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Red Robinson feted for music industry contribution Veteran DJ and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honoured Malcolm Parry, Vancouver Sun Published: Saturday, August 02, 2008 Jamie Nicholson and Steve McCarthy flanked Red Robinson at the Vancouver Music at the Vancouver Music Industry awards The B.C. government recently named him one of history's 150 most-influential people here. The Vancouver Sun contributor received a closer-to-home tribute Tuesday. That was when longtime music friends and associates honored him with the Bruce Allen/Sam Feldman Legend Award "for outstanding contributions to the Vancouver music industry." That was at the Powell-at-Columbia Canvas Lounge, which sits kitty corner from a recording studio owned by rock-manager Allen's client Bryan Adams. The joint was jammed when Vancouver Music Industry organization founder Jeff Dawson fronted a gala that, with a related golf tournament, raised a reported $60,000 to support the Sarah McLachlan Foundation's music-education programs for needy children. Sarah McLachlan (left) with Vancouver Music Industry gala's Su Bailey, saw her Foundation gain $60,000. He was fussed over Tuesday by the Melodic Blue ensemble's much-tattooed Jamie Nicholson and Steve McCarthy, who have more ink in their hides than a swing band's sheet-music library. Even gala host Terry David Mulligan, whose musicbiz and police gigs have presented many strange sights, was forced to smile.

(Photo: Malcom Parry) BETTER RED: Veteran disc jockey Red Robinson is a member of Cleveland, Ohio's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

(Photo: Malcom Parry) In the 1950s, when the Canvas Lounge existed as the less tony Anchor beer parlour, Robinson introduced CJOR and CKWX's teenaged listeners to the likes of sport-jacketed Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley.