PUBLISHED: Feb 09, 2014
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The Chieftones from Alberta/British Columbia, Canada (1965)
line-up: Vincent "Billy ThunderKloud" Clifford, Barry Clifford, Albert Canadian, Richard Douse and Jack Cecil.
First appeared on record in 1965 for the Wisconsin-based Claremont Records billed as "The Chieftones, Canada's All Indian Band - vocal by Vince".
By 1975 they had become Billy Thunderkloud & The Chieftones and in May-June that year had their first U.S. nationally-charting single.