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The Sugar Shoppe came together in Toronto as a studio project in 1967. Peter Mann had relocated from New York and met up with Laurie Hood, who was in her last year of a scholarship at the University Of Toronto's Faculty of Music.
Laurie Hood (vocals)
Peter Mann (piano)
Victor Garber
Lee Harris
They also teamed up with Lee Harris (who had three years of vocal training), and London, Ontario native Victor Garber who was acting in the University Of Toronto's Hart House and moonlighting in coffeehouses around Toronto.
At the time of the band's inception Mann had re-arranged Bobby Gimby's anthemic song "Canada" which the band released as its first single in 1967 on Yorkville Records. They had one more single in 1967, "The Attitude", before being signed to Capitol Records for a full-length self-titled album in 1968.
Sugar Shoppe would finally move to Epic Records briefly before folding.
Laurie Hood would go on to take an office job with Toronto Sound Studio working for Terry Brown and Doug Riley. She eventually became a well-respected session singer for the likes of Klaatu (1974's 'California Jam'), Shooter, Myles And Lenny (along with Sugar Shoppe bandmate Lee Harris), and eventually for such luminaries as Anne Murray in the '80's; Victor Garber would find fame as a stage and screen actor starring in the hugely successful Hollywood blockbuster 'Titanic' and in the television series 'Alias'.
The Sugar Shoppe - The Sugar Shoppe (1968)
Now Sounds – crnow 41
CD Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Mono 2013
Please can you reup? Thanks so much
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ReplyDelete#1. The guy in the green is Victor Garber who has been in many shows over the years including Alias, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Orville to name a few.
ReplyDelete#2. I have a copies of those extra tracks you are looking for. Will share it in a day or two.
Hi yahwehfrk. Thank you. I would be very grateful for this...
DeleteAs promised here is the link for the album with the tracks you were looking for. https://www.sendspace.com/file/olimk3
ReplyDeleteThanks so much,yahwehfrk. I appreciate it, my friend...
Deletethanks for the bonus tracks (and upgraded art). I wonder why Cherry Red/Now excluded those three. I mean, "Canada" was their biggest hit and "If I Was a Carpenter" was the B-side of their 3rd biggest?
DeleteHi Dmitrich, can you please re-up the Sugar Shoppe CD, many thanks again!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the Sugar Shoppe.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Dmitrich for your wonderfully quick response (as usual!). Thanks again from Nick
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