Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Music Superstar Burton Cummings.
Burton Cummings is a legendary singer, songwriter, and recording artist whose stellar body of work over almost 6 decades is timeless. His voice is widely considered to be one of the greatest and finest voices in the history of rock music.
As lead singer and songwriter for “The Guess Who”, he recorded a string of international hit singles including “American Woman,” “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “No Time,” “Share the Land,” “No Sugar Tonight,” “Clap for the Wolfman”, and many more great songs, all written or co-written by the man himself. The Guess Who was the first Canadian group to reach #1 on the Billboard charts, and they were the first to have a platinum-selling album in the U.S., with sales of more than a million records.
After the group disbanded in 1975, our Burton Cummings embarked on an even more spectacular solo career, with a whole slew of hit singles and gold records including “Stand Tall,” “I’m Scared,” “My Own Way to Rock,” “I Will Play a Rhapsody,” “Timeless Love,” “Break It to Them Gently,” “Dream of a Child,” and “You Saved My Soul”, which earned him a Genie Award when it was featured in the movie, “Melanie”, in which he co-starred. His brilliant 1978 album, “Dream of a Child” became the first quadruple platinum-selling album by a Canadian artist. He has also published 2 volumes of poetry.
The list of accolades this man has received is truly jaw dropping. He’s won 5 RPM Awards, 6 Juno Awards, 22 SOCAN Awards and 3 SOCAN Classic Awards, 3 BMI America Awards, and the Genie Award that I already mentioned. He’s received an honorary doctorate from Brandon University in his home province of Manitoba, and he’s also been named to the Order of Manitoba.
In 2009 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. He’s received TWO stars on Canada’s Walk of Fame – one as a member of The Guess Who, and one as a solo artist. He’s been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame AND the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and he’s the recipient of the SOCAN lifetime achievement award. And although he is a global superstar and a member of rock ‘n’ roll royalty, here in Canada he is a national treasure and a living legend. He’s currently on a North American tour playing to sold out audiences, but he’s taken time out of his very busy schedule to appear on Harvey Brownstone Interviews.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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