Major Hoople's Boarding House


Major Hoople's Boarding House was a Canadian pop band from Cambridge, Ontario. They were active from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, performing mainly in Ontario and releasing several singles, one of which appeared on national charts.

History

Rocky Howell, Peter Padalino, Gail Selkirk, Dave Lodge and Rick Riddell formed a band in Cambridge in the 1960s called the Shan-De-Leers. It was later renamed Major Hoople's Boarding House after they hired David Lodge in 1967. The group name referred to the long-running comic strip, Our Boarding House.
Riddell and Selkirk left the band in 1972 and were replaced by Ed Miller and Peter Beacock. Lodge left the band to concentrate on songwriting and management in 1973 and he was replaced by Keith Stahlbaum. In 1975, Dave Gooding was added on saxophone.
The band signed with the Polydor record label, and released a single, "Everything's the Same". They performed in the club circuit and at summer dance halls around Ontario for a number of years and then signed with Axe Records. They had a top-30 Canadian radio hit in 1975 with "I'm Running After You".
The band released a single, "Our House", which appeared on the RPM 100 chart in October and November of 1980. They continued performing in the 1980s with a varying lineup, and then went on hiatus as some of the members joined other bands. Both Padalino and Beacock were later in the country band Desert Dolphins in the mid-1990s.
Many years after they disbanded, the band reformed in 2010 with three of the long-time members - Miller, Keith Stahlbaum, and Gooding - and was supplemented by keyboardist Brad Stahlbaum and guitarist Brian Tozer.

Discography

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