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"Canadian Railroad Trilogy" is a Canadian folk song by Gordon Lightfoot describing the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. This song was commissioned by the CBC for a special broadcast on January 1, 1967, to start Canada's Centennial year. [27] It appeared on Lightfoot's The Way I Feel album later in the same year.
Murphy signed his first publishing deal with Mills Music in 1965. He had his first big hit with James Royal's "Call My Name" in 1966. Murphy started producing records in 1966 for CBS, Fontana, Carnaby, Decca, Other hits included Billy Fury's "Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt" and the Casuals "Touched".
George F. G. Stanley was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1907 and received a BA from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. [2] He studied at Keble College, University of Oxford, in 1929 as the Rhodes Scholar from Alberta, and held a Beit Fellowship in Imperial Studies and a Royal Society of Canada Scholarship.
In 2016, she won a competition titled "Canada's Next Country Star". [9] In 2020, Sacha independently released an extended play The Best Thing. [10] The EP included the single "Standards", which was her first top 50 song at Canadian country radio. [11] In 2021, Sacha was named one of CMT's "Next Women of Country". [12]
Pages in category "Canadian patriotic songs" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
"O Canada" (French: Ô Canada) is the national anthem of Canada.The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French-language words were written by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.
Roger Doucet CM (21 April 1919 – 19 July 1981) was a Canadian tenor best known for singing the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada", on televised games of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Alouettes, and Montreal Expos during the 1970s. He was particularly known for his bilingual version of the anthem, which began in French and ended in ...
Folk music was still thriving, as recounted in the poem titled "A Canadian Boat Song". The poem was composed by the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779–1852) during a visit to Canada in 1804. [41] "The Canadian Boat Song" was so popular that it was published several times over the next forty years in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia. [4]