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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(...)

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(...)

Date4/24/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 record artists. One of them is trombonist Rob McConnell.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0066451F
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(...)
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