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RIP Stompin' Tom Connors
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Last night I had one of those 'I'm surrounded by movies but don't know what to watch' nights so I started poking around on Youtube and came across the Across This Land With Stompin' Tom Connors feature from 1973.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199299/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Live At The Horseshoe album is, I believe, taken from the same show that was shot for this. Anyway, it's pretty cool. The bar is full of smoke and everyone in the crowd is having a good time but of course Tom is the main draw here. He's really over the top and animated, doing lots of goofy accents and really screwing his face up in strange ways, all just to get a laugh. He brings out a few 'guest stars' (none of whom I'd ever heard of before) but they only do one song a piece.
In between some of the songs you get weird vignettes - the animated cartoon for the Ketchup Song, some footage of Tom driving a street car in TTC Skeedaddler, at one point he's cruising around in a boat - Tom's just more or less being Tom in most of these. Oh and there's another cartoon where Tom appears, in cartoon form, and enters a pig race against a Leprechaun. Not sure wtf was going on there.
At any rate, anyone with an interest in Tom's music or who just wants a glimpse of the odd country music scene of early 70s Canada should check it out. No official release anywhere that I know of, but it's here...
Rock! Shock! Pop!
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Zoomin' Tom
Wed, April 21, 2021
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/national...s-147616211061
An online screening and discussion of Across This Land With Stompin' Tom Connors (1973) to celebrate National Canadian Film Day
Join the Media Commons Archives for a special National Canadian Film Day screening of the exhilarating concert film Across This Land With Stompin' Tom Connors. Released in 1973, this recently restored Canadian gem documents an intimate concert by Stompin' Tom Connors and others at the historic Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. We'll follow the screening of this rare film with a Q&A with the film's editor Jacques Jean and Greg Dunning son of the film's producer.
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