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September 5, 2023 12:27 am  #1


Clear The Track!!

I literally turned my dial to AM740 Zoomer Radio last night just prior to 10 p.m.

Lo and behold I hear a familiar tune. It's Douglas Rankine and the Secrets singing Clear the Track Here Comes Shack.

Now I had this 1966 record as a ten year old & it brought back a nice memory but I thought it a bit odd to hear it just out of the blue as seemed to be the case.

So I checked to see if Eddie Shack had been born or perhaps had passed away on September 4th. Not so in either case. Just a tune included in the regular rotation apparently.

My thanks to whoever placed in the rotation. It got this old timers foot a tappin' for a few minutes 


  
 

September 5, 2023 3:50 am  #2


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As soon as I saw the post title, I knew it had something to do with Eddie Shack. He was a regular shopper at the grocery store where I am employed. Darryl Sittler is as well.

 

September 5, 2023 6:48 am  #3


Re: Clear The Track!!

Yours to enjoy anytime you want!



And from our friends at Retrontario:

 

September 5, 2023 8:43 am  #4


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AM740 plays this song from time to time, it is the only place I’ve heard it in fact, as I didn’t live in Toronto when it originally aired.

 

September 5, 2023 9:50 am  #5


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Shorty Wave wrote:

AM740 plays this song from time to time, it is the only place I’ve heard it in fact, as I didn’t live in Toronto when it originally aired.

Local radio in "hockey" towns incl. CKCR Kitchener-Waterloo and 560 CFOS Owen Sound played it frequently in 1966.      It was a "novelty" tune with no redeeming musical characteristics, whatsoever    
 

 

September 5, 2023 10:34 am  #6


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And let's not forget Johnny Bower's foray into the recording studio. Painful as it was. 

 

September 9, 2023 6:55 pm  #7


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Clear The Track got played on the Roger Ashby Oldies Show today ... it was a listener request.