Friday, July 1, 2011

Farewell to Nova Scotia?

Hi. Don't know if you can help me or not, but I figured it couldn't
hurt to ask. I am trying to find a certain, SPECIFIC recording of the
song "Farewell to Nova Scotia", and thought that perhaps someone there
could point me towards who might have done it. I received a copy of it
on cassette when I was young, given to me by my music teacher at the
time. It's a very nice recording, by a MALE singer, and prefaced by a
narrator speaking about the song, and the feelings expressed in it. He
talks of the feeling between a man and his country "whether it be the
peaks of the rocky mountains, or the coast of Nova Scotia", and how
"often a singer will express these feelings in a song" (these quotes
may not be exact but they are very close). I would have received the
cassette around 1982-84. I can't say for sure, but the narration
didn't sound like a radio program, more like it may have been from an
album extolling the virtues of canadiana. I don't recall any
pronounced accent. For a long time I had thought it might be Burton
Cummings (which it is not), but that gives an idea of the type of
voice. Maybe.

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