| Born in 1942, Terry is the youngest son of the
late Canadian artist Jack Bush. Terry’s music ability became evident early in
life. At the age of twelve, he taught himself to play guitar and played in
numerous bands while attending high school. After graduation, Terry studied
Electronic Technology at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. In 1964 he joined
Robbie Lane and the Disciples, who were playing for Ronnie Hawkins and shortly
after, the band went on its own, performing on CTV’s ‘It’s Happening”, a
national pop music variety show, for three years.
Jingles were originally a sideline for Terry, but in 1968 he began writing and
producing commercials with Doug Riley and others full time. During this period,
he studied arranging and composition and by the following year had formed his
own award winning jingle company.
During this time he worked with major advertising
companies, writing, producing, playing, singing and announcing various ads.
He composed and produced “Man That’s Coffee” for Maxwell House with the ‘Baja Marimba
Band’ which they recorded as a single and “Do You know What You’re Doing?” for the
Council on Drug Abuse, which went on to become a hit record. Among many of his award
winning jingles were, ‘I Adore my 64, my Commodore 64’ and ‘I wanna go to the zoo, zoo,
zoo’ for the Metro Toronto Zoo and ‘Life in the city’ for the opening of the Eaton Center
in Toronto.
During this period, Simon Christopher Dew, the producer for the T.V. series The Littlest
Hobo approached Terry to create a theme song for the show. Terry had been
writing songs with John Crossen and between them they came up with ‘Maybe
Tomorrow’ the catchy theme tune for The Littlest Hobo. The series ran in the
late 70’s and 80’s worldwide and is still very popular today; Vision TV has
recently begun airing the show weekdays at 4:00. Recently, the National
Westminster Bank in England produced a commercial using the theme tune. It is
extremely popular and the commercial won an award for best commercial in a Los
Angeles Film Competition. Because of the popularity of the song, a group in
England called Scooch recorded the theme in April of 2000. Simon Christopher
Dew, the Producer of the T.V. Series and Terry thought they’d like to release
the song as sung by the original singer. Terry re-recorded the theme with an
added verse written by John but remained faithful to the original arrangement
and sound. The CD contains eleven other songs written by Terry and some
co-written with John. The CD is adult contemporary with a country flavour and
is available on the net at
www.littlesthobo.com.
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