Tinker's Moon
Tinker's Moon was a Canadian pop - rock band that in their homeland in 1974 with a cover version of Bill Martin / Phil Coulter -Songs Shang-a-Lang had a hit in the CHUM charts and in the RPM charts. The song was already in the charts in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the original version of the Bay City Rollers at the time.
Tinker's Moon was essentially a studio project by music producer and manager Ben Kaye and sound engineer Hubert Liesker. The two had signed a long-term production contract with Polydor Records in the spring of 1974 . On this label they released two more singles as Tinker's Moon after the hit Shang-a-Lang . Now That Summer Is Over was not listed on the chart; Ooh Baby, Baby was also a minor hit on the RPM charts in 1975.
Kaye has worked with Patsy Gallant , Aldo Nova and René Angélil , among others, over the years . He died of cancer in 2007.
Discography
- Singles
- 1974: Shang-a-Lang / I'm Sad (Polydor)
- 1974: Now That Summer Is Over / Ting a Ling Ding (Polydor)
- 1975: Ooh Baby, Baby / Lover Girl (Polydor)
Web links
Notes and evidence
- ↑ Single Shang-a-Lang at 45cat.com
- ↑ Hit parade of the radio station CHUM 1050 AM from Toronto, Ontario - compare : CHUM Chart
- ↑ Top 100 of Records, Promotion, Music magazine of the Canadian music industry; Shang-a-Lang reached number 52 here on September 7, 1974, see. RPM Charts Archive ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for that week
- ↑ Listing at number 71 on May 24, 1975 ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the RPM Charts archive
