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Garry Ferrier was one of Toronto radio station CHUM-AM's top daytime disc jockeys. As a means of promoting the radio station, it would release novelty records featuring CHUM personalities.

Ferrier had written a spoof of the "Battle of New Orleans" called "The Battle of Queenston Heights" which was released in 1959 by Mike Darow & The CHUMS.

Ferrier's smooth voice made him the perfect choice as frontman. His first charting single (only on CHUM affiliated stations, of course) was "President's Canada Conference" which cracked the Top 30 in 1963.

In March 1964 CHUM gathered their top on-air personalities - Garry Ferrier, Bob McAdorey, Mike Darow and John Spragge - and released the Ferrier penned "Brotherhood Of Man" on Quality Records. It too made the CHUM Top-30.

Due to the success of Ferrier's second solo single, "Ringo-Deer", which went Top-10 in December 1964, Ferrier was also part of the monster publicity and promotion campaign by CHUM when the Beatles came to Toronto in 1964 and 1965.

CHUM's distribution deal with Capitol made their access to the Beatles easier via Capitol's A & R chief Paul White who actually signed The Beatles to their Canadian record deal in 1963.

In the Fall of 1965 Ferrier and CHUM personality Brian Skinner released a Halloween-based record on Arc Records called "Do The Frankie" under the name Brian & Garry And The Chain Rattlers. The song didn't chart.

The same year Ferrier was used to front the imaginary Race Marbles band on the hit "Like A Dribbling Fram" which broke the Top-40.

Ferrier would later go on to write television incidental music for the CBC shows 'Check It Out' and 'King of Kensington' with Aubrey Tadman. They were also instrumental in writing for the revived version of CBC's "Music Machine" which featured Keith Hampshire and music director Doug Riley.




Singles
as GARRY FERRIER
1963 President's Canada Conference (Pt.1)/President's Canada Conference (Pt.II) (Astral) AS-1014
1964 Ringo-Deer/Just My Luck (Capitol) 72202

with THE CHUMINGBIRDS
1964 Brotherhood Of Man/My Mother (Quality) 1600X

as BRIAN & GARRY AND THE CHAIN RATTLERS
1965 Do The Frankie (Arc) A-1105

with THE RACE MARBLES
1965 Like A Dribbling Fram/Someday (Capitol) 72312

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