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Emails received this week:

Robert, your overview of The Glass Cage has been for me, the most honorable and accurate description of the project I've seen....

-Jason Flower, Supreme Echo Records

Greetings

I recently stumbled across your MOCM website and I have to tell you it is an incredible thing you have done. I am a retired high school band director living in Middleton, NS. Growing up I was introduced to Guido, Rob, Oscar and many other iconic Canadian jazz artists by my parents. Visiting your website is like going back in time and meeting old friends. Bravo, sir, BRAVO!
Kindest regards,
-Richard Bennett

What an impressive website and archive you’ve built, and a worthy effort to help preserve our musical and cultural heritage in Canada. It’s a rich one, I’m sure you agree. Because it caught my eye, I scanned through the Three’s a Crowd info - incredible depth of info you’ve got there.

-John Welsman & Cherie Camp

Hi there!
I just discovered this on the citizenfreak website. My husband James Boyce is the lead singer of the Excelsior recordings....we would love to experience this as a family
Thank you very much,
-Maureen Boyce

Hello
Greetings from Boston MA. I am a longtime fan of Alan with my first exposure being through the band RHINOCEROS. I have been searching periodically for years for a live recording of the band but have not been able to find one - or anyone who knows if one was made or soundboard recordings made.
 
Regrettably despite having most of his recordings I have never been able to see Alan live. I now have had the fortune to have two working musician sons on the Montreal scene who have been fortunately exposed to Rhinoceros and even some of Alan's music. I hope that the opportunity to see Alan live will finally come to pass!
 
I would appreciate your forward of this note to Alan or please reply with a recommended address for him.
 
Thank you for your consideration and help!
 
Sincerely

Ed Ross

Marketville Riot - Jan b/w Charly Brown

Hey. Just wanted you know that I grew up in Sudbury and read your blurb on Marketville Riot and that the Charly Brown tune still comes to mind. Take care.

-Anonymous

Hi Robert,

I’m currently working on a (self-published) book project: a complete session discography of Aragon Records, along with the life story of Aragon owner Al Reusch, and a history of the Aragon recording studios and record label. There are a series of appendices planned, including an account of other early Vancouver recording studios and record labels.

This is where the Ray record info fits in (also in another section, on early cowboy bands in Vancouver, which recounts the complicated story of the formation of the Rhythm Pals).

It turns out that Chuck Rudd was a CKNW disc jockey (until December 1947, when he moved to Port Alberni to manage CKAV, after Bill Rea acquired a part-ownership of that station).
         
This tends to confirm the assertion by Bob Dennett - his father likely assigned part of the publishing to Rudd for access to CKNW’s Rhythm Pals, to promote their recording of his song. (After Empire music acquired the publishing there were two more local recordings of Down in Lily Valley: by Bobby Hughes and the Chris Gage Trio on Vanatone; by Don Murphy on Aragon, both in 1949).
         
 So far as I can tell, there was no Canadian western music chart published in the 1940s by any publication currently available online. Unless Bob is referring to some local radio playlist, it’s possible he is remembering "Western Hit Parade”, a CKNW radio program broadcast in 1949-50. However, Bob remembers this occurring in Spring 1948, when the record was released: 1949 seems a little late for airplay of the Ray 78’s A-side, as by the end of 1948 Bluebird On Your Windowsill was getting all of the attention. (Elmer Tippe, who moved to Vancouver in 1947, remembered that song being played “constantly” when asked about it some 35 years later).
         
 Possibly, he is mistakenly conflating airplay on CKNW in Spring 1948 (when the Ray 78’s Down in Lily Valley would have received significant airplay) with the 1949 radio show,
-Dave Schroeder