That was the last time we spoke on the telephone.įor the next few years, we continued to keep in contact, even after I moved to Vancouver and she was in Canada, after moving back from California to Toronto. I was immediately put through to her and we had another of our little chats. As the shows were performed live in those days, I immediately rang the CBC studios in Toronto at the end, and asked to speak to Michele Finney. I had been visiting a school friend (in Barrie) after classes and happened to see the program. I believe it was in 1965 that Michele returned to Razzle Dazzle for a guest appearance. I no longer have any idea of the whereabouts of that photo, but I found a copy on the internet recently. She’d addressed it to me and signed it on the back. One of my greatest treasures was a photograph of her interviewing the Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. She claimed to know who I was from our correspondence (I’ll bet she says that to all the boys). Thereafter, I called her about once a month for the next year. (For those interested, I deduced that the listing in the same WAlnut 7 area as the CBC studios would be it.) One Saturday, I rang the number: a woman answered I asked to speak to Michele she said, “Just a minute,” and went and got her! We had a short chat. While still living in Windermere in 1962, I got hold of a Toronto phone directory and using a little bit of logic, worked out which Finney listing was under her father’s name. ![]() In fact, we used to correspond regularly. I had been a fan of hers from her earliest days there (1960-61). ![]() In 1964, a huge slice of my childhood ended when Michele Finney left the CBC kid’s program Razzle Dazzle.
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