Georges Dor began his career working for a number of private radio stations where he wrote his first radio sketches before joining Radio-Canada in Montreal (1957-1967) as an announcer, news writer and producer. On the prompting of the poet Gaston Miron, Dor turned to songwriting. Initially powered by La Manic, his new career as a popular singer began in 1966. Soon invited on a European tour by the French impresario Jacques Canetti, Dor took his songs to the Trois Baudets in Paris and the Palais des festivals in Cannes. He went to perform at the Comédie Canadienne (1969), Place des Arts’ Port-Royal Theatre, the Butte à Mathieu club in Val-David, north of Montreal, and Centre d’art de Percé in the Gaspé region. Soon after, Dor quit performing while continuing to record songs and beginning to write lyrics on music by the pianist Robert Séguin.