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Bill Richards
Bill Richards is credited on 292 releases across 69 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
292
Pressings credited
69
Albums
7
Decades active
18
In collections
Biography
Bill Richards (28 March 1923 – 28 February 1995) was a Canadian musician. His compositional output includes several film scores, a Flute Quartet (1964), and a number of fiddle tunes. He recorded two of his own fiddle compositions for Spiral Records in 1957 and another of his fiddle compositions was featured in the movie The Pyx. He also was active as a musician and concertmaster on a number of studio recordings from the 1950s through the 1990s, and can be heard on recordings by artists Moe Koffman, Catherine McKinnon, Anne Murray, and Gordon Lightfoot among others. In 1962 he and a quartet featuring the organist Lou Snider recorded two LP albums for the Canadian Talent Library Trust.
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Credited work
292 releases · 69 albums · active 1968–2025
- Performance · 141
- Other credits · 113
- Mastering · 71
- Production · 3
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Manta Sound · Eastern Sound · RCA Studios, Toronto · Toronto Sound Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Hagood Hardy
- Moe Koffman
- Anne Murray
- Murray McLauchlan
- Keath Barrie
- The Laurie Bower Singers
- THP
- Peter Appleyard
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