There was an explosion of Canadian talent at the turn of the 70s when Canadian content regulations (CanCon) came into effect. They required that 30% of music played on Canadian radio be written, performed or produced by Canadians. Prior to CanCon, there had been a musical brain drain of Canadians to the US: Denny Doherty (Mamas & Papas), Skip Spence (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), Zal Yanovsky (Lovin' Spoonful), Joni Mitchell, Ian & Sylvia, members of Steppenwolf, 3/5 of Buffalo Springfield (including Neil Young), 4/5 of The Band and many others. While Gordon Lightfoot and The Guess Who managed to get a foothold just prior to CanCon, in general Canadian radio stations played it safe and duplicated the US charts, and refused to play Canadian artists. CanCon changed that and led the way for many homegrown artists to get airplay and have careers in Canada: BTO, April Wine, The Stampeders, The Poppy Family, Five Man Electrical Band, Lighthouse, Anne Murray, Murray McLauchlan, Edward Bear - and this is just the tip of the iceberg of the initial wave in the early 70s.
russallert ~Very good report!! I graduated from high school in Canada in the 1970’s. I’ll add more to your 1960’s & 1970’s Canadian musician list:: Floyd Sneed (born in Calgary, died this year at 80) as drummer for Three Dog Night :: David Clayton Thomas as singer for Blood, Sweat, & Tears :: Keith Hampshire :: Chilliwack :: Ocean :: Dr Music :: Paul Anka :: Michel Pagliaro :: Jerry Doucette :: Fludd :: Brave Belt :: The Original Caste :: Andy Kim :: Gino Vannelli :: R. Dean Taylor :: Patricia Dahlquist :: Major Hoople's Boarding House :: Bobby Curtola :: The Cooper Brothers.
Harri, back in the 1970's here in Canada our junior high school dances featured songs like this. While many of us shunned the fast dances, we loved to slow dance to songs like this where we got to 'waltz' with the girls. Waltzing for us was basically like a long hug where we pressed close, felling the warmth & heartbeats, and moved slowly in unison on the dance floor. No real dancing skill required! It made the slower ballads very popular. April Wine had many great songs for such lovely innocent but nevertheless tantric interactions. (Great memories!)
I Wouldn't Want To Lose Your Love Sign of the Gypsy Queen You Won't Dance With Me Another great April Wine song. This is a classic power ballad with a great synthesizer solo that makes it a beautiful song. And cow bells, a staple of a great song. 🇨🇦 How about some Tragically Hip, " New Orleans is Sinking". Fab Canadian Band. 🎶💎🇨🇦 Glad you enjoyed Harri. Thanks Harri and Louie. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
G'Day Young Sir, Greetings from Canada. I got to see April Wine opening their Stand Back tour in Halifax in 1975. We were the first to get to hear ;Drop Your Guns' played publicly for the first time.
Oh this one is a favorite of mine! I was 14 when it came out and in the throes of first love. Now, nearly 50 years later, it's a bittersweet reminder of how fleeting love is. Thanks for being the first one I've seen do a reaction to this great song. I admit it's not the best song ever written and it IS pretty syrupy. But some songs aren't great because of how they're written, sung or produced. They're great because of the memories associated with them and the feelings they evoke when you hear them. Music is the closest thing to a time machine that we have.
Great Canadian rock band. They had their biggest hits in the 70's-80's. Some of my favorites are “Sign Of The Gypsy Queen”, “You Could Have Been A Lady”, Just Between You & Me”, "Roller", "Before The Dawn" etc.
Love your reaction. You were feeling the love 😍. This is my favourite song of April Wine although they have many other great songs I love as well. I sing this song at karaoke every weekend at my local karaoke bar🥳💃🏻. I’m going to see April Wine in concert tonight at a beautiful small venue. They started the band in 1969. Amazing that they’re still touring and they still sound great! 🙌🏼
Love April Wine but have never heard this one before so thanks! If you want to hear how technically proficient these guys are check out their cover of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man." A very difficult song to perform.
We have had a lot of great artists over the years, too many to list between Musicians, producers, actors, scientists and sports heroes. Pls check out Oowhatanight from April Wine another early banger!
The band and song is new to me. I will add this to my list. Very pretty and catchy. Harrie , please react to Suspicious Minds by Fine Young Cannibals. Thank you dear
Haven't scratched the surface of cool Canadian bands... Check out Canadian Ramones.. "Teenage Head" fave tunes: Disgusteen.. Picture My Face.. and Infected
Myles Goodwin,the lead vocalist is from my neck of the woods. He actually just retired from performing. April Wine was still doing shows up til last year.
Do anything off of the Nature of the Beast album! This is early in their career . . . . . Listen to Crash and Burn and get that sweetness off your palate! Lol!
Borrowed from a previous post with Trooper but its more fitting for this reaction: reactionists are "discovering" great Canadian talent from the 70s and 80s and wonder why they haven't hear of them. The explanation is simple; mediocre bands can't survive in a small market.
A great Canadian Rock Band……..very underrated outside of Canada ❤❤❤❤❤
Indeed.
There was an explosion of Canadian talent at the turn of the 70s when Canadian content regulations (CanCon) came into effect. They required that 30% of music played on Canadian radio be written, performed or produced by Canadians. Prior to CanCon, there had been a musical brain drain of Canadians to the US: Denny Doherty (Mamas & Papas), Skip Spence (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), Zal Yanovsky (Lovin' Spoonful), Joni Mitchell, Ian & Sylvia, members of Steppenwolf, 3/5 of Buffalo Springfield (including Neil Young), 4/5 of The Band and many others. While Gordon Lightfoot and The Guess Who managed to get a foothold just prior to CanCon, in general Canadian radio stations played it safe and duplicated the US charts, and refused to play Canadian artists. CanCon changed that and led the way for many homegrown artists to get airplay and have careers in Canada: BTO, April Wine, The Stampeders, The Poppy Family, Five Man Electrical Band, Lighthouse, Anne Murray, Murray McLauchlan, Edward Bear - and this is just the tip of the iceberg of the initial wave in the early 70s.
russallert ~Very good report!! I graduated from high school in Canada in the 1970’s. I’ll add more to your 1960’s & 1970’s Canadian musician list:: Floyd Sneed (born in Calgary, died this year at 80) as drummer for Three Dog Night :: David Clayton Thomas as singer for Blood, Sweat, & Tears :: Keith Hampshire :: Chilliwack :: Ocean :: Dr Music :: Paul Anka :: Michel Pagliaro :: Jerry Doucette :: Fludd :: Brave Belt :: The Original Caste :: Andy Kim :: Gino Vannelli :: R. Dean Taylor :: Patricia Dahlquist :: Major Hoople's Boarding House :: Bobby Curtola :: The Cooper Brothers.
Lighthouse
Prisom
Trooper
Stonebolt
Triumph
First time hearing this song 🎼🎼👋👋👋
❤❤❤❤ Love April Wine! 🇨🇦 I recommend “Oowatanite”
Another great Canadian band . I like to rock, Sign of the gypsy Queen, Roller. Another great Canadian band is Trooper
More people need to react to Trooper
@@kdpflush YES !!!
You need to listen to “Gypsy Queen and Roller” a couple bangers👍
Harri, back in the 1970's here in Canada our junior high school dances featured songs like this. While many of us shunned the fast dances, we loved to slow dance to songs like this where we got to 'waltz' with the girls. Waltzing for us was basically like a long hug where we pressed close, felling the warmth & heartbeats, and moved slowly in unison on the dance floor. No real dancing skill required! It made the slower ballads very popular. April Wine had many great songs for such lovely innocent but nevertheless tantric interactions. (Great memories!)
I Wouldn't Want To Lose Your Love
Sign of the Gypsy Queen
You Won't Dance With Me
Another great April Wine song. This is a classic power ballad with a great synthesizer solo that makes it a beautiful
song. And cow bells, a staple of a great song. 🇨🇦 How about some Tragically Hip, " New Orleans is Sinking". Fab Canadian Band. 🎶💎🇨🇦 Glad you enjoyed Harri. Thanks Harri and Louie. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
G'Day Young Sir, Greetings from Canada.
I got to see April Wine opening their Stand Back tour in Halifax in 1975. We were the first to get to hear ;Drop Your Guns' played publicly for the first time.
Gotta have more cowbell!
Oh and they could’ve named the song “Oh yeah” too 😂
Oh this one is a favorite of mine! I was 14 when it came out and in the throes of first love. Now, nearly 50 years later, it's a bittersweet reminder of how fleeting love is. Thanks for being the first one I've seen do a reaction to this great song. I admit it's not the best song ever written and it IS pretty syrupy. But some songs aren't great because of how they're written, sung or produced. They're great because of the memories associated with them and the feelings they evoke when you hear them. Music is the closest thing to a time machine that we have.
Great Canadian rock band. They had their biggest hits in the 70's-80's. Some of my favorites are “Sign Of The Gypsy Queen”, “You Could Have Been A Lady”, Just Between You & Me”, "Roller", "Before The Dawn" etc.
Roller! That's the song I was trying to think of! Thanks :)
Harri, you are doing so many great Canadian bands! 💜
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It has a music box background that as you said gives it a great background. Still one of my favorites!
Love your reaction. You were feeling the love 😍. This is my favourite song of April Wine although they have many other great songs I love as well. I sing this song at karaoke every weekend at my local karaoke bar🥳💃🏻. I’m going to see April Wine in concert tonight at a beautiful small venue. They started the band in 1969. Amazing that they’re still touring and they still sound great! 🙌🏼
Harry good reaction about a great Canadian band. The diamonds that you heard are from a Celeste keyboard.
Thanks Harri, more April Wine please from my fav host! Love ya bro
One of my favorite AW songs. But I love so many of them.
Love April Wine but have never heard this one before so thanks! If you want to hear how technically proficient these guys are check out their cover of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man." A very difficult song to perform.
Warm summer night. Cruising around with not much to do. No phones. No delivery. No 24-hour anything. Just cars, people, and good times.
Whole world's going crazy...fast tempo and fun song!
This song was one of my favorites from back in the day. I still have it on my play list.
We have had a lot of great artists over the years, too many to list between Musicians, producers, actors, scientists and sports heroes. Pls check out Oowhatanight from April Wine another early banger!
The band and song is new to me. I will add this to my list. Very pretty and catchy.
Harrie , please react to Suspicious Minds by Fine Young Cannibals. Thank you dear
Thank you Louis, I grew up with this song
Thanks to Louie (Louis) requesting all this great Canadian Rock over and over.
Love it. Great reaction.
Haven't scratched the surface of cool Canadian bands... Check out Canadian Ramones.. "Teenage Head" fave tunes: Disgusteen.. Picture My Face.. and Infected
That sound you couldn't identify was a celesta (keyboard). Good ear!
Thanks for the memories Harri and Louie 🤗🤗🤗
Myles Goodwin,the lead vocalist is from my neck of the woods. He actually just retired from performing. April Wine was still doing shows up til last year.
Too bad there no more . At least I got to see them a few times over the years
I’m going to see April Wine tonight at a small venue in Greater Toronto Area. Are you saying Myles won’t be singing that song? I hope not 🥺.
Bto you aint seen nothing yet its a classic pure canadian rock ❤
Now, I've gotta go and Google up "Sweet Jane"!!!
Jerry the drummer..check out his solos amazing shows!
singing about tonight and it sounds like stars
R.I.P Myles Goodwyn.
Do anything off of the Nature of the Beast album! This is early in their career . . . . . Listen to Crash and Burn and get that sweetness off your palate! Lol!
RIP Myles so sad , another one gone to soon. ,
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Myles is the only one in the universe that could do that eh.
Agree , Go riders , cheers
Borrowed from a previous post with Trooper but its more fitting for this reaction: reactionists are "discovering" great Canadian talent from the 70s and 80s and wonder why they haven't hear of them. The explanation is simple; mediocre bands can't survive in a small market.
Check out Santana.
This wasn’t my favorite but April awine rocks
bubble gum!
Not really, not back then.
Nothing wrong with bubble gum