Charlie Chamberlain (14 July 1911 in

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, Canada – 16 July 1972) was a featured entertainer on

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, which ran from 1957 through 1969 on CBC Television. He died in Bathurst, New Brunswick, the town where he was born, only two days after his 61st birthday. At the time, he had been appearing with Don Messer on independent TV station

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, who picked up the show for some four years after it was cancelled by the CBC in 1969.

Life

Chamberlain's mother was widowed early and to assist her around the home, he went to work in the lumber woods at the age of eight. In this setting was an extroverted young person who was eager to entertain. During WWI, he allegedly sang to the soldiers on passing trains. While riding a train himself, a friend of Don Messer's heard Charlie singing, and put him in touch with the fiddler who was looking for a vocalist. Charlie Chamberlain performed pretty much exclusively with Messer for the rest of his career. Chamberlain is most often recalled as an incredible character, a huge man with huge appetites, who was notoriously generous, and quite freely shared his money with friends and neighbours. During the sixties, when

was one of the highest rated TV shows in Canada, Charlie also worked pumping gas at a service station in Lakeside, NS.

Career

Chamberlain was known as Messer's "Singing Lumberjack," and his vocal work is featured on many of the albums released by ''

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''. Chamberlain is remembered as a showstopper, famed for his signature bowler hat and shillelagh.

Discography

Solo records

* Charlie Chamberlain Sings Irish Songs, Apex, AL1619 * With My Shillelagh Under My Arm (LP), Point Records, P-319

Collaborations with Marg Osburne

* By Request Favorite Sacred Songs with Marg Osburne And Charlie Chamberlain, Rodeo Records, with

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. * They Never Grow Old, Point Records, P-318 MG-251-252, 1967. * ''Favorite Sacred Songs''. 1970. Rodeo RO6M-1267 * ''Beyond the Sunset''. 196?. Point Records * ''They Never Grow Old''. 1973. MCA Coral * ''He: Songs Of Reverence: Volume 2.'' 196?. Apex * ''Best of Marg and Charlie''. 1973. MCA Coral, CBT 35006

Awards

* Inducted into the

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in 1989. * Recipient (posthumously) of the ECMA Stompin' Tom Connors Award.

References

External links

Charlie Chamberlain at CCMA Hall of Fame

Island Lives – Charlie Chamberlain on PEI
*http://www.islandlives.ca/fedora/repository/ilives%3A85365-p_101/OCR/OR *https://www.discogs.com/artist/2390349-Charlie-Chamberlain {{DEFAULTSORT:Chamberlain, Charlie 1911 births 1972 deaths Musicians from Bathurst, New Brunswick Canadian country singers 20th-century Canadian male singers