The two songs on this single are taken from Ernie McCulloch's [url=https://calgarycassettes.org/recording_detail/movin-around-ernie-mcculloch]Movin' Around tape[/url]. We decided to find out how long McCulloch had been performing when he put this out - it looks like it was just over 20 year, based on this 1961 article, published as his first LP was coming out: [center][img width=400px]//7ca49eb9f67ba1319ef136f9d52cd8b8.cdn.bubble.io/f1739762016209x596198652225165800/richtext_content.jpeg[/img][/center] [b]Balladeer[/b] Ernie McCulloch can be described as a young man on his way up. At 25 he has organized his own recording company and has his first long-playing record on the market. His enterprise has the official blessing of the Stampede board. The eight songs on his first "LP" are all original. They were composed by his mother, Mrs. Ivy McCulloch, and they have the Calgary Stampede as their central theme. Mr. McCulloch dropped in Wednesday to relate how all this came about and dis- cuss his plans for the future. It all started, he reported, after he videotaped a song for CHCH-TV in Hamilton. A request for a master tape came in from Rodeo Records of Halifax. "You're my song writer," he wrote to his mother. "I need enough for an LP." Mrs. McCulloch set to work. But in the meantime Ernie began to wonder why he should pass the results on to some Eastern firm. He decided he wouldn't and the upshot was Stampede Records, his own company, and his first collection of songs, dedicated appropriately to the cowboys of the Calgary Stampede. Cross-Canada distribution is planned but Ernie, aware that "you have to walk before you can run," is making haste slowly. Several local supermarkets propose to put the record on display. Ernie and his band appeared at McCall Field during Stampede Week and Ernie himself has just completed a successful tour through Montana. He hopes to release a few single records before tackling another big one.
