Album / Title
What Can We Do?
Origin: Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → Scottsdale, Arizona, 🇺🇸 → Las Vegas, Nevada, 🇺🇸
Insight
Johann Sebastian Bach’s great-great-great-great-great grandson grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. That’s how David Sebastian Bach tells it, and Canadian Musician printed it in 1987 when they visited the performing arts school he ran from a converted house on Main Street East, where a bust of the old maestro kept watch over the dance studio.
By then David had already packed in a career. He was singing on local radio at four and made his first record at five. In the mid-1960s he left for London, where he recorded German schlager for EMI Electrola and played the Guardian’s Brother in Space: 1999.
Back in Hamilton he was a founding member of the Leman Brothers Muscular Dystrophy Foundation, named for Craig and Michael Leman. The two brothers died of Duchenne muscular dystrophy within six months of each other in 1982 and 1983. ‘What Can We Do?’ was his song for them. Fellow Hamiltonian Ian Thomas arranged and produced it in his own studio, and every dollar of net proceeds went to the foundation.
-Robert Williston
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David Sebastian Bach / What Can We Do SIDE B
What Can We Do?
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Credits
Musicians
David Sebastian Bach: vocals (A)
Songwriting
‘What Can We Do?’: words and music by David Sebastian Bach
CAPAC
Production
Arranged and produced by Ian Thomas (A, B)
Artwork
Cover design by Branko Gregov and Jerry Hish
Release
Blue Ox Records, BOR-2, Canada
7" vinyl single, 45 RPM
Manufactured by World Records
Pressed by Quality Records Limited
℗ © Blue Ox Records
MAPL
All net proceeds donated to the Leman Brothers Muscular Dystrophy Foundation
Matrix / Runout
Side A: WRC-3-4179-A Qu
Side B: WRC-3-4179-B Qu
Liner Notes
About the Leman Brothers M.D. Foundation: The LBMDF is a non-profit fund raising and information dissemination group of volunteers in the Hamilton-Wentworth Region, named in honour of Craig and Michael Leman, two brothers who succumbed to Duchenne Dystrophy within six months of each other in 1982-83. Funds raised by the LBMDF are donated annually to the M.D.A.C. for research and patient services.
About David Sebastian Bach: David is a Canadian singer/songwriter who, in addition to being a founding member of the LBMDF, served as vice-president for two years (1983-84) and president in 1985.
Special Thanks To:
Dr. Alan J. McComas for his guidance and inspiration.
Ian Thomas for his patience, perseverance, talent and studio.
Larry Vladetic for his creativity, musicality and moral support.
Blue Ox Records
1268 Main Street East
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8K 1A7
(416) 544-5705
Audio and Artwork Restoration
Audio Transfer/Restoration by Scott Edward
spinningmywheelsinternational@gmail.com
226-235-6005
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