#121: Lovin’ Sound by Ian & Sylvia
City: Calgary, AB
Radio Station: CKXL
Peak Month: June 1967
Peak Position in Calgary ~ #11
Peak Position in Vancouver ~ #57
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart
YouTube: “Lovin’ Sound”
Lyrics: “Lovin’ Sound”
Ian Tyson was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1933. He learned to ride horses on his father’s farm, and eventually became a rodeo rider in his late teens and early twenties. He took up the guitar while in hospital recovering from a broken ankle sustained in a rodeo accident. Fellow Canadian country musician Wilf Carter was an influence. After graduation, Tyson moved to Toronto where he began a job as a commercial artist. There he performed in local clubs and in 1959 began to sing on occasion with Sylvia Fricker. By early 1959, Tyson and Fricker were performing part-time at the Village Corner as Ian & Sylvia. The pair became a full-time musical act in 1961 and married in 1964. Sylvia Fricker was born in 1940 in Chatham, Ontario. At a young age Fricker decided to become a singer. Although her parents tried to discourage her from pursuing a career as an entertainer, she left Chatham in 1959 to perform in Toronto.