Barry first found music when he borrowed his sister's record collection when he was about eight and was hooked. When Caroline started it was a new beginning, and he listened to all the stations, but Caroline was his favourite by far. Later he became a singer in a band, then started doing discos when he was 18. He joined Caroline in 1977, touring the country with the Caroline Roadshow for 10 years, having great fun. Barry helped with tender trips and worked on the Ross Revenge in '84 and '85. ...
2020.16 From Me To You (Pops and Lenny) -- Piers Hemmingsen, The Beatles, Del Shannon, Trudy Medcalf
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Piers Hemmingsen (The Beatles in Canada) joins the show this week as we discuss the first year of the Beatles in Canada. "Love Me Do" was played on the radio in "The Great White North" a mere eight weeks after the Parlophone single first appeared. We move through those first three singles, the rise of "She Loves You", and Beatlemania breaking in Canada just as Capitol of Los Angeles caught on to "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
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