Mac Beattie And The Ottawa Valley Melodiers - Mr. Ottawa Valley

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Snowmobiling	02:42
	2	A Tribute to Frank Ryan	03:17
	3	Back in the Pakenham Hills	01:53
	4	Peter, Peter Pumkin Eater	02:22
	5	My Happiness	03:20

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Gavon’s Hotel at Quyon, Quebec	03:15
	2	Michael Patrick from the Mountain, Mary Ellen from the Bay	02:43
	3	Lamplighting Time in the Valley	03:52
	4	Autumn Memories	02:59
	5	Pretty as a Queen	02:27

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Information/Write-up

Musicians
Mac Beattie: vocals
Gaetan Fairfield: rhythm guitar
Reg Hill: fiddle
Gordon Summers: lead guitar
Jim Mayhew: piano
George Courschesne: electric bass

Songwriting
‘My Happiness’ written by Betty Peterson and Borny Bergantine
All other credited songs written by Mac Beattie

Production
Produced by Ralph Carlson
Recorded at Carlsound Studios, Ottawa, Ontario
Distributed in Canada by London Records of Canada (1967) Ltd.

Liner Notes
This new album is number eight for Mac and his Melodiers and features seven new songs composed by him, plus three two most requested old favourites.

Mac and his boys from Arnprior, Ontario, are going into their twenty-seventh year in show business, making many appearances on national television, radio and stage. As a Dance Band they are highly rated in Ontario and Quebec.

The band has been through two disastrous fires in the past three years. One at the famous old Hotel Renfrew in Renfrew, Ontario, and the other at the Hotel Madawaska in Arnprior, Ontario. On both occasions they lost all their equipment and instruments but each time Mac reformed the group and they went back in business stronger than ever with veterans Reg Hill on fiddle, Gaetan Fairfield on rhythm guitar and Jim Mayhew on piano, Gordon Summers from Cornwall, Ontario, on lead guitar, and newcomer George Courschesne of Arnprior on electric bass.

Mac sings about the valley and the valley people in this new album. His tribute to the late Frank Ryan is Collector’s Item. Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater was composed for his little son and Gavon’s Hotel for his Quebec friends. Snowmobiles is a hit with his outdoor pals. The sound effects for the latter song were done by his drummer friend Ron Sparling of the Family Brown group.

Mac and his Melodiers hoped their many fans and friends would enjoy their effort in stereo.

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