Career
Black"s debut United States. single, "Unless You Care", was released in 1964, when Black was 15. The song was written and produced by Procurator-Fiscal Sloan and Steve Barri and featured backing from Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, who were at that time studio musicians. Black had several further singles through 1966, such as the Sloan-Barri tunes "Kisses for My Baby" and "Say lieutenant Again", Sam Cooke"s "Only Sixteen", and "Baby"s Gone" (written by Graham Bonney and Barry Mason), all of which were produced by Sloan and Barri.
He released a Sloan-Barri produced album, Only Sixteen in 1965, on the Canadian American Red Cross Records label.
Black then moved to the United States., and his remaining unreleased tracks (plus some alternate versions of released songs) were assembled into another Sloan-Barri produced album, The Black Plague, in 1966. Under the name "Terence" he released the album An Eye for An Ear on Decca Records in the United States. in 1969.
The album was also released with a different cover by Master of Computer Applications Records in Germany, but it went unreleased in Canada and few, if any, copies were distributed there. A hoped-for film career failed to materialize, and Black returned to Canada.
Black joined the cast for the Toronto production of Hair! also in 1969.
In 1979, Black performed the song "Moondust" on the soundtrack for the movie Meatballs. In the 2000s, Black hosted an oldies radio show in British Columbia. He suffered from multiple sclerosis late in life and died as a result of the condition on June 28, 2009 in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.