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a job he’s had for 20 years now. Dennis was, and still is, a member of the Continentals. Like a generation of musicians
of the time, his life changed the night the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan 50 years ago. The Continentals had been
jamming mainly to Ventures and Shadows tunes before the Fab Four arrived, but once they did, the group changed with the times and got serious. “We got our Fender guitars and
Bandmaster amps, and bought suits at Ben Burke’s in Ottawa to make us look like a professional band,” he remembers. And to tie in with the 50th
anniversary of the Fab Four’s appearance on Sullivan, a cool bit of trivia: the first Beatles 45s in North America were actually pressed at the RCA record plant in Smiths Falls. But back to our story. The Continentals took over
house band duties at the Rideau Ferry Inn in 1964 and were an immediate smash, adding the latest British invasion hits to their repertoire. Bandmate Billy Bowes has fond
memories of those days. “The dance floor was on the
second level, and most nights we would have 1,000 people in there. There were two stages. We would play on the smaller stage, and then the main act would take over the main stage. These were bands like The Esquires, The Stacattos, The Characters, Major Hoople’s Boarding House, The Townsmen
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