Dallas Harms was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989, while Paper Rosie was given its own honour last year as part of the CCMA Legends Show.Canadian country singer Dallas Harms, who sparked a number of hit singles in the 1970s and was instrumental in Ronnie Hawkins’s early music career, has died at 84., died Saturday in Hamilton, friend and veteran music writer Larry LeBlanc confirmed.
Mr. Harms was born in Jansen, Sask., but raised mostly in Hamilton, where he began playing in the local club scene during the mid-fifties., a popular Hamilton radio and television series of the era that gave him widespread attention with audiences. But his breakout success on Canadian radio took much longer, partly because the homegrown country-music scene was still in its infancy.
During these years, Mr. Harms worked the live stages, at one point befriending a young Mr. Hawkins and helping usher him into the Hamilton club scene. Their friendship would later become the fodder ofMr. Harms spent most of the sixties hopping between various labels in pursuit of his own breakout hit.gave him the success he was looking for on radio. The song peaked at No. 8 on the RPM charts, becoming the first of 19 charting singles throughout his career.
But Mr. Harms found some of his greatest international exposure through the voices of other country singers.Cowboys Don’t Get Lucky All the TimePaper Rosie , a version that rose to the top of the Canadian Billboard country charts in 1977, beating out Kenny Rogers’sAnother 48 Hrs
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