Rock & Roll Song September 8, 2007

Todays picture is Norm MacPherson (left) playing with Valdy in 2003. Here's a little note we received from Norm:

While digging through some of my vinyl records the other day I found an old acetate that I thought was gone forever. It's the original version of 'Play me a Rock and Roll Song' recorded in Vancouver in the fall of 1969. This one was produced by Terry Jacks and was never released or heard by more than the people involved because Valdy got his record deal shortly after this and recorded the song again in LA. . That is the one that became the hit and got radio play. Valdy and I had just finished the Hosanna band and Jacks had heard a single that band had made a few months earlier.(nobody ever heard that either) Jacks hired me to play on r+r song based on what he called the 'pedal steel licks' he thought he had heard on the Hosanna recording. It was actually my old black Telly through Eddy Paterson's Leslie doing my very early Clarence White imitation. Yikes!..............other than Valdy and me, I can't remember who the other players are. The studio is Baroka Sound in Vancouver, where the second Poppy Family album was made. ( It was at this session that Terry asked me to join the Poppy Family) The noise level is horrible...over the 37 years, the paper envelope chemically reacted to the vinyl and created a very rough surface and... it is in mono. It is a little bit of Victoria history though. Live off the floor to 8 track Scully. Valdy put on some vocal harmony and tambourine and I think that was it.

I've got some other some other news too. Dave Wilkie (Moxie ,Fast Flying Vestibule, Hosanna yada yada...) was here to visit last week. We recorded three songs in my studio for his upcoming cd. just the two of us...After a couple of days he said it...'it's like the Moxie album that we never got to make'. We are both quite buzzed about the result.

We'll look forward to more from Norm and Dave very soon.

Todays audio addition: Valdy "Play Me A Rock & Roll Song" (Original version)

There are still a few tickets left for the Victoria Rock & Roll Music Hall Of Fame inductee celebration on Sunday September 16th at Darcy's Pub. If you played music in Victoria during the late 50's and early 60's, or if you were a music fan during that time, this is a "Do Not Miss" event. Click on the "Contact" tab on the website and order yours before they're gone!