Claire Lawrence

[Doug Gregory]

Does anyone remember a 70's group called "Dr. Music"? One of the
members and composers (I think, tell me if I'm wrong) was Claire
Lawrence. He (or she - I'm not totally sure) released a self titled
album after Dr. Music broke up. Does anyone know what he/she is doing
these days?
Also, does anyone know where I can get a copy (or tape) of that
self titled album? If so, please e-mail me at ps...@peregrin.com

Thanx. Psycho-Spud

[Gene P. Hardy]

If you can't find it (if it's out of print) I can make you a copy.
It contains a great sax instrumental entitled Harpo's Blues which features
Harris Van Berkel on guitar.
Last I know of Claire (he) wasproducing bands and jingles.
You may be able to contact him thru Bill Henderson (Chillawack, UHF - Ulrich,
Henderson & Forbes) as the are old buddies.
Cheers
Gene

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[Mike Leipe]

When I was living in the Okanagan Valley in Southern B.C. in the mid-80's,
Lawrence was a big-time producer in Vancouver, producing west coast acts
like Shari Ulrich. He did a gig with Valdy somewhere in the Valley at the
time I was living there (playing sax, as I recall). He also played (keys &
sax?) with the Hometown Band (with Ulrich and Valdy) at one time and was (I
*think*) a founding member of Chilliwack. His brother Bill used to own a
music store in Penticton so Claire had a pretty high profile in the Valley.

Don't know what he's doing now, though.

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[warren footz]

actually clair lawrence was an original member of the old vancouver band
the collectors who later became chilliwack...of which bill henderson was also a member
...then clair went on to form the hometown band..and awesome juno award winning band
which also had shari ulrich as a member as well as a some of the west coasts
best players...such as little robbie king who went on to record a great album
with anne mortifee......then of course clair went on to produce a couple of ulrich's
solo albums.....looking through the history books i cannot find clair ever being a member of
the collective known as dr.music,which was a band once led by a doug riley
...and had laural ward,rhonda silver and brenda gordon,terry black,michael kennedy
brian russell,and steve kennedy for members...diane brooks and trudy desmond
were also members...there were a few changes later on...with a few ex-lighthouse folks
joining in at one time....not sure what happened to them all but understand that
brian russell and brenda gorden ended up in l.a.recording and working for a while
....but nop,don't see mr.clair lawrece in there anywhere at all???

[Bruce Dixon]

bm...@torfree.net (Doug Gregory) wrote:

> Does anyone remember a 70's group called "Dr. Music"? One of the
>members and composers (I think, tell me if I'm wrong) was Claire
>Lawrence. He (or she - I'm not totally sure) released a self titled
>album after Dr. Music broke up. Does anyone know what he/she is doing
>these days?
> Also, does anyone know where I can get a copy (or tape) of that
>self titled album? If so, please e-mail me at ps...@peregrin.com

> Thanx. Psycho-Spud

I don't think Claire Lawrence was ever a member of Doctor Music (they
were a Toronto group - One More Mountain to Climb was their big hit, I
think they also did Sun Goes By).

Claire was a West Coast kid - founding member of the Collectors, which
became Chilliwack, he used to play with a buddy of mine named Tom
Northcott, and The Collectors recorded for Tom's label, New Syndrome
Records. If my memory is right, he was also a member of The Classics,
who were the house band on the Vancouver segment of the old CBC
afternoon music show (Music Hop??? Was that really 30 years ago???)

Bruce

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