Many of the film's sequences were improvised on the spot.
Director Shebib was introduced to Cockburn, who was then playing in coffee houses in Toronto, by journalist Alison Gordon.
As in the original, the men are entranced by the big city appeal of Yonge Street, a primary commercial thoroughfare in downtown Toronto.
Unable to find steady work and with bills to pay and Joey and Betty's baby on the way, they resort to stealing food from a local supermarket.
Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Roy Wood - Goin' Down The Road at Discogs. Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song), Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song) / The Premium Bond Theme, Buy Vinyl, Matrix / Runout (Side A - variant 1): SHAR 5083 A-1U DG PN 2, Matrix / Runout (Side B - variant 1): SHAR 5083 B-2U P 1, Matrix / Runout (Side A etched - variant 3): SHAR 5083 A-1U RP PN 3, Matrix / Runout (Side B etched - variant 3): SHAR 5083 B-2U 0 1, Matrix / Runout (Side A, label): SHAR.5083A, Matrix / Runout (Side B, label): SHAR.5083B. The film concludes much as it began, with Pete and Joey driving west in search of greener pastures.
The Grateful Dead, Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72, Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings, Winterland June 1977 - The Complete Recordings, Road Trips Volume 1, Number 4 ("From Egypt With Love"), Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 Boxed Set. The parody ends on a happier note, with the characters leaving Toronto to seek better opportunities in Edmonton. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1974 Vinyl release of Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song) on Discogs. I was messing about with drum rhythms, and the reggae beat was like a marching beat... and the obvious thing to go with a marching beat is a Scottish Reel." A digital restoration of the original Goin' Down the Road was released in 2017. Going down the road feeling bad Going down the road feeling bad Going down the road … We've found 23,865 lyrics, 104 artists, and 49 albums matching DOWN THE ROAD.. Shebib subsequently directed the 1981 film Heartaches, starring Margot Kidder, Annie Potts and Robert Carradine in a thematically similar story about two women. Shot on 16mm reversal stock, the near-documentary look of the movie impressed a number of critics who appreciated the film's honesty and its refusal to pander to the audience. They fill their days smoking, drinking beer, and hitting on young women along Toronto's busy Yonge Street strip. The then up-and-coming singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn composed several songs for the film, including "Goin' Down the Road" and "Another Victim of the Rainbow".
Lyrics: Traditional It stars Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. Tensions mount at the crowded living situation and the lack of money begins to wear on them, and Betty tells Joey she will soon need to stop working at her waitressing job because of her pregnancy. Pete and Joey return to their apartment in the morning to find Betty gone and their possessions on the street, after the police came in search of them and their landlord evicted them as troublemakers. The film builds on such works as The Grapes of Wrath but it puts the story into the present, and the story itself is not dated – the flight from rural to urban areas continues throughout the world today. Goin' Down the Road is a key 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib, co-written by William Fruet and Donald Shebib. Jerry Garcia apparently learnt it from Delaney Bramlett during the It tells the story of two young men who decide to leave the Maritimes, where jobs and fulfilling lives are hard to find, for the excitement and perceived riches of Toronto. Eastwood reprised her role as the pregnant girlfriend, and Andrea Martin expanded the list of characters as a French-Canadian nuclear physicist who was also seeking better opportunities outside her native province of Quebec.
Many of Toronto's early housing developments (particularly Regent Park) were built to handle the influx of internal immigrants before they were eventually replaced by external immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia starting in the 1960s. Pete and Joey are not depicted as being punished for a moral failure, and there is no happy ending. In 2010, Shebib announced that a sequel film was in production. Goin' Down the Road is a key 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib, co-written by William Fruet and Donald Shebib.It tells the story of two young men who decide to leave the Maritimes, where jobs and fulfilling lives are hard to find, for the excitement and perceived riches of Toronto.It stars Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. The men find jobs at a local ginger-ale bottler for $80 per week, a job with tough working conditions that doesn't pay much better than what they could have had back home. Played by the Grateful Dead from 1970 right through to the 1990s.
The caper results in a grocery clerk being assaulted by the pair when he tries to prevent the robbery. An' here I go again on my own Goin' down the only road I've ever known, Like a drifter I was born to walk alone 'Cos I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams An' here I go again on my own
Disaster strikes when Pete and Joey get laid off at the end of the summer and the trio are forced to move to a smaller, less-comfortable apartment. He pursues a credit-driven lifestyle undreamt of back home with his wife, buying a new colour television, stereo, and furniture on an installment plan. Goin' down the only road I've ever known, Like a drifter I was born to walk alone An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time.
Although the men in the film come from Nova Scotia, the "Newfie" as an unsophisticated manual labourer was a common stereotype starting in the early 1950s as many Atlantic Canadians moved to the cities looking for work, only to find widespread unemployment and jobs that may have seemed to have attractive salaries, but made living in large cities marginal at best. [3] The Toronto International Film Festival ranked it in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time four times, in 1984, 1993, 2004 and 2015. [4] In 2002, readers of Playback voted it the 5th greatest Canadian film of all-time.[5]. Lyrics to 'Going Down The Road Feeling Bad' by The Marshall Tucker Band. Pete convinces Joey that husbands leave their wives "all the time" and Joey agrees to leave Betty and her unborn child in Toronto, as she will slow them down. This, for example is one account: "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad was frequently recorded in the 1920s and 1930s by hillbilly artists such as Henry Whitter, Ernest Stoneman, and Fiddlin' John Carson.
"Festival Express" train ride across Canada in 1970. Lyrics.com » Search results for 'DOWN THE ROAD' Yee yee! Complete your Roy Wood collection. Pete and Joey find new jobs washing cars and resetting pins in a bowling alley but at much smaller wages than what they received at the bottling factory.
Other Canadian filmmakers have also taken advantage of the cost savings that realism can mean to a production (such as shooting on less expensive film stock). I'd always wanted to do a reggae thing. [7], Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, "Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada", "Egoyan tops Canada's all-time best movies list", "Donald Shebib Is Back On the Road Again", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goin%27_Down_the_Road&oldid=972780728, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 August 2020, at 19:42.
Music: Traditional [6] Down the Road Again was released in October 2011. Roots The origins of this song go back a long way. Both men start romances; Joey decides to get married when his girlfriend, Betty (Jayne Eastwood), becomes pregnant. Cockburn refused to release the songs commercially because they represented the experiences of the movie's characters and not his own. The film is well known to Canadians and was parodied as Garth & Gord & Fiona & Alice in an episode of SCTV, with John Candy and Joe Flaherty as a Maritime lawyer and doctor (respectively) seeking a better life in Toronto after hearing about the job openings there.
They soon turn their good fortune into residency in a small apartment, which they decorate with centrefolds from men's magazines and movie posters. Despite the lack of a large production budget, the movie is generally regarded as one of the best and most influential Canadian films of all time and has received considerable critical acclaim for its writing, directing and acting.
For example, the scene in Allan Gardens where Pete and Joey interact with some musical tramps: according to Donald Shebib, McGrath saw the men and called Shebib who hurried down with his camera and other cast members in tow.
Many of the film's sequences were improvised on the spot.
Director Shebib was introduced to Cockburn, who was then playing in coffee houses in Toronto, by journalist Alison Gordon.
As in the original, the men are entranced by the big city appeal of Yonge Street, a primary commercial thoroughfare in downtown Toronto.
Unable to find steady work and with bills to pay and Joey and Betty's baby on the way, they resort to stealing food from a local supermarket.
Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Roy Wood - Goin' Down The Road at Discogs. Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song), Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song) / The Premium Bond Theme, Buy Vinyl, Matrix / Runout (Side A - variant 1): SHAR 5083 A-1U DG PN 2, Matrix / Runout (Side B - variant 1): SHAR 5083 B-2U P 1, Matrix / Runout (Side A etched - variant 3): SHAR 5083 A-1U RP PN 3, Matrix / Runout (Side B etched - variant 3): SHAR 5083 B-2U 0 1, Matrix / Runout (Side A, label): SHAR.5083A, Matrix / Runout (Side B, label): SHAR.5083B. The film concludes much as it began, with Pete and Joey driving west in search of greener pastures.
The Grateful Dead, Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72, Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings, Winterland June 1977 - The Complete Recordings, Road Trips Volume 1, Number 4 ("From Egypt With Love"), Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 Boxed Set. The parody ends on a happier note, with the characters leaving Toronto to seek better opportunities in Edmonton. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1974 Vinyl release of Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song) on Discogs. I was messing about with drum rhythms, and the reggae beat was like a marching beat... and the obvious thing to go with a marching beat is a Scottish Reel." A digital restoration of the original Goin' Down the Road was released in 2017. Going down the road feeling bad Going down the road feeling bad Going down the road … We've found 23,865 lyrics, 104 artists, and 49 albums matching DOWN THE ROAD.. Shebib subsequently directed the 1981 film Heartaches, starring Margot Kidder, Annie Potts and Robert Carradine in a thematically similar story about two women. Shot on 16mm reversal stock, the near-documentary look of the movie impressed a number of critics who appreciated the film's honesty and its refusal to pander to the audience. They fill their days smoking, drinking beer, and hitting on young women along Toronto's busy Yonge Street strip. The then up-and-coming singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn composed several songs for the film, including "Goin' Down the Road" and "Another Victim of the Rainbow".
Lyrics: Traditional It stars Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. Tensions mount at the crowded living situation and the lack of money begins to wear on them, and Betty tells Joey she will soon need to stop working at her waitressing job because of her pregnancy. Pete and Joey return to their apartment in the morning to find Betty gone and their possessions on the street, after the police came in search of them and their landlord evicted them as troublemakers. The film builds on such works as The Grapes of Wrath but it puts the story into the present, and the story itself is not dated – the flight from rural to urban areas continues throughout the world today. Goin' Down the Road is a key 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib, co-written by William Fruet and Donald Shebib. Jerry Garcia apparently learnt it from Delaney Bramlett during the It tells the story of two young men who decide to leave the Maritimes, where jobs and fulfilling lives are hard to find, for the excitement and perceived riches of Toronto. Eastwood reprised her role as the pregnant girlfriend, and Andrea Martin expanded the list of characters as a French-Canadian nuclear physicist who was also seeking better opportunities outside her native province of Quebec.
Many of Toronto's early housing developments (particularly Regent Park) were built to handle the influx of internal immigrants before they were eventually replaced by external immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia starting in the 1960s. Pete and Joey are not depicted as being punished for a moral failure, and there is no happy ending. In 2010, Shebib announced that a sequel film was in production. Goin' Down the Road is a key 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib, co-written by William Fruet and Donald Shebib.It tells the story of two young men who decide to leave the Maritimes, where jobs and fulfilling lives are hard to find, for the excitement and perceived riches of Toronto.It stars Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. The men find jobs at a local ginger-ale bottler for $80 per week, a job with tough working conditions that doesn't pay much better than what they could have had back home. Played by the Grateful Dead from 1970 right through to the 1990s.
The caper results in a grocery clerk being assaulted by the pair when he tries to prevent the robbery. An' here I go again on my own Goin' down the only road I've ever known, Like a drifter I was born to walk alone 'Cos I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams An' here I go again on my own
Disaster strikes when Pete and Joey get laid off at the end of the summer and the trio are forced to move to a smaller, less-comfortable apartment. He pursues a credit-driven lifestyle undreamt of back home with his wife, buying a new colour television, stereo, and furniture on an installment plan. Goin' down the only road I've ever known, Like a drifter I was born to walk alone An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time.
Although the men in the film come from Nova Scotia, the "Newfie" as an unsophisticated manual labourer was a common stereotype starting in the early 1950s as many Atlantic Canadians moved to the cities looking for work, only to find widespread unemployment and jobs that may have seemed to have attractive salaries, but made living in large cities marginal at best. [3] The Toronto International Film Festival ranked it in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time four times, in 1984, 1993, 2004 and 2015. [4] In 2002, readers of Playback voted it the 5th greatest Canadian film of all-time.[5]. Lyrics to 'Going Down The Road Feeling Bad' by The Marshall Tucker Band. Pete convinces Joey that husbands leave their wives "all the time" and Joey agrees to leave Betty and her unborn child in Toronto, as she will slow them down. This, for example is one account: "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad was frequently recorded in the 1920s and 1930s by hillbilly artists such as Henry Whitter, Ernest Stoneman, and Fiddlin' John Carson.
"Festival Express" train ride across Canada in 1970. Lyrics.com » Search results for 'DOWN THE ROAD' Yee yee! Complete your Roy Wood collection. Pete and Joey find new jobs washing cars and resetting pins in a bowling alley but at much smaller wages than what they received at the bottling factory.
Other Canadian filmmakers have also taken advantage of the cost savings that realism can mean to a production (such as shooting on less expensive film stock). I'd always wanted to do a reggae thing. [7], Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, "Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada", "Egoyan tops Canada's all-time best movies list", "Donald Shebib Is Back On the Road Again", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goin%27_Down_the_Road&oldid=972780728, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 August 2020, at 19:42.
Music: Traditional [6] Down the Road Again was released in October 2011. Roots The origins of this song go back a long way. Both men start romances; Joey decides to get married when his girlfriend, Betty (Jayne Eastwood), becomes pregnant. Cockburn refused to release the songs commercially because they represented the experiences of the movie's characters and not his own. The film is well known to Canadians and was parodied as Garth & Gord & Fiona & Alice in an episode of SCTV, with John Candy and Joe Flaherty as a Maritime lawyer and doctor (respectively) seeking a better life in Toronto after hearing about the job openings there.
They soon turn their good fortune into residency in a small apartment, which they decorate with centrefolds from men's magazines and movie posters. Despite the lack of a large production budget, the movie is generally regarded as one of the best and most influential Canadian films of all time and has received considerable critical acclaim for its writing, directing and acting.
For example, the scene in Allan Gardens where Pete and Joey interact with some musical tramps: according to Donald Shebib, McGrath saw the men and called Shebib who hurried down with his camera and other cast members in tow.
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Pete and Joey drive their 1960 Chevrolet Impala from their home on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia to Toronto with the hope of meeting up with their relatives in the city who might be able to help them find jobs; but their relatives hide from what they see as the pair's uncouth behaviour and the two are set adrift in the city. This film has been designated and preserved as a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of Canada's audio-visual heritage. Quebec cinema also was influenced by the realistic look of Goin' Down the Road, and many successful Quebec films based on real life experiences were also critical and often commercial successes. Pete accuses Joey of not making enough money to support his share of the costs, and Betty resents Pete for making the accusation. Broke, homeless, wanted by the police for theft and assault, and with Betty staying with her aunt and uncle, the pair decide to pawn the rented colour TV set for money in order to make it out to Western Canada. Going Down The Road by Roy Wood song meaning, ... Wood said of the song's origin: "It was pretty silly really. The film reflected an important social phenomenon in post-war Canada as the economy of the eastern provinces stagnated and many young men sought opportunities in the fast-growing economy of Ontario.
Many of the film's sequences were improvised on the spot.
Director Shebib was introduced to Cockburn, who was then playing in coffee houses in Toronto, by journalist Alison Gordon.
As in the original, the men are entranced by the big city appeal of Yonge Street, a primary commercial thoroughfare in downtown Toronto.
Unable to find steady work and with bills to pay and Joey and Betty's baby on the way, they resort to stealing food from a local supermarket.
Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Roy Wood - Goin' Down The Road at Discogs. Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song), Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song) / The Premium Bond Theme, Buy Vinyl, Matrix / Runout (Side A - variant 1): SHAR 5083 A-1U DG PN 2, Matrix / Runout (Side B - variant 1): SHAR 5083 B-2U P 1, Matrix / Runout (Side A etched - variant 3): SHAR 5083 A-1U RP PN 3, Matrix / Runout (Side B etched - variant 3): SHAR 5083 B-2U 0 1, Matrix / Runout (Side A, label): SHAR.5083A, Matrix / Runout (Side B, label): SHAR.5083B. The film concludes much as it began, with Pete and Joey driving west in search of greener pastures.
The Grateful Dead, Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72, Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings, Winterland June 1977 - The Complete Recordings, Road Trips Volume 1, Number 4 ("From Egypt With Love"), Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 Boxed Set. The parody ends on a happier note, with the characters leaving Toronto to seek better opportunities in Edmonton. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1974 Vinyl release of Goin' Down The Road (A Scottish Reggae Song) on Discogs. I was messing about with drum rhythms, and the reggae beat was like a marching beat... and the obvious thing to go with a marching beat is a Scottish Reel." A digital restoration of the original Goin' Down the Road was released in 2017. Going down the road feeling bad Going down the road feeling bad Going down the road … We've found 23,865 lyrics, 104 artists, and 49 albums matching DOWN THE ROAD.. Shebib subsequently directed the 1981 film Heartaches, starring Margot Kidder, Annie Potts and Robert Carradine in a thematically similar story about two women. Shot on 16mm reversal stock, the near-documentary look of the movie impressed a number of critics who appreciated the film's honesty and its refusal to pander to the audience. They fill their days smoking, drinking beer, and hitting on young women along Toronto's busy Yonge Street strip. The then up-and-coming singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn composed several songs for the film, including "Goin' Down the Road" and "Another Victim of the Rainbow".
Lyrics: Traditional It stars Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. Tensions mount at the crowded living situation and the lack of money begins to wear on them, and Betty tells Joey she will soon need to stop working at her waitressing job because of her pregnancy. Pete and Joey return to their apartment in the morning to find Betty gone and their possessions on the street, after the police came in search of them and their landlord evicted them as troublemakers. The film builds on such works as The Grapes of Wrath but it puts the story into the present, and the story itself is not dated – the flight from rural to urban areas continues throughout the world today. Goin' Down the Road is a key 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib, co-written by William Fruet and Donald Shebib. Jerry Garcia apparently learnt it from Delaney Bramlett during the It tells the story of two young men who decide to leave the Maritimes, where jobs and fulfilling lives are hard to find, for the excitement and perceived riches of Toronto. Eastwood reprised her role as the pregnant girlfriend, and Andrea Martin expanded the list of characters as a French-Canadian nuclear physicist who was also seeking better opportunities outside her native province of Quebec.
Many of Toronto's early housing developments (particularly Regent Park) were built to handle the influx of internal immigrants before they were eventually replaced by external immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia starting in the 1960s. Pete and Joey are not depicted as being punished for a moral failure, and there is no happy ending. In 2010, Shebib announced that a sequel film was in production. Goin' Down the Road is a key 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib, co-written by William Fruet and Donald Shebib.It tells the story of two young men who decide to leave the Maritimes, where jobs and fulfilling lives are hard to find, for the excitement and perceived riches of Toronto.It stars Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. The men find jobs at a local ginger-ale bottler for $80 per week, a job with tough working conditions that doesn't pay much better than what they could have had back home. Played by the Grateful Dead from 1970 right through to the 1990s.
The caper results in a grocery clerk being assaulted by the pair when he tries to prevent the robbery. An' here I go again on my own Goin' down the only road I've ever known, Like a drifter I was born to walk alone 'Cos I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams An' here I go again on my own
Disaster strikes when Pete and Joey get laid off at the end of the summer and the trio are forced to move to a smaller, less-comfortable apartment. He pursues a credit-driven lifestyle undreamt of back home with his wife, buying a new colour television, stereo, and furniture on an installment plan. Goin' down the only road I've ever known, Like a drifter I was born to walk alone An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time.
Although the men in the film come from Nova Scotia, the "Newfie" as an unsophisticated manual labourer was a common stereotype starting in the early 1950s as many Atlantic Canadians moved to the cities looking for work, only to find widespread unemployment and jobs that may have seemed to have attractive salaries, but made living in large cities marginal at best. [3] The Toronto International Film Festival ranked it in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time four times, in 1984, 1993, 2004 and 2015. [4] In 2002, readers of Playback voted it the 5th greatest Canadian film of all-time.[5]. Lyrics to 'Going Down The Road Feeling Bad' by The Marshall Tucker Band. Pete convinces Joey that husbands leave their wives "all the time" and Joey agrees to leave Betty and her unborn child in Toronto, as she will slow them down. This, for example is one account: "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad was frequently recorded in the 1920s and 1930s by hillbilly artists such as Henry Whitter, Ernest Stoneman, and Fiddlin' John Carson.
"Festival Express" train ride across Canada in 1970. Lyrics.com » Search results for 'DOWN THE ROAD' Yee yee! Complete your Roy Wood collection. Pete and Joey find new jobs washing cars and resetting pins in a bowling alley but at much smaller wages than what they received at the bottling factory.
Other Canadian filmmakers have also taken advantage of the cost savings that realism can mean to a production (such as shooting on less expensive film stock). I'd always wanted to do a reggae thing. [7], Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, "Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada", "Egoyan tops Canada's all-time best movies list", "Donald Shebib Is Back On the Road Again", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goin%27_Down_the_Road&oldid=972780728, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 August 2020, at 19:42.
Music: Traditional [6] Down the Road Again was released in October 2011. Roots The origins of this song go back a long way. Both men start romances; Joey decides to get married when his girlfriend, Betty (Jayne Eastwood), becomes pregnant. Cockburn refused to release the songs commercially because they represented the experiences of the movie's characters and not his own. The film is well known to Canadians and was parodied as Garth & Gord & Fiona & Alice in an episode of SCTV, with John Candy and Joe Flaherty as a Maritime lawyer and doctor (respectively) seeking a better life in Toronto after hearing about the job openings there.
They soon turn their good fortune into residency in a small apartment, which they decorate with centrefolds from men's magazines and movie posters. Despite the lack of a large production budget, the movie is generally regarded as one of the best and most influential Canadian films of all time and has received considerable critical acclaim for its writing, directing and acting.
For example, the scene in Allan Gardens where Pete and Joey interact with some musical tramps: according to Donald Shebib, McGrath saw the men and called Shebib who hurried down with his camera and other cast members in tow.