I'm an American, but I grew up 20 miles from the border so most of the tv and radio stations I grew up with were Canadian. Hockey Night in Canada, the Beachcombers and Stompin' Tom Connors! 🙂
I'm American too, but growing up, my family and I used to go camping with a trailer on Prince Edward Island, or P.E.I. for short, and we did it every summer until I was a bit more half grown for their own reasons, and we did go in my final year of high school, but it wasn't our trailer, it was a cabin, well my parents in the next few years, they'll have a motorhome, and when I plan time off of work, the three of us, my mom, my dad, and I will go to P.E.I. again, just for old times sake, get back in that kind of groove we used to be in after so many years, but in a different style, and all that kind of camping we did then made my dad interested in this music, which then got me interested too. R.I.P. Tom.
Grandpa mined Nickel for INCO for 42 years and passed in 2016. Now he's up in heaven getting stinko while Grandma's in a home playing Bingo on a Sudbury Saturday Night.
Proud to say that this song was written 50 years ago about my hometown Sudbury. Ontario, Canada! Also he mentions "Scotty Jack Macdonald" which might be my great-grandfather!
Majorsmythe. Spot on fella. Truly Canadian. The ORIGINAL OG. He never sold out. He was humble and never forgot where he came from. He may be gone but like it or not he'll always be in hearts of us Canadians.
my dad used to pick up my youngest dsughter after school and got her hooked on stoppin tom.she still listens to stoppin tom today,god bless you dad,love and miss you,RIP.GOD LOVE YOU GIVE MOM ANS CATHY A HUG AND KISS FOR ME.
Coming from a north west Ontario mill town this song makes me think of the men of my Grandfathers generation, out for a well deserved good time with friends after a long hard work week. I just grin ear to ear listening too this song and watching Stomping Tom back in his prime , what a fantastic applause at the end.
2022 here. I saw Tom at the Horseshoe right about this time. You had to be 21 to get into a licensed place in those days and the H/S was about he first place I went. God bless Stompin' Tom. Forever in our memories!
Our drinking age was 18 in Ontario until 1979... Fortunately, I looked "Older" and managed to meet him while 'A Minor" but I'll deliberately MISSPELL IT: "A MINER" as STOMPIN' TOM Loved to support and Encourage our Hard-Working CDNs especially, Our Valued YOUTH! He's GREATLY Missed!!!!
@@jeffreybarkin3177 hi there. I managed a Brewers Retail Store in Toronto in those days. We went from 21 to 18, which was a disaster, and back up to 19 to try and get it out of the high schools. Of course, every 18 year old knows a 19 year old, so the "remedy" was pretty much a joke. The 19s used to roll in and fill the car with 2-4s for their friends/customers. Typical regulatory bollocks.
Hands down this is the best version of this song ever. The lead guitar doesn’t just kinda mimic the melody like the versions on Bud The Spud or Live at the Horseshoe, and that definitely ads to the song.
I wonder if he didn't write this song sitting . in the bar at the Mine mill hall in Sudbury.. The bar was downstairs and the they had bingo in the hall upstairs on Saturday nights. It was a very busy place upstairs and downstairs on that night.
I've got Sudbury roots and with all the shit Sudbury always gets, this song gives me a sense of pride for my family and heritage. Thanks, Stompin' Tom. Rest in peace.
Stompin tom was from a generation that right or wrong fought battles that took there toll ,they worked jobs they perhaps didnt like but they did it for their family and country and only wanted their children to have a better life ,they didn't take ,,they gave ,,okay i'll get off the soapbox
I saw Leonard Cohen in concert in 2013, in his intro to Tower of Song he referenced "Those we have recently lost in the tower of song, Rita, Stompin' Tom and now George Jones", I never would have guessed Leaonard Cohen was a fan.
I always thought a mule skinner was a guy they hired to cut the skins of the buffalo the hides were more valuable than the buffalo can any one clarify for me also they had teams to pick up the bones of the buffalo they slaughtered thanks
I still see my mom And pop Playing cards at the table listening to songs And this comes on And they dance in the living room with a few other country songs ....And yup In Sudbury where i was born ..On a Sunday : (
