TORONTO (CP) — Cal
Dodd is a familiar yoice on
more than 100 commercials,
urging you to drink his
favorite beer, eat his
favorite cereal, shop at his
store and wear his style of
clothes. He has sung jingles
on every major radio and
television station in Canada,
yet few people know his
name,

This fall he will put a face
with the voice when he
makes his debut as co-
ringmaster on a CTY variely
show, Circus.

Dodd, 28, and co-star
Sherisse Laurence, 23, are
taping the show this summer
for broadcast in September.

“It’s kind of a Donny and
Marie thing,” said Dodd in
an interview,

It is not his TV debut. He
has appeared on several
CBC television shows and
been host of the CTV Miss
Teen Canada Pageant.

He decided nine years ago
to become a_ professional
singer and said his major
accomplishment has been to
break into that select circle

Page 16, THE HERALD, Tuesday, July 25, 1976

Jingle singer stars on 1 CTV

of musiclans and vocalists
who do the majority of radio
and television jingles in
Canada.

DID IT ALL HIMSELF

“TE pride myself in that I’ve
done it all myself,” he said.
“TL havenct needed anyone to
help me and I have not had to
audition for anything.”’

He said that the only time
he used an agent was when
he came to Toronto in 1969
after working in the office of
a chartered accountant for
three years.

“F decided to come to
Toronto and see what hap-
pened. So I phoned CFRB
radio and talked te Mel
Thompson who was the artist
and repertoire director at
that time,

“He recommended two
agents that he thought were
good and I immediately went
to the office of one of them.

“She tald me to go over to
the CBC right away, T went
over and was put on the
Juliet show.” n

It was a promising start,
but his career went nowhere
for several months. He

returned to Port Dover, Ont.,
where his family has lived
since emigrating from
Ireland in the 1950s, and got
a job on a tobacco farm.
SANG ON RADIO

Six months later he was
back in Toronto.

“T went lo the CBC agair
and spoke to Ron Sollowa
who put me onna radio show
where I sang eight songs
which I wrote with a friend,”

Within a year Dodd was
singing commercial jingles
and doing backup vocals on
other artists’ albums,

He said his career was
progressing nicely when he
got involved with two con-
secutive projects that looked
promising, but folded.

The first was a rock opera
called Hamlet, written by
Cliff Jones. Dodd sang the
lead in the show when it was
broadcast on CBC radio and
performed his role live at the
Charlottetown Summer
Festival,

People from New Yark be-
came interested in the opera
during its second summer at
Charlottetown, said Dodd. It

went to Broadway but folded
before opening night. Dodd
had left the show after the
first summer in Charlot.
tetown and was considering
performing in the Broadway
version. :

BAND FELL APART

The second misadventure
involved a rock band called
Deja Vu. Despite a $2,5-
million recording contract
and connections with top
people in the U.S. music
industry, the band fell apart
after recording two albums
and doing one crossCanada
tour as the front act for
English musician Jae
Cocker.

Dodd said he gained some-
thing from the experience
even though the group failed. —

“Tt was my first tour ever.
It was crazy. I went through
a lot of changes and I loved
every minute of it.

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