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CHAD  ALLAN  AND  THE  REFLECTIONS


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SHY GUY



Chad Allan
                              and The Reflections

Chad Allan
                              and The Expressions
Chad Allan
                              and The Reflections

In 1962, Chad Allan and The Reflections journeyed to Kay Bank Studios in Minneapolis to cut their debut single.  Tribute to Buddy Holly backed by Back and Forth, was released in February 1963 and received airplay across the prairie provinces.

Having drawn interest from Toronto-based Quality Records, the band returned to Kay Bank Studios in the early summer of 1963 to record a follow up single, Shy Guy backed by Baby's Got a Brand New Beau, both written by Chad Allan.  At the same session, the group cut several more tracks, two of which were released in early 1964 - Inside Out and Made in England.  Later that summer, the group released their fourth single titled Stop Teasing Me, with A Shot of Rhythm 'n' Blues on the B side.

That same year, the band had changed their name to Chad Allan & The Expressions.  Chad Allan explained:  "There was an American group called the Reflections (with a tune called Just Like Romeo and Juliet that did very very well) and that was just the time we were going with our group the Reflections and I don't remember exactly what happened but there seemed to be a suggestion from Quality Records that we change our name.  I don't believe there was ever any heavy pressure, but there were too many reflections groups, so we decided to change the name of our group."
 
In December 1964, the renamed band recorded their next single, Shakin' All Over, with what was originally intended to be the A side, Till We Kissed.  A marketing ruse turned into a radio contest by the Quality Records to generate interest, this would be the first recording released under the Guess Who name (with a question mark tacked on to the end). 

The recordings were licensed to Scepter Records of New York in the spring of 1965 and reached #22 on the Billboard singles chart.  Shakin' All Over put Winnipeg on the international music map and turned Chad Allan into a rock star.

Bob Ashley left the band in December 1965, and Burton Cummings was hired as the replacement keyboard player.  Six months later, following the release of their third album, Chad Allan was no longer a member of the band he founded.

"I was saddened to leave," Allan revealed to John Einarson years later, "but it wasn't my band anymore."


Chad Allan 1965

Poster
Shakin' All Over

Till We Kissed

Fan Club Membership
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Randy Bachman's Prairie Town is an homage to Winnipeg's rock 'n' roll days.
The song tells the story of his discovery of rock 'n' roll via the radio and the formation of Chad Allan and The Reflections.
It appears on Bachman's 1992 solo album, Any Road.





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