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We had a week to produce the first Canada AM producer to call Barry. before. But I'd heard of it. hour of an Elvis Presley radio documentary and get It wasn't until some years later that I found The Medallion was copyrighted. No reputable it on the air. that the mysterious "someone", from Stouffville, jeweler could reproduce it. The copyright was While Bill McDonald was writing script at the who had worked with Elvis, consented to be owned by Elvis Presley. Legend has it that Elvis Mount Soudan Hotel in Toronto, I was telephoning interviewed by Canada AM. It was now 1978. I only gave it to people that mattered to him. everyone that Jerry Hopkins mentioned in, what was programming CHUM -FM. A major promotion Ed Wideman, my recording engineer was was at the time, the only book written about Elvis. was The El Mocambo live concert broadcasts. In wearing The Medallion. Urban music's oats We needed interviews. So, of course, I called RCA '78 alone, we produced 62 shows for radio. Frankly, Ed was always a man of few words. Records in Toronto. we were the best. King Biscuit in New York may Credited by and large for sin A lot of people in Canada claimed to have a have had better distribution and the WMMS shows W: Ed where did you get that Medallion? developing urban music out of hi connection with Elvis .. but the best connection at The Agora in Cleveland better hype .. but E: From Elvis. Pickering, Ontario, Beat Factory had always been Barry Haugen (I'm sorry to blow musicians and managers often told me that The El W: From Elvis Presley? Berry has a host of admirers. But it your cover Barry ... but hell, it's been 22 years!) Mocambo had the best mix. E: That's right! that way. As of 1997, Berry's beat Barry told me that there was someone in Our 'rep was mostly because of the people we W: Why did he give it to you? for sixteen long years, keeping the Stouffville, Ontario "who had worked with Elvis." had hired to produce the shows. John Cordina, Ed E: I used to work for him. pumping despite blanket rejection fr Barry didn't think he would talk to us. And, as it Wideman and later, Mike Elder, were fabulous. It W: Work? For Elvis Presley? Whatdidyou for an overwhelming fourteen of tho; was a tough job. Often, they had to make it work with partner Rupert Gayle, Berry turned out, he wouldn't. But we went ahead and do . .. record his concerts? produced the only radio documentary about Elvis, without the benefit of a soundcheck. E: No. manager, publisher, fan club, and re that Elvis himself authorized, in his lifetime. It's One day I came in early for a Todd Rundgren W: Well, what did you do? for any and all domestic hip hop show. Ed Wideman was setting up the board. For still being syndicated to this day by a US company. E: I sang. surprisingly, his Beat Factory 1 the first time I could remember, he wasn't wearing dominate the scene at a time Two years later, when Elvis died, Canada AM W: You sang? asked me to come on their show to talk about Elvis. a T-shirt. It was an open -neck dress shirt. And I nevertheless comparatively dorr E: Yeah. But I couldn't. I was going to be on CHUM -FM the could see, around his neck, he was wearing The success on the simple fact that W: You sang with Elvis Presley?? remained the only game in town. Tru-G's gain stature on cross -Canada tour E: Yeah ... fora while. Disenchanted with Canada, Ber W: You were in J.D. Sumner and The elsewhere, copping a Island UK When Vancouver's Z95 on -air personality Buzz allthe Massarelli and Stafferi provided Stamps? Toronto -based Dream Warriors an( Bishop introduced the Tru-G's to the Vancouver instrumentation for the album and wrote four of E: Yeah ...that's right. Atlantic deal for Michie Mee befog market, the day the band released their debut album the songs on the album with Domenic DiGironimo, From The Heart, retail requests almost immediately three with a writer identified only as DiMuccio, So the mysterious "someone" who had established the band in that market. and others with members of the band. All tracks "worked" for Elvis Presley was Ed Wideman. Since then and with a promotion push from with the exception of You Keep Breakin' My Heart, Tragically, Ed died in a car crash a year later. Vancouver -based John Hamilton & Associates and which was penned by the three bandmembers, But next time you see the legendary Elvis Live the July 4 kick-off of their cross -Canada tour, Just qualify as two and three-part Cancon. By Satellite From Hawaii concert, check out stage To See You Again, the second release from their The band's concert dates have been given an left. J.D. Sumner is on one microphone, two other album, has caught fire at several radio stations. extra boost through in -stores performances at HMV guys share another .. and between them on his own mike is Ed Wideman from Stouffville, Ontario CA Although from Gainesville, Florida, the Tru- locations in Vancouver, Edmonton and Winnipeg G's, who are Eddie James, Jr., Leo Price III, and as well as interviews at Edmonton's Power 92, Canada. James Flowers, have gained an unusual niche in Regina's CIZL, Winnipeg's CHIQ and CFMC in And now ... you've read the rest of the story. Canada. Their album was in fact recorded in Saskatoon. (Warren Cosford is a 32 -year veteran of radio in - , Toronto at Studio Basso with the band receiving The band was in the Toronto area Aug 2 both Canada and the US.