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Vinyl records by Newfoundland & Labrador's pioneer recording artists.
22 Jan, 2021 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
NFR remembers American country music legend Charlie Pride who passed away on December 12, 2020. Pride had 30 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Country Charts and over 50 Top Ten hits! The show features great seldom-heard covers of Pride’s hits by Newfoundland & Labrador’s pioneer recording artists. This program is a great listen for Charlie’s fans and for country...
22 Jan, 2021 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
NFR remembers American country music legend Charlie Pride who passed away on December 12, 2020. Pride had 30 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Country Charts and over 50 Top Ten hits! The show features great seldom-heard covers of Pride’s hits by Newfoundland & Labrador’s pioneer recording artists. This program is a great listen for Charlie’s fans and for country...

15 Jan, 2021 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
For this episode, just for fun, we’ve selected a few new items from 2020 and married them to NL vinyl recordings from yesteryear. News highlights include a meeting between a polar bear and a chopper, guitars made from an ancient shipwreck, and a discovery made valuable by Joe Smallwood’s posterior. Lots of great oldies music by Omar Blondahl, Dick Nolan,...

13 Jan, 2021 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
We begin 2021 with a look back at some of Newfoundland & Labrador’s musical pioneers who were honoured for their achievements in 2020. Plus, we remember recording artists and other music industry folks who passed away last year.

13 Jan, 2021 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
Today on New Found Records we remember a man that I regard as one of Newfoundland & Labrador’s finest recording artists ever... a man whose vocals flawlessly compliment his stellar music, a man whose songwriting ranks right up there with the likes of Ron Hynes... some have even compared him to Bruce Cockburn and Leonard Cohen; and his guitar picking...

13 Jan, 2021 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
More than 40 years ago SIMANI, Sim Savory and Bud Davidge, took the stage for the first time in Belleoram, Fortune Bay, NL. Four decades later, Simani is still a household name throughout Newfoundland. Seems like everyone, old or young, knows their songs... classics like “The Mummers Song”, which helped revive interest in a dying Newfoundland Christmas tradition. And then...

18 Dec, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
Yesteryear’s ‘Queen of Newfoundland Country Music’ JOAN MORRISSEY does her rendition of the biggest selling Christmas single of all time. Bell Islander RAY MCLEAN sings a few covers of Charlie Pride numbers from the early ‘70s, and ‘The Godfather of Newfoundland Country Music’, MR. DICK NOLAN, teams up with his five year old daughter BONNIE LOU for a rare duet...

11 Dec, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
We kick off our first of two programs of Christmas music with a stack of seasonal 45s... all by Newfoundland & Labrador's musical pioneers of course. We'll spin a few old favourites plus a bunch of oldies that you likely never knew existed. And they're all sourced from those little vinyl records with the big hole in the centre! Supplying...

04 Dec, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
More songs that ask questions on this episode as we conclude a theme that we debuted last week. The playlist includes tracks by five outstanding chanteuses – Shirley Montague, Loretta Cormier, Rebecca Penney, Phyllis Noseworthy, and Mary Lou Collins. Boy, those gals can sing! We also spin a great track by Labrador’s Harry Martin. Everything that man does is so...

27 Nov, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
Songs that ask questions... that’s what this episode of New Found Records is all about! The show features an divers array of vinyl oldies by Newfoundland & Labrador recording artists of yesteryear. The playlist includes a track by The Four Ways, a band with strong Australian connections that were regulars of St. John’s bar scene in the mid 1970s. Inquisitive...

20 Nov, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
Trout River’s Roy Payne is one of Newfoundland & Labrador’s most prolific songwriters. You may know Roy for his more popular compositions such as The Little Boats of Newfoundland, There’s No Price Tags on the Doors of Newfoundland, I Wouldn’t Trade A Million Dollars for A Single Maple Leaf, Outlaw Heroes, and The Ol’ Fishing Hole. His songs have been...

13 Nov, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
NFR makes for the hills for this episode. Tune in and treat your ears to Lew Murphy’s stellar rendition of the traditional Hills of Newfoundland. The Labrador Balladeer, Gerald Mitchell chips in with the first recording of Byron Chaulk’s classic High On the Mountain Of Old Mokami. Leonard Meehan contribute’s Otto Kelland’s seldom-heard The Low Blue Hills Of Home. Newfoundland’s...

06 Nov, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
A pillar of the Newfoundland music scene has passed. JACK WINSOR was proprietor of Jack's Radio Shop/Echo Recording Studio in St. John's, Newfoundland. From the mid '70s to the mid ‘90s, Jack sold local musicians their instruments and gear. He also repaired it, and he made their demos and records. He manned the board for dozens of local artists including...

30 Oct, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
It’s Halloween! What name do you put on October 31? Chances are you're thinking, Halloween, or All Hallows' Eve, the evening before All Saints' Day. But, depending on where you grew up in Newfoundland, you or your ancestors might know it as as Colcannon Night, or Snap Apple Night, or Mischief Night. Those from Trintiy Bay North might know October...

23 Oct, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
American country music superstar Johnny Cash has been in the local news lately following the discovery of photos of his moose hunting adventure in Newfoundland some 60 years ago. So we’ve put together a program filled with an eclectic mix of great Cash music… a mix of songs that you won’t hear any place else. So if you’re a fan...

16 Oct, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
Today on New Found Records we remember a man that I regard as one of Newfoundland & Labrador’s finest recording artists ever... a man whose vocals flawlessly compliment his stellar music, a man whose songwriting ranks right up there with the likes of Ron Hynes... some have even compared him to Bruce Cockburn and Leonard Cohen; and his guitar picking...

09 Oct, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
It’s the time of the year to count your blessings. Despite the hardships that 2020 has thrown at us, we have much to be thankful for. So for this episode of New Found Records we’ve stacked out platter with music that we think has a thanksgiving feel. Tune in and enjoy rare recordings of songs about family, friends, and the...

02 Oct, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
Just for fun, we've stacked the turntable with 45 rpm singles by Newfoundland chanteuses from days of yore. Some awesome singers on the platter including Mary Lou Collins, Sandi Michael, Anne-Marie Murray, Margo St. John, and Mary Barry. Tune in and treat your ears to an eclectic mix of obscure musical gems that you won't hear anywhere else. And they're...

25 Sep, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
This episode marks Gerald S. Doyle’s 128th birthday. Doyle was a businessman and Newfoundland folklore enthusiast. He compiled three main songbooks of Newfoundland songs & poems and distributed them for free throughout the island. Many of the songs were thus published for the first time and may have been lost forever but for Doyle’s efforts. He also used the books...

18 Sep, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
This episode features an eclectic mix of recent additions to the New Found Records’ vinyl and shellac libraries. For starters, one of NL’s finest guitar players teams up with an aficionado of the steel guitar for an amazing instrumental! Plus rare punk rock from a recording studio known for traditional and folk recordings. And we flash back 75 years to...

11 Sep, 2020 | 0:55:00 |
EN | CHMR FM Music Department | NewFound Records
New Found Records returns after a three month hiatus from the microphone. Tune in to this season’s premiere and treat your ears to rare NL vinyl that we added to the NFR library in recent months. It’s a great playlist with a spin from A. Frank Willis’ first LP, a record that’s almost impossible to find. Also on the turntable,...
