Gary Buck

b. Gary Ralph Buck, 21 March 1940, Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, d. 14 October 2003, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada. A singer-songwriter, Buck played guitar and bass as a child, and in his teens he formed his band the Rock-A-Billies. After recording for Canatal, he joined Petal and gained his first Billboard chart entry in 1963 with ‘Happy To Be Unhappy'. It reached number 11 and led to Cash Box magazine naming him their Best Newcomer Of The Year. He followed with a Top 40 hit, ‘The Wheel Song', the following year, but was then absent from the charts until 1982, when ‘Midnight Magic'...