Doug Randle's lyrics & chords

Doug Randle, (1928-2013), was a writer, arranger, musician, and conductor with roots deep in the Canadian jazz scene of the 1950s. After a lengthy spell working in England during the first half of the 1960s, he returned to Toronto and took up an in-house position at the government sanctioned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where in 1970 he recorded "Songs For The New Industrial State", released at the time on the Kanata Records label. The songs, now reissued on Light In The Attic featured an introspective and stil pertinent look at eve...read more