[4] In 1966, they moved to Toronto and sent a demo tape to Sid Dolgay, who had been a member of The Travellers but had formed his own management company, and he signed the trio.
[10] In 1967, the band was spotted performing at Toronto's Riverboat coffee house by an entertainment co-ordinator for the Ontario Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal and they were hired to play there.
[11] After hearing their demo tape, he brought the band to New York, where they recorded three songs at Bell Studios with producer Rick Shorter.
[12] They were then flown to Los Angeles to record an album; Patterson would say that Eliot quickly lost interest in the process and most of the work was done by Steve Barri (both are credited as producers).
When the former joined 3's a Crowd, they brought that music with them and, although Cockburn did not perform on the album, three of his songs are included ("The Way She Smiles", "Bird Without Wings" and "View From Pompous Head").
[23] 3's a Crowd again went on the road, touring Western Canada and Southern California, playing several dates at the Ash Grove in West Hollywood and the Ice House in Glendale, sometimes adding Jim and Jean as an opening act.
A related documentary about 1960s Canadian counterculture, Christopher's Movie Matinée, under the sponsorship of the National Film Board of Canada, was released in 1968;[24] it includes some of the songs from the album.
In early 1969, Wiffen and Patterson brought in bassist Dennis Pendrith and, from The Children, Bruce Cockburn, Colleen Peterson and Sandy Crawley.
RCA Victor released a second single from the album, a cover of Dino Valenti's "Let's Get Together", backed by "I Don't Wanna Drive You Away";[27] the former peaked at #70 on the RPM charts.
They recorded Cockburn's "Electrocution of The Word";[29] its video was showcased at the Youth Pavilion at Ottawa SuperEX (the Central Canada Exhibition).
[37] Trevor Veitch moved to Los Angeles and became a successful session player, soundtrack composer,[38] and songwriter ("Gloria" by Laura Brannigan).
[39] Ahern became a successful producer, with a long list of credits, including albums by Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and (his wife) Emmylou Harris.
(Young's associations with the group create their own fascinating web, what with both Smith and Koblun playing with him in his early days, and Donna Warner having sung with him in Toronto.