, Jimmy New a newspaper man from Memphis, a rri ved in 1941, the final move was made to the Ry man, Stonewall J ackson, Porter Wagoner, Nashville and noticed the tremendous man Auditorium, where it has been ever Lo retta Lynn, The Career Family, The wealth of hillbilly talent in a nd around the since. Louvin Brothers and others fa r too numer hills of Tennessee. Hay's love of folk The a ppeal of the Grand Ole Opry is ous co me ntio n here. music sec him on th e prospecting road. universal. Its audience is la rgely com The Grand Ole Opry 1s the proving On Sarurday, November 28ch, 1925, prised o f people from a ll over th e United ground for country singers . Despite the George D. Hay launched the W S M Barn Sca tes, a nd even foreign countries. In face they receive little or no fees, the Dance. W S M being the radio station that October, 1963, a group of thirty three prestige value of having appeared on the had Hay as its fi rst director. e nthusiasts from England, (including stage at ch e Ryma n Auditorium is enor The first performer o n that historic night myself) visited the Opry . The Ryman mous. was an old man of over 80, Uncle Jimmy Auditorium has seating capacity for 3,574 le can be safely said that the ultimate Thompson, who boasted that he knew a people. ambition of all country perform ers is to thou sand fiddle tunes. During the years following 1940, country appear o n che fabulous Grand Ole Opry. The Groups, gro wing pain s o nd T h e Opry. In those days, singers took second place co fiddlers, banjoists and guitarists, r------, who poured into W S M for auditions, fo llowing the success of Uncle Jimmy t t Thompson. Larger groups fol lowed o n , led by a Dr. Humphrey Bates who played the 1 1 harm onica, and brought along six neigh CFGM bo urs, all of whom p layed other instru ments. Bates and Hay named the group, 'The Possum Hunters'. It is still part of the show co this day, even sporting two of its original members. ! COU'4TRY MYSiC ! Next came g ro ups such as the Crook Broth ers, the Gully Jumpers a nd The F ruit t TORONTO 13 1 CJ t Jar Drinkers. They also remained in the t t Opry, although the personnel have changed. T he s how was n ow approaching growing t t pains. The fiddle rs and groups had got the s how going, but th e time had come to im- L------~ ARC HAS Arc Sound Limited has been the undisputed lead THE e r in recording Canadian country mu s ic s ince SELLING 1960. In ma ny cases Arc gave first recognition COUNTRY a nd the initia l establi s h In Canada ment of several country SOUND a rti s t s who a re now s teady pe rformers o n TV by a nd radio across Cana JI,, da. Th ese names include PmL Jimmy J ames, Artie Mac THI GRIAT COUNTRY SOUNDS l a re n , Roy Penney, Dic k ANDERSON Nolan, Ma uri ce Bolyer and Al Che rny. According co Arc President, Phil Ander come from son , country mu s ic has a widely varying meaning for each a rea in Canada and throughout the world but it is basically the music that appeals to run th e factories chat grow th e food, transport our goods , harvest our timbe r a nd in gen era ! the down-co-earth adult population. In th e Maritimes one type of country music is particularly s trong which is gen eral ly referred to as "down ease" style country mus ic, whereas 1n the prairie provinces the "weste rn" s ty le country music is mo s t popular. Ontario is a me lt ing pot of a ll types of country music. Of course recognitio n must be given co the astute businessmen who made Nashville the centre of ince rnacional country music Seven Years of Success Recording and its influe nce is fe lt in a ll pares of Canada. At the same time our country mus ic has a very stro ng tradition and in fact the c urrent popular Nas h vill e type country Canadian Country Artists mu s ic originated in Canada - the original mu s i c of th e southe rn states being "hill billy" or bluegrass" style country mu s ic . The country mu s ic promoters s till look to Can ada as a major source of songs and Arc Sound Ltd ., performers. Whil e in th e past country per formers have had to go o utside th e country for recognition, Arc is proud co have been able to cake th e leadership in getting these 20 Cranfi~ld Road , artists and writers recognition in their own country so th at eventually the y may become recognized as international performers Toronto 16 , Ontario. without becoming citize ns of another coun try. AR T IE AND THE MUSTANGS - Artie a nd the Mustangs h ave s ix more songs in the can soon to be released on the ARC labe l to follow up th eir las t big one, "THE RA CE IS ON". The new Mustang guitar sound on these new ones is something co LONNIE AND L OTTIE - Another popular watch for. mental favourites on "I REMEMBER YOU" duo from Hamilton, whose album has sold BERT CUFF - " SEVEN DAYS A WE E K" (A643), his second LP on the ARC wax. well. Arc second album release being pre and "ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND" by Included in this LP are cwo of hi s own pared now. Expect to see a lot of them on Bert C uff have bee n getting very good air compositions , "Everybody's Laughing At Chann e l 11 TV in the near future. play during the last few weeks and Bert, My Heartac h e " a nd "Bottoms Up''. Looks MICKE Y MC GI V ERN - This cop "guitar who now makes his home in T e nnessee, is like another good one for ARC Records a nd picker" has been featured on lead guicar in planning on returning to Canada co promote Jimmy James! most of our country sessions as well as his la test record. NED LANDRY - Canada's all-time fiddle being leader of the" Mustangs". He has ROYCE RIEHL AND THE COUNTRY champion has recorded exclusively for Arc just completed his new album titled "The COUSINS - Cookstown Old TymeOrchestra for two years now and has two s teady sell contest winners, The Country Cous ins ing albums to his c redit. He is appearing Ring of the Twelve String''. DICK NO LAN - The man with a big· voice have just re leased a n album on the ARC s teadily at night clubs throughout Ontario who can sing anything from Railroading and label. Included on th e LP are the numbe rs and the Maritimes. Trucking songs to Atlantic Lullaby, has that won chem th e contest in 1965, making BILL LONG - The M.C. a nd s ca r of C ha n three album releases on Arc. He is a steady it a total of three times th ey have won nel 11 TV J a mboree , has just signed a n performer at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toron this competition before capacity crowds. e xlusive recording contract with Arc and to and hails from Newfoundland. JIMMY JAMES - Jimmy Ja mes has recently the first a l bum is scheduled for release in released his newest collection of senci- November. COUNTRY MUSIC 1965 COUNTRY BY FRED ROY * TCP CCUHT!tY Like all other kinds of music, Canadian country music has witnessed a * 24 STA!tS tremendous upsurge in 1965 and the end of this growth in popularity is nowhere in sight. Much * TCP CCUHT!tY has happened• durin.g the "USIC year and much more is * "' yet to come. This year has seen the long await 14 SCHGS ed breakthrough for Can in a never-before-offered adian talent and country music has had it's * share of the resulting gains. Let us pause a moment and look back to the early days of 1965. As the new year * TWO RECORD SET! was ushered in, Alberta's Dick Damron was enjoying great success in a self penned RCA Victor disc called "Hitch * hiking" and Ron McLeod of Hamilton, Ontario has a hit, "Don't Come Crying To Me" on Quality. Quality came up with an * TBE WORLD or COUNTRY MUSIC other Canadian C & Whit a month later with Mryna Lorrie's "Do You Wish You Were 24 TOP BITS OX 2Gr.EAT LONG-PLAY RECORDS Free", while at the same time Sparton had * BUCK OWENS • MY HEART S!llPS ABUT r· SONNY JAMES • THE MINIITE YOU'RE OOHE three hits on their hands by Gary Buck, ROY Cl.ARI( • THE TIP OF MY FINGERS r fElll.IN HUSKY • TIMBER, l'M FAUING ~ Donn Reynolds and the Howard Sisters. J£All SHEPARD • SECOND flfJllt.E NANK THOMPSON • THE BLACKBOARD OF MY HEART Most of these went on to attain popularity * WANDA JACKSOH • MY BABY'S GONE CllARUE LOUVIN • f IJOff'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE in other countries as well as Canada. TEX RITTER • I DIMMED Of AH!LL-BltlY HEAVEN r ROSE MADDOX ·TIA LISA LYNN Around this time, RPM Music Weekly initi FARON YOONG • llEUO WAU.S <• GLEN CAMPBtll • SUMMER, W!Nl!R, SPRIHG, AND fAU. ated it's Canadian Country Music chart, the REil JOHHSIJM • THERE'S AGRANO 01.E OPRY SllOW PlAYIHG SOMEWlffRE first and only such chart listing the hits of * WYNll $TIWART • HALF OF THIS, HALT Of THAT BOBBY DURHAM • MY PAST tS PRESDIT Canadian country music talent, on a nation TOMMY CD!.UHS • Atl Of THE MDNK£YS AJN1 IN THE ZOO al basis. This in itself was a tremednous lEOM McAUUffE • I DONT LOVE HDSODY fl!A LOUYIN • YIJDEI. swm MOLLY step forward for the country artist in Cana * MERLE TRAVIS • SWEET TtMPTATIOH G WALTER HENSLEY • KICJ(lff' MUlE da. Never before had these artists and their MARY TAYLOR • HE BELIEVES ME DRAY PILLOW • TAKI YOUR HAHDS Off MY HEART respective labels had a show board for their NEAL MERRITT • YOIJA NAME'S BECOME AHOUSEHOLD WORD MAC WISEMAN • WHEN THE MOON COMES OVER TH£ MOUNTAIN successes. * As the months progressed, Canadian country music hits continued to grow, such as the Canadian Sweethearts with ''We're * Gonna Stand Upon A Mountain". Bob King's ''Texas Leather And Mexican Lace" and Sandy Selsie with "l Wish Thad Could Fall * In Love Today". In June, Myrna Lorrie re peated her earlier success, this time on OFFERED ATAN UN HE ARD OF Sparton, with "Can't Live With Him", * Diane Leigh had her initial Capitol re lease· "Won't Be A Lonely Summer" and LOW PRICE! Debbie Lori Kaye of Saul t Ste. Marie, * . ~~·. Ontario hit with "Picking Up My Hat" on Columbia. Other Canadian country artists ~ R ECO R D S like Dick Nolan, Jimmy James and Dusty * King also made some chart noise. A glance at the current RPM chart will verify the top artist-composer Ian Tyson had chart list Regretfult'y , the Canadia n country mu s ic Canadian country hits as we move on into *ings of their songs in the country field. field also had its gri ef with the passing of the fall. Canadians Hal and Ginger Willis had their three great men of the industry. Bob Bur Canada produced a bumper crop of home biggest success in 1965 with "The Lumber ton, president of BMI was nor a Canadian, grown hits too in the composing field. Most jack", " Klondike Mike" and " Nopper but his interes t in Canadian music was o f the songs mentioned above are Canadian The Topper" , all original compositions. great a nd in country music, both Can compositions by Canadian writers, in many July of 1965 saw the first FM radio sta adian a nd American much greater. cases written by the artist performing the tion switch when CJOB-FM in Winnipeg He died in Vancouver in March. ln May, an song. We must also stop to recognize such changed it's format to full-time country other great Canadian, Gordon V. Thompson, writing talents as Ron Kitson who hit with music programming, thus becoming the first head of the publishing firm which bears "Happy Birthday" by Loretta Lynn and such station in Canada and the seventh his name, died in New York. lie did much later with "Cadillac Jack" by Doc Willi station to program country music on full for Canadian country music, among them ams. Also, as both a writer and artist, scale. In similarity, the 1966 " Country the "discovery" of Wilf Carter in 1927 and Gordon Lightfoot must rate 1965 as his Music Who's Who" (Released October the publication of most o f Carter's musical biggest year with hits by Peter, Paul and 1965), a widely read annual yearbook,. writings. The first week of August saw the Mary, Marty Robbins and his own recording carries an 8-page pictorial history on Can passing of Ward Allen of Ottawa, longtime of "I'm Not Saying". Edmonton's Ray adian country music from 1920 to 1965, master of the fiddle, a Sparton recording Griff, Hamilton's Rudy Rivers and Toronto compiled by the writer of this article.: ontinued on page 6. Sure !! ...... o Play Sheet A LIFETIME OF LONLINESS - Jackie De Shannon - Lon 1wlw lro m Should! 1 x BABY DON'T GO Sonny & Cher Com KEEP LOVING ME - Van McCoy - Col I · 2 3 * l'M YOURS Elvis Presley Rea 1 3 4 xDO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC Lovin' Spoonful Qua 4 8 * LOVER'S CONCERTO Toys Qua Could l 5 10 xSOME ENCHANTED EVENING Jay/ Americans Com ONE GOOD REASON - Richie Knight - Arc 6 9 JUST A LITTLE BETTER Hermon's Hermits Qua 7 7 * ARE YOU A BOY OR GIRL Barbarians Qua May e1 8 11 * I KNEW YOU WHEN Billy Joe Royal Col 9 12 x l ' LL MAKE ALL YOUR DREAMS ... Ronnie Dove Com DON 'T TALK TO STRANGERS - Beau Brummels - Qua 10 13 x KANSAS CITY STAR Rager Miller Lon 12 16 * WHAT COLOUR IS A MAN Bobby Vinton Col GMP Guide 13 21 *YESTERDAY Beatles Cap 14 24 DAWN OF CORRECTION Spokesmen Com 15 27 *EVERYBODY'S GONE TO THE MOON Jonathan King Lon 1 DANCE THE LETKISS Roberto Del Grado Ral 16 32 POSITIVELY 4th STREET Bob Dylan Cal 2 IN MY STYLE Jane Morgan Col A 17 17 * FUNNY LITTLE BUTTERFLIES (f/ s) Patty Duke Com 3 THINK YOUNG Camarata and Ork Lon A 18 18 MUST I TELL YOU Liverpool Set Col 4 LOVE IS EVERYTHING Johnny Math is Lon 19 20 LOVE'S MADE A FOOL OF ME Esquires Cap 5 SONGS BY Allen-Ward Trio Mus 20 30 *DON'T WANT YOUR LOVE Great Scots Col 6 CHANTENT RAY CHARLES Double Six of Paris Lon 21 22 *UNIVERSAL SOLDIER Donovan/ Campbell All-Cap 7 MOSTLY LOVE SONGS Malka and Joso Cap A 22 25 MILLION TEARS (f/ s) Johnny/ Canadians Col 8 SUMMER WIND Wayne Newton Cap 23 26 xTREAT HER RIGHT Roy Head Lon 9 LA BAMBA Mongo Santamaria Col 24 29 STEPPIN' OUT Paul Revere/ RaidersCol 10 MISTY Andre Previn Col A 25 31 * 1-2-3 Len Barry Com 11 SONGS BY Petula Clark Cam A 26 28 TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS Lenny Welch Pho J2 HERE AND NOW George Shearing Cap 27 33 * YOU'RE THE ONE Vogues Qua 13 SONGS BY Richard Chamberlain Qua '28 35 WHERE DO YOU GO Cher Lon 14 SCORED FOR BALLET Toronto Philharmon ic Ork Col 29 34 *EVERYBODY LOVES A CLOWN Gary Lewis Lon 15 FAVOURITE SONGS OF LOVE Briare I iff Strings Cal 30 37 NOT THE LOVIN' KIND Dino, Desi, Billy Com 16 SWEETHEART TREE Johnny Mathis Lon A 31 38 LET'S HANG ON Four Seasons Lon 17 REMINISCING Slim Whitman Lon N 32 36 A TASTE OF HONEY Tijuana Brass Qua 18 A WORLD OF OUR OWN Seekers ·~ Cap 33 39 I MISS YOU SO Anthony/ Imperials Com 19 COUNTRY LOVE SONGS Vic Damone Cam N 34 new x JUST LIKE TOM THUMB'S BLUES Gordon Lightfoot Com A-ACTION N-NEW ON CHARTS 35 new xlTWASI Big Town Boys Cap 36 40 xWHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS ... Johnny Rivers Lon 37 new * BUT YOU'RE MINE Sonny & Cher Lon 38 new x LEANING ON THE LAMP POST Bradfards Cap Countr 39 new x C' EST UN SECRET Michel Lauvain Com 40 new x LOOK THROUGH ANY WINDOW Hollies Cap l BREAK THE NEWS TO LIZA Gary Buck Spa * RPM FORMER PICK x RPM FORMER EXTRA 2 MY TENNESSEE BABY Danny Harrison Com 3 MY GOOD LIFE Cy Anders Qua 4 ISLE OF NEWFOUNDLAND Bert Cuff Arc Comers 5 CATHY KEEP PLAYING Stu Phillips Rea EXTRA THINK Jimmy McCracklin Lon 6 BRING ON MY LOVE Moc Wiseman Spa EXTRA ROSES & RAIN BOWS Danny Hutton Arc 7 CADILLACIN' AROUND Angus Wa Iker Lon EXTRA WORK WORK WORK Lee Dorsey Qua 8 WHAT WILL TOMORROW BRING Danny Coughlin Spa EXTRA LET'S MOVE & GROOVE TOGETHER Johnny Nash Unk 9 BOTTOMS UP Jimmy James Arc EXTRA CAN YOU CRAWL OUT YOUR WINDOW Vacels Qua 10 COME ON IN MR . HEARTACHE Lennie Siebert Spa
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GEORGE ·AND JUNE PASHER - George COUNTRY MUS IC a nd June Pasher a re getting good play on A GREAT NAME IN their latest a lbum with the ARC people, PRESENTS IT ' S LATE SUMMER AND FALL a nd are currently touring th e Ontari o a rea. Included in th e ir plans is a Canadian tour C&W RELEASES to promote their "ARE YOU MINE" LP. 1342 That's What Hurts Me So ROY PENNEY - Roy is th e other King of Myrna Lorri e r Can't Live With Him Country Guitar in Canada. lie does a mas 1353R Badger Bodine Lennie Siebert terful job on "Shotgun" guitar a nd is Come On In Mr . Heartache featured on Dick Nolan' a lbum "Truck 1355R What Will Tomorrow Bring Donny Cough I on Driving Man". Hj s own a lbum " Boss Just Outside The Door 1356R Green Hills and Blue Rivers Aubrey Hanson Guitar in Teensville" fe aturing pop-country Th e Wilf Corter Song tunes wi ll be released so.on. 1357R Strange Old Town Willis Brothers DONN REYNOLDS -Donn Reynolds, cham A Six Foot Two By Four pion yodeller, has jus t re leased an album l358R Country Guitar Phil Bouch Chottonoogo on th e ARC label containing hi s mo s t re, 1360 Walking After Midnight Patsy Cline ques ted number. He wi ll take his LP on Lovesick Blues hi s tour of Europe in December. 1364 Break Th e News To Lisa Gory Buck SHARON STRONG - The young fifteen Just Look Behind You 1365 I'm The Mon Jim Kandy year o ld girl with the bi g voice everybody Angel vii le-Sky is ta lking about is Mis s Sharon Strong. Al 1371R Big Tennessee Tex Williams though Sharon has been s ing ing on radio My Last Two Tens and TV for about ten years, this is her 1373 Th e Lon ger You Wait Bonnie Owens Numb er One Heel fi rst e ndeavour on record a nd from a ll in 1374 I' m Gonno Break Every Heort I Con Merle Hoggard dications we've got a hit. Wat ch for th ese Falling For You two "NUMBER F IV E" a nd "WHEN 1375R I Told Her Noncy Ryon YOU NEED A LAUGH". The Troubl e l376R The Great Figure 8 Roce Johnny Bond xuuuuueuuuuuuuuu Sad ie Was A Lady 1377R When I Come Driving Thru Willis Brothers Pinbol I Anonymous 1381 R Bringing Mory Hom e Moc Wiseman THIS WEEK, I gracio us ly Mop I e Sugar Sweetheart relinquish my colunm for 1382R Beneath {The Green Green Grass Of Home Gwen Collins the Canadian cowboys. Before I Learned To Liv e (Henry Snow has al ways 1384R I'd Be Lying Dottie West Walking In Th e Dork been o ne of my very l386R One Mon Bond Phil Bough favourites!) (Hi Ho Sil Live Wire ver!!! Till next week) 1388R Before He Was Yours , He Was Mine Mory Taylor a nd have I got an Finders Keepers l389R Five Feet High And Rising Th e Shocklefords ttem for you. The BBG One has (Ed: R elinquish 1396 Moy The Bird Of Paradise Fl y Up You r Nose Lamar Morris Miss C. R elinquish.'!!) Bonk For The Lon ely 1397 I Foll To Pi eces Dottie Wes t Crazy Oct 25 Re le ase Christmas Roses Earl Roach & Th e You Con Stop Me Canadian Rambl ers DJ copies avai labl e on request from Harold Pounds , Sporton Records, Box 2125, London, Canada SPARTON RECORDS s hould be used. Canadian Bluegrass fans Continued from page 4. will be pleased to know that the dobio gui tar is featured on this album, played by artist, a nd composer of many fiddle tunes Gamy Scheels. - Brian Chalker, which have become standards in the coun RPM MU SIC WEEKLY try music instrumenta l field. Editor and Publisher Canadian country music has, indeed, lee itself be known a nd heard in 1965, and we Spartan recording artist Myrna her WA LT GREALIS can s urely look forward to 1966 with the home in Fort William, Ontario. RPM MUSIC WEEKLY i s publis hed weekly feel ing and anticipation that it will have ALBUM REVIEW by RPM, Records Promotion Mu s i c , 1940 many more successes. Perhaps by the "Bluegrass Cannonball" Bonff R BS 11 97 Yonge Street, Toronto 7 , Canada. Authorized a s s econd class mail by the centennial year (1967) Canada will be, at A good album from Can ada's Ron McMunn long last, recognized as a world l eader in and His Country Cousins . I'll go as far as Po s t Office Department , Ottawa, and for p ayment of pos tage in cash. Single copy musical tal ents. to say ch at this is as good as we've heard price 30 cents, Subscription prices $10 per SUBSCRIBERS .. _ anywhere. I feel however that I must com year, $ 15 by air USA and Canada. $20 per ment upon the jack et design. Jackets are year, $40 by air, other countries. Adv ertis Be sure to v ote in the ing rate s on reques t. a selling facet. If good live drawings can RPM Country Music Poll not be u sed then attracci ve photographs PRINTED I N CANADA . ~ .~~-~ ~.rJO WAl kU OFFIC ERS .. hecut.ve Oirec•o• Sept embe r 17, 1965 HX • 1nn, PrHlden1 CONNI [ I GAY , Viet' PtHider11 Connie I Goy lroodco1ling Corp. JACK STA PP , Vice Pre1lden1 hH P.ibli1htng Cornpony WM H, Diru1ou·ot-lor9• Express, The British Archer, New Record FRANCES PRESTON Chalrn1on Mirror, Polic e Wo rld and now RPM Music lroudcau Mu1ic, Inc J WllllAM 0[NNY Weekly. Cirdo•..,oe>d Publi1hing Co Plays banjo, guita r and harmonica. HAROLD HITT Col.imb10 Recording Studio Appeared on three occasions on E nglis h JUANITA JO NES ASCAP Southern T el evi s ion and on WSM Ra dio, W f l.i WE HAVE THESE OUTSTANDING ~COUNTRY MUSIC ~ PERSONALITIES DONN REYNOL DS Has a new sing le a n A rc ROSS ALLEN • STEVE AVERY o KENNY BIGGS • COUSIN JAKE ANO UNCLE JOSH " LORELEI " If DENVER DUKE AND JEFFERY NULL • AUBREY HANSON • DOTTIE MAE • SQUEELER McCOY f/ s JACK SILVERS o HOWARD VOKES • BILLY WALLACE • SMOKEY WARREN o JIMMY SIMMS • RUSS WHEELER "CooCoo Wa ltz" Album release t o fo ll ow from For Furthe r De tail s Bo x 400 To ronto Ontario CANADA'S COUN T RY AMBASSADOR 0 1.,,;bv1od by SPARTON RECORDS 19, CANADA TAKE5 PART fN ••• tNTERNATfONAL COUNTRY Hll5fC HONTH COlUMBIA'S GAlAXY or COUNTRY : ARTISTS ... 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