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“We got married early. I was 21 and Louise was 19,” he said.

The venture was a record store called Treble Clef. There would eventually be 15 stores.

“It was the first stand-alone record store in Ottawa. Everything else was a department in a department store or a counter like at Zellers or in the basement of Ormes Furniture store.”

“It had always been a dream (to be in the music business).”

That dream had been inspired very early.

“I used to go to cowboy movies in the afternoons and liked hearing songs by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. An aunt, who was a bit of a singer, she introduced me to things like Doris Day. And even when I was quite young I listened to big bands like Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey.”

Glatt did take piano lessons as a child but wasn’t very good, he says. Nor did he practise.

“In addition to being a mediocre piano player, I used to play guitar (folk. classical, and flamenco), five-string banjo, and I recently learned to play Irish whistle. I used to coach others for guitar and banjo. In very little time, many were playing far better than me. It helped me realized what my role in life should be,” he says.

His dad taught him the ukulele and later on he took what he calls “pop” piano lessons and ended up playing in some local bands during the 1940s. But something else caught his attention at the time.

“I was a child of radio. I listened to a lot of CBC and later on CFRA played pop music in the evenings. I was very interested in that.”

And at 13 he spotted Billboard magazine on a newsstand and became a regular reader. It became a dream to be involved in music or in radio. He would do both.