Edward Bear was a Toronto-based Canadian pop-rock group. The band is best known for its chart-topping single, “Last Song”, and “Close Your Eyes”, used as the signing-off song for Delilah’s radio show.
The Edward Bear Revue, later Edward Bear, was formed in 1966 by singer and percussionist Larry Evoy and… Read More
Duff Roman is the former on-air name of David Mostoway (born 1938 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan), a Canadian radio personality and executive who was named by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences as the winner of the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award at the Juno Awards of 2019… Read More
Attic Records was a Canadian independent record label, founded in 1974 by Alexander Mair and Tom Williams. The label was known for developing Canadian talent, including Anvil, Lee Aaron, Maestro Fresh Wes, The Nylons, Teenage Head, and Triumph. The company was also active in distributing international acts not affiliated with… Read More
There’s only one organization that can claim to have had Canada’s first independent record pressing plant…and that was the Compo Company Ltd of Lachine, Quebec.
Compo was founded in 1921 by Emile Berliner’s eldest son, Herbert after a family dispute saw him leave the Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada (for… Read More
Phonodisc came late to the Canadian record industry. It was launched in April of 1956 by founder Don McKim as Canada’s newest independent record company, but by then, the Canadian scene was already crowded with most of the majors – Capitol, Columbia, Compo, RCA Victor and several others.
But Phonodisc… Read More