This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s

A two-hour documentary that aired on television in 2009 and was released on DVD  that same year.

This Beat Goes On tells the story of Canadian music in the 1970s, a ground-breaking era of great sounds, from glam and progressive rock to punk and reggae. 

Mixing archival footage with candid interviews, the documentary features proven hitmakers as well as a wealth of new folksingers, blues artists and mullet-rockers. Solo artists and progressive rockers still rule, but it’s also a time of shaved heads and skinny ties, as punk and new wave artists push their way into the spotlight. By the end of the decade, the Can-rock revolution has arrived.

This Beat Goes On presents the wealth of music that sprang from the Great White North during the explosive Seventies.

Here is a list of the songs featured in the documentary, taken from videos and concert footage:

Dancin' Fool - performed by The Guess Who

Seasons in the Sun - performed by Terry Jacks

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - performed by Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Takin' Care of Business - performed by Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Brain Damage - performed by McKenna Mendelson Mainline

Câline de blues - performed by Offenbach

Flip, Flop & Fly - performed by Downchild Blues Band

Move Up to the Country - performed by Dutch Mason

Hot Hot Papa - performed by David Wilcox & The Teddy Bears

Sundown -performed by Gordon Lightfoot

Alberta Bound - performed by The Good Brothers

Cotton Jenny - performed by Anne Murray

Rock and Roll Song - performed by Valdy

White Line - performed by Willie P. Bennett

Heart Like a Wheel - performed by Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle

Free Man in Paris - performed by Joni Mitchell

The Frog Song - performed by Robert Charlebois

Le picbois - performed by Beau Dommage

Chanson démodée - performed by Les Séguin

Quelle belle journée - performed by Gilles Valiquette

Spirit of the North - performed by Cano

Comme un fou - performed by Harmonium

Hot Child in the City - performed by Nick Gilder

Spaceship Superstar - performed by Prism

Raise a Little Hell - performed by Trooper

Screaming Fist - performed by The Viletones

New York City - performed by The Demics

Disco Sucks - performed by D.O.A.

Tired of Waking Up Tired - performed by The Diodes

Let's Shake - performed by Teenage Head

My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) - performed by Neil Young

Hot Property - performed by The Dishes

This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - performed by The Kings

Wolf - performed by Nash the Slash

Out of Luck - performed by The Pointed Sticks

Echo Beach - performed by Martha and The Muffins 

High School Confidential - performed by Rough Trade

Amelia - performed by Joni Mitchell

Down by the Henry Moore - performed by Murray McLauchlan

Barrett's Privateers - performed by Stan Rogers

A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter - performed by Figgy Duff

Sonny's Dream - performed by The Wonderful Grand Band

The System - performed by Leroy Sibbles

Wondering Where the Lions Are - performed by Bruce Cockburn

Stand Tall - performed by Burton Cummings

Sometimes When We Touch - performed by Dan Hill

I Just Wanna Stop - performed by Gino Vannelli

Closer to the Heart - performed by Rush

Paradise Skies - performed by Max Webster

Roller - performed by April Wine

Turn Me Loose - performed by Loverboy

Interviews with all featured artists, in order of credits:

CREDITS

Gary McGroarty, director

Nicholas Jennings, writer, researcher, interviewer

Bill Kerrigan, cinematographer

Chris Holmes, editor

Joe Sherman, graphic designer

Pierre Touchette & Nick Orchard, producers