"Canada Rocks" is the most comprehensive study of the history of Canadian music that has ever been created. It is an album by album, artist by artist, year by year record of the history of LP and EP releases from the early 1940's up until 1989, when the compact disc medium took over and left vinyl behind for a time. This is the first volume (1940's - 1971) and includes the early history of classical and jazz greats, such as Don Baker, Guy Lombardo, Oscar Peterson, Percy Faith, Maynard Ferguson, Glenn Gould, Phil Nimmons, Moe Koffman, Tony Romandini, Galt MacDermott, Claude Leveillee, Serge Fontane, Paul Brodie, and Andre Gagnon, the country originals Alan Mills, Hank Snow, Don Messer, Willie Lamothe, Roger Miron, Andy Dejarlis, Stu Phillips, Marcel Martel, Wilf Carter, Claude Dubois, Alberta Slim, Tex Lecor, Graham Townsend, Shirley Field, Ronnie Prophet, Dougal Trineer, Stompin' Tom Connors, and Ray Griff, doo-wop, rock 'n' roll, blues and classic rock artists The Crew Cuts, The Four Lads, The Diamonds, Jack Scott, The Beau-Marks, The Hi-Tones, The Gemtones, The Guess Who, The Band, Blood Sweat & Tears, Crowbar, April Wine, Chilliwack, Five Man Electrical Band, Edward Bear, The Downchild Blues Band, King Biscuit Boy, Lighthouse, McKenna Mendelson Mainline, Stampeders, Steppenwolf, folk originators Bonnie Dobson, Ian & Sylvia, The Halifax Three, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Cockburn, The Irish Rovers, Gordon Lightfoot, Murray McLauchlan, Joni Mitchell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Neil Young, electronic pioneers Bruce Haack, Mort Garson, Emtidi, and Syrinx, pop stars and singer/songwriters Paul Anka, Bobby Curtola, Robert Goulet, Tommy Ambrose, The Bells, Tommy Hunter, and Anne Murray, avant garde artists Paul Bley, Intersystems, and The Nihilisht Spasm Band, the psychedelic bands 49th Parallel, A Passing Fancy, Bent Wind, Christmas, The Collectors, Dionysos, The Haunted, Kensington Market, Mashmakhan, Morse Code Transmission, The Paupers, Perth Country Conspiracy, Reign Ghost, Rhinoceros, Sex, Les Sinners, and The Ugly Ducklings, and even the francophone "chanson" and pop singers and musicians, such as Felix Leclerc, Paul Brunelle, Madam Bolduc, Gerard Lajoie, Michel Louvain, Paolo Noel, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Fernand Gignac, Michele Richard, Pauline Julien, Gilles Vigneault, Renee Claude, Pierre Lalonde, Pierre Letourneau, Ginette Reno, Claude Valade, Robert Charlebois, and so many, many more, from coast to coast and in all our native tongues. One album wonders or artists like Oscar Peterson, who have recorded more than two hundred records. They are all in here, each and every studio album by most all of the Canadian artists and musicians from the early forties to 1971. You'll never find a more comprehensive source of information on the history of Canadian music than in this three volume set. Be sure to get parts II and III as well, and discover all of Canada's greatest, right up until 1989.