Tom was just starting His career. @ 1968 . He was "Opening" for Doc & Chicky Williams Show. No one knew this chap who came out on stage with an Old Martin & sheet of Plywood. lol . First song He sang.............."Crystal Chandeliers ". Then He starts this "STOMPING THING" and "RIPS" into "BUD the SPUD." Wow.............! I knew then He was on the move. This was in a High School in Louisbourg , N.S. CHEERS
I'm a Cajun from way south Louisiana, I wish I had heard of him back in the early 70's, I love his silly songs and his proud heritage and home CANADA! I'm my elder age, I'm gonna be looking for his music. My favorite is My stomping Grounds.
Any thumbs down here are NOT CANADIAN!! Stompin Tom was the Greatest Canadian Icon of all time a Proud and Humble CANADIAN. God Bless You Stompin Tom and RIP
NO ONE will ever find anything else or anyone so kindly Canadian as Mr. Stompin' Tom Connors. What a wonderful man and a wonderful musician and story teller.. Bless you Mr. Connors
no huge p.a. no light show or explosions not even a snare drum no foul language i don't think they have monitors no harmonies just pure entertainment real live singing real playing killer songs appreciative polite audience real banter between the band members and patrons stuff like this is gone forever rock on Stompin Tom
Could you imagine what songs he'd write with the state of the world/Canada today? Sad to say... but I'm glad he's gone n doesn't have to see it. R.I.P. Dr. Stompin Tom, Canadian Legend Connors
I always knew this footage of Stompin Tom at the Horseshoe existed. Can't tell you how much it means to us to be able to see it !. Thanks to all who shot this footage, the band and of course Stomp and Tom !
It's so weird. I 'm not old enough to have ever seen this gig but I kept thinking the place looked familiar and then found out it was the Horseshoe Tavern. Great live music venue and great Toronto landmark still going strong! I wish Stompin' Tom was but at least I got to see him at Massey hall.
At least one of his performances at the Horseshoe Tavern was televised later on. 1973 performance. Just before my time but love his music! He is missed and he united us. RIP
Saw Tom here many times also up in Sudbury at the Brockdan.Sat with us and we drank a jug or two A great Canadian Lots of fun!! Sleep well my friend 👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
As a child, I can remember my Grandma and Grandpa knocking back the whiskey, sipping Ol' Milwaukee tall boys, and listening to Stompin' Tom. They'd bitch about Canadian politics and at each other before long, and then love each other and do it all over again the next night. Now my children watch my wife and I continue this tradition of listening to this great music, getting sauced right up, tucked away in our little 10'x10' cottage in Haliburton, Ontario. Our kids will remember the same scene, as I did as a child. RIP Stompin' Tom.
A proud Canadian right there R.I.P. well we can still hear him sing one of the greats well when i hear thunder i'll think it stompin tom singing and playing for all our loved ones
A Canadian legend moves on, but will remain in our hearts forever. RIP my good man, a piece of each of us goes with you in your travels.. Be sure to write some new songs we can all listen to when our time comes.
This man is one of the greatest entertainers that ever lived. If he couldn't stomp, he couldn't sing, so he got a stomping board so he didn't stomp his heel through the floor. What a boss. Gone, but never forgotten. I love Stomping Tom. Thank you so much for this.
This is absolutely one of the true Canadian entertainers of all time. Canada should be proud to have such a great ambassador to the country!! He will be sorryally missed.
The Horseshoe Tevern and Stompin Tom. That warms my jaded canuck heart. Haven't seen this in years (City Tv would play it at odd hours if i remember correcrly) cheers!
I seen him live in Ottawa when I was a kid!!I loved it then and I'm 46 and love it now... Even though I listen to totally different music...it don't matter ..this is just a good old time wit these tunes!!
Used to go to the Horse Shoe Tavern in the late late 50's to see Stompin Tom we lived maybe 4 blocks from the tavern so was easy to go over to see him really enjoyed his music live
I'm an American, but grew up within shouting distance of the Canadian border...so I knew well about Stompin' Tom Connors when I was growing up. This really takes me back! 🙂
I live in Peterborough, Ontario and his memorial service was an amazing mashup of all these amazing songs, and constantly mentioning the Horseshoe tavern. Thanks for uploading this, its great to see these old clips :)
I joined the army (3 ppcli) in 1979 at 17 my dad took me to the bar for the first time and stomping Tom was thare not only my first time drinking but my first seeing a band live great times....
Stomping Tom is a party man. Put this on at a major social gathering you attend, on the TV. There will be toe tapping, clapping and all around happiness. Stomping Tom Connors is a national treasure, forever and always. What an entertainer!
ive never been in the music industry just grew up listening to my parents playing country music every weekend when not working.. we have a family friend from canada his names victor norwicki but i beleive he changed it to vic norwin later on he used 2 play with dad alot his style reminded me alot of stompin tom as i just now discovered tom.. but boy i wish i would had the oppurtunity to know him back than i have a gift for listening 2 peoples voice an style an picking or writing songs for there individual styles i found out while just messing around with family singing over years but man stompin tom has a uniqe style n voice but if his material was a lil different man i can only imagine how gr8 it would have been he needed more hank snow kinda songs
Great video, shows Tom at his best and in the best atmosphere for his music ,,,, gotta have a beer or three while enjoying his act! Canadian Legend (rightfully so)
Visited his grave today in Erin, put a shiny good ole Canadian nickel on the headstone with all the rest. Went to the show back home in Chilliwack 2010 where he signed my acoustic guitar. What a legend, thanks for everything Tom
Imho, between the notes of "Stompin Tom's" songs he spoke/sang/told stories that expressed so very, very much sentiment, and emotion, about subjects/aspects that in some ways, so often touches the roots of everyday life in one form or another. Some very meaningful ways. Some funny ways. Some ways inbetween. There seems to be something for possibly everyone in his songs, musical poetry. "Stompin Tom" was a true poet, an eloquent orator of life. An outstanding humble Canadian treasure. We are so lucky to have had the pleasure of "Stompin Tom" stopping by for a while, providing us a good ol time, and also bequeathing to us his songs that we can continue to enjoy since he bid us so long. I hope he's makin' some "Stompin" racquet on shores of the "Pearly Gates, and they got lots of plywood around. RIP "Stompin Tom, and thanks for strumming the chords, and plucking the strings of our emotions, and singing about Canada, it's places, things, and the people. 🥰🙏⚘.
I loved Dad and stompin Tom as friends.They had away to be Canadian. They had away to sing Canada. They a allowed me to play guitar with them. He was pretty good.
I just toured NB and PEI and saw some of STC’s old haunts, including Saint John and Skinner’s Pond up on the North Cape. No better tunes for a road trip like that than the great Stompin’ Tom’s.
He's a living legend forever this is a great stompin Tom Connors movie forever love it watch it all the time you can beat stompin Tom Connors hes lord and proud
Sorry Andre, but Tom does mention Quebec, During the show "Across this Land with Stompin' Tom Connors" he dedicates the song to "Any of the folks in the house who may be of French Canadian decent" then he sings the song The Canadian Lumberjack in both French and English.
This Texas boy loves Canadian country. God bless all you up in the great white north.
Same here, Texican but when I first heard stompin Tom I couldn’t believe he was a Canuck
Tom was just starting His career. @ 1968 . He was "Opening" for Doc & Chicky Williams Show. No one knew this chap who came out on stage with an Old Martin & sheet of Plywood. lol . First song He sang.............."Crystal Chandeliers ". Then He starts this "STOMPING THING" and "RIPS" into "BUD the SPUD." Wow.............! I knew then He was on the move. This was in a High School in Louisbourg , N.S. CHEERS
God bless our cousins to the south Eh!
Right on baud
@@richcosta24 totally for sure there bye
I'm a Cajun from way south Louisiana, I wish I had heard of him back in the early 70's, I love his silly songs and his proud heritage and home CANADA! I'm my elder age, I'm gonna be looking for his music. My favorite is My stomping Grounds.
Any thumbs down here are NOT CANADIAN!! Stompin Tom was the Greatest Canadian Icon of all time a Proud and Humble CANADIAN. God Bless You Stompin Tom and RIP
So true!
David Hodgins
You got that right!
No way you can hate his music!
He never sold out, must be an executive from Sony, lmao.
Well...I think Gordon Lightfoot is up in the best Canadian icon list too...just sayin ;)
He should be on the $5
NO ONE will ever find anything else or anyone so kindly Canadian as Mr. Stompin' Tom Connors. What a wonderful man and a wonderful musician and story teller.. Bless you Mr. Connors
THIS MAN IS NOT ONLY A REAL CANADIAN LEGEND;but also a HERO
This Aussie loves him to first him in 1996
He brought and held us all together. Not as bluenosers not as capers or newfies or albertens. He held us together as Canadians. And thats a fact jack!
And now your leadership in Canada is trying to turn your country into a communist country.
@@nosman069 you're a moron. Take your conservative bs elsewhere
@@nosman069 andrew sheer would have destroyed this country.
@@Christopherjamesmurphy21 my conservative Christian views ill bring right here. You are only one fool
I'm glad they hide the dislike count nowadays. I couldn't handle seeing folks disliking this.
no huge p.a. no light show or explosions not even a snare drum no foul language i don't think they have monitors no harmonies just pure entertainment real live singing real playing killer songs appreciative polite audience real banter between the band members and patrons stuff like this is gone forever rock on Stompin Tom
Right you are. Was introduced to his music last night by a female Canadian. I'm now a huge fan.
And oh how we could use him now!
Could you imagine what songs he'd write with the state of the world/Canada today? Sad to say... but I'm glad he's gone n doesn't have to see it. R.I.P. Dr. Stompin Tom, Canadian Legend Connors
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@@ToAsTyDoNDoN Canada is almost unrecognizable now, sadly. We need more Stompin Toms.
Thank you for this awesome concert. A canadian icon, and proud maritimer.. Always to be Cherished.. RIP Old friend.
I always knew this footage of Stompin Tom at the Horseshoe existed.
Can't tell you how much it means to us to be able to see it !.
Thanks to all who shot this footage, the band and of course Stomp and Tom !
It's so weird. I 'm not old enough to have ever seen this gig but I kept thinking the place looked familiar and then found out it was the Horseshoe Tavern. Great live music venue and great Toronto landmark still going strong! I wish Stompin' Tom was but at least I got to see him at Massey hall.
At least one of his performances at the Horseshoe Tavern was televised later on. 1973 performance. Just before my time but love his music! He is missed and he united us. RIP
I feel what makes Tom so great is he lived through a lot of his songs he walked most of Canada or hitch hiked .
Saw Tom here many times also up in Sudbury at the Brockdan.Sat with us and we drank a jug or two A great Canadian Lots of fun!! Sleep well my friend 👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
As a child, I can remember my Grandma and Grandpa knocking back the whiskey, sipping Ol' Milwaukee tall boys, and listening to Stompin' Tom. They'd bitch about Canadian politics and at each other before long, and then love each other and do it all over again the next night. Now my children watch my wife and I continue this tradition of listening to this great music, getting sauced right up, tucked away in our little 10'x10' cottage in Haliburton, Ontario. Our kids will remember the same scene, as I did as a child. RIP Stompin' Tom.
He was a true Canadian, singing about Canada and the people here. Will always be remembered. Rest in peace dear Stopin' Ton Connors
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Hello debbie, how are you doing?
A Real CANADIAN . one of few
From an 56 year old guy , from northern Ireland UK,, cheers,
Don't mind that I'd rather have him on our 20 $ bill than "the king".
Moved down to the maritimes and I love it and the people but when I hear Tom sing about Big Joe Mufferaw from Ottawa makes me home sick.
No one will ever fill his shoes. Rest in peace Stomping Tom. 🙏
June 21st 2022.
He's the greatest Prime Minister we never had
Him on the 20 $ bill, please! The "king" can stay in the UK.
The last song is very Nationalistic. We need that now more than ever. Thank you Tom. As I like to tell our politicians "This is my village too."
Your comment is 9 years old. But it was never more true than right now! FU JT!
Played new Hamburg in 74 still remember the show, still have the board!! Memeries
Simply the best Canadian ever. R.I.P. Mr. Connors.
cooking up apple pies for thanksgiving Canada 2023 listening to Tom.
A proud Canadian right there R.I.P. well we can still hear him sing one of the greats well when i hear thunder i'll think it stompin tom singing and playing for all our loved ones
Hail Stompin Tom bringing Canada together not divided a single soul in the process eh 🇨🇦❤️🙏🏿
The way in Canada is always stomping Tom Connors he was the best no doubt
What can you say he could have made big bucks. Not a foot in the States!
Before this covid
Great entertainer, R.I.P. TOM. A Bluenoser .
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Canada,s greatest, no ne will replace them,,Stompin Tom and Terry Fox
A Canadian legend moves on, but will remain in our hearts forever. RIP my good man, a piece of each of us goes with you in your travels.. Be sure to write some new songs we can all listen to when our time comes.
Tom is a legend like no other
This man is one of the greatest entertainers that ever lived.
If he couldn't stomp, he couldn't sing, so he got a stomping board so he didn't stomp his heel through the floor.
What a boss.
Gone, but never forgotten. I love Stomping Tom. Thank you so much for this.
R.I.P Tom! Never seen the Horseshoe look or sound this good! Thank you for sharing!!!
Thanks so much for this,,soothing my heart tonight, grew up listening to this great Canadian.
Even God loves Stompin Tom!
This is absolutely one of the true Canadian entertainers of all time. Canada should be proud to have such a great ambassador to the country!! He will be sorryally missed.
The Horseshoe Tevern and Stompin Tom. That warms my jaded canuck heart. Haven't seen this in years (City Tv would play it at odd hours if i remember correcrly) cheers!
very classy Canadian I am glad to know of him and also very proud to become Canadian.
I played his songs homesick for Canada tonight at my gig in Santa Cruz. :)
A TRUE Canadian
god bless him,real true Canadian pride.
While I grew up with stomp Tom's one Saturday me and my pop and grandpa in 1973
The best Canadian hero! RIP Stomper !
All of his songs are awsome. Not only his songs but he also will be remembered forever.
Everytime I hear this man I think of my dad he was probley one of his biggest fans! ..**feeling a "lil"nostalgic"😁🤗
I took some his best songs from the film "Across This Land" and put them together as a tribute. Glad you enjoyed :)
Great job too
I seen him live in Ottawa when I was a kid!!I loved it then and I'm 46 and love it now... Even though I listen to totally different music...it don't matter ..this is just a good old time wit these tunes!!
You are lucky to have seen this Canadian legend perform live! I was only 9 when he passed away!
@@hails6856 Yes I guess I am LOL.
He's quite the character. A very fun entertainer to watch even at my young age ! ☮️
Never tire of Tom !!!!
You're so welcome, I actually cried a bit when I found out he passed away
The only Canadian Celebrity (singer) who never sold out to the USA.....He sang, ate, lived and paid taxes in Canada.
Lived just north of Georgetown, Ontario for years. Catching a glimpse of Tom was like seeing Bigfoot in the wild. Couldn't believe my eyes.
He deeply respected Wilf Carter and Hank Snow.
Love Stompin Tom. So glad I saw him in concert twice. Rest in Peace Tom. You are a great Canadian.
Used to go to the Horse Shoe Tavern in the late late 50's to see Stompin Tom we lived maybe 4 blocks from the tavern so was easy to go over to see him really enjoyed his music live
wow !v What a star ! And he knows it ! Very special guy in deed ! Great music to be remembered . Pass it along and let it not be forgotten
Amazing stuff. Tom's got the hat, vest, boots... but you can feel his Celtic soul. Amazing vocal endurance.
good bye Tom thank you
The song which Jwatchorn is talking about is called the Candian Lumberjack which he does indeed mention the Northern Quebec Lumberjack.
Love Stompin' Tom!!! Canadian through and through. Whoever made this... thank you!
I'm an American, but grew up within shouting distance of the Canadian border...so I knew well about Stompin' Tom Connors when I was growing up. This really takes me back! 🙂
Ive been told ive seen Stompin Tom 6 times. I dont remember but my liver does
I use to shine shoes @ the Horseshoe back in the day Did Hank Williams Boots 2 pair & he gave me $125 bucks never forgot that time
he gave 6 junos back in protest he was amazing sadly I never met him but I did I would thank him for his music he is helping me through a rough time
A GREAT CANADIAN
god bless you Tom
good bar & good music in Toronto
Awesome!!! The best there ever was or will be!!!
Love it, from an old Sudburian. Brings back good memories.
I live in Peterborough, Ontario and his memorial service was an amazing mashup of all these amazing songs, and constantly mentioning the Horseshoe tavern. Thanks for uploading this, its great to see these old clips :)
I joined the army (3 ppcli) in 1979 at 17 my dad took me to the bar for the first time and stomping Tom was thare not only my first time drinking but my first seeing a band live great times....
I went to the horseshoe tavern, when he was there, in the 70's.. a great night... in the snow
R.I.P. Miss you Tom remember the King Eddie in Peterborough back in '68.
Stomping Tom is a party man. Put this on at a major social gathering you attend, on the TV.
There will be toe tapping, clapping and all around happiness.
Stomping Tom Connors is a national treasure, forever and always.
What an entertainer!
I'm here to hear Tom's boot rhythm. Best I ever seen from the legend Stompin Tom 😎
Thank you so much for uploading this.
I saw Tom at the Horseshoe circa 1979. He went through 3 boards of plywood. And winked at me. Made my year xxoo
Hello Dali, how are you doing?
ive never been in the music industry just grew up listening to my parents playing country music every weekend when not working.. we have a family friend from canada his names victor norwicki but i beleive he changed it to vic norwin later on he used 2 play with dad alot his style reminded me alot of stompin tom as i just now discovered tom.. but boy i wish i would had the oppurtunity to know him back than i have a gift for listening 2 peoples voice an style an picking or writing songs for there individual styles i found out while just messing around with family singing over years but man stompin tom has a uniqe style n voice but if his material was a lil different man i can only imagine how gr8 it would have been he needed more hank snow kinda songs
the Late Great Bill Lewis on guitar! my Uncle!!!!!
Great picker...wonder what happened to the cool Fender Jazzmaster that he is playing at this show
That's awesome. Great lead country sound :)
are you a fellow Caper?
fellowette
No way,stompin tom was from my home!
I would be proud was an amazing performance
Great video, shows Tom at his best and in the best atmosphere for his music ,,,, gotta have a beer or three while enjoying his act! Canadian Legend (rightfully so)
Visited his grave today in Erin, put a shiny good ole Canadian nickel on the headstone with all the rest. Went to the show back home in Chilliwack 2010 where he signed my acoustic guitar. What a legend, thanks for everything Tom
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed
I'm almost crying I Had a Picture of him & I at The Horse Shoe but some son of a BBB Stole it on me I would give a few Thousand if I could get it back
i love listening to this
God spoke thru............
Stompin Tom
The best...home grown, the best!!!
The Late Great Tom Connors, My Uncle
It's a shame he is not with us anymore.
Legacy lives for ever
Stompin Tom told it the way it is .......and we should thank him for that ......and be proud Canadians. ..... the #1 country in the world ......
Every month I go back for a canada dose. We are awesome don’t let anyone tell you. We still rock!!
ONE OF MANY GREAT SHOWS I'M SURE! THANKS FOR TAKIN US THERE....
love , & RIP ! Tom, / will be play your tunes / songs , !!
(32:30) At the very end, he lifts up his "Stompin' board", shows the holes he stomped in it, & lets all the sawdust/Stompin' Dust slide off it.
:)
LOVE HIS SONG TO BAD HE GONE.
Where you from?
PATRICK FRIESEN HIS SONGS WERE A LESSON IN CANADIAN HISTORY RIP.DEAR FRIEND.WE WILL MISS YOU.
Sitting on balcony in flannels with a campfire, lisrening to Stompin Tom...does it get anymore Canadian?
Imho, between the notes of "Stompin Tom's" songs he spoke/sang/told stories that expressed so very, very much sentiment, and emotion, about subjects/aspects that in some ways, so often touches the roots of everyday life in one form or another. Some very meaningful ways. Some funny ways. Some ways inbetween. There seems to be something for possibly everyone in his songs, musical poetry.
"Stompin Tom" was a true poet, an eloquent orator of life. An outstanding humble Canadian treasure.
We are so lucky to have had the pleasure of "Stompin Tom" stopping by for a while, providing us a good ol time, and also bequeathing to us his songs that we can continue to enjoy since he bid us so long.
I hope he's makin' some "Stompin" racquet on shores of the "Pearly Gates, and they got lots of plywood around.
RIP "Stompin Tom, and thanks for strumming the chords, and plucking the strings of our emotions, and singing about Canada, it's places, things, and the people. 🥰🙏⚘.
verry good music verry good play guitare mrs thanks.
I loved Dad and stompin Tom as friends.They had away to be Canadian. They had away to sing Canada. They a allowed me to play guitar with them. He was pretty good.
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!!
Thank you so much for posting. I'm in a Stompin Tom mode.
I just toured NB and PEI and saw some of STC’s old haunts, including Saint John and Skinner’s Pond up on the North Cape. No better tunes for a road trip like that than the great Stompin’ Tom’s.
Were in northwoods STC # 1. Icon!
See the sparks coming off his big boot.
He's a living legend forever this is a great stompin Tom Connors movie forever love it watch it all the time you can beat stompin Tom Connors hes lord and proud
Sorry Andre, but Tom does mention Quebec, During the show "Across this Land with Stompin' Tom Connors" he dedicates the song to "Any of the folks in the house who may be of French Canadian decent" then he sings the song The Canadian Lumberjack in both French and English.
traveled from on to pei to see were u came from nice spot to relax