An Evening With Stan                      
By Bill Murphy                      

We met up with Stan Rogers and his group to film a program at his uncle's cottage on the shore of the Bay of Fundy.  Producer Jack Kellum had not been able to get Ryans and Stan's group together in the studio to record Barrett's Privateers so we had to record it live to tape mixing the two groups on the spot.  We set up in the tiny kitchen of the cottage on a steaming hot night and of course our TV lights only made it hotter. Because we shot the series with a just one camera we had to shoot the song over and over again to get the different camera angles.

As the evening went on tempers got a little short in the tiny kitchen which by now was like a sauna. I had the speaker placed by Stan's feet under the kitchen table and at one point I inadvertently left the speaker on while I rewound the tape causing a sound like a gunshot which gave Stan quite a scare.  Stan, who had a bit of a temper, yelled at me to turn the speaker off, Denis immediately jumped to my defense which only heightened the tension. To his credit as soon as we finished the song Stan got up, poured me a pop...... and came over and shook my hand, we all got along famously after that incident.

Adrienne Clarkson repeated that Ryans program ,with Stan, three or four times on her series "Adrienne Clarkson Presents" she told me it was one of the most popular episodes on her series.We met up with Stan Rogers and his group to film a program at his uncle's cottage on the shore of the Bay of Fundy.  Producer Jack Kellum had not been able to get Ryans and Stan's group together in the studio to record Barrett's Privateers so we had to record it live to tape mixing the two groups on the spot.  We set up in the tiny kitchen of the cottage on a steaming hot night and of course our TV lights only made it hotter. Because we shot the series with a just one camera we had to shoot the song over and over again to get the different camera angles.

As the evening went on tempers got a little short in the tiny kitchen which by now was like a sauna. I had the speaker placed by Stan's feet under the kitchen table and at one point I inadvertently left the speaker on while I rewound the tape causing a sound like a gunshot which gave Stan quite a scare.  Stan, who had a bit of a temper, yelled at me to turn the speaker off, Denis immediately jumped to my defense which only heightened the tension. To his credit as soon as we finished the song Stan got up, poured me a pop...... and came over and shook my hand, we all got along famously after that incident.

Adrienne Clarkson repeated that Ryans program ,with Stan, three or four times on her series "Adrienne Clarkson Presents" she told me it was one of the most popular episodes on her series.

Click here to view a clip from the Stan Rogers Special "One Warm Line", which features a excerpt from the Ryans Fancy show. From The Stan Rogers Page. (Real Player is required)