Dennis R. Murphy

Canadian drummer, engineer, and producer (both music and film production). Started his music career 1966 as a drummer with the band The Gas Company playing at at McMaster University in Hamilton. After graduating spent some time as a local journalist in Hamilton but soon left for California to work as a drummer. In 1968 went to New York as a publicist then engineer at Elektra Records, with his first producer role in 1970 for Nonesuch. He returned to Canada in mid-1970, founding Sundog Productions in December 1970. During the 1970s mainly produced recordings for Capitol and Attic, recording mainly at Thunder Sound. He later branched out to film/TV production, notably for CBC and National Film Board of Canada.