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point’.:For singer Susan.

Jacks, one of --these pened at the age of 14

“when her -- mother. - efitered her in a talent: contest in Haney.

**l was. upset because ] was out climbing trees at the time and -was‘not at all interested © in-having to- compete,”’ says. -

“However she did compete, and shortly after was on a

.tadio’ program” and then

appeared as 3 regular on the TV. show called Let’s Go.

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“It was.not my intention to be.a singer,’’ she says. “‘I wanted to be.a movie star, or a teacher.”"

_ .THE POPPY FAMILY

It. was on the. TV show sometime in 1967 that she met Terry Jacks and they teamed up,calling themselves The Poppy Family, teaming up maritally as well. -

As the Poppy Family, they **stuck to that very sad appeal-to-people’s-emotions kind of song.’””

And it obviously worked,

After a ‘couple -of other

releases, “‘Which way you goin’ Billie?”sold a million copies and earned them a gold record.

‘*Without the people who

are buying your records. or..

your concert tickets, you’re nothing,’’ Susan says.

NEEDS APPRECIATION

“I’m. one of those: people.

who really need appreciation. The fact that I get money from my singing is nice, but more than that people are giving me their approval.

“With my music, because.

it’s from so far within me, if I don’t get that approval it doesn’t feel good.”’

After their first big hit, “things just started ‘to happen’’. Although they didn’t do a lot of touring, they recorded in — B.C.,

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Toronto, England, Los Angeles, and Nashville, with Terry Jacks writing many of their songs and Susan being the high profile member of the Poppy Family.

In 1973 they decided to put out songs separately and eventually they went their own ways. — -

Not only are they still

-fri¢nds, but they are better”

friends than when they were married, according to Susan. ‘There is more communica- tion."’

ON HER OWN

Out on, her own~-Susan experimented with kinds of songs she had never done

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When she first started to

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musically. were Dusty Spring- field and Dionne Warwick; more recently she’s been influenced by the Eagles, Bonnie Rait, and Kiki Dee.

Susan Jack’s latest records include ‘Dirty Blues’ and‘Mr. Vincent’s Dancing Class’, both of them departures from the kinds of songs she did with the Poppy Family. She characterizes them as more *‘raunchy’’ and had a great time recording them.

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Professionally, Susan’s been held up the last couple of years over a -contract’~” dispute, which tied her up. with “‘money, _ record contracts, everything. I had to sit it out and wait until -it was over.”

With the judgment in. her favour, she says she can now concentrate on what she really wants to do.

“Il learned a lot in the process,’’ she says. “‘There isn’t that much room for people to be trustirig in this business. It took me a long time to learn that."’

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