25 - Wednesday, February 21, 1990 - North Shore News

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’60s singer gives

OT ALL flower children go to seed.
It’s been 20 years and more since Tom Northcott
laid the basic tracks for his ‘605 hit song Sunny
Goodge Street at Capitol Records’ L.A. studio: Today the
moustache, beard, patched jeans and buckskin vest are
gone. No more Jong hair, no more tie-dye. Northcott looks
more like a middle-aged banker dressed in a button-down
navy suit and tie.

Instead of fans clamoring for Of Tom Northcott — featuring re-
autographs, it’s disgruntled fish- cordings from 1964-71 — on local
ermen who appeal for his time: record store shelves.

Northcoli is now a hot-shot And for those who missed him
downtown lawyer specializing in the first or second time around,
marine law, he'll be making his first Vancouver

appearance since 1969 at North
Vancouver's Scandalous Folk Club
on Feb. 26.

Born in Vancouver in 1943,
Northcott was playing music by
age 12; he entered a school talent — an : lian aa
contest with a borrowed guitar on , . ne .
which he learned! to play the § % — on Feb, 23 & 2A, at 800 pm

Everley Brother's Bye Bye Love

EVELYN
JACOB

Judith Marcuse Dance

iot and George Hamilton IV's if You * . or : ae

spotlight feature Don't Know I Ain't Gonna Tell ; a >. Company offers an exhilarating

It's clear after a few minutes, You. } Lo 7. ; . range of modern ballets from
however, that this is the same in- He came second anc “got ee! : Canada and abroad. This
telligent, forceful songwriter hooked on the appreciation from * OF . y | program will feature a world
whose tunes had flower children the crowd.” ‘ premiere of a new work by
bloomin’ during the summer of “4 knew at that point that | was : " 1 Judith Marcuse. Tickets: $15
love and moved teenage girls to going to be a performer, but the a ; B | Adults. $10 Snrs/Stds.
tears. concept of becoming a profes- z : ‘

But when the ’60s ended, sodid —_ sional musician didn’t enter my = ie Tickets call 987-PLAY, or
Northcott’s music career. mind,” he recalls. : Ticketmaster 44

“"t had a really good shot at big Although he’s often been . tmaster 280-4444.
time success,’’ says Northcott, branded a folkie, country and . _— _ 7
gazing out his 20th floor Scotia western music was dearest to his , EWS photo cindy ‘Goodman conten ual Theatre Centre,
Tower office to the view of heart. Northcott was drawn to SIXTIES folk singer-turned-lawyer Tom Northcott returns after a 21- North Vancouver. 984-4484
downtown Vancouver and the performers like Hiank Snow, year absence from the stage. ’
North Shore below. ‘I hadn’‘t Johnny Cash and The Everley
scored big. | scored well — but Brothers, “I had a real feeling for

not big. So t thought, ‘that was a hillbilly music. People living off
real nice wave. Now what do ldo? the land really cranked me up. |
Wait for another wave?’ | believe could get excited about living in

there are waves and tides and the hills and makin’ moonshine.”
you've got to be in sync with that Northcott became one of the
wave to make it happen.’’ early progenitors of Northwest
The tide may just be rolling (and — sound, synthesizing country, folk
rocking) in again for Northcott. and rock.
Last year he released the single, During the flower power days he
The Trouble With Love, and this See Tom
January saw his album, The Best Page 27

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