Todd
June 11, 2008 / 20:07

Gail has a unique voice, did she sing back up?

Bob Weight
June 28, 2008 / 23:50

I remember MH'sBH playing a couple of times at Loyalist College about that time, early 70s. I particularly remember when they played for the end of the year dance, and had a show set where they asked everyone to stop dancing and just listen. They did lots of old favourites such as Telestar, and did all the old show set stuff like the musicians including the sax players and guitarists moving in unison from side-t-side swinging their instruments as they played. A great band to watch as well as one to hear.

Brian
July 9, 2008 / 15:48

Hello...Just to let you know...there is a new incarnation of Major Hooples Boarding House.
The band is called "The Fossils" and includes original Hooples members Peter (Moss) Beacock and Keith Stahlbaum, as well as former Gaslight lead guitarist Brian Tozer. The band plays much of the original material from Hooples...including "I'm Running After You".
There is more info on our myspace site....

http://www.myspace.com/the6575band

Thanks!

Goods
August 28, 2008 / 18:36

Is Keith holding in his gut in the fossils picture?

willy
December 27, 2008 / 22:24

old friends....
Gilmour, Slade, Knapp, Dechert
Pink Floyd..

willy
December 27, 2008 / 22:41

old friends....
Gilmour, Slade, Knapp, Dechert
Pink Floyd..

willy
December 27, 2008 / 22:52

played with Minglewood band,
Jody Linscott..(Elton John)
flying private jets from
Miami to puerto plata dominican
republic

Frieda
February 14, 2009 / 04:06

I remember hearing your songs on the radio in the '70's. then in the late '7o's. I was fortunate enough to meet Dave Lodge at a local bar in Kitchener, where he Deejayed on the side. He learned that I sang and had me come to his home in Kitchener. I met his wife and then young son. He helped me along and encouraged me and introduced me to a band starting out in Cambridge. Though that changed for me a couple of years later. I never forgot him. He was a kind man who loved his family and of course music. I sadly found out about his passing from a mutual lawyer friend of ours. When he was moonlighting as a d.j.the closing song was always "I'm running after you". That's how you knew the night was over. Never forgotten, Fondly remembered and missed.

Frieda
February 14, 2009 / 04:07

I remember hearing your songs on the radio in the '70's. then in the late '7o's. I was fortunate enough to meet Dave Lodge at a local bar in Kitchener, where he Deejayed on the side. He learned that I sang and had me come to his home in Kitchener. I met his wife and then young son. He helped me along and encouraged me and introduced me to a band starting out in Cambridge. Though that changed for me a couple of years later. I never forgot him. He was a kind man who loved his family and of course music. I sadly found out about his passing from a mutual lawyer friend of ours. When he was moonlighting as a d.j.the closing song was always "I'm running after you". That's how you knew the night was over. Never forgotten, Fondly remembered and missed.

Virgil Scott
April 12, 2009 / 11:31

I'm recording a series of interviews for radio of 60s and 70s Canadian artists. If someone knows how to get intouch with anyone from Major Hoople please email me asap. I have 37 interviews complete but looking for many more. Thx in advance . Virgil

Steve
October 9, 2009 / 22:12

I heard "I'm Running After You" for the first time in the late summer of 1975 and was totally blown away by it.

I was twelve years old at the time, and what pulled me in was that it sounded like a Beach Boys song and had a great melody besides.

Even today I find the song haunts me just as much as it did when I first heard it. Maybe that's because of the deep sense of longing and Sixties nostalgia it seems to convey.

It's a shame the song didn't get wider airplay, because it's really well put together, gumball lyrics aside.

charles
October 27, 2009 / 17:40

My favorite of theirs was the single "You Girl". Did you know that David Lodge wrote the song "Savin' Myself" which was a big hit for Eria Fachin? It was a dance tune in the mid eighties.

Tony L.
October 30, 2009 / 15:02

Major Hoople's Boarding House did a favourite of mine "Red Rubber Ball" when they played at our local Dance Hall called Don's in Aylmer, Quebec. It was a pool hall that doubled as a dance hall on the weekend. I seem to recall it was a New Year's Eve dance or very close to that time when I heard them. This was way back in the early 70s. The lead singer was a good looking Blonde which now I can put a name to. Fond memories!!!

jimmy
December 8, 2009 / 23:20

I googled the song and it brought me here .. I was 20 years old in '75 and it grabbed me then and still does today. I'm Running After You has all the ingredients of a number one hit and then some... it has always been a favorite of mine, the lyrics completely blow me away - JUST LISTEN TO THEM ! If that doesn't capture the feeling of being in love...well you just ain't been there yet ! And then there's the melody and the tempo that tie it all together, it's an 11 out of 10 in my books! 'How was I supposed to know' i would still be in love with this song LOL.:-)