Songs like Cum Hear The Band, Slowpoke, Don’t Push Me Around and Oowatanite helped push Stand Back to Double-Platinum status in Canada. This album provided the hits Tonight Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love and I Wouldn’t Want To Lose Your Love but the non-hits were even more remarkable. Many people consider Stand Back to be one of the band’s greatest accomplishments. Both the single, You Won’t Dance With Me, as well as the album reached critical acclaim with the single reaching Gold and the album reaching Gold then Platinum in Canada. THE MAKING OF THE CLASSICS….įorever For Now, the band’s sixth album, included a Canadian music milestone for the band the best selling Canadian single the band ever released. This tour was the first to use dramatic lighting and pyrotechnic displays as an integral part of their show, a feature that would prove to be extremely popular during their international stardom and would lend influence to various emerging artists, Garth Brooks for one. The following spring the band hit the road with a national tour called The Electric Adventure. It provides a great example of the writing talents of Goodwyn and Clench. This album remains a fan favorite with such classic songs as Weeping Widow, Just Like That and Lady Run Lady Hide. The two new members helped to complete album number three Electric Jewels.
After a few auditions Jerry Mercer and Gary Moffet joined the band and April Wine became a tighter, flashier band. THE NEXT GENERATION….Įarly in 1973 the two remaining members, Myles Goodwyn and Jim Clench, faced the dilemma of taking the band to the next level. This band would no longer include the Henman brothers. By the completion of Electric Jewels a new April Wine would emerge. Ralph Murphy would be back to produce the follow up album but there would be changes in the band. On Record also included another notable tune a cover of Elton John’s Bad Side Of The Moon.įollowing the Gold success of the second album it was clear that April Wine had the chance to become one of Canada’s most significant rock bands.
#Who sang some kind of wonderful crack#
This song provided the band with a #1 hit in Canada and allowed them to crack Billboard’s Top 30 in the USA where it remained for 11 weeks. You Could Have Been a Lady, originally recorded in England by Hot Chocolate, was a phenomenal hit for April Wine. The album pushed the band into the North American public spotlight for the first time. Murphy’s mission was to give April Wine a major international hit and he came very close to doing just that. In the fall of 1971 Jim Henman left the band and was replaced by Montreal native Jim Clench.įamed producer Ralph Murphy worked with the group on their second album On Record.
This first album established Myles Goodwyn as a composer with Fast Train receiving much airplay throughout Canada and becoming the main reason April Wine was able to record a second album. THE FIRST DECADE….īy the spring of 1970 April Wine had relocated from Halifax to Montreal and were making a self-titled album for Aquarius Records. Fifteen studio albums, three live releases, numerous compilations, a boxed set and thousands of concerts later April Wine has become enormously popular in Canada, the United States and throughout the world. The Henman brothers, David and Ritchie, got together with their cousin Jim Henman and fellow musician Myles Goodwyn to form a band called April Wine, a name chosen simply because they were two words that sounded good together. It all began in Nova Scotia late in 1969.
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