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Shakin' All Over is the debut studio album by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who, although at the time they were known as "Chad Allan & the Expressions".It is regarded as a garage rock [2] album and features their hit version of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates hit song "Shakin' All Over".
Allan's first band, Allan and the Silvertones, was formed while he was attending Miles MacDonell Collegiate in 1958. Then Allan brought noted Winnipeg musicians Bob Ashley, Jim Kale, Randy Bachman and Garry Peterson into the band, which was now going by the name Chad Allan and the Reflections, with Allan taking his stage name from one of his favourite singers, Chad Mitchell of the Chad ...
The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band, originating as The Guess Who? in 1966, and adopting the name The Guess Who in 1968. Formed as a garage rock band, [1] their best-known works are in the pop rock [2] and psychedelic rock [3] genres.
Shakin' All Over is the name of a CBC Television documentary on Canadian rock music in the 1950s and 1960s. The song is featured in the Mr. Bean episode "Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean". The Pirates version of the song was featured in the film Crooked House. A version by Wanda Jackson appears during the end credits of Bridesmaids, as taken from her ...
Chad Allan and the Expressions released the garage rock album Shakin' All Over in January 1965. [12] That album's single, "Shakin' All Over", earlier recorded by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, was the band's first major hit, reaching no. 1 in Canada, no. 22 in the United States, and no. 27 in Australia.
Burton Lorne Cummings OC OM (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known for leading The Guess Who during that band's most successful period from 1965 to 1975, and for a lengthy solo career.
By 1962, the band had changed their name to Chad Allan and the Expressions and later to The Guess Who. In 1965, the Guess Who had a No. 1 hit in Canada with their version of Johnny Kidd's "Shakin' All Over", which also charted in the US at No. 22. In 1966, Chad Allan left the band and Burton Cummings became the primary vocalist. Between 1966 ...
During that period they released eleven studio albums, all of which reached the charts in Canada and the United States; their 1970 album American Woman reached no. 1 in Canada and no. 9 in the United States, and five other albums reached the top ten in Canada. They also achieved five number one singles in Canada and two in the United States.