Eklenme: Sep 5, 2008
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Issued in Canada November 1971 on Polydor 2065 093. From the LP "Love, Luck & Lollipops," Polydor 2424 035. The Five Bells formed in Montreal in 1965 with members Ann and Jacki Ralph, Cliff Edwards, Doug Gravelle and Gordie McLeod. Early in their career, they progressed from playing small venues in Canada to eleven weeks at New York's Copacabana, then to the vacation resorts of the rich throughout the US and island destinations. With the addition of keyboardist Mickey Ottier in 1969, they made their first single and album. Ann Ralph quit the group in 1970 to become a full-time mother, and the group dropped "Five" from their name and became The Bells, with Jacki Ralph, Cliff Edwards, Doug Gravelle, and new members Charlie Clark, Michael Waye and Frank Mills. There are conflicting reports of Mills' tenure in the group; one source says he left while they were recording their first album under the revised name, and was replaced by Dennis Will, although Will's name didn't make it onto the album, and all keyboards were credited to Frank Mills. Other sources say he stayed through 1972. Such is the state of the documentation of Canadian music history. "Fly Little White Dove" was their breakthrough in late 1970. Their followup, Ken Tobias' "Stay Awhile" was a worldwide smash, selling four million copies. Curiously, there is no published information whatsoever regarding their next album, "Love, Luck And Lollipops," which spawned four singles, all of which received a great deal of airplay, if not exactly burning up the charts. Frank Mills' "For Better, For Worse" entered the RPM 100 on November 13, 1971 at #79 with a bullet, and reached #19 after only four weeks, on December 11th, and it was off the chart by the middle of January 1972. A remarkably short run for a record that did so well, chartwise. To hear this record in stereo, type the following code - &fmt=18 - on the end of the URL and hit Enter to reload the page.
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Taglar: 1971 bells better canadian for pop the worse
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bjswcs diyorki:
Sep 6, 2008 - I'm always amazed whenever you post some of these long-lost gems. I suddenly find myself immediatly singing them even though I may not've listened to them for what seems like decades.
secordman diyorki:
Sep 5, 2008 - There's one song by Cliff and Ann Edwards that got airplay in '72 or '73, "Carry On" I think it was called. Nice middle portion of this song, which I'd not heard before.