Jay Telfer (December 22, 1947 - May 20, 2009) was a Canadian singer/songwriter and guitarist.
Early life
Telfer grew up in Toronto and learned to play drums as a child.
Career
In the 1960s Telfer was the lead singer for the band
A Passing Fancy
A Passing Fancy was a Canadian band from Toronto, Ontario, active from the mid-1960s fronted by the singer-songwriter and guitarist Jay Telfer and Brian Price.
Early years
At Downsview Secondary School, Brian Price (organ, vocals) formed his ow ...
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In 1968, as a solo musician, he released a single, ''Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness''.
Telfer performed with the
Steel River band and wrote their song "Ten Pound Note"
which was on the RPM Top 50 Canadian chart in July 1970.
Telfer wrote the score for the film ''Away the Lines'', which featured
Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, actor, and author with a career that spanned more than six decades.
Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own rad ...
.
Telfer toured briefly with Lighthouse in 1974,
and then toured in western Canada with
Gary & Dave
Gary and Dave were a Canadian pop duo composed of Gary Weeks (born May 22, 1950 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) and David Lloyd George "Dave" Beckett (born July 5, 1949 in Newmarket, Ontario). They are best known for their 1973 song "Co ...
.
That year his single, "Time Has Tied Me" was on the RPM 50 Pop Music Playlist for three months.
"RPM Pop Music Playlist"
''Adult Contemporary'' - Volume 21, No. 15 Jun 01, 1974
Telfer performed at the 1988 Spirit of Yorkville street festival. In 1995 Telfer founded the antiques magazine The Wayback Times. He died May 20, 2009, in Mississauga
Mississauga ( ), historically known as Toronto Township, is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, adjoining the western border of Toronto. With a popul ...
.
References
External links
Obituary in the Toronto Star
Discogs: Jay Telfer
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Canadian rock guitarists
Canadian male guitarists
2009 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
1947 births
20th-century guitarists
20th-century Canadian male musicians
Axe Records artists