While I was digging through the production LPs I featured last week, I came across this record of cover songs:

What caught my eye wasn't the stellar 1970s colours (red, pink, and orange!), but the little logo in the bottom left corner. Here's a close up (I'll try to get a better resolution later):

Quite the vintage Canadiana. If you don't know the reference, 'chimo' is, according to some sources, Inuktitut's equivalent of 'aloha' or 'ciao' and for Canada's centennial year (1967) the Federal Government attempted to make the word a part of the everyday parlance of Canadians nationwide. That this usually has to be explained when 'chimo' is mentioned shows just how well the government's linguistic engineering succeeded, but at least it served as a namesake for a briefly popular local band, a record label (as the LP pictured above reveals), and probably a bunch of other stuff that's dissolved into time past. Who knows, maybe there are more overlooked, music-related 'chimos' in those old RPMs? Anyway, the back of the jacket says the album was produced by Chimo Sound Productions, a company I can't find information on, but I would love to know more about. If you've got any info about them, send it my way! Meanwhile, perhaps you'd like to resurrect the 'Resurrect CHIMO!' Facebook page or get in on the somewhat larger 'Bring Chimo Back!!' campaign.  Alternativey, you could start a promotional company for bands and spread the word that way; the possibilities are endless...