The Stampeders
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The Stampeders are a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
trio
Trio (music)
Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:* A group of three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.* The performance of a piece of music by three people.* The contrasting section of a piece in ternary form...
, consisting of Rich Dodson
Rich Dodson
Rich Dodson is a Juno Award winning singer, song-writer and producer. He is the guitarist and a founding member of Canadian Rock trio, The Stampeders. He is most well known for penning the groups' biggest hit, "Sweet City Woman" which hit #1 in Canada, and #8 on Billboard in 1971...
, Ronnie King, and Kim Berly.
Career
The bandMusical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
formed in Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
in 1964 as The Rebounds.
The Rebounds had five members: Rich Dodson
Rich Dodson
Rich Dodson is a Juno Award winning singer, song-writer and producer. He is the guitarist and a founding member of Canadian Rock trio, The Stampeders. He is most well known for penning the groups' biggest hit, "Sweet City Woman" which hit #1 in Canada, and #8 on Billboard in 1971...
, Len Roemer, Brendan Lyttle, Kim Berly, and Race Holiday. They renamed themselves The Stampeders in 1965 and Len Roemer was replaced with Ronnie King and Van Louis. In 1966 they relocated to Toronto, Ontario, and became a trio in 1968 when Lyttle, Louis, and Holiday left. In 1971 they had a hit
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
with "Sweet City Woman
Sweet City Woman
Sweet City Woman is a 1971 song by Canadian rock band The Stampeders. The song appeared on their debut album Against the Grain...
," which won Best Single at the Juno Awards, reached #1 on the RPM magazine
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...
charts, and #8 in the U.S.
United States
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Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
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chart
Record chart
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. Written by Dodson, the track stayed in the Billboard chart for 16 weeks and the disc
Gramophone record
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sold a million by September 1971, and the R.I.A.A.
Recording Industry Association of America
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granted gold disc
Music recording sales certification
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status. They also won Juno Awards for Best Group
Juno Award for Group of the Year
The Juno Award for best Group of the Year has been awarded since 1970, as recognition each year for the best group or band in Canada. It has also been known as Best Group .-Best Group :*1970 - The Guess Who...
, Best Producer (Mel Shaw), and Best Composer (Dodson) that year.
In 1976 they had another U.S. hit with "Hit The Road Jack", featuring Wolfman Jack
Wolfman Jack
Robert Weston Smith, known commonly as Wolfman Jack was a gravelly voiced US disc jockey who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s.-Early career:...
. In Canada they went on to score twelve Top 5 hits.
The band broke up in 1977, but reunited at the Calgary Stampede
Calgary Stampede
The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition and festival held every July in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The ten-day event, which bills itself as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth", attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of the world's largest rodeos, a parade, midway,...
in 1992. They released a new album in 1998 titled "Sure Beats Working".
They continue to this day to tour Canada doing fairs, festivals, casinos and theatres.
Albums
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | CRIA Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... |
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| CAN | US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| 1971 | Against the Grain (retitled Sweet City Woman in the U.S.) | 10 | 172 | Gold |
| Carryin' On | 16 | — | Gold | |
| 1973 | Rubes, Dudes & Rowdies | 15 | — | — |
| From the Fire | 12 | — | — | |
| 1974 | New Day | 23 | — | — |
| Backstage Pass | 33 | — | — | |
| 1975 | Steamin | 22 | — | — |
| 1976 | Hit the Road | 15 | — | — |
| 1977 | Platinum | — | — | — |
| The Best of the Stampeders | — | — | Gold | |
| 1979 | Ballsy | 71 | — | — |
| 1983 | Over Seventy Minutes with the Stampeders | — | — | — |
| 1985 | Greatest Hits Volume 1 | — | — | — |
| Greatest Hits Volume 2 | — | — | — | |
| 1998 | Sure Beats Working | — | — | — |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | Album | |||
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CAN AC | CAN Country | US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
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| 1967 | "Morning Magic" | 23 | — | — | — | Singles only |
| 1968 | "Be a Woman" | 51 | — | — | — | |
| 1969 | "Crosswalk" | 95 | — | — | — | |
| 1971 | "Carry Me" | 2 | 1 | 11 | — | Against the Grain |
| "Gator Road" | — | 28 | — | — | ||
| "Sweet City Woman Sweet City Woman Sweet City Woman is a 1971 song by Canadian rock band The Stampeders. The song appeared on their debut album Against the Grain... " |
1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| "Devil You" | 8 | — | — | 61 | Carryin' On | |
| 1972 | "Monday Morning Choo Choo" | 9 | 2 | — | — | |
| "Wild Eyes" | 2 | — | — | — | ||
| "Carryin' On" | — | 20 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | "Johnny Lightning" | 48 | — | — | — | Rubes, Dudes & Rowdies |
| "Oh My Lady" | 12 | 2 | — | — | ||
| "Minstrel Gypsy" | 6 | 3 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | "Running Wild" | 18 | — | — | — | From the Fire |
| "Me and My Stone" | 27 | 6 | — | — | ||
| "Ramona" | 18 | — | — | — | New Day | |
| 1975 | "Hit the Road Jack" | 6 | — | — | 40 | Steamin |
| "New Orleans" | 35 | — | — | — | ||
| 1976 | "Playing in the Band" | 21 | — | — | — | Hit the Road |
| "Sweet Love Bandit" | 39 | — | — | — | ||
| "San Diego" | 71 | — | — | — | ||
| 1979 | "Got My Mojo Working Got My Mojo Working "Got My Mojo Working" is a 1956 song written by Preston Foster and first recorded by Ann Cole, but popularized by Muddy Waters in 1957. Waters' rendition of the song was featured on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #359 and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of... " |
— | 48 | — | — | Ballsy |
| 1984 | "Baby with You" | — | 26 | — | — | Over Seventy Minutes with the Stampeders |
| 1996 | "Oh Belinda" | — | 47 | — | — | Sure Beats Working |
| 1997 | "Hometown Boy" | — | — | 39 | — |
See also
- Canadian rockCanadian rockCanadian rock describes a wide and diverse variety of music produced by Canadians, beginning with American style rock 'n' roll in the mid-20th century. Since then Canada has had a considerable impact on the development of the modern popular music called rock...
- Music of CanadaMusic of CanadaThe music of Canada has influences that have shaped the country. Aboriginals, the British, and the French have all made unique contributions to the musical heritage of Canada. The music has subsequently been heavily influenced by American culture because of its proximity and migration between...
- :Category:Canadian rock music groups
- List of Canadian musicians
- List of bands from Canada