BUSH PARTY ARTIST PROFILE
 Name: Bruce Haack
Born: Nordegg, Alberta, 1931
Occupation: Inventor, Composer, Musician, Children's Entertainer, Electronica Pioneer
Inventions: People-odeon, Dermatron and more.
Aliases: Jacques Trapp, Jackpine Savage
Television Appearances: The Tonight Show, The Gary Moore Show, I've Got A Secret, Merv Griffin's Play Your Hunch, Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood.
Scores: Commercials for Kraft Cheese, Goodyear Tires, Lincoln Life Insurance, Parker Brothers Games. Clifford the Small Red Puppy (Scholastic Magazine Records).
Discography: Dance, sing, and listen with Miss Nelson and Bruce, Dance, sing, and listen again!, Dance, sing, and listen again and again!, The Way-Out Record For Children, Together, Captain Entropy, Dance to the Music, This Old Man, Funky Doodle, Ebenezer Electric, Martin Luther King, Jr. a musical documentary for upper elementary classes, The Bruce Haack songbook, Electric Lucifer, Electric Lucifer 2, Zoot Zoot Zoot - Here Comes Santa In His New Space Suit, Haackula, Bite.
Coined Words: "techmotion", "clear-fire", "powerlove"
Best Prediction: Around 1968 Haack predicted that a time would come in which music could be shared worldwide without involvement of record companies.
To learn more about Canadian-electronic-music-pioneer Bruce Haack go to www.brucehaack.com.
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THE LANGLEY SCHOOLS MUSIC PROJECT
In 1976, Hans Fenger - a poor rock musician from Vancouver - convinced the Langley School board to hire him as a music teacher. Not knowing any theory, he taught the kids what he knew - the popular rock songs of the day. On two occasions he had the foresight to commit to tape the results which resulted in two vinyl pressings that went into the hands of the musicians and singers. The children's choir were accompanied by a bass, drums (actually, a bass drum and cymbals), an electric National Steel laptop guitar, xylophones, metallophones and an acoustic guitar (the only instrument Berger played). Words are not enough to describe the end result. There is sense of innocence and earnestness in the children's performances that transform the classic standards into something all their own. Suffice to say you will never listen to "Space Oddity" or "Desparado" the same way again. File this one under "precursor to Kids From Widney High".
The LSMP setlist:
01) Venus and Mars/Rock Show(Paul McCartney/Wings
02) Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)
03) God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)
04) Space Oddity (David Bowie)
05) The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)
06) Band On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings)
07) In My Room (The Beach Boys)
08) I'm Into Something Good (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits)
09) Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers)
10) I Get Around (The Beach Boys)
11) Mandy (Barry Manilow)
12) Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys)
13) Desperado (The Eagles)
14) You're So Good To Me (The Beach Boys)
15) Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
16) To Know Him Is To Love Him (Teddy Bears)
17) Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
18) You're Sixteen (Johnny Burnette/Ringo Starr)
19) Little Deuce Coupe (The Beach Boys)
20) Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy)
21) Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact.Day)(Klattau/Carpenters)
click here to learn more about the LSMP.
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