From organbarry@gmail.com Thu Jun 03 09:55:11 2010
Subject:Re: Human Leslie Speaker - really!

Very cool! Thanks Rob! That was a little before my time - I must have
started watching it in 1968. I got this from the web:

"The following season (1968), Music Hop, which was stripped in a weekday
afternoon time slot, adopted the name of the Vancouver segment, and the
daily show was called Let's Go. The Halifax show, on Mondays, featured
host Frank Cameron, with Anne Murray and Doug Billard. The Tuesday
Montreal edition was hosted by Robert Demontigny. The Toronto show, on
Wednesdays, bore the remnants of the original Music Hop series, with
Diane Miller, formerly of the Girlfriends, tenor saxophone player Don
"D.T." Thompson, Jay Jackson, and Norman Amadio and the New Sounds band.
In the Winnipeg show, on Thursdays, Chad Allan--whose own band formed
the nucleus of the Guess Who-- introduced new talent. The Vancouver
segment, which ended the week, had no regular host. Mike Campbell
fronted the first four weeks and Tom Northcott followed him. They
introduced such performers as Patty Surbey, Joanie Taylor, and Ed Whiting."

Yes, indeed! Those were the days! We lived up near the border and back
then we only got 2 TV stations, and one of the was Canadian! The Guess
Who even has a CD out now of the cover tunes they played each week!

Rob Mills wrote:
>
>
> Hey Barry
>
> I remember this show series (but not the "Human" Leslie :-) It was
> collectively called "Music Hop", on CBC from 1963 to1967. (googled it)
>
> Each day's show was from a different city , with a different name !
>
> e.g. Monday - Lets Go -Vancouver
> Tuesday - Jeunesse Oblige - Mntl
> Wednesday - Hootenanny- Winnipeg
> Thursday - Music Hop - Toronto
> Friday - Frank's Bandstand - Halifax
>
> A lot of great Canadian bands got their first national exposure on this
> series. I particularly remember "the Rock Show of the Yeomen" from
> Toronto.....one of the first B3's I ever saw, apart from the Ed Sullivan
> Show ( Rascals, etc)
>
> Those were the days ! Thanks for the memories.......
>
> Cheers
> Rob Mills
>
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