Tom Northcott

In 1963 Tom Northcott launched his vocal career by performing in coffeehouses throughout the Vancouver region. The Tom Northcott Trio soon took shape, and the group appeared in San Francisco in 1966. Warner Brothers subsequently offered a contract and issued the single “Going Down.” Three late-’60s releases brought him notice: a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country,” Harry Nilsson’s “1941,” and “The Rainmaker,” while the sunshine-pop track “Who Planted Thorns in Miss Alice’s Garden” also endures in memory. A private production studio was constructed in Vancouver in 1969, and the LP Upside Downside appeared two years later. Performing stopped by 1973, yet the comeback single “The Trouble with Love” surfaced in 1990.