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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Beatles' Helping 'Hand' |
| Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:17:12 -0500 |
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AT Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:13:09 Mr. Madler wrote:
>The entire story appeared in a book 2 years ago called EMI Canada: The
>First 50 Years by Canadian Music historian Nicholas Jennings....an
>interesting read....alas, the book was only published and available to
>EMI Music staff. My copy came to me through an insider as luck would
>have it.
>
>***There is a chapter about the Canadian Capitol Beatle singles in Bruce
>Spizer's book, "The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records." Paul White was
>interviewed for the book and said he "liked the group's fresh new
>sound." (Although there is no mention he knew The Beatles from
>Liverpool.)
Just keeping his cards close to his chest...history would make it look like
he knew how to pick a winning horse...when in fact, all he was doing was
aping the UK chart action. In the '60s a struggling singer by the name of
Keith Hampshire left Canada to find work at Radio Caroline for 10
years....in 1972 he returned to Canada with a fist full of UK singles,
re-recorded them and had great chart success with tunes like Cat Steven's
"First Cut Is The Deepest".
Anyway, I'm not trying to take away anything from Pau as he was also a HUGE
influence on the Canadian homegrown system at the time (Barry Allen, The
Esquires and The Staccatos specifically).
>"Love Me Do" was the first Candian Capitol single, selling a whopping 78
>copies. "Please Please Me" fared a bit better with 180 copies. After
>"From Me To You" tanked (500 copies), White said the company was giving
>him one more chance to get a hit with a Beatles record. "She Loves You"
>made it to the CHUM Hit Parade, as did "Roll Over Beethoven/Please Mr.
>Postman" which peaked at #2.
Interesting that the EMI Canada book doesn't mention the failures. Nice bit
of internal exclusion of history. :-)
Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye
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