Editing Stompin' Tom Connors (section)

{{Short description|Canadian singer-songwriter (1936–2013)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name            = Stompin' Tom Connors
| image           = Stompin tom connors in 2002.jpg
| caption         = Connors in 2002
| background      = solo_singer
| birth_name      = Charles Thomas Connors
| alias           = Tommy Messer, Stompin' Tom Connors
| birth_date      = {{Birth date|1936|2|9}}
| birth_place     = [[Saint John, New Brunswick]], Canada
| death_date      = {{Death date and age|2013|3|6|1936|2|9}}
| death_place     = [[Ballinafad, Ontario]], Canada
| instrument      = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}}
| years_active    = {{hlist|1964–1978|1988–2013}}
| genre           = {{hlist|[[Canadiana]]|[[Folk music|folk]]|[[Country music|country]]}}
| occupation      = {{hlist|Musician|songwriter}}
| label           = {{hlist|[[EMI]]|[[Boot Records|Boot]]|Rebel|Dominion|Cynda|ACT}}
| associated_acts =
| website         = {{URL|www.stompintom.com}}
}}
'''Charles Thomas''' "'''Stompin' Tom'''" '''Connors''', [[Order of Canada|OC]] (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) was a Canadian [[country music|country]] and [[folk music|folk]] singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stompin-tom-connors-p416969/biography | last = Chadbourne | first = Eugene | title = Stompin' Tom Connors | publisher = [[AllMusic]]| access-date = March 4, 2012}}</ref>

Connors' songs have become part of the Canadian cultural landscape. Among his best-known songs are "[[Sudbury Saturday Night]]", "[[Bud the Spud]]" and "[[The Hockey Song]]"; the last is played at various games throughout the [[National Hockey League]], including at every [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] home game.<ref name = "NYTobit">{{cite news|author = Douglas Martin|title = Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian Singer, Dies at 77|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/arts/stompin-tom-connors-canadian-singer-dies-at-77.html?hpw&_r=0|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|date=March 8, 2013|access-date=March 8, 2013}}</ref><ref name = "BBCobit">{{cite news|title = Tom Connors, Canadian country-folk legend, dies at 77|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21706649|work = [[BBC News]]|date=March 8, 2013|access-date=March 8, 2013}}</ref> In 2018, the song was inducted into the [[Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in a ceremony at a Leafs game.<ref name="cbc2018">{{cite news |title=Stompin' Tom's classic The Hockey Song to be inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/stompin-tom-hockey-song-hall-of-fame-1.4876586 |access-date=October 28, 2018 |agency=The Canadian Press |publisher=CBC News |date=October 24, 2018}}</ref>