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RIP Stompin' Tom Connors..Canadian folk singer legend

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by JR, Mar 6, 2013.

  1. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    I have sung Stompin Tom songs to both my kids while trying to get them to sleep, still wonering if my 17 month old will one day ask about the son of a gun who is ripping the tar off the 401!
     
  2. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    So sad, was surprised to learn he was only 77. Thought he was in his late 80s. He will be truly missed, few have done more to instill Canadian pride and build up the music industry in the country.

    http://www.stompintom.com/
     
  3. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    I only know the Hanson Brothers version of that song.
     
  4. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Nice tribute from Helene Elliott of the LA Times:
    http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-stompin-tom-connors-dies-nhl-hockey-song-20130306,0,1686175.story
     
  5. mpcincal

    mpcincal Well-Known Member

    I would have never known about Stompin' Tom Connors until today if I hadn't come across an episode of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" when he taped a week's worth of shows in Toronto. And then this guy came to the stage:



    I didn't know who the hell he was, but I thought that performance was all kinds of awesome.

    RIP Stompin' Tom.
     
  6. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Guess it was the last game of the playoffs too.
     
  7. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    The NDP caucus mark his passing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c9UBlAkqwTA
     
  8. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    The Stompin' Tom "To It And At It" was the soundtrack when SCTV did its parody of "Goin' Down The Road" with "Garth and Gord and Fiona and Alice." (There might not have been a more Canadian sketch SCTV ever did -- the lead actress from the original 1970 movie reprised her part as the love interest of one of the Martimers in T.O., and one scene featured Eugene Levy as a CBC documentary director mourning the death of a beaver he was filming that the guys ran over on the way.) Alas, the YouTube videos have all been taken down, so the best I can do is this tribute concert's version:

     
  9. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Goddamn Socialists! :)
    Seriously, can you imagine the Conservatives doing this? Well, maybe PM Harper could have dragged out his piano
     
  10. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    That sketch was brilliant and I believe Eugene Levy was filming a segment of the famed Canadian nature program Hinterland Who's Who on the woodchuck ("a small furry animal indigenous to snowy climes") that gets run over by John Candy's awesome Parisienne (emblazoned with the slogan "Me Moncton Home").
     
  11. Iron_chet

    Iron_chet Well-Known Member

    That was cool.
     
  12. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    A bunch of people from my journalism class filmed a one-verse, one-chorus kicker to end our newscast today. Good times. :)
     
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