Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Five Bells and alls Well continued from preceding Page Mother never Sang another note after my Grandfather i dont know what shed think about our drummer Doug Gravelle is and his first professional engagement was playing in a club he had never heard of in the East end of his Mother turned up proudly to hear him play and it was Back to High school concerts for Doug when she found him backing up a Gordon the is 23 and used to have a milk Gordon and i used to play together at High says and one Day Cliff came Over to my fathers Gas where we were working at the and asked if we would like to join his As we were he bought Worth of but he drove off later without paying for so we had to join up with him to get our dough Gordon is the Only married he and his have two children and live in a on bedroom apartment next to Ann and Cliff and Doug share a similar apart ment above the All five take full advantage of miamis Ann and Par love sports they once won the ladies tandem kayak paddling championship of Eastern and they hate makeup they dont use it even on they Are so unlike Showbiz personalities that Ann even cuts her own says is one Long but things were Tough for a while when the Bells first started to they Only got one Date in their native Montreal and on the Road in Ontario there were times when food was not As plentiful As they would have there was enough in the Kitty for Only one Motel room the boys chivalrous by gave the girls the bed and stretched themselves out on the hardship did not Dampen their and the boys constantly played tricks on the they would squirt a tube of shaving Cream through the or dump a Plas tic bag full of water Over the transom into the girls in the girls would retaliate with such feminine Wiles As stitching up the boys jockey shorts or filling their Beds with Cracker then came their big Chance an audition in new we were Petri says but we Sang two songs and the Man said Cut and we were the Copacabana proved to be a Tough the Bells were hired for two weeks but were so popular they were kept on for almost three months working from till 4 seven nights a we take it any says we just take the americana schedule is easier though still hard work three different 45minute shows Between 10 and 2 every night except thurs the Bells make their own Musi Cal arrangements and work out their own dance we buy Sheet music to pick up the musical says then redo it in our own we find adults dig modern music what they dont like is the Long hair that goes with we get requests for layout Rock Jacki broke and then people go Back and Tell their children about said we remind them of their All the old women think in roly poly and Doug the drum not the Young the Young May not dig Doug but they certainly dig the which Cliff tries to describe As popu Lar with a More adult i found two youngsters listening outside the Carioca lounge at they were too Young to go its a very Good very said Robin i like their added her Lynda Good Treyve got a different they sing the same songs As other groups do them As Well As giving the songs their own Pardon the expression the Bells mix their numbers Chim Chim from Mary pop by the girls in a very Julie Andrews May be followed by a rousing Rock and then the dads bar Beong your mouse of whats going of Beans with pork and Tomato sauce red kidney Beans in sauce Boston style Beans Beans and wieners with Tomato sauce mom always was a pot of 34 weekend Mug Zine ;