I met Stan at Byng Conservation Park, camping. I was 16, 1971, and he was 20 but looked "old" to me. I asked to pay his Martin with heavy strings. All I knew were solos. He grabbed the guitar and said "Kid, here's some chords to learn. Don't wantcha breaking a finger on them leads." He spent almost a month teaching me. Cost me a Coca Cola per day.
What a legend Stan was. This old footage of him is so precious and rare... Canada should stockpile it in museums. I've never heard him sing farewell to Nova Scotia... gave me pure chills. Love ya Stan.
What took you so long to get here? Like John Lennon, sadly dead many years but still remembered today. I've been listening to Jealous Guy (the Bryan Ferry cover) a lot this weekend. I wonder why...? And I met Stan Rogers in fact.
@@michaelrmurphy2734 as a fellow American, I will say that here in the states, Stan Rogers is never mentioned. I only discovered him because I got into a sea shanty kick, and since then, I’ve been a massive fan. The only other person I’ve ever met down here to have heard of him, was an old flame of mine, which, oddly enough, came into my life cause she saw a post I made on social media about Stan, and that’s was the beginnings of that relationship. Anyways! As a young American (23 years old, M) I find it saddening that I only discovered him as an adult. This guy is a massive inspiration for me, and his songs are some of my favorite to play on guitar, or listen to when I relax. I sincerely hope that more young Americans can discover some of his work, and keep the legacy alive!
And to think.. only 8 years after this, and that darned aircraft fire took him from us. He would now be 72 (b. 1949). His brother Garnett is now retirement-age (b. 1955). His son Nathan is now 41, older than his father was when Stan died.
He was only 33 when he died. And I met him after a Saint Patrick's Day concert where he OPENED for Ryan's Fancy at the Rebecca Cohn auditorium. Anytime I see Dennis Ryan I tell him that story! TWO From Aways who made Nova Scotia home!!! From Ireland and Hamilton, Ontario.
I never had the chance to see Stan Rogers on stage but I did meet him one afternoon in Ginger's Tavern in Halifax, N.S. The bar was nearly empty and we chatted for close to an hour. I was a nineteen year old who had just joined the navy. I didn't even realize who he was at the time. He had only introduced himself as Stan.
Stan found us during the early days of the pandemic and his music and indelible soul have been such a comfort to us during this time. I hope his family knows how much he is loved, all these years after his passing. What a legacy, what a legend!
Stan's verse of Farewell to Nova Scotia is hauntingly brilliant - I'd love to hear a full version of him singing it if that's available anywhere in the world. (Especially since Nova Scotia was a special place for him)
I was in McVeighs Irish pub in Toronto and the band was playing. I heard a song that stuck with me until the next day I couldn’t remember the name of it, thankfully I had recorded a video of the band singing. The song was Barrett’s Privateers. That’s how I discovered Stan’s music and have been a fan ever since. His music reminds me of the folk music back home in Ireland. Thanks for uploading these videos. They are great 👍🏻
RIP Stan Rogers (1949-1983) A victim of smoke inhalation onboard Air Canada Flight 797 after it safely landed at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Boone County, Kentucky due to an in-flight fire.
Thanks for the posts. I have posted all of Stan Rogers known audio concerts. Jim Cain wrote a book, Rise Again, based on The Mary Ellen Carter, a novel, that is done very well. Its on Amazon. I live in Maryland.
@@westernmaryland1928 Cool! Online, right? You must know about the Tragically Hip. Their singer Gord Downie was diagnosed with brain cancer and they did a final cross Canada tour. My brother went to see them. And their final show was in Kingston, Ontario. CBC here set up a public event with a remote feed. It would cut out occasionally but no worries because the audience was SINGING ALONG with the songs!!! Just Like Stan Rogers and Stompin Tom Conners, Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip wrote song about Canada and about BEING Canadian. Who does that today?
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ol2a9CLMLR0.html Alan Doyle Dream Of Home about Canada. We are huge fans of Great Big Sea and Alan. I have many videos of Alan and GBS on RU-vid. I have several full concerts of Bruce Cockburn Birchmere on youtube. Gordon Lightfoot. Blue Rodeo yes was on line, as you should sign up for emails. I just got Greg Keelors solo CD, outstanding. Jim Cuddy did a solo Concert. Gordon Lightfoot did a concert on line. I have the 4 hour Tragically Hip concert on DVD and CD, have not watched in full. I do not know much about the group, but my wife knows more. I think that is the show I recorded from CBC. I am a big fan of Royal Wood, Rose Cousins, Deep Dark Woods (I broke the news to them that Great Big Sea broke up). I have on video of them on youtube from that concert, Jammin Java Deep Dark Woods. Music is great. By the way, Garnet Rogers knows us well. Garnet has a great book out, 700 pages but worth reading.
I remember hearing on the news about the fire on the plane and thinking that it was such an avoidable tragedy. That was before I'd heard of Stan. I wish I could have known of him while he was still with us.
Damn, this was just about the last show I watched on Canadian TV, then I moved to the US for my work.I miss them both, and keep a rotation of their records in my "listening" stacks. I miss my Canadian home, not really fond of things here in the US anymore.
This video is a rare TREASURE. I helped bring Stan, Garnet and Jim Morrison to Dayton, Ohio and there couldn't have been three better fellows and needless to say staggering musicians.
Because this show used an overhead boom microphone to catch the performers, it's tough to hear clearly the other instrumentalists on the first two songs (because the microphone was centered on Stan and his guitar).
This performance was mentioned in Garnet's book Night Drive. He (Garnet) explains that he was left out of this performance and replaced by the show's session fiddler, but producer and performer Paul Mills ("Curly Boy Stubbs") was there. Garnet is quite critical toward Paul Mills throughout the book; the takeaway is that there was and still is an antagonism between the two.
@@111Watersong without coming right out and accusing Mills of it, Garnet paints a picture of Mills (and Ariel, for that matter) having many a free drink and career enhancement due to his connection with Stan. This may well have been where the genesis of Stan's modern image of today got its start.
@@kriscarver-seaboyer9204 After reading his book, I noticed that "Hugh's Room" in TO was hosting a tribute night with Ariel, Paul, Stan's son, and others.....and I though "Man, Garnet must be pissed"
This was fascinating to read and I checked out the book because of it. It kind of sounds like Garnet suffered the greatest loss. It's a real fucking shame to think that there were people milking Stan's legacy before he was even gone. It's an open secret that the music industry is crawling with parasites. Someone who can pick out some tunes and knows the right strings to pull can really punch above their weight, even though Stan (and really Garnet also) were the masterminds here. Stan surely had the conflict this night in his head during the performance, and I don't think he'd like how the legacy has unfolded. He always spoke highly of his little brother. He knew how strange their style was, but Garnet was with him all the way. All the more respect to Garnet that since then, he has done his own thing, and he hasn't tried to cash in by doing more of the same. He has his own unique style, and he isn't derivative of Stan's themes at all. I've only more recently spent a lot of time listening to his music, and just how good he is shows best in his own music, including the role he played in arranging and fine-tuning Stan's songs at times.
@@PythonDad I've noticed that Garnet, like Stan, has an ability to tell a great story as well as write a great song, but from a specific man's point of view. Small Victory, for instance, is very in the style of Stan in his Northwest Passage recording, with the western theme of horses paralleling Night Guard. But Garnet does not rerecord Stan's work for his own albums even though he was the co-writer of much of Stan's work. It's rare that he'll even play the songs at his own shows. I've heard it said that just after Stan's death, while he was still deeply grieving, he was made to relinquish any ownership or claim to any of Stan's songs and would not profit in any way from Stan's catalogue. It's clear that Garnet does not like Ariel as well as Paul Mills, he mentions her only as much as the story might need her mentioned, but is presented in terms of strict neutrality, and when Garnet does have a negative thing to say about her, he guards it in a vagueness that doesn't mention her by name. His book makes mention of "the person who wound up owning Fogarty's Cove Music", for instance, and the crafted image of Stan that came therefrom.
Legend Stan Rogers died by saving other people on the airplane ✈️ and shows on the news without knowledge his wife and John allan Cameron suppose to pick him up at Toronto Airport and John allan found he died 😢I believe it took affect on John allan because he knew his wife rest in peace Stan Rogers 🙏
The apples...and the girls who eat this. This is the rites, the myths. The life of all the centuries. This is the prolongation of the sentence. Oh the pures hearts and their full rights. The trues birds.
Beyond wonderful. Hadn't seen this particular video before. I still wonder what makes a man grow a beard but shave his top lip. Is it to look more like a garden gnome? Who can say?
That last song, "Farewell to Nova Scotia", was done by both John Allan and Julie Amato almost 2 1/2 years later in (I think) the very same studio (CFCF-TV studio 2 in Montreal) on Julie's CTV variety series, as part of a medley of Nova Scotia songs. I recorded that 1978 show onto audio cassette from my youth home in Cleveland Heights, OH, USA, when CTV affiliate CKCO-TV, possibly on its Chatham/Sarnia, Ontario signal, came in one night. (BTW, do you have the closing credits for this show, or did this cut off naturally? I reckon the production and technical staff on this show worked on Julie's show as well, and I made a historical credit roll for her series which I hope to build on.)
Also, Stan basically sang the same high harmony in the choruses that Julie sang with John Allan in 1978 (though she did not sing harmony on "For when I'm far away on the briny ocean tossed").
WOW!! Julie Amato!!! Now THERE is a name from Canadian pop culture in the early 1970s! I remember her! A lovely woman, but... Where Was She From? Not where you might think. She would not have a Canadian birth certificate.
@@michaelrmurphy2734 Julie actually was born and raised in the Buffalo, NY area. I was in that area almost two years ago to do research on her TV show, and some time after that, I parked on the street south of her old high school and played a recording of her singing the old Carpenters song "For All We Know" from her show. That was a big thrill in my life, hearing her sing while parked near her high school (I almost leapt out of my car seat while I heard that)!
@@mbclev I just posted on another video that Anne Wilson of Heart was up in Vancouver so much she got a Canadian residency permit. I wonder if she still has it?
OMFG!!!!! You are/were IN Ohio and you like Canadian music and culture?!!! Now I AM impressed because I did NOT know that about Julie Amato! Its so special when people "from away" as we say come to live with us! For all I know Julie Amato was here in Nova Scotia sometime. Prince was. He played the Metro Center. And do you know anyone who met Stan Rogers? Well, you do now...!
If this had been JAC's CBC show, Paul (Curly Boy) might well have been producing it. He produced most of Stan's albums. JAC was a huge promoter of Cape Breton music. We attended several tapings of the show at the CFCF12 studios at 405 Ogilvy in Montreal. Probably not this one since we were honeymooning in the UK that month. One disappointment was that most performances were lip-synced. We miss Stan and John Allan but Paul Mills is still around with Stan's Laskin 12-string.
Did you attend the taping when John Allan guested on Julie Amato's CTV variety show in 1978 (recorded at CFCF-TV)? I have that particular show on audio cassette (recorded off the air from CTV affiliate CKCO-TV, possibly on its Sarnia/Chatham, Ontario signal on channel 42, in the home city of my youth, Cleveland Heights, OH, USA).
Obviously enjoying what he does for a living. It makes me wonder what Stan did on his day off? God Rest him. A Canadian National Treasure not so unlike The Bluenose. "The-rum-was-better-and-it-came-in-bigger-bottles-and-the-revenue-cutter-were-slow," Coffee came out of my nose! HA!!
How can this guy sing and perform so confidently while standing next to Stan Rogers??? He should just lay his guitar aside and bow down before Stan Rogers and say "please play for us Master"
I mean, John Allan was already a legend in 1975 and Stan was still up and coming. No one did more for traditional Celtic music in Canada than John Allan Cameron did, and I'm sure Stan would have considered him a massive influence.
I’m sure he felt exactly that way. But it’s his show and he’s gotta. But damn, I understand what you mean. Anyone would have been embarrassed to have to follow Stan and you couldn’t have gotten me to sing while he was singing for a million dollars.
John Allan Cameron started the trend of "traditional Maritime music" becoming pop. Without JAC we would not have the The Rankin Family or Jimmy Rankin or his dearly missed sister Raylene. Maritime music owes it to John Allan Cameron. Traditional and pop! And my brother's father in law produced Up Home Tonight with Gordon Stobbe at CJCH-TV on Robie Street in Halifax, NS. AND knew Gene MacLellan from Prince Edward Island!
Uncle Emile, he’s gone now nearly ten days He tole his wife’s he’s gone for the fishing But in the waters off St. Pierre and Miquelon Isles The fish come in bottles of gold If the Anne-Marie floats and the Mounties stay blind He’ll be back before the moon is rising With a very fine catch all safe in the hold Thirty cases of Trinidad light For Acadian Saturday night! Emmeline Comeau works the general store Papa says she’s good for the custom She’s go eyes like fire and hair past her shoulders As shiny black as ant’racite coal You can see her Sunday morning on the St. Phillipe road Her mother close behind like a dragon But her mama doesn’t know what she does behind the hall Away from the music and lights On Acadian Saturday night! Oh - don’t the fiddles make you roll ‘Til your heart she pounds like a hammer There’s a fat lady beating her piano like a drum And everybody’s higher than a kite On Acadian Saturday night! Granpa says it was better in his day The Mounties stayed away from the parties And he didn’t mind a fight when the spirits got high (You could always throw them out in the snow) And the rum was better and it came in bigger bottles And the revenue cutters were slow - Still, the old Anne-Marie has wings on the water And there’s nothing like Trinidad light On Acadian Saturday night! 1:03
