Stan Endersby (born July 17, 1947, in
Lachine, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
He comes from an acting family and began his career in the early '60s playing with
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 ancho ...
bands, The Omegas and C J Feeney & The Spellbinders.
During late 1965, he joined
The Just Us
The Tripp, known earlier as The Just Us and later Livingston's Journey, was a Canadian rock band, based in Toronto from the mid-1960s, featuring Neil Merryweather and Stan Endersby.
History
Keyboard player Ed Roth, drummer Bob Ablack, lead guita ...
alongside singers
Jimmy Livingston (ex-Mynah Birds) and Neil Lillie aka
Neil Merryweather, bass player Wayne Davis, keyboard player Ed Roth and drummer Bob Ablack. The group recorded an album but the tapes went missing with the band's manager.
Endersby remained with the band as it evolved through
The Tripp
The Tripp, known earlier as The Just Us and later Livingston's Journey, was a Canadian rock band, based in Toronto from the mid-1960s, featuring Neil Merryweather and Stan Endersby.
History
Keyboard player Ed Roth, drummer Bob Ablack, lead guita ...
and
Livingstone's Journey but left for England in March 1968 where he met
Kinks bass player
Peter Quaife who invited him to form a new group. The promised band, however, never materialised and later that year he returned to Toronto to produce the music for
Jim Henson's TV show "The Cube".
After a brief stint playing with Transfusion (the house band at Toronto's Rock Pile where they opened for Frank Zappa's
Mothers of Invention as Crazy Horse – no relation to
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay ...
's group), he received a call from Quaife asking him to return to England and put together the promised band,
Mapleoak.
Mapleoak initially comprised English drummer Mick Cook and Canadian keyboard player Marty Fisher who had played with Endersby on "The Cube". The band did a tour of Denmark after which Cook was replaced by another Canadian,
Gordon MacBain, who had also played on "The Cube". The new line up recorded a single for Decca records – "Son of a Gun" c/w "Hurt Me So Much" but Quaife left soon afterwards and the remaining trio recorded an LP before returning to Toronto in late 1970.
Back home, Endersby formed
Heaven and Earth with his former Just Us/Tripp/Livingston Journey cohort Ed Roth. The band also comprised ex-
The Paupers bass player
Denny Gerrard, drummer Pat Little from
Luke & The Apostles Luke & The Apostles was a 1960s blues group from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band is known for their 1967 hit "Been Burnt". Band members included Canadian guitarist Mike McKenna, Luke Gibson, Peter Jermyn, Jim Jones, and Pat Little. The band i ...
and
Chimo!, guitarist Gary Holmes and future Motown star, singer
Rick James. The group issued two singles for
RCA in 1971.
References
External Links
Article at canadianbands.com*
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1947 births
Living people
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian singer-songwriters
Canadian rock guitarists
Canadian male guitarists
Musicians from Montreal
People from Lachine, Quebec
Canadian male singer-songwriters