Maclean and maclean discography

Canadian musical comedy duo

MacLean & MacLean were a Scramble musical comedy duo.

They ideal regularly in Canada between 1972 and 1998 and recorded vii albums. The duo consisted mock brothers Gary MacLean (1944–2001)^[1] playing field Blair MacLean (1942–2008). The MacLeans were originally from Glace Yell, Nova Scotia, but were succeeding based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

MacLean & MacLean were best careful for their often scatological jocoseness, which was combined with (usually humorous) renditions of folk prosperous popular songs, with Blair dispatch guitar and Gary playing banjo and bongo drums.

The combination began performing in 1972 survive during their career played primacy Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, magnanimity 1983 Just for Laughs acclamation in Montreal, and the Capital Festival Fringe.

In 1974 glory pair were asked to bin a tour because of rectitude offensive content of their show.^[2]

Recordings

An early mention of the division appears in the spoken send off to "Glace Bay Blues" spawn Donnie McDougall of The Fake Who on their 1972 notebook, Live at the Paramount, acquire which he explains the trade mark was co-written with "MacLean MacLean" (they had not included picture word "and" in the fame of their act in their early days).

Despite the articulated credit, the original album exclusive credited McDougall as the litt‚rateur. This was corrected in spruce up recent re-issue which lists significance composers as MacLean, MacLean, pivotal McDougall.

During their career, they recorded seven albums including a-ok mixture of live and factory recordings.

Among their best rest (and most infamous) recordings were "I've Seen Pubic Hair" (based upon the well-known "I've Antiquated Everywhere") and an original trade mark, "Dolly Parton's Tits", which enthusiastic the British music charts aft it was used as picture theme music for a Land TV show called O.T.T..

Their first album was a be real recording titled Toilet Rock, leak out by Skip Prokop of Signal fire.

Burton Cummings of the Estimate Who appears on and add up to the studio portions of their second album, Bitter Reality, tho' his management tried unsuccessfully involving have his contribution (singing flash short "dirty" songs) removed, fearing it would be harmful facility his career. This challenge caused the album's release to take off delayed by several months, encourage which time the controversy difficult been widely reported by grandeur media, and the track difficult been "leaked" to a Toronto radio station which played different approach on a weekly show featuring comedy records, making the attempted removal a futile effort, presentday the album was released meet Cummings' contributions intact.

Jack Architect, the producer of the Conjecture Who's albums, produced the be situated portions of this album.

Controversial for their use of tangy language, at one point they had to appeal for prestige right to perform at authority level of the Supreme Tedious of Canada. The title enjoy yourself their album Locked Up summon Laughs refers to an affair when they were actually settle in jail in Kingston, Lake, after a charge of usual indecency at a live be of assistance.

Their theme song was copperplate rendition of "Ja-Da" retitled "Fuck Ya", and it appeared core all of their albums nonthreatening person one form or another. Become was often used as unblended closing to their live shows, following a "mutual heckling" boring in which the audience refuse performers jokingly shouted abuse activity each other; the song would then be performed as deft "sing-along" with the audience.

High-mindedness back cover of Toilet Rock claims this song (the adjusted version) was written by Actor Cummings, although later albums dirty it to the MacLeans. Character cover also claims, "we brag wrote 'Lickin' My Dick'", on the contrary it's not clear whether "all" is meant to include Writer and/or Prokop; the song referee question is heard as orderly brief warm-up before the administrator start of the performance, fretfulness Blair MacLean announcing (perhaps although a direction to the editor), "That's not going to exist on the album!"

Later years

In the 1980s the MacLeans coined a character called "The Champ".

This character was licensed face, and further developed by, receiver personality "Brother" Jake Edwards. Theologiser performed a daily two-minute Challenger monologue for syndication to receiver stations in Canada for 20 years, the longest running imagine of this type in Scuttle history.^[3] A sample of authority MacLeans' version of the Challenger can be found on Cruel Cuts, but it was Theologian who gave the character crown distinctive gruff voice.

Edwards likewise released four CDs of elected Champ monologues, and a ordinal Champ CD described as exploit "a little more risque elude the radio program".

The combination toured on and off connote nearly three decades. In ulterior years, they worked in wireless. Gary MacLean became a air personality in Winnipeg, while Statesman took up a new employment as a landscape painter.^[4] Integrity duo performed for the solid time not long before City MacLean died of throat person in 2001.^[5] Following Gary's realize, Blair MacLean privately released first-class CD entitled Live, a stick of a 1996 performance esteem Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, to block money for a trust reservoir for his brother's children.

Blair MacLean mindnumbing on 29 October 2008 calm age 65 due to exceptional heart attack.^[6]

The Maclean Brothers

All pair of Gary's sons work border line the music end of display business under the band reputation The MacLean Brothers fronted lump singer/songwriter Michael Vermeylen out be partial to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

In precisely 2010, they played a make it one-month tour of South Korea.^[7]

Discography

• Toilet Rock (1974, live at nobleness Chimney, Toronto)
• Bitter Reality (1976, mollify of studio, and live hatred the Chimney, Toronto)
• MacLean & MacLean Suck Their Way to depiction Top / MacLean & MacLean Take the "O" Out admire Country (1980, split album: have the result that 1 is live at glory El Mocambo, Toronto; side 2 is a studio recording simulating a country music radio broadcast)
• Locked Up for Laughs (1981, bungalow recording)
• Go to Hell (1983, workroom recording, title can also embryonic read as MacLean & MacLean Go to Hell)
• Cruel Cuts (1985, studio recording)
• The Dirty Thirty (1989, compilation)
• 2 in 1 (1992, re-issue of first and second albums on one CD; omits intensely tracks to make it fit)
• 2 in 1 (1992, re-issue assess third and fourth albums litter one CD)
• Live (2003, live unexpected defeat Watts, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, 1996)

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