Denise McCann

Once upon a very long time ago, in another life, there was a time when I could've told you anything you wanted to know about a particular group or artist. Working strictly from rote, I could've recited the annals of every band and it's individual members. Now, my memory is more like the cob-webbed halls of an abandoned library where the reference cards no longer represent any semblance of structured order. My ability to cross-reference has reached a deplorable state. Often, while researching material for a given artist, I find myself muttering "Oh yeah, I remember that". Notwithstanding, I just as often find information about these artists that I never knew. Somewhere along life's roadway, my memory began comparing with trying to pour water into a glass that's already full. Retention has become one of the great improbabilities of my life. What spawned this rumination you ask? Denise McCann! I just recently discovered that she's married to Randy Bachman of the once renowned groups, "The Guess Who" and "Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO)". I didn't know that! Anyway, Denise McCann was never a stranger to music. Born and raised into a family of musical prowess, she got an early start by singing in her local church. Hmmm, where have we heard that story before? After she graduated High School, she moved from her hometown in Iowa to California where the possibility of pursuing a musical career was more easily facilitated. Once there, she spent a number of years fluttering between local folk music gigs and endured a short lived stint with a group called, "Cat Mother And The All Night News Boys". She eventually received an offer to headline at a well known folk lounge called "The Egress" which, I'll assume is in Vancouver B.C., since playing at this lounge is the reason she claims she moved there. She began to expand her musical horizons, becoming increasingly more familiar and adding songwriting to her curriculum vitae. She signed with Polydor Records in 1976 where she realeased a Rock single before reworking her other songs toward the Disco influence, on the advice of a Polydor sales representative. This lead to her first and biggest hit with the release of "Tattoo Man" off her first album by the same name. Oddly enough, her second album "I Have A Destiny" released on red vinyl for the Butterfly label and the featured album here, did not fare as well as the first and disappeared almost as quickly as it charted, to number 54 on "Billboard's LP Charts" in 1979. I find this strange since I prefer this LP over her first. Denise McCann is still very active in the music scene. Still writing songs, she's currently a member of the Celtic influenced group, "Rose Hip Jam". You can learn more about them HERE.

Denise McCann - I Have A Destiny (1979 Butterfly -Red Vinyl)

Tracks:
Side 1:
1. I Have A Destiny
2. It Hurts Just Like The Real Thing
3. I Like The Look

Side 2:
1. Falling In Love Again Suite
I. Falling In Love Again
II. Computer Breakdown
III. Can't Help Myself
IV. The Boys In The Back Room
V. Falling In Love Again (Reprise)

Credits:
Drums & Percussion: Kat Hendrikse
Additional Percussion:
Jim McGillveray (Congas)
Ken Moore (Tympani, Piati & Gran Cassa)
Ralph Dyck (Glockenspiel)
Handclaps by Dogstar

Bass:
Joel Wade (Side 1)
Cliff Hugo (Side 2)

Guitars:
Harris Van Berkel
Terry Frewer & Edward Patterson

Fender Rhodes:
Ralph Dyck & Dale Jacobs

Clavinet:
Robbie King & Dale Jacobs

Acoustic Piano:
Ralph Dyck

Reverse Pianoforte:
Ecallaw Eirual

Prophet Synthesizer, Roland Jupiter IV
Synthesizer & Rloand Vocoder:
Ralph Dyck

Special Synthesizer effects generated by the Roland System
700 pregrammed by Ralph Dyck on the Roland Microcomposer
(Roland equipment courtesy of Great West Imports, Vancouver)

Trumpets:
Gary Guthman & Blaine Tringham

Fluegelhorn & Piccolo Trumpet:
Gary Guthman

Saxophones:
PJ Perry, Tom Keenlyside & Bob MacDonald

Trombones:
Herb Besson & Sharman King

Piccolo:
Tom Keenlyside

String Contractor:
Annette Wegiel

Backup Vocals:
Jane Mortifee
Mary Saxton
Denise McCann

Marching & Drill Calls by the Precision Drill Team of 655 Richmond Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Cadets

Recorded & Mixed at Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver, Canada
Engineering by Laurie Wallace
Assisted by Pat Glover
Additional Recording at Sierra Pacific Studios, Los Angeles
Engineered by Pat McDonald
Mastered at MCA/Whitney by Ed Schreyer
Art Director/Lauren Garza
Photography/Stewart Price
Hair/Rahn McDow
Stylist/Candace Walters
Makeup/Jeff Jones
Typography/Tropicana Graphics
1979 Butterfly Records, 517 N. Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, California
Distributed by MCA Records Inc. Universal City
Arranged by: Ralph Dyck
Concept by: Denise McCann
Produced by: Guy Sobell
G.T.C.S.D.

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References:

Denise McCann at Discogs.Com

Denise McCann at Discomuseum.Com

Buy the album HERE