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Dick Damron and The Famous Bear<\/p><\/div>
\nSubmitted by Don Graham<\/em>
\nhttps:\/\/www.bear-family.com\/listing\/index\/sCategory\/128600\/sSupplier\/112838<\/a>
\nDick Damron is truly a Canadian treasure, one of the pioneers who mapped the road future acts would travel and wrote the book on Canadian country acts crossing borders. And although he has been a recording artist for 7 decades, recorded on vinyl, cassettes, 8 Tracks and CDs, \u00a0Dick isn\u2019t just lying in the sun in Mexico resting on his laurels and telling war stories of the past. He\u2019s a busy boy. He has been working on another book, working title \u2018Last Days of a Crazy Old Man in Mexico\u2019 and when we talked last week from his home in Mazatlan, Mexico, I asked how it was coming along.
\n\u201cMan I had to put it on hold for a bit, way too busy!\u201d Nice. What are you up to? \u201c I\u2019m with the Bear Family Record Company out of Hamburg, Germany and they are celebrating 40 years in business this year, 1975-2015, I\u2019m proud to be on Bear Family, I have 156 songs on two boxed sets. I got a call from Richard Weize, he\u2019s the head honcho at Bear. We first met when I was touring the U.K. and Europe in the 70\u2019s. I picked up Foreign Artist of the Year artist for two years running in the mid 80\u2019s.\u00a0\"Dick<\/a>Dick Damron 1957<\/span><\/span>Anyway, Richard asked me to come up with something for the 40th anniversary album, so I\u2019m doing a song I wrote called \u00a0\u2018The Famous Bear\u2019 or \u2018Oso Famoso\u2019 in Spanish. I play quite regularly down here at a place called La Catrina so on January 19th, we\u2019re making a video of the song. Gonna be a lot of fun.\u201d
\nSo how does the Bear Family sell records in an age where so much of music is free for the taking. The willingness to pay for it is declining at an incredible rate. Is there still a secret formula for success in the music business? Well, they have no business plan except staying in business. But there is a master plan. And it starts with this: „we are not in it for the money“.\u00a0 In other words, if you want to be successful, don’t care about the profit. The rest is down to chance and good taste. Of course, it’s pretty well known among Bear Family aficionados Richard Weize is the guiding presence behind Bear Family, but he’ll be the first to tell you that it’s all about teamwork. For Richard Weize, reissuing the complete and luxuriously packaged recordings of artists he honoured in his youth is not only a matter of passion and respect but a form of obsession. Weize confesses: „I’m a collector.and\u00a0crazy.“\u00a0\u00a0\"George<\/a>George Hamilton IV and Dick Damron<\/span><\/span>This is illustrated by his gigantic archive collection which stores approximately 40,000 records, piles of music books and magazines, (including all volumes of ‚Spiegel‘ magazine since the pilot issue), stacks of posters and collections of master tapes. This complete list could have made Weize into a lonely nutter, but the fact that he’s so lively and pleasant is due to the existence of Bear Family. While the classic collector in him is trying to catalogue and complete his collection, Weize is utilizing his material. By licensing the recordings, he creates a whole new entity, distributing it as a completely new product through the label. This way he supplies the collector’s market with items that become objects of desire for other collectors. And so old treasures become new ones \u2013 anthologies, audio documents, illustrated books, and comprehensive biographies.\u00a0 Bear Family asks no questions about sales potential \u2013 projects are realized according to musical taste and historical importance.\u00a0\"Dick<\/span><\/a>The packaging and audio restoration are always as lavish as possible. The list of acts available on Bear Family reads like a who\u2019s who and Hall of Fame roster.
\nSo from Bentley, Alberta to Mazatlan,Mexico for the winter and Alberta bound for the summers; Little Dickie Damron in the 50\u2019s to hard livin\u2019 Dick Damron of the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s evolving into the elder statesman of Canadian Country music, through 7 decades Dick has earned his place in Canadian history. Well done amigo, be as proud of yourself as all of us are of you.<\/p>\n

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