![]() ![]() Sach tells him about their pal Gabe is in trouble. Some of the funniest bits are when Slip talks in his normal macho New York accent but launches into a high campy tone when he is with his gay pals. Williams plays the Leo Gorcey Slip character who is a closeted gay having a party with his gay friends while his straight pals Sach (Short) and Whitey (Candy) show up. A very funny Movie Of The Week follows, The Bowery Boys In The Band. Gus has a romantic dream sequence about Mrs Prickley in a limo during the song. America performs a song Right Before Your Eyes. Juul Haalmeyer and his dancers are rehearsing there but Gus chases them out. Gus greets musical guest America and at first will not let them in but relents when he finds out Mrs Prickley rented the studio to them. He does some dance moves and blows up real good. Farm Film Report welcomes Dance Fever host Denny Terrio (Martin Short). Robin Williams first appears as John Houseman reading the phone book. Gus the Security Guard has a crush on Mrs Prickley. Bobby Bittman has a funny PSA for the Public Library, he reads with some kids while smoking a cigarette. Hamilton jazzman Darcy Hepner adds saxophone and recorder (on "Pilot").The first scene is a funny quick promo of Angel Cortez FBI Jockey, with John Candy in the title role of the Mexican jockey working undercover for the FBI. Cardinali and Hamilton's Paul Inston played bass, with former Boomer Rick Gratton on drums. Erica Goodman, of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, added harp, while Toronto keyboard virtuoso Kevin Adamson performed some tasty piano solos. Thomas recorded the vocals himself at his Dundas home. Veteran Sound engineer John "Beetle" Bailey also tagged along to handle the recording. So did Thomas' son Jake to record the moment on video and in photographs. Former bassist with Thomas' band The Boomers, Cardinali offered to coproduce the project on his Alma Records label with distribution through Universal Canada.Ĭardinali, accompanied him to Prague to conduct the orchestra. It was at that point that old friend Peter Cardinali stepped up to the plate. Thomas, 65, launched Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign on the Internet and raised more than $27,000 over a few months, offering things like house concerts in return for donations (he played one in Saskatchewan, another in Burlington). Thomas priced it out, found the Prague orchestra by far the best deal, even after travel expenses were considered, and set about raising the estimated $60,000 he figured he'd need. Hiring a full symphony orchestra isn't exactly cheap. An orchestral pop album is not the sort of thing that draws eager backing from major labels. The initial problem was gaining financing for the project. He had worked with orchestras early in his career on albums like "Long Long Way." It was time to have another look at his songs. No stranger to orchestral music having written some 20 film scores, Thomas liked what he heard. The project's genesis came about in 2014 when Hamilton saxophonist Darcy Hepner arranged several of Thomas' songs for an orchestral ensemble performing at a special reception marking the donation of Thomas's archives to McMaster University. There's also a new song, written in 2015, called "So Cold in the City." Self-reflective and sentimental, it will be a sure winner with longtime Thomas fans. In January, he took the arrangements to the Czech Republic and recorded them with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. "A Life in Song" features 11 tracks spanning his 45-year career, all rearranged and re-recorded for a full symphony orchestra. ![]() On some tracks, there's no guitar, only piano and voice added to the rich sounds of the orchestra. The orchestra is completely integrated into each song. This is not just a pop band playing in front of a string section for effect. And I find the orchestra tends to underscore each song's storyline." I've been singing it the same way for 40 years. "I just went for broke," Thomas says about his iconic song which became an international hit for the group America in 1983. "A little tip of the hat to the old record," Thomas says of the clavinet.īy the time the classic "Right Before Your Eyes," is finished playing, the visitor's eyes are welling up. In a few moments the familiar keyboard sound of the clavinet reminds the listener that this is actually a reworking of "Painted Ladies," Thomas's 1973 No. "OK, here we go," Thomas says, twisting some knobs to allow the lush violins to fill the room. He's giving a guest a preview of his new album " A Life in Song." It's a hugely ambitious project he's been working on for the better part of two years. Ian Thomas is sitting at the console of the basement studio in his Dundas home brimming with pride. ![]()
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