All Canadian music from the 60's and 70's. Happy 150 years Canada!
| We open with a band hailing from the left coast of our great country and will move left to right geographically through the show. Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck formed In Vancouver in 1968, releasing two excellent albums. 49th Parallel were one of the first rock bands to break out of Calgary. Neil Merryweather was born in Winnipeg and led many music projects from the 60's into the 80's and Jarvis Street Revue hailed from Thunder Bay and released one excellent psych-rock album. |
| One Ring Jane Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck - Home Grown Stuff(1969/2014) 
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| Labourer 49th Parallel - The Best of The 49th Parallel(1995)
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| Licked The Spoon Merryweather - Word of Mouth(1969)
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| Missouri 49th Parallel - The Best of The 49th Parallel(1995)
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| Mr. Businessman The Jarvis Street Revue - Mr. Oil Man(1970/2000)
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| Mr. Rock The Jarvis Street Revue - Mr. Oil Man(1970/2000)
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| The following bands sprang from Southwest Ontario towns and cities: Thundermug formed in London, Simply Saucer formed in Hamilton, Mars Bonfire and Christmas (the band) called Oshawa home. Saga got their start in Oakville, The Plastic Cloud formed in Ajax and Goddo were native to Scarborough. |
| Jane J. James Thundermug - Thundermug Strikes(1973)
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| Bullet Proof Nothing Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited(1975 unissued/1994))
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| The Night Time's For You Mars Bonfire - Mars Bonfire(1968)
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| Time's Up Saga - World's Apart(1981)
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| Bustin' Out Tonight Christmas - Heritage(1970/1993)
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| Epistle To Paradise The Plastic Cloud - The Plastic Cloud(1968/2005)
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| Don't Give It Away Christmas - Heritage(1970/1993)
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| Under My Hat Goddo - 12 Gauge Goddo Blasts From The Past(1990)
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| The Big Smoke is where the following bands found success (to lesser or greater degrees) |
| Nothin' The Ugly Ducklings - Somewhere Outside(1967/1998)
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| One Rainy Day The Paupers - Magic People(1967)
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| 10:30 train The Ugly Ducklings - Somewhere Outside(1967/1998)
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| Numbers The Paupers - Ellis Island(1968)
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| Roll My Own It's All Meat - It's All Meat(1970/2001)
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| Calgary Great Speckled Bird - Great Speckled Bird(1967/1998)
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| I'm Losing Tonight A Passing Fancy - A Passing Fancy(1968/2009)
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| Time Piece The Churls - Send Me No Flowers(1968/2007)
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| You're Going Out Of My Mind A Passing Fancy - A Passing Fancy(1968/2009)
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| The Weeks Go By The Churls - Send Me No Flowers(1968/2007)
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| Blue Max was formed by a trio of high school students in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Morse Code were a progressive rock band from Montreal, very popular in Quebec in to 70's. Offenbach and British North-American Act were based in Montreal also. |
| Something On My Mind Blue Max - Limited Edition(1976/2013)
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| Joe Cool The British North-American Act - In The Beginning(1969/2004)
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| Don't Run The British North-American Act - In The Beginning(1969/2004)
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| Freedom Train Morse Code Transmission - Morse Code Transmission(1971/2012)
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| Caline De Blues Offenbach - en Fusion(1981)
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| Thank you for listening. Enjoy Canada Day. Next show broadcasts July 6. |
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