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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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CHUM (AM)
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CHUM, branded as TSN Radio 1050, broadcasting at 1050 kHz in the AM band, is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned and operated by Bell Media, CHUMs studios are co-located with TSN at 9 Channel Nine Court in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Scarborough, with its transmitter array located in the Clarkson neighbourhood of Mississauga. Long known as 1050 CHUM, the station played Top 40 hits from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. CHUM then carried a format featuring music from that period between 1989 and 2009, except for a brief stint as a sports radio station, The Team 1050. In March 2009, CHUM switched to a format known as CP24 Radio 1050. In April 2011, CHUM reverted to a format as TSN Radio 1050. CHUM AM has been broadcasting continuously since 1945, through a variety of format changes, CHUM received its licence in late November 1944 to operate a station with 1000 watts. CHUM launched as a radio station on October 28,1945. Jack Part, an entrepreneur in the business of patent medicines, the station, then operating from studios in the Mutual Street Arena, broadcast a format typical of the late 1940s, with a combination of information, music, and sports. When CHUM was about to debut, Leary told the press that the new station would be known for community service and in-depth news, in addition to live talent, CHUM was taken over in December 1954 by Allan Waters, a salesman from Parts patent medicine business. Waters first major move was to secure a licence for 24-hour-a-day broadcasting for CHUM, Less than three years after Waters acquired the station, and soon after bringing the new full-time transmitter online, a major programming change was made. On May 27,1957, at 6 AM, Waters switched the station to a Top 50 format that had proven popular in some U. S. cities. In the late 1950s, CHUM was calling itself Radio One, an important part of CHUMs success was the stations unpredictable morning man Al Boliska, who joined CHUM in October 1957, after working at station CKLC in Kingston, Ontario. By 1959, Boliska had made a name for himself as a jockey who got listeners talking. He also made them laugh, and became known for telling what he called the Worlds Worst Jokes, Boliska also did a number of stunts, such as taking part in a professional wrestling match with Whipper Billy Watson. When he lost, that led to another stunt, where Boliska stayed away from his show for several days, a hypnotist was called in, and Boliskas self-esteem was restored. Boliska left CHUM in late 1963 to go across the street to CKEY and he would be followed by housewives jock John Spragge, singer/DJ Mike Darow, Pete Nordheimer, replaced in 1961 by Bob McAdorey, teen DJ Dave Johnson, and all night DJ Bob Laine. Later additions to the CHUM DJ lineup included Duff Roman and Brian Skinner, Rick Moranis, later famous for his work on SCTV and Ghostbusters, was briefly a late-night CHUM DJ in the mid-seventies under the name Rick Allan
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Music (Madonna song)
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Music is a song recorded by American singer Madonna for her eighth studio album of same name. It was released as the single from the album on August 21,2000 by Maverick Records. The song was included on the compilation albums GHV2 and Celebration. Written and produced by Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzaï, it states that music has the power to make people come together. Musically, Music is a dance-pop and electropop song which talks about how music can bring people together. Music received positive reviews music critics, who praised its production, catchiness and club-friendly nature of the song. Music also has the longest running number-one spot on the US Hot Dance Club Play of the 2000s decade, the song was the second most successful dance single of the decade in the United States, behind Madonnas own song Hung Up, released in 2005. Its accompanying music video, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, portrays Madonna and her friends giving a party in her limousine, driven by comedian Ali G. In order to promote its parent album, Madonna performed the song during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2000, additionally, Music has been performed on five of Madonnas concert tours, the most recent being 2015-16s Rebel Heart Tour. Music was nominated at Grammy Awards in the categories of Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2001. After the critical and commercial success of her album Ray of Light, Madonna intended to embark on a new tour in 1999. By 2000, Madonna was dating director Guy Ritchie, and was pregnant with their child, wanting to distract herself from the media frenzy surrounding this news, Madonna concentrated on the development of her eighth studio album, Music, instead of embarking on a tour. Buoyed up by the success of her previous album, she was keen on getting back to the studio to record new music. Madonna was well disposed towards William Orbit, producer of Ray of Light, also, the music scene was being dominated by a younger generation of singers like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, prompting Madonna to look for a distinctive sound in this market. It was then that she was introduced to French DJ and producer Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Madonna instantly liked his pitch-shifting, pulverizing rhythms and his utilization of acid bass in his songs. In an interview with CNN, Madonna said, Guy Oseary, slipped it to me and said, What do you think as an artist to sign at Maverick. I just said Oh my God, this is what I want, I just flipped over it and said, Please find out if he wants to work with me. Ahmadzaï always preferred taking musical risks and hence he wanted the collaborations with Madonna to get out the best from the artist, the challenge was to make something current appear, something hidden in her personality
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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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Gordon Lightfoot
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He has been referred to as Canadas greatest songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend. He experienced chart success in Canada with his own recordings, beginning in 1962 with the No.3 hit Im the One. Lightfoots recordings then made an impact on the music charts as well in the 1970s. Sundown a #1 hit, Carefree Highway which followed reaching #10, Rainy Day People at #25, some of Lightfoots albums have achieved gold and multi-platinum status internationally. Bob Dylan, also a Lightfoot fan, called him one of his favorite songwriters and, in an often-quoted tribute, Lightfoot was a featured musical performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1979 and the Companion of the Order of Canada—Canadas highest civilian honour—in 2003, in November 1997, Lightfoot was awarded the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award, Canadas highest honour in the performing arts. On February 6,2012, Lightfoot was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, in June that year he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. On June 6,2015, Lightfoot received a doctorate of music in his hometown of Orillia from Lakehead University. Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, to Jessica and Gordon Lightfoot and his mother recognized Lightfoots musical talent early on and schooled him into a successful child performer. His first public performance was Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral in grade four, as a youth, he sang, under the direction of choirmaster Ray Williams, in the choir of Orillias St. Pauls United Church. According to Lightfoot, Williams taught him how to sing with emotion, Lightfoot was a boy soprano, he appeared periodically on local radio in the Orillia area, performed in local operettas and oratorios, and gained exposure through various Kiwanis music festivals. He was twelve when he made his first appearance at Massey Hall in Toronto, as a teenager, Lightfoot learned piano and taught himself to play drums and percussion. He held concerts in Muskoka, an area north of Orillia. In high school, at Orillia District Collegiate & Vocational Institute, Lightfoot performed extensively and he was influenced during this time by 19th-century master American songwriter Stephen Foster. His athletic and scholarly aptitude earned him entrance bursaries at McGill Universitys Schulich School of Music, Lightfoot moved to California in 1958, where he studied jazz composition and orchestration for two years at Hollywoods Westlake College of Music, which had many Canadian students. To support himself there, he sang on demonstration records and wrote, arranged. He was influenced by the music of Pete Seeger, Bob Gibson, Ian and Sylvia Tyson. He rented a place in Los Angeles for a time, but was missing Toronto and he has lived in Canada since then, though he has done much work in the United States, all under an H-1B visa
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Peace River, Alberta
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It is located 486 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, and 198 kilometres northeast of Grande Prairie, along Highway 2. It was known as the Village of Peace River Crossing between 1914 and 1916, the Peace River townsite is nearly 1,000 feet below the relatively flat terrain surrounding it. Pats Creek used to be an open channel though the town but is now channelled though a culvert under the town streets, the population in the Town of Peace River was 6,729 in 2011, a 6. 6% increase over its 2006 population. Peace River was the site of the 2004 Alberta Winter Games, in 2010, Peace River, in conjunction with Grimshaw and surrounding municipalities, jointly hosted the 2010 Alberta Summer Games. These games are held two years and are Albertas largest sporting event. After the last glacial ice melted from the northern parts of the Canadian prairies. When the Ice Age ended, many of these moved back north following the large herds of grazing animals which were, in turn. In the Peace River area, the two language groups were the Athapaskan and the Algonquian. The Beaver in turn pushed the Sekani deep into the Rocky Mountain Trench in the mid-18th century, a truce was eventually agreed to by the Cree and the Beaver and the great river they called Unchagah became the boundary between their hunting territories. The North West Company pushed westward in the late 18th century in an attempt to reach the Pacific Ocean, creating rivalry with the other major fur-trading company, the Hudsons Bay Company. 1792, Alexander MacKenzie established Fort Fork on the bank of Peace River just south of its confluence with the Smoky River. This was the third and final relocation of Fort St. Mary’s 1886,1888, The Roman Catholic Church sets up St. Augustine mission on Shaftesbury Trail. 1898, The North-West Mounted Police make a permanent post at Peace River Crossing,1909, The townsite of Peace River is first surveyed. 1914, Peace River Landing Settlement is incorporated as the Village of Peace River Crossing on June 2,1914, Peace Rivers first hospital, the Irene Cottage Hospital, opens 1910-1916, Railway reaches the area and settlers begin colonizing the valley. 1916, Village of Peace River Crossing is renamed the Village of Peace River on May 22,1919, Village of Peace River is incorporated as the Town of Peace River on December 1. It served as a hub of activity from 1916 to 1956 for passengers. The station was continued for use for freight and the station was closed in 1981, the NAR station suffered a fire in 1986. It was restored back to its state in 1991, costing nearly $300,000 to complete
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National Gallery of Canada
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The National Gallery of Canada, located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canadas premier art galleries. The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The building was designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988, the Gallerys former director Jean Sutherland Boggs was chosen especially by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to oversee construction of the national gallery and museums. Marc Mayer was named the director, succeeding Pierre Théberge. In 1911, the Gallery moved to the Victoria Memorial Museum, in 1913, the first National Gallery Act was passed outlining the Gallerys mandate and resources. In 1962, the Gallery moved to the Lorne Building site, adjacent to the British High Commission, the building has since been demolished for a 17 storey office building that is to house the Federal Finance Department. The museum moved into its current building on Sussex Drive in 1988, in 1985, the newly created Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, formerly the Stills Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada, was affiliated to the National Gallery. The CMCPs mandate, collection and staff moved to its new location in 1992, at 1 Rideau Canal, in 1998, the CMCPs administration was amalgamated to that of the National Gallerys. In 2000, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada chose the National Gallery as one of the top 500 buildings produced in Canada during the last millennium, although its focus is on Canadian art, it holds works by many noted American and European artists. It has a contemporary art collection with some of Andy Warhols most famous works. In 1990 the Gallery bought Barnett Newmans Voice of Fire for $1.8 million, since that time its value has appreciated sharply. In 2005, the Gallery acquired a painting by Italian Renaissance painter Francesco Salviati for $4.5 million and its most famous painting is likely The Death of General Wolfe by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. In 2005, a sculpture of a giant spider, Louise Bourgeoiss Maman, was installed in the plaza in front of the Gallery. The Canadian collection, the most comprehensive in Canada, holds works by Louis-Philippe Hébert, Tom Thomson, the Gallery organizes its own exhibits which travel across Canada and beyond, and hosts shows from around the world, often co-sponsored with other national art galleries and museums. The Gallerys collection has been built up through purchase and donations, much of the collection was donated, notably the British paintings donated by former Governor General Vincent Massey and that of the Southam family. The museum features Canadian, Native and Inuit art, American and European painting, sculpture, prints and drawings, modern and contemporary art and photographs. After the convent was demolished in 1972, the chapel was dismantled, stored and reconstructed within the gallery as a work of art in 1988. Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait No.1 Hans Baldung, Eve, the Serpent and Death Pompeo Batoni, Vulcan at his forge
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The Guess Who
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The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band, formed in Winnipeg in 1965. The band has continued to perform and record to the present day, formed as a garage rock band, their musical style encompassed the pop rock and psychedelic rock genres. The band was inducted into The Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1987, the Guess Who started out as a local Winnipeg band formed by singer/guitarist Chad Allan in 1958 and initially called Allan and the Silvertones. This was changed to Chad Allan and the Reflections in 1962, by point the band consisted of five Winnipeg-born musicians, Chad Allan, Bob Ashley, Randy Bachman, Jim Kale. The Reflections name was chosen since it was similar to the British group The Shadows, the bands debut single was released on Canadian-American Records in 1962. Chad Allan and the Reflections then signed with Quality Records and released singles in 1963/64. Quality released a single, Inside Out, on their Reo subsidiary. In 1965, the changed its name to Chad Allan & the Expressions after a U. S. group called The Reflections came out with the hit single Just Like Romeo & Juliet. That year the band produced their first hit, a 1965 rendition of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates Shakin All Over and this track reached #1 in Canada, #22 in the U. S, and #27 in Australia. Mimicking a ploy the previous year by The You Know Who Group in the US, later in 1965 The Four Seasons attempted a similar masking by recording under the similar nom de disque The Wonder Who. After Quality Records revealed the band to be Chad Allan & The Expressions, effectively forcing the band to accept the new name. The immediate follow-ups to Shakin All Over met with success in Canada. Unwilling to participate in the long tours through western Canada, southern Ontario and into the US. Burton Cummings joined the band as keyboardist in 1966, and shared lead vocal work with Allan and this line-up only lasted a few months, Chad Allan left in May 1966 to enroll in college, leaving Cummings the full-time lead singer. By this point, the name had become The Guess Who. The question mark would finally be dropped in 1968, with Chad Allan gone, having performed many times in various venues in Winnipeg, the band began playing in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1966, performing in some of the same venues as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. The group continued to release top 40 singles in Canada, including Clock on the Wall, one single, His Girl and they returned to Canada within a matter of weeks, thousands of dollars in debt. Later in 1967, they were hired as the band on the CBC radio show, The Swingers and as the house band on CBC television show Lets Go
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The Dixie Cups
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The Dixie Cups are an American pop music girl group of the 1960s. They are best known for a string of hits including their 1964 million-selling record Chapel of Love, People Say, and Iko Iko. The group hit the top of the charts in 1964 with Chapel of Love, a song that Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, the trio consisted of sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Lee Hawkins, plus their cousin Joan Marie Johnson, from New Orleans. They first sang together in grade school, originally, they were to be called Little Miss and the Muffets, but were named the Dixie Cups just prior to their first release. In 1963, the decided to pursue a professional career in music. Within a year Joe Jones, a singer in his own right with the Top Five 1960 single You Talk Too Much. After working with them for five months, Jones took them to New York, the Dixie Cups debut single was the release, Chapel of Love, which became their biggest hit reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in June 1964. Chapel of Love sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc, in 1987, the song Chapel of Love appeared on the Full Metal Jacket soundtrack and in the 1991 film, Father of the Bride. The hit single by The Dixie Cups was ranked #279 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The group also had other hits including, People Say, You Should Have Seen the Way He Looked at Me, Little Bell. Iko Iko, a New Orleans traditional song, was recorded in 1964, Barbara Hawkins had heard her grandmother sing the song, first recorded in 1953 as Jock-a-Mo by James Sugar Boy Crawford. Barbara Hawkins, We were just clowning around with it during a session using drumsticks on ashtrays and we didnt realize that Jerry and Mike had the tapes running. Leiber and Stoller overdubbed a bassline and percussion, and released it and it was The Dixie Cups fifth and last hit. In 1965, the Dixie Cups moved to the ABC-Paramount record label before a hiatus in 1966 temporarily halted their careers. In 1974 the Hawkins sisters moved from New York to New Orleans, the Hawkins also worked as make-up artists. The Dixie Cups continued to tour as a trio with another New Orleans singer, Beverly Brown, replacing Joan Johnson who became a Jehovahs Witness and left her music career. Brown who had recorded two discs in the early 1960s stayed as the third member until the early 80s when she became ill and was replaced by Dale Mickle. The Dixie Cups continue to perform and make personal appearances, the current line-up consists of the same Hawkins sisters along with Athelgra Neville, sister of the singing Neville Brothers
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Juno Award
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The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies, winners are chosen by either members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or a panel of experts depending on the award. 9 out of 42 categories are based solely on sales figures, nominees are determined by CARAS members for Single of the Year, Artist and Group of the Year. Nominees are determined by a vote for the remaining categories who are experts in the relevant genre. The judges are experts in each genre of music. The names of the judges remains confidential and these judges represent all facets of the Canadian music industry, are spread across the country, and a mixture of males and females in both official languages. No person can judge the same two years in a row. Prior to the development of the formal Juno award ceremonies, RPM began polling its readers in 1964 to determine which artists, the results of these polls were announced through RPM each December. Record label owner Stan Klees met with RPM founder Walt Grealis to plan a formal ceremony for the music industry. Instead of merely publishing the results in RPM, presentations would be made at a physical venue. The first such ceremony was the Gold Leaf Awards which took place 23 February 1970 in Toronto, RPM invited its readers later that year to suggest a new name for these awards. The name Juneau was submitted, which represented Pierre Juneau, the first head of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, Juneau was instrumental in establishing Canadian content regulations for broadcasters, to promote Canadian artists. That name became shortened to Juno and by 1971, the ceremonies would be referred to as the Juno Awards. From 1970 to 1973, winners were announced in RPM prior to the awards night, from 1974, the award winners were not made public until the Juno ceremonies. Music industry representatives formed a committee for the Junos in 1974 which became the Canadian Music Awards Association the following year. This organisation assumed full management and operation of the Juno Awards from 1977 and became the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts, the Junos were first televised throughout Canada in 1975 on CBC Television. Initially, the awards were conducted during the part of each year. In 1984, organisers postponed that years awards until December, a late-year scheduling was maintained until January 1988 when CARAS noted the declining viewership on the Juno broadcasts and reverted to an early-year awards schedule
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Hang On Sloopy
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Hang On Sloopy is a 1964 song by Wes Farrell and Bert Berns, originally titled My Girl Sloopy. It peaked at number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, according to Rick Derringer, the original version of Sloopy was written by a high school kid in St. Louis and sold to Bert Russell, a. k. a. If true, the answer to the age old question Just who is Sloopy, dorothy Sloop, a jazz singer from Steubenville and a student at Ohio University, is said to be the inspiration for the song. My Girl Sloopy was first recorded by L. A. -based The Vibrations in 1964, for Atlantic Records, reaching #10 on the R&B chart, Hang On Sloopy went to #1 in the United States in October 1965. In early 1965, The Strangeloves, a New York City rock band, wanted to make the song the follow-up to their hit single I Want Candy and began performing the song in concert. The answer presented itself when a rock group named Rick. The Strangeloves — who were, in reality, three successful writer/producers from Brooklyn, New York — recruited Rick and The Raiders to release the song under their name. Their 16-year-old leader, Rick Zehringer, was flown to New York to record his lead vocal over The Strangeloves already-recorded backing tracks, the single was released on Bang Records and entered the chart on August 14,1965, effectively beating the Dave Clark Five to the charts. The single went on to hit one on October 2. Originally written and recorded with three verses, the newly retitled Hang On Sloopy was edited down to two verses for the single and resulting Hang On Sloopy album, vol.3 and the 1995 Legacy Recordings compilation Hang On Sloopy, The Best of the McCoys. After finally convincing the director, Tatgenhorst arranged the song and the band played it in front of the stadium. After the crowd reaction, the band began to play it at every game, since then, Sloopy has been appearing on the bands CDs and is available as a free download on its website. A group of bar regulars led by Paul Svec took advantage of the rule that gave whoever placed a coin next to the juke box the right to play the next song. Paul organized hundreds of coins placed in a line on table tops all around the floor of the bar so that Hang On Sloopy was played all day long. The song quickly became the most popular song on the CharBar juke box, years later, in 1985, another Ohio State alumnus, Michael A Massa, first trademarked and registered the name Sloopy for commercial use as a bar in the Columbus area. The rights to the name where eventually transferred to an entity and then to the Ohio State University. At least one source includes a connection between the song and Charles J. Givens. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band also covered this song live in concert on May 2,2009 in Greensboro, Rick Derringer was still playing the song live with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band in November,2011
