Randy Vancourt
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Randy Vancourt is a Canadian composer and entertainer. A Juno Award
winning composer, he has written music for television series such as Man Alive, Carmen SanDiego
and Dudley the Dragon. He is also a writer of stage musicals
including Chutzpah a Go-Go
, Born Lucky and Boardwalk!! His recordings have received international airplay, with his Radio Freaks http://www.radiofreaks.ca songs appearing on the syndicated Dr. Demento
radio show http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl?drd05.1002.html.
He is a founding member of the comedy troupe Radio Freaks who appeared for three years on CIUT Radio.
Randy is the son of author A. Lawrence Vaincourt
, most famous for his popular poem Just A Common Soldier
.
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
winning composer, he has written music for television series such as Man Alive, Carmen SanDiego
Carmen Sandiego
Carmen Sandiego is a media franchise of educational computer and video games, television programs, books and other media featuring a thieving villain of the same name. The basic premise of the franchise lets the user or protagonists become agents of the ACME Detective Agency, who attempts to thwart...
and Dudley the Dragon. He is also a writer of stage musicals
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
including Chutzpah a Go-Go
Chutzpah a go-go
Chutzpah a Go-Go is a Canadian musical comedy. Written in 1994 by Randy Vancourt and David Gale, it went on to be one of the longest-running stage shows in Canadian theater history....
, Born Lucky and Boardwalk!! His recordings have received international airplay, with his Radio Freaks http://www.radiofreaks.ca songs appearing on the syndicated Dr. Demento
Dr. Demento
Barret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....
radio show http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl?drd05.1002.html.
He is a founding member of the comedy troupe Radio Freaks who appeared for three years on CIUT Radio.
Randy is the son of author A. Lawrence Vaincourt
A. Lawrence Vaincourt
A. Lawrence Vaincourt was a Canadian writer best known for the poem Just a Common Soldier, also known as A Soldier Died Today.The poem appears on thousands of websites, was reprinted in Ann Landers syndicated column and received the Bronze Helmet Award of Excellence...
, most famous for his popular poem Just A Common Soldier
Just A Common Soldier
Just A Common Soldier, also known as A Soldier Died Today, is one of the most popular poems on the Internet . Published in 1987 by A. Lawrence Vaincourt, it now appears in numerous anthologies, on thousands of websites and on July 4, 2008 it was carved into a marble monument at West Point, US ....
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