Kept on Wikipedia:Magic Management

Type	Music group management
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Music
Founded 📆	1970, 1971
Founder 👔	Peter Francey, Clark Spencer
Headquarters 🏙️	, London Ontario, then Toronto , Canada
Area served 🗺️
Key people	Peter Francey, Clark Spencer
Members
Number of employees
Parent	Truck Music Ltd.
🌐 Website	[ ]
📇 Address
📞 telephone

Magic Management was music management company that managed Canadian acts such as Truck, Christopher Kearney, Terry Dee and The Good Bros. during the 1970s. They also managed English group Hit & Run which was based in Toronto.

Background

In 1972, Magic Management was also a division of the Toronto-based company, Truck Music Ltd. In August, 1973, Magic Management was described as the PR arm of Consolidated Entertainment who's directors were Craig Nicholson, Clark Spencer, Jim Skarrate and Peter Francey.

A subsidiary of Magic Management was Slic Brothers. They designed the covers for artists Peter Foldy, The Greaseball Boogie Band, Moe Koffman, The Stampeders and Jay Telfer.

History

Formed by Peter Francey and Clark Spencer in 1970 / 1971, the company was based in London Ontario. They started out representing non-recording musical acts.

On April 19, 1972, an event for the group Truck was organized by promoter Michele Frank. A celebration was held at Thunder Sound Studios in honor of Sundog Production's acquisition of the group. In addition to organizing the event, Frank's efforts had been put into sorting the public relations and getting the key music industry people to come. Another attendee invited to witness the event was Skip Prokop from the group Lighthouse. Music magazine RPM Weekly reported on the event. It also published a photo in its May 6 article. Members, Brian Wray, Jimmy Roberts, Larry Ernewein, Joey Miquelon, Mike Curtis, Graham Lear appeared in the photograph with the group's managers Clark Spencer, Peter Francey and Dennis Murphy of Sun dog Productions. It was also noted by RPM Weekly, the expectation of Murphy and Sun Dog Productions would soon be releasing an album of the group.

Also in 1972, they were regularly enlisting the services of artist John Martin who was the cousin of Peter Francey. Martin an Ontario Art College graduate was living in Vancouver. He was called to Toronto where he set about on his task of designing promo material for Truck, Christopher Kearney and The Good Brothers. With a solid reaction to his work, a company Slic Brothers was created and operated as a subsidiary of Magic Management.

In September, 1972, a full page Magic Management advertisement appeared in Billboard. It listed some of their acts, Christopher Kearney, Truck and The Good Bros.. Included was M. Frank Associates handling publicity and promotion and the field representative, Tim Lawrence.

In January 1973, it was announced that Magic Management were going forward in negotiating with a UK company for a European tour for Christopher Kearney. At that time Kearney had tow albums under his belt, both produced by Sundog Productions. Kearney was also set to tour Western Canada that month.

In February 1973, they pulled one of their groups, Truck off the road for a month. The group who already had a single "Get it Together Out" had to use the down time to rehearse new material, polish their stage presentation and get ready for heavy schedule related to the release of their Capital album that was due for release that month.

It was mentioned in the March 31, 1973 issue of Billboard that Magic Management had been acquired by Consolidated Entertainment Corporation Inc. By August, 1973, Karen Quee had recently been appointed to the position of director of public relations. At the time she was working closely with Capitol Records, coordinating publicity for acts Truck and Christopher Kearney. In addition to Truck and Christopher Kearney, their Roster included The Good Brothers, Terry Dee, The Toronto-based English group, Hit & Run and Touchstone, a group featuring Polydor artist, Lisa Hart.

By May, 1974, Axe Records artist Jay Telfer had signed on to Magic Management for an exclusive management agreement. Kangi Records artist Jeff Addams had also signed up around the same time.

By October 1974, Magic Management and Slic Brothers had re-located to 49 Wellington Street, E. Toronto.

Slic Brothers

Slic Brothers was an independent promotion-design company. It was originally formed by Peter Francey and Clark Spencer's Toronto-based company, Truck Music Limited. The company came about as a result of the positive reaction to the work of design artist John Martin. It worked as a subsidiary of Magic Management. Two creative people that came on board to work in Slic were John Hanna and Brian Cranley.

By 1975, the staff included Peter Francey, artists, John Martin, John Hanna, Jeanette Hanna and David Wyman, photographer Gerrard Gentil and project co-ordinator Clark Spencer. For the team's efforts they had three Juno nominations. This included nomination for best LP graphics, and a "service publication acknowledging Toronto as the entertainment capital of Canada, Night Out magazine. By December that year, Slic had moved out from their old studio to a larger area of 3,500 square feet at their new premises, 75 Sherbourne Street in Toronto's down town.

Further reading

• RPM Weekly, Volume 25 No. 12 - June 19, 1976 - Page 14 Slic Brothers article

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