Sylvia Tyson
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 Tyson in 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Sylvia Fricker |
| Born | 19 September 1940 Chatham, Ontario, Canada |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Folk, country-rock, country |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, broadcaster, author |
| Instruments | Vocals, autoharp, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Labels | Vanguard, Columbia, Capitol, Stony Plain, Salt, Outside |
| Associated acts | Ian & Sylvia, Great Speckled Bird, Quartette |
| Website | quartette.com/sylvia.htm |
Sylvia Tyson, CM (born Sylvia Fricker on 19 September 1940 in Chatham, Ontario, Canada), is a musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster.[1] From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson.[2][3]
From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, she and Ian also fronted the country-rock band Great Speckled Bird. More recently, she has been a member of the all-female folk group Quartette.
Perhaps her best-known song was "You Were on My Mind", which was originally recorded by Ian & Sylvia in 1964. The song became a massive hit single in the mid-1960s for the San Francisco-based folk-rock band We Five and also for the British pop singer Crispian St. Peters. It has become a rock and roll standard which has been covered numerous times.
She married Ian Tyson in 1964; they divorced in 1975.[4] During their marriage, they had one child, Clay (Clayton Dawson) Tyson.[5][6] Sylvia has contributed offstage to the Canadian music scene as a board member of FACTOR and the Juno Awards. She also established an independent record label, Salt Records, in the early 1980s.[7]
With Tom Russell, she was an editor of the 1995 anthology And Then I Wrote: The Songwriter Speaks(ISBN 9781551520230).[7]
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[edit] Awards and recognition
Sylvia Tyson was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1994.[8]
She was nominated seven times for a Juno Award, the first being in 1987 as Country Female Vocalist of the Year. But despite these nominations, she has not yet won a Juno award.
The Canadian Music Hall of Fame inducted Ian & Sylvia as a duo in 1992. In 2003, Sylvia Tyson herself was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.[1]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Year | Album | CAN | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Woman's World | 54 | Capitol |
| 1976 | Cool Wind from the North | — | |
| 1978 | Satin on Stone | — | Salt |
| 1979 | Sugar for Sugar, Salt for Salt | — | |
| 1986 | The Big Spotlight | — | Stony Plain |
| 1989 | You Were on My Mind | — | |
| 1992 | Gypsy Cadillac | — | Silver City |
| 2000 | River Road and Other Stories | — | Salt/Outside |
| 2001 | The Very Best of Sylvia Tyson | — | Varèse Sarabande |
| 2011 | Joyners Dream: The Kingsfold Suite | — | Outside Music |
[edit] Singles
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Country | CAN AC | |||
| 1972 | "Give It to the World" | — | 44 | single only |
| 1975 | "Sleep on My Shoulder" | 35 | 24 | Woman's World |
| 1976 | "Good Old Song" | 42 | — | Cool Wind from the North |
| 1979 | "Love Is a Fire" | 32 | — | Satin on Stone |
| 1980 | "Same Old Thing" | — | 36 | Sugar for Sugar, Salt for Salt |
| 1985 | "Up in Smoke" | 50 | — | single only |
| 1986 | "Denim Blue Eyes" | 15 | — | The Big Spotlight |
| 1987 | "Too Short a Ride" | 20 | — | |
| 1989 | "You Were on My Mind" | 35 | — | You Were on My Mind |
| 1990 | "Slow Moving Heart" | 43 | — | |
| "Rhythm of the Road" | 42 | — | ||
| "Thrown to the Wolves" (with Tom Russell) | 43 | — | ||
| 1992 | "I Walk These Rails" | 18 | — | Gypsy Cadillac |
| 1993 | "The Sound of One Heart Breaking" | 52 | — | |
[edit] References
- ^ a b "CCMA Hall Of Fame - Sylvia Tyson". Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. http://www.ccma.org/halloffame/hofprofile.cfm?AwardID=64. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ http://www.quartette.com/tyson.html
- ^ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCESearch&Params=U1
- ^ Leblanc, Larry (12 February 2005). "Tyson Takes a New 'Road'". Billboard. p. 52. http://books.google.ca/books?id=vhQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=%22Tyson+Takes+a+New+'Road'%22+billboard#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Lederman, Marsha (28 March 2008). "Tyson comes clean". The Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/tyson-comes-clean/article676674/. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "They're partners in life as well as in music, which must have its difficult moments like the prospect of having to sing with someone you were maybe not speaking to. But they certainly have made that work, what with that thing rolling around on the rug, young Clayton Dawson, herein and hereafter referred to as 'Mr. Spoons.'" From the jacket notes (by John Court) to Ian and Sylvia's LP "Lovin' Sound", MGM 4388, 1967. Quoted in Mudcat Forum by Dale Rose, 1999-04-16; accessed 2011-05-08.
- ^ a b The Canadian Press (8 September 2003). "Country music to honour Tyson". London Free Press. http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/Today/2003/09/08/179238.html. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ "Order of Canada: Sylvia Tyson". Governor General of Canada. 19 October 1994. http://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=3404. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
[edit] External links
- Sylvia's Profile at Quartette's web-site
- Sylvia Tyson on The Canadian Encyclopedia
- An interview with Sylvia Tyson
- CBC interview with Sylvia on the early years of Can-Con (important because of Sylvia's contribution to the organisational side of Canadian music
- Sylvia Tyson on Canoe.ca
- Quartette
- Sylvia Tyson at the Internet Movie Database
