Vancouver rock idol Terry Black dies at 60

[cascadiance]

Source: Vancouver Sun

VANCOUVER — 1960s Vancouver teen idol Terry Black died Saturday evening at age 60 in Kamloops, the Northwest Broadcasters website reported Monday.

His 1964 hit Unless You Care became a hit in the U.S. and Canada made him one of the few artists from Vancouver to appear on the Billboard charts, said veteran Vancouver broadcaster Red Robinson on the site.

Robinson said: "Back in the British Invasion days, a young Vancouver singer took the city by storm. He was discovered by Buddy Clyde on Dance Party, a teen show on CHAN TV (now Global). Buddy was able to get the attention of the owner of Dunhill records, the same label that the Mamas and Papas recorded for as well as P.F. Sloan (Eve of Destruction) and others of the day.”

Black followed his big single with a few more moderate hits but never achieved international stardom again.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Vancouver+rock+idol+Terry+Black+dies/1744455/story.html

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Another old rock artist from the 60's has passed...



Here's the one time wonder hit he had ("Unless You Care")...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnhv5VJx1hY

[Deja Q]

1. Grand. They're dropping like flies; who released the DDT?

[jobycom]

2. These days when a 60s rocker dies I wonder what kept them alive so long.

[cascadiance]

4. He was Farrah's age... I guess he died after getting multiple sclerosis...

Here's a more detailed article. Sounds like he was in the Toronto cast of Hair... And he also sang the tune "Moondust" in the movie "Meatballs"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0OhD-C94UQ

http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_thompson_nicola/kamloopsthisweek/entertainment/49456972.html

[TrogL]

5. I did - about 50 years ago

Mine is the last generation raised before parents really started paying attention to a lot of this stuff. My father had all sorts of nasty pesticides stores right out in the open - on a shelf next to where the bathing suits and towels were kept. Big buckets of chlorine were stored in the same closet/changeroom.

I'm surprised I'm not dead already.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Wow...there's one '60s song I've never heard before...

Thought I'd heard them all.

[Fire1]

6. Who???? n/t