The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

One Horse Blue" Soars to Top of Charts fromi the Charlottetown PaÓriot Most people who make their liv- ing in the music business dreami of somneday having a number one record. Very few will ever see that dream corne true. A number of acts have the talent and the cominitmnent to go the dis- tance, but for one reason or another, it just doesn't happen.' For a long time, Vancouver's One Horse Blue could cout itself among those acts. They'd gotten doser than many, but close onfly counts in horseshoes. Then camne Hopeless Love, the fifth single from their current Savan- nah release. It kept climbing Canada's country music charts until one day there was no0 other place to go but number one. "It's an awesome feeling to wake Up one day and be told that you're song is the number one son on the charts,," Rocko Vaugeois, one of the band's three vocalists said in a re- cent interview. But it didn't just happen, he ob- serves. "Il took a lot of work to get there. It also took a lot of people. First you have to write it and record it. Then you've got to get the radio stations to play it. The fans have to ask for it. It doesn't just happen. So you sure enjoy it when it does." Hopeless Love was a mnilestone for the band in more ways than one. One Horse Blue becamie the first country act signed to a Canadian ini- dependent label to go the distance in the 12-year history of The Record, Canada's national music trade paper. They also became only the flfth Canadian country act to score a number one. "To say we're happy with the way things have turned out with this album would be an understatemnent" Vaugeois said. And it couldn't have happened at a better time for the band, just as they were gearing up for the eastern leg of their cross-Canada tour with Michielle Wright and Gramimy-nomi- nee John Berry. That tour took One Horse Blue to Chaflottetown for two shows at Confederation Centre. Thecir current album has kept thetu on the road now for almost two years. Five singles will do that for you. I-opeless Love was preceded on the charts with Starting Ail Over Again, Love's Looking For Me, Ba- by Don't Cry and Everything Mon- ey Can Buy. 1They're playing alI of those tracks during their segment of _Wright's show. That's what people want to hear," Vaugeois says. Those songs no doubt played a big part in landing them the opening spot on this tour. That superior musicianship and outstanding vocal work. But when you've been together as long as they have - Vaugeois and Michael Shellard founded the band in 1978 -you have a lot of fime to work at being that good. Vaugeois says the tour has been a pretty hot ticket for them 50 far. "It's been pretty excit- ing. W've had a lot of re- ally frieindly houses on the Ô our, a lot of audience sup- port. We feel that we've been very well received." The show. runs tight so Vaugeois said their set is pretty condensed. "We do the five singles from this album, another song or two from -before, and perhaps a couple of songs we've written for the next album." They've got at least 20 songs under consideration at this point for that album. "And we're still writing. There'll be more to pick from by the time we hit the studio. We're a band of Ssongwriters, and vrbd contributes. li hey've also, within the j'past couple of months, got- ten into video production, making their first video for Hopeless Love. Vaugeois says having done a video he now thinks in termas of videos when he writes. "It's helped my song- writing. When I write a lyrie, it's like Pitm writing, the video with it. If you're stuck for a line, you look for an image. It helps." You can likely expect to see and hear a lot more "Chaser" on Stage Saturday Evening What do a farmer, lighting salesman, jeweller and insurance investigator have in common? Nothing unless they are called "Chaser", a new country rock band rapidly gaining popularity in Durham Region. Rob Powell, the farmer from Columbus, Ontario, said Chaser was formed more than tlÓree years ago when a mutual friend introduced the band members to each other. They bit it off and haven't looked back since. Along with Powell, the other members of "Chaser" are Ron Hooper of Bowmanville (the jeweller) on Drums; Dave Thompson (the insurance investigator) from Oshawa, on bass guitar; and Mark Doughty (the lighting salesman) from Scugog Island, who is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. The troup has a few original songs in its repertoire but play mostly new country along with old favorites from the 50's and 60's. Along with a strong, polished and professional sound, the group's strength is in vocals, says Doughty. "We really work hard on vocals, a lot of three and four-part harmony." he explained. Having fun on stage and worldng hard to make sure the audience is-having fun as weIl is a big part of the group's success. "If the audience is flot having fun, we don't have fun," said Doughty. As for the name "Chaser", Powell said the group was considering some 25 diffÈrent names., "We threw thern ail in a hat and that's what we drew out," he said. It's a namte people in Durham Region are going to be hearing more of in the coming months. Its the hi9hlight vSkylight onuts G O a "The best for quality products, good service and cleanliness" DAN HOLKEMA -ED HOLKEMA FIVE LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU *Hwy. 115 Southbound, Orono *Cobourg - 464 Division Street *Bowmanville - Baselinie & Waverley ˝ r *Bowmanville - 87 King St. East jj " *Bowmanville - Liberty.& Baseline Rd. Wear a Cowboy Hat at any Skylight Donuts location till Sept. 24195 and receive a FREE Donut. KW FM Durham"s C- Country John Nugent Marketing Consultant 339 Westney Road S. 9 Suite 201 a Ajax * Ontario * Li S 7J6 Tel: (905) 428-9600 Fax: [905)-686-2444 YOUR VIE CabIe 4 VHF 22