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| From | Ronald Sanchez - Career Records <eldeluxe@bridgeband.com> |
| Subject | Re: Chilliwack |
| Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:30:05 -0700 |
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Cornely, Michael wrote:
>From: Ronald Sanchez - Career Records <eldeluxe@bridgeband.com>
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>>I was playing Thunderclap Newman, the Reason last night and Karen said
>>"who is this" Chilliwack? She's from N Dakota so they got a lot of
>>CanCon up there. Me I wouldn't know them from a hole in the ground. But
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>>it sort of makes me curious. Guidance?
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>Hersh and Jaimie may be able to guide you better, as I'm just a Philly
>guy who happened to hear them in the late 70s and grab most of their
>stuff. They have a so-so GREATEST HITS in print, but I've always been
>partial to their late 70s-early 80s output, especially LIGHTS FROM THE
>VALLEY, WANNA BE A STAR and OPUS X. Many of their fans think DREAMS,
>DREAMS, DREAMS is their pinnacle (from 1977), and it's kind of hard to
>disagree with that, too. Other releases are more spotty to me, as they
>veered from popish-prog, to power pop to hard rock.
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>"My Girl (Gone, Gone Gone): (from WANNA BE A STAR) - the big hit:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE
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They're the band that did this? arg... I guess this has killed my
curious cat. I just remember the SCTV spoof of it but never knew who to
blame the original on.
I'll just shut up before I say something un-nice.
rs
>on GREATEST HITS, so I guess that
>collection isn't so bad at all :)
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>Mike
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Ronald Sanchez
Director Of A&R
Career Records <http://www.careerrecords.com>
Donovan's Brain <http://www.donovans-brain.net>
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