Can-Con 45 Of The Day - September 25

Can-Con 45 Of The Day - September 25

Postby radiofan » Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:19 pm

Today's Can-Con 45 is from 1969 ... Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck from Vancouver and "One Ring Jane" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx6cILDF_Ag

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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who couldn't hear the music.
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Re: Can-Con 45 Of The Day - September 25

Postby Richard Skelly » Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:27 am

Back in 2000, methinks the reunited Guess Who missed a real opportunity to wow Vancouver fans on their tour opener at Rogers Arena. How cool it would have been if second guitarist Don McDougall, a long ago principal vocalist of Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, had been thrust into the spotlight for a recreation of the band's late-60s psych rock hit One Ring Jane. Fans in Winnipeg might have dug it, too, since Don and fellow Manitoban Bill Ivanuck wrote the haunting song.

Geez, though, it's tough to figure out the chronology and labels involved with the early singles of Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck. The best I can determine is that the musical group MTYD--which had a tangential connection to a defunct Vancouver performing theatrical troupe of the same name--started out on London Records. First single I b/w Funny Feeling came out in 1968. Then again later that year on the band's own Duck label. Then a third go-round on Winnipeg-based TCP.

Followup One Ring Jane was paired with Kill The Pigs, presumably a paean against drug-busting police officers. McDougall, lead guitarist Roger Law, co-singer/guira-harmonica player John Patrick Caldwell, bassist Charlie Faulkner and drummer Hugh Lockheed laid down an album's worth of tracks at Robin Spurgin's Vancouver Recording Company. Both album Home Grown Stuff and the One Ring Jane single came out on Duck in '68.

Within months, however, a re-recorded or dramatically remixed version of One Ring Jane b/w Funny Feeling (again) came out on Capitol Records Canada. But Capitol US issued Jane and Times Are Changing with the latter listed as the A-side, according to some reference sites. In 1970, Mother Tucker's second and final LP bowed. It was called Starting A New Day. The title track b/w No One In Particular failed to wow. The band split in 1971, by which time Roger Law had been replaced by his brother Les.

Don McDougall returned to Winnipeg. He was soon in the Guess Who lineup taking the place of Greg Leskiw who, along with Kurt Winter, had both replaced Randy Bachman in 1970. Starting with Live At The Paramount, Don was with The Guess Who through 1974's Road Food. He also joined a post Burton Cummings version of the band. And was an obvious choice to augment Cummings, Bachman, drummer Garry Peterson and bassist Bill Wallace for the 2000-2003 reunion. Just no One Ring Jane in the set.
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