Canada Vignettes: The Performer
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- čas přidán 2. 12. 2013
- This short film from the Canada Vignettes series features tenor Roger Doucet singing the Canadian national anthem, O Canada, before a hockey game in the Montreal Forum.
Directed by Norma Bailey - 1978 | 3 min
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The GOAT of National Anthem singers.
Oh, yes, indeed.
Him, 🇨🇦
Doug Allen, 🇺🇸
John Amirante, 🇺🇸
Jim Cornelison, 🇺🇸
Sara Diamond, 🇨🇦
Mark Donnelly, 🇨🇦
Davis Gaines, 🇺🇸
Charles Prevost Linton, 🇨🇦
Paul Lorieau, 🇨🇦
Wayne Messmer, 🇺🇸
Andre Ouellet, 🇨🇦
Rene Rancourt, 🇺🇸
Ginette Reno,🇨🇦
and Pia Toscano,🇺🇸
all hold a place near and dear, to my heart, as memorable national anthem performers.
Grew up in Buffalo watching Sabres and Leafs, but especially remember Sabres-Canadiens games in early-mid 1970s. Will never forget hearing Doucet singing O Canada, still brings a tear watching him sing it.
He sang it powerfully, he sang it effortlessly, and he sang it properly.
I wish they would use a recording of Roger at every hab game . Before each game I mute the tv and play Mr Doucet version
Those who think our national anthem is dull have never heard Roger Doucet!
Nobody and I mean nobody sang the anthem like Doucet.
He was "Mr Ô Canada"
It's not a dull anthem and he does sing it best.
No one says the anthem is bad, but the flag with the leaf is shat.
I'm American and I think Canada has a lovely anthem, and Australia, too. I happen to sing both of their anthems, along with mine, from time to time.
I remember this vignette all so well.....still hair raising to hear him sing....." The Best "
The anthem is perfect this way: first half in French, last half in English. Wonderfully sung! No wonder the Canadiens did so well in the years when he started the game!
He'd often substitute "we stand on guard for rights and liberty" for "we stand, we stand on guard for thee".
He must have been a fascinating person! I didn't take him as the type who jogged and exercised! He died far too young...just imagine had he lived into his 70's, the Habs could have brought him back in '86 and '93 to sing in the playoffs! Listening to him sing in this video gave me goosebumps and it's 30 degrees today! lol.
He was taken out by a brain tumor. Nothing in the way of self-maintenance to be done about that. Doucet really was before my time, but you can hear and feel how powerfully he sang both anthems.
I am 55 in NY and remember watching these games in the 70s as a kid. You see Guy Lafleur on ice and he died last year! It could not have been that long ago.
Still the best after all these years...and I am a Bruins fan from Boston.
Thank you so much, as a Canadian I salute you !
As a Blackhawks fan from Chicago, I couldn't agree more.
He was Rene Rancour's idol. But he couldn't match him, and I think he'd admit it if pressed.
Man, as a lifelong Habs fan, this brings me back to such great times. I loved Roger Doucet. Always looked forward to the National Anthem. RIP Mr Doucet.
Wow what a 3 minute treasure. Nothing I can say would justify this.
Absolute legend. As a kid, I was die hard Habs fan in Halifax. In elementary school, I’d have a sleep over at my nans apartment regularly as she was a huge Habs fan too. As a matter of fact, She was in Montreal at a restaurant when all of a sudden Henri & Rocket Richard walked in. She got their autographs for me & I ended up losing it when we moved. Anyway , my last name is Doucette. I remember being angry it was spelled differently than Doucet. Lol. I started handing in my assignments at school minus the T & E - teachers never questioned me about it haha
Had goosebumps when at the last game at Montreal Forum they played a recording of Roger. Was my 1st and last time to hear his voice at the Forum as it was unexpected pleasure to experience that at least once 🙂
The Canadian national anthem was written for Roger Doucet. What a legend.
Well, Roger Doucet, Sara Diamond, Charles Prevost Linton, Andre Ouellet, and Ginette Reno, together.
The old forum, Roger Doucet, Claude Mutton, all the Stanley Cup Banners, and now the building is nothing but a vacant memory.
Claude Mouton 😉
No one has ever sung it better.
Roger Doucet changed the singing of O Canada forever. Before him, it ended with "guard for thee" as sol, [down] ti, [down] doh. After Doucet, and after Habs games on Saturday night, it became "sol [up] ti [up] doh. It was so much more exciting to flip the octave that it caught on everywhere, and did not require an Act of Parliament to do so. It just took the Habs, the CBC, and Roger Doucet. Mercy, Roger.
now that's a powerful voice
The Greatest
Roger Doucet: A Canadian Icon and a Canadiens Icon!
Love the NFB vignettes!
I saw him once in 1976 when the Habs were playing the California Golden Seals in Le Forum. Awesome!
How can you not love that?! Nobody did it better
I agree. In fact, I once ran into Wayne Messmer (who originally sang for the Chicago Blackhawks, until 1995), and told him that he shares a place on my list, as one of the best National Anthem singers, of my life, for both Canada, and the United States. With that said, I included Roger Doucet, and he was so honored to hear me include him, in my list, since he too, thought that he was one of the best inspirations for him, to sing in front of a crowd of many, with his warm and booming voice, for all of Chicago, and the nation to hear.
Still gives me the chills.
Great stuff! What a voice! Brings back great memories!
From a time when patriotism actually meant something.
He was a great guy who helped out the Irish community sports, and to help his cancer treatments he would come down to get some Hash to smoke because of his .. R.I.P. from the point...
When hockey was real. My God, what a masterpiece.
Interesting...I was very sure that when this video was first uploaded, he sang the "rights and liberty" version. It sounds like the audio has since been edited. I'm not saying what's right or wrong...only that it appears to have been edited.
Chills!!!!
OUI OUI
We had one hell of a country once but because of 3rd world mass illegal migration and having Justin Castro as a leader, we'll never see it again.
US in this way now very sad
Just imagine had they left it alone! We would be among the most envied countries in the world. It breaks my heart that my 2 sons will grow up as Caucasian minorities, it's just not fair.