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Snow In June
''Snow In June'' is the third major label album by The Northern Pikes released in 1990. It featured three hit singles - "Kiss Me You Fool", "She Ain't Pretty", and "Girl With a Problem". The album features guest appearances from notable performers such as Crystal Taliefero, Garth Hudson, and John Sebastian. Commercial performance ''Snow In June'' was the band's most successful album, being certified Platinum in Canada, their only album to do so. It was the eighth-best selling Cancon album in Canada of 1990. Charts ''Snow In June'' made its debut on the Canadian Albums Chart on June 16, 1990, and stayed on the chart for over a year until September 14, 1991. Track listing Album credits Personnel * Merl Bryck – vocals, guitar * Bryan Potvin – vocals, guitar *Jay Semko – vocals, bass * Don Schmid – drums, percussion Additional personnel *Garth Hudson – organ, keyboards, accordion *John Sebastian – acoustic guitar, harp, autoharp *Stan Szelest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Northern Pikes
The Northern Pikes are a Canadian rock band formed in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in 1984. The original members are Jay Semko, Bryan Potvin, Merl Bryck and Glen Hollingshead, who left the band in 1985 and was replaced by Don Schmid in June 1986. The band was active until 1993 and toured and recorded again from 1999 through to the present. The Northern Pikes were inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame on Sunday, September 30, 2012, in Regina, Saskatchewan. The band released its ninth record of original material, ''Forest of Love'', on June 7, 2019. History The Northern Pikes released two independent EPs before being signed to Virgin Records in 1986, ''The Northern Pikes'' (1984) and ''Scene in North America'' (1985). They also recorded a song for ''Saskatchewan After Dark'', a 1985 compilation of Saskatchewan-based artists sponsored by the provincial government. Their first album for Virgin, '' Big Blue Sky'', included the Semko-penned "Teenland", the band's fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RPM (magazine)
''RPM'' ( and later ) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. ''RPM'' ceased publication in November 2000. ''RPM'' stood for "Records, Promotion, Music". The magazine's title varied over the years, including ''RPM Weekly'' and ''RPM Magazine''. Canadian music charts ''RPM'' maintained several format charts, including Top Singles (all genres), Adult Contemporary, Dance, Urban, Rock/Alternative and Country Tracks (or Top Country Tracks) for country music. On 21 March 1966, ''RPM'' expanded its Top Singles chart from 40 positions to 100. On 6 December 1980, the main chart became a top-50 chart and remained this way until 4 August 1984, whereupon it reverted to a top-100 singles chart. For the first several weeks of its existence, the magazine did not compile a national chart, but simply printed the cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Albums
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Bob Clearmountain
Bob Clearmountain (born January 15, 1953) is an American recording engineer, mixer and record producer. He has worked with many major acts, including Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Toto, Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams, with whom he has a very long association.Bob Cleamountain's Associated Artists List He has been nominated for four Awards and won a in 2007 for Best Male Pop Vocal Album for his work with engineering |
Hugh Padgham
Hugh Charles Padgham (born 15 February 1955) is an English record producer and audio engineer. He has won four Grammy Awards, for Producer of the Year and Album of the Year for 1985, Record of the Year for 1990, and Engineer of the Year for 1993. A 1992 poll in ''Mix'' magazine voted him one of the world's "Top Ten Most Influential Producers". Padgham's co-productions include hits by Phil Collins, XTC, Genesis, the Human League, Sting, and the Police. He pioneered (with Peter Gabriel and producer Steve Lillywhite) the "gated reverb" drum sound used most famously in Collins' song "In the Air Tonight". Early life Padgham was born on 15 February 1955 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. Career Padgham became interested in record production after listening to Elton John's ''Tumbleweed Connection''. He started out as a tape operator at Advision Studios, working on many recording sessions including Mott The Hoople and Gentle Giant. Fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Tanner
Ian Tanner is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has performed in rock bands since the mid-1980s. He was a founding member of Christian rock group The Awakening (1985–89), and later went on to form the band One Hundred Days with his fellow Awakening member, Andrew Horrocks. One Hundred Days performed from 1990 until 2000 when Tanner left the band and the group disbanded. He currently works as a producer, composer and studio musician and tours with various recording artists, mostly from Canada. History Formative years Tanner began piano lessons at the age of six, and by ten years of age he could play proficiently by ear. He notes that he decided music was his main passion, so he quit playing hockey to focus more on his lessons and education. In high school, Tanner played string bass in the orchestra, piano at concerts, drums in a show choir, and electric bass in a jazz ensemble. He began writing his own music by the age of eight and while a teenager at Huron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Szelest
Stanley Martin Szelest (February 11, 1942 – January 20, 1991) was an American musician from Buffalo, New York, known for founding an influential blues band in the 1950s and 1960s, Stan and the Ravens, and later as a keyboardist with Ronnie Hawkins and, briefly, with The Band. Biography In 1958, Szelest formed Stan and the Ravens, a blues group that became popular in western New York. New York producer David Lucas recorded sessions with the group, resulting in the release "Farmer's Daughter" a song written by Szelest. Lucas also recorded a song entitled, "Howlin' for My Darlin" and b-side, "It Won't Be Long Now" using the name, the Rivals instead of Stan and the Ravens for the Spector/Wand label. Lucas made some other recordings of the group, only one of which “Rag Top”, has ever been released. In 1967, Stan and the Ravens broke up, although they would re-unite occasionally well into the 1980s. In 2009, the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame released “Rag Top” on a CD compilati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Schmid
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Merl Bryck
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She Ain't Pretty
"She Ain't Pretty" is a single by Canadian rock band The Northern Pikes, from their 1990 album ''Snow in June''. It is the song for which the Pikes are best known. The song was written by Bryan Potvin. It describes the singer's infatuation with a physically attractive woman, and his dismay at learning that she is a horrible person—a " model from Hell". The genesis of the song was Potvin watching an episode of ''Rhoda'' where a character says "I'm not really beautiful, I just look that way." The song was the sixth-most played Cancon song in Canada of 1990. Charts Year-end charts Critical reception In 1991, the song was nominated for the Juno Award for Single of the Year. Its music video, which integrated claymation and early use of morphing, and which the National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Semko
John Peter "Jay" Semko is a singer/songwriter and bassist with Canadian band, The Northern Pikes. He is also a music composer for numerous film and television productions, most notably the successful Canadian television series ''Due South''. Semko has been nominated for a Juno Award eight times as a member of the Northern Pikes, and also been nominated twice for a Gemini Award, and once for a Canadian Screen Award, and received two awards from the Canadian Music Publishers Association for his songwriting. His hometown is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Discography Albums Singles References External links Jay Semko– Official Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Semko, Jay Canadian singer-songwriters Canadian rock bass guitarists Musicians from Saskatoon Year of birth missing (living people) Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Potvin
Bryan Anthony Potvin (born May 31, 1963, in Ottawa) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. History Potvin began guitar lessons at the age of 13 in Victoria, B.C. His family re-located to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where he continued his music studies. In 1984, Bryan, along with Jay Semko, Don Schmid and Merl Bryck formed The Northern Pikes. The band signed a world-wide recording contract with Virgin Records in the winter of 1986. Their seven-album catalogue sold in excess of 1 million units globally and garnered the band eight Juno Award nominations. In 1993, the group took a six-year hiatus, citing fatigue. With fellow band member Jay Semko, Potvin co-wrote the theme for the television series ''Due South''. From 1994 to 2000, Potvin was the A&R manager for PolyGram in Canada. He worked with such artists as Tegan & Sara, Duane Steele, Finger Eleven, Zuckerbaby and The Barstool Prophets. Potvin released his first solo recording project, ''Heartbreakthrough'', in July 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |