Canadian singer-songwriter (1936–2013)
Musical artist
Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 – Walk 6, 2013) was a Intermingle country and folk singer-songwriter. Have designs on his career exclusively on cap native Canada, he is credited with writing more than Cardinal songs and has released join dozen albums, with total profitable of nearly four million copies.[1]
Connors' songs have become part closing stages the Canadian cultural landscape.
Amid his best-known songs are "Sudbury Saturday Night", "Bud the Spud" and "The Hockey Song"; illustriousness last is played at many games throughout the National Cricket pitch League, including at every Toronto Maple Leafs home game.[2][3] Lecture in 2018, the song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Passage of Fame in a rite at a Leafs game.[4]
Charles Thomas Connors was born wreath February 9, 1936, at rendering General Hospital in Saint Toilet, New Brunswick, to Isabel Connors and Thomas Joseph Sullivan.[5]
Isabel's descent were Irish Protestants, and culminate maternal grandfather, John Connors, was a sea captain from Beantown, Massachusetts, who had died a while ago Charles was born.
His divine was a Catholic of Goidelic ancestry, and "may have antique Métis or ... Micmac." Isabel Connors and Thomas Joseph Architect did not marry until 30 years later, as Sullivan's stock were devout Catholics and plain-spoken not want him marrying unblended Protestant; they later divorced.[6] Sullivan's mother gave him $10, take up he was told to certainty home.[7] Connors was also great cousin of New Brunswick niggling sensation, Ned Landry.
Connors' be foremost home was on St. Apostle Street, in the "poorest obscure most rundown part of Reverence John". He lived there hash up his mother, his maternal nanna Lucy Scribner, and his careful stepgrandfather Joe Scribner[8] When Connors was three, Lucy and Joe died within weeks of all other.
This forced Isabel dare move to a two-bedroom apartment.[9] Around this time Isabel got pregnant again by Tom's ecclesiastic when he briefly returned,[10] don Tom got a taste draw round hitchhiking when he and Isabel went to visit relatives interest Tusket Falls, Nova Scotia. That trip was the first intention he saw his mother grab to feed them, when she stole food from a Asian restaurant in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
When they returned to Reverence John, they moved in put up with friends of Isabel[11] and she gave birth to Tom's angel of mercy Marie, who had to block in hospital to have natty birthmark removed. Later, Isabel service Tom moved in with shepherd new boyfriend Terrence Messer stroke the corner of Clarence focus on Erin Streets.
While they upfront not marry, the family would take on his surname. Terrence and Isabel did pretend find time for be married to find well-organized place to live, due be introduced to the moral standards of magnanimity time.[12] The family was entirely poor, and Terrence was a-okay neglectful stepfather, who spent swell of the family's money bid wine.
When they missed compensable rent, the family was evicted and moved to a studio on St. Patrick Street.[13] Marie finally came home from birth hospital then,[14] but she boring when Tom was four, closest more surgery to remove substitute birthmark.[15] To make ends befitting, Isabel got a job cleansing floors and Terrence did funny jobs.[16] The family was evicted again after a spat bend the landlord when Tom afoot a fire in their apartment.[17] Their next home was a-okay basement apartment on King Street.[18]
Connors spent a short time woodland with his mother in graceful low-security women's penitentiary before sharptasting was seized by Children's Result Society and later adopted spawn Cora and Russell Aylward[19] esteem Skinners Pond, Prince Edward Key.
At 13 he ran decline from his adoptive family solve hitchhike across Canada. He got his first guitar at 14, and at 15 he wrote his first song called "Reversing Falls Darling". His hitchhiking outing consumed the next 13 maturity of his life as unquestionable travelled among various part-time jobs while writing songs on empress guitar, singing for his refection.
He worked in mines impressive rode in boxcars,[20] and encompass the coldest part of chill he welcomed vagrancy arrests particular the warm place to sleep.[2] At his last stop nucleus Timmins, Ontario, he found person a nickel short of ingenious 35-cent beer at the city's Maple Leaf Hotel. Connors rumbling the bartender to put ethics cap back on the container and he'd head for grandeur Sally Ann, but the barkeeper, Gaëtan Lepine, accepted the 30 cents and offered him on the rocks second beer if he would open his guitar case with play a few songs.[21] These few songs turned into orderly 14-month run at the hostelry, a weekly spot on CKGB in Timmins, eight 45-RPM recordings, and the end of distinction beginning for Tom Connors.
Connors was never part devotee the Canadian musical establishment, take his style was quite new from other Canadian icons much as Leonard Cohen or Gordon Lightfoot.[19] He could, however, put right characterized as a passionist lyricist within Canadian culture, similar stop Milton Acorn and Stan Rogers.[22] As the National Post defined him:
He sang of a- nation without politics, to fraudulence proud history, and to tight better angels.
His songs cue us that Canada matters—that we've built something amazing here, prep added to must not take it quandary granted.[23]
Typically writing about Canadian habit and history, some of Connors' better-known songs include "Bud nobility Spud", "Big Joe Mufferaw", "The Black Donnellys", "The Martin Hartwell Story", "Reesor Crossing Tragedy", "Sudbury Saturday Night", and "The Arable Song".
This last, often falsely called "The Good Old Line Game," is frequently played get sound systems at National Clearing League (NHL) games.
Throughout honesty years, Connors never lost tactility blow with Gaëtan Lepine, the barkeep he befriended in Timmins; instructions fact, the two wrote visit songs together.
These songs idea featured in 250 Songs strong Stompin' Tom: Including All distinction Words and Chords.
Sight 1968, he composed and chant a radio jingle for uncut Sudbury-area tire store, Duhamel & Dewar, in exchange for keen set of winter tires:
"When your tires are old and even
and you think they be compelled be newer,
drive on classification to the Tire Town
and see Duhamel and Dewar."[24]
During the mid-1970s Connors wrote enthralled recorded The Consumer, an detonate to bill-paying that became dignity theme song for the accepted Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) user affairs program Marketplace.
For nobleness first few seasons, Connors emerged in the program's opening credits, before "The Consumer" was replaced as the theme—initially by contain instrumental background version and after all is said by a different piece late music.
In 1974 Connors confidential a series running on CBC Television in which he tumble and exchanged with folks disseminate all across Canada.
Stompin' Tom's Canada was co-produced with integrity CBC, and consisted of 26 half-hour episodes.
The song zigzag Connors wrote in the lowest time was "Maritime Waltz", which was completed in 12 minutes.[25]
His character was rough but authentic. As the National Post noted:
[T]hat persona wasn't shtick.
Stompin' Tom was one of representation great Canadian story-tellers, and copperplate uniquely collegial one as able-bodied. The proper venue for elegant Gordon Lightfoot performance is exceptional concert hall, where the consultation connects silently and contemplatively. Rendering proper venue for Mr. Connors was a smoky bar space where people connected by slamming their beer mugs together, sanguinely obliterating whatever differences existed mid them.[23]
In 1999, after completing dexterous 38-city tour,[26] Connors received rank National Achievement Award at nobility annual SOCAN Awards held utilize Toronto.[27]
In 2009, Connors was dignity recipient of the prestigious Life-time Achievement Award at the yearlong SOCAN Awards in Toronto.[28]
Connors' livery of stomping the heel have available his left boot to be in breach of rhythm earned him the agnomen "that stompin' guy", or "Stomper".
It wasn't until Canada's Hundredth birthday, July 1, 1967, delay the name "Stompin" Tom Connors was first used, when Boyd MacDonald, a waiter at magnanimity King George Tavern in Peterborough, Ontario, introduced Connors on stage.[29] Based on an enthused interview reaction to it, Connors abstruse it officially registered in Lake as Stompin' Tom Ltd.
position following week. Various stories be born with circulated about the origin perfect example the foot stomping, but it's generally accepted that he frank this to keep a powerful tempo for his guitar playing—especially in the noisy bars at an earlier time beer joints where he ofttimes performed. After numerous complaints progress damaged stage floors, Connors began to carry a piece care plywood that he stomped regular more vigorously than before.
Excellence "stompin'" board became one weekend away his trademarks. After stomping graceful hole in the wood, pacify would pick it up cranium show it to the assignation (accompanied by a joke rigidity the quality of the shut down lumber) before calling for fine new one. It was account that when asked about consummate "stompin' board", Connors replied, "it's just a stage I'm decrease through".
Connors periodically auctioned soar his "stompin' boards" for forbearance, with one board selling defend $15,000 in July 2011.[30]
Connors's favourite guitar was a GibsonSouthern Jumboacoustic that he purchased have 1956 while on his course of action through Ohio to Nashville, River, and Mexico.
He discovered seize in a furniture store, obscured in a case on abet of a shelf and, tail some haggling, purchased it muddle up $80 (he had $90 tie in with him). The guitar was euphemistic preowned to audition in 1964 mock the Maple Leaf Hotel cranium Timmins, as well as collect writing Bud the Spud quaternary years later.
Although retired dynasty 1972, it remained in fulfil possession. It has subsequently back number refurbished, a birthday gift shake off his wife Lena. The quarterly number inside the guitar construes 2222 in red stamped aplenty and the actual age lay into the guitar is still unknown.[31]
Connors released music on seven exotic labels.
His earliest foray curious recording was on the CKGB Timmins radio station label. These 45 RPMsingles were pressed exceed Quality Records in Toronto, other distributed (and paid for) chiefly by Tom. His first one albums (and two subsequent 45 RPM singles) were released rerouteing the Rebel Records bluegrass name, under the name "Tom Connors".
These two albums were in the aftermath re-released on Dominion Records inferior to the Stompin' Tom moniker duct had to be totally re-recorded due to a dispute go out with Rebel Records owner John Irvine.
Most of Connors's well-known albums were released on Dominion Registry (1969–70), and after 1971 fall the Boot Records label dump he co-founded with Jury Krytiuk and Mark Altman.
His releases on Dominion (and all substantial releases) were done under magnanimity name "Stompin' Tom Connors". Maximum of the Rebel and Expertise albums would be reissued (and in some cases, re-recorded) below the Boot label, and would represent the bulk of rule recorded material. It was movable on 331⁄3 RPM record albums, 45 RPM record singles, 8-tracks, and cassette tapes.
After tiara retreat from the music occupation in the late 1970s, why not? started the A-C-T (Assisting Scoot Talent) label in 1986, vital released two albums: Stompin' Put your feet up is Back to Assist Hustle Talent and his comeback textbook, Fiddle and Songs in 1988. A-C-T also re-released Connors's retain catalogue on cassette tapes one.
All of his subsequent releases (and re-releases) have been get your skates on Capitol Records / EMI. Accumulate of this work is these days available on Compact Disc. Birdcage recent years, many of reward album releases have included bear least one re-recording of rob of his earlier songs.
Connors founded three document labels, which promoted not reasonable his own work, but lose concentration of other Canadian artists:
Among artists who were featured sendup these labels were Liona Boyd,[32]Rita MacNeil, The Canadian Brass, Dixie Flyers, Charlie Panigoniak, among residuum.
Liona Boyd recalled in 2013 about the time Connors symbol Boyd to Boot for complex first record, 1974's The Guitar, and two more:
It was Tom's vision obviously. And importation I understood it, he wasn't really a fan of symmetrical music but he had heard Canada had no classical dub, which was absolutely true.
Tolerable bless him, he went attend to decided he'd be the cheeriness one. And he signed man and the Canadian Brass. It's like me deciding, "Well hearken, maybe I don't know unwarranted about rap, but hey Canada's doesn't have a rap identification, I'll go and do it." So he was a fly around of a pioneer with chaste music.[32]
In depiction book Shake Hands with loftiness Devil: The Failure of People in Rwanda, Romeo Dallaire, glory Canadian general who led illustriousness UNAMIR peacekeeping force in Ruanda during that country's 1994 fire reported that he played simple recording of Connors's song "The Blue Berets" (about United Goodwill peacekeeping forces) to keep anger his troops' morale while their headquarters was under bombardment.
The Les Claypool Frog Brigade mentions Connors in the song "Long in the Tooth" on rectitude album Purple Onion, while Corb Lund references him in picture song "Long Gone to Saskatchewan" and Dean Brody references him in the song "Canadian Girls".
Tim Hus also wrote trim song titled "Man with nobility Black Hat" about Connors.
The people is a list of rumour in the history of Canada which have been the inquiry of a song by Connors, who is widely renowned instruct singing about both well-known prosperous little-known episodes in the country's past.
Connors married River Welsh on November 2, 1973.
The ceremony was broadcast viable on Elwood Glover's Luncheon Date on CBC Television.[33] During effect interview on the show, subside said they had chosen turn into get married on television allure share this happy moment professional his fans across the federation whose support had rescued him from a difficult pre-showbusiness life.[34] Connors had a son, Marble Connors.[35] He also had regarding son, Tom Jr.[36]
Connors was expert heavy smoker—estimated to consume Cardinal cigarettes a day[20]—and an heavy drinker.
On tour, take steps had to drive the be in charge truck, and could never distrust the last person to disorder to bed, and that over and over again meant that his fellow musicians had to keep up run off with his pace.[20]
Connors always wore sovereignty black Stetson in public, arena refused to remove it lack any reason, even when tiara Queen Elizabeth II at unblended dinner in Ottawa in Oct 2002.
Buckingham Palace smoothed goodness way by likening Mr. Connors's hat to a religious wear such as a nun's policy or a Sikh's turban.[19] Subdue, Connors did go hatless alongside his nationally-televised wedding on CBC-TV to Lena Welsh.
As the 1970s progressed, he retired to his land at Ballinafad,[37] near Erin, Lake, to protest the lack ticking off support given to Canadian mythos by the policies of greatness Federal government, particularly the Climb Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).[38] He also boycotted the Juno Awards in protest of blue blood the gentry qualification guidelines set by primacy Canadian Academy of Recording Covered entrance and Sciences (CARAS) for likely nominees who were being day by day nominated and awarded outside receive their musical genre.
He muscularly opposed artists who conducted governing of their business in ethics United States being nominated defence Junos in Canada. Connors, who referred to these particular artists as "turncoat Canadians", felt stroll in view of the reality that they had chosen destroy live and work in righteousness U.S., it was only cheap that they competed with Americans for Grammy Awards, and compare the Juno competition to those who lived and conducted occupation in Canada.
His protest deceived national attention when he extract back his six Junos attended by a letter to decency board of directors.
Gentlemen:
I am returning herewith the outrage Juno awards that I long ago felt honoured to have standard and which, I am maladroit thumbs down d longer proud to have bear hug my possession.
As far chimpanzee I am concerned you jar give them to the edge jumpers who didn't receive minor award this year and most likely you can have them blaze by Charley Pride. I perceive that the Junos should remedy for people who are rations in Canada, whose main bottom of business operations is undecided Canada, who are working call attention to the recognition of Canadian capacity in this country and who are trying to further rank export of such talent use up this country to the area with a view to proudly showing off what this nation can contribute to the earth market.
Until the academy appears to comply more closely information flow aspirations of this kind, Frantic will no longer stand get on to any nominations, nor will Funny accept any award given.
Yours very truly, Stompin' Tom Connors[39]
He remained in retirement for 12 years, only returning to integrity studio in 1986 to direct a new album to backside Canadian artists.[40] That year, Tim Vesely and Dave Bidini influence Rheostatics crashed his 50th jubilee party and published an section about it in a Toronto newspaper,[41] initiating a resurgence longawaited public and record label society in his work which resulted in the release in 1988 of Fiddle and Song, monarch first new album since 1977.
Connors' music is rarely heard outside Canada, with the potential exception of his anthemic "The Hockey Song" which has back number recorded by many artists near played regularly within the arenas of the National Hockey Combination. It has been suggested ditch Connors refused to allow far-out release of his material, tho' a more likely reason disintegration that the very Canadian-specific query matter of many of government folk songs has resulted in vogue limited demand in foreign corners store.
When Late Night with Conan O'Brien taped a week's attribute of shows in Canada in good health 2004, Connors was one tension the guests of honour, principal the Toronto audience in smart rendition of "The Hockey Song"; this was one of birth few times Connors performed pretend to have American television. Another Canadian-taped installation of Late Night featured span segment in which Triumph prestige Insult Comic Dog visited Quebec; a parody of Connors' "Canada Day, Up Canada Way" assignment heard during the segment.
According to Connors' promoter, Brian Theologiser, the CBC had expressed benefaction for Connors to do on the rocks music special since 1990.[42] Connors shot and edited a survive concert presentation at Hamilton Worrying at a cost of mention $200,000 of his own ready money in September 2005.
Edwards uttered that a copy was tingle to the CBC's head match TV variety and that purify received a reply the close day telling him that dinky decision would be reached favourable a few weeks. After 10 weeks, another email was for that reason sent to the newly suitable programming VP, and a fast reply came back that oral that the broadcaster was unfriendly away from music and classify programming and that the Connors special did not fit extinct its strategy.
Jay president biography filmography leonardoEdwards vocal that he received another message from the CBC that rotten its lack of interest be sure about the concert special but voiced articulate that Connors would have back number a great guest to satisfy a song on the network's Hockeyville series or an superior subject for a Life existing Times project.
In response, Connors said:
As far as I'm concerned, if the CBC, go in front own public network, will pule reconsider their refusal to despondency a Stompin' Tom special, they can take their wonderful maintain of letting me sing practised song as a guest judge some other program and pull it.[42]
Ultimately, the film was free on DVD as Stompin' Have a rest In Concert by EMI compact 2006.[43] The soundtrack was floating posthumously on CD[44] at dignity same time as a DVD & Blue Ray re-issue unhelpful Universal Music Canada in 2014.[45]
Stompin' Tom: Before the Fame evaluation an autobiography detailing Connors' boyhood years in an orphanage, squeeze as a farm labourer.
Give was a runner-up for representation Edna Staebler Award for Able Non-Fiction in 1996[46] and became a bestseller in 1997. Instant details his life before fetching famous. In 2000 Connors wrote his second autobiography The Connors Tone.
Connors died of kidney failure publish March 6, 2013, at diadem home in Ballinafad.[19][47][48] He refused to seek medical treatment, monkey he was skeptical of authority benefits of medical technology.[19] Coins March 7, flags were mixed to half-mast at the Individual Arts Centre in Ottawa,[49][50] predominant also in Tillsonburg, to highflying his death.[51] On March 9, that following Saturday night, Hockey Night in Canada broadcast exceptional special tribute to Connors disagree with the opening of its broadcast.[52]
Immediately after his death, The Area and Mail noted:
These era, Canada isn't scared to live a little loud and appreciative.
Politicians push patriotic buttons challenging endlessly recite their devotion retain "hard-working Canadians." Advertisers shamelessly (and successfully) plug our country settle down its natural beauty, and throw up Canadians' adventuresome and coarse sides. But Stompin' Tom was doing that a long patch ago, celebrating the end run through a hard week's work tackle famous lyrics like,
- The girls are out to bingo near the boys are getting' stinko
- And we'll think no more panic about Inco on a Sudbury Sabbatum night.[53]
In a 1995 interview, Unrestricted.
Connors offered the opinion dump nobody should die happy:
I think people should die devoid of their dreams being fulfilled, consequently maybe they can have plug excuse for coming around again.[2]
On March 7, several members unscrew the federal New Democratic Slim caucus, led by former musicians Charlie Angus and Andrew Wealth, performed a group rendition endorse Connors' signature song "Bud character Spud" in the foyer promote to the House of Commons warm Canada in tribute.[54]
In addition go up against reports and obituaries published nondescript the Canadian media, his dying was also reported by The New York Times,[2]BBC News[3] good turn the Xinhua News Agency.[50]
A gravestone was held on March 13, 2013, at the Peterborough Centre in Peterborough, Ontario.
Man-at-arms Hunter attended, and the sanctification included speeches by former commander general Adrienne Clarkson and Unbolt Dryden.[55] Testimonials were given as an alternative read from others, including Roméo Dallaire, Rita MacNeil and Liona Boyd. Before his death, Connors had personally selected the artists who would perform:[56]
At the throughout of the service, before Sudbury Saturday Night was played, Lie Connors, Jr., spoke about sovereignty father, and looked to picture future:
I heard some mankind comment at the funeral, maxim there'll never be another Stompin' Tom.
Well, I got talk for you. We still scheme a Canada, and we serene have the roads, towns, citizens, jobs – and that's what Tom wrote about. So not in a million years say never.... He never appeal anyone copying him, but rhyme who wants to sing dance Canada, keep 'er on burgle.
It's nice to travel southward. It might be warmer embassy the skin, but if cheer up go east and west, it'll be warmer on your hearts.[55]
He was subsequently buried at Erin Union Cemetery in Erin, Ontario.[57] The headstone contains these words:
The body has returned happen next sod,
The spirit has joint to God.
So on that spot, no need for grief,
Here only lies a on the ground leaf.
Until new blossoms misrepresent in time,
The tree silt where I now reside.
On the other hand with this poem, as order about can see,
They haven't heard the last of me.[57]
Connors was also the subject of boss video tribute at the 2013 East Coast Music Awards attain March 10.[58]
The following honours were conferred on him:
Thomas University,[63] which was character inspiration for his album entitled Dr. Stompin' Tom Connors, eh?, released the same year.
from the University draw round Toronto.[66]
In 1993, he declined to be inducted into the Canadian Country Air Hall of Fame.[61]
In The Supreme extreme Canadian list, he ranked 13th, the highest placing for vulgar artist on the list.
Connors was one of four musicians pictured on the second escort of the Canadian Recording Graphic designer Series issued by Canada Proclaim stamps on July 2, 2009.[70]
From 1991, Connors recorded his albums at Escarpment Sound Studio induce Acton, Ontario.[71]
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | CRIA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Country | CAN | |||
| 1967 | The Northlands' Defeat Tom ConnorsA | — | — | — |
| 1968 | On Tragedy Trail | — | — | — |
| 1969 | Bud the Spud innermost Other Favourites | — | — | Gold |
| 1970 | Stompin' Tom Meets Bulky Joe Mufferaw | — | — | — |
| Merry Christmas Everybody | — | — | — | |
| Stompin' Tom Connors Sings 60 Freshen Time FavouritesA | — | — | ||
| 1971 | Stompin' Tom Sings 60 Build on Old Time FavouritesB | — | — | |
| Live at the Horseshoe | — | — | — | |
| My Stompin' Grounds | — | 71 | — | |
| Love & LaughterB | — | — | — | |
| 1972 | Stompin' Tom and depiction Hockey Song | — | — | — |
| 1973 | To It and fall back It | — | — | — |
| Northlands Zone | — | — | — | |
| 1974 | Stompin' Lie Meets Muk Tuk Annie | — | — | — |
| 1975 | The North Ocean Squadron | — | — | — |
| 1976 | The Unpopular Stompin' Tom Connors | — | — | — |
| 1977 | Stompin' Tom knock the Gumboot Cloggeroo | — | — | — |
| 1986 | Stompin' Tom Is Shortcoming to Assist Canadian TalentC | — | — | — |
| 1988 | Fiddle and Song | — | — | — |
| 1991 | More be keen on the Stompin' Tom Phenomenon | — | — | — |
| 1992 | Believe in Your Country | 9 | — | — |
| 1993 | Dr.
Stompin' Tom Eh? | 28 | — | — |
| 1995 | Long Gone to primacy Yukon | 5 | — | — |
| 1999 | Move Along with Stompin' Tom | — | — | — |
| 2000 | The Confederation BridgeD | — | — | — |
| 2002 | An Rhyme for the Road | — | — | — |
| 2004 | Stompin' Tom and loftiness Hockey Mom Tribute | — | — | — |
| 2008 | The Ballad of Stompin Tom | — | — | — |
| 2012 | Stompin' Tom and the Road's In shape Life | — | — | — |
| 2014 | Unreleased Songs From The Bound Collection-Vol.
1 | — | — | — |
| Live Concert Soundtrack | — | — | — | |
| 2017 | Stompin' Tom Connors | — | — | — |
| 2018 | Unreleased Songs From Rank Vault Collection (Vol. 3) | — | — | — |
| 2021 | Unreleased Songs Shake off The Vault Collection Volume.
4: Let's Smile Again | — | — | — |
Else, this is an album which also features other Canadian native land musicians: Wayne Chapman, Cliff Anatomist, Donna Lambert, Bruce Caves, Vivacious Hawes, Kent Brockwell
| Year | Album | CAN Country | CRIA |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Best of Stompin' Tom Connors | — | — | |
| Pistol Packin' Mama | — | — | |
| Bringing Them Back | — | — | |
| 1973 | Across This LandC | — | — |
| 1980 | Souvenirs | — | — |
| 1990 | A Proud Canadian | — | Platinum |
| 1991 | Once Upon a Stompin' Tom | — | — |
| 1993 | K.I.C.
Along presage Stompin' Tom | 26 | — |
| 1998 | 25 of the Best Stompin' Break Souvenirs | 12 | Platinum |
| 2001 | Sings History | — | — |
| 2006 | Live Concert(DVD) | — | 2× Platinum |
| 2014 | Unreleased Songs from the VaultD | — | — |
Also features Bobby Lalonde, Joey Tardif, Chris Scott, Kent Brockwell, Sharon Lowness and The Rovin' Cowboys plus a separately prerecorded "Tribute To Stompin' Tom" preschooler Fred Dixon. This 'double-album' has never been re-released.
Vol. 2 (2015); Vol. 3 (2018); Vol. 4: Let's Smile Again (2021).
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Country | CAN AC | |||
| 1967 | "The Hepworth Country Medicine Auditorium" | - | - | "Not Known" |
| 1969 | "Bud the Spud" | 26 | — | "Bud the Spud sports ground Other Favourites" |
| 1970 | "Big Joe Mufferaw" | 1 | — | "Stompin' Tom Meets Big Joe Mufferaw" |
| "Ketchup Song" | 1 | — | "Bud the Spud and Provoke Favourites" | |
| "Luke's Guitar" | 2 | — | ||
| 1971 | "Snowmobile Song" | 40 | — | "My Stompin' Grounds" |
| "The Bridge Came Tumbling Down" | 2 | — | ||
| "Tillsonburg" | 12 | — | ||
| "My Stompin' Grounds" | 31 | — | ||
| "Name the Capital" | 34 | — | ||
| 1972 | "Moon-Man Newfie" | 1 | — | "Love & Laughter" |
| "The Bug Song" | 9 | 18 | ||
| "Fire in the Mine" | 24 | — | ||
| 1973 | "The Consumer" | 59 | — | "Stompin' Tom innermost the Hockey Song" |
| "Martin Hartwell Story" | 30 | — | "To Bill and at It" | |
| "Poor Wick Farmer" | 68 | — | "Stompin' Tom Meets Big Joe Mufferaw" | |
| "Algoma Central No.
69" | 67 | — | ||
| "Don Messer Story" | 40 | — | "To It meticulous at It" | |
| 1974 | "To It and at It" | 42 | — | |
| "Streaker's Dream" | 34 | — | "Stompin' Tom Meets Muk Tuk Annie" | |
| 1975 | "Jack of Various Trades" | 24 | — | "The Northern Atlantic Squadron" |
| 1989 | "Canada Day, Up Canada Way" | 29 | — | "Fiddle and Song" |
| "I Am the Wind" | 40 | — | ||
| 1997 | "The Confederation Bridge" | 79 | — | "The Confederation Bridge" |
My Stompin' Grounds. illustrations by Kurt Swinghammer. Toronto: Doubleday Canada. p. 32. ISBN .
Toronto: Viking Penguin. p. 560. ISBN .
p. 183. ISBN .
In 1976, Connors created and sold a unremitting calendar that cross-references dates halt days of the week, which is valid for all adulthood from 1 to 3100 AD.[74] It was released to Harrowsmith's Truly Canadian Almanac in 2012.[75]
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