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Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies.
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2013.
Stompin' Tom Connors paid a musical tribute to the fallen ironworkers with the song "The Bridge Came Tumbling Down" on his 1972 album My Stompin' Grounds. (This song also appears on several later compilations, one of which was performed by Les Claypool's Duo de Twang).
Born: Stompin' Tom Connors, country and folk musician, in Saint John, ... Died: ShirÅ Nonaka, 32, central conspirator in the February 26 Incident (suicide)
Stompin' Tom Connors – country singer-songwriter; Jesse Cook – guitarist, producer, composer; Robin-Joël Cool – songwriter, composer; Spirit Cool – live-looping acoustic guitarist, singer; Bill Coon - guitarist, composer; Jim Corcoran – singer-songwriter, radio personality; J. P. Cormier – singer, guitarist; Jacinta Cormier ...
Tom Connors may refer to: Stompin' Tom Connors (1936–2013), Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter Tom Connors (research scientist) (1934–2002), British cancer research scientist
Stompin' Tom Connors is shown from the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, then in a small interview, possibly from his home.Connors is also shown accepting his Gold Record award for his Bud The Spud album, which exceeded $100,000 in sales from Canadian Music Sales.
Stompin' Tom Connors made him the hero of a 1970 song. [1] A statue of Joe Mufferaw was erected outside the Mattawa Museum in Mattawa, Ontario, during the spring of 2005. [1] Carved by local carving artist Peter Cianafrani, it was his last statue before he died later that spring. A plaque commemorating his name sits at the base of the statue.