Profile Image: Valdemar Horsdahl
 "Valdy"

Valdemar Horsdahl

Folk singer / songwriter / producer from Victoria BC

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Valdemar Horsdahl
"Valdy"

Folk singer/songwriter/producer

Hall Of Fame Inductee 2008
Lifetime Achievement Award

The other day I found an old acetate that I thought was gone forever. It's the original version of 'Play me a Rock and Roll Song' recorded in Vancouver in the fall of 1969. This one was produced by Terry Jacks and was never released or heard by more than the people involved because Valdy got his record deal shortly after this and recorded the song again in LA. . That is the one that became the hit and got radio play. Valdy and I had just finished the Hosanna band and Jacks had heard a single that band had made a few months earlier.(nobody ever heard that either) Jacks hired me to play on r+r song based on what he called the 'pedal steel licks' he thought he had heard on the Hosanna recording. It was actually my old black Telly through Eddy Paterson's Leslie doing my very early Clarence White imitation. Yikes!..............other than Valdy and me, I can't remember who the other players are. The studio is Baroka Sound in Vancouver, where the second Poppy Family album was made. ( It was at this session that Terry asked me to join the Poppy Family) The noise level is horrible...over the 37 year... show more
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Valdy
Vocals / Guitar
1968 - present

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The Foundry Brass
Bass/Vocals
60s
Hosannah
Vocals / Guitar
1970

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