Can-Con 45 Of The Day - May 4

[radiofan]

Today's Can-Con 45 is from 1968 ... A filet of soul from Vancouver's Cy Risby, Chuck Flintroy & The Night Train Revue ... "Ain't Love Wonderful" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9xEZ-fmEPo

[Richard Skelly]

Note the label 6th Avenue. That, of course, was the street where the bunker studio called Aragon was designed by an American acoustical wiz for owner Al Reusch. It later became Can-base before morphing into Mushroom Studio when the Vogel family (of Cloverdale Paint pedigree) bought in. I think it was still Aragon when Led Zeppelin reportedly added some dubs to their second album.

Mushroom Studio survived under different ownerships and names until about three years ago when it was sold for redevelopment. Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart made a final visit to the bunker that spawned their Hall of Fame careers.

In a perfect world, a philanthropist would fund someone like revered Mushroom engineer Rolf Henneman to assemble a double CD of Aragon/Can-base/Mushroom tracks. Pretty well every Vancouver act from the late'60s to mid '70s recorded there.

Al Reusch was a true pioneer of Vancouver audio history. His daughter Lynne also had a music biz forte and managed the Vancouver office of BMI Canada--later merged with ASCAP Canada to create SOCAN.