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Greg Adams has written the lyrics for almost 100 commercial jingles and well over 100 pop love songs in the past five years. He earns a comfortable li(...)
Greg Adams has written the lyrics for almost 100 commercial jingles and well over 100 pop love songs in the past five years. He earns a comfortable li(...)

Greg Adams has written the lyrics for almost 100 commercial jingles and well over 100 pop love songs in the past five years. He earns a comfortable li(...)

Date1/2/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: Greg Adams has written the lyrics for almost 100 commercial jingles and well over 100 pop love songs in the past five years. He earns a comfortable living from it and his top fee for a commercial was $2;000 from Oktoberfest. He was also the singer on it.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0100316F
Body language of Trinidad's Sparrow tells as much about a song's meaning as any lyric, says critic Peter Goddard of the 38-year-old singer's concert a(...)
Body language of Trinidad's Sparrow tells as much about a song's meaning as any lyric, says critic Peter Goddard of the 38-year-old singer's concert a(...)
4/25/1975
Doug Riley started writing jingles at 18 while he was studying music at the University of Toronto
Doug Riley started writing jingles at 18 while he was studying music at the University of Toronto
6/17/1969
Paul Anka can't defend the lyrics to She's a Lady and he loves his romantic Don Juan image, but he still insists he's all for the women's liberation movement . . . and with five daughters maybe he is
Paul Anka can't defend the lyrics to She's a Lady and he loves his romantic Don Juan image, but he still insists he's all for the women's liberation movement . . . and with five daughters maybe he is
8/3/1979
Warne's national nursery library : comprising Nursery tales, Nursery ditties, Nursery songs, Nursery rhymes, Nursery jingles : with forty pages of coloured illustrations
Warne's national nursery library : comprising Nursery tales, Nursery ditties, Nursery songs, Nursery rhymes, Nursery jingles : with forty pages of coloured illustrations
1873
Jingle Writers Richard Morris and Dolores Claman are husband-and-wife team who composed A Place to Stand, theme song for film in Ontario Pavilion at Expo
Jingle Writers Richard Morris and Dolores Claman are husband-and-wife team who composed A Place to Stand, theme song for film in Ontario Pavilion at Expo
8/10/1967
There's a little-known group of Toronto musicians who earn up to $50,000 a year by frantically recording jingles, playing in bands and backing up reco(...)
There's a little-known group of Toronto musicians who earn up to $50,000 a year by frantically recording jingles, playing in bands and backing up reco(...)
4/24/1972
David Spencer and his TV solution, All-channel viewing with $100 and a lot of ingenuity
David Spencer and his TV solution, All-channel viewing with $100 and a lot of ingenuity
10/12/1971
Priceless words - free, About 100 children received free books last night at Dixon Hall on Sumach St
Priceless words - free, About 100 children received free books last night at Dixon Hall on Sumach St
2/14/1985
Comfortable style: Chris Sheppard has shed the punk-style makeup he used to wear and now prefers a more comfortable style and longer hair as a CFNY rock show host and disc jockey for the club, RPM
Comfortable style: Chris Sheppard has shed the punk-style makeup he used to wear and now prefers a more comfortable style and longer hair as a CFNY rock show host and disc jockey for the club, RPM
9/30/1987
Well, blow me down: Norm Bernard, the former Boston Red Sox right fielder, is blowing up a storm these days with his five-piece band, Ultimate Sound, playing Sunday at the Duchess of Markham
Well, blow me down: Norm Bernard, the former Boston Red Sox right fielder, is blowing up a storm these days with his five-piece band, Ultimate Sound, playing Sunday at the Duchess of Markham
3/26/1984
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Glasnost Ambassador: Andrein Makarevich of Time Machine says Soviet musicians pay greater attention to lyrics perhaps because of the tradition of Russian poetry
Glasnost Ambassador: Andrein Makarevich of Time Machine says Soviet musicians pay greater attention to lyrics perhaps because of the tradition of Russian poetry
8/22/1988