Canadian Music Thread Redux (one video per post) - Page 31

Acajack · #**601** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 8:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Xelebes

Now Brayon music. Is Roch Voisine Brayon?

Brayon music... now there's a challenge.

The Brayon label works for Roch Voisine, as do the Québécois and Acadian labels too. He was born and lived for a time in St-Basile NB which is now part of Edmundston. He also spent much of his youth in Notre-Dame-du-Lac QC which is about halfway between NB and Rivière-du-Loup. His father was the mayor there.

Not sure how it fits in to your project, but this is THE song for Roch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F32hfmC1fa0

It's one of the biggest-selling songs in French ever, worldwide.

Xelebes · #**602** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 8:18 PM**

Yeah, that is sitting at number 4.

Acajack · #**603** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 8:22 PM**

Another Brayonne is Natasha St-Pier (born St-Pierre). Born in Bathurst but actually from the Baker Brook area in NW NB near the Maine border.

She's actually Brayonne-Acadienne-Québécoise-Française. She lives in France now and her career is arguably bigger over there than here at home. Though I saw her on the Quebec talk show Pénélope McQuade last week and she was saying she'd move back eventually with her French hubby.

Anyway, here is her biggest hit. It was actually the entry for France at Eurovision about 10 years ago. It came out in Quebec first under the Guy Cloutier label, but it was written by a Frenchman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675rLFDc5I0

SignalHillHiker · #**604** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 9:59 PM**

Curious to know if these would rank anywhere, Xelebes. Trying to think of the ones everyone knows, that you end up dancing with your grandmother to in the kitchen at Christmas.

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SignalHillHiker · #**605** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 10:01 PM**

This may achieve a rank as well. It's every other couple's wedding song.

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(I don't even want to know how many grocery romance novels are on the bookshelf of the girl who made this video).

SignalHillHiker · #**606** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 10:05 PM**

Another one that I think went pretty big, at least here it's become a Dad classic (not so much for Mom or the kids, lol).

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They always used to play, too...

O.K., so when I was a teenager, the gay bar in St. John's was the one that stayed open the latest. It basically filled the role of an after-hours bar before those started openly existing. So around 3:30 a.m., all of the straight people would rush the bars they were being kicked out of and flood the Zone. They'd only get an extra 45 minutes or an hour, but it was fun - and the straight guys were a riot. Half clinging for dear life to their girlfriends/whoever they planned to drag off, a quarter hunting for lesbians, and a quarter with varying levels of interest in wanting to be hit on by the guys. The bar would always end the night with a cheesy folk dance song (say the techno version of Peter Street), then a couple of drunk-straight-girl-hardness rock songs. And finally a slow song. Then the horror lights would come on and you'd see just how shit everyone looked that late/early.

Anyhow, this Punters song - more often than not - was included in that brief rock interlude. You still hear it at a lot of the pubs, not so much in the bars or dance halls.

Xelebes · #**607** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 11:05 PM**

The Star of Logy's Bay perhaps doesn't fit. I'm tempted to call it a true folk tune because it was penned well before 1929 (the songwriter died in 1924.) Secondly, I can't tell which year it came out or if contemporaries published the song for him. I'm going to leave it as a folk tune, perhaps admissible in The Old Canadian Songbook, if someone is assembling that.

Xelebes · #**608** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 11:32 PM**

2000: Joe Batt's Arm Longliners - Middle Tickle

#612
Between April Wine's "Just Between You and Me" and Danny Fernandes' "Fantasy"
Between Les Squelettes of Téléfrançais "Nous Nous Appelons Les Squelettes" and Daniel Belanger'S "La folie en quatre"

1945: Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary - Otto Kelland

#112
Between Corey Hart's "Sunglasses At Night" and Loverboy's "Turn Me Loose"
Between Jean Leloup's "1990" and Marie Carmen's "Entre l’ombre et la lumiere"

1961: Out From St. Leonard's - Gary O'Driscoll

#563
Between Crowbar's "Oh, What a Feeling" and Strange Advance's "We Run"
Between La Familie Soucy's "Prendre un P'tit Coup c'est Agréable" and Ariane Moffatt's "Point de mire"

1979: St. John's Waltz - Ron Hynes

#388
Between Prism's "Armageddon" and Claudja Barry's "Boogie-Woogie Dancing Shoes"
Between Ariane Moffatt's "Montreal" and Mario Pelchat's "Pleurs dans la pluie"

2002: Sixteen For a While - Celtic Connection

#798
Between The Box's "Closer Together" and Junkhouse's "Shine"
Between Veronic Dicaire's "Feel happy" and La Familie Soucy's "Faudrait bien prendre un p'tit coup"

SignalHillHiker · #**609** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 11:39 PM**

Wow, thanks! Fascinating to see Cape St. Mary's so high compared to the others. I thought, for sure, Longliners would be the highest of those.

I love this stuff. You should start a website/blog.

Xelebes · #**610** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 11:43 PM**

I put Middle Tickle there because I couldn't tell when Frank Dwyer wrote the tune. I know it sia current tune because Longliners are a relatively recent development in the Newfoundland fishery scene so. . .

If you know when Frank Dwyer wrote it, that would be awesome.

SignalHillHiker · #**611** Posted **Sep 3, 2015, 11:59 PM**

The Dwyer family settled Fogo Island in the 1700s and every second one of them is named Frank. But you're correct that longliners are, for the most part, a post-Confederation thing. So it's very probably the Frank Dwyer who is still alive.

Also found a post by his son on Google Plus:

https://plus.google.com/111260404209...ts/5zLzeFk6cFK

So looks like it was written in the 50s-60s.

Can't even find the year Middle Tickle's album was released.

Wow.

Xelebes · #**612** Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 6:30 PM**

I dropped Patrick a question. I'll see if he has an answer.

SignalHillHiker · #**613** Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 9:20 PM**

Xelebes... the two Newfoundland songs that I believe became most famous on the mainland. I could be wrong, but I'd bet these will - unfortunately - beat the others I've shared.

Xelebes · #**614** Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 9:36 PM**

Those both showed up in the Top 40 lists, but they didn't have the views or the covers and such to get in over the minimum. There is a lot of top 40 tracks that I liked back in the 90s that don't reach the minimum, but there are plenty of songs to choose from.

The 90s:

1990: 282.267 - 35
1991: 247.552 - 22
1992: 333.670 - 19
1993: 344.648 - 27
1994: 300.105 - 21
1995: 356.301 - 17
1996: 318.341 - 26
1997: 321.001 - 25
1998: 321.097 - 23
1999: 640.166 - 20

The second column is the average scoring of the included songs. 100 is the minimu and a template I use on songs that qualify by default are 10-5-5-5 (or x35.355). The view under this require 151 000 in 1990 and 274 000 in 1999. Or at least it should ball park there.

SignalHillHiker · #**615** Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 9:37 PM**

Ahh, cool.

Makes sense. I'll hide them in a spoiler then.

SignalHillHiker · #**616** Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 9:41 PM**

Trying to think of ones with LOTS of covers. I don't know when this song was written, etc., BUT it was the song that they rung with the bells on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to "celebrate" our joining in '49.

It's probably second to I'se the b'y in stereotypical association.

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Xelebes · #**617** Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 9:55 PM**

I was thinking about Squid Jigging Ground earlier this morning. It was written in 1928 which means it is really early. If I set up my model to include such early dates, it would be receiving a 6.67% point boost. Or I wonder if I should just record it as 1930. Deskisions, deskisions.

Perhaps I shall wait to see if there are more tunes from the 1920s that are fit to be included.

Leaving it off this would put it in the Old Canadian Songbook, joining O Canada, Le Papillon and Allouette.

SignalHillHiker · #**618** Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 10:00 PM**

Meh, leave it. If it's that old then it must get an unfair advantage from having so many covers. Even if only people immediately related to the singer sang it. lol

Xelebes · #**619** Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 10:46 PM**

Came across this curiosity from 1950.

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Xelebes · #**620** Posted **Sep 6, 2015, 6:38 PM**

So the only years I have left which have so songs associated with is 1934, 1935, 1937 and 1940. Wow.