COLUMN: Carillon Flashback December 13, 1972 - Former band enjoying recording studio success
This historical column recounts the success of Century 21 Studios in Winnipeg, founded by former rock musicians in the early 1970s. It highlights the transition of the Hildebrand brothers and the Paley brothers from a local band to successful studio owners.
Why it matters
It serves as a piece of local cultural history, documenting the evolution of the Canadian music industry in the 1970s.
A casual passer-by and motorists whizzing by on the four-lane main artery would probably miss the small sign identifying several offices at 654 King Edward Street in Winnipeg. They would likely never see the unimpressive yellow brick building; it’s just one more drab industrial site in busy St James.
After all, who would expect to find one of Canada’s best equipped recording studios in that area. But that’s just what Century 21 Studios is; in fact, it’s the major Canadian recording studio west of Toronto.
Everyone connected with this studio is young; no one is over 30 and the youngest of the four genial partners in the business is 25. But, youth has never stood in the way of the tremendous business success enjoyed the past four years by brothers John and Harry Hildebrand and Ron and Ted Paley.
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