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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2008, 08:44:18 am »
Lorne Greene (1915 - 1987)

Entertainer
   - Broadcaster (CBC news - "the Voice of Doom" during WWII)
   - Actor (Bonanza 1959 - 1973)
   - Recording artist ('Ringo' 1964)

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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2008, 09:29:58 am »
Paul Anka (1941 - )

Recording artist/songwriter
   - Diana
   - Put your Head on my Shoulder
   - Lonely Boy
   - Puppy Love
   - It Doesn't Matter Anymore
   - She's a Lady
   - Having My Baby
   - My Way (lyrics only)

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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2008, 01:06:16 pm »
Céline Dion (1968 - )

recording artist
   - Best selling female artist of all times
   - Beauty & the Beast
   - My Heart Will Go On

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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2008, 01:28:37 pm »
Hery Burr (1885 - 1941)

singer / prolific recording artist during the first decades of the 1900's
   - I Wonder Who's Kisser Her Now (1909)
   - Beautiful Ohio (1919) - became official state song
   - My Buddy (1922)
   - Are You Lonesome Tonight (1927)



Is that the same one Elvis sang?
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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2008, 01:32:52 pm »
Geddy Lee

Guitarist and singer for Rush, born 1953, Willowdale, Ontario
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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2008, 01:43:03 pm »

Is that the same one Elvis sang?

Yes, but with a dif'rent intro and without the spoken words (those were added to the "Blue Barron" recording in 1950)
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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2008, 01:44:23 pm »
James Nesmith

inventor of basketball

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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2008, 01:58:32 pm »
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)

Author
   - Anne of Green Gables (1908)

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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2008, 02:10:25 pm »
Craig Kielburger (1984 - )

Founder of the worldwide organisation Free the Children when he was 12 years old


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Re: Canadians ...
« Reply #19 on: July 01, 2008, 02:19:24 pm »
Shania Twain (1965 - )

recording artist
   - second best selling female recoding artist of all times
   - 'You're Still the One'
   - 'From This Moment On'


and she's from Timmins  ;D
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