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@Englishhegemony I'm not aware of a Gordon Lightfoot version; it was written by Stan Rogers, apparently commissioned by the CBC or whoever, to accompany this piece of footage for televising.
the thing that is scary nowe is the fact that the province of Nova scotia Has put her up and is giving her a refit made of wood from the amazon.... WTH... and they took a wood chipper to what was left of her hull. of the bluenose 2. at lkeast i got to sail on the Bluenose 2 before this disaster came to happen... it makes my heart break that the government of my home province is basically thumbing their noses at the tradition and the history of the orignal bluenose and making one of wood..
I was sitting here listening to some miscellaneous songs, and up came Stan Rogers' "Bluenose." A chill went up my spine. I love that song! So I went on Youtube to see if somebody had posted a video with it. This is great. I love Stan Rogers, he will never die. I'm not a Canadian, but if I were I'd have his name high on the list of things to be proud of!
AnonymousXIII, thanks for the video, and the extended version as well. It surely shows the days of "wooden ships and iron men". Wish the Americas cup were run with vessels like this,instead of the "Ive got more money (or influence with the organisers) than you have" of today
I remember (as a child) the Bluenose II sailing up the LaHave River every summer... right past my front yard...I would always stop my play and stand in awe.My father and I going aboard her in Bridgewater (very fond memories indeed)... The replica was splendid in my eyes. Massive, as I remember... and full of spirit. Lovely : )
What I find strange was Stan Rogers was only 33 when he died, yet I used think he was ten years older. If he had survived to this day, he would have suffered the dowturn in interest in folk music in the 80's, flourished when interest picked up again in the mid 90's, and lived to be 61 today.
As pretty a sight as there is! Makes my heart glad! I saw her in Lunenberg a few years ago when I was there with the Denis Sullivan. She even looks fast sitting still.
I agree. For the record, Stan Rogers was born and raised in Ontario... I love the east coast, but as an Ontarian living in Ottawa I get pretty tired of the division people (from all over) seem to spead - claiming parts of Canada are better than others and have a more relevant culture. I'm not crowing over ownership of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an equally iconic Canadian song. This song touches me too. Let's ALL enjoy it together. "Great" city or not...
Stan didn't grow up in nova scotia, he was from ontario but later fell in love with our eastern culture. This song is a wonderous representation of a special type of pride found only the the hard working east coast. I am proud to be hard working, hard drinking, and old fashioned.
It's almost enough to make me want to become a proud Canadian! I love almost everything about Canada and it's people. Red Green Lives! Great job on the Olympics by the way! Eh?!
Noone from Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver or any other "great" Canadian city can ever understand the maritime pride this song and that ship bring to every Nova Scotian!
@bubbaFarnsworth I agree. But for the record, Stan Rogers was born and raised in Ontario... I love the east coast, but as an Ontarian living in Ottawa I get pretty tired of the division people (from all over) seem to spead - claiming parts of Canada are better than others and have a more relevant culture. I'm not crowing over ownership of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an equally iconic Canadian song. This song touches me too. Let's ALL enjoy it together. "Great" city or not...
If i would to be a douche i would say noone from vancouver to nova scotia can ever understand the pride this song bring to canadian sailor if youre not a sailor. But i dont, I am a canadian sailor and i think the majesty of such a great ship transcend whoever you are and gives pride to all canadians
@bubbaFarnsworth No one from where ever? How about me? I'm locked in the downtown core of Toronto; a cement jungle of madness reaching forward to rival Manhattan.
I can taste the salt wind air in my mouth...I can feel the heat of the Friday night bonfire on the beach burning driftwood...just a bunch of drunk teenage girls and boys playing music on a bad portable radio...oh what times we had...and we loved Stan Rogers so hard...the bastard was from Ontario but he too, like many others, found his soul somewhere out there on the shores...
@falken456 What a fantastic memory for you! How heartwarming that must be, and a comfort to you. I envy you that you have this to remember a loved one by, if you actually knew him (I never knew my grandfather, died before I could remember him). PEACE...
Thanks, Anon~being able to listen to the late Stan Rogers sing that great arrangement while watching the original under a full press brings a lump to the throat for a number of reasons. Wow~
@bighank99 Sorry to take so long in replying; and it's true that the song came out on Turnaround in '78, but the live recording I used was from the Home in Halifax album released posthumously in '93.
As someone who has been in love with the Bluenose for as long as I can remember (having seen it on the back of a dime my father brought back from a trip to Canada), I say "Thank you".
Well, I've since found out (from this very comment list) that the song was actually written specifically to accompany this silent film clip, so obviously I wasn't the first person to think that Stan's voice and music would go well with this footage. Still, I'm glad folks like it.
Fishing schooners became obsolete after World War II, and despite efforts to keep her in Nova Scotia, the undefeated Bluenose was sold to work as a freighter in the West Indies. She foundered on a Haitian reef on January 28, 1946.
took my 6 yr old to tallships in HFX last weekend and he started singing this song when he saw the Bluenose 2 then he turned and asked if this was the daughter the man sings about and i said yes and he was extremely proud of himself:)
That was brilliant. :o) I love the old footage. It really gives you a feel for those magical moments that are long past us. ..., And Stan Rogers sings it like no other.
Bluenose was a Canadian schooner from Nova Scotia, a celebrated racing ship (and hard-working fishing vessel) and a symbol of the province. The name "bluenose" originated as a nick-name for Nova Scotians from as early as the late eighteenth century.[1]
So if I understand phyrdoom's comments, the song was written for this clip, and without prior knowledge of that fact you put both clip and song together?
I'm glad of it, because the first thing I thought when I saw this clip was, it should be paired with this song. I'm glad I'm not the first person to think of this.
well done.. that is the best homemade video of the bluenose and the gertrude and set to stan rogers' music... well done:) I listened to bluenose when i was flying home from ottawa last summer... the first thing i did when i got settled was head to lawrencetown beach to be near the water :)
I wouldn't say it was by me; I just happened to find it. It's posted on a government site some place, and I didn't figure it got a lot of airtime there; and anyway, I felt it wanted the music.
Ironically, the Nova Scotia Gov't felt the footage needed some music too, thus they hired Rogers to write this exact song for it. Stan statesAnd Bluenose was written for a Nova Scotia government film, about the reproduction, Bluenose II, of the Grand Banks schooner, Bluenose. We recorded it for the film, then we liked the tune so much we decided to put it on the album."
Still, that does not take away, not in the least, what you have done here. NO ONE, is posting this, and you had the creativity to put both together...you rule, 5-stars.
Btw, the CBC edited the clip and tune, so it was like an intermission, as few commercials appeared back then on the CBC. Form begining to end it was like a minute and a half at most.
What I love, it that YOU are the only one posting this. I respect you a lot. Cheers.
I've been looking for this song and video for quite some time now. I remember it as a commercial for CBC, this is the first time I have seen it in full. always knew it was stan singing , but could not find it on tape or cd, always loved it from the first time i heard it.
dcroxns: ME TOO!!!! This is an old CBC intermission--the music, film, etc. This played everyday at least several times back in the early 80s on CBC television here in Nova Scotia. It wasn't really a commercial, it was an intermission and BOTH the music AND the film footage were played exactly as it appears here.
My friend this video aired on the CBC as an intermission uo to 0:58...i bet my life on it...Isougth this out for that reason, I was seven years old, and I loved this. cheers
They may have aired the video clip; it's from some silent footage archived by a historical society.
I added the music myself, however; so if they added it also, that's just a coincidence, I promis you; but since it is such an awesome song, totally capturing the spirit of the ship, it's entirely possible someone working at the CBC had the same idea I did.
Dude, I swear on my life, the CBC aired this EXACTLY like you have it: both visual and audio. Amazing job, when did you do this? i saw this in the early 80s. So when I searched for it, I plugged in his name hoping to catch the clip, and thankfully you aired it.
i ran out of space on my last comment so i didnt get to say that just like the blue nose in on your dime the gold field is on our 25 cent coin and just like blue nose gold field has a song about her.
So they are building a replica? Amazing the mass of sail those carried, when all the skirts were up.
Myself I´m crew (and own 1/697th part of :) of Klara Marie of Skillinge, SWE, built in 1884. And I can assure you, it´s hard work but worth it (to be part of a projekt like that). To see a famous ship like the Bluenose sail must be absolutely stunning.
the built a replica its called the blur nose 2 its currently birthed in halifax. i live in cayman and we have a simmiler story about our gratest schooner named the gold field she was simmilarly built and both originals ships met a simmilar fate. we are also trying to build a replica but being a seafaring community we dont have the money. much love to the men that crewed thees fine ships and may all those who were claimed by the sea rest in peace and may they have fair winds and a following seas.
they are building another replica the bluenose IV because the name bluenose III is copyrighted by nova scotia and the bluenose II is getting too old to sail to other ports as she recently past her 45 birthday this year, she was scheduled to be laid july 1st but was delayed.
Great job on this Video!! A piece of Archives that deserves to be dusted off and shown - and what a fine job you did of it. Stan Rogers Song and this Video are paired perfectly! Good on you.
Actually there was very little for me to do; I was lucky; it paired up extremely well. It's my first ever video, I'm glad it turned out so well. Thanks though!
AnonymousXIII they already have enough money to build her, the keel is being layed July 1st at Snyders shipyard browse around here and you will find all you want to know about her.
Stan Rogers and the Bluenose up against the rich boys toys of the Glocster boys, knew hard work in her time. This brings a tingle to my body remembering who we are as Canadians. Forget? NEVER! not a long as a single Canadian sailor lives.
maybe the "who will know the bluenose in the sun" line could be a reference to how she was soled after WWII and sent south to be a freighter in the caribbean. just a thought
The Bluenose was a famous Nova SCotian-built schooner. She won every race she raced until she was scuttled in a reef off Bermuda. The last of a long proud history of Canadian boat making. The replica still sails, and the image on the Canadian dime is the first Bluenose.
I think it has to do with the theme of a forgotten heritage; after all, how many Canadians these days even actually know that the ship on the dime is the Bluenose; and if you polled Canadians whether to keep the ship or replace it with a modern popular icon, I shudder to think what the response might be. They don't know what Bluenose was, or how important she was. That sort of stuff just doesn't get taught in schools anymore, unless maybe you live in Lunenburg...
So the link is interpreted as the history and story of the bluenose is burned up, as if it was consumed by the sun? I guess I understand that but then, just love the music!
Well, that's certainly one way to interpret it, and as valid as any other, I'd think.
Personally, I sort of think of it as asking "Who remembers those days anymore, when the Bluenose was the pride of Canada?" (I'm paraphrasing of course)
Your right it doesn't get taught in school just brief little parts here and there but here in NS I don't think that any thing can or ever will represent Nova Scotia like her. They are raising money to build the Bluenose IV because the Bluenose II is getting to old to visit other ports.
ty it is nice to see her beautiful face again and hear her song!!! goose bumps and home sick, displaced in the prairies. ty agian for putting this together for the world to see!!!
Wow: This video says it alland the music is perfect.
I taste the flavour of Bluenose and Bluenose II every day as I retired in Lunenburg and keep my wooden sloop beside the Bluenose II construction shed. Does anyone have names of the men who built Bluenose in 1920-21? Love to have them.
Thanks for this beautiful footage (and song!)
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SailAmibon 1 month ago
This live version of the song has so much power.
WindmillStalker 2 months ago
Three cheers for Stan, three more for for Bluenose. It's the least this Yank can do to honor two of the world's greatest. Cheers!
whippy107 2 months ago
I will need to revisit Canso, NS and attend the Stan Roger's festival. Its a great place for a maritime festival.
manofnofixedinstrume 5 months ago
I use to watch this as a kid :)
ninjaa54 6 months ago
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trimar42 7 months ago
watch?v=8OQJ4UrAVJw
and prepare for a visit to the The Scottish Fisheries Museum, see the video links and the pull down links and you'll appreciate your visit much more!
keplermission 8 months ago
@keplermission Sorry, for some reason that one never came into my in-box; I never realized it was awaiting approval.
AnonymousXIII 2 months ago
PLEASE CAN SOMEONE UPLOAD GORDON LIGHTFOOT'S VERSION OF 'BLUENOSE'
Englishhegemony 9 months ago
@Englishhegemony I'm not aware of a Gordon Lightfoot version; it was written by Stan Rogers, apparently commissioned by the CBC or whoever, to accompany this piece of footage for televising.
AnonymousXIII 2 months ago
This song makes all sailors of tall ships around the world proud!
MrSoperj 9 months ago
'Bluenose' was first put out on Stan's second album "Turnaround" in 1978.
bighank99 9 months ago
@bighank99 Thanks for letting me know that it was also published on the Home in Halifax recording, which I have yet to hear.
bighank99 2 months ago
J'adore !
frayer52 10 months ago
Thank you this a great video, reminising for the new Bluenose11 schooner being built in Nova Scotia.
tomatotomata 11 months ago
the thing that is scary nowe is the fact that the province of Nova scotia Has put her up and is giving her a refit made of wood from the amazon.... WTH... and they took a wood chipper to what was left of her hull. of the bluenose 2. at lkeast i got to sail on the Bluenose 2 before this disaster came to happen... it makes my heart break that the government of my home province is basically thumbing their noses at the tradition and the history of the orignal bluenose and making one of wood..
stefansmom 11 months ago
am proud to be bluenose living in kalifornia. am born in amherst, many years ago.
bburns548twins 1 year ago
Days of Wooden Ships and Steel Men.
MercuryWahWah 1 year ago
I was sitting here listening to some miscellaneous songs, and up came Stan Rogers' "Bluenose." A chill went up my spine. I love that song! So I went on Youtube to see if somebody had posted a video with it. This is great. I love Stan Rogers, he will never die. I'm not a Canadian, but if I were I'd have his name high on the list of things to be proud of!
ClioSmith 1 year ago
Standing under that main, gaff sail... Best feeling in the world.
Norbiik 1 year ago
AnonymousXIII, thanks for the video, and the extended version as well. It surely shows the days of "wooden ships and iron men". Wish the Americas cup were run with vessels like this,instead of the "Ive got more money (or influence with the organisers) than you have" of today
chersguy 1 year ago
I remember (as a child) the Bluenose II sailing up the LaHave River every summer... right past my front yard...I would always stop my play and stand in awe.My father and I going aboard her in Bridgewater (very fond memories indeed)... The replica was splendid in my eyes. Massive, as I remember... and full of spirit. Lovely : )
1niceass2 1 year ago
What I find strange was Stan Rogers was only 33 when he died, yet I used think he was ten years older. If he had survived to this day, he would have suffered the dowturn in interest in folk music in the 80's, flourished when interest picked up again in the mid 90's, and lived to be 61 today.
Desmaad 1 year ago
a very fine ship. its sad that she went down with no respect from the crew abored her
cannonfie2112 1 year ago
As pretty a sight as there is! Makes my heart glad! I saw her in Lunenberg a few years ago when I was there with the Denis Sullivan. She even looks fast sitting still.
bcoole1 1 year ago
watch?v=8OQJ4UrAVJw
From Nova Scotia - 'New Scotland' to Old Scotland, the similarities with Red Bay Whaling museum, interesting. Compare also the Grand Banks museum.
keplermission 1 year ago
I agree. For the record, Stan Rogers was born and raised in Ontario... I love the east coast, but as an Ontarian living in Ottawa I get pretty tired of the division people (from all over) seem to spead - claiming parts of Canada are better than others and have a more relevant culture. I'm not crowing over ownership of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an equally iconic Canadian song. This song touches me too. Let's ALL enjoy it together. "Great" city or not...
cateyre 1 year ago
How wonderful to see her! Look at her go!
damnedlioness 1 year ago
Stan didn't grow up in nova scotia, he was from ontario but later fell in love with our eastern culture. This song is a wonderous representation of a special type of pride found only the the hard working east coast. I am proud to be hard working, hard drinking, and old fashioned.
comeau187 1 year ago
It's almost enough to make me want to become a proud Canadian! I love almost everything about Canada and it's people. Red Green Lives! Great job on the Olympics by the way! Eh?!
blackraventwo 1 year ago 3
@blackraventwo psst- eh is eastern-folk talk, over here we say hey
shmunkyful 1 year ago
LINDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!
hakahakacat 1 year ago
Noone from Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver or any other "great" Canadian city can ever understand the maritime pride this song and that ship bring to every Nova Scotian!
bubbaFarnsworth 1 year ago 2
@bubbaFarnsworth I strongly disagree, that was Stan's gift; he made that feeling apparent across the nation and around the world.
However, you're welcome to your opinion.
AnonymousXIII 1 year ago 37
@AnonymousXIII Despite the fact that he was from Ontario, (Hamilton, to be precise).
Desmaad 1 year ago
@Desmaad Actually Dundas, I believe; my father once visited their home by chance, and I had a co-worker who went to the same church.
AnonymousXIII 2 months ago
@AnonymousXIII
I'm a Nova Scotian myself and I always assumed it was like bubba said.
sherman3211 1 year ago
@bubbaFarnsworth Pride is yours indeed, never mind the land lubber, yours will last until the end of time, from a Cape Cod Boy......
dpoland 1 year ago
@bubbaFarnsworth I agree. But for the record, Stan Rogers was born and raised in Ontario... I love the east coast, but as an Ontarian living in Ottawa I get pretty tired of the division people (from all over) seem to spead - claiming parts of Canada are better than others and have a more relevant culture. I'm not crowing over ownership of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an equally iconic Canadian song. This song touches me too. Let's ALL enjoy it together. "Great" city or not...
cateyre 1 year ago
@bubbaFarnsworth im from hamiltion and i understand the maritimes pride in this song
cannonfie2112 1 year ago
@bubbaFarnsworth you know stan rogers was from just outside toronto, right?
corneliusvanDB 1 year ago
@bubbaFarnsworth
If i would to be a douche i would say noone from vancouver to nova scotia can ever understand the pride this song bring to canadian sailor if youre not a sailor. But i dont, I am a canadian sailor and i think the majesty of such a great ship transcend whoever you are and gives pride to all canadians
CrankySailor 1 year ago 3
@CrankySailor I am an American sailor and it makes ME proud, but also sad to have missed the hayday of the tall ships .
FUNTANGO 1 year ago
@bubbaFarnsworth No one from where ever? How about me? I'm locked in the downtown core of Toronto; a cement jungle of madness reaching forward to rival Manhattan.
seamusmcfadden 1 year ago
I can taste the salt wind air in my mouth...I can feel the heat of the Friday night bonfire on the beach burning driftwood...just a bunch of drunk teenage girls and boys playing music on a bad portable radio...oh what times we had...and we loved Stan Rogers so hard...the bastard was from Ontario but he too, like many others, found his soul somewhere out there on the shores...
seamusmcfadden 1 year ago
@bubbaFarnsworth
That is not a fair comment to our fellow countrymen. Stan was born in Ontario (to NS parents). Stan was meant for everyone.
nakawick 9 months ago
@bubbaFarnsworth you know that stan is from ontario right?
sh9683 9 months ago
@bubbaFarnsworth
any Canadian who has ever raced under sail.....tear up when I look at a dime.
00Billy 2 months ago
Outstanding vocals by a very much missed icon of all things Canada.
TsugaC 1 year ago
@TsugaC A big thing in a country with so few…
Desmaad 1 year ago
my great grampy is in this video :D sailor of the Bluenose!! From LUNENBURG!! :) <3
Thank you uploader!!
falken456 1 year ago 2
@falken456 What a fantastic memory for you! How heartwarming that must be, and a comfort to you. I envy you that you have this to remember a loved one by, if you actually knew him (I never knew my grandfather, died before I could remember him). PEACE...
connierc1 1 year ago
@falken456 You're very welcome; I wish I could say I knew the names of the men in the video, but I really don't.
AnonymousXIII 2 months ago
wearing everything except the cook's apron
ppitm 1 year ago
This schooner was designed to look like one from a beer label.
HaroldKellock 1 year ago
Other way around.
chrthiel 1 year ago
@HaroldKellock
From what I heard it was also styled after some ship on a dime coin too.
TonyCliftan 1 year ago
Thanks, Anon~being able to listen to the late Stan Rogers sing that great arrangement while watching the original under a full press brings a lump to the throat for a number of reasons. Wow~
v4750mc 1 year ago 3
i was on the bluenose 2 in 1976
Sylvia
pussycat13456 2 years ago
Oh, so very, very beautiful. Just amazing. Gives me some lovely visuals for the next time I read 'Captains Courageous', too.
Thank you!
TabaquiJackal906 2 years ago
THANK YOU for posting. I get a chubby looking at these boats.
njtr 2 years ago
W-O-W!!!
tprdfh51 2 years ago
nuttin nar beautiful as a ship full rigged catchin wind, pushin back da waves, lopin' cross top da water....eh b'ys wha?
tango0902 2 years ago 2
live in hali
cheezeburgereddy 2 years ago
Thanks!!! This video is in the new video for matt mayes - building a boat.
grandmasteroy 2 years ago
This is the best recording of this song ever!!! anyone know what album its on?
grandmasteroy 2 years ago 3
It's from the Home in Halifax album, put out in '93.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
@AnonymousXIII
It is an early work of Stan's and came out on the Turnaround album in 1978.
bighank99 9 months ago
@bighank99 Sorry to take so long in replying; and it's true that the song came out on Turnaround in '78, but the live recording I used was from the Home in Halifax album released posthumously in '93.
AnonymousXIII 2 months ago
Stan Rogers Home in Halifax
Scorpion37 1 year ago
This is an amazing post. Well done. I never heard of Stan Rogers before but now I'm an instant fan!
agentredlum 2 years ago
Thank you very much, and Stan Rogers is well worth being a fan, he had a definite knack for capturing the soul of his subject in song.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
i agree, love this...
hydrohyde79 2 years ago
Thank you for the chance to remember this fine ship and song-and greetings from Nova Scotia
fluxfeld 2 years ago
You're quite welcome, and hello back from Ontario.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this impressive video.
peaksofotter62 2 years ago
Thank you for your compliment, though it certainly isn't I who deserve it. I'm glad it can see the light of day though.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
As someone who has been in love with the Bluenose for as long as I can remember (having seen it on the back of a dime my father brought back from a trip to Canada), I say "Thank you".
Wychwood 2 years ago
Thank you!
Where are you from?
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
Lots of Pride there that,s for sure.
Nareaster 2 years ago
God this video gives me chills every time I see it.
A crying shame that such a beautiful ship Foundered. A truly terrible loss. :C
Mandolinpossum 2 years ago
Loved Stan when he was alive, and nice to see how he lives on, accompanied by a really nice video. Thanks.
TheFolksinger 2 years ago
Well, I've since found out (from this very comment list) that the song was actually written specifically to accompany this silent film clip, so obviously I wasn't the first person to think that Stan's voice and music would go well with this footage. Still, I'm glad folks like it.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
Thanks for this info. Great clip and great song.
TheFolksinger 2 years ago
I've heard of the Bluenose II, but I was wondering what happened to the original Bluenose.
BoscoWins 2 years ago
In the words of Wikipedia:
Fishing schooners became obsolete after World War II, and despite efforts to keep her in Nova Scotia, the undefeated Bluenose was sold to work as a freighter in the West Indies. She foundered on a Haitian reef on January 28, 1946.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
obviously i wasn't crew...
hydrohyde79 2 years ago
took my 6 yr old to tallships in HFX last weekend and he started singing this song when he saw the Bluenose 2 then he turned and asked if this was the daughter the man sings about and i said yes and he was extremely proud of himself:)
stefansmom 2 years ago 4
that god dam boat cant be beat
jackobite68 2 years ago
NEWFOUNDLAND!!!
joeltarini 2 years ago
this makes all us bluenosers proud to be from Nova Scotia
bluenoseboy1964 2 years ago
That was brilliant. :o) I love the old footage. It really gives you a feel for those magical moments that are long past us. ..., And Stan Rogers sings it like no other.
Thanks for the share!
Peace!
minstral2 2 years ago 3
Bluenose was a Canadian schooner from Nova Scotia, a celebrated racing ship (and hard-working fishing vessel) and a symbol of the province. The name "bluenose" originated as a nick-name for Nova Scotians from as early as the late eighteenth century.[1]
ronmainemarine 2 years ago
Never heard of it
bluenoserr 2 years ago
the Blue Nose was a for real fishing ship. and Stan Rogers is a great singer!
ronmainemarine 2 years ago
Was she really a working ship instead of a purpose build racing yaucht ?
helmuthoorn 2 years ago
Yep.
BradynVB 2 years ago
Nova Scotia
BonesJuly 2 years ago
my god, what a post!
OscarCommie 2 years ago
sends a chill down my spine fo sho
XxESP420xX 2 years ago
great post!
dekes58 2 years ago
Time to Bail The Hay. Get your Knuckles Ready NS.
BonesJuly 2 years ago
oi to the lassies on the shoreOh.......CANADA .....My dear sweet country
EnglishMut 2 years ago
Wow!. thanks for posting this!
Deicide9999 2 years ago
So if I understand phyrdoom's comments, the song was written for this clip, and without prior knowledge of that fact you put both clip and song together?
That is uncannily awesome.
MajinMojo 2 years ago
That seems to be the case, yes.
I'm glad of it, because the first thing I thought when I saw this clip was, it should be paired with this song. I'm glad I'm not the first person to think of this.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
questi si che sono video!!!!!veramente molto bello!!! sapete dirmi il titolo della canzone?grazie e ancora complimenti
totti160289 2 years ago
To start with, I don't speak Spanish.
I do, however, have a smattering of Latin.
The video is from a historical archive site, and is not mine.
Thank you for your kind words.
If I understand your question correctly, you're asking the name of the song?
It's called Bluenose, and it's by Stan Rogers.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
thanks a lot
totti160289 2 years ago
infiniti complimenti x lo spettacolare vodeo!!!!!!!!!!!
totti160289 2 years ago
1:34: " Now her namesake DAUGHTER (II) remains to show what she has been
What every schoolboy remembers and will not come again
phrydoom 2 years ago
AnonymousXIII, you did a great job, it's people like you we rely on. cheers to you!
phrydoom 2 years ago
What a beautiful ship! Thanks for the video.
msdiediedie 2 years ago
This is an excellent video! Great work!
earlsalt 2 years ago
Wonderful video Magnificent ship !!!!
oldetimeshipfan 3 years ago 2
well done.. that is the best homemade video of the bluenose and the gertrude and set to stan rogers' music... well done:) I listened to bluenose when i was flying home from ottawa last summer... the first thing i did when i got settled was head to lawrencetown beach to be near the water :)
stefansmom 3 years ago
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it :)
Not to toot my own horn, but I still am impressed with it myself, every time I look at it; it fell together perfectly!
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
<3 <3 <3
Farflonger 3 years ago
veramente un gran bel video!!!!!!
totti160289 3 years ago
merci bien
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
Hats off indeed. Fantastic ship, fantastic song.
For the enthusiasts, check the un-musiced video by the same author of this vid. Good footage.
WindmillStalker 3 years ago
I wouldn't say it was by me; I just happened to find it. It's posted on a government site some place, and I didn't figure it got a lot of airtime there; and anyway, I felt it wanted the music.
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
Ironically, the Nova Scotia Gov't felt the footage needed some music too, thus they hired Rogers to write this exact song for it. Stan statesAnd Bluenose was written for a Nova Scotia government film, about the reproduction, Bluenose II, of the Grand Banks schooner, Bluenose. We recorded it for the film, then we liked the tune so much we decided to put it on the album."
phrydoom 2 years ago
Ah, that makes more sense then.
Though the actual clip is considerably longer than the song; at least as it is performed here.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
Still, that does not take away, not in the least, what you have done here. NO ONE, is posting this, and you had the creativity to put both together...you rule, 5-stars.
Btw, the CBC edited the clip and tune, so it was like an intermission, as few commercials appeared back then on the CBC. Form begining to end it was like a minute and a half at most.
What I love, it that YOU are the only one posting this. I respect you a lot. Cheers.
phrydoom 2 years ago
I see, so it was shortened, then.
AnonymousXIII 2 years ago
Oh yes, it was. But the music and footage were timed the same. But it only ran as long as the NS CBC needed the intermision.
phrydoom 2 years ago
I've been looking for this song and video for quite some time now. I remember it as a commercial for CBC, this is the first time I have seen it in full. always knew it was stan singing , but could not find it on tape or cd, always loved it from the first time i heard it.
dcroxns 3 years ago
You're the second person to say that, lol, but if there is such a video, I've never seen it. I put this together myself.
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
dcroxns
I know this particular recording of the song is from Home in Halifax, if that helps
FMNikoyo 3 years ago
dcroxns: ME TOO!!!! This is an old CBC intermission--the music, film, etc. This played everyday at least several times back in the early 80s on CBC television here in Nova Scotia. It wasn't really a commercial, it was an intermission and BOTH the music AND the film footage were played exactly as it appears here.
phrydoom 2 years ago
Beautiful ships, beautiful song. Great vid.
WindmillStalker 3 years ago
ty, glad it's so appreciated
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
I have a wooden model of Bluenose, which I made when was a child.
DMlTRY 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this from an expatriate Nova Scotian (who are called "Bluenosers, BTW)
Kunstdesfechtens 3 years ago
Too think she's last of the Grand bank schooners that feed so many men. Thank god for that.
talisker1972 3 years ago
This is too much Canadian for one day.
OhhAhhEhh 3 years ago
I think too much of you so keep your comments to yourself.
colby2n 3 years ago
im canadian ur too much america
jonlscott 3 years ago
Stan Rogers is my hero
aclay81 3 years ago 3
That was great, thank you so much!
SuezWSuezW 3 years ago
The most beautiful of all sailing ships
tincoffin 3 years ago
I remember part of this use to play on the CBC as a little boy, and in the early, early 80s.
phrydoom 3 years ago
The clip might have; or the song; I strongly doubt both did together though... if they did, I probably owe them money... ;)
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
My friend this video aired on the CBC as an intermission uo to 0:58...i bet my life on it...Isougth this out for that reason, I was seven years old, and I loved this. cheers
phrydoom 3 years ago
They may have aired the video clip; it's from some silent footage archived by a historical society.
I added the music myself, however; so if they added it also, that's just a coincidence, I promis you; but since it is such an awesome song, totally capturing the spirit of the ship, it's entirely possible someone working at the CBC had the same idea I did.
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
Dude, I swear on my life, the CBC aired this EXACTLY like you have it: both visual and audio. Amazing job, when did you do this? i saw this in the early 80s. So when I searched for it, I plugged in his name hoping to catch the clip, and thankfully you aired it.
phrydoom 3 years ago
Shortly before I posted it; October of last year, I guess.
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
And yes, both appeared together...it was cool, thx for the post
phrydoom 3 years ago
i ran out of space on my last comment so i didnt get to say that just like the blue nose in on your dime the gold field is on our 25 cent coin and just like blue nose gold field has a song about her.
nedgg 3 years ago
Awesome video!
MattTrecartin 3 years ago
Thanks
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
So they are building a replica? Amazing the mass of sail those carried, when all the skirts were up.
Myself I´m crew (and own 1/697th part of :) of Klara Marie of Skillinge, SWE, built in 1884. And I can assure you, it´s hard work but worth it (to be part of a projekt like that). To see a famous ship like the Bluenose sail must be absolutely stunning.
janaxel1 3 years ago
the built a replica its called the blur nose 2 its currently birthed in halifax. i live in cayman and we have a simmiler story about our gratest schooner named the gold field she was simmilarly built and both originals ships met a simmilar fate. we are also trying to build a replica but being a seafaring community we dont have the money. much love to the men that crewed thees fine ships and may all those who were claimed by the sea rest in peace and may they have fair winds and a following seas.
nedgg 3 years ago
they are building another replica the bluenose IV because the name bluenose III is copyrighted by nova scotia and the bluenose II is getting too old to sail to other ports as she recently past her 45 birthday this year, she was scheduled to be laid july 1st but was delayed.
zcr19 3 years ago
Great job on this Video!! A piece of Archives that deserves to be dusted off and shown - and what a fine job you did of it. Stan Rogers Song and this Video are paired perfectly! Good on you.
GPS1356 3 years ago
Actually there was very little for me to do; I was lucky; it paired up extremely well. It's my first ever video, I'm glad it turned out so well. Thanks though!
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
The song reminds me of Gordon lightfoot , another great Canadian.
bombaaaah 3 years ago
Are they looking for crew?!
thevigiles 3 years ago
I know they are looking for people to help build her but Im not sure if they already got a sea crew made or not.
zcr19 3 years ago
AnonymousXIII they already have enough money to build her, the keel is being layed July 1st at Snyders shipyard browse around here and you will find all you want to know about her.
zcr19 3 years ago
Stan Rogers and the Bluenose up against the rich boys toys of the Glocster boys, knew hard work in her time. This brings a tingle to my body remembering who we are as Canadians. Forget? NEVER! not a long as a single Canadian sailor lives.
wendilin3 3 years ago
Absolutely fantastic
craigowler 3 years ago
maybe the "who will know the bluenose in the sun" line could be a reference to how she was soled after WWII and sent south to be a freighter in the caribbean. just a thought
fiercebrett 3 years ago
The Bluenose was a famous Nova SCotian-built schooner. She won every race she raced until she was scuttled in a reef off Bermuda. The last of a long proud history of Canadian boat making. The replica still sails, and the image on the Canadian dime is the first Bluenose.
ethanoriley 3 years ago
She wasn't racing anymore by the time she scuttled, though. She'd been sold by that time.
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
I dont understand the line "who will know the bluenose in the sun".
Any hints?
ghengiscrayon 3 years ago
Im not sure if this is what it means in the song but the name bluenose is a name for a Nova Scotian.
zcr19 3 years ago
I think it has to do with the theme of a forgotten heritage; after all, how many Canadians these days even actually know that the ship on the dime is the Bluenose; and if you polled Canadians whether to keep the ship or replace it with a modern popular icon, I shudder to think what the response might be. They don't know what Bluenose was, or how important she was. That sort of stuff just doesn't get taught in schools anymore, unless maybe you live in Lunenburg...
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
So the link is interpreted as the history and story of the bluenose is burned up, as if it was consumed by the sun? I guess I understand that but then, just love the music!
ghengiscrayon 3 years ago
Well, that's certainly one way to interpret it, and as valid as any other, I'd think.
Personally, I sort of think of it as asking "Who remembers those days anymore, when the Bluenose was the pride of Canada?" (I'm paraphrasing of course)
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
Your right it doesn't get taught in school just brief little parts here and there but here in NS I don't think that any thing can or ever will represent Nova Scotia like her. They are raising money to build the Bluenose IV because the Bluenose II is getting to old to visit other ports.
zcr19 3 years ago
Hmm... is there a link you can share with us to donate to that cause?
AnonymousXIII 3 years ago
Great video, thanks Mate ! François, crew on schooners "Julia af Faaborg","Spirit of Chemainus" and frigate "Grand Turk".
Topmansangatte 4 years ago
ty it is nice to see her beautiful face again and hear her song!!! goose bumps and home sick, displaced in the prairies. ty agian for putting this together for the world to see!!!
widowmaker0605 4 years ago
Beautiful footage. We need more of this on youtube. Well done
Damoklez 4 years ago 3
More like this video needed.
bt1013cpd 4 years ago
Wow: This video says it alland the music is perfect.
I taste the flavour of Bluenose and Bluenose II every day as I retired in Lunenburg and keep my wooden sloop beside the Bluenose II construction shed. Does anyone have names of the men who built Bluenose in 1920-21? Love to have them.
Beautiful work on this video.
idiens 4 years ago
The ship the music the song is living Lunenburg and why we live here. Beyond awesome!!!!
idiens 4 years ago
Beyond awesome, the ship and the song. The best of Lunenburg NS
idiens 4 years ago