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John Critchley
John Critchley (born 1964) is a Canadian record producer and musician originally from North Bay, Ontario. Based in Toronto, Critchley is known for his production work, his recording studio Green Door Studios in Parkdale, Toronto, and as the singer/guitarist of Canadian band 13 Engines. Awards Critchley co-produced, engineered and mixed the album ''Days Into Years'' by the band Elliott BROOD, which won a Juno Award for best Roots & Traditional Album of the Year. Five more Juno nominations to date: * Elliott BROOD '' Mountain Meadows'' * The Once ''Departures'', * Amelia Curran ''Spectators'', * Cris Derksen ''Orchestral Powwow'', and * Donné Roberts ''OYA!'' * Two albums Critchley produced were shortlisted for the Polaris Prize: ''Mountain Meadows'' by Elliott BROOD and '' Nice, Nice, Very Nice'' by Dan Mangan. ''Nice, Nice, Very Nice'' is the first album to date produced by John to be certified GOLD in Canada. Musical career Critchley moved to Toronto to study musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Bay, Ontario
North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing District and takes its name from its position on the shore of Lake Nipissing. It developed as a railroad centre and its airport was an important military location during the Cold War. History The site of North Bay is part of a historic canoe route where Samuel de Champlain took a party up the Ottawa River, through present-day Mattawa, on to Trout Lake and via the La Vase Creek to Lake Nipissing. Apart from Indigenous people, voyageurs and surveyors, there was little activity in the Lake Nipissing area until the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1882. That was the point where the Canada Central Railway (CCR) extension ended. The CCR was owned by Duncan McIntyre who amalgamated it with the CPR and became one of the handful of officers of the newly formed CPR. The CCR started in Brockville and extended to Pembroke. It then followed a westward route along the Ottawa River pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Records
MGM Records was a record label founded by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack recordings (later LP albums) of their musical films. It transitioned into a pop music label that continued into the 1970s. The company also released soundtrack albums of the music for some of their non-musical films as well, and on rare occasions, cast albums of off-Broadway musicals such as ''The Fantasticks'' and the 1954 revival of ''The Threepenny Opera''. In one instance, MGM Records released the highly successful soundtrack album of a film made by another studio, Columbia Pictures's '' Born Free'' (1966). Background There was also a short-lived Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Records that began in 1928, which produced recordings of music featured in MGM movies, not sold to the general public but made to be played in movie theater lobbies. These Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer records were manufactured under contract with the studio by Columbia Records. History Soun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
