Songs didn't "disappear" back in the old days like they do now. I was born in 1960, but an AM station in my hometown in NC was a big CBS affiliate which played instrumentals and the "light classics" during the day. As a child I vividly remember hearing things like this, "A Summer Place," "Cherry Pink...," "Wonderland By Night," etc. etc. long after their runs on the charts. I've always been an old fogey and still love this kind of music!
@LWOPP I, too, have always had old lady taste in instrumentals. In the 70s and 80s while I did like to listen to classic rock and old school hip hop, I listened to the same kind of station you did, too on my a.m. clock radio!
Ohh yes. I was 6 in 1956. This was on the radio and it was the sort of thing that a child liked. Elvis was on at that time as well with Hound Dog. How blah!
This song gives me the chills. I was a big 7yrs. old and we were all in the car driving home from Bear Mt. in NY. One of my happier days as a small child. A bunch of us in this old jalopy of a car, but we were happy, had a nice day, and this song played and i thought it was wonderful. I'm not 62 and love the saong as much as i did as a 7 yr. old.
On the pauses... I have been playing this song for two years now NO PAUSES...Then (maybe since the on-screen advertising... I am guessing, but that is probably NOT it) my computer started pausing the crap out of this song... And this is not the only one. IS SOMEONE out there, AT&T, YouTube, heck I don't know in this country of conspiracies what it is, but IT is making the songs I play on Youtube all pause out! SOMEONE HELP US ALL FIGURE IT OUT!! I thought it was just my computer! NO
@man975dog Sorry the video did not play well for you, but I just played it without the slightlest pause, or glitch.
Perhaps your computer RAM memory was overtaxed. Try shutting down other applications and just have Youtube running and you may have better success. Thanks for watching.
@SPENNA99 hey thanks 4 the reply. i will try 2 follow ur instructions and c how it goes this time with ur music video of canadian sunset here. thanks again and i will let u know how it goes the next time i watch and listen 2 ur music video.
@man975dog I occasionally get pauses on a lot of tunes, not just this one. It is a due to internet traffic making the buffer fill too slow. What you can do is stop the play for maybe 30 seconds or so and let your buffer fill to get well ahead of the playback point. Then you can hear the music without pauses. The red line is the played part and the grey is the buffer fill. When the grey is well ahead of the red, you probably won't get pauses.
I love memories like the one you talk about on Route 7... Years ago. Thanks for telling us about it. Were you ever on Route 7 down Wilton way? Do you remember The Orem Diner?... The pinkish one? I heard some many years ago now they moved it, or whatever for Route 7 (progress we'll call it)... But I am sure you remember the Orem Diner that was like I do in the early 1970's... I remember there was a sign on it "Since 1921"...
This was one of my father's favorite pieces. I remember listening to it on our RCA Victor player in the TV stand. That whole period of my life is brought back by this music.
tenía 10 años cuando escuché por primera vez esta melodía que me gustó tanto. Me trae recuerdos de mi niñez. El video muestra escenas de atardeceres en Canadá y está muy bien logrado. !Felicitaciones! va muy bien con la música. Jorge Mario
One can sit and listen to this beautiful piece of music and go anywhere in time, to a special place that makes one smile, what a great piece, thank you.
I used to play this on the juke box in the diner on Route 7 in New Milford, Connecticut when I would be having my cheeseburger and Coke. Long time ago!
I remember a spectacular brunette in a "bikini" (oh, the horrors) one summer at a resort in Missouri when this song was popular...I remember her looking back at me...and I died...but she was an "older woman"...maybe 17 and I was just a kid (10). I WILL ALWAYS think of her when I hear this song. I could have loved this woman.
@spahjrp Thanks for sharing that memory. It's amazing how we can connect a piece of music with a moment in our lives and remember it many, many years later. That's the power of music, that's the power of the mind.
The year this was a hit was of our family's first trip to northern Minnesota on the Ontario border and the Gunflint Trail. The resort we stayed at closed years ago, but the memories remain...and I'll always associate the song with the vacation.
Was a child when I head this song, loved it ever since, never knew the title, but when ever they played it on the radio, I was overjoyed. This song had such class then, and it brings back memories to this day. Thank you oh so very much for posting such a beautiful, classic. This one I will never get tired of listening to. Greetings from Columbia south carolina !!!!
Has anyone got the Ted Heath Big Band version of this tune they can put on here.I don't seem able to find a copy anywhere.I would be grateful.I used to go to see the Ted Heath band in the Fifties,they were a great night out.Thanks.
The handsomest boy from a men's college came to our all girl's college mixer and asked me to dance to this song..he had just returned from Canada, and said I reminded him of all it's beauty...
@Patti129able That was a great compliment to you! I happen to live in one of the most beautiful parts of western Canada. Thanks for sharing your memory.
I turned 10 late in 1956 yet I remember this song as if it were yesterday. It's amazing how music can be so indelibly printed in our minds. This was great to listen to again, thanks for posting!
During the fall dance of my freshmen yr I drummed up all the courage I could to ask the hottest chick in my class for a dance. This song was playing. Forget the jitterbug I wanted a slow dance with this gal i.e. cheek-to-cheek. I was positioning myself to be the first to ask her before the other guys. Heart throbbing & nervous..I went for it...and oh yeah she accepted my invite..sweet memories whenever this song is played. Brown hair...brown eyes ..curvaceous and a personality to match..OH MAN!
I grew up in Hawai'i and remember this being played all the time on the radio! The melody stays with you forever, like Theme from A Summer Place, and Stranger on the Shore! Thanks for posting!
This is simply beautiful.... like so many other instrumentals from the 50's - 70's. This also happens to be one of 'many' instrumentals from this era that I have no idea of what its called or who sung it... And today they played this on the radio and all I caught was Canadian Sunset.... Thanks for uploading this song! Hi from Australia.
BTW, the first 25 seconds or so of the intro to the song may sound a little "Arabian" but it is in fact a throwback to native Canadian or American Indian themes that were used in the early 'cowboy and indian' movies. Cochise would show up on top of the mountain with his warriers in headress and various permutations of that 'theme' could be heard in the background. Going way back, it may have some distant connection to actual music played by the natives but, more likely it is pure Hollywood.
As I recall the story, the pianist was Eddie Heywood. He had a few bigs hits: the other one I remember is "Soft Summer Breeze". When you listen to him play, concentrate on the left hand. Apparently, Heywood's left hand was either severely damaged or deformed which accounts for his unusual and quite unique style.
To: Spenna99, I want to thank you for a wonderful piece of music i thought was lost forever. Im what is labeled me a Baby Boomer. A wwII war baby.along with 1 1/2 million others. I was a little over 12 when this came out. I heard it in a small record store. They had speakers outside. I started to dance like fred astaire would have. People started to make a circl;e around me. Then when I was done I came out of my trance. Boy I was imbarased.they clapped ..thanks again.. Rebbecca Anne
@MrLarryWinterhalter You are so blessed to have such amazing consanguinity. I grew up listening to this tune (don't try to figure out my age, LOLOLOL), and it has stuck to me like coins inside a parking meter (or a vending machine, which is better?)
If you want a different interpretation of this ancient melody (and it is older than old) listen to Etta Jones (not Etta James) vocal of it. She adds an interpersonal dimension, takes it from the Canadian vistas right to the intimacy of a romantic odysessy.
I have an interesting Ramsay Lewis story about this song, too. Happened last spring.
How has America managed to degenerate itself from this kind culture when music had class to this "noise" we have today? Im only 27, so im one of the few my age who knows music when he hears it... This is excellent.
Thks katosierota! Kudos for the visual - I was 11 when this song hit the charts - loved it then and now! Always amused me back in the 80s when I'd be in a club and some new band would slip this song into another song.
I'd never heard this song before i found it on this channel and i love it! I think music from this era had alot more soul and people had more of an appreciation of the composition, not just the vocals.
Thank you for this gorgeous post. The photo medley is stunning, and as a would-be landscape photographer myself, I really appreciate it. The music is a different animal altogether: It feels, for the first 25 seconds, like something out of KISMET or ARABIAN NIGHTS, then changes over with a lush downbeat to a drive on the interstate through the country- which is beautifully illustrated in the photos. Only discovered Hugo Winterhalter a few years ago, but love this one and VANESSA the most.
SPENNA99 Another song-you are a treasure!- which calls up such lovely memories. This one was my grand-parents' favorite. I can still see the formal living room. I painted a first watercolour to this song. :)
@generationll Eddie Heywood wrote the music to this song and I think he played piano on the Hugo Winterhalter hit recording in 1956. It was a great song that year - I was just 16.
Great pictures! Many of them are just what I had envisioned whenever I listened to Canadian Sunset on an old easy listening station in my hometown in the 90's. I was a teen then, and songs like this one helped me develop a deep appreciation for old music.
When I was a kid we had our rock 'n roll, of course, but songs like this were played on the same stations so you learned to love all sorts of music. Not like today. Kids nowadays wouldn't know good music if it came up and smacked them in the side of the head. Which, actually, isn't a bad idea.
Just a note to credit the gifted pianist here, Eddie Heywood, who was the COMPOSER of this gem from 1956! My channel's 550 playlists honor the world's greatest musicians, so you'll catch this on my Eddie Heywood playlists as well as the 1956 list, one of 111 that let you hear the music of any year since 1900.
12,000 tunes to keep your ears busy & a new feature gem every week. Thanks to SPENNA99 for making this accessible to all of us ! ! ! ! ! ! !
classic tune -- wonderfully arranged -- Just brings the freedom and wilderness of what is canada to the music -- An all time instrumental of the highest order --Thank you for a slice of what life once was and what music could be
I'm in Tennessee.Its hotter'n French-Fried Dammitt here & WILL be until Sept, anyway. Those lovely fall/winter pics make me long for cooler weather-but maybe not winter...LOVE this song, have for years, reminds me of going on business trips w/my dad in the summer when I was a kid, & they still played GOOD songs like this on the radio...NO cRap. Those were the days...
THANKS!, SPENNA99 - You are a GEM... all these 50s novelty pieces are really nice "heart-renderings"... Bring back lovely times with my very musical and loving family... thankyouTHANKyou!, always. =J.
@jonycuddlesgert Technically, this song isn't a "Novelty", which implies a humorous parody (comical). This is a great instrumental with a beautiful jazz piano. Thank you, Eddie Heywood.
Very nicely composed! Frames change nicely in sinc with the phrases of the music. Beautiful music ...by people who could actually read music and play an instrument! Thank you for a great video and an all to short visit to a past well remembered.
This is one my favorite instrumentals! Even though it's called Canadian Sunset it reminds of my boyhood years in Chicago and my teenage and young adult years in Kansas City MO. There's a place called Lookout point on the western edge of downtown Kansas City MO where you can see Kansas City, Kansas overlooking the Missouri River. The sunsets are breathtaking!!!
Love your so feeling description of what must be a beautiful sight. Here in West Somerset, England, one can go up to a spot called Selworthy Beacon and see the sun go down over Porlock Bay and out over the Bristol Channel. As for the record I bought it during my time in the RAF in 1956. One of my all-time favourites.
The original and by far, the DEFINITIVE version of this song. I also like the cover version that Andy Williams released within a very short time after this one
@cmulwee001 The recording by Mr. Williams was good for the words, but this, by Hugo Winterhalter is the one I swear by; it heard it a lot during my growing up years.
(I'm not telling my age, though it gives me away, LOLOLOL).
I have a 45 of this & put it on CD so I wouldn't wreck it. Back in the olden days when drive-in movies were the place to be, they would play this........just at sunset & every time I hear it the memories come flooding back. Glad you put this up for everybody.
When I was 10, this was the first tune I learned to whistle. I still do whistle it when I'm motorcycling. I've seen several sunsets in Canada and the song does justice to the sunsets and visa-versa. Thanks for posting it and the photos-paintings are great.
This is just awesome. This was big when I was just a kid and it was on the radio all the time on KXOK in St. Louis. My older sisters loved it, so I had to as well. Such good music back in the 50's. Thanx
In 1956 I was 14 and I heard this phantastic tune on the radio and it became the first record I bought. I remember having written some 20 postcards to the top 20 studio just to push it into the charts. I really loved this tune and I still do.
Check out versions by guitarists Danny Gatton & Luther Tucker. Luther Tucker might be a hard one to find. I have it on vinyl. Love this tune Eddie Hayward is topps. thx for posting
Me too, Lousvr. I was about 14 and the whole world lay before me. I remember sitting on top of the roof of my house and looking at the stars and songs like this might be playing on the radio...
Awesome memory tinman1122. For me its the early 60's and my dad and Uncles in the backyard with the record player on and they're drinkin scotch and all of them have dressslacks ,spitshined shoes, bowling shirts smoking cigars and lots of greasy slicked back hair, lol And this was one of the songs they'd be playing as my brothers and me watched them. Same thing with Sinatra ,Tonny Bennett and Jerry Vale records playing too. Wow! They're almost all gone now.
@turbo1964 This product has been part of the television landscape since 1972 and is the standard by which a certain form of television is measured. It comes at a premium, if that is a help.
It makes me think of some tourism Canadian brochures I had as a child in the 1950s - with pictures of the glass-domed viewing train carriages - wending their way through the mountains
when you listen to this song it takes you away to cananda in the 50s, a much simpler time. your pictures go well with the song, great job. thanks for posting.
Songs like these will still be played long after goofballs like Lady GaGa, JayZ and others are forgotten and buried - in that order.
GregDad100 2 weeks ago
these songs bring the memorys i grew with .compair to the music there are hard to find store .its the kind of music you get of hearing
fran62ful 2 weeks ago
Do any one remember when this song came out that the otherside of the record was
" Moonglow " - or I am wrong? Please let me know!!!! Post me to:
purple2pisces@yahoo.com.
Thank You!!!!
purple2pisces 2 weeks ago
Beautiful song & some great scenery to.?
COYOTE165A 4 weeks ago
Songs didn't "disappear" back in the old days like they do now. I was born in 1960, but an AM station in my hometown in NC was a big CBS affiliate which played instrumentals and the "light classics" during the day. As a child I vividly remember hearing things like this, "A Summer Place," "Cherry Pink...," "Wonderland By Night," etc. etc. long after their runs on the charts. I've always been an old fogey and still love this kind of music!
LWOPP 1 month ago
@LWOPP Well said.
SPENNA99 1 month ago
@LWOPP I, too, have always had old lady taste in instrumentals. In the 70s and 80s while I did like to listen to classic rock and old school hip hop, I listened to the same kind of station you did, too on my a.m. clock radio!
abrasivegrace 3 weeks ago
over 50 years later and it's still sounds like a hit.
emb1st 1 month ago 2
So many people remember hearing this on the car radio. So do it. It's wonderful traveling music.
44032 2 months ago
hasta que la encontre y la volvi a escuchaR despues de mas de 40 años
kimemv 2 months ago
Ohh yes. I was 6 in 1956. This was on the radio and it was the sort of thing that a child liked. Elvis was on at that time as well with Hound Dog. How blah!
67rml 3 months ago
This song gives me the chills. I was a big 7yrs. old and we were all in the car driving home from Bear Mt. in NY. One of my happier days as a small child. A bunch of us in this old jalopy of a car, but we were happy, had a nice day, and this song played and i thought it was wonderful. I'm not 62 and love the saong as much as i did as a 7 yr. old.
marie91511 3 months ago
Time Out!
On the pauses... I have been playing this song for two years now NO PAUSES...Then (maybe since the on-screen advertising... I am guessing, but that is probably NOT it) my computer started pausing the crap out of this song... And this is not the only one. IS SOMEONE out there, AT&T, YouTube, heck I don't know in this country of conspiracies what it is, but IT is making the songs I play on Youtube all pause out! SOMEONE HELP US ALL FIGURE IT OUT!! I thought it was just my computer! NO
uboob67 3 months ago
Beautiful and famous music, but this video played very poorly with too many pauses and maybe one or two skips. But lovely music anyway.
man975dog 3 months ago
@man975dog Sorry the video did not play well for you, but I just played it without the slightlest pause, or glitch.
Perhaps your computer RAM memory was overtaxed. Try shutting down other applications and just have Youtube running and you may have better success. Thanks for watching.
SPENNA99 3 months ago
@SPENNA99 hey thanks 4 the reply. i will try 2 follow ur instructions and c how it goes this time with ur music video of canadian sunset here. thanks again and i will let u know how it goes the next time i watch and listen 2 ur music video.
man975dog 3 months ago
@man975dog I occasionally get pauses on a lot of tunes, not just this one. It is a due to internet traffic making the buffer fill too slow. What you can do is stop the play for maybe 30 seconds or so and let your buffer fill to get well ahead of the playback point. Then you can hear the music without pauses. The red line is the played part and the grey is the buffer fill. When the grey is well ahead of the red, you probably won't get pauses.
copernicus633 3 months ago 2
@copernicus633 Good point, thanks.
SPENNA99 3 months ago
I love memories like the one you talk about on Route 7... Years ago. Thanks for telling us about it. Were you ever on Route 7 down Wilton way? Do you remember The Orem Diner?... The pinkish one? I heard some many years ago now they moved it, or whatever for Route 7 (progress we'll call it)... But I am sure you remember the Orem Diner that was like I do in the early 1970's... I remember there was a sign on it "Since 1921"...
uboob67 4 months ago
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love it puts me back in 56 as a teenager 17 y o to be exact i love all of eddie songs i grew up with jack scott in hazel park michigan
lreadavenport 4 months ago
love it puts me back in 56 as a teenager 17 y o to be exact i love all of eddie songs i grew with jack scott in hazel park michigan
lreadavenport 4 months ago
This was one of my father's favorite pieces. I remember listening to it on our RCA Victor player in the TV stand. That whole period of my life is brought back by this music.
OWPK 4 months ago
tenía 10 años cuando escuché por primera vez esta melodía que me gustó tanto. Me trae recuerdos de mi niñez. El video muestra escenas de atardeceres en Canadá y está muy bien logrado. !Felicitaciones! va muy bien con la música. Jorge Mario
jmrodas9 5 months ago
My mother loved this song. I can remember my parents dancing to this song. Thank you for this memory.
dukiegink 5 months ago
One can sit and listen to this beautiful piece of music and go anywhere in time, to a special place that makes one smile, what a great piece, thank you.
jerry3136 5 months ago
sends chills down my spine every time i hear this. thank you !
fun1234vegas 6 months ago
I used to play this on the juke box in the diner on Route 7 in New Milford, Connecticut when I would be having my cheeseburger and Coke. Long time ago!
jmkeupp 6 months ago 2
I remember a spectacular brunette in a "bikini" (oh, the horrors) one summer at a resort in Missouri when this song was popular...I remember her looking back at me...and I died...but she was an "older woman"...maybe 17 and I was just a kid (10). I WILL ALWAYS think of her when I hear this song. I could have loved this woman.
spahjrp 6 months ago 9
@spahjrp Thanks for sharing that memory. It's amazing how we can connect a piece of music with a moment in our lives and remember it many, many years later. That's the power of music, that's the power of the mind.
SPENNA99 6 months ago 5
@spahjrp man ant we all got a memory like that
robrod56 4 months ago in playlist DADS PLAYLIST
My wife is a Taurus and I'm a scorpio and this song is one of the few things we have any polarity on.
glipzik 6 months ago
Now that`s music!
25411959 6 months ago
The year this was a hit was of our family's first trip to northern Minnesota on the Ontario border and the Gunflint Trail. The resort we stayed at closed years ago, but the memories remain...and I'll always associate the song with the vacation.
7927jackpark 6 months ago
@7927jackpark thanks for sharing
SPENNA99 6 months ago
Was a child when I head this song, loved it ever since, never knew the title, but when ever they played it on the radio, I was overjoyed. This song had such class then, and it brings back memories to this day. Thank you oh so very much for posting such a beautiful, classic. This one I will never get tired of listening to. Greetings from Columbia south carolina !!!!
retta1960 6 months ago 2
@retta1960 Greetings from Western Canada. Glad you enjoyed my posting of this music.
SPENNA99 6 months ago
Dave here. One of Hugo Winterhalter's best productions.
Myrtle791 7 months ago
Our family owned a restaurant for many years in Laguna Beach,ca. Mom said that Mr.Winterhalter would come there during the featival season.
mistressofaminer 8 months ago
Has anyone got the Ted Heath Big Band version of this tune they can put on here.I don't seem able to find a copy anywhere.I would be grateful.I used to go to see the Ted Heath band in the Fifties,they were a great night out.Thanks.
kf001u1894 8 months ago
I truly love this song. So beautiful. So soothing.
grandmalee63 8 months ago
When I was a kid my Dad would turn the volume up a little when this song would play on the radio. Beautifully done song!
alloyrat 8 months ago
The handsomest boy from a men's college came to our all girl's college mixer and asked me to dance to this song..he had just returned from Canada, and said I reminded him of all it's beauty...
Patti129able 8 months ago
@Patti129able That was a great compliment to you! I happen to live in one of the most beautiful parts of western Canada. Thanks for sharing your memory.
SPENNA99 8 months ago
Just Beautiful Floyd Kramer did a cover of this instumental but this is the best, I love it. Brings back memories of better times.
luwdmke 8 months ago
"Oh, one of my favorites." I just love this instrumental!!!Thanks for the download.
macwoodson 8 months ago
I turned 10 late in 1956 yet I remember this song as if it were yesterday. It's amazing how music can be so indelibly printed in our minds. This was great to listen to again, thanks for posting!
therapidone 8 months ago
During the fall dance of my freshmen yr I drummed up all the courage I could to ask the hottest chick in my class for a dance. This song was playing. Forget the jitterbug I wanted a slow dance with this gal i.e. cheek-to-cheek. I was positioning myself to be the first to ask her before the other guys. Heart throbbing & nervous..I went for it...and oh yeah she accepted my invite..sweet memories whenever this song is played. Brown hair...brown eyes ..curvaceous and a personality to match..OH MAN!
6John29 9 months ago
@6John29 Its interesting how bits of our past can be so strongly linked to music.
Thanks for sharing a good example of that fact.
SPENNA99 9 months ago
@6John29 I did the same thing, only her and I are Still married!
Ray63301 7 months ago
this is what we live for
keefer2111 9 months ago
@keefer2111 THE PIANO SOLO BY THE LATE GREAT EDDY HAYWOOD BROUGHT OUT THE BEST IN THIS SONG RIP EDDY
MyREDTAIL 8 months ago
A very beautiful song. They don't make songs like this anymore.
remuswolfrocket 9 months ago
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Beautiful. It doesn"t get any beter then this. Thats way my group had to record it. Bob of the Impacts.
impacbob 10 months ago
Beautiful. It doesn"t get any beter then this. Thats way my group had to record it.
impacbob 10 months ago
I grew up in Hawai'i and remember this being played all the time on the radio! The melody stays with you forever, like Theme from A Summer Place, and Stranger on the Shore! Thanks for posting!
Kevierae 10 months ago
This is simply beautiful.... like so many other instrumentals from the 50's - 70's. This also happens to be one of 'many' instrumentals from this era that I have no idea of what its called or who sung it... And today they played this on the radio and all I caught was Canadian Sunset.... Thanks for uploading this song! Hi from Australia.
cousiwa09 10 months ago
@cousiwa09 Hi from Canada, thanks for your comment
SPENNA99 10 months ago
@cousiwa09
This is a beautiful song... It brings back a lot of memories!!!!!
MrMoniz1 9 months ago
@cousiwa09 Great song!!
MrMoniz1 9 months ago
@cousiwa09
MrMoniz1 9 months ago
BTW, the first 25 seconds or so of the intro to the song may sound a little "Arabian" but it is in fact a throwback to native Canadian or American Indian themes that were used in the early 'cowboy and indian' movies. Cochise would show up on top of the mountain with his warriers in headress and various permutations of that 'theme' could be heard in the background. Going way back, it may have some distant connection to actual music played by the natives but, more likely it is pure Hollywood.
upquist1 10 months ago
As I recall the story, the pianist was Eddie Heywood. He had a few bigs hits: the other one I remember is "Soft Summer Breeze". When you listen to him play, concentrate on the left hand. Apparently, Heywood's left hand was either severely damaged or deformed which accounts for his unusual and quite unique style.
upquist1 10 months ago
Ranks with Summer Place as one of the great non-vocals of all-time.
kcbill54 11 months ago
Love it...listening to it all the time. Thanks a million.
richmondkorea 11 months ago
To: Spenna99, I want to thank you for a wonderful piece of music i thought was lost forever. Im what is labeled me a Baby Boomer. A wwII war baby.along with 1 1/2 million others. I was a little over 12 when this came out. I heard it in a small record store. They had speakers outside. I started to dance like fred astaire would have. People started to make a circl;e around me. Then when I was done I came out of my trance. Boy I was imbarased.they clapped ..thanks again.. Rebbecca Anne
rebbeccanne 11 months ago
@rebbeccanne Interesting, thanks for sharing
SPENNA99 11 months ago
this is such a great song
7c8f9x 11 months ago
Hugo was a third or fourth cousin to me. I only wish I had afraction of that talent!
MrLarryWinterhalter 1 year ago
@MrLarryWinterhalter You are so blessed to have such amazing consanguinity. I grew up listening to this tune (don't try to figure out my age, LOLOLOL), and it has stuck to me like coins inside a parking meter (or a vending machine, which is better?)
Juliaflo 8 months ago
beautifull music instrumental thanks for the clip havn't heard it in a long time
fgonzalezcuba2008 1 year ago
thank you is one of my father favorite song ! ! ! !
amber123446 1 year ago
Lovely piano playing by Eddie Heywood.
See his entry on Wikipedia.
PacRimJim 1 year ago
Beautiful Video...Awesome Music..
flyerspa67 1 year ago
What can I say? A trillion thanks. I will keep this forever.
vita1950 1 year ago
@vita1950 What a nice comment! Makes posting these videos worthwhile, thanks.
SPENNA99 1 year ago
@vita1950 And
i will keep it in my heart forever. Thanks again..Rebecca Anne
rebbeccanne 11 months ago
@vita1950
If you want a different interpretation of this ancient melody (and it is older than old) listen to Etta Jones (not Etta James) vocal of it. She adds an interpersonal dimension, takes it from the Canadian vistas right to the intimacy of a romantic odysessy.
I have an interesting Ramsay Lewis story about this song, too. Happened last spring.
Vita1950
vita1950 10 months ago
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How has America managed to degenerate itself from this kind culture when music had class to this "noise" we have today? Im only 27, so im one of the few my age who knows music when he hears it... This is excellent.
drh4683 1 year ago
this song is truly epic
bottlebrusher 1 year ago
Thks katosierota! Kudos for the visual - I was 11 when this song hit the charts - loved it then and now! Always amused me back in the 80s when I'd be in a club and some new band would slip this song into another song.
hackberryflat 1 year ago
I'd never heard this song before i found it on this channel and i love it! I think music from this era had alot more soul and people had more of an appreciation of the composition, not just the vocals.
TheSimonHarris 1 year ago
My Dad's favorite song. Thanks!!
jawja100 1 year ago
Thank you for this gorgeous post. The photo medley is stunning, and as a would-be landscape photographer myself, I really appreciate it. The music is a different animal altogether: It feels, for the first 25 seconds, like something out of KISMET or ARABIAN NIGHTS, then changes over with a lush downbeat to a drive on the interstate through the country- which is beautifully illustrated in the photos. Only discovered Hugo Winterhalter a few years ago, but love this one and VANESSA the most.
mca1218 1 year ago 2
@mca1218 Thanks for your interesting description of this peice of music.
Its always been on of my favorites. Glad you also enjoyed my choice of photos.
SPENNA99 1 year ago
Hi Karoline
variezn34gm 1 year ago
Always wanted to go to Canada because of this song. Love it
hearttoheart4me 1 year ago
One of the best instamentals ever.
kcbill54 1 year ago
Wow a great song and great photos, what a combo.
wolfeshadow1313 1 year ago
SO WONDEFULLLLLLLLLLLLL.
albamaria54 1 year ago
SPENNA99 Another song-you are a treasure!- which calls up such lovely memories. This one was my grand-parents' favorite. I can still see the formal living room. I painted a first watercolour to this song. :)
sharing1949 1 year ago
nice song to hug your sweetie too makes me miss her so much
flowage5 1 year ago
nice song to hug your sweetie too
flowage5 1 year ago
When I first heard this song the man on 1300 WJDA said 16 years ago this was by Eddie Heyward.
generationll 1 year ago
@generationll Eddie Heywood wrote the music to this song and I think he played piano on the Hugo Winterhalter hit recording in 1956. It was a great song that year - I was just 16.
7624222 1 year ago
@7624222 me too I was born on little boy day
variezn34gm 1 year ago
@7624222 YES HE DID
MyREDTAIL 1 year ago
@7624222 I ALWAYS WISHED THAT I COULD PLAY PIANO LIKE EDDIE HEYWOOD, EXPECIALLY THIS SONG IS MY FAVORITE ONE.
MyREDTAIL 1 year ago
This is the stuff dance halls and cocktail parties are made of!
plholm77 1 year ago
Great pictures! Many of them are just what I had envisioned whenever I listened to Canadian Sunset on an old easy listening station in my hometown in the 90's. I was a teen then, and songs like this one helped me develop a deep appreciation for old music.
LateNightCable 1 year ago
awesome tune-love the dynamics-stunning pics2
musicmanregina 1 year ago
When I was a kid we had our rock 'n roll, of course, but songs like this were played on the same stations so you learned to love all sorts of music. Not like today. Kids nowadays wouldn't know good music if it came up and smacked them in the side of the head. Which, actually, isn't a bad idea.
smokiebird06 1 year ago
i love this version the best and i love andy williams' version too:)
sexymama1966 1 year ago
Just a note to credit the gifted pianist here, Eddie Heywood, who was the COMPOSER of this gem from 1956! My channel's 550 playlists honor the world's greatest musicians, so you'll catch this on my Eddie Heywood playlists as well as the 1956 list, one of 111 that let you hear the music of any year since 1900.
12,000 tunes to keep your ears busy & a new feature gem every week. Thanks to SPENNA99 for making this accessible to all of us ! ! ! ! ! ! !
chkjns 1 year ago
classic tune -- wonderfully arranged -- Just brings the freedom and wilderness of what is canada to the music -- An all time instrumental of the highest order --Thank you for a slice of what life once was and what music could be
cathode1990 1 year ago
I'm in Tennessee.Its hotter'n French-Fried Dammitt here & WILL be until Sept, anyway. Those lovely fall/winter pics make me long for cooler weather-but maybe not winter...LOVE this song, have for years, reminds me of going on business trips w/my dad in the summer when I was a kid, & they still played GOOD songs like this on the radio...NO cRap. Those were the days...
chg657 1 year ago
THANKS!, SPENNA99 - You are a GEM... all these 50s novelty pieces are really nice "heart-renderings"... Bring back lovely times with my very musical and loving family... thankyouTHANKyou!, always. =J.
jonycuddlesgert 1 year ago 2
@jonycuddlesgert
your commrnt makes the time spent uploading worth while.
SPENNA99 1 year ago
@jonycuddlesgert Technically, this song isn't a "Novelty", which implies a humorous parody (comical). This is a great instrumental with a beautiful jazz piano. Thank you, Eddie Heywood.
southwriter 1 year ago
I was nine and in third grade! I loved it then and I love now! What a wonderful, hauntingly beautiful piece of music! Just listen to those violins!
dagrampster2 1 year ago
Beautiful song and images. I think my family owned that painting at the very beginning.
rwm1 1 year ago
printed hundreds of images in the darkroom with Hugo in the background, over and over...inspiration for many years...of photography...
toddholden 1 year ago
I was telling a friend today that this should be the alternate National Anthem of
Canada. Not quite as stirring as "O Canada", perhaps, but still very pretty,
BRUC2016 1 year ago
Very nicely composed! Frames change nicely in sinc with the phrases of the music. Beautiful music ...by people who could actually read music and play an instrument! Thank you for a great video and an all to short visit to a past well remembered.
rhcronin 1 year ago
This was and is truly a great song that gives me goosie's
flowage5 1 year ago
Eddie Heywood on piano, I believe; a most lovely chart...
wackernie2009 1 year ago
starts out sounding asian....then glenn miller pops in.....then
scpd511 1 year ago
Much better than the Andy William's vocal version...classic 50s easy listening music from the master of the genre, Hugo Winterhalter.
LarryCosgrove 1 year ago
this song is so epically beautiful...
bottlebrusher 1 year ago
I have the whole song down on the piano! I love this song!
pianomanmaestro 1 year ago
Great song with lyrics sung by Andy Williams making it one of his early hits on Cadence Records. Hugo's instrumental is still the classic version.
ecardon1 1 year ago
I Love this Song im learning it on the piano now!
pianomanmaestro 1 year ago 2
This song was released when I was 4yrs. old,and it still sounds great today. Thanks for Posting.
Gregory195216 1 year ago 2
Such a beautiful video and oh my, this tune,,,,,,My Grandmother, my Mom, Me and my Daughter simply love it!
I believe it's a keeper!
Thank you and to Resonantforce for sharing! So sweet!!
santamara 1 year ago 3
I'm glad you found it, I was getting worried there for a moment! :o)
xoxo
Resonantforce 1 year ago
It was in my other e-mail!
Sorry 'bout that, Boyfriend:))) xo
santamara 1 year ago
Ok, I'll forgive you this time,,,, Girlfriend :o))) xo
Resonantforce 1 year ago
When this came out I was living with my Aunt in Western Canada. I always associate her and this song.
You have never seen anything like a sunset from Vancouver. Nothing like on this planet.
jerryclick 1 year ago 5
This is one my favorite instrumentals! Even though it's called Canadian Sunset it reminds of my boyhood years in Chicago and my teenage and young adult years in Kansas City MO. There's a place called Lookout point on the western edge of downtown Kansas City MO where you can see Kansas City, Kansas overlooking the Missouri River. The sunsets are breathtaking!!!
gjohnsoningary 1 year ago
Love your so feeling description of what must be a beautiful sight. Here in West Somerset, England, one can go up to a spot called Selworthy Beacon and see the sun go down over Porlock Bay and out over the Bristol Channel. As for the record I bought it during my time in the RAF in 1956. One of my all-time favourites.
gogo31038 1 year ago 3
They would play this record alot on "oldies" channels in Kansas City. Brings back pleasant memories!
gjohnsoningary 1 year ago
懐かしい曲です。少し大人ぶってよく聞いていました。
matumotomorizi 1 year ago 2
what great scenes so relaxing to watch and listen
bisnona999 2 years ago 2
The original and by far, the DEFINITIVE version of this song. I also like the cover version that Andy Williams released within a very short time after this one
cmulwee001 2 years ago 2
@cmulwee001 The recording by Mr. Williams was good for the words, but this, by Hugo Winterhalter is the one I swear by; it heard it a lot during my growing up years.
(I'm not telling my age, though it gives me away, LOLOLOL).
Juliaflo 2 years ago 9
Man, I wish Gene Ammons vesrion were on youtube.
AllBobsAllTheTime 1 year ago
My hand is up JF
generationll 2 years ago
Those of you who think Eddie Heywood wrote a classic classic, raise your hand.
I heard it when it first came out.
(Uh-uh, leave my profile alone, I am past 21).
Juliaflo 2 years ago 2
One of the greatest instrumentals of all time... Period!! Thanks for the post!
lpvcrcd 2 years ago 14
I have a 45 of this & put it on CD so I wouldn't wreck it. Back in the olden days when drive-in movies were the place to be, they would play this........just at sunset & every time I hear it the memories come flooding back. Glad you put this up for everybody.
RangerAlways 2 years ago 3
In Pgh, when it starts to get dark @ the drive-ins, the horns will started to beep.
delbard1 2 years ago
Ist das schön!!!!!
TheMoabiter 2 years ago 2
When I was 10, this was the first tune I learned to whistle. I still do whistle it when I'm motorcycling. I've seen several sunsets in Canada and the song does justice to the sunsets and visa-versa. Thanks for posting it and the photos-paintings are great.
4tinman8 2 years ago 6
Glad you liked it, thanks.
SPENNA99 2 years ago
This is just awesome. This was big when I was just a kid and it was on the radio all the time on KXOK in St. Louis. My older sisters loved it, so I had to as well. Such good music back in the 50's. Thanx
larrydh2 2 years ago 2
In 1956 I was 14 and I heard this phantastic tune on the radio and it became the first record I bought. I remember having written some 20 postcards to the top 20 studio just to push it into the charts. I really loved this tune and I still do.
klausheukelbach 2 years ago 2
Suburb, haunting melody. The first time I heard it (at the age of 10), I was stopped dead-in my tracks.
amalfi348 2 years ago 2
This is where Earl Van Dyke got the vamp for Mary Wells's "My Guy" from.
JekyllBoote 2 years ago
You are CORRECT sir!
oldbiddie 2 years ago
great
dragontailjunkie 2 years ago 2
This and Dean Martin's version are the best i've heard
loisannfisher 2 years ago 2
Eddie Hayworth I think, wrote the tune while taking a Cigette break outside a Momtreal nighclub during twilight
delbard1 2 years ago
This has to be the best version yet. Love it.
coywin 2 years ago 3
Check out versions by guitarists Danny Gatton & Luther Tucker. Luther Tucker might be a hard one to find. I have it on vinyl. Love this tune Eddie Hayward is topps. thx for posting
Behutet93 2 years ago
Love Eddie Hayward's piano playing here.Started listening to this on 1300 WJDA in Quincy,Mass
generationll 2 years ago
For me it was the 50's.. dreams of the future... who knew?
lousvr 2 years ago
Me too, Lousvr. I was about 14 and the whole world lay before me. I remember sitting on top of the roof of my house and looking at the stars and songs like this might be playing on the radio...
recovering16 2 years ago 2
Love these old 1950s and 60s instrumentals.There is nothing like them
generationll 2 years ago 3
I agree!
MoosicandCritters 2 years ago 2
In Tucson, Arizona KCEE and KTUC play this frequently
frankd1965 2 years ago
Like Eddie Hayworth's piano playing in this song.
generationll 2 years ago
Aw shit, there was a time when fine music could rank in the top 10 and boys could be named Hugo. I miss all that
longfoot 2 years ago 2
Simply beautiful!!!!!!!
Cch092775 2 years ago
had this song playing driving pops car on his lap 1957 11 years old the best days of my life Thanks Luke.
tinman1122 2 years ago 2
Awesome memory tinman1122. For me its the early 60's and my dad and Uncles in the backyard with the record player on and they're drinkin scotch and all of them have dressslacks ,spitshined shoes, bowling shirts smoking cigars and lots of greasy slicked back hair, lol And this was one of the songs they'd be playing as my brothers and me watched them. Same thing with Sinatra ,Tonny Bennett and Jerry Vale records playing too. Wow! They're almost all gone now.
LosAngeleno1959 2 years ago
Wonderful
goodtogonow3 2 years ago
Great song. Hugo's from Wilkes Barre PA. I went to school with his neice.
turbo1964 2 years ago 2
@turbo1964 How blessed are you. Pop quiz-What product is Wilkes-Barre famous for?
Juliaflo 1 year ago
@Juliaflo Huh, famous product from Wilkes Barre, PA? maybe Planters Peanuts or do you mean anthracite coal?
turbo1964 1 year ago
@turbo1964 This product has been part of the television landscape since 1972 and is the standard by which a certain form of television is measured. It comes at a premium, if that is a help.
Juliaflo 1 year ago
@Juliaflo Oh that's right, Home Box Office (HBO) launched in WB. thx
turbo1964 1 year ago
@turbo1964 You're welcome.
Juliaflo 1 year ago
Like this song very much.Was singing this in Wal Mart this afternoon.Like this song alot.Especially Eddie Heyward's piano playing.
generationll 2 years ago
Simply marvellous!!!!!!! Perla.
perla51 2 years ago
beautiful tune...timeless!
Speyrer88 2 years ago 2
It makes me think of some tourism Canadian brochures I had as a child in the 1950s - with pictures of the glass-domed viewing train carriages - wending their way through the mountains
Baskerville22 2 years ago
when you listen to this song it takes you away to cananda in the 50s, a much simpler time. your pictures go well with the song, great job. thanks for posting.
tanline10 2 years ago
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
SPENNA99 2 years ago
how I love Canada..and this song
C1GARET 2 years ago