Tuesday's Children

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The Tuesday's Children record on Birchmount Records (BM-508) contains instrumental cover recordings of pop hits of the day and two tracks written by Greg Hambleton which originally appeared on the A Passing Fancy album and single played by different musicians.

Greg Hambleton was the eldest of five siblings, many of whom were musically gifted. He and his brother Fergus were active and pioneering members of Toronto’s early rock and folk scene. After a few years performing and writing songs in Toronto’s Yorkville district, Greg grew interested in production and publishing in 1967. He began work as an independent recording engineer at Sound Canada and RCA’s Studios in Toronto; recording legendary singles by The Midnight Angels, The Boodly-Hoo, The Fringe, A Passing Fancy, The Humble Sponge and The Eighth Day, before his career really took off.

Greg’s “Tuesday Music Production” was housed in an office at 9 Sultan Street; across from the “Windsor Arms Hotel. Suzanne enjoyed working with and for Greg. Early on in her employment, there was talk of Greg getting hired as producer and talent scout by a new local label known as “Birchmount Records.”

A sub-label of Toronto’s Quality Records, Birchmount Records was a budget label that was born out of a want of their parent label to offload some of their deleted or out of print vinyl records. Though this may have been the initial intention, about half of the first eighty releases were unique Canadian content, exclusive to the label. Instrumental to these homegrown musical beginnings was Greg Hambelton. In tune with the local scene and its various happenings, they tasked Greg with finding local talent to record; he was only too happy to oblige!

The recordings took place at Sound Canada Studios in Toronto, over a two-week span, during the summer of 1969. They were recorded late at night as the studios high demand meant this was the only available time-slot. Greg Hambleton brought in local psych-rockers “The Magic Cycle” (soon to be “The Cycle”) to record the bed tracks for drums (Kevin Barry; brother of Paul Clinch), guitar (Stan Theriault & Paul Clinch), piano/organ (Peter Goodale) and bass (Joey Rome). He used this band to record a number of other projects he did for Birchmount including: Suzanne (BM-501), Candy Rock Fountain (BM-517), and The Sultan Street Nine (BM-504).

ALBUM NOTES:

"I Believe In Sunshine" is the instrumental version of what appears as a vocal
take on the The Sultan Street Nine album (BM-504).

"You Try" is the instrumental version of what appears as a vocal
take on the Suzanne album (BM-501).