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Francey. Also described as a graphic design firm specializing in corporate communications and package design, its roots went back to a
Toronto company, Fifty Fingers that was founded in 1975. In 2004, Francey and co. sold the business to Cundari SFP. They left in November 2009 and formed Trajectory, a new independent branding agency.
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Brothers was an independent promotion-design company. It was originally formed by Peter Francey and Clark Spencer's Toronto-based company, Truck Music Limited. The company came about as a result of the positive reaction to the work of design artist John Martin. It worked as a subsidiary of Magic
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Also in 1972, they were regularly enlisting the services of artist John Martin who was the cousin of Peter
Francey. Martin an Ontario Art College graduate was living in Vancouver. He was called to Toronto where he set about on his task of designing promo material for Truck, Christopher Kearney and
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Described as a group of companies, they operated on several fronts. In 1972, Magic
Management was also a division of the Toronto-based company, Truck Music Ltd. Truck Music Limited also handled the PR work for some acts on their level. One of them was the jazz rock folk duo Aarons & Ackley who
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Michele Frank. A celebration was held at Thunder Sound Studios in honor of Sundog Production's acquisition of the group. In addition to organizing the event, Frank's efforts had been put into sorting the public relations and getting the key music industry people to come.
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Francey, artists, John Martin, John Hanna, Jeanette Hanna and David Wyman, photographer Gerrard Gentil and project co-ordinator Clark Spencer. For the team's efforts they had three Juno nominations. This included nomination for best LP graphics, and a "service
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label. In August, 1973, Magic
Management was described as the PR arm of Consolidated Entertainment whose directors were Craig Nicholson, Clark Spencer, Jim Skarrate and Peter Francey. There weren't many companies around at the time who could incorporate the creative services and management
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February 1973, they pulled one of their groups, Truck off the road for a month. The group who already had a single "Get it Together Out" had to use the down time to rehearse new material, polish their stage presentation and get ready for heavy schedule related to the release of their
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In May 1973, it was reported that they were expanding and moving to produce press kits for all Magic
Management acts as well as moving into producing promotional films with the first a sixty-minute film of Magic Management acts. In 1973, they designed LP covers for the
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had signed on to Magic Management for an exclusive management agreement. Kangi Records artist Jeff Addams had also signed up around the same time. Some time prior to June 7, they lost two of their acts from their roster, Christopher Kearney and Hero.
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to encourage young people to vote. They became one of the few music-related companies at the time who were able to incorporate management and creative requirements for their acts. Their subsidiary Slic Brothers was nominated three times for a
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that Magic Management had been acquired by Consolidated Entertainment Corporation Inc. By August, 1973, Karen Quee had recently been appointed to the position of director of public relations. At the time she was working closely with
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In January 1973, it was announced that Magic Management were going forward in negotiating with a UK company for a European tour for Christopher Kearney. At that time Kearney had two albums under his belt, both produced by
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First-Time Voter Committee to be part of a youth-oriented tour. Starting in Ottawa, the four day venture was to take them via Yukon, Winnipeg, Thompson, Calgary, Whitehorse, Vancouver and Regina.
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magazine. By December that year, Slic had moved out from their old studio to a larger area of 3,500 square feet at their new premises, 75 Sherbourne Street in Toronto's down town.
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One group that auditioned for them was West that featured Paul Sanderson. Magic Management took them on board with Truck. Through the company they ended up auditioning for
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Formed by Peter Francey and Clark Spencer in 1970 / 1971, the company was based in London Ontario. They started out representing non-recording musical acts.
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during the 1970s. They also managed English group Hit & Run which was based in Toronto. They became involved with an exercise involving Prime Minister
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appeared in the photograph with the group's managers Clark Spencer, Peter Francey and Dennis Murphy of Sun dog Productions. It was also noted by
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The Good Brothers. With a solid reaction to his work, a company Slic Brothers was created and operated as a subsidiary of Magic Management.
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