records promotion musicVolume 4, No. 14 Week of November 29th, 1965

Dee and the Yeomanhave a unique settingfor the recording busi-ness. There are only

4( three in the group andthey have succeeded

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* with six or eight mem-* bers. Their Quality re-cording of "Take theFirst Train Home" and''Why Why Why" areexamples of their tightte musicianship and talentat writing.

The group is made up of Dee (GrahamDunnett) who was born in Middlesex, Eng-land in 1941. From 1957 to 1961 Dee play-ed in no less than 23 bands and gained agreat deal of experience which gave a greatboost to his writing abilities. In 1962 hejoined The Starliners and made tours ofthe British Isles backing many of the bigname recording artists. He cut two re-cords with The Starliners and also madea Pathe Tech. movie to produce the re-cords. This movie was shown throughoutEngland. It was also in 1962 that hisgroup received a contract to play in the"Star Club" in Hamburg Germany, and forsix weeks shared the bill with The Beat-les, Gerry and The Pacemakers and TheUndertakers. After this exciting engage-ment Dee and The Starliners toured Francefor six months which added to his success-ful conquering of Continental Europe.

Always anxious to keep on the moveand go where the action is, Dee decidedto move out to England and after lookingthe situation over he met Len and Terryand formed Dee and The Yeomen. Theirfirst record "Say Baby" established thegroup as one to watch not only in Canadabut the United States as well.

Their second record for CanCut onQuality produced by Stan Klees Produc-tions is a hit bound sound and on thestrength of this release Dee and TheYeomen are now travelling quite regularlybetween Toronto and Montreal. Recentlytheir CanCut release was snatched up byBell Records for US release.

Terry Watkinson, one of the Yeomenplays organ. He was born in Fort William,Ontario on Sept. 15, 1942. Terry's father,originally from Liverpool, England, is a

high school principal which was a highlycontributing factor to Terry having a high-er than average scholastic background. Itwas at the early age of seven that Terrystarted taking classical piano lessons,which he did for six years. The familythen moved to Iroquois Falls, Ontariowhich besides a change of scenery also

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brought about a change in his musicappreciation. It was in Iroquois Fallsthat Terry learned popular music fromlocal musicians and formed his own danceband. He also learned to play the saxo-phone. After graduating from high schoolTerry enrolled at the University of Torontoand studied Architecture but found thatthis wasn't for him and after two yearsleft the U of T to play full time with alocal group called Sonny and The Se-quins. It was during his stay with thisgroup that he had the chance to haveseveral of his songs recorded. In thefall of 1964 Terry met Dee and Len. Deeencouraged Terry's writing and singingand through the winter of 1964-65 the threeworked out what is now the tight tightgroup known as Dee and The Yeomenwith a repertoire of several hundred origi-nal compositions.

Len Lytwyn, the other Yeoman, wasborn in Toronto on July 15, 1942. Hestarted guitar lessons at the age of 10but after a few lessons switched to theaccordian. He stayed with this instrumentfor about three years but wasn't too keenon the restrictions that went with an

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accordian player and after joining a musicclass in high school, jumped at the chanceto learn how to play the saxophone.

The sax was also a drag and finally atthe age of 16 Len joined the school bandand fell in love with the snare drum andfinally became involved with all types ofpercussion instruments. After high schoolhe worked at a full time job and playedweekends with odd groups improved andstudying all the time. After about a yearAfter about a year Len considered himselfprofessional enough to get with a realprofessional group and make the musicbusiness his full time career.

After about two years of club work hemet Dee who asked him if he would be in-terested in forming a new group. The nextjob was to find a third member whichturned out to be Terry and the rest is his-tory, but the book is just opening for Deeand The Yeomen. Their amazing abilityof sounding like six instead of three topnotch musicians and their manner ofputting their own compositions togetherto come up with that sound that sells willmake Dee and The Yeomen one of the newCanadian groups who will make Canadaknown throughout the world.

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v., er-town promo man sendsnews of the success of"Pacific International'66" which starred EnzoStuarti and FlorianZaBach. Bud & Traviswound up a successfulweek at The Bunkhousewith Johnny Rivers giv-ing way to The Right-eous Brothers at TheCave. Timi Yuro's stayat Isy's gave local ra-dio a chance to put her

records back in swing again. Dick Con-tino followed Timi. Tommy Leonetti wentwell with the Chinese food at the MarcoPolo but for those who preferred Italianfood, a night of free spaghetti was setaside which turned out to be the mostpopular evening by far. The Queen Eliza-beth Theatre has just completed a fullroster of activity including Glenn Yar-brough, Errol Garner, Gracie Fields andJohnny Mathis. The Roger Wagner Choralwas also a good crowd drawer. Coming upis the Jack Benny Show, Dec. 4 and 5.

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CFRA's Campus Club Pres, Gord Atkinson seenintroducing The Staccatos at the C.C.Ex withCFRA's Dick Moloney at far left and morningpersonality "General" Ken Grant using hispersuader on the cheering section.

New York: Frank Slay and Dennis Ganimmake with their "Join the Claridge Re-bellion" in an effort to get their XmasLP "Christmas In Washington Square" offthe ground early. Van Trevor does thevocal honours. Reaction on the easternseaboard has already been promising.

Ren Grevatt sends news that Acuff -Rosenow adds Japan to its Empire of publish-ing and recording complex. Japan is re-garded as the world's third largest musicand record market.

Andy Kim, popular young Montrealer,negotiated himself into a contract withRed Bird. His first release co -written byAndy, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich"I Hear You Say" is a very strong sideand could be the one Andy is looking for.

Port Arthur: Basil Hurdon of TartanRecords brings us up-to-date on the busyhappenings of Bobby Curtola. So far thisyear, Bobby has starred in 160 PAs from

coast to coast. He's made three appear-ances at the CNE and emceed the gigan-tic Toronto's "A -Go -Go" show. Octobersaw the release of his 30th single and7th LP. Bobby was declared winner of TheMac as "Canada's Most Popular Artist"in a poll taken by the Toronto Telegram.Each week (Saturday) his popularitygrows with his appearance on the "AfterFour" TVer. The big news was the phen-omenal sale of his LP for Coca-Cola.For this effort, Quality Records andCoca Cola have arranged to present Bobbywith a gold record which will probablybe presented to him on TV sometime thismonth. The "Bobby Curtola Purse" turn-ed out to be the most popular race at theCanadian Derby in Edmonton. mi

RCA Victor: Stan Kulinis excited over the re-action already genera,ted with the release ofthe newest by J.B. andThe Payboys "PoorAnne" and "My Love".Both tunes were pennedby the boys. New fromNova Scotia comes theDu Cats with "Off TheHook"and "Good ThingGoing". These boys whohail from Port Aux Bas-/ que will be releasing aCanada -International LP

sometime in the new year. Les Jerolasappeared recently at the Comedie Cana-dienne in downtown Montreal and in eightshows drew over 21,000. This was goodenough reason for RCA to record the boyslive which will be their next LP release.A tour of the Province will also get under-way. Stu Phillips made such an impressionon the Canadian scene that he has beensigned by RCA Victor stateside. Stu willbe working out of Nashville with a prob-able LP release the first of the year.Lucien Hetu makes the scene with anothermuch in demand Camden organ LP."Skaters Music" has already been hailedas a welcome addition for skating clubslooking for the right material for theirfigure skaters. Lucien is one of the mostsuccessful of French Canadian artistswith sales on one album reaching 110,000.

Arc: Bill Gilliland gets set for twogiant singles. "Blue Lipstick" writtenby hitmaker P.F. Sloane especially forPatrician -Anne is already getting the startreatment throughout Upper Canada and theEastern Seaboard. "Poor Little Fool"gives Terry Black another notch in hisbid for International stardom. Terry is nowa very important part of the Los Angelesscene but has been able to make periodicvisits with his folks in Vancouver.

Columbia: Bob Martin reaches for thesky and pulls out all plugs to make theworld aware that Columbia has the nextbig star on the recording scene. BobbyKris and The Imperials even gassed theColumbia folks from New York. "Travellin'Bag" and "Walk On By" is sure to esta-blish Bobby as the one to watch.

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Bob McAdorey CHUM TorontoBaby What You Do To Me Ernie Lyons"Great debut disc. This is the kind ofbeat that sells. After listening to half adozen Canadian releases this week, wechose Ernie as our Canadian Talent Spot-light pick."

Graham Wyllie CKCL TruroWoman and Man Diane Leigh"Diane almost made it with "LonelySummer" Has hit it with this one. A

winner in numerous phone polls. Alreadyon chart at No.36".Ray Nickel CKOM SaskatoonWhen Love's Gone Kenny Hamilton"Production's good and Ken does a goodjob. But I felt that the sound wasn't onethat the kids would flock to the recordshops in droves to buy. Should make thecharts in some areas though."Ray Bye CKSO SudburyHoochi Coochi Coo Wes Dakus

"Wes and the group, and boys at Clovisseem to be coming closer to the disc whichwill hit mass approval and make it acrossNorth America."Glen A. Wright CKLN NelsonDarling Don't You Go Jay Jackson"This is a smooth number, but somehowI just don't think it will make it. The re-cord is well done, but there are just toomany of this type that are losing out thesedays."Sandy Gardiner Ottawa JournalDarling Don't You Go Jay Jackson"The recording is good,the vocal good butthe song doesn't strike me as a chart -buster. It deserves air exposure."Graham Hart CKBW BridgewaterDarling Don't You Go Jay Jackson"Pops right along and the organ soundsgreat. Seems to present a sound prevalentin the late 50's and well 'Darling' mightjust 'Go'."Bob Stagg CJCA EdmontonStuck On Yourself Dean Curtis"Has possibilities, but seems to lackcomplete excitement. Good sound general-

ly. Horn section is a bit old fashioned, not1965."Ray Nickel CKOM SaskatoonA Penny A Teardrop Barry Allen"My personal pick to click from the mo-ment it hit this station, because it hasthat folk-rock beat that's definitely 'in'these days. Also because Barry is oneof Canada's fastest rising young perfor-mers. Definitely top ten material."Glen A. Wright CKLN NelsonWoman and Mon Diane Leigh"This is a great piece ol music. Fashion-ed after the movin' sounds of Bob Dylan,it is the kind of record that both the youn-ger set and the mid twentiers who areyoung at heart will JUST GRAB. This isthe type of music that is up and comingand should see a lair Play on all sta-tions."Graham Hart CKBW BridgewaterBaby's Gone Away Bobby J. Newman"What's underneath this one 'Another ofYour Toys' is the sound with the potentialand the one to play with."Graham Hart CKBW BridgewaterBut I Love You Ardels"It rambles along in a rather appealingsort of way and is just different enoughto make an impression, although maybenot too deep a one."Sandy Gardiner Ottawa JournalFreckles, Freckles Skip Evans

"This is definitely a big contender. It'scatchy and ready made for all -day pro-gramming. Skip should easily hit thecharts."Chuck Benson CKYL Peace RiverDarling Don't You Go Jay Jackson"A winner. Top 20 for sure!"

Brian Dixon CKDM DauphinDarling Don't You Go Jay Jackson"Has a winning sound. It will go if itgets a bit of play from a few more stations.It certainly is going to get play here. I

particularly like the instrumental bridge inthe middle of the song. I only wish allCanadian talent was this good."

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SOUNDING BOARD isone of my favouritefeatures in RPM (outsidemy own column). Often Ifeel that Canadian DJsshould go a little furtherthan criticize and producea session or two to get aREAL insight into re-corded sound. One hasand very successfully. I

am talking about DuffRoman who is not only aDJ with CHUM, but thevery successful producer

Ig of the David ClaytonThomas sessions. Duff also owns RomanRecords, and has had many good produc-tions on the market by other artists.Thomas' first LP is making a big noise forCapitol (who distribute it) and his nextsingle may just be the winning sound forDCT., and a real chart topper!!

DJ's HAVE A HABIT of using verySAFE remarks in Sounding Board, and veryfew of them have really chalked up any kindof a score in hit predictions. I will try toanalyze some of their comments here, andtheir REAL meaning:"we'll put it on the battle, and see whathappens .. ."- cause I really don't know a hit when Ihear one'"has possibilities in areas where R&Bsells . . ."- how about areas where records areplayed???"This is one of the best Canadian soundsI've heard!"- but I can't find it listed in this US trademag????"GREAT! GREAT! GREAT! Going right tothe top!"- and I manage this group."It hasn't got that commercial sound . . ."- Oh! It's TOO original!"It sounds too much like another record..."- Oh' It's not original ENOUGH'"It needs a lot of air play .. ."- Yep' that's what it needs'"I like the other side . . ."- That's it baby, split the action"'"Great talent! Sure to be a hit. This artistdid a gig with me last week and will beback in two weeks . . ."- It's just like living next door to theartist.However, the Sounding Board has provento be not only an advantage to artists, buta good media for bringing DJs to the atten-tion of the trade. I hope every disc jockeylistens to the records sent out for SoundingBoard, and when he does spot a hit, hesends back his comments. Possibly readersdon't know that this feature is a pickfeature not a review column. Records thatdon't impress a DJ don't have a ballotreturned.

GOSSIP! The Canadian sound is goingto change. Why would be edited. Right?(Ed: Right') But the change will be to thebetter. (Ed: Right!)

Marty Shannon is a name not to forget!!!Big people are interested. Watch for arelease soon!!!

BOB VOLLUM branches out on his own6

as an independent sound man. Bob has beenat the board for many many Canadian hits,and many producers will not work with any-one else. Understand Bob will locate soonin the Music Canada Building.

Nelson:Glen A. Wrightnotes that with theapproach of winter CKLNhas re -arranged theirprogramming to accomo-modate their youngerlisteners. Sign off isllpm. Mon. to Thurs .Friday gets the extrahour as does Saturdaywith heavy concentra-tion on the rock sound.The Civic Centre recent-ly saw the 2nd annualBattle Of The Bands.Says Glen "The Am-bassadors came throughgreat."

Medicine Hat: News from Ted Hockadaythat Chief Announcer, Gerry Givens movesup to Production Manager at CHAT. For-mer PM Glen Yost moved over to CHAT -TV. Ted moves from afternoons to lookafter the all -nice rock show.

Cornwall: Tom Iley and CJSS are feel-ing their Canadian oats. Says Tom "Ithink Canadian talent is finally pickingup its feet and starting to move up if itcan get more support from our Canadianbroadcasting media. "Big in Tom's areais "Falling Tears" by Dave Britten,"Poor Little Fool" by Terry Black and thenew entry by Carol Wharton "I AlwaysWake Up Crying."

Penticton: Wayne Barry blows his CKOKhorn over the success of their newly intro-duced record hops. Barry and Bob Gouegontravel throughout the Okanagan along witha group known as the Batour 55's. LanceHarrison, Vancouver based RCA recording

artist dropped by the station touting hisLP release "The Vancouver Scene." Barrypicks this LPas a must for those in searchof Canadian talent. Hank Snow and theRainbow Ranch boys grabbed good audi-ences at their PA Nov. 17.

Peace River: The big promo in thePeace country is CKYL's Don Hamiltonwith his "Discotheque for an Xmas Bash"contest. Restricted to schools. The schoolsending in the most used chalk wins. Allchalk received will go to under-priviledgedschools in Southern Alberta and Saskat-chewan. (Ed: Whaaaaa?)

Saskatoon: Dee and The Yeomen getthe nod from Ray Nickel at CKOM withtheir Cancut entry of "Take The FirstTrain Home". Former Saskatonian ErnieLyons gets a big boost with his Capitolouting of "Baby What You Do To Me"."Try To Remember" by The BrothersFour is a consistent battle winner.

he wouldcouple of

Stopped up at Epic Re-cords this week. KenColeman introduced him-self to me and then toldme he would be in NewYork for six weeks.. VanMcCoy told me he wouldbe doing a new sessionthis week. He said"We'll go real commer-cial this time". He'sthrilled with the way"Butterfly" has takenoff in Canada...I wasn'tat all surprised whenCharlie Calello told me

be leaving The 4 Seasons in aweeks. He waited until the boys

could find a replacement...Had coffee withDick Heard this past week. As editor ofFor The Record, he reads RPM everyweek. It isn't at all unusual these daysto walk into any music publisher's office

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and see a copy of RPM in the magazinerack...The night of the blackout, I had tocancel an appointment I had with JohnnyNash. He told me he would be recordingthe following day... Met Barry McGuirewhile he was making the rounds of musicpublishers before cutting his next ses-sion...Sorry I missed meeting Ron Scri b-ner when he was in town. Hope I won 'tmiss him next time.

Don Costa records Julius LaRosa's firstMGM date this month...Herb Bernstein willarrange and produce dates for Genius, Inc....Steve Lawrence will record an LP ofLeo Fuld songs...Timi Yuro's next re-lease is the country hit, "Once A Day" ...Sid Bass arranged Miriam Makeba's soonto be released LP on RCA...Epic has sign-ed Tony George, lead in the national com-pany of "Funny Girl", to do an album...The duo of Caesar and Cleo is reallySonny and Cher.

Tin Pan Alley is talking about NewYork as the new breakout area when itcomes to The Top 40 music scene. Al-though we have only one station (WMCA)catering to brand new releases, this sta-tion alone can "break" a record. WMCAdoes not wait any longer to see if a re-cord "is happening" out of town.

Waiting to break big on the charts are"You Don't Have To Be So Nice" by TheLovin' Spoonful and "The Little Girl I

Once Knew" by The Beach Boys...JackJones' "The Love Bug" could be hisbiggest record since "The Race Is On"...It's nice to see Dee Dee Sharp back on thecharts with "I Really Love You". For awhile it looked as though she wouldn'tmake it "pop" although the record hasbeen doing great on the r & b charts fora while...Wilson Pickett doing just greatwith his record of "Don't Fight It"...Janand Dean could go "top 10" with their re-cord of "I Found A Girl"..."The Duck"by Jackie Lee looks like the first chartrecord for Mira Records...Getting lots ofgood music play is "The Wailing Waltz"by Randy St. Clair.Notes of Interest...John Lennon is set towrite the screen -play entitled "In TheWords of the Hornet Take Gas"...RiehardChamberlain will guest on The AndyWilliams Show, Nov. 29th...Jack Jones ,Joey Heatherton and Anita Bryant to beBob Hope's Christmas show, Jan. 19th,to be filmed in Viet Nam. 0

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Nelson: Glen A. Wrightwill have some newpromos for his countryshow thanks to theAmbassadors, a localgroup who won the Battleof the Bands contest.

Medicine Hat: JackThys moves into CHATfrom CKNL to take overthe country show.

Fort St. John: GeneDaniel now looks afterthe country scene atCKNL.

Penticton: Hank Snowand the Rainbow Ranch Boys played twowell attended shows Nov. 17.

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(formerly of Hallmark Studios)

THE MAN BEHIND THE SOUND OF:

Sloopy-Little Caesar & the Consuls -Red LeafIt Was I -The Big Town Boys -CapitolYou Really Got A Hold On Me -Little Caesar -Red LeafTake The First Train Home -Dee & the Yeomen-CancutBaby Ruth- The Butterfingers -Red LeafSandy -Robbie Lane -CapitolLeanin' On the Lamp Post -The Bradfords-CapitolThe One For Me- The Charmaines-Red Leaf

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Tamarac Record ProductionsBen McPeek ProductionsCoca Cola (through McCann-Erickson Ltd)Sound tracks for CTV's A Go Go '66

BOB VOLLUM - SOUND CONSULTANT

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Toronto: Ron Albert, country promoter atArc Records sends along the following"tid-bits".

The Kingfishers of CBC "SingalongJubilee" fame, stopped off in Toronto ontheir way to Guelph to tape a "Let's SingOut" show. They made arrangements for afuture recording session at the Arc studios.Jimmy James will be making a few PAs inToronto to promote his new Arc release"Marjolaina". George and June Pasher, aToronto husband and wife team, are sked-ded to tape a "Canadian Talent Showcase"for CFTO-TV. Artie MacLaren will appearon the same show.

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