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unusual facts about Bachman–Turner Overdrive


Isaac Bitton

Les Variations opened for some of the top billed rockers of the day, such as Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Kiss, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Taste and Aerosmith.


Adam Beck Memorial

Emanuel Hahn won the competition, while Alfred Howell and G.A. Bachman placed second and third, respectively.

American Boyfriends

The soundtrack for this film contains songs by a number of popular Canadian music groups of the era including Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts, Colin James, Sass Jordan, Spirit of the West and BTO.

Bachman-Wilson House

The house is built with Way-Lite concrete blocks and Philippine mahogany trim.

The Bachman Wilson house, in Millstone, New Jersey was originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954 for Abraham Wilson and his first wife, Gloria Bachman.

Bitag

Consequently, Takin' Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive is used as the theme song on one of their remixed ads.

Blair Thornton

Thornton rejoined the "classic" Not Fragile line-up (Randy Bachman, Rob Bachman, and Fred Turner) in 1988 for a reunion tour.

Following Randy Bachman's departure from the group in 1977, Thornton took over as primary lead guitarist on their next two albums: Street Action (1978) and Rock n' Roll Nights (1979), also contributing several compositions.

Broxton Rocks

The near-threatened* Bachman's Sparrow, the endangered* Red-cockaded Woodpecker and the Pileated Woodpecker, whose drum-like peck can be heard over long distances, all nest here.

Deforestation in the United States

Of the 28 forest bird species with habitat exclusively in that forest, Pimm claims four become extinct either wholly or mostly because of habitat loss, the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, and Bachman's Warbler.

Elisabeth Bachman

Bachman is married to Hugh McCutcheon, the former coach of the U.S. men and women's volleyball team and current coach of the University of Minnesota's women's volleyball team.

First Time Around

First Time Around is the first video released with Bachman & Cummings since The Guess Who played at Sars Fest in 2003.

Keepin' the Summer Alive

Of the new songs, "Keepin' the Summer Alive" and "Livin' With a Heartache" were written by Carl Wilson and Randy Bachman (of The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive).

KLOU

In the late 2000s, KLOU dropped its "103.3 KLOU" branding and oldies format for a more classic hits approach as "My 103.3", launching with Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business In 2010, the station rebranded to 70s and 80s hits as "Rewind 103.3." On May 31, 2011, KLOU shifted their format to back to 1960s-early 1980s classic hits, and rebranded as "Oldies 103.3".

Model-driven engineering

Companies like Integrated Development Environments (IDE - StP), Higher Order Software (now Hamilton Technologies, Inc., HTI), Cadre Technologies, Bachman Information Systems, and Logic Works (BP-Win and ER-Win) were pioneers in the field.

Monogenism

He rejected claims of Paul Broca concerning the lack of fertility of unions of European settlers and Aboriginal Australians; and relied on data of John Bachman of the fertility of mulatto (mixed race) persons.

Richard Bachman

In 1996, Bachman's The Regulators came out, with the publishers claiming the book's manuscript was found among Bachman's leftover papers by his widow.

Rock n' Roll Nights

Rock n' Roll Nights is the eighth studio album by Canadian rock band BTO, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music).

The Company Band

A special digital-only single preceded the full-length CD, featuring the album track "It's A Confusing World" with an exclusive cover of Bachman–Turner Overdrive's "Not Fragile".

Vinyl Tap

Titled "Guitarology 101", the episode featured Bachman, McCann, Mick Dalla-Vee and Brent Knudsen talking about various aspects of guitars, including live performances of a number of classic rock and rhythm and blues songs.


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