{"id":7026,"date":"2026-02-17T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:06:09","slug":"thin-red-line-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=7026","title":{"rendered":"Thin Red Line &#8211; 40th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Manhattan Records released <strong>Glass Tiger<\/strong>&#8216;s debut album 40 years ago today, which went <strong>four times Platinum<\/strong> in Canada in 1987 after 37 weeks in the charts, peaking at the 4th position in May 1986. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Media Player\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/ca\/album\/thin-red-line\/714749964?itscg=30200&amp;itsct=music_box_player&amp;ls=1&amp;app=music&amp;mttnsubad=714749964&amp;at=11lmXh&amp;theme=light\" id=\"embedPlayer\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-write\" style=\"border: 0px; border-radius: 12px; width: 100%; height: 450px; max-width: 660px;\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known primarily for it&#8217;s <strong>Platinum Certified<\/strong> single &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget Me (when it&#8217;s gone)&#8221;, which topped the charts for two weeks in May 2026, and the <strong>Gold Certified<\/strong> Top 12 hit &#8220;Someday&#8221;, the album won <strong>Album of the Year<\/strong> at the <strong>Juno Awards<\/strong> for 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band also won a <strong>Juno Award<\/strong> for <strong>Most Promising Band of the Year<\/strong> and <strong>Single of the Year<\/strong> for &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget Me (When You&#8217;re Gone)&#8221; in 1986. And another <strong>Single of the Year <\/strong>the following<strong> Juno Awards<\/strong> in 1987, for &#8220;Someday&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of the first albums I purchased, which I enjoyed from by teens and on. And you can buy a remastered, tiger striped, 180 gram version on vinyl directly from the band&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glasstiger.ca\/products\/the-thin-red-line-lp-re-mastered-180gr-vinyl-tiger-stripe-lp-copy\" target=\"_blank\">official site<\/a> or on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ebay.us\/4LVaKJ\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan Records released Glass Tiger&#8216;s debut album 40 years ago today, which went four times Platinum in Canada in 1987 after 37 weeks in the charts, peaking at the 4th position in May 1986. Known primarily for it&#8217;s Platinum Certified single &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget Me (when it&#8217;s gone)&#8221;, which topped the charts for two weeks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,4,5,8],"tags":[1100,424,1447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7031,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions\/7031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}