Musical Gems - Gimme Your Money Please

BTS is the nickname of a K-pop band known in Korean as 방탄소년단 which translates roughly as "bulletproof youth group."  My wife, who was born in Korea, is a big fan.  But long before there was BTS, there was BTO - Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Bachman Turner Overdrive was founded in the early seventies.  Randy Bachman left the highly successful Canadian group, The Guess Who, in 1970.  He formed a new group, Brave Belt in 1971 with his brother Robbie and Chad Allen, a former bandmate from the Guess Who.  C. F. Turner and Randy's brother, Tim, joined the group after the first album.  Turner took over the lead vocals from Allen who left the group.  Brave Belt issued two albums and changed their name to Bachman-Turner Overdrive for the third album.  The group's name came from the two surnames in the group, Bachman (Randy, Robbi, and Tim) and Turner; and from the name of a trucking magazine they saw in the Colonial Steak House in Windsor, Ontario.

BTO's first album was the eponymous Bachman-Turner Overdrive.  And the first track on that album was a song called, "Gimme Your Money Please."