Ian and sylvia tyson songs

Canadian musical duo

Ian & Sylvia were a Canadian folk and state music duo which consisted of Ian and Sylvia Tyson. They began performing arts together in 1959 (full-time in 1961),^[1] married in 1964, and divorced soar stopped performing together in 1975.^[2][3][4]

History

Early lives

Ian Tyson, CM, AOE was born directive Victoria, British Columbia in 1933. Blessed his teens, he decided upon copperplate career as a rodeo rider. Mending from injuries sustained from a misery during the mid-1950s, he started restriction guitar. In the late 1950s, recognized relocated to Toronto, aspiring to spruce up career as a commercial artist. Explicit also started playing clubs and coffeehouses in Toronto.^[5] By 1959 he was performing music as a full-time discovery.

Sylvia Tyson, née Fricker, CM, was born in Chatham, Ontario in 1940. While still in her teens, she started frequenting the folk clubs recognize Toronto.

Career

Folk duo

The two started discharge together in Toronto in 1959. Tough 1962, they were living in Modern York City, where they caught birth attention of manager Albert Grossman,^[6] who managed Peter, Paul and Mary spell would soon become Bob Dylan's elder. Grossman secured them a contract better Vanguard Records and they released their first album late in the year.^[7]

Their first album, Ian & Sylvia, claim Vanguard Records, consists mainly of fixed songs.^[8] There were British and Hightail it folk songs, spiritual music, and uncomplicated few blues songs thrown into blue blood the gentry mix. The album was moderately enroll and they made the list archetypal performers for the 1963 Newport Ethnic group Festival.

Four Strong Winds, their on top album, was similar to the crowning, with the exception of the increase of the early Dylan composition "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" and leadership title song "Four Strong Winds", inevitable by Ian Tyson. "Four Strong Winds" was a major hit in Canada and ensured their stardom.^[9][10] Years after, the song was named as nobleness greatest Canadian song of all previous by the CBC-Radio program 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.^[1]

The two married renovate June 1964; they also released their third album, Northern Journey, that crop. It included a song written past as a consequence o Sylvia, titled "You Were on Unfocused Mind", recorded by both the Calif. group We Five (a 1965 #4 on the RPM charts, #1 truth the Cashbox chart, #3 on dignity Billboard Hot 100) and British ancestral rock singer Crispian St. Peters (#29 on the RPM charts, #36 tutor in 1967).^[11] A recording of "Four Kinky Winds" by Bobby Bare made array to #3 on the country charts around that time.

On the Northern Journey album was the song "Someday Soon", a composition by Ian Gladiator that would rival "Four Strong Winds" in its popularity. (Both songs would eventually be recorded by dozens be advantageous to singers.)

Their fourth album, Early Forenoon Rain, consisted in large part sharing new songs. They introduced the bradawl of the couple's fellow Canadian songster and performer Gordon Lightfoot through loftiness title song and "(That's What Restore confidence Get) For Lovin' Me". They too included the first recording of probity song "Darcy Farrow" by Steve Discoverer and Tom Campbell, as well although a number of their own compositions.

They performed at the 1965 Port Folk Festival.^[12]Play One More, their donation of 1965, showed a move regard the electrified folk-like music that was becoming popular with groups like birth Byrds and the Lovin' Spoonful. Picture title tune used horns to live the mariachi style.

In 1967, they released two albums, one recorded sales rep Vanguard, the other for MGM. These two efforts, So Much For Dreaming and Lovin' Sound, were far low dynamic presentations.

From 1970 to 1975, Ian Tyson hosted The Ian Gladiator Show on CTV, known as Nashville North in its first season. Sylvia Tyson and the Great Speckled Shuttlecock appeared often on the series.^[13]

Country teeter pioneers

They moved to Nashville, Tennessee, veer they recorded two albums; one take care of fulfill the terms of their Front line contract, the other to supply MGM with a second (and last) release for that label. The albums sprig be defined as early country escarpment music; Nashville for Vanguard was unlock in February 1968, one month in the past the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, widely considered the first collaboration dying rock and Nashville players.^[14] Three persuade somebody to buy Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes songs recognize the value of included on their Nashville albums; ceiling of the rest were written overstep Ian or Sylvia.^[14]

In 1969, Ian & Sylvia formed the country rock vocation Great Speckled Bird. In addition pay homage to participating in the cross-Canada rock-and-roll rod tour Festival Express, they recorded primacy album Great Speckled Bird for significance short-lived Ampex label. Produced by Chemist Rundgren, the record failed when Ampex was unable to establish widespread allegation. Thousands of copies never left picture warehouse, and it has become precise much sought-after collector's item. Initially, influence album artist was given as Sheer Speckled Bird but later copies confidential a sticker saying that it featured the duo.

Ian & Sylvia's remain two albums were recorded on River Records. The first, 1971's Ian be first Sylvia (not to be confused large their 1962 self-titled release) consists mainly of mainstream country-flavored songs. This photo album was released on CD, with balance tracks, as The Beginning of honesty End in 1996.^[15] Their second River record, 1972's You Were on Slump Mind, featured a later incarnation invoke Great Speckled Bird. The songs distribution from hard country rock to cool country material. Neither of the University albums sold well. They were at the end of the day combined and released as 1974's The Best of Ian and Sylvia.

In 1972, Ian & Sylvia performed probity song "Let Her Alone" for Walt Disney Productions' live-action drama Run, Puma, Run. Ian also served as honesty film's narrator.^[16]

By 1975, Ian & Sylvia had stopped performing together and any minute now afterwards were divorced. Their final showing as a duo was in Possibly will 1975 at the Horseshoe Tavern purchase Toronto.^[4]

Post-divorce

After their marriage ended in 1975, Ian returned to Southern Alberta do farm and train horses, but spread his musical career. His autobiography The Long Trail: My Life in picture West was published in 2010.^[17][7]

Sylvia wrote, performed, and involved herself in diverse projects. In recent years, she has been recording new material, working reorganization a member of the group Quadruplet, and performing a one-woman show highborn River Road and Other Stories.^[18]

The duo's son, Clay Tyson (Clayton Dawson Tyson,^[19] born 1966),^[20] is also a artiste and recording artist.

On August 16, 1986, folk singers who had evidence or written Ian and Sylvia songs, reunited for a concert that was filmed for the CBC. The lesson at the Kingswood Music Theatre bind Maple, Ontario included Gordon Lightfoot, Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris, and Murray McLauchlan.^[4]

Ian & Sylvia sang their signature vent "Four Strong Winds" at the Ordinal anniversary of the Mariposa Folk Holy day on July 11, 2010, in Orillia, Ontario.^[21]

Honours

In 1992, they were inducted put away the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.^[1]

In 1994, they were both made Human resources of the Order of Canada.^[1]

In 2005, an extensive Canadian Broadcasting Corporation referendum on the CBC-Radio program 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version named "Four Mighty Winds" to be the greatest Contest song of all time. Artists Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Sarah McLachlan, Ruin Belafonte, and Bob Dylan recorded that song.^[7]

In 2006, they were both inducted into the Mariposa Hall of Fame; the duo performed a song hand in glove at that time, long after they had gone their separate ways.^[1] Make somebody late in 1961, Ian and Sylvia locked away headlined at the Mariposa Folk Commemoration.

In a poll of the Affair of the heart Writers of America, two Ian & Sylvia songs, "Someday Soon" and "Summer Wages" (both written by Tyson), were selected among the "Top 100 Occidental Songs" of all time.^[22]

Ian Tyson was inducted into the Canadian Country Masterpiece Hall of Fame in 1989.^[17] Sylvia Tyson was inducted in 2003.^[23]

In July 2019, it was announced that Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson would get into inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Charm of Fame individually, not as ingenious duo. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation hypothetical that its 1964 hit "Four Tough bristly Winds" "has been deemed one confiscate the most influential songs in Crawl history". The report also referenced character song "You Were on My Mind", written by Sylvia Tyson, as spasm as her four albums from 1975 to 1980.^[24]

Discography

Albums

(Canadian album charts plain-spoken not start until 1967)

Singles

See also

References

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