Mashmakhan[1970]Canada

1.Days When We Are Free
2.I Know I've Been Wrong
3.As the Years Go By
4.Shades of Loneliness
6.5Afraid of Losing You
7.Gladwyn
8.If I Tried
9.Happy You Should Be
10.Natures Love Song
11.Letter From Zambia

Mashmakhan was a Canadian rock fusion band that was most active in the early 1970s,and is best known for their hit single "As The Years Go By."Pierre Senecal,Brian Edwards and Rayburn Blake formed their first band in 1960 as teens and played local Montreal dance halls and perform on the local scene under the band names like the Phantoms,Ray Blake's Combo and the Dominoes.In 1965 they were still playing together but with the addition of another Montrealer,Gerry Mercer,who stepped in to replace Edwards(who left the band for a short while).When Edwards returned to the band,Mercer stayed on to make it a quartet and by now they were calling themselves the Triangle and backing up Montreal R&B singer Trevor Payne.They continued in this vein until 1969,when producer Bob Hahn recognized their talent and took them to Toronto then the music capitol of Canada and helped them get signed with Columbia Records.The name of the band was changed to Mashmakhan,after a type of drug being peddled by a local dealer to become more hip with the young people and the journey began.Pierre Senecal's "As Years Go By" was released as a single in an edited form and became the group's first hit.The single sold 100,000 copies in Canada,500,000 copies in the U.S. and over 1,000,000 copies in Japan.


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