Here's a brief story of what happened to Canadian born St. John in his own country as he broke free from the THP Orchestra as he took advantage of the opportunity to become a solo artist on the prestigious RCA Records label.

In 1976 Wayne was asked to join the THP Orchestra by producers Willie Morrison and Ian Gunther. Their first collaboration as Artist-Producers was a song written by Musker/Bugatti from the UK. The song Fighting On The Side Of Love was recorded at Phase one on RCA Records. The result was a Top 11 hit in English Canada and it reached #5 on the Quebec radio charts. It play for 18 weeks on national radio.

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From this wonderful opportunity of a hit record, a Juno Nomination and begriming to make over 5 thousand dollars a week had great appeal to produce more radio friendly music for Wayne as he was also raising a family and so he and the THP embarked on a second single called Something's Up.

'Something's Up' turned into being an appropriate title in more ways then one. The Song was released in the summer of '77. CHUM picked it up immediately and it blasted on national airwaves like a bull out of the chute.

The song was distributed around the world and every DJ from here to Helsinki had a copy! The first week was glorious and the radio trackers one of whom was Linda Daws, was ecstatic! Everyone in the RCA office staff were all smiles... The second week the Something's Up with the 60 piece orchestra and Jackie & Betty Richardson plus Wayne on back up vocals flooded the airwaves. Pete Pedersen wrote the charts and came in from Tennessee to conduct the Orchestra and see it through the completion of the track.

Wayne introduced his Pan pipes on Something's Up as well. Excitement was in the air!

In Wayne's words, "By the end of the second week everyone working on this song knew it paralleled the first single on air play right from jump street, and even more so was the daily rotation on CHUM radio. It was a feeling that's hard to describe but it was awesome, successful and showed great potential as one dreams of the Awards shows and higher income as I felt I had made it when the Confederation Centre in PEI booked me and if I wanted to show up as a single for 35 hundred dollars for one night it was my business."

Yes this was the way to success, and then .............

We interrupt this explanation and cannot permit this story to go any further as it has been selected for a movie script and the impact of the story will be much greater for Wayne for historical purposes. Something's Up in the end will be his redemption song! Thank you, The Webmaster.

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Eye on the Prize  |  World Peace Records

Wayne's release in January 2006, of his eclectic jazz song's features 9 tracks...all produced with love and affection and with some world class artist's helping him out.

The story behind the album cover title, 'Dizzy's Not My Dad' came about because Wayne's mother Velma Fallon, an award winning singer, signed up to perform at the Apollo Theater for 'amateur hour' segment of the show. It just so happened that Dizzy Gillespie was the headline act that evening. Jerry, his Dad, a part time photographer brought his camera to the sound check earlier that day and got this priceless picture just outside the Theater. This picture is being used with the permission of the Velma Fallon Estate, as both Wayne's mother and father are now playing music with Dizzy. Take a look at Dizzy's face!!...it's priceless. God bless them all.

Have a look below at how young Velma was when she won a medal for her first singing competition, an 'Outstanding Songster' the Bradford , Ontario paper said... Wayne boasts, "I remember from a little kid how she would take out her 6 medals and show them to me,... is there any wonder why I'm doin' what I'm doin". Both of Wayne's parents were singer/actors in their twenties and while living in Bermuda, when Wayne was four years old, Velma and Jerry starred in one of the most memorable plays in Bermuda called 'Boat In The Bottle'. Some pictures will be forthcoming, check back...you'll get a kick!!!

Wayne's dad played the violin and spent a number of years in the Lance Hayward Choir as a singer. He served in the US Army in World war II and he worked at the New York Times for 20 yrs as an Ad man and he loved to play tennis. He got to experience vicarious moments as he watch his son perform in HAIR and CBC's national TV show, Music Machine.

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