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Originally Posted by Acajack
La Bolduc making a big showing. Was Anglo Canadian music really that non existent in the era? Was franco music that much more Fast out of the gate?
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The first record label to search for Canadian talent opened up in Montreal for the specific purpose of finding French language songs for the Canadian (and hopefully the Louisianan market.) La Bolduc did not have much success in 1929 singing folk tunes but when she wrote her own tunes, she sold songs like hot cakes. She was the first songwriter to sell 10,000 copies (La Cuisinieres) and opened up the way for Anglophones to record in Canada, like Wilf Carter, Earl Heywood and Hank Snow. Of course when the English singers could prove to the record companies that they could sell songs, they were rushed to Nashville, New York and Cleveland where more elaborate recording setups were to be found. So Wilf Carter has basically four songs he recorded in Canada, Hank Snow has a similar amount. Only Earl Heywood stayed in Canada and because he stayed in Canada, he remained in obscurity. Only a couple of tunes of his recorded in the 1970s has more than 2,000 views.
Wilf Carter's tunes max out at 20,000 views, as does Hank Snow's tunes. There are not many covers of those tunes they recorded in Canada. La Bolduc herself has 300 000 views on records she actually produced and her more popular tunes have several covers with more than 10 000 views (some are over 100 000 views themselves.)
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