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The Symphony Sessions (Red Rider Album)
''The Symphony Sessions'' was a live album released in December 1989 by Red Rider, Tom Cochrane & Red Rider. It was the band's seventh and final album. The album was recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta. The concert featured a 56-piece orchestra, including six players who had performed with Procol Harum at that band's legendary 1971 performance with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Following this album, Tom Cochrane pursued a solo career, releasing ''Mad Mad World'' in 1991. Background and writing The album was recorded by Biff Dawes and the Westwood One (1976–2011), Westwood One mobile unit over two days and featured on one of the "Westwood One live" concert series shows. Two tracks recorded during these sessions were featured on the Westwood One concert but did not make the final album cut: "Ocean Blues (Emotion Blue)" and "The Untouchable One". Both songs are from the 1986 self-titled ''Tom ...
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Red Rider
Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadians, Canadian Rock music, rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved significant success in Canada, the band never had a song in the top 40 in the United States, although "Lunatic Fringe (song), Lunatic Fringe" from their second album, 1981's ''As Far as Siam'', became popular on US album-oriented rock radio. They also charted on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 with "White Hot" from their debut album ''Don't Fight It (album), Don't Fight It'' (1979) and "Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me)" from ''Breaking Curfew'' (1984), and charted comparably to "Lunatic Fringe" on Mainstream Rock (Album-oriented rock, AOR) with "Big League (song), Big League", "Human Race", and "Power", the latter two tracks off 1983's ''Neruda (album), Neruda''. Band history As Red Rider Red Rider was formed in Toronto in 1975 when Peter Boynton (keyboards, synthesizers, vocals), Ken Greer (guitars, keyboards, backing voca ...
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Tom Cochrane & Red Rider
Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved significant success in Canada, the band never had a song in the top 40 in the United States, although "Lunatic Fringe" from their second album, 1981's ''As Far as Siam'', became popular on US album-oriented rock radio. They also charted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 with "White Hot" from their debut album '' Don't Fight It'' (1979) and "Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me)" from ''Breaking Curfew'' (1984), and charted comparably to "Lunatic Fringe" on Mainstream Rock ( AOR) with "Big League", "Human Race", and "Power", the latter two tracks off 1983's '' Neruda''. Band history As Red Rider Red Rider was formed in Toronto in 1975 when Peter Boynton (keyboards, synthesizers, vocals), Ken Greer (guitars, keyboards, backing vocals) and Rob Baker (drums) joined up with Arvo Lepp (guitar) and Jon Checkowski (bass) and began playing around Toronto, performing both origi ...
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Red Rider Albums
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Hugh Cooper
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Steve Rinkoff
Steven Rinkoff is a Grammy Award–winning record producer, mixer, and sound engineer, best known for his work with songwriter-producer Jim Steinman. He has worked with Steinman since 1986 on various projects, in all facets of production (production, mixing, and engineering), and is Steinman's partner in Ravenous Records, a record label. Projects Jim Steinman * Bonnie Tyler, '' Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire'', 1986, CBS (engineer) * The Sisters of Mercy, "More", '' Vision Thing'', 1990, Elektra (engineer/mixer) * Meat Loaf, '' Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell'', 1993, Virgin (engineer/mixer/associate producer) * Taylor Dayne, "Original Sin", ''The Shadow'', 1994, Universal (recorded/co-producer) * Watershed, ''Twister'', 1995, Epic (producer) * Take That, "Never Forget", ''Greatest Hits'', 1995, RCA (recorded/co-producer) * Bonnie Tyler, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" and "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", '' Free Spirit'', 1995, EastWest (co-producer/engineer/mixer) * Celine ...
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George Blondheim
George Blondheim (April 10, 1956 - February 1, 2020) was a Canadian jazz musician and composer from Edmonton, Alberta. He is most noted for his work composing music for the films ''Angel Square'', for which he won the Genie Award for Best Original Song at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991, and ''Whale Music'', for which he was nominated for Best Original Score at the 15th Genie Awards in 1994. He was also a two-time Gemini Award winner, winning for Best Original Music Score for a Program at the 11th Gemini Awards in 1997 for ''The War Between Us'', and Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series at the 18th Gemini Awards for ''Da Vinci's Inquest''.Alex Strachan, "This Hour captures 5 Geminis". ''Vancouver Sun'', October 21, 2003. Selected filmography * '' The Gate II: Trespassers'' (1990) * ''Angel Square'' (1990) * ''Whale Music ''Whale music'' is a term for whale sound. It may also refer to: *'' Whale Music'', a 1989 novel by Paul Quarrington * ''Whale Music'' (film), a 1994 Ca ...
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Kenneth "Spider" Sinnaeve (born May 2, 1955) is a Canadian musician. He was a founding member of the popular Canadian band Streetheart, and since 2001 has been a member of Loverboy, replacing late original bassist Scott Smith. Sinnaeve has also contributed to many albums and played live performances with George McCrae, Helix, Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, Kim Mitchell, The Partland Brothers, Lee Aaron, and The Guess Who. He is known for his extended solos, which often last 15–20 minutes. Career Sinnaeve and keyboardist Daryl Gutheil formed a band, Witness Inc, in Regina. "Elkhorn student signs recording contract"
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John Webster (musician)
John Webster (born December 18, 1957) is a musician, engineer and producer who primarily plays keyboards. He began his musical career as a child, trained in classical piano until his early teens, and then moved on to playing in rock bands. One of his first bands, Stonebolt, landed a top 30 U.S. hit with its first release in 1978 and went on to record four successful albums. Webster joined the band Red Rider in 1984, performing on that year's ''Breaking Curfew'' album and remaining with the group until they disbanded in 1990. Webster then continued to work closely in productions with its leader, Tom Cochrane, including his highly successful ''Mad Mad World'' album. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Webster worked on many major recordings done in Vancouver's Little Mountain Sound Studios with producers Bruce Fairbairn and Bob Rock. Webster has appeared on many albums by established artists all over the musical spectrum. His production achievements include two Juno awards, many nomi ...
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Lunatic Fringe (song)
"Lunatic Fringe" is a song by the Canada, Canadian rock music, rock band Red Rider from their 1981 in music, 1981 album, ''As Far as Siam''. The song reached on the rock radio airplay chart in ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' in September 1981, and was awarded a SOCAN Classic award in 2009 by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada for reaching the 100,000-airplay mark on (Canadian) domestic radio. Background Guitarist Tom Cochrane wrote the song after becoming concerned about a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the 1970s, and was also inspired after reading a book about Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued Jews from The Holocaust during World War II. Some sources have incorrectly cited the murder of John Lennon as the song's primary inspiration; Cochrane had already written the song before Lennon was killed, but recorded the song's first demo (music), demo the evening of the murder. He has stated that his feelings about the event, and how it echoed the theme ...
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. Cohen pursued a career as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s, and did not begin a music career until 1967. His first album, ''Songs of Leonard Cohen'' (1967), was followed by three more albums of folk music: ''Songs from a Room'' (1969), ''Songs of Love and Hate'' (1971) and ''New Skin for the Old Ceremony'' (1974). His 1977 record '' Death of a Ladies' Man'', co-written and produced by Phil Spector, was a move away f ...
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"Bird on the Wire" is one of Leonard Cohen's signature songs. It was recorded 26 September 1968 in Nashville and included on his 1969 album ''Songs from a Room''. A May 1968 recording produced by David Crosby, titled "Like a Bird", was added to the 2007 remastered CD. Judy Collins was the first to release the song on her 1968 album ''Who Knows Where the Time Goes''. Joe Cocker also covered the song on his second studio album the following year. In the 1960s, Cohen lived on the Greek island Hydra with his girlfriend Marianne Ihlen, the woman depicted on the back cover of ''Songs from a Room''. She has related how she helped him out of a depression by handing him his guitar, whereupon he began composing "Bird on the Wire", inspired by a bird sitting on one of Hydra's recently installed phone wires, followed by memories of wet island nights. He finished it in a Hollywood motel. Cohen has described "Bird on the Wire" as a simple country song, and the first recording, by Judy Coll ...
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