1221

YES

LOVE WILL FIND A WAY

1987

1222

YOKO ONO

GIVE ME SOMETHING

1980

1223

LUTHA

I ONLY WANNA BE WITH YOU

1972

1224

LED ZEPPELIN

LIVING LOVING MAID

1969

1225

LINDA CLIFFORD

BAILING OUT

1979

1226

MOUNTAIN

NEVER IN MY LIFE

1970

1227

YES

WITHOUT HOPE YOU CANNOT START THE DAY

1991

1228

RINGO STARR

SIX O CLOCK

1973

1229

TOMMY BOYCE & BOBBY HART

PO BOX 9847

1968

1230

BEATLES

GLASS ONION

1968

1231

QUEEN

KILLER QUEEN

1975

1232

S CLUB 7

S CLUB PARTY

1999

1233

SHANIA TWAIN

IS THERE LIFE AFTER LOVE

1995

1234

HENRY MANCINI

EXPERIMENT IN TERROR TWIST

1962

1235

XYLON

DOWN DOWN DOWN

1995

1236

RUTLES

NUMBER ONE

1978

1237

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

DAMNED FOR ALL TIME / BLOOD MONEY

1970

1238

TERRY HOKNES

YOUR MINE

2001

1239

HOLLIES

FALLING CALLING

1974

1240

LINDSAY LOHAN

WHO LOVES YOU

2005

Album: Big Generator (1987)

I discovered Yes in 1984 with their hit Owner Of A Lonely Heart but it was their 2nd new single Leave It that had my intrigued. I bought the album new at a Mac's Convenience store in about May 1984 on Ruth Street and they had a record promotion and also had a Yes plastic drink cup I got as well. Over the next 7 months I would buy every Yes album. So I learned their first 15 years of material all in 1984 just as I was entering high school.  Yes would quickly become my 2nd favorite band of all time.   I saw Bill Bruford live in concert in 1992 and chatted with him for a moment.  My wife bought tickets to see Yes in 2008 in Toronto but the concert was cancelled due to Jon Anderson's vocal problems.  We flew to New York in 2011 to see Jon Anderson solo in concert.  Members of Yes are my favorite musicians ever including Rick Wakeman, Trevor Rabin, Steve Howe and Chris Squire.

Album:  Double Fantasy (1980)

This was the very first Beatles related album I ever owned (tied with Mind Games).  My mother did own Rubber Soul but when John Lennon died my mom took me to Midtown Plaza to the record shop to buy a John Lennon record.   All his classic albums were sold out except for Mind Games and Double Fantasy so those are the 2 she bought me on approximately December 11th 1980 at age 9 when I was in Grade 4 and that began my obsession with The Beatles and rock music.

December 15th 1990 - my #2 favorite daily song for 4 days at age 19 in 2nd year university honoring the 10th anniversary of John Lennons death.

Album:  20 Studio One Hits (1972) various artists compilation from New Zealand

Lutha released a full length album in 1972 including this song.

September 12th 1988 - my #8 favorite daily song for 4 days at age 17 the fall after graduating high school however I chose to take another full year of classes at Nutana just for something to do and landed up having way more credits than I needed for University.    I was very busy writing songs everyday at this time and also publishing my monthly fanzine called Yesterday and Today about the history of rock music which I sold in local record shops in tribute to my great grandmother "Nanny" (Marie Brown) who had passed away on July 14th 1988.

September 2010 - age 39 living at Ave M South married to Valerie for 3 years and Nicholas was now 4 and performing a full year now at the Dueling Pianos show with Mark Zielke.

This was a unique album from New Zealand showing many up and coming music stars in various genres.  My grandma had this record but not sure if she brought it back from New Zealand as a souvenir OR if she just had bought it at a local garage sale but I eventually took it and loved some of the songs on this rare album.      

Album:  Led Zeppelin II (1969)

Album:  Here's My Love (1979)

I picked up this album at the Frances Morrison book/record sale in 1987 for 10 cents !   On May 16th 1987 I started writing down my favorite songs that I was listening to every single day.  It didnt matter if the song was a new radio hit or a 20 year old album cut this chart would document everything I was liking at that particular moment.  Linda Clifford had the #1 song on the very first chart.

May 21st 1988 - my #3 favorite daily song for 7 days at age 17 the week I graduated from high school.

Linda Clifford (born June 14, 1944, New York) is an American R&B, disco and house music singer and actress, who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably "If My Friends Could See Me Now", "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Runaway Love" and "Red Light".  In 1973, she was signed to Paramount Records and her first single, "(It's Gonna Be) A Long Long Winter", became a minor hit on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart in the winter of 1974. She moved to Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records label in the mid 1970s. 1977 saw the release of her first album, Linda, but it was her dance cover of "If My Friends Could See Me Now" in 1978 that she had club and pop chart success with. It was her first number one on Billboard dance chart. Album of the same name became her most successful and included also "Runaway Love", a mid-tempo R&B track that proved to be one of her most recognizable tunes. In 1979 she released her disco version of "Bridge over Troubled Water" from the album Let Me Be Your Woman, followed by another record the same year, Here's My Love.  The album hit #117 in USA in 1979.

Album:  Mountain Climbing (1970)

My mother bought this album new in 1970 and I always had it growing up but had never listened to it until 1987 at age 16 in Grade 11.   I think it was Mountain that made me appreciate hard rock for the first time.

Mountain is an American rock band that formed in Long Island, New York in 1969. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Leslie West, bassist/vocalist Felix Pappalardi, keyboardist Steve Knight and drummer N. D. Smart, the band broke up in 1972 and has reunited frequently since 1973, remaining active today. Best known for the song "Mississippi Queen", Mountain is one of many bands to be commonly credited as having influenced the development of heavy metal music in the 1970s

Album: Union (1991)

July 30th 1991 - my #5 favorite daily song for 6 days at age 20 before starting 3rd year University hanging out a lot with friends Sheldon Trabish and Ross Martin.

I discovered Yes in 1984 with their hit Owner Of A Lonely Heart but it was their 2nd new single Leave It that had my intrigued. I bought the album new at a Mac's Convenience store in about May 1984 on Ruth Street and they had a record promotion and also had a Yes plastic drink cup I got as well. Over the next 7 months I would buy every Yes album. So I learned their first 15 years of material all in 1984 just as I was entering high school.  Yes would quickly become my 2nd favorite band of all time.   I saw Bill Bruford live in concert in 1992 and chatted with him for a moment.  My wife bought tickets to see Yes in 2008 in Toronto but the concert was cancelled due to Jon Anderson's vocal problems.  We flew to New York in 2011 to see Jon Anderson solo in concert.  Members of Yes are my favorite musicians ever including Rick Wakeman, Trevor Rabin, Steve Howe and Chris Squire.

Album:  Ringo (1973)

My family had the 8-track so when I became a Beatles fan this 8-track was in the home at my grandparents so likely started listening to it by 1982 at age 11.   Eventually I had 3 copies of the record.

July 7th 1990 - my #10 favorite daily song for 2 days at age 19 before entering 2nd year University and celebrating Ringo's 50th birthday.

November 29th 1988 - my #3 favorite daily song for 1 day at age 17 the fall after graduating high school.  I was on a kick of playing music from 1968 in a year long 20th anniversary celebration of my favorite year for music.  I was also putting out my new monthly fanzine Yesterday And Today which covered the history of music.

Album:  The Beatles (White Album) (1968)

This might possibly be the last Beatles album I ever heard as I recorded myself recording singing along with the album in possibly early 1983 (age 12) with my friend David Magnusson (age 10).  I remember taking the album to his house to listen to.   We moved to Ruth Street in December 1982 and I do remember having the large White Album poster up on the wall in my bedroom at that house.  I really played Side 1 way more than the others.   Unfortunately now its possibly my least favorite side as I played those songs to death. 

The song refers to several earlier Beatles' songs, including "Strawberry Fields Forever", "I Am the Walrus", "Lady Madonna", "The Fool on the Hill" and "Fixing a Hole". There are also subtle, passing references to "There's a Place", "I'm Looking Through You" and "Within You Without You". The song also refers to the "Cast Iron Shore," a coastal area of south Liverpool known to local people as "The Cazzy".

March 29th 2000 - my #3 favorite daily song for 93 days at age 29 at the time we had a hassle with mold renting at Cumberland Ave and then moving to Dalmeny, SK

Album:  The Woman In Me (1995)

I became a fan of Shania from the day she released her first country single in Canada in Summer 1993 when I was 22.    When she hit superstardom in 1995 I became a Shania fanatic for the next 10 years.  Eventually I had 10 T-shirts and a poster shrine in my office at Eastview and had 3 copies each of all her CD's.    I have seen her live in concert 5 times including:  Canadian Country Music Awards Calgary 1998 and all 4 shows she did in Saskatoon, SK at SaskPlace on June 4th 1998 (her 3rd live show ever!), March 29th 1999, June 9th 2004 and June 11th 2004 (I had front row seat).   She released her 4th CD Up on November 18th 2002 and I bought 62 copies at A&B Warehouse the day it came out as pre-sells that I sold on ebay.  Performing on the road with Marilyn we listened to the Up CD everyday on the road for 10 months.

The Woman in Me, released on February 7, 1995, is the second studio album released by Shania Twain and her first with the majority of the songs co-written by her. It went onto become her biggest-selling recording at the time of its release, selling 4 million copies by the end of the year, and was eventually certified 12× Platinum by the RIAA on December 1, 2000, representing 12 million shipments throughout the United States

Album:  Experiment In Terror (Soundtrack) (1962)

One of my all time favorite instrumental / soundtrack albums.  I knew this album for years before I actually watched the movie for the first time which is worth seeing.

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme") and the theme to the Peter Gunn television series. Mancini had a long collaboration with the film director Blake Edwards and won numerous Academy Awards for the songs in Edwards films including "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's, "Days of Wine and Roses" and for the score to Victor Victoria.

Album:  Xylon I (1995)

Xylon Cozens was a childhood friend of mine who was highly influenced by 60's recording with great vocal harmonies such as The Beach Boys.  He had been a member of the accapella vocal group Streetnix.   He began songwriting and came up with some amazing truly original songs and sounds. Recording this album in Saskatoon, SK, Canada in 1995.  His album featured many guest musicians such as his father Nigel Cozens playing guitar tracks.    Some intricate layered vocal harmonies throughout the album which I really liked with some unpleasant sounding chords at times.   I was there for his CD release party.   He had originally recorded some demo's for this album on my 8-track cassette Tascam recorder which I used to rent to him.  I had done a slide guitar track for him but don't know what song it was.  Xylon had formerly been a vocal singer in the accapella group Streetnix from September 1991 to December 1992 at the time I was in 3rd year University.

February 13th 1996 - my #5 favorite daily song for 223 days at age 25 while I was on the road performing with Marilyn now for 2.5 years.  This year I borrowed money from my grandma and bought my very own computer for the first time ever after sharing Marilyn's for the past year so that I could input comic book price guide value details in spreadsheets and also work on printing lyrics for our live show and for doing promotional materials for Marilyn.   

Album: The Rutles (1978)

I bought this album new on cassette at Zellers in December 1984 and loved putting on the headphones and jamming along on the drums with it at age 13 in Grade 9 in the basement at 410 Ruth Street where we lived 1982-1991.  The songs were new songs written and inspired to sound like The Beatles using basic musical ideas and varied from actual Beatles songs.  The funny thing is that I think all of The Rutles songs are better than The Beatles songs that they parody.

Album: Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)

I bought this album used in 1985 at age 14 in Grade 9 at Nudon Book Store on Louise/8th Street.  I also got the movie version of the musical on Beta tape official release that year.   I bought the CD on the road with Marilyn while I was in Yellowknife playing at the Golden Range and the record shop was in the mall across the street in November 1993 at age 22.  I barely saw any sunlight the 3 weeks we were there as I woke up in the afternoons when the sun was already going down.

As the new century began a new chapter in songwriting where the focus was more on recording polished songs but writing way less and very sporadic.    I had written 500 songs by the age of 19 and had hit 1000 songs by the age of 25.  But since then I can go over a year at a time without writing a song but really focusing in most cases on a more commercial type of polished song however I still venture into all possible genres.  I continue to play and sing every part on all my songs and recordings.

I hired Neil Meckelborg of Audio Art to record my songs in 2001.  We started out recording a full album at their location downtown behind the Bus depot but eventually worked on recordings at Neil's private studio.  In total we recorded 3 full albums of material of my songs and a full length album of songs I wrote with Marilyn Parney that I produced.  Neil and I also worked on a Trooper hit song karaoke CD in 2001.  I spent 18 months recording with Neil and over 40 songs and over $10,000.00 in studio bills I paid at that time to record the best quality audio ever on my songs.  Neil had used Sonar Cakewalk so I learned how to use it and have used that now for a decade in my own studio.

Album: The Hollies (1974)

Hollies is a 1974 album by the English pop-rock band The Hollies. The centerpiece is the band's classic cover of Albert Hammond's ballad "The Air That I Breathe," a major worldwide hit that year. It also contains another "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress soundalike in "The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee".

The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and early-1970s. They enjoyed considerable popularity in many countries, although they did not achieve major US chart success until 1966. Along with The Rolling Stones and The Searchers, they are one of the few British pop groups of the early 1960s that have never officially broken up and that continue to record and perform. The Hollies were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010

Album:  A Little More Personal (2005)

My favorite power/pop girl album ever made - she had topped what Avril Lavigne had started in the early 2000's.   I just love every song on this album making it one of my favorites of all time.  While most would laugh at me liking music by Lindsay I defend it as the songs are all so strong, with great hooks and she had the best songwriters working on this album. 

October 25th 2006 - my #10 favorite daily song for 17 days at age 35 living at Eastview and now dating Valerie for 8 months sand Nicholas was 4 months old.