The Dreadnoughts - Dear Old Stan

[TehRazorBack]

Arrangement for Anglo Concertina of Dear Old Stan by The Dreadnoughts:
 

The hardest bit was trying to match the beat of the lyrics, they're all over the place! Overall, very satisfied with the arrangement. Maybe just a bit more "oomph" needed during the chorus.

As always, sheet music attached.

TheDeadnoughts_DearOldStan.pdf

[Don Taylor]

Thank you very much for doing this this as I am a long time Stan Rogers fan.

 

Background.  The Dreadnoughts are a Canadian band founded in their love of the songs of Stan Rogers.  Stan started out singing mostly traditional maritime songs but then moved on to writing and performing songs about other regions of Canada.  Stan had plans for writing songs about all the varied regions of Canada but his career was cut short when he died in a fire aboard an aircraft in 1983.  He was ony 33 years old.

 

Here is the Dreadnoughts version of the song: https://youtu.be/cw9O2xdAmGc?si=PSQlfC-sJhZCrKxG

 

[TehRazorBack]

I learnt about Stan Rogers via The Dreadnoughts, and The Dreadnoughts via the concertina.

 

Was looking for how some of the shanties in Gary Coover's book should sound, and found the Dreadnoughts had versions of Fire Marengo, Paddy Lay Back, Whup! Jamboree, etc. Listened to more and really enjoyed their version of Northeast Passage before realising it wasn't their original song.

[RAc]

It never ceases to amaze me how comparatively few people are aware of Stan Rogers... I heard about him maybe around 15 years ago, and he completly blew me off my feet. I became addicted on the spot.

 

Since then, I have introduced many people to him, and I do not know of a single one who wasn't as affected as I was. Music is very personal and individual, so a lot of the music I like is not appreciated by others, even those of the same musical environment. That's fine and by definition perfectly ok. Yet Stan Rogers was different. He manages to reach out to everyone, even long after his death, and world wide. What a giant as a musician and a human.

Edited February 17, 2024 by RAc

[Ken_Coles]

As I recall, Pete Seeger called Stan Rogers "the Woody Guthrie of Canada." I knew of him 40 years ago, right at the end of his life - he got airplay on WNYC when I lived in New York. I wore out some of his recordings playing them on my radio show at Purdue University in the 1990s.

 

Ken