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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 8, 1972, Winnipeg, ManitobaNew Leisure Winnipeg free press saturday april 8, 1972 features by Peter Leichnitz Canadian press staff writer the Canadian radio television commission s Ca Nadian Content regulation which stipulates am radio stations must devote a mini mum of 30 per cent of their air time to Canadian Talent has resulted in a Rush to the recording studios to produce Canadian material. Recording studios across the country Are improving facilities to produce a bet Ter Quality product. Radio stations themselves have become involved in record producing and sever Al have formed subsidiaries to develop and produce Ca Nadian music. In 1s70 there was Only one 1 6 -1 r a c k studio in the country. Now there Are five 16-track studios and one 24 track studio in Toronto alone. Montreal has a 32 Irack studio while other facilities Are springing up from Halifax to Vancouver. The More tracks the better the clarity of the record. However a Cross Canada Survey by the Canadian music and motion music and motion 72 is the title of the variety con Cert to be presented by the physical education and Onusic departments of Tec voc High school april 13, commencing at . The new format started last year met with such a p r o v a 1 that they have planned a new presentation along the same lines. It promises to be appealing to All Ages. Displays of gym Nastiest involving Mats boxes trampoline and bar in ill be interspersed by dancing Baton twirling and Medau club routines. The band and handball choirs will be featured in musical items which include old favourites and modern times. In addition a group of Young people some of whom Are students or graduates of Tec voc will be featured in several unique vocal presentations. Parents friends graduates and the Public at Large will have an Opportunity on april 13 to experience first hand what the Young people cd Tec voc Are accomplishing in their cur Sicular and extra curricular activities. Canadian recording on the move press indicates most re cording is done in Canada s three major t r e a 1 Toronto and Van Couver. The major fear of owners of private radio stations was that Canadian producers and technicians lacked the experience required to pro Duce the High Quality records radio demands. Yet during the last two years such International performers As Harry eela Fonte Crosby. Stills Nash and Young and John Lennon have used Canadian facilities. Vern Kennedy head writer of the Csc s Tommy Hunter show said it used to be said you could always Tell a Canadian record by the Quality of the sound. Ca Nadian groups went to the states to record. Now the traffic is in the other direct foreign owned record companies have realized the implications of the crts ruling and Are beginning to devote More time and Money to Canadian Talent. Columbia records of can Ada Ltd. Estimates it has tripled its Canadian artists and repertoire budget in the last two years. Capital records Canada Ltd. Says Canadian records now account for 15 per cent of total sales compared with Only three per cent in 1967-68. Fundy record co. Ltd., in Sackville n.b., was opened last August by Ron Hesler. Or. Hesler said he plans to concentrate on High Quality tapes of maritime artists which can be leased to on Tario record companies for manufacture and distribution. Montreal the Centre of French language recording in the country has six major studios. Nearly All the records produced in Quebec prov Ince Are by Canadian artists although they do not always record Canadian material. About 20 per cent of the French Canadian recordings Are interpretations of songs which were High on the . Hit Parade. The Canadian association of broadcasters which rep resents about 200 radio stations across the country re c e n 11 y formed Astra records Ltd. Mike Doyle general Man Ager of the Montreal based company said Astra plans to produce about 18 albums and about 36 singles during its first year of operation. Two studios in the Ottawa sound enterprises and inter Provin Cial music do commercial recordings for radio but have facilities for producing demo records for local artists. Toronto is the heart of Canada s recording Industry primarily because it is also the Canadian head office of most . Record companies. The Canadian Talent Library a non profit Toronto based organization formed in 1962, has spent More than is million during the last 10 years recording about 125 Long playing albums All by canadians. The More than 200 member radio stations each pay Between and a month for each up. Lyman Potts president of Standard broadcast productions Ltd., which operates Cal said Canadian artists Are As Good if not better than you la find in new York or London. And we can keep them Here if they can get work. That s Why the Cal exists to put Money in the pockets of Canadian he said the demand for the Library s product has greatly improved since the Content regulations came into effect. A studio new to the Toronto area is Manta sound. Three years in the planning it Cost More than million to build. The studio has two separate re cording areas and 16-track sound systems. Andy Hermant president of the company said they have brought in top . Engineers to run the equip ment. The Only Guy on staff who in t an electronics expert is the meanwhile a major Toronto based recording company has signed a Talent development agreement de signed to boost Canadian music into the International Market. The agreement Between ahead music corp. And associated Independent recordings of London Ltd., provides for the recording by British artists of a mini mum of 100 songs by Cana Dian writers during the next three years. A reciprocal commitment will see Cana Dian artists record the same number of works by British song writers. Bill Gilliland. Ahead s music division director said that meeting the terms of the crts requirements was a Basic aim behind the at least two new record companies have appeared in the Winnipeg area in recent months. The great West gramophone co. Had its first record a single by Ken Cooper of Regina make the charts of one local radio station. Ron Paley who runs Cen Tury 21, another recording studio said the crts ruling has had a Small but notice Able Impact on his com Pany. Or. Paley said about 95 per cent of the recordings made in the studio Are by Canadian performers. The remainder consists of foreign performers who generally record foreign written material. In Edmonton Century 2, a new recording studio being developed by local band Leader Tommy Banks is being billed As the equal of anything in North Ameri of the recording studios in Edmonton or. Banks said they re All expanding and All pretty however right now they re a Little behind in terms of volume com pared with studios in East Ern Canada. Herschorn which built Aragon studios in 1945, expanded its facile t i e s last year and established Vancouver s first 16-track recording studio. Steve Grossman of pcs studios Ltd. In West Van Couver b.c., said they opened in 1970 financed Fly the skin of our he said the Canadian Content ruling has boosted sales of the company s coast records Label. Studio 3 productions Ltd., which said it has been "100 per cent Canadian All reports business has not increased substantially As a result of the crts regulations. The Csc in october 1s70, established its own record ing facilities in Toronto and began producing extended play 45-rpm records in Addi Tion to albums. Csc also maintains studios in Mon Treal Edmonton and Van Couver. So Art s auction the Winnipeg symphony orchestra will hold an Art auction april 16 in the Cen Tennial concert Hall foyer following the Victor Borge concert. Viewing of the 200 graphic works will be from 7 . To 9 . With the auction beginning at 9 . The auction is being presented with the co operate Oil of John rust director of the graphic Art gallery of los Angeles California. T h e auction includes pieces by Dali Picasso Bragg Miro and Chagall. The works including some oils Range in Price from to the ticket Price includes admission to the exhibition an individual catalogue an assigned and registered bid Ding number and an authenticating document from the graphic gallery in those cases where an artist has not signed his work. Or. Borge will be present at the auction

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