Can't believe this is all on youtube now. A year ago I looked everywhere for all this stuff...
Here's a group that were local to Calgary but had a pretty big hit with this one. Also had their own TV show on CFCN for about five years.
The complete Happy Feeling band was Jim Aiello (Vocals), Dan Ferguson (Guitar), Gordie (Gary) Moffatt (Organ), Gerry Mudry (Drums), Bob Wagner (Guitar/Bass), Bob Moffatt (Guitar). Gary Moffatt later joined April Wine.
Jim Aiello had a brother - if I remember correctly - named Bobby who also was an aspiring rocker and sang with "Jake and The Canadians" (me, Keith, Jim Leyden, Danny Burke) for a few weeks as we practised in my grandfathers garage in Belfast on 18th St NE... Aiello's girlfriend stole my entire LP collection - about 50 albums I was more than devastated since this was the second time in less than three years I lost my entire collection to a girl!! We did a local Belfast community hall dance and a couple of appearances at Crescent Heights...
The year before this I was involved with another group out home called the Paranoic Express - my oldest friend Vic Nichol "uber guitar player" (travelled with Country artist Gary Buck for a few years then went almost totally blind... ) Curtis & Patrick - brothers from Coronation, Curtis - Bass, Patrick - Vocals (wish I could remember their last name) Tim Ravinski - organ and keyboards (he bought Willie MacCaulders ReVox organ and Leslie speaker setup) and moi... it broke the boredom of small town living...
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