The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-10-30, Page 20TABLE FULL OF MEMORIES -- Sitting at the Heywood table, Earl displays a massive
array of souvenirs from his long and successful career, among them the poster which pro-
claimed one week as 'National Earl Heywood Week'.
HEYWOOD FAMILY - During the early sixties, the Heywood family got together to
form a group which toured the Maritime Provinces. (L to R) Martha, Grant, Earl and
Patricia. Patricia porter married Bob Cook and they live in Shelburne with their two child-
ren. Grant went on to form a rock band called 'McKenzie' which works out of Kitchener.
The Heywood family was the first family unit to record an album in Canada.
'FARM AND HOME HOUR' -- Earl stands by his famous
Model A Ford in which he commuted from Exeter to Wing -
ham to do his show at CKNX from 1942 to 1946.
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In the Fall of 1946, Doc gQh
vinced Earl to become a full -UAW
e tertainer at CKNX. He moved.
to Wingham and began the silo*
called Seranade x'; ch which
was to run for the next seven
years.
The CKNX shows were being
broadcast throughout southern
Ontario. Seranade Ranch at-
tracted a large audience over the
years. The show gave the impres-
sion to its listeners that there was
an actual ranch from which the
broadcast was made.
At this time Earl was living
near Wingham in a small cottage
which was just 16 feet square.
One day there was a knock on the
door by a man who was a fan of
Seranade Ranch who had come
up from Oshawa.
"Are you Mr. Heywood?"
"Yes."
"Where's the Seranade
Ranch?"
Earl had to tell him, "This is
it!"
By 1948, Earl had placed a few
songs with Canadian Music Sales
and the 'Earl Heywood' song
book had been published which
made a profit of $1,800 in one
month. Things were looking
good!
RIDING HIGH IN THE 50's
In 1949 Hugh Joseph signed
Earl to his first contract with
RCA. He did a series of singles on
the Bluebird label. `There's a
New Love True Love in my
Heart' came first, followed by the
nationally popular `Alberta
Waltz'.
RCA was the only recording
studio in Canada when Earl
signed - with them. The only
Canadians they had signed
previously were Wilf Carter,
Hank Snow and Stu Davis.
By 1951, Hank had made it big
in the U.S. and Earl was trying
desperately to get going there
himself.
Jack Howard , in Philadelphia
had introduced Hank Snow to the
American market and Earl was
next in line at RCA to be sent
south.
Earl met Jack Howard and did
a goodwill tour of the eastern
United States. During this tour,
he made an appearance on
WFK-TV. It was a variety show
where Earl Sang a song and then
had an interview.
The studio back-up group for
Earl's song was known as Bill
Hailey and the Saddlemen. It
wdnitl beabort a.yeailtefOrtlfey
wotild b 'known as 'Bill Haney
and the Comets and recognized
as the orginiators of rock and
roll.
Jack Howard was also Bill's
agent and every night during
Earl's tour, the three of them
would get together.
Earl said, "One of the most
memorable moments of my life
happened on that tour. Bill
invited me out to his Mom's and
BETTER BRIDGE
By ROBERT D.
ROSENBLUM
Study first the tree, then
the forest.
Beginning lessons in de-
clarer play focus on the
proper way to handle elemen-
tary card combinations. Once
mastered the student can
turn his attention to the
larger picture — the entire
hand. Eventually he will
progress to advanced com-
binations, end plays and the
like.
The problem is not to be-
come mesmerized by a single
tree. Without reference to the
East-West cards, how many
stoppers does South possess
in the spade suit? Were he to
attack spades on ha own de-
clarer he would be assured on
only one trick. As the cards
lie, however, the lead of a low
card from dummy produces
two winners. Although the
jack loses to West's queen,
the ace will drop East's king
establishing dummy's ten.
West's lead of a spade
guaranteed declarer a second
stopper when East played the
king so declarer grabbed the
ace.
South could count eight
winners outside of clubs —
two spades plus three win-
ners each in the red suits. To
make the contract he needed
one club trick. East won de-
clarer's first club lead with
the king and returned a spade
to partner's queen. A spade
continuation forced dummy's
ten. When another club was
led West took his ace and
cashed two spades to set the
contract one trick.
Declarer failed to give the
defense a chance to go
astray. He should lead the
first club from dummy. East
must rise with the king to
clear spades for partner.
Should West's club entry be
removed before the spades
are established South will fin-
ish with an overtrick.
Declarer misread the hand
at the first trick. Once the ace
and king of clubs are gone he
has rioL one but three club
tricks. A second spade, there-
fore, is not essential. South's
major concern should be di-
rected to shutting out West's
long spades. A 4-3 spade
creak poses no threat since
East-West will win at most
two spades and two clubs.
South must parry a 5-2
spade division and he does
this effectively by allowing
East to hold the king of
spades. He' the continu-
ation and atta ` pubs.
West's sting has re-
moved since East cannot lead
spades again. Despite the ad-
verse spade distribution de-
clarer loses only four tricks
and saves his contract.
Note that South's duck at
the first trick does not cost
him a second spade stop. The
only misfortune that declarer
can encounter is to find both
club honors and the long
spades in the same hand. In
this case even two spade
stoppers would be insuffi-
cient.
North
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West East
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South
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South was the dealer. Both
sides vulnerable.
South West North East
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Pass Pass
West led the seven of
spades.
Dad's pliKe. At, this point in bis
career, mill NI,P4s stilt hidt$l the
style of Lefty Frizzell. We were
sitting and talking under an apple
tree at his parents' and $ill told
me that hehad just cut a record
called `Green Tree, Boogie' un an
unknown label. He said to me,
"Earl, this is where the young
people of today are going.
"Less than two years later the
whole country was jumping to
such Bill Halley tunes as `Shake,
Rattle and Roll' and `Rock
Around the Clock'. That' after-
noon I saw the seedling of the
whole Rock and Roll movement."
Earl returned to Canada and
there followed a string of CBC
radio and television appearances
as well as concerts in different
parts of the country. The record
industry even proclaimed one
week as national Earl Heywood
Week.
"I'll never' forget one of those
TV shows," Earl said. "It was
called 'Pick the Stars'. It was a
talent show which picked a
winner by the amount of
applause. The applause was
measured by a 'clap meter'."
Earl was competing against
another young singer called
Robert Goulet, who, by the way,
Historic train
runs again in
Br. Columbia
Thousands of delighted holi-
day-makers have been taking a
trip since spring into the British
Columbia past aboard a steam -
driven excursion train that runs
daily at 25 mph from Vancouver,
British Columbia to Squamish on
the Pacific coast.
With a passenger capacity of
580, the 11 -coach train is pulled by
a 35 -year-old, 657,500 -pound re-
built Royal Hudson series 2800
locomotive, and has an open
observation car, a club car offer-
ing liquid refreshment, and a
baggage car.
The scenery along ' the 30 -mile
route is magnificent, lying partly
on a roadbed carved out of cliffs,
and through a series of eerie tun-
nels.
Fares are $4.50 for adults, $4
for students from 12 to 18 and old
age pensioners, and $2.75 for
children from two to 11.
' The historic train will operate
every- .day except Monday and
.esday until October 13.
Future plans call,for .a piano in
the club car and the provision of
transportation for skiers bound
for Whistler Mountain.' -
had the aud1enge packedd with
hard-vlapph4 friends.
Two. of the members of the pro,
grain's back -app 'band, ;, were.
betting on who would ciiin the
contest, Bobby Gimby bet Bert
Niosi one dollar that Earl woulcl
win. Earl lost the contest, Bobby
lost his buck.
THE DtJ NNELILYS
In June of 1969, Earl heard that
they were going to release a
movie called 'The Donuelys Must
Die'.
He'd been busy in the 60's with
shows at CKNX. He had formed a
family group with his wife
Martha and their two children
Grant and Patricia. This group
toured the east coast of Canada in
the early 60's. In 1966 Earl and
Martha formed a singing duo
which is still performing regular-
ly today.
The 60's had been busy and
when Earl heard about the
Donnelly movie it had been a
number of years since he had
done any song writing and he was
out of the habit.
However, the Donnelly story
particularly interested Earl be-
cause his great-grandfather,
John Heywood, had been born
just five miles from the Donnelly
farm.
He sat down to begin writing
the Donnelly Feud Album in mid
June. By mid August of that same
year he was done. "Some sprigs
come easy," Earl said, "and
some you slave over endlessly.
Four of the songs on the Donnelly
album were written on a single
Sunday afternoon blitz."
In doing the research for the
album Earl collected all the
newspaper clippings he could
find concerning the Donnellys.
He contacted Tom Kelly who
had written the very first book
about the Donnelly feud called
'The Black Donnellys'. Earl
asked Kelly what had made him
write his book in the first place.
Kelly replied that he had heard
about the Donnellys when he was
a child and had been in Exeter
with his Dad, Doc Kelly, who ran
a travelling medicine show.
(Small world eh?) It was the
same medicine show that Earl
had seen when he was a kid.
"The Donnelly story was my
most fantastic work," Earl said.
"It was tremendously satisfying
for me personally."
The album was an internation-
al hit, selling 35,000 copies in
Canada alone. Interestingly, it
has also been a good seller in
Australia and New Zealand. Earl
even has a fan club in Australia
with 600 members.,
"`This album has done more for
things
it's quite * onion, it's
gar wbobe flutrph is nowhere
tobeAVMA Presently, an albs of
Vides► Map: gelebrating his 25
years in the recording business
about to go Onsale;'
Leakiag back on his career
Earl sal A. "Eve done'as much
any Count and Western singer
in Canada. I'm very proud of the
fact that I've managed to stay in
the recording business for 25
years. It'salong time and not too
tnany people have done it."
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