Can-Con 45 Of The Day - October 15

Can-Con 45 Of The Day - October 15

Postby radiofan » Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:57 pm

Today's Can-Con 45 is from 1973 ... It's The Wackers and "Day And Night" ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjqz76G5YNQ

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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 - October 15

Postby Richard Skelly » Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:25 am

Great little band from California, once called Roxy, that trekked to Montreal. A power pop Jesse Winchester-type relocation, if you will. Alas, like another Elektra-signed Canadian band Painter, the label fumbled promotion on the uber-catchy Day And Night. Both bands had less than middling success on the Billboard Hot 100.

Prior band Roxy issued one Elektra album before splintering. Robert "Bob"Segarini (guitar, vocals) Randy Bishop (multi-instrumentalist, vocals), Michael Stull (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Bill Trochim (bass) and Spencer Earnshaw (drums) comprised the original Wackers. Debut album Wackering Heights was followed by Hot Wacks. Halfway through recording at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, the quintet relocated lock, stock and barrel to Montreal. That second album, completed by Quebec studio wiz Andre Perry, gained the band Canadian airplay for its cover of Oh My Love by John Lennon.

Earnshaw returned to the US as work began in Montreal for the third album that would be titled Shredded. April Wine drummer Jerry Mercer played on many tracks, quite possibly including the very rhythmic Day And Night. Stull had also quit, his place taken by Quebec guitarist JP Lauzon, who co-wrote Day And Night.

The Wackers always sounded great on most turntables. Especially so on Shredded.They were among the first English language artists to trek to Les Studios Andre Perry. Located in the Laurentian country side, well away from Montreal, Les Studio would attract many A-list British, American and Canadian artists in ensuing years.

Never short of rave reviews, The Wackers impressed innumerable critics and record reviewers on both sides of the border. Comparisons were often made to The Hollies if they had been prone to edgy, saucy lyrics.

Post Wackers, sweet voiced Randy Bishop recorded a CanCon hit or two on the Good Noise label. One in particular, Don't You Worry, got substantial notice in Western Canada. By 1977, Bishop had moved to A & M and also relocated stateside.

Grittier-voiced Bob Segarini and ex-Wacker Trochim then formed The Dudes. Again, there were April Wine linkages. Founding Wine members David and Ritchie Henman were charter members of The Dudes. So was Bryan Greenway who would later join April Wine as a third guitarist-singer.

After one Dudes album on Columbia, Segarini went solo and released several critically lauded power pop and/or retro rock albums.
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