The Guess Who is still recognized as Canada’s premier band and at Youngtown we continue to celebrate the early Guess Who including Chad Allen, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson, Randy Bachman, and Burton Cummings as “The” best band ever out of Canada. Other noted additions to the early Guess Who mix include: Kurt Winter, Domenic Troiano, [...]
Burton Cummings left nothing undone at last night’s Massey Hall Show. Kicking off Canada’s Walk of Fame Festival, Cummings performance proved him well deserving to be the first individual inducted to the Walk of Fame “twice”…first with The Guess Who and now as a solo artist. Cummings opened the show with “No Sugar Tonight / [...]
Apr 052011
The early Canadian rock and roll sound was forged in small communities and cities across our great country back in the 1950′s and 1960′s. One very notable Canadian music pioneer out of Winnipeg was Chad Allan (né Allan Kowbel, born March 29, 1943, in Winnipeg). Allan was the founding member of Chad Allan and The [...]
The Guess Who are celebrated at the Youngtown Rock and Roll Museum! – I remember the first time The Guess Who caught my ears in the summer of 1969 with the hit “These Eyes”. Although the band had been around for some time (originally with Chad Allan) and experienced success with “Shakin All Over” in 1965, [...]