The first song he taught me was You Are My Sunshine, and he would rap me on the head whenever I made a mistake. contains two tracks: Hello Stranger (M. Grainger) and one other, 6. rehearsal In the fall of 1969 he enrolled at the University of Victoria with a major in Philosophy. One of them was a part- time model. The Yippies master plan was to put on a Festival of Life in Chicago, concurrently with the Democratic convention. Ill be 16 pretty soon, though. Ken Leonard, 17 years old and a student at Sheldon, is the fourth member and rounding out The Andantes is Gerry Schlegel, at 19 the oldest member of a young quintet. They were also used as substitute Supremes throughout 1968 and 1969 when Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong were experiencing tense relations. the Album. The management-like duties were a pain for Montague he was beginning to book gigs almost a year ahead but salvation came to him with an unexpected phone call in the fall of 1967: I was beginning to feel the pressures of high school concerns amid handling the booking, managing and playing all the gigs. Additionally Daryl was a great keyboard player and often played trumpet with his right hand while comping chords on the keyboard with his left. Thats everything I know he replied. I can honestly say that the Canadians helped put us in the Million Gallon Club with Lucky Lagerbut we also carried Coors, Rainer, and other varieties of beer. He had a fondness for that venue: It was a hippie scene going on tabs of acid flying around the room! Photos at Rendezvous Trianon Ballroom - Ballroom in New York The Great Flood is as versatile as The Andantes, but the group plays a different style, more reserved. We loved to open a second or third set with Kind of a Drag (We had the brass!!). Calart Studio was started in 1963 by ex-CKRM disc jockey Earl Brown. Denver was just starting his climb to fame he had released one LP Rhymes and Reasons, and one of his tunes Leaving on a Jet Plane had been covered by Peter, Paul and Mary. My aunt had a boy friend at the time who played in his band and the RCMP band. contains 1 track: Holy Woman (M. Grainger), 7. live performance Thats not to say Drew was a better drummer than Donny, just that he blended better with us at the time. After the first rush of rhyming teen idol material, he quickly headed for a more thoughtful mode which explored subjects as he describes: deeper, more political and/or working the margins of perception As all writers tend to do, he explored the pleasure and pain of relationships in his songs, but found them formulaic and not particularly genuine. As Gutheil describes: My dad had worked with the guy who owned the hall there, Paul Perry, in the 1940s and 50s. This internationally iconic California band with Joplin singing her hits, to us was a bit of a disappointment. In October of 1969 he married his high school sweetheart Mary Lou, and shortly after they moved to Saskatoon where he joined the graphic & layout department of Simpson Sears. Daryl Gutheil remembers: Bob had previously filled in with The Andantes a few times, but we knew he was committed to working with Don Young. They were the creme de la creme they were real showmen, the dance steps they were simply the best. The Dynamics even released a single on Allied Records, Such a Time b/w Bulldog Workout.. He made a lot of money playing the Minot Air Force base and the State Line on the border of ND and Montana. For several months near Easter of 1970, the group made Eau Claire their base of operations (boarding with the Edwards) as they penetrated as far afield as Emporia, Kansas. They asked meand Confederation I think was just ending. Donnie got wind that he (TDM) was coming to emcee one. He was obviously impressed by drummer Carmine Appice: The first number lasted a half-hour, as the Fudge lashed up a frenzy of sound, dominated by Carmine Appicis [sic.] The tapes, now in possession of Deutscher, contain a total of twenty eight tracks (some done 2 or 3 times) including covers like Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young), Daybreak (Rick Derringer), Tomorrow (E. King), Gotta Find a Way (R. Cobb/E. Daryl and Don Gutheil attend Campion College when they are not performing on stage. Gutheil also remembers that they played at the Kings Hotel in Regina frequently that fall, and at The Regina Legion. Bob Jesse, 25, and the newest member of the group, is the drummer. Were expecting a young crowd nurses, university types, business people and of course, teen-agers too said Dewayne. Title proper. Gene & Reg Dlouhy and the Canadians ad 1971. People would ask us when are you leaving? Oh, in a couple of days. Thats good because something is going to break out here soon. They knew it. Fred Taylors Todays Fool was a particular pleasure for Statham as Taylor was his first cousin. The Andantes started playing mainly high school dances in Regina and the surrounding district. I was 18 and underage, so I spent my breaks in a small room apart from the main club area; that was a little depressing. Producer: Dave Purple Rod McDonald recalls the club and its owner: To me it was a hippie/beatnik/artist/musician/coffee shop with a few political people thrown in and a draft dodger now and again. Advanced search Browse. But another group protested that they did not fill in a proper application form. We saw things in the same lighthad the same approach. And as one of the co-owners daughters Candace Conradi confirmed: The Rathskeller hosted live entertainment for 20 years, offering to pacts that drew literally thousands if not tens of thousands) into its welcoming space over its life. Montague remembers: that night all of us were in DEs 98 Olds driving along the curving lakeside vista of bright Chicago lights on the big four-lane highway that fronts it all, going back to our big downtown hotel. Get the Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Setlist of the concert at Trianon Ballroom, Regina, SK, Canada on June 29, 1954 and other Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Setlists for free on setlist.fm! In the meantime The Andantes continued on to their destination. Formed in New York in late 1967, their claims to fame were that they had clown-like stage names (Smoothie, Goodfellow, Wry One, Thump Thump, etc. Recalls Montague: I do remember a TV appearance in Yorkton, Sask. He returned to Regina and again hooked up with Don Young to form a three piece band known as the Greasy Mixture (an unappealing throwaway line from an American commercial for hair straightening product). Yuditsky, Amon and Griffin are students at Campbell collegiate, Jesse and Fraser work and Padwick, as mentioned, attends university. Its believed that a number of important records were recorded on that console when it was at Heiders, including some Beach Boys tracks. My intuition is that he was probably really financially hurting at this point, yet had no squirming option but to find the cash to cut that cheque through the union, and make it stick. The other was Wally Read and the Goldtones, a seven-piece group consisting of Wally Read, Merv Lowey, Gord Ruschiensky, Wally Gurka, Gord Magel, Jim Lowey, and Dave Yuen. Deutscher had been watching the Andantes for several years, jamming with them, and as previously mentioned had subbed a number of times for Gerry Schlegel.
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