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Dear Old Daddy Bill
"Dear Old Daddy Bill" was the third and final charting single for Canadian band Motherlode (band), Motherlode. Not having the success of the two previous releases, it was only a minor hit for the group. Background "Dear Old Daddy Bill" bw " Living Life" was released in Canada on Revolver Records, Revolver REVS-005. It was written by Steve Kennedy (musician), Steve Kennedy, William "Smitty" Smith Smith and Kenny Marco. With the new distribution deal between Revolution Records (Canada), Revolution Records and Compo Company, the single was released by early May, 1970. Chart performance In June 1970, the single reached number 10 on the Top 50 MAPL chart. It peaked at number 20 on the ''RPM'' Top 50 Canadian Content chart. It peaked at #69 on the RPM100 chart.''RPM Weekly'', Volume 13. No 19 June 27th. 1970 Pages 11-12 RPM100 SINGLES/ref> References {{reflist Motherlode (band) songs Revolver Records singles 1969 songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motherlode (band)
Motherlode was a Canadian pop rock group formed in 1969 in London, Ontario. The group scored some success in the US with their single, " When I Die", which hit #1 in Canada and #18 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in 1969. The group didn't have a bass guitarist. William Smith would play the bass notes on his keyboard. They did however use bass players on their studio recordings. The act remains a one-hit wonder despite two more singles in the top 100 in Canada. Biography Early years The first connection can be traced back to the Blue Note club on February 22, 1964 where the club's house band, The Silhouettes were playing. Steve Kennedy was a member of the band and in a relationship with the female singer, Dianne Brooks. Doug Riley was also in the group. This is where William "Smitty" Smith first met Kennedy. Smith was working at The Flamingo which was a club down the road. Getting on well with each other straight away, they kept in touch. They had a plan to put togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. Soul music became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music of Africa. It also had a resurgence with artists like Erykah Badu under the genre neo-soul. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls, and auxiliary sounds. Soul music reflects the African-American identity, and it stresses the importance of an African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolver Records (Canada)
Revolution Records was a Canadian Record company. It was also the parent company for the Revolver label. It had success with hits from artists such as Dianne Brooks and Motherlode. Background Incorporated in October 1968, the company was co-founded by Mort Ross, Doug Riley and Terry Brown. The company started up in February, 1969. They were located at 31 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto. Ross was a veteran Canadian composer, instrumentalist and arranger. He also composed advertising jingles. In the beginning the intention wasn't to start off as a record company. They wanted to build a recording facility with equipment superior to that of other Canadian studios at the time. But with the studio having been built and ready for business in August 1969, two Doug Riley demos that had been recorded with Dianne Brooks as the vocalist. Impressed with what they had heard and the demos being ''"So good they had to be released"'', Revolver Records came into being. Revolution's label for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Kennedy (musician)
Steve Kennedy is a Canadian based musician who co-wrote the hit song " When I Die" which was a hit for Motherlode in 1969. He is also notable for being a member of prominiant historical Canadian groups such as The Soul Searchers, Dr. Music, Lighthouse, and Grant Smith & The Power. He was also a member of Blood, Sweat And Tears. Background Kennedy and Diane Brooks had been part of The Silhouettes who were a well established r&b group on the Toronto music scene. This group had actually backed Eric Mercury on his single, "I Wondered Why" / "Softly", which was released on the Clip label, catalogue no. 1122 in 1966. That year Kennedy left the group to form the instrumental core of The Soul Searchers with William Smith, guitarist Terry Logan, and drummer Eric "Mouse" Johnson, backing Eric Mercury and Diane Brooks. After some time Kennedy left The Soul Searchers and was replaced by saxophonist Glen McDonnell. When The Soul Searchers finally broke up, William Smith followed Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William "Smitty" Smith
William Daniel "Smitty" Smith (August 30, 1944 – November 28, 1997) was a Canadian keyboardist and session musician. Background He had been playing together with Steve Kennedy, Eric Mercury, Eric "Mouse" Johnson, Terry Logan and Diane Brooks in a Toronto band called the Soul Searchers that was fronted by Mercury and Brooks. After the Soul Searchers broke up, first Kennedy and then Smith joined a group called Grant Smith & The Power. In 1969 Smith and Kennedy, along with Ken Marco and Wayne "Stoney" Stone, formed Motherlode and went on to have a U.S. #18 hit with " When I Die." The group broke up in 1970 and Smith fronted a second version of Motherlode that was soon to break up after releasing one single. Smith became a session musician and played on and contributed background vocals to recordings by artists such as Bob Dylan, David Clayton-Thomas, Billy Joel, The Pointer Sisters, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Richie Havens, Tracy Chap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Marco
Kenny Marco is a Canadian guitarist who has been a member of historical Canadian rock groups such as Grant Smith & The Power, Motherlode and Dr. Music. He was also a member of Blood, Sweat And Tears. Background He has been described as the most prolific guitarist in the history of Canadian rock and roll. He has been a member of supergroups in the 1970s from Motherlode to Dr. Music and Blood Sweat & Tears. In later years, the musical genres he plays in include American funk/jazz and Brazilian cha cha. The son of a music store owner, he grew up in Brantford. The expected music path for him was to play the accordion like his brothers. Instead he took a different direction and learnt the guitar. He got his first guitar while still working as a newspaper boy on his paper route. He later attended Pauline Johnson Collegiate in Brantford, Ontario. He joined the high school band The Galaxies, and later at age 17, he hit the road with the Beau-Keys, his first road band, leaving his mother l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Ross
Revolution Records was a Canadian Record company. It was also the parent company for the Revolver label. It had success with hits from artists such as Dianne Brooks and Motherlode. Background Incorporated in October 1968, the company was co-founded by Mort Ross, Doug Riley and Terry Brown. The company started up in February, 1969. They were located at 31 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto. Ross was a veteran Canadian composer, instrumentalist and arranger. He also composed advertising jingles. In the beginning the intention wasn't to start off as a record company. They wanted to build a recording facility with equipment superior to that of other Canadian studios at the time. But with the studio having been built and ready for business in August 1969, two Doug Riley demos that had been recorded with Dianne Brooks as the vocalist. Impressed with what they had heard and the demos being ''"So good they had to be released"'', Revolver Records came into being. Revolution's label for re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memories Of A Broken Promise
"Memories of a Broken Promise" was a hit for Canadian group Motherlode in 1969. It was their second charting single. Background The follow-up to their hit " When I Die", Motherlode released "Memories of a Broken Promise" which was written by Dianne Brooks. It was released in Canada on Revolver A revolver (also called a wheel gun) is a repeating handgun that has at least one barrel and uses a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold up to six roun ... REVS 004 and in the US on Buddah 144. This being their second hit, it puts to rest the myth that Motherlode was a one hit wonder band. It would eventually be one the BMI Canada Certificate of Honour winners of 1969. Chart performance Canada By November 5, 1969, the song had moved from #49 to #38 on the WMCA Radio 57 Survey chart. By November 22, the song was at #4 on the ''RPM'' Canadian Content Chart and at #55 on the Canadian National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolver Records
Recreational Records was a British record label set up in 1981 by the Bristol record shop and distributor Revolver Records. Originally formed as an independent record label with its own distribution as part of the Cartel. Revolver Records and the Cartel Revolver Records (not to be confused with Revolver Music) was a long established record store based at The Triangle, Clifton, Bristol, and in the 1970s was a hangout of Mark Stewart, Nick Sheppard, and other local musicians. It also had a distribution arm, which allowed it to distribute its own records (under the Recreational label) and those of other Indie labels ( Monopause Records, etc.) via its participation in the Cartel. The Cartel was a co-operative record distribution organisation in the United Kingdom, set up by a number of small independent record labels to handle their distribution to record shops. By pooling their resources it allowed them to compete with the larger distribution operations of the major record label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolution Records (Canada)
Revolution Records was a Canadian Record company. It was also the parent company for the Revolver label. It had success with hits from artists such as Dianne Brooks and Motherlode. Background Incorporated in October 1968, the company was co-founded by Mort Ross, Doug Riley and Terry Brown. The company started up in February, 1969. They were located at 31 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto. Ross was a veteran Canadian composer, instrumentalist and arranger. He also composed advertising jingles. In the beginning the intention wasn't to start off as a record company. They wanted to build a recording facility with equipment superior to that of other Canadian studios at the time. But with the studio having been built and ready for business in August 1969, two Doug Riley demos that had been recorded with Dianne Brooks as the vocalist. Impressed with what they had heard and the demos being ''"So good they had to be released"'', Revolver Records came into being. Revolution's label for re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compo Company
Compo Company Ltd. was Canada's first independent record company. The Compo Company was founded in 1918 in Lachine, Quebec, by Herbert Berliner, an executive of Berliner Gramophone of Canada and the oldest son of disc record inventor Emile Berliner. Compo was created to serve the several American independent record companies which wanted to distribute records in Canada, such as Okeh Records. Its initial business was pressing records in Canada for these companies. Herbert Berliner broke with Berliner Gramophone in 1921, taking several senior Berliner Gramophone executives with him. This allowed Compo to immediately expand into a full-fledged record company by establishing the Sun and Apex record labels, among others. Apex was the longest lasting of the Compo labels, lasting into the 1970s. Compo was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression. RCA Victor Records of Canada—formerly Berliner Gramophone—was the other (it is currently the olde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cash Box
''Cashbox'', also known as ''Cash Box'', was an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996. Ten years after its dissolution, it was revived and continues as ''Cashbox Magazine'', an online magazine with weekly charts and occasional special print issues. In addition to the music industry, the magazine covered the amusement arcade industry, including jukebox machines and arcade games. History Print edition charts (1952–1996) ''Cashbox'' was one of several magazines that published record charts in the United States. Its most prominent competitors were ''Billboard'' and ''Record World'' (known as ''Music Vendor'' prior to April 1964). Unlike ''Billboard'', ''Cashbox'' combined all currently available recordings of a song into one chart position with artist and label information shown for each version, alphabetized by label. Originally, no indication of which version was the biggest seller was given, but from October 25, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
