DON NORMAN & THE OTHER FOUR MUSTANG SALLY CANADIAN GARAGE SIR JOHN A 45 RPM
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Description
You are bidding on DON NORMAN & THE OTHER FOUR MUSTANG SALLY / LOW MAN .
This is on the Sir John A. label Canadian issue.
Visually shellac is a very glossy VG++ and better with a few minor paper scuff marks – collector piece
Listen to the tune Low Man at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVlzYvJlySc
BIO:
When Don Norman and Gary Comeau left the Ottawa band The Esquires in 1964, they formed a new band featuring additional support from Greene, Helman, and Dewhurst as Don Norman And The Esquires. The original Esquires, still performing with a slight name change, took exception to the theft of their name and Don Norman found himself in court.
An out-of-court settlement was reached and the band became The Other Four. CJET disc jockey John Pozer had a vision to help the band and they soon added John Matthews as second vocalist and saxophone player. They prepared for their big break as Don Norman And The Other Four while Pozer secured a distribution deal with Quality Records.
In April 1966, Pozer, the band, and former Esquires singer Bob Harrington took a trip to RCA Recording Studio in Toronto to cut two singles - Don Norman & The Other Four's version of The Olympic's "The Bounce" and an original Norman tune "All of My Life". The band then backed Harrington on his single "Country Boy" backed with Phil Och's "Changes". The Don Norman band tracks ended up on Quality's subsidiary label Barry Records (and a US release through MGM was negotiated after favourable airplay in New York State) in 1966. An altered French language version was released in Quebec as "Le Bounce" backed with "Je t'ai cherche" on the Solfege label.
Meanwhile, despite having a local double-sided hit on CFRA in Ottawa, Quality Records had failed to make "The Bounce" available in Ottawa record stores. This lack of care or belief in Canadian talent (the Bob Harrington single had seen even less support - most of the 500 copies destroyed by Quality warehouse staff years later) caused Pozer and the band's Ron Greene to form the Sir John A. Records label in November 1966 to nurture and release record by local Ottawa acts.
That month they released the next Don Norman And The Other Four single called "Low Man" which received a great reception at local Ottawa stations CFRA, CKOY and CJET where Pozer still worked as an on-air personality.
Comeau would leave soon after to join The Townsmen and was replaced by guitarist Art Kirkby. By late-1967 Helman, Matthews, and Dewhurst left and were replaced by Ron Greene with John Winskell, Rick Pandis and Skip Layton of the band The Bittersweet.
Despite working the local circuit through early 1968 the band fell apart on the cusp of recording their next single ("Nothing To Do, No Place To Go") which was never released.
Buyer pays $5 shipped to the US by airmail. Overseas is $10.00
If bidding reaches over $200, then there will be an additional cost for a tracking number ( apx. $13 for the US and $25 overseas)
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