Hi-Tones

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Origin: Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦
Biography:

Rock & Roll group from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada active from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. They were the first of such groups from Ottawa to record an album. In addition to the members listed below, the group at one time included Bob Arseneau, John Lafranchise, Bob Newman, and Bob St-George (guitar).

Jump has become as much a style of American music as has the waltz and square dance. Now for the first time, Montagnac Records Limited have assembled an album of classic JUMP tunes which have been responsible for making JUMP popular. Collector’s items such as Beatnick Fly, Bull Dog, What did I Say and Arsenic have been recorded in Ultra-Fidelity and make this album a must for every music library.

ABOUT THE HI-TONES…
Booked to capacity wherever they appear, club, dance, radio or television, this wonderful group of dedicated young men have performed with the ability and confidence of professional musicians, which they definitely are! The HI-TONES were the best choice to bring to you true JUMP music. They have created such great JUMP sound using JUMP style arrangements by the hand sax, organ and drums. GREAT CRAZY music with that off-beat straddle time and time again that JUMP is here to stay and wonderfully danceable.

Because this record has been designed as a collector’s item for all true Jump music fans to whom music is a pleasure and a thrill, no effort has been painfully checked. Every step in the musical research for step has been taken to make this a success in your album collection. The real jump “swing” music of the world has now been presented in its original excellence, as a more well rounded sound.

Don Billows: lead guitar
Lionel Vachon: organ, piano, guitar
Bill Billows: saxophone
Len Leitch: drums

Produced and engineered by W. J. Montaigne
Sound engineering by Leb Seese
Recorded at Glennwood Bowl

Cover artwork by Brian Montagnac

Notes on the cover songs:
"Tequila" is a cover of The Champs' single from 1958.
"Wabash Blues" is a cover of The Viscounts' single from 1960.
"Beatnick Fly" is a cover of Johnny And The Hurricanes' single from 1959.
"Wild Week-end" is a cover of The Rebels' single from 1960.
"Do What You Did" is a cover of Thurston Harris' single from 1957.
"Almost Lost My Mind" is a cover of Pat Boone's single from 1956.
"Bull Dog" is a cover of The Fireballs' single from 1959.
"What Did I Say" is a cover of Ray Charles And His Orchestra's single from 1959.
"Walk Don't Run" is a cover of The Ventures' single from 1960.
"Cross Fire" is a cover of Johnny And The Hurricanes' single from 1959.
"Raunchy" is a cover of Bill Justis And His Orchestra's single from 1957.

Don Billows: lead guitar
Lionel Vachon: organ, piano, guitar
Bill Billows: saxophone
Len Leitch: drums