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Most-viewed tabs for the month of February 2009 (w/ view numbers):
38 - Coney Hatch - Devil's Deck
21 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
18 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
16 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
12 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
12 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
12 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
11 - Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
10 - Harlequin - Innocence
10 - Max Webster - Hangover
10 - Kim Mitchell - That's The Hold
Total Tab Views For February: 513
(By section: Canadian-359 Girlschool-72 Various-34 Chords-48)
Most-viewed tabs overall (stats date from Oct.3/07 to Feb.28/09):
227 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
176 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
157 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
144 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
123 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
115 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
109 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
100 - Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel
99 - Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
95 - Girlschool - Race With the Devil (guitar)
95 - Harlequin - Innocence
95 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
This one took awhile, but now "the Douce is loose". "Mama Let Him Play" -- Jerry Doucette's most succesful single -- was drawn from his 1978 debut album of the same name (pictured). The disc was recorded for the ill-fated Mushroom Records, (whose roster also included Chilliwack and Heart). It rapidly achieved platinum status in Canada, and in 1979 Doucette landed the Juno Award for Most Promising Group. The follow-up album The Douce Is Loose (1979) went gold in Canada. 
Some of them are quite easy, some a little more off the beaten track. But if I know all of these songs from the radio, lots of other people should, too. The lines are taken from all types of pop music, and are all from the 1970's and 1980's. The vast majority of people who visit the site come for the Canadian tabs, so I made this quiz a "Canadian Edition". All of the bands/artists in it are Canadian.
(At least not until you're done.)
Mad Mad World (1991) was Tom Cochrane's first solo album after his departure from Red Rider. From that album came his most successful single, "Life Is A Highway". The single gave him a runaway #1 hit in Canada, reached #6 on the US Hot 100, and was successful worldwide. The album achieved rare 'diamond' status in Canada, for sales of over one million, and it also sold two million internationally. All of this netted Cochrane four Juno Awards in 1992, for Album Of the Year, Songwriter Of the Year, Male Vocalist Of the Year, and Song Of the Year for "Life Is A Highway". Added to this were three other awards from songwriters'/publishers' associations (SOCAN and ASCAP).
A few days ago when posting a Coney Hatch tab, I wrote about how Kim Mitchell had played a key role in helping the band in their early days. It got me thinking: guess who hasn't been done in the riffs section yet? If you guessed Kim Mitchell, you just might be smarter than a 5th grader. (No guarantees, though. 
We go into the request file for this tab, Coney Hatch's "Devil's Deck". The big break for this Toronto band came in 1981 when (Max Webster lyricist) Pye Dubois caught one of their local club shows. He introduced them to Kim Mitchell, who first worked with the band to further hone their sound, and was then instrumental in getting them signed to Anthem Records, the label that was also home to both Mitchell and Rush.
We're celebrating today, AGTA is now two years old! 
