All of us could sing lead and harmonies. However, for reasons unknown, the arrangement fell apart in late June, and Perry decided he wanted a reliable, ongoing house band. After the Grapevine Terpsichore, The Andantes played at Marian Collegiate (Spirit Week), Sacred Heart Collegiate (Sweetheart Prom), and Sheldon Collegiate. It produces an unusual effect that has proven pleasing to the ears and won The Andantes a horde of followers. Side A Todays Fool(F. Taylor) As idyllic as it appeared, there was one uncomfortable development. Loreen Churchs band got first. Shortly thereafter, Shillingford was replaced by Gerry Schlegel, who had recently moved to Regina from Fort Frances, ON. It was originally intended solely as a ballroom, having a 10080 foot dance floor made of oak strips cushioned by cork and a revolving mirror ball on the ceiling. Rush at Trianon Ballroom on Regina, Canada on tour Fly by Night . The Flood did California Dreamin in the Jose Feliciano style, and a couple of blues numbers. These were all money-makers, so that put him in direct opposition to the established booking agent Joe Vargo. Later, when we were old enough to get inside (and had actually started playing there ourselves), we saw bands like the Fireballs, the Ventures, the String-a-longs, and the Champs. The trip would be a waste of time and money, and their reputation would undoubtedly take a hit. Guitar players will understand what a feat that was!. Tomorrow (E. King) Even though his groups featured the cream of Canadian jazz players, adult audiences started to decline in the early 1960s. Carpenters were erecting a stage in the far corner as the interview continued. He formed it three years ago. My dad contacted him and we sent him some material. The owners have estimated that as many as 1200 have jammed the tavern in a single day. And he forgot to check his ego at the door for whatever perceived animosity he cultured in his mind against us, the top band, for not crawling to his perceived little empire. The Rats was built on the reviews of our customer base. Daryl Gutheil recalls that they were both upbeat pop songs featuring our three-part harmonies. No one seems able to remember the full lyrics, but Daryl retained a few key lines in his head. Make the Scene! It was optimistic promotion and there was no swinging music. 1 Mama version 2 (B. Deutscher) Someone got up out of the blue and punched in Todays Fool on the jukebox! Rutledge/N. So, I came up with an idea: I held out an erect index finger off the right stick which couldnt be seen from the camera angle. It was small, squeezed into the corner of a basement in an old, two-story Vancouver office building. It all seems so harmless now as nothing was showing. But hey, it was a black studio and we were white It was located on the edge of the black ghetto, not far from Chicagos Old Town. Lady though a fine song in its own right was relegated to the B-side. There were only eight channels, as I recall. Rush Concert Setlist at Trianon Ballroom, Regina on June 18, 1975 Breaking his promise to secure them a much-needed gig was strike number one for Vargo. With Don playing bass and trumpet, and Daryl playing trumpet and organ, the group has a wide range of musical styles from Blood Sweat and Tears to barbershop harmony. He then added In January the group plans a cross-country tour of the United States eventually ending up in Chicago where they plan to do some recording.. The Andantes started playing mainly high school dances in Regina and the surrounding district. Margaret Taylor (nee Kalina), a teenager in 1966, who was studying at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Regina (later to become a professional violinist in Vancouver) recalls them with evident delight: It was all about going to the YMCA on Friday nights for live music. The Rapper (D. Iris) They had just released their seminal LP Cheap Thrills that very month, and it was starting to garner massive attention. Although it was meant to be laudatory, it painted them as earnest slightly-behind-the-times, and nerdy. The next major gig was the second CKCK Battle of the Bands in October 1966. Even the drum solo was flat. It was a great hangout place for kids. There was a momentary panic when, unpacking at the hotel, they discovered that someone had stolen their hard-earned cache of money. Just guys drinking beer and having laughs. Composed of three rhythm and blues female singers Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow and Louvain Demps, they were an important, if unsung, element of Berry Gordys Motown Sound. That year the Chess brothers lured Chisholm away from Universal to become their chief engineer. By 1965 R.P.M. In the evenings he also took a correspondence course on art for graphic designers, which opened up a whole new world for him. Id not heard of any of the other bands before. Its For You (J. Lennon-P. McCartney) She was just about to release her third Put Down. Church had been mentioned in Billboard, and even the Ottawa Journal had shone a light on her the previous year as a pretty 16-year-old from Regina who should go places. Groups such as the Sugar n Spice from Winnipeg or the New Christy Minstrels from the United States have appeared in Regina for dances and concerts. Bands back then played four-hour gigs, four sets with 45 minutes on, 15 minute break. It had seen them progress from precociously talented teenagers to mature recording, touring musicians. We were too young to get in, but at least we could saturate ourselves with the music if not the atmosphere. Statham started a business out of his home creating posters for many other local bands. He then went back to the mic trying to mimic what I was doing (which he knew he couldnt of course) and made a show of ineptly dropping it along with goofy faces lampooning himself. King, and then Michael Bloomfield of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Deutschers musical career can truly be said to have started in 1962. Deutscher sang a ragged Twist and Shout gaining himself a formidable reputation amongst musical circles. Montague agrees his drum solos were a selling point for the band. On the contrary they were clean and well-groomed, unfailingly polite, well-spoken, and enthusiastic about their music and audiences. 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. We were all so busy then. Black had just hit big with his song Unless You Care on Arc Records, and as a result had also been named Male Vocalist of the Year at the first Maple Music Awards (the predecessor to the Junos). When we got into the Canadian Shield region, wed been only dry climate boys from the prairies and were bloody whacked by the heat and humidity wed never experiencedand so when we crossed the border into the states we pulled over and got beer.a lot of beer cases of cans most of which we managed to cram into the trunk (a rented 68 Chev towing a U Haul full of gear) amid all the gut-boxes, guitars, horns and keyboard. Loreen Church, of whom Id had only just heard her name, set up with her band on the far right, and were the first to play. SAFA 432 (old guide GR 155) consists of a fonds level description and file level descriptions of architectural drawings. They were immediately booked into the lounge of the Rock Cliff Hotel, a somewhat seedy club six miles from the Vermont border. They explored the world of western twang and polkas for small rural town dances around southern Saskatchewan. Grainger joined a high school band called The Danes for three months, then in 1965 jumped into the Club 62 Rhodesmen (so called from the call numbers of CKCK) which consisted of Bill Rothecker, Terry Malloy, Rick Dubord and Gene Haas. Designed by Warren H. Milner, the Mediterranean-themed building (with a Mission-style parapet tower) covered half of a city block. He was amazinghe could do things that I just couldnt get., Statham was approached to join The Andantes at a Battle of the Bands concert at the Trianon Ballroom in September 1968. Personnel: Don Gutheil, Don Young, Bob Deutscher, Daryl Gutheil Regina hipsters were in heaven. While we were performing, he would come back to me indicating to give him an extra stick, which I did. The Trianon started to get a reputation for the not-so-friendly competition for eligible young girls. He was ecstatic I admired the band so much, although to fill the shoes of Jimmy Mann was a formidable task. They received several of these pictures. Early in 1969 both bands Andantes and Greasy Mixture folded and were playing out their engagements. 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. Burgess, an Edmontonian, recommended Richard Terry of the group Famous Last Words who brought along his vocalist Hans Staymer. Daryl Gutheil recalls the session: Ken Singer was an on air radio guy (and former drummer) who had come down from Saskatoon to work at CKCK. Not an elegant location. Pickens/J. As he describes the flow I always had songs, still do. The young people of today are not all destined to go up in a cloud of peculiar smoke he joked. As well, they were quick off the mark in appreciating Ray Davies and the Kinks Well Respected Man and You Really Got Me became crowd pleasers. I thought his guitar playing was brilliant. Yuditsky, Amon and Griffin are students at Campbell collegiate, Jesse and Fraser work and Padwick, as mentioned, attends university. Their recently released double-sided record, entitled Lady, written by Gerry Schlegel, and Todays Fool, written by Fred Taylor, hasnt exactly skyrocketed to the top ten of the charts, although Gary said We cut the record for experience and not for a million seller. He said that although Todays Fool was originally supposed to be the A side, Lady is more our style and seems to be catching on quicker. The record was recorded in the Termar and Chess Studio in Chicago in August and took about five hours to complete. Jun, 1975 1975 19 Jun. The phone rang. From 1932 on, it was run by the Sneath family, first Isaac and then his son Ross. Recorded: 1969, B. Deutschers basement, Regina The Regina Andantes had only heard rumours of their Detroit namesakes, and did not feel any great pressure to change their name. Your email address will not be published. (Kenny you silly bugger.) A founding member of The Andantes We didnt even have time to grieve, we had to scramble. Local music fans were buzzed in September both Gordon Lightfoot, and then Eric Burdon and the Animals appeared. A mini-gangster in Regina! But the name had a different presence to it.So Andantes it was. Card is partially filled in with partners' names.