Barry Allen
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Barry Allen Rasmussen, known professionally as Barry Allen, was a Canadian rock musician born on July 29, 1945. He began his career as a guitarist and backup singer for Wes Dakus & The Rebels before transitioning to lead vocals. In the early 1960s, producer Norman Petty secured recording contracts for both Wes Dakus & The Rebels and solo releases for Allen. In 1965, Allen signed with Capitol Records in Canada and Dot Records in the U.S. and won Canada's Gold Leaf Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist that year. The title track of his second album, Lovedrops, released in 1966, went gold. By 1973, Allen was the rhythm guitarist and vocalist in the band Painter. In 2012, Shawn Nagy's Super Oldies label reissued Allen's original material along with unreleased tracks on a two-CD set titled Clovis Collection. Allen died on April 4, 2020, at the age of 74.
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- That'll Be The Day by Barry Allen
- Too Much
- She's Driving Me out of What's Left of the Rest of My Mind
- Mine, Mine, Mine
- It'll Be Me
- Lynda Lou
- Goin' Down to the River
- Long Tall Texan
- Willie and the Hand Jive
- Good Things Coming
- Floating Bridge
- Your Don't Know My Mind
- When I Go Away
- Working for the Man
- If You Need Me
