Terri Crawford, formerly billed as Terry Crawford, is a Canadian musician, most noted as a two-time
Juno Award
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Juno Awards of 1983
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.
Background
Originally from
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, she moved with her family at age 12 to
Winnipeg
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,
Manitoba
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Jam!
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''. They formed the Terry Crawford Band, with Crawford on vocals and Johnson on guitar, in 1971 before marrying in 1975.
Crawford and Johnson moved to the
Greater Toronto Area
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in 1979, settling at first in
Oshawa
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. The couple remained the core of the Terry Crawford Band, although the supporting lineup changed at this time.
Musical career
The Terry Crawford Band released their self-titled debut album on
RCA Records
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in 1980.
The album ''Good Girl Gone Bad'' followed in 1982; although Crawford was now billed as a solo artist, her supporting musicians still included the same band lineup from the 1980 album. She followed up with the album ''Virgin Heart'' in 1983; this album included "One Time for Old Times", a song written by Gary O' which was Crawford's biggest hit in Canada and would later become a hit in the United States for the band
.38 Special
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. In this era, Crawford earned the tag "Canada's Sexiest Female Rocker" in a music magazine's reader poll, although she herself disputed the characterization on the grounds that "I don't think I've done anything to earn it."
Crawford then moved to
cover band
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The Retro Rockets, and they recorded and toured behind several albums of
children's music
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as Terri & Rick; this activity in turn led Johnson into politics, beginning on the local school board and culminating in his election to the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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in 2009.
In 1989 songwriters
Fred Mollin
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and Stan Meissner hired her to sing on the song "Broken Dream" which was used in the Vancouver based horror film Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. The song was not released for 32 years, having only appeared in the film as one of the tracks actress
Saffron Henderson
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Career
Henderson tends to be cast as mature and flirtatious women, young boys and teenage girls, as wel ...
's character "J.J." jams along to on her electric guitar, the other being an instrumental. Despite never being released the song remained popular among Friday the 13th fans. Meissner responded to a fan query where he claimed that no complete versions of the songs were made as they were never intended for release outside the film. However, in 2021, the song was included on La-La-Land Records’ release of the film’s soundtrack which revealed a previously unheard chorus and lead guitar parts.
In 2011, she released ''Life Lines''.