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While listening to this morning's Sweet Seasons, with Dale Patterson.
While listening to this morning's Sweet Seasons, with Dale Patterson, Dale played a Burton Cummings song that I hadn't listened to in some time - 'You Saved My Soul'. Thank you, Dale.
What a great singer / songwriter / keyboardist / producer. Now that Burton has reached his 75th birthday, I got to wondering how long before we lose him too, so, I'm going to celebrate his incredible talent before we do. Join me.
His solo career produced many excellent songs, so here's a few from after The Guess Who broke up in 1975...
1976: Stand Tall
1977: My Own Way to Rock
1978: Break It to Them Gently
1978: I Will Play a Rhapsody
1980: Fine State of Affairs
1981: You Saved My Soul
And, of course, there were all of his hits as lead singer and keyboardist for The Guess Who. What a massive Canadian talent.
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I couldn't agree more DT. In my opinion Burton has one of the all time great voices in pop/rock music.
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I'm a huge Guess Who/Cummings fan. My very 1st concert was in the early 70s seeing the Guess Who at Exhibition Stadium for their Album#10 tour. Personally, I really, really like what Kurt Winter's guitar work brought to the band.
Some of my personal Guess Who favs which highlight both Cummings as a vocalist as well as lyricist.
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Dial Twister wrote:
While listening to this morning's Sweet Seasons, with Dale Patterson, Dale played a Burton Cummings song that I hadn't listened to in some time - 'You Saved My Soul'. Thank you, Dale.
What a great singer / songwriter / keyboardist / producer. Now that Burton has reached his 75th birthday, I got to wondering how long before we lose him too, so, I'm going to celebrate his incredible talent before we do. Join me.
His solo career produced many excellent songs, so here's a few from after The Guess Who broke up in 1975...
1976: Stand Tall
1977: My Own Way to Rock
1978: Break It to Them Gently
1978: I Will Play a Rhapsody
1980: Fine State of Affairs
1981: You Saved My Soul
And, of course, there were all of his hits as lead singer and keyboardist for The Guess Who. What a massive Canadian talent.
Thanks for the plug! Every Friday between 10 a.m. and noon we spotlight a different season in pop music history. Next week will be the spring of 1979; the following week it will be the spring of 1966. Check it out at northumberland897.ca.
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Re: While listening to this morning's Sweet Seasons, with Dale Patterson.
I'm a huge Guess Who/Cummings fan. My very 1st concert was in the early 70s seeing the Guess Who at Exhibition Stadium for their Album#10 tour. Personally, I really, really like what Kurt Winter's guitar work brought to the band.
Some of my personal Guess Who favs which highlight both Cummings as a vocalist as well as lyricist.
Completely coincidentally, this article went up on "American Songwriter.com" Saturday.
Top 10 Songs by The Guess Who
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Re: While listening to this morning's Sweet Seasons, with Dale Patterson.
Thanks for the plug! Every Friday between 10 a.m. and noon we spotlight a different season in pop music history. Next week will be the spring of 1979; the following week it will be the spring of 1966. Check it out at northumberland897.ca.
Dale's program is well worth the listen, OTA or online. And so is this interview/performance combo by Burton Cummings on The Howard Stern Show, on November 4, 1994. That boy sure can play and sing!
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