You Keep Me Hangin' On • Magic Holiday

"Magic Holiday" formerly "The Kitchen Help" had it's first real live debut in mid 1968 at a battle of the bands. The 15 judges acclaimed Magic Holiday the best band of the evening offering them a trophy and a contract. Following that, Magic Holiday went on to perform in many other venues. The band was extremely popular especially among young teenagers. The song 'You Keep Me Hanging On' became one of the bands signature songs. In August 1969 during the annual Italian feast at Oxford Park in NDG, Montreal, thanks to this song a large crowd of people who were on the way to watch the fireworks returned to the front of the stage helping Magic Holiday create one of it's most memorable performances. (1.5 hrs. of music and dancing needing police control)
Band members :
Ernie Matrundola: Lead Guitar & lead vocals.
Peter Ponzi: Percussion & lead vocals.
Bee Santori: Organ & back-up vocals.
Tino Catalini: Rhythm Guitar & back-up vocals.
Val Teodori: Bass & back-up vocals.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• You keep Me Hangin On
• Magic Holiday
• Rock
• Group

[bbuteo]

very very nice man!! reminds me the golden ages of deep purple, tx very much for sharing

[valteodori]

@bbuteo thank, I wish I had more on video but I only have some audio. recorded on a reel-to-reel with a cheap mic.

[USAGlobalVideoCorp]

COOL MAN! What year do you suppose this was recorded and where? Where were they from?

[valteodori]

@USAGlobalVideoCorp (Thanks for the comment)

This was recorded in Montreal around 1970-71?

where I was part of a rock group called "Magic Holiday"

[Stindels]

Very nice job Val ...the video came out great and got lots a nice feedback from the people I sent to and posted on Facebook...

[Stindels]

@USAGlobalVideoCorp The band was from Montreal Canada...NDG to be precise ...west end of the city...there were lots of bands coming out of NDG in those days...we recorded the song in a second story warehouse on a Sony 2 track reel to reel with the original mikes ( Small)...so the sound is pretty crude ... but we were just happy to have the songs on tape,,,,,,we had about 12 to 15 original songs.Ernie was quite busy back then.......will have to get Val to set up another video session....LOL...

[angeliengwen]

Great! Very nice. Thumbs up!

[USAGlobalVideoCorp]

@valteodori Oh That's YOUR group! awesome bro! A real Vanila Fudge type version. That's cool! Did you ever get down to Philly and play with Rundgren or Nazz,. Electric Prunes, Strawberry Alarmclock Who famous did you guy hang with? I'm really curious now. You are a legend!!! Share more vintage audio and or video!!! AWESOME!!!