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, "To call this release a flash in the pan would be an understatement. When it first came out it was listed on the CHUM chart as the pick of the week - the "song to watch" as it was about to apparently climb the chart in a hurry! However, that weekend we were playing at Massey Hall and besides our own show, we were hired by John Bassett Jr. [scion of the Toronto Telegram newspaper publishing Bassett family] to back up a new young female singer he had an interest in. We had recently let the horns go and had entered into our "mod band" stage. The drummer in our band, Gord MacBain, encountered John Bassett backstage and he said to Gord, who was dressed in a Carnaby polka dot shirt, "hey Gord, you'd better go and get changed...you're on soon." To which Gord replied "this is our new look...we're a mod hippy band now!" Mr. Bassett's displeasure was quite evident. The reason John Bassett was taken aback by our Carnaby look was because before that, when we were an r'n b band with horns, we wore 3 piece suits with watch chains and high boy collars ... the whole nine yards! The next week, She Belongs To Me disappeared from the CHUM chart completely ... never to be heard of again ... except by John Donabie [who continued to play the record on air for years] I guess! So this is one of the most obscure and rare record releases in Canadian music history! This recording was arranged by one of our horn players at the time, Rick Loth. Features Rick on clarinet along with Eugene Martynec playing soprano sax, Marty Fisher doing a great imitation of Floyd Kramer on piano, David Konvalinka on bass, MacBain on drums and Eugene on guitar ... I think. I have listened to it a few times, think it holds up well and in my mind could have done quite well if given a chance ... which it clearly wasn't. It's also a great song by Bob Dylan, the master of such things ... then and now. It was certainly a rare bit of Canadian music trivia."