Ellen Reid (born 14 July 1966, Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada) provides backing vocals, piano, keyboards and accordion for the Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies.
On the band's fourth album, Reid sang lead vocals on "Just Chillin'", "Get You in the Morning" and "A Little Something". She also shared lead vocals with Brad Roberts on the single B-sides, "Filter Queen" and "Party's Over". She also sang lead during some concerts on "Samson and Delilah (If I Had My Way)" and on the hit, "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead", a cover of the XTC song.
In 2001, Reid released her debut solo album, Cinderellen.
Reid took part in 2002 in the recording of the Crash Test Dummies' Christmas album, entitled Jingle All the Way. In 2004 Reid was also involved in the recording of the Dummies' Songs of the Unforgiven album. The Crash Test Dummies, with Brad Roberts, Ellen Reid and Stuart Cameron, have continued to record and tour throughout 2010/2011.
Ed the Sock is a puppet, created and voiced by Steven Kerzner, that became a Canadian television personality in the 1990s, best known for his appearances hosting programming on MuchMusic and his own talk show, Ed's Night Party, later renamed Ed & Red's Night Party. Ed the Sock has a scowl, a cigar sticking out of his mouth and a rough, gravelly voice.
Kerzner was a producer in the 1990s at Newton Cable, during this time the show went through several co-hosts which included Harland Williams, Eric Tunney and Tim Rykert. After Newton Cable was purchased by Rogers Cable in 1993, Kerzner was able to repackage the program for a wider cable audience with Ed the Sock as the star.
The new show attracted the interest of producer John Brunton, who took the program to CITY-TV. This show, co-hosted by "Humble" Howard Glassman (better known as half of the local radio morning show Humble & Fred), debuted on February 10, 1995, at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time. Brunton later departed the show after having some creative differences with Kerzner.
Plot
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar. Most of what passes for action is a couple of car wrecks, understandable considering the amount of sauce consumed in Harry's bar.
Keywords: bar, divorce, sergeant, tavern
Van Gogh paints a picture
Of sunflowers out in a field
Lennon writes a melody with words
About love and peace
What do they know
Says the big fat man
From the elephant show
You won't get further than the Malt Mill baby
The paint's too bright and your beat's not steady
It's not quite right
Go do it again
If you can
Just do it again
It's not quite right
Go do it again
If you can
Just do it again
Just do it again
Shakespeare pens a sonnet
Says it's his best by far
Newton finds that force is equal
Til you push them apart
But what do they know
Says the two faced lady
From the elephant show
You won't get further than a gig at the docks