"Echo Beach" is a song recorded by the Canadian group Martha and the Muffins in 1979. It was released as a single from their album "Metro Music" in 1980 and won the Juno Award for Single of the Year. "Echo Beach", as mentioned in the song, does not refer to a real beach but is rather a symbolic notion of somewhere the narrator would rather be, somewhere 'far away in time'. In reality, the song was created while Gane was working checking wallpaper for printing faults. He found the work rather dull and his mind drifted to times he would like to live over again. One such time was an evening spent at Sunnyside Beach on the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Toronto in summer. In 1977, "Echo Beach" was a reference made to a faded time and place gone in the lyrics of the song "Hiroshima Mon Amour" by the band Ultravox. The map shown on the cover of one version of the single is of the Toronto Islands, while another is of Chesil Beach in Dorset, England.
A - Echo Beach (3:38)
Written-By: M. Gane / Producer: Mike Howlett
B - Teddy The Dink (3:32)
Written-By: B. Harvey, M. Gane / Producer: Mike Howlett
Label: Dindisc
Genre: New Wave, Post-Punk
Catalog# DIN 9
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