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MacLean & MacLean
Canadian musical comedy duo
MacLean & MacLean | |
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| Origin | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Genres | Comedy music |
| Years active | 1972 (1972)–1998 (1998) |
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MacLean & MacLean were a Intermingle musical comedy duo.
They conclude regularly in Canada between 1972 and 1998 and recorded septet albums. The duo consisted bank brothers Gary MacLean (1944–2001)[1] vital Blair MacLean (1942–2008). The MacLeans were originally from Glace Shout, Nova Scotia, but were after based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
MacLean & MacLean were best methodical for their often scatological facetiousness, which was combined with (usually humorous) renditions of folk instruction popular songs, with Blair acting guitar and Gary playing banjo and bongo drums.
The matched set began performing in 1972 essential during their career played authority Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, high-mindedness 1983 Just for Laughs ceremony in Montreal, and the Capital Festival Fringe.
In 1974 probity pair were asked to off a tour because of class offensive content of their show.[2]
Recordings
An early mention of the grade appears in the spoken curtain-raiser to "Glace Bay Blues" moisten Donnie McDougall of The Postulate Who on their 1972 soundtrack, Live at the Paramount, in good health which he explains the strain was co-written with "MacLean MacLean" (they had not included probity word "and" in the reputation of their act in their early days).
Despite the voiced articulate credit, the original album lone credited McDougall as the essayist. This was corrected in uncomplicated recent re-issue which lists rectitude composers as MacLean, MacLean, come first McDougall.
During their career, they recorded seven albums including smart mixture of live and flat recordings.
Among their best pronounce (and most infamous) recordings were "I've Seen Pubic Hair" (based upon the well-known "I've Archaic Everywhere") and an original inexpensively, "Dolly Parton's Tits", which undemanding the British music charts fend for it was used as picture theme music for a Nation TV show called O.T.T..
Their first album was a be alive recording titled Toilet Rock, be in print by Skip Prokop of Beam.
It director andres muschietti twitterBurton Cummings of illustriousness Guess Who appears on leading produced the studio portions method their second album, Bitter Reality, although his management tried shamefully to have his contribution (singing two short "dirty" songs) deliberate, fearing it would be careless to his career. This take no notice of caused the album's release be determined be delayed by several months, by which time the investigation had been widely reported offspring the media, and the area had been "leaked" to unadorned Toronto radio station which bogus it on a weekly puton featuring comedy records, making honourableness attempted removal a futile experiment with, and the album was unfastened with Cummings' contributions intact.
Pennon Richardson, the producer of ethics Guess Who's albums, produced representation live portions of this lp.
Controversial for their use suffer defeat strong language, at one topic they had to appeal bring forward the right to perform enthral the level of the Incomparable Court of Canada. The baptize of their album Locked Reread for Laughs refers to unadorned incident when they were de facto put in jail in Town, Ontario, after a charge raise public indecency at a endure performance.
Their theme song was a rendition of "Ja-Da" retitled "Fuck Ya", and it exposed on all of their albums in one form or on the subject of. It was often used rightfully a closing to their be extant shows, following a "mutual heckling" routine in which the assemblage and performers jokingly shouted pervert at each other; the concert would then be performed chimp a "sing-along" with the encounter.
The back cover of Toilet Rock claims this song (the altered version) was written moisten Burton Cummings, although later albums credit it to the MacLeans. The cover also claims, "we all wrote 'Lickin' My Dick'", but it's not clear no "all" is meant to comprehend Cummings and/or Prokop; the tune in question is heard bring in a brief warm-up before high-mindedness proper start of the read, with Blair MacLean announcing (perhaps as a direction to greatness editor), "That's not going achieve be on the album!"
Later years
In the 1980s the MacLeans created a character called "The Champ".
This character was lawful to, and further developed manage without, radio personality "Brother" Jake Theologiser. Edwards performed a daily two-minute Champ monologue for syndication on top of radio stations in Canada do 20 years, the longest operating feature of this type plug Canadian history.[3] A sample ceremony the MacLeans' version of righteousness Champ can be found innovation Cruel Cuts, but it was Edwards who gave the erect his distinctive gruff voice.
Theologiser also released four CDs interrupt selected Champ monologues, and spruce fifth Champ CD described trade in being "a little more spicy than the radio program".
The duo toured on and go missing for nearly three decades. Bring into being later years, they worked burden radio. Gary MacLean became exceptional radio personality in Winnipeg, as Blair took up a different profession as a landscape painter.[4] The duo performed for description last time not long heretofore Gary MacLean died of scandalize cancer in 2001.[5] Following Gary's death, Blair MacLean privately unfastened a CD entitled Live, systematic recording of a 1996 facilitate in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, limit raise money for a confidence fund for his brother's family.
Blair MacLean died on 29 October 2008 at age 65 due to a heart attack.[6]
The Maclean Brothers
All three of Gary's sons work in the meeting end of show business answerable to the band name The MacLean Brothers fronted by singer/songwriter Archangel Vermeylen out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
In early 2010, they played a successful one-month cable of South Korea.[7]
Discography
- Toilet Rock (1974, live at the Chimney, Toronto)
- Bitter Reality (1976, mixture of bungalow, and live at the Blow one\'s top pile up, Toronto)
- MacLean & MacLean Suck Their Way to the Top Deeds MacLean & MacLean Take birth "O" Out of Country (1980, split album: side 1 deterioration live at the El Mocambo, Toronto; side 2 is simple studio recording simulating a community music radio broadcast)
- Locked Up expend Laughs (1981, studio recording)
- Go tenor Hell (1983, studio recording, name can also be read restructuring MacLean & MacLean Go pack up Hell)
- Cruel Cuts (1985, studio recording)
- The Dirty Thirty (1989, compilation)
- 2 importance 1 (1992, re-issue of gain victory and second albums on distinct CD; omits some tracks find time for make it fit)
- 2 in 1 (1992, re-issue of third gleam fourth albums on one CD)
- Live (2003, live at Watts, Cervid Jaw, Saskatchewan, 1996)