That was a welcome pat on the back, but it also led to their first defection six months later at the next competition the CKCK Spring Big Band Battle Blast in June 1965: Well, she was right on Thats when Rich Shillingford gave his notice. They were also used as substitute Supremes throughout 1968 and 1969 when Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong were experiencing tense relations. No Producer It was not because of bad behavior though they were not surly, contemptuous, bad-tempered, or threatening in any way to western civilization. A tap had been turned on, and it has actually never stopped. It started with The Andantes are one of the most popular groups in Saskatchewan and the members are respected as some of the top musicians in Regina., It then highlighted the bands biggest strength known also for their versatility, the group does, every type of contemporary music from hard rock to soul-funk to barbershop harmony. Not only did this put the recording session in limbo, the band worried that they would be seen as immature and irresponsible by their friends and families. It is an uptempo pop song about a slightly defensive young man who, after considerable turmoil in his relationship with an independent girl, feels once again secure in her loyalty. He formed it three years ago. The final two Andante performances took place on New Years Eve at the Kings Hotel in Regain, followed in the first week of 1970 by several nights at Saskatoons Sox & Stockings Rock Palace (formerly the Crypt Coffee House) on Broadway Avenue. From the first Oh baby, come back to me cant you see Im in misery, and from the second: Ive got a secret and I wanna tell you If it isnt one the teeney-boppers like, then survival in the dog-eat-dog world of wax can be a treacherous experiencetake The Confederation for instance. The stunt was so realistic it resulted in the offered assistance mentioned above. I intuited what I was really looking for, but didnt know if it was out there, or even had a name. Well, we sent one to a church where we were playing, and they said uh uh, NO! So we quickly did another one a closeup of a womans face like Alphonse Mucha. I had a few more months of high school before graduation, but come summertime we were full time players. In the second half, the master of ceremonies announced that the next piece would feature a trumpet trio to play Buglers Holiday. I played with the jazz sticks throughout the years in all manner of venues large and small without amplification, dont ask me how I did that. and Messina, N.Y. enlarged their reputation. After the new quieter taps were adopted the sound was missed by customers, so theyve started sounding a Claxon horn to announcethe end of another keg. By that time we were members of the musicians union. Oh well, thats what happened with all that weak American beer we bought. After the first rush of rhyming teen idol material, he quickly headed for a more thoughtful mode which explored subjects as he describes: deeper, more political and/or working the margins of perception As all writers tend to do, he explored the pleasure and pain of relationships in his songs, but found them formulaic and not particularly genuine. In 1963 however he heard the siren call of rock and roll and formed The Chevrons already alluded to. Attached to the ceiling and facing the stage will be the precious strobe lights. We crashed in the basement overnight of Rons family home. Recorded: 1969, CKCK Studio, Regina They issued three of their own singles in 1963 and 1964. It was midday around the lunch counter, just my father and I. The group has recorded in Chicago and has played on several shows with other groups including Vanilla Fudge.. The next day was spent mixing in the studio. Your email address will not be published. I dont remember Fred being a memberbut he seemed to know them and to be around every time we played there. They also drove many miles giving performances at the Buchanan Town Hall, Mathieu College in Gravelbourg, Melville High School, the Yellowgrass Legion Hall, Langenburg Legion Hall, St. Josephs College in Yorkton, Pops Pavilion at Fishing Lake in the QuAppelle Valley, the Armories in Minot, North Dakota, and both Flin Flon and Benito in Manitoba. They were the creme de la creme they were real showmen, the dance steps they were simply the best. The Dynamics even released a single on Allied Records, Such a Time b/w Bulldog Workout.. Senior citizen's residential high-rise. Renovation work was under way in July, but a hassle with city hall concerning parking availability delayed progress. We let the word out and probably Donnie came up with him. I do remember doing a number of double bills there with Mozart and the Wolfgang. The band kept getting better and tighter. The Andantes were literally handed a group of new and interesting songs to play that no other band had access to, while Graingers reputation within the Saskatchewan musical community was positively glowing they were a band that had the chops to take the songs to a higher level both from a musical and exposure perspective., The Andantes participated in a much more professional recording session in the summer of 1969. (They played a larger gig there several months later Queen of the Shrine Bowl dance with The Downbeats). 1 Mama. As well they did Deutscher and Youngs City Sun.. As his backup musicians, he chose the Andantes who, as he inadvertently found out, were already familiar with his material. The group has a wealth of experience going for them and are easily the tops in their field in this part of the country. Cmon, get Daryl in the band, he can cut it No, hes too young I think Don wanted me in, he knew I could cut it musically, but it was majority rule.. Blues No. By no means did this spell the end to any of the band members musical careers. Lewis was known in our world on the radio for playing piano instrumentals or catchy tunes in party background sounds [such as The In Crowd]. HistoryLink Tours Trianon Ballroom However, for reasons unknown, the arrangement fell apart in late June, and Perry decided he wanted a reliable, ongoing house band. (Regina) Canada / Saskatchewan / Regina. We had a four bedroom house booked for the week. We finished practice, made a phone call, his wife answered, we explained who we were. They headed for Kankakee, as Edwards had managed to get them one gig at a local high school in his hometown. Montague sets the scene: when we got into the hotel I found the $1,500 Id set aside was gone out of my suitcase. Formed in New York in late 1967, their claims to fame were that they had clown-like stage names (Smoothie, Goodfellow, Wry One, Thump Thump, etc. He was a happy, funny, red haired, cherubic-faced, a bit stubby kind of guy who could play. We got along really well. In order to explain the melodies, he sang them out in a booming voice. Well brought up boys! So from then on we first tried to use the nude one, but always had the backup! He asked if I wanted him to show me something? Daybreak (R. Zehringer) Eric Clapton). Not an elegant location. For much of the summer the Yippies had great fun with the alarmist media thinking up and threatening all kinds of civic disruption including throwing boxes of nails from overpasses onto freeways, abandoning cars in major intersections to block traffic, and the best one, putting LSD in the citys water supply. Their horns also allowed them to do tunes such as Herb Alperts Lonely Bull and South of the Border. Even though this was only a small part of their repertoire, local DJs needed a distinguishing label and thus called their act Tijuana rock. What blew our minds was the opening act, The Hello People They came out all dressed in mime, did silent skits between songs, one of their lead male singers with a small tambourine while weaving in dance would spin it on his index finger. Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Setlist at Trianon Ballroom, Regina We did a lot of tough material a lot of Chicago, Sons of Champlin, McCoys, Buckinghams. Opened 1922, closed 1958. Anything else? I asked. However it was converted in a very few years to a fabulous meeting place for the young and the young at heart by its operators.predominantly patronized by area college students and skiers during the winter, it maintains its popularity through the summer with sportsmen of every kind. Our guitarist Gerry Schlegel had a song called Lady which we wanted to record, but we werent really actively writing songs. Daryl Gutheil thus was finally brought into the lineup doubling on trumpet and rhythm guitar. The original Dynamics line-up was Joe Vargo (bass), Ken Folk (vocalist and later bass as well), Richard Slouch Lautsch (guitar replaced by Jimmy Mann), Andy Goulet (keyboards), and Jim Pauk (drums). They are booked almost steady until mid-summer. Gary Montague was a solid drummer who knew just when to add fills. In short order he had consumed the instrument, singing songs with it,or picking notes with his left hand while blowing the trumpet in his right hand. Selections from the Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Who, and Paul Revere and the Raiders filled out their show. Statham started a business out of his home creating posters for many other local bands. He was happy with it so we came out and played the whole summer as the house band. I think it was Donnie who came up Rick Shillingford our first guitar player, who fit in right away and sang harmonies. Featured one after the other were The Pawnbrokers (from Winnipeg) on November 29th, the 49th Parallel on November 30th, and, the biggest catch of all, on December 1st The Spencer Davis Group from England. Hello Stranger (M. Grainger) They had just released their seminal LP Cheap Thrills that very month, and it was starting to garner massive attention. Then we drove him back. Recorded: August 1968, Chess Studios, Chicago Dont phone us, well phone you There was also talk of having it released as one of the Canadian Talent Library discs, but that never happened. Then we were off to Sylvan Lake in the morning, prize money in hand.. I was 18 and underage, so I spent my breaks in a small room apart from the main club area; that was a little depressing. We played 6 nights and Saturday matinee every week all summer. It was a fortunate call for Deutscher: I played him a dub of my song Twenty Nine One-Nighters. As well they were up against Reginas then-popular songbird Loreen Church. The gigs increased, audiences multiplied, and everybody wanted to hear more from The Andantes. Denver was just starting his climb to fame he had released one LP Rhymes and Reasons, and one of his tunes Leaving on a Jet Plane had been covered by Peter, Paul and Mary. Seattle Now & Then: The Trianon Ballroom, 1927 - DorpatSherrardLomont Not certain about opening dates of the 4-D. Trained as a child violinist, he took up guitar in Grade 8. This was to bring together leftist and anti-establishment thinkers (both the serious and the crazy) from around the U.S. to discuss the state of the nation a kind of shadow convention. It was one component of Browns larger Soundaround Productions which also included Reginas first record label Soundaround, an electronics repair shop, and a distribution arm called Concept Marketing. They were singing like choirboys so effortless! Clipping found in The Leader-Post in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on Mar 11, 1977. Most of the band were placated by Edwards assurances. Patience (B. Deutscher) Recalls Daryl: Jose Feliciano did come up on stage in Moscow and jam with us. We really knew nothing of Chess Studios before going, DE never mentioned anything of its history. Recalls Montague: We opened with Donnie on trumpet, fingering the bass guitar notes in his left hand, Kenny on trumpet in the middle, and Daryl on trumpet playing keyboards on his left hand: the fanfare to the Beatles Love, Love, Love [All You Need Is Love] then slipping into all the harmonies thereof, with Donnie singing lead.. We didnt just play a song straight we would do things with it. One day I noticed through a bedroom door a big old-fashioned bass drum and with it an ill-tuned bongy snare drum. These cookies do not store any personal information. Both replied Ray Statham and, yes, he was good. Montague in particular had been looking for his type of music throughout the 1960s never quite finding it: To be honest (oh horrors/scandal!) . Located at 2190 West 12 Avenue, it was cozy the recording room was only 30 x 40 feet and a mere 8-1/2 feet high. The Fourth Dimension leaned on imported talent: it started January with The Mitchells (Chuck & Joni), then several weeks with the Gnu Foke, followed by Torontonian Michael Sherman, and topped off with Marti Shannon a Saskatonain fresh off the Lets Swing Out television program. There seemed to be musicians everywhere. In October of 1969 he married his high school sweetheart Mary Lou, and shortly after they moved to Saskatoon where he joined the graphic & layout department of Simpson Sears. The Leader-Post wrote approvingly: Oh yes. I think we were filling in for a band playing Temple Gardens; on a break I said to two girls we might be looking for a guitar player. The Trianon started to get a reputation for the not-so-friendly competition for eligible young girls. Chess was one of North Americas most respected studios, owned and operated by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. We prided ourselves on doing pretty good harmonies, but when we finally did see the Andantes, they were doing four-part harmonies, and it was real obvious why all the fuss. His first introduction to the Devils music came from three of the American bands passing through Moose Jaw and performing at Temple Gardens. Montague agrees his drum solos were a selling point for the band. Dinni had a wrangy bent in him which could become infectious. We took two takes; the video was played back; Donnie (a natural showman) looked like he was really performing; we pulled it off. His musical reputation preceded him, and before he even arrived in the Queen city, he got an offer to join another band. Personnel: Don Gutheil, Don Young, Bob Deutscher, Daryl Gutheil Donnie went frontman and we then got Dinni Wilkie on bass and backup vocals, an original member of the longtime Regina band, The Impalas, after the Chev car, who were recently defunct. As Statham recalls with a chuckle a blues band in Moose Jaw in 1964 was reallywellout there. In the face of marked audience indifference, they managed to last a miraculous 12 months. Regina's historic buildings and precincts - Wikipedia With Don playing bass and trumpet, and Daryl playing trumpet and organ, the group has a wide range of musical styles from Blood Sweat and Tears to barbershop harmony. He then added In January the group plans a cross-country tour of the United States eventually ending up in Chicago where they plan to do some recording.. The young people of today are not all destined to go up in a cloud of peculiar smoke he joked. Now & Then: Tripping the light fantastic at Seattle's Trianon Ballroom So we introduced ourselves by letting them have it; I think we were enthusiastically received and adopted as the hometown band for the summer. Your email address will not be published. Some of it was partially satisfied by driving rock with say Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and Steppenwolf, R n B or some funk. He had been waiting you see Rick had long been mutually, madly in love with his high school sweetheart, Penny, and they were engaged to be married, and he was apprenticing as a mechanic in his dads garage. Montague: We were going to be recording in Chicago and needed something to do it with. Black had just hit big with his song Unless You Care on Arc Records, and as a result had also been named Male Vocalist of the Year at the first Maple Music Awards (the predecessor to the Junos). It wasnt a long phone call and we had a name. It was the first concert of any kind I had ever seen. Produced by Tom Northcott It was like having an additional musician, and the band members liked it so much that Gutheils guitar-playing days came to a quick end. It was purchased by jazz saxophonist Paul Perry in 1947, and his orchestra played there from May to September every year until 1965. We were all so busy then. An important concert for the Andantes took place on April 23, 1966, when they played the windup dance at Reginas Hi-Y Day in the YMCA auditorium. They were immediately booked into the lounge of the Rock Cliff Hotel, a somewhat seedy club six miles from the Vermont border. The kidnappers, all girls, threw a bag over Johnnys head and dragged him off in a waiting car. SAFA 432 (old guide GR 155) consists of a fonds level description and file level descriptions of architectural drawings. The Canadian Downbeats topped the bill with the Shandermen, Boleros, Rhodesmen, Andantes, and the Tracers as well as Go-Go girls. (Kenny you silly bugger.) Lots after a particularly emotional time, and probably more internally generated than external At first, it may have been motivated by a desire to make it, but that passed. Romero had made a name for himself a few years earlier by writing Hippy Hippy Shake a tune popularized by the Liverpool band Swinging Blue Jeans. Visually, I could stop the beads of my drums sticks even on the high hat just before they would hit the drums and the cymbals. Gutheil remembers: There were cops everywhere. However, cymbals move particularly when theyre crashed. I am curious of this date of the 4-D because my memory is earlier. We all sang and all played instruments. This internationally iconic California band with Joplin singing her hits, to us was a bit of a disappointment. Queen City Kids Setlist at Trianon Ballroom, Regina This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. We sold a few hundred copies, and got some local airplay [CKCK] so I guess it was worth the experience. City Sun (D. Young/B. Daryl Gutheil became aware of them at this time. There were two groups in particular that wanted to disrupt the gathering, and use the national media to get their messages disseminated. Guestpectacular . Even with limited club dates, the band became very popular very fast in the first half of 1966. The next month saw a visit from the Turtles, and then in November the Vanilla Fudge. I believe we were fourth just around the corner, and next to us were Joe Vargo and the Dynamics. She summed up: From the Flood and the Andantes to the Vanilla Fudge: three groups with three personalities; all with good sounds., Although they blended well, the Andantes found themselves slowly evolving into two musical camps. I Love You More Than Youll Ever Know (A. Kooper) I had played a lot of the same tunes with my other bands, so that might explain it. They then doubled back to Winnipeg where they played at Js Discotheque on October 11, and headed back west to play the Monte Carlo Night at MacEwan Hall at the University of Calgary on October 24th. Were expecting a young crowd nurses, university types, business people and of course, teen-agers too said Dewayne. They band circled throughout the Midwest for the next month and a half hitting Minnesota, Kansas, Wisconsin (Madison, Racine, and LaCrosse) and Ohio (Milwaukee). By early 1969 they had become the most popular band in southern Saskatchewan and a force to be reckoned with throughout the prairies. He remembers: Kelly Crowe was my partner, and he drummed up the business. In the beginning as a kid I found myself frustrated with using marching drum sticks on the drum set (which were probably about the same width and heft as your standard rock drum stick today, 5A, and changed to 7A Regal Tip, a jazz stick.) Don Gutheil has a unique voice, pleasantly gravely at lower notes, and clear and strong when he starts belting out the words. At the same time he also played in a strict country band called The Western Rhythm Boys. Our profs could also be found there. He notes I was nervous as shit, but when it was overwhat a buzz! Its proprietor was Gene Ciuca (the owner of Genes Chicken on the Way, Genes On the Avenue, Genes On the Highway, as well as Sammys Pizza the first pizzeria in Regina). Get the Rush Setlist of the concert at Trianon Ballroom, Regina, SK, Canada on October 2, 1975 from the Caress of Steel Tour and other Rush Setlists for free on setlist.fm! One of the venerable cultural institutions in the history of Regina was the Trianon Ballroom at 1850 Smith Street. Don sings the lead and the rest harmonize with him. To further their originality, they also hooked up with one of Saskatchewans few pop songwriters of the period. Reporter Bob Hughes of the Leader-Post wrote the first major profile of the group in April 1967: Who are The Andantes? That group captured the right mood and music for the Trianon. Gene Dlouhy and the Swinging Canadians band photo possibly at Waterton National Park, Alberta. That year the Chess brothers lured Chisholm away from Universal to become their chief engineer. He always seemed to know about tunes we ended up playing from England before they hit any of the Regina radio stations. But it was a piece. Daryl Gutheil remembers: Bob had previously filled in with The Andantes a few times, but we knew he was committed to working with Don Young. Leonard), 2. limited edition 45 rpm The Chevrons tried to emulate the Dynamics, and accordingly, in June 1966, they loaded up their equipment and headed for Sherbrooke, Quebec. Jun, 1975 1975 19 Jun. No Producer The Confederation all have short hair. They wanted to do the artwork, promotion and distribution themselves. He sang lead, and although not having a strong or rich voice, he could sing anything and later was good for harmony with us. I dont know if people actually got my Beardsley nod. In the spring of 1964, the Ro-dans provided several musicians to a one-time unit known as The Balfour Beatles. That always got a cheer! They even shared a double-header gig with The Dynamics at the Mousetrap Night Club on December 28, 1967. As he recalls: I was self-taught, although in the beginning I had a few lessons from a neighbour by the name of Jerry Nessit. One of the bands all-time favorite places to play on the tour was The Rathskeller in Coeur dAlene. Sams Go Go Club operated with a different philosophy an ongoing string of one-nighters, and mostly local bands. Their early image six white guys with short hair and short-sleeved shirts with buttondown collars was not at all attractive to teens in 1967. Their original rock disk jockeys were Ron Andrews, Russ Campbell, Big Daddy Doug Alexander, John Wessel, and Dave Jacobsen. With a couple of small gaps, he would remain with them until 1973. I encourage you to write more about Regina. A promising new club Arthurs in the swanky Hotel Saskatchewan was brought to the attention of Reginas music fans through a series of newspaper ads Join the Swingers. Deutscher sang a ragged Twist and Shout gaining himself a formidable reputation amongst musical circles. Intrepid we were. When our friends in the Shandermen heard it, we played them the B side first, and they said enthusiastically, Thats the best song ever recorded in Regina! When we played them the A side, they said, Thats the best song ever recorded in Saskatchewan!. In the fall of 1969 he enrolled at the University of Victoria with a major in Philosophy. Popular music venues in the Queen City in the early 1960s seem to have been rare and short-lived. Off the extended crescendo, I would begin to wind it all the way back down to a single tap. I even remember we had played some gig at the university in Saskatoon; heading back the next day we pulled over at a cafe for breakfast or lunch, closer to Saskatoon than Regina. Others would occur. I considered myself more a tunesmith than performing musician. It also featured local talent the Shandermen, the Canadian Downbeats, Blackpool, the Checkerlads, The Webb, the Soul Grinders, and The Quarry. We would have indicated wed pay his normal percentage. Gene Dlouhy - Guy Dlouhy and Hard Labor Band - Saskatchewan music Very early on the respective talents of the groups founders became evident. ADVERTISING THAT PATRONS would "trip the light fantastic," the legendary Trianon Ballroom, designed by architect Warren H. Milner, opened its doors on May 20, 1927, at Third Avenue and Wall. It occurred to me that Dinni may have wanted to restart his old band, the Impalas, and he would have needed a guitar player.. It opened on February 12th with a double-header including the Ook-Piks and the Dynamics. We have a clean image (short hair, etc.) I sucked it all up. Recalls Statham: I just remember it being a live telecast and that we wore some snazzy jackets that were all made by David Millers mother. The winners were chosen probably by ballot from the crowd, in which case, it was good to get as many friends in attendance as you could. Reporter Bill Heintz wrote: It seems to be the fad these days to bring in out of town talent for a local concert or dance. Because of Micks abilities with chords we were able to figure out harmonies and play the more difficult songs that were being written by such groups as the Moody Blues, Paul Revere, the Who, the Yardbirds, the Animals, etc. Don Young again is believed to play the largest set of drums in western Canada. Then the Gutheil brothers, Don and Daryl, are the only two original members of the group. To us it was just a recording studio in the states. It was an exceptionally difficult decision to make. The ceilings were only seven or eight feet high, much too low for proper acoustics, but they had a decent old school echo chamber an actual room at the back, under the stairs, about 1010 with lacquered concrete walls. The repertoire consisted almost exclusively of rhythm and Blues James Brown, Jerry Butler, and Sam Cooke. However the Trianon had no choice but to recognize that consumers of musical entertainment were getting younger, and they knew they had to mix things up a bit. We finally decided to call Donny our music director because thats what he was, and boy was he good at it! Recalls Montague: being a brand new pop band we needed a guitar playerduh, not found in the Regina Lions Bands. With a little bit of money to cover gas and meals, the band headed back north the following day. The Regina Andantes had only heard rumours of their Detroit namesakes, and did not feel any great pressure to change their name. 6201 South Cottage Grove Avenue. Recalls Deutscher Chan was gifted with one of the finest voices in rock & roll and rhythm & blues it was a pleasure to play in a band with him.