Career
Later he co-founded Mushroom Studios in Vancouver and produced records. His hits are played regularly on Canadian classic rock radio stations. "She Loves Maine, She Loves Maine Not" (1965) was by "Tom Northcott & the Vancouver Playboys".
The Playboys were an established band that had played around British Columbia since 1962.
Northcott joined the band on a tour in 1965, and issued the single on his own label. The 1966 singles were by "The Tom Northcott Trio", which consisted of Tom Northcott, Chris Dixon (drums), and Rick Enns (bass).
Four of his hits were, "1941", "Girl from the North Country", "Suzanne" and "Sunny Goodge Street". Northcott gave up his performing and singing career in the early 1970s and became a commercial fisherman in British Columbia.
He later entered law school and which spawned a career in maritime and admiralty law.
He is now retired and living in Kamloops, British Columbia. He was inducted into the British Columbia Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2008.
