He gave me $5,000 as the severance and to me that was a fortune." The group broke up shortly afterwards, when Chong tried to reduce the number of players covered by the Vancouvers' contract. "I said I want to become a Berry Gordy, I don't want to just work for a Berry Gordy. Later, when Berry Gordy told Chong that he wasn't fired after all, that it had been a mistake, Chong said he wanted to stay fired. Chong was fired by Chris Clark and Motown producer Johnny Bristol for arriving late to the gig. After the band released two additional singles, Chong and bandmate Wes Henderson missed a Friday night performance to apply for green cards so they could become American citizens. Chong later referred to the young Michael Jackson as a "cute little guy".
While on tour in Chicago for a short time, the band followed opening act the Jackson 5. They recorded their debut album, an eponymous release, and their debut single, the Tommy Chong co-composition, "Does Your Mama Know About Me," peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1965, the Vancouvers signed with Gordy Records (a subsidiary of Detroit's Motown Records). Although Little Daddy & the Bachelors built up a small following, things soured when they went with Chong's suggestion and had themselves billed as "Four Niggers and a Chink" (or, bowing to pressure, "Four N's and a C") before taking on the moniker Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers. They brought in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which had never been to Vancouver before. Formerly the Alma Theatre, they called it the “Blues Palace”.
Together with bandmember Bobby Taylor, Chong opened a Vancouver nightclub in 1963. They recorded a single, "Too Much Monkey Business" / "Junior's Jerk". The Shades moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where the band's name changed to "Little Daddy & the Bachelors". "I discovered that music could get you laid, even if you were a scrawny, long-haired, geeky-looking guy like me." Career Music īy the early 1960s, Chong was playing guitar for a Calgary soul group called the Shades.
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He bought a $500 house in Dog Patch and raised his family on $50 a week." In an interview, Chong later described how he dropped out of Crescent Heights High School "when I was 16 but probably just before they were going to throw me out anyway." He played guitar to make money. He has said that his father had "been wounded in World War II and there was a veterans' hospital in Calgary. Īs a youth, Tommy Chong moved with his family to Calgary, settling in a conservative neighbourhood Chong has referred to as " Dog Patch".
After arriving in Canada, the senior Chong had first lived with an aunt in Vancouver. He had an older brother, Stan (1936–2018). His mother was a Canadian of Scottish and Irish ancestry, and his father was Chinese who immigrated in the 1930s. Kin Chong was born on May 24, 1938, in Edmonton, Alberta. He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s. He is known for his role/inspiration in the marijuana industry, and his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's That '70s Show. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian comedian, actor, musician and activist.
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