Burton Cummings

Cummings is planning on releasing a new album in the summer of 2005, as well as tour with Randy Bachman as The Bachman-Cummings Band, featuring The Carpet Frogs, a band from Toronto. Morton Downey died in Palm Beach, Florida of a stroke. "With God On Our Side" is a cover of the famous Bob Dylan song. Morton Downey was the father of television personality Morton Downey, Jr. On November 23rd, 2004, Burton Cummings' new single "With God On Our Side" debuted at 21st spot on Canadian music charts. Downey was also a songwriter: his most successful numbers including "All I Need is Someone Like You", "California Skies", "In the Valley of the Roses", and "Now You're in My Arms", "Sweeten Up Your Smile", "That's How I Spell Ireland", "There's Nothing New", and "Wabash Moon". Most recently, the band played at the so-called "SARSstock" concert in Toronto. Starting in 1949, Morton Downey began appearing on television, and in the 1950s hosted the television show Star of the Family.

In 2001, Burton and the rest of The Guess Who received honourary doctorates at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba. In the 1930s he recorded for ARC and Decca Records, the in the 1940s made records for Columbia. Since then he purchased Winnipeg's "Salisbury House" restaurant chain with The Guess Who manager Lorne Saifer and a few other local celebrities, and still tours with the reunited "The Guess Who" every summer. He was voted the USA's "Radio Singer of the Year" in 1932. In 2000, Burton as well as the rest of the original members of "The Guess Who" went on a nation-wide tour which turned out to be very successful. In 1930 he began making national radio broadcasts. Some of his well known solo hits include "Stand Tall", "Scared", and "Break it to Them Gently". He also started making appearances in motion pictures in 1929.

In 1975, after 10 years, Burton left "The Guess Who" to become a solo artist. He toured London, Paris, Berlin, New York City, and Hollywood. He joined "The Guess Who" in 1965 after its previous lead singer, Allen Cobell, left the band. In 1926 he had a hit in the show Palm Beach Nights. His first band was "The Devrons", which at the time was one of Winnipeg's biggest bands. In 1925 he began 4 years of recording for Brunswick Records. Burton was born and raised in the Canadian prairie city of Winnipeg, as were the rest of "The Guess Who". Leviathan Orchestra.

He is the lead singer for Canadian rock band "The Guess Who", and during his 10 years in "The Guess Who" from 1965 to 1975, he sang many well known songs, including "American Woman", "No Time", "Share the Land", "Hand Me Down World", and "These Eyes". He first recorded in 1923 for Edison Records under the pseudonym Morton James; the following year he recorded for Victor with the S.S. Burton Cummings (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician. For a time in the 1920s, Tenor Downey sang with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. 2004 The Brycer. Downey was nicknamed the Irish Nightingale. 2004 With God On Our Side. Morton Downey was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, the child of Irish immigrant parents.

1990 Free. Morton Downey (14 November 1901-October 25, 1985) was a singer popular in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. 1990 The Rock's Steady. 1990 Take One Away. 1990 One Day Soon.

1982 Mother Keep Your Daughter In. 1981 Heavenly Blue. 1981 You Saved My Soul. 1980 One And Only.

1980 Mile A Second. 1980 Fine State Of Affairs. 1979 I Will Play A Rhapsody. 1979 Draggin' Them Down The Line.

1978 Break It To Them Gently. 1978 Your Back Yard. 1977 My Own Way To Rock. 1977 Timeless Love.

1977 I'm Scared. 1976 Stand Tall. 1997 Up Close and Alone. 1994 The Burton Cummings Collection.

1990 Plus Signs. 1984 Heart. 1981 Sweet Sweet. 1980 Best of Burton Cummings.

1980 Woman Love. 1979 Dream Of A Child. 1977 My Own Way To Rock. 1976 Burton Cummings.