Scrubbaloe Caine - Travelin' (1973)

Scrubbaloe Caine
Travelin'
1973
Calgary/Winnipeg/Vancouver/Quebec

Jim Harmata (guitar)
Bob Kidd (bass)
Paul Dean (guitar)
Henry Small (electric violin)
Bill McBeth (drums, percussion, vocals)
Al Foreman (keyboards, harmonica, vocals)
Jim Kale (bass, vocals; replaced Kidd)

Scrubbaloe Caine was formed when Al Foreman, Jim Harmata, and Bob Kidd drove to Calgary from Vancouver to hook up with Paul Dean and Henry Small. The five auditioned numerous drummers before settling on Bill McBeth, who had worked with Dean in the band Canada.

The six members worked under the name of Cannonball in the formative stages, playing venues in Calgary, Winnipeg, and Quebec City. It was while the band was in Winnipeg that Don Hunter, the Guess Who's manager, became interested in the group. Hunter sent out Kale (who had been released from the Guess Who) to Quebec to check on the band's progress. At the time, the band had been playing steadily at the Electric Circle in Quebec City. Kale was impressed, and gave Hunter a good report. Some time later, Bob Kidd's bass playing was not strong enough, and he was let go. The band soon asked Kale to join the band.

They band released singles from their debut album in 1973 and 1974 but to little success. Plans for release of a second album, tentatively titled 'Street Level', never materialized. The band split up in debt and far from home - Toronto - in 1976.

Dean moved back to Calgary and joined The Great Canadian River Race which eventually evolved into Streetheart. Dean would later team up with Moxy drummer Matt Frenette and vocalist Mike Reno to form Loverboy; Henry Small formed Small Wonder who had two albums on CBS before joining Burton Cummings' touring band. This was followed by a stint as the new lead singer for Prism following the death of Ron Tabak in the early '80s. He also wrote material for Eddie Money and was a member of Who bassist John Entwhisle's band The Rock. In 2000 Small was the morning radio voice for CIFM in Kamloops and was playing in a band called The Shift who released a CD entitled 'Out Of The Darkness' in 1999. A proper Henry Small solo album called 'Time' was released in the spring of 2002. In recent years Small launched an advertising/jingle company with Gary Fridell called Small World Studios; Kale, who won the ownership of the name Guess Who, currently tours and records with former Guess Who drummer Garry Peterson; Kidd died in 2000.

with notes from Al Foreman.

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• edmonton
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[rebldomakr99]

No problem. Would you like the rest of the album?

[BjdacH]

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[FriskieMarley]

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[btoisawesome]

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[WWMARSH2]

I have the record. Now me going to see how it plays. Ya whooo

[dsaurette]

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[pjloman]

Great!! Is this available on cd? This album and Tasty from The Good Rats are the two difficult to found items.. Tasty is already in my archive...

[modelmother]

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[peapodhas3]

AWESOME SONG!!!

[MrTurbox2]

Any chance someone could download the rest of the songs off of this album

PLEASE and THANKS