LOST CLASSIC: Michel Pagliaro, Pagliaro, Much Records (1971)
One of my top ten Power Pop records came from right here in Canada, in the person of Quebecois rocker Michel Pagliaro. From his time as a member of the French Canadian 60′s beat group, Les Chanceliers, through his early sung-entirely-in-French solo career, his popularity was confined to La Belle Province.
This, his fourth release was his first all-in-English effort and for it he pulled out all the stops with three fantastic singles, the folk rockRainshowers which reminds me of The Band, the big AM radio hit Some Sing Some Dance, and the power pop classic Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy, two minutes and forty-two seconds of hook laden pleasure. It opens with a cool guitar riff, then adds a distinctive walking bass line, with a killer chorus and harmonies reminiscent of both the Beach Boys and the Raspberries.
One of my top ten Power Pop records came from right here in Canada, in the person of Quebecois rocker Michel Pagliaro. From his time as a member of the French Canadian 60′s beat group, Les Chanceliers, through his early sung-entirely-in-French solo career, his popularity was confined to La Belle Province.
This, his fourth release was his first all-in-English effort and for it he pulled out all the stops with three fantastic singles, the folk rockRainshowers which reminds me of The Band, the big AM radio hit Some Sing Some Dance, and the power pop classic Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy, two minutes and forty-two seconds of hook laden pleasure. It opens with a cool guitar riff, then adds a distinctive walking bass line, with a killer chorus and harmonies reminiscent of both the Beach Boys and the Raspberries.