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The single was the most successful single in Canada in 1967, selling a then unprecedented 270,000 copies. [3] It was No. 1 for 2 weeks on the RPM Top 100 Singles in Canada, in April 1967. [4] In 1971, Gimby donated all royalties to the Boy Scouts of Canada, but the song only earned one cent per airplay, which is one of the lowest rates in the ...
Gagnon, who later came to live in Maisonnette on the Acadian Peninsula, was the subject of the documentary film Cayouche: Le Temps d'une bière (English: Cayouche: Time for a beer) by Maurice André Aubin in 2009. [8]
In 1972, he represented Canada at the Sopot Song Festival in Poland. The same year, he returned on tour to the USSR. In 1976, he gave a series of concerts at Place des Arts, participated in the "5 grands sur la montagne" show (Une fois cinq), and presented a few concerts with Félix Leclerc on Île d'Orléans (Le temps d'une saison). That same ...
Gilles Vigneault GOQ (French pronunciation: [ʒil viɲo]; born 27 October 1928) is a Canadian [1] poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. ...
April 9, 1931: L'ouvrage aux Canadiens and La chanson du bavard. July 7, 1931: C'est la fille du vieux Roupi and Il va m'faire mourir c'gars-là. July 8, 1931: La côte Nord and Aux chauffeurs d'automobile. September 15, 1931: Ah! C'qu'il est slow 'Tit Joe, Chanson de la bourgeoise and Le commerçant des rues. October 8, 1931: Tit Noir a le mal ...
"Gens du pays" is a Quebecois song that has been called the unofficial national anthem of Quebec. [1] Written by poet and singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault, and with music co-written by Gaston Rochon, it was first performed by Vigneault on June 24, 1975 during a concert on Montreal's Mount Royal at that year's Fête nationale du Québec ceremony.
The lyrics to "Ô Canada! mon pays, mes amours", meaning "O Canada! my country, my love" is a French-Canadian patriotic song.It was written by George-Étienne Cartier and first sung in 1834, during a patriotic banquet of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society held in Montreal.
"Un Canadien errant" ("A Wandering Canadian") is a song written in 1842 by Antoine Gérin-Lajoie after the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–38. Some of the rebels were condemned to death, others forced into exile to the United States [n 1] [1] and as far as Australia.