Tonight's mystery artist found out their record label had changed the group’s name when they heard the song on the radio and the DJ gave credit to a different band, Think you know who that might be??

The song they guys heard was record called “Shakin’ All Over” in their home town if Winnipeg but when the DJ said who it was by the band ‘Chan Allan & the Reflections’ found out their name on the record had been changed by the record company to ‘Guess Who’. Randy Bachman remembers in an interview with Glide Magazine: ”I remember phoning the radio station saying, “You got it wrong. It’s Chad Allan & The Reflections.” They said, “No, we have the label right here and it’s by the Guess Who.” And that changed our name to the Guess Who. That was the first time I heard myself on the radio.

Quite a ploy by the record company really, Bachman went on to tell: “ the record label called a few DJ’s and this whole buzz started that this song was recorded at a party with Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones, Keith Moon from the Who and all these guys playing on it. And they couldn’t put their real names on the record because they were all signed with different groups with different record labels, so they just put the Guess Who on it as a white label and put it out for fun. So everybody started to buy this record and trying to figure out if that was really Brian Jones playing guitar, was it really Keith Moon on drums or was it really Hank Marvin from the Shadows playing this and that. So this whole mystique started up about it and within two weeks it was a number one record in Canada and it was released in the States and went to top twenty in Billboard and we were still in high school. And we quit school and came on tour here in 1965 and did the Kingsmen “Louie Louie” tour and toured with Dion & The Belmonts and the Crystals and the Ronettes, and we were the backup band for the Crystals and the Ronettes. We had a wonderful summer.”

Tonight's featured song from Randy's later years with BTO:

The sing that started it all.

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