Dimitroff, Burgess and Friends

Musicians
Victor Dimitroff: organ, guitar, vocals
Alan Burgess: guitar, recorder, vocals

Friends
Manfred Wewers: harmonica, guitar, vocals
Karl Poehner: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Dave Chinell: bass, vocals
Ellen Dimitroff: guitar, vocals
Wendy Peach: pop can, vocals
Kathy Loucks: vocals
Ed Nabeta: percussion

Songwriting
‘Something Different’ and ‘Button Blues’ are identified in the liner notes as original compositions

Recording
‘Remember Then’, ‘Book of Love’, ‘Teen Angel’, ‘Teenager in Love’ and ‘Silhouettes’ recorded after a hockey game in January 1970
‘Wild Thing’ recorded around the same period
‘Canned Ham’ recorded at Georgetown Quarry during the summer of 1970
‘Something Different’ and ‘Button Blues’ recorded at the Goose Lake Pop Festival in Michigan in August 1970
‘Theme from 2001’, ‘Soul Sacrifice’, ‘You Shook Me’, ‘I’m a Man’ and ‘Hey Joe’ recorded in Victor Dimitroff’s basement in October 1970
Summer recordings made with Victor Dimitroff’s Sony TC-124 stereo cassette recorder

Manufacturing
Manufactured by RCA Victor

Liner Notes

While listening to the funky, down-home music on this album, you might want to know about the performers and the performances. The team of Dimitroff and Burgess began a long time ago in Fort Erie. Since then, Victor, who played the piano, learned guitar and upon moving to Streetsville, played with the Avantis (with friends, Manfred and Karl). Then switching to organ, he played with the Bo-Street Runners for the rest of high school. Meanwhile in Fort Erie, Al taught himself to play guitar, and he perfected his steel work. Then, together again upon entering University of Toronto, Victor and Al got together and jammed with friends as often as they could, tightening their sound, but more important, developing natural-ness, and the ability to play just about anything under any conditions. This development is followed by the first five songs (all Sha Na Na hits) which they recorded after a hockey game (Jan '70). 'Wild Thing' was also recorded around the same time. During the summer holidays, when they went on outings and camping trips, Victor and Al never failed to take their guitars along and make good use of the chance to do some recording on Vic's Sony TC-124 stereo cassette recorder. This is shown by 'Canned Ham', recorded at Georgetown Quarry, and 'Something Different' and 'Button Blues', two originals recorded at Goose Lake Pop Festival, Michigan (Aug '70). Later, they advanced to electric guitar and organ, as shown by cuts of five pieces they recorded in Victor's basement (Oct '70). The beauty of this album is that the feelings of both rehearsed arrangements (Sha Na Na songs) and complete freedom and spontaneity (Goose Lake) have been captured, making it unique and priceless. However, the contents of this album are only a small sample of the number of songs and the number of places they have played. We would like to thank all of those who helped in any way to make this album possible. The next one will be even better!

-Victoral Records, Streetsville & Chatham, January 29, 1971