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YOU CAN PLAY ALONG IN THE SAME KEY AS THE VIDEO using the songsheet in D, to learn the song. I'll be transposing and posting another key for our BUG Jam.
"This Ottawa Valley of Mine" may be Mac Beattie's most classic album. It contains songs that have become standard fare for Canadian folk singers, including this song "Saturday Night Up The Gatineau".
John McNab "Mac" Beattie was a singer/songwriter born in December 1916 in the Ottawa Valley, in Arnprior and he died in June 1982 in Arnprior. Mac Beattie and the Ottawa Valley Melodiers were a prominent Canadian country music band from the 1930s until the early 1970s. In the early thirties, Mac and three friends - Gaetan Fairfield, Mervyn Leitch and Harold Mosley, formed the first Melodiers. Beattie sang and played harmonica and washboard. Their music often reflected the Ottawa Valley's historic past. Beattie was the first member to be inducted into the Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall of Fame in 1981. You can read Beattie's autobiography, "This Ottawa Valley of Mine" published in Arnprior 1982.