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Blue Peter (band)
Blue Peter was a Canadian new wave synthpop band founded in 1978 in Markham, Ontario, by Chris Wardman and Paul Humphrey. In their heyday, Blue Peter opened for major international acts such as the Police and Simple Minds. The video for "Don't Walk Past", directed by Rob Quartly, was No. 85 on MuchMusic's top videos of the century list, and was played on MTV in the United States, in spite of the lack of American record distribution for the band. Humphrey died on April 4, 2021, after a long illness. History Blue Peter was founded by guitarist/songwriter Chris Wardman and lead singer Paul Humphrey in the late 1970s, as a high school band. The initial lineup was rounded out by bassist Geoff McOuat and drummer Ron Tomlinson; this ensemble recorded Blue Peter's first EP, ''Test Patterns for Living'', in 1979. In 1980, Mike Bambrick replaced Tomlinson on drums, and in the same year, the band released their first full-length album, ''Radio Silence''. Over the next couple of yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Sniderman
Jason Sniderman is a Canadian musician and businessman. He was one of the chief executives of Sam the Record Man, He also played keyboards on a number of rock music albums, performed with the band Blue Peter, and later released several albums under the name Ensign Broderick. He is also the father of Canadian musician Cos Sylvan. Early life Sniderman grew up in Toronto, Ontario, the son of businessman Sam Sniderman. He was involved in the music industry from childhood through the family record store. Music career Sniderman was a keyboard player in the new wave band Blue Peter, joining towards the end of their run in 1983, in time for the recording and release of their final album, ''Falling''. He has appeared as a guest musician on albums by other Canadian artists, including contributing keyboards on Randy Bachman's album ''Any Road'', Chalk Circle's recording of 20th Century Boy, and recordings produced by fellow Blue Peter member Chris Wardman. He played keyboards on the albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simple Minds
Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977. They have released a string of hit singles, becoming best known internationally for "Don't You (Forget About Me)" (1985), which topped the '' Billboard'' Hot 100 in the United States. Other commercially successful singles include "Glittering Prize" (1982), " Someone Somewhere in Summertime" (1982), " Waterfront" (1983) and " Alive and Kicking" (1985), as well as the UK number one single " Belfast Child" (1989). Simple Minds have achieved five UK Albums chart number one albums, ''Sparkle in the Rain'' (1984), ''Once Upon a Time'' (1985), '' Live in the City of Light'' (1987), '' Street Fighting Years'' (1989) and ''Glittering Prize 81/92'' (1992); they have sold more than 60 million albums. They were the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s. Simple Minds have also achieved considerable chart success in the United States, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy and New Zealand. Despite various personne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keyboard Instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings. Today, the term ''keyboard'' often refers to keyboard-style synthesizers. Under the fingers of a sensitive performer, the keyboard may also be used to control dynamics, phrasing, shading, articulation, and other elements of expression—depending on the design and inherent capabilities of the instrument. Another important use of the word ''keyboard'' is in historical musicology, where it means an instrument whose identity cannot be firmly established. Particularly in the 18th century, the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falling (Blue Peter Album)
''Falling'' was the second full-length album by the Toronto-based new wave band Blue Peter. Coming on the heels of '' Up To You'', their successful 1982 EP, Steve Nye was selected to produce their next album, which included the hit song, "Don't Walk Past". Nye's production emphasized keyboards over guitars, and drew comparisons with his work with Roxy Music and Japan. Reception Released in the spring of 1983 on Ready Records, ''Falling'' peaked nationally at 64 (where it stayed for three weeks) on the Canadian Albums Chart, and was ranked 25th on Toronto radio station CFNY's Top 83 of 1983 chart. The biggest single from ''Falling'' was "Don't Walk Past", known for its jangly guitar riff, and CFNY ranked the song at 92 in its Best 102 of the Decade in January 1990. The video for "Don't Walk Past", directed by Rob Quartly, was inspired by the then-recent film ''Blade Runner'' and became the first from a Canadian indie label to get played on MTV in the United States. The video al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CASBY Award
The CASBY Awards were a Canadian awards ceremony for independent and alternative music, presented annually by Toronto, Ontario radio station CFNY, currently branded as 102.1 The Edge. CASBY is an acronym for Canadian Artists Selected By You. The awards were first presented in 1981 under the name U-Knows, a pun on Canada's mainstream Juno Awards. The concept was developed by David Marsden, the program director at CFNY at the time, when he heard the Juno nominations announced on CBC radio, and included was Long John Baldry — who was newly resident in Canada but had already been in the music business for almost 20 years — as most promising vocalist. They were renamed the CASBYs in 1985, after a listener contest."A festive air to CASBYs' launch". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 25, 1985. The 1985 ceremony, hosted by Carole Pope and Paul Shaffer, also marked the first time that the awards were broadcast nationally by CBC Television. In the first year, voter ballots were dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up To You (Blue Peter EP)
''Up to You'' was an EP by the Toronto-based new wave band Blue Peter. Released in 1982, it included the single "Chinese Graffiti", which garnered the band their biggest radio exposure to date, winning a CASBY Award (then known as the "U-Knows") for Single of the Year. In the past, "Chinese Graffiti" had been released as a single by the band on their own short-lived independent record label, AWOL Records, in 1981. The EP ranked 29th on CFNY's Top 82 Albums of 1982, and its success led to the following year's album, ''Falling'' being produced by Steve Nye. Personnel Blue Peter: * Mike Bambrick - drums * Paul Humphrey - vocals * Ric Joudrey - bass * Chris Wardman - guitars Additional personnel: * Malcolm Burn - keyboards on "Chinese Graffiti" * Sherry Kean (credited as "Sherry Huffman") - backing vocals on "Chinese Graffiti" * Glenn Gould, whose recordings had been produced by Blue Peter producer Kevin Doyle, was credited as having sourced the orchestral sample used o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Silence (1980 Album)
''Radio Silence'' is the first full-length album by the Toronto-based new wave band Blue Peter. Released in 1980, it contained the moderately successful single "Video Verite", as well as the eponymous single "Radio Silence", known for its simple "dying keyboard" riff. The album ranked 60th in CFNY's Top 80 Albums of 1980. The original LP release credits production to Jasper and Blue Peter. The CD issue from 2007 credits the producers as Kevin Doyle, Chris Wardman and Jasper. Personnel * Mike Bambrick - drums * Paul Humphrey - vocals, keyboards * Geoff McOuat - bass * Chris Wardman - guitar Additional personnel: * Ray Parker - piano on ''Take Me to War'' Track listing All songs on the album were written by Chris Wardman, except where noted: # "Video Verite" - 3:54 # "Where's My Angel" - 3:24 (Humphrey) # "Attraction" - 2:57 # "Hesitate" - 3:36 # "Shellshocked" - 4:01 # "Radio Silence" - 4:31 # "Neon Girls" - 3:43 # "A.W.O.L." - 3:16 # "I Walk Alone" - 3:48 # "Take Me t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Test Patterns For Living
''Test Patterns for Living'' was the first release, an EP, by the Toronto-based new wave band Blue Peter. Released in 1979, it included the single "Factory Living", which helped the band get their first radio airplay on CFNY. The song "Same Old Place", later appeared on the compilation album, ''The Best of Ready Volume 1 :: 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection'', and in 2009 was included on the soundtrack for the vampire/rock and roll movie ''Suck''; the latter event led to Blue Peter performing in 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, for the film's premiere. Personnel * Paul Humphrey - vocals, keyboards * Geoff McOuat - bass * Ron Tomlinson - drums * Chris Wardman - guitar Track listing All songs on the album were written by Chris Wardman, unless otherwise noted: ;Side A # "Same Old Place" - 3:08 # "Out with the Boys" - 3:03 (Humphrey) # "Living in the Eighties" - 2:17 # "Time and Money" - 2:10 ;Side B # "Do t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drummer
A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...s. Most contemporary western bands that play Rock music, rock, Pop music, pop, jazz, or R&B music include a drummer for purposes including timekeeping and embellishing the musical timbre. The drummer's equipment includes a drum kit (or "drum set" or "trap set"), which includes various drums, cymbals and an assortment of accessory hardware such as pedals, standing support mechanisms, and drum sticks. Particularly in the traditional music of many countries, drummers use individual drums of various sizes and designs rather than drum kits. Some use only their hands to strike the drums. In larger ensembles, the drummer may be part of a rhythm section with other percussion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassist
A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a Bass (instrument), bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or trombone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments. Since the 1960s, the electric bass has been the standard bass instrument for funk, R&B, soul music, rock and roll, reggae, jazz fusion, Heavy metal music, heavy metal, Country music, country and pop music. The double bass is the standard bass instrument for European classical music, classical music, Bluegrass music, bluegrass, rockabilly, and most genres of jazz. Low brass instruments such as the tuba or sousaphone are the standard bass instrument in Dixieland and New Orleans-style jazz bands. Despite the associations of different bass instruments with certain genres, there are exceptions. Some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
