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Canadian Talent Library is happy to present one of the newer names on the Canadian music scene, talented piano stylist Bill Badgley. Born in Toronto in 1927, Bill attended Lawrence Park Collegiate, studied music, attained his A.T.C.M. (A.R.C.T.) and gained early practical experience as glee club accompanist at Toronto Teachers’ College. His earliest jobs were as D.J., newscaster and pianist on radio stations in Sudbury, Guelph, St. Catharines and Sarnia. Bill then entered the teaching profession, acting as music supervisor at schools in Guelph, Cobourg and Toronto. He put in a stint with the Crest Theatre and Hart House, and soon found that music as a full-time career was to be his choice. He spent a season with CBC-TV’s “Country Hoedown”, played at the Marine Room of the Seaway Hotel, with a trio at Chez Paree, and a quintet for the O’Keefe Variety Show, doing one-night stands all over Ontario. He opened the Caesar Room at Ports of Call in April, 1964. His summer stints in Muskoka, playing solo piano and organ at Limberlost Lodge and Britannia Hotel.
Setting off Bill Badgley’s fine individual touch at the piano are new orchestrations created for CTL by Johnny Dobson and Johnny Burt. The orchestra comprises 12 strings, flute, string bass, guitar, drums and percussion.
Transferred by Robert Williston on July 4, 2025 using Rega Planar 8 turntable with Apheta 3 MC cartridge, Rega Aria MK3 phono preamp, and RME Fireface UFX III Audio Interface at 96kHz/24-bit.
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