During the mid to late 1960’s, The Rolling Stones and Tom Jones were London Records of Canada’s best sellers. Nearly two decades before that, sales of London albums by Mantovani and his Orchestra were making cash registers across Canada sing. The book, “British Hit Singles and Albums” states that Mantovani… Read More

It’s hard to imagine that a gigantic, international organization such as RCA Victor Records (now a part of the Sony Music group) could have ever begun as a small independent. But it did. And it’s all due to one man – German born inventor Emile Berliner. Berliner immigrated to the… Read More

When Quality Records opened its doors in Canada in October of 1949, there were less than a handful of record companies north of the 49th parallel. All of those were branches of foreign companies. Quality Records was the first Canadian record company wholly owned by Canadians. Founded by a group… Read More

David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett, 13 September 1941) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition “Spinning… Read More

Stan Klees (born 29 April 1932 at Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian retired music industry businessman. He created the music recording companies Tamarac and Red Leaf Records in the 1960s. Klees was a presenter at CHUM radio in the late 1940s then was employed by London Records. He founded Tamarac… Read More