Information/Write-up
Laurie Bower: vocals
Gil Dodd: vocals
Bill Meisner: vocals
Debbie Fleming: vocals
Patti Van Evera: vocals
Judy Tate: vocals
Don Paris: vocals
Merril Toth: vocals
Carolyn Toth: vocals
Guido Basso: trumpet
Arnie Chycoski: trumpet
Teddy Roderman: trombone
Ron Hughes: trombone
Buck Waterbe: trombone
Bob Livingston: trombone
Ian McDougall: trombone
Peter Appleyard: percussion
Var Cagape: percussion
Peter Magadini: drums
Ed Eckett: guitar
Hank Monis: guitar
Bobby Edwards: guitar
Moe Koffman: woodwinds
Ted Tily: woodwinds
Jerry Toth: woodwinds
Jack Zaza: woodwinds
Eugene Amaro: woodwinds
Gary Gross: piano
Dick Berg: French horn
H. McDougall: French horn
Al Cherney: strings
Ben Armes: strings
Walter Bacchus: strings
Andy Bence: strings
Josephine Toth: strings
Elsie Dunlop: strings
Sam Hermensen: strings
Jack Neilson: strings
Gerard Kantarjian: strings
Maurice Solway: strings
Kent Mason: tuba
Norm Thompson: bagpipes
John Wakefield: bagpipes
Dave Broadfoot: narration
The Rural Resident: narration
Produced by Seven-O Productions
Arranged and conducted by Rudy Toth
Engineered by Bill Meisner
Recorded at Manta Sound, Toronto, Ontario
Liner notes:
TORONTO
What other city
calls its main street Yonge?
Each North American city, by its geographic location, its history, its civic leadership and the character of its population has created the condition in which it finds itself in the seventies.
Environmental and social scientists have now begun to question the whole concept of “cities” and their conglomerates of efficient institutions that have measured “progress” in terms that have omitted “quality of life”. By luck, planning, and the indefinable qualities of “good-neighbouring”, Toronto has avoided many of the problems that exist today in most large North American cities.
The “whys” and “hows” of Toronto’s emergence as the “city of choice” have been much discussed by urban planners, and things much have agreed on the city’s trees, parks, cleanliness, and generally attractive environment in Toronto’s neighbourhoods constitute a basic response to this city’s character, which in turn has motivated a living condition remarkable for its low level of urban stress.
In other words, “it’s a good place to live!”
As a long time citizen and member of the community, The Toronto Star takes pleasure in commissioning this second long-playing musical look at Toronto, and is pleased to dedicate it to the people of this city “that other cities would like to be like”.
Toronto the good, Toronto the bad, Toronto the old, Toronto the new; rock, hoe-down or folk-time, they’re all songs about “this place”, Toronto’s Rudy Toth has written and arranged for his hometown with tunes about the “then” and the “now”, each distinctly about Toronto, with something for everyone.
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