Syrinx - Tillicum (Theme from "Here Come The Seventies")

Issued in Canada April 1971 on True North TN4-104.

Syrinx was an electronic music ensemble led by John Mills-Cockell (Arp and Moog synthesizers and keyboards), with Doug Pringle (saxophone, guiro, bongos, bells) and Alan Wells (congas, percussion). Mills-Cockell studied at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, and taught electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music. The three met during the time of Toronto's awakening avant-garde music scene in the late '60s. They were signed by Bernie Finkelstein, and had the second album on the True North label in 1970. Their music rather defies description, so I'm not even going to try. Suffice it to say that Syrinx were electronic music pioneers in the same league with Bernie Krause and Paul Beaver, and had perfected synthesis methodologies before Kraftwerk had rendered a single bleep.

The group was approached by Hobel-Leiterman Productions to create a theme for their new television series, "Here Come The Seventies," which aired on the CTV network. "Tillicum" was the result. The single was released in April 1971, charted in RPM at #77 with a bullet on May 8th, and reached #38 on June 5th. The track was included on their second album, "Long Lost Relatives" on True North TNX-5.

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• Seventies
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• Arp
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[unhooked25]

HERE COME THE SEVENTIES. I remember that TV series. This was the opening theme tune where it showed a back view of a naked lady on the beach walking into the water. Does anyone recall?

[mojofilter02]

Read the whole comments section. People have talked of little else in it.

[TheCountAlucard]

I remember that Joe Campanella was the host along with a blonde chick from Toronto. I thought that the show was done by Global TV? The whale that killed the trainer in Orlando came from Vancouver BC, from the Tillicum area - hence the name Tillikum.

[mojofilter02]

This program aired on CTV stations, some years before Global existed.

[bananajoe6996]

I was 11 years old and I loved this show with the tec stuff, but what I liked most was the naked lady walking into the water naked. Love ladies butts till this day

[unhooked25]

@colleenlovesbolan Yes beautiful every square inch of her despite our young childhood age.

[colleenlovesbolan]

@unhooked25 Me too! I was 10 years old in 71, hmmmm just feel like I am 29 forever! But really, its nice to see that I wasn't the only one who remembered. It was beautiful. xx

[TheNevan60]

LOL - yes! I remember watching that show religeously when I was 11....sort of a glimpse of what we thought the future would bring in the 1970's and beyond...it would be fun to see it again and see which new inventions stuck and which ones were duds. Thanks for posting!

[PGKKK]

as a 9 year old in Winnipeg when this 'opening credits' song to the series 'Here Comes The Seventies' came on, I was on overdrive, sensorily speaking - this song created by these artists sparked my desire to further appreciate ambient music which was then in its nascent stages. Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, and then on and on - but these men were among the pioneers in my eyes/ears.... Thank you gentlemen! And thanks for introducing me to the term "mellotron"!

[Hanif74]

i played with doug for a gig with the wales on hanson island with a guy called paul spong . JMC was there too we played to the wales and a recording was made i was the percussionist

ZAne

[glammis09]

Doug Pringle from Syrinx went on to join a PUNK band called the Poles

[AnarchiveMagnetik]

thx for share, yeah old old cool stuff 

[thewordofgord]

thanks for the remaster....sounds good without the scratches!

wordofgord

[robb1138]

This band got me hooked into electronic music and was able to get my hands on that record...

[SPAMDAGGER22]

Are there episodes available anywhere?