Shooter, originally known as Greaseball Boogie Band, was a Canadian rock music group active in the early 1970s."Greaseball Boogie Band"

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. They were most noted for receiving a

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nomination for Most Promising New Group at the Juno Awards of 1975."Proudly Canadian: Shooter"
'' Cashbox'', March 11, 2015. The band, which initially tried to market itself as a Canadian version of Sha Na Na, consisted of vocalist Duncan White, keyboardist Ray Harrison, saxophonist Wayne Mills, guitarists John Bride and Michael Holman, and drummer Tommy Frew. Their debut album as Greaseball Boogie Band, consisting entirely of covers of 1950s rock songs such as " Be-Bop-A-Lula", "

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", and " Sea Cruise", was released in 1973 on

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. The associated single "Be-Bop-A-Lula" received modest airplay but did not chart, and the band received a Juno Award nomination for Most Promising Group in 1975. Almost immediately, though, the band changed their name to Shooter, and changed their visual image from a greaser look to a 1930s

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style. Around the same time, Holman and Frew left and Norm Wellbanks (bass) and Sonnie Bernardi (drums) were added to the line-up. The newly christened band released the album ''Shooter'' in 1975. The album again consisted entirely of covers, this time selecting more current songs by artists such as

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, and Roger Cook. They had hits on the Toronto-based

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and Canadian

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charts with "Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)" (#13 CHUM, #22 RPM), "Train" (#23 CHUM, #69 RPM), and "Hard Times" (#69 RPM), but GRT Records went bankrupt in 1976 before the band could release another album. They signed to Casino Records, releasing the radio singles "Cherokee Queen" and "Flows Like a River" in 1978 while working on the followup, but that label also went bankrupt before the album could be released. Harrison, Mills and Bride left to form Cameo Blues Band, while White and a returning Frew briefly carried on with a new band lineup that included Rhéal Lanthier and John Gibbard of Crowbar, but the band broke up by 1980 without releasing any further new music.

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