Rankin Family - Feel the Same Way Too

Left to right: siblings Jimmy, Cookie, Raylene, Heather; John Morris Rankin on piano
Howie MacDonald - fiddle
Scott Ferguson - drums
John Chaisson - bass
Ray Montford - guitar
I tried my best to enhance the audio from the TV station's low-fidelity mono - hope it works on your speakers.

[@user-oh2si4jz9m]

This song was sung at a Celebration of Life I attended today for a wonderful Christian woman who passed from cancer. Had not heard this song in years, but always appreciate hearing it again.

[@TheEd1957]

God Bless the Rankins ! Those that are still with us, and those that are gone .

[@patakel]

If you aren’t snapping fingers and tapping toes at the very least….you’re in a coma. Saw them live three times…. the most entertaining shows ever and yes, everybody was up dancing in the seats. The purest voices, fantastic harmony. 👏👏👏 I think I have to go and put their CDs on.🕺💃🎻🎸🎹🎶 They have provided hours and hours of delightful music for me.

[@streips]

This song always picks me up if I'm feeling down!

[@blueparadise15]

This is the most beautiful thing In the universe

[@rossroy2420]

Soooo good! Love The Rankin Family. RIP Raylene and John Morris 🥰

[@nikkidee8487]

I LOVE THIS SONG!! I don't understand how anybody can't love this song. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THIS SONG!! Reminds me of my kids.

[@snowy2476]

Love The Rankin Family, this was the first of their songs I'd ever heard. if it wasn't for CMT Europe I don't think I'd have known they ever existed.

[@collette333]

They are much than OK...they are fabulous...GOD Bless them for being Canadians.

[@doreenmaclean4953]

🍁 Canada Rawks 2020 🕺🌹💃🏾🍁

[@diannekhan5199]

I love the Rankin family music. Especially this song

[@Xacute00]

They are my cousins

[@IGoUpBeZ]

Wow i didnt know that. Love their voices 😊

[@mapearce1]

Truly a national (and international) treasure!

[@IGoUpBeZ]

Take me back to the good days where my Nan would blast country music and do her housework as she would call it. Love n miss u always ❤

[@jameswahnee-vn5nt]

You and your Nan must have been so Spiritually connected ✨️. Thank you for sharing your memories of her with us. She awaits you dear friend ❤.

[@patakel]

I just love that they are there for the pure joy of music and their career.They are not trying to be sexy, with low cut tops, tight jeans, crotch high shorts - just normal people singing the their hearts out for our enjoyment. Thanks to all of the Rankins - here and gone. You still bring joy to us.

[@hummingbirdlady9633]

Rest in Peace Raylene Rankin and John Morris Rankin gone but not forgotten 😔❤

[@stephenbruce4052]

wow xo

[@louellahagglund88]

I was so sad when they retired. I was in my 30’s when I first saw them on tv and I’m 87 now. It’s good to hear the group again.

[@webdevworksgmail8070]

Though I am from the states, my mother was from a little fishing village in Nova Scotia. I have spent a lot of time over the years in the maritime provinces, particularly on Cape Breton island, one of my favorite places on the planet. I remember hearing the Rankins many years ago at a cèilidh. Their music, harmonies and energy blew me away. This song is absolutely the best foot-tapping, high-energy, pouring-it-out, perfect pitch melody/harmony song I have ever heard - absolutely blows me away - pure joy. Love it and love the Rankins. As has been said in other comments, so sad John Morris and Raylene both died way too young...

[@darinchiasson]

"though I am from the States" Wrong. You're a caper abroad.

[@audreycurylo1646]

A fellow Cape Bretoner .love it.

[@Zak6959]

It’s great that you said that for the simple fact that you still remember, I’m sure you will pass it on for the simple fact that you have it in your head and in your heart.

[@davidnieve6444]

Brings tears to my 63yr and eyes. wish they found me long ago . God Bless and hold them!

[@johnnypineo610]

They were more than just an ok band for Canada they were awesome

[@thefeet]

ANOTHER thing that blows me away about this family, and not may people notice is the lack of "vibrato"...as a singer I can tell you , vibrato is often used to "skilfully mask" flat/sharp notes... these folks didn't need it because of "pitch perfect"... They NAILED IT...EVERY TIME! Straight up notes/harmony and were BANG-ON! IMO it doesn't get any better than this.

[@aaronlohr8477]

They sing like angels because they are.

[@RandomNonsense1985]

@@aaronlohr8477John Morris’ daughter Molly sings like an angel as well, even if her music is in a wildly different style than this.

[@simonmanzer]

This is one of the best songs ever written by a canadian artist/band and nobody else can perform it this way

[@AndyWhitehead-lz8sj]

I was just thinking that lol said no wonder I love this song so much

[@iamkareniam6034]

Makes me so homesick. Can't wait to move back to Nova Scotia- Alberta does not compare at all.

[@karenwesley5342]

The Rankin Family were such a fabulous band, pity that two of them have passed. You'll never be forgotten.

[@larryrhindress2972]

The Rankins are such fine music and a absolute treat to watch. If you saw them live, we are blessed!!!! Real music!!

[@colleendicks8992]

I had the pleasure to see this energy in person at the Lower Deck in Halifax many times! Nothing compares!

[@audreycurylo1646]

This is what Newie & Cape Breton music is all about. We like to party in agood way. We love music & singing.

[@mylespetruskavich1553]

What a certified fucking banger

[@snubberfriend]

The Rankins are by far the best group I have ever listen to on here.

[@markd8469]

My brother and I attended a Rankin Family Concert at Hamilton Place in 2007 it was an amazing high energy concert that had people dancing in there chairs all thru the show, On a side note we had 2nd row floors just to the left of the stage and the opening act was Dawn Langstroth who is Anne Murrays daughter, low and behold Anne was at this concert sitting 2 rows directly behind us, I remembered when she stood up at the end of Dawns set and said, THAT'S MY GIRL right there, We couldn't believe that we had better seats than Anne did..lol....Dawn was great as well. ...Nova Scotia should be proud of all the talent that has come out of the small province

[@Trip.L.L.L]

I remember this song use to play all the time on the radio way back in the day when I use to go chicken hunting with my dad in the old red Suzuki...the funny thing is I'm 29 now and don't even listen too this type of music but I still know every word to this song..and I still to this day will randomly start singing Hey Hey Sweet Darling

[@mikestork1291]

I feel the same way still!

[@rosscop27]

Saw the Rankins in Glasgow 25 years ago. Ah the memories.

[@carolmartin1298]

I'm from their neck of the woods, Inverness county, Cape Breton. I've seen them many times and am still enjoying these tunes in 2021. Love love the Rankins

[@canadianbabe5970]

Best beach on Earth!!!!!!!!

[@dalianreport88]

The RANKIN FAMILY Rocks! I think! The Rankin Family is a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four SOCAN Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and two Big Country Music Awards. The Rankins come from a family of 12 siblings, all of whom would entertain the neighbours musically every third weekend as part of a céilidh. The first Rankin Family band formed in the 1970s when siblings Geraldine, Genevieve, David, John Morris, and Raylene Rankin began performing at local weddings and dances in Cape Breton. As the older siblings went away to college and university, the younger siblings Jimmy, Cookie and Heather took their places. Jimmy, John Morris, Cookie, Raylene and Heather Rankin released their own independent cassettes, The Rankin Family (1989) and Fare Thee Well Love (1990), featuring original songs and a combination of traditional jigs, reels and Celtic folk songs. These independent recordings were distributed by the Canadian independent folk music distribution company 'Soundwright' until the band's major label break through with EMI. Their television debut was on the CBC variety show On the Road Again in 1989. EMI's re-release of Fare Thee Well Love in 1992, went quadruple platinum, selling over 500,000 copies; the title track was a Top 40 single in Canada. In 1998 The Rankins first worked with The Chieftains on their album, Fire in the Kitchen, performing the Celtic song, "An Innis Aigh" (The Happy Isle). On September 17, 1999, after recording the song "Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor" with The Chieftains for their album, Tears of Stone, the group issued a press release stating that they would no longer perform as a group in order to pursue independent interests and careers. On January 16, 2000, John Morris Rankin was killed in a car accident in Cape Breton Island. Jimmy Rankin has continued to write songs and has released four solo albums: Song Dog (2001), Handmade (2003), Edge of Day (2007), and Forget About the World (2011). Raylene Rankin has released the solo albums Lambs in Spring (2004) and all the diamonds (2011). When not performing on their own, the sisters run The Red Shoe pub in Mabou. One of the original founders of the group, Geraldine Coyne (Rankin) died January 10, 2007, the result of a brain aneurysm, at her home in Calgary. She had not performed with the group since prior to the first recordings being released. On January 16, 2007, the album Reunion was released, and in 2009 the Rankin Family released their seventh studio album These Are the Moments. On June 3, 2012, Raylene Rankin appeared on CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition where she spoke about her decade-long struggle with cancer. She died of metastatic breast cancer on September 30, 2012. On a personal note, I fell in love with the Rankin Family, early on in their careers, it having helped immensely that I had spent six years living on Canada's east coast, 1981-1987, specifically, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and had been exposed to some incredible music from that part of the world. A dream came for me when I had the opportunity to see them live and in concert, in the late1990s, at the National Arts Centre, in Ottawa, Canada, and several times that evening they moved me to tears. Not long after that concert, John Morris, their piano player, and cousin, was killed in a terrible car accident, and only a few years ago now, Raylene, passed on from the Big C! Gads! MOFO! No one ever said that life would be fair, did they? As for this wonderfully alive and marvelous video that does, I think, demonstrate the amazing energy and synergy the group possessed, in spades; I simply adore seeing it time and time again. For me, it brings back a wave of fabulous memories I had living on Canada's stormy, but breathtakingly beautiful east coast, and for all of the special human beings, at the same time, I had the great and good fortune to meet along the way. “Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.” ― Frank Zappa

[@dalianreport88]

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” ― Henry David Thoreau

[@jackerbeans1]

A proud Canadian when this music is played,,,,never let it go.

[@aaronjessome1032]

2:34 She's so beautiful and what an absolutely amazing voice. This song gives me a huge feeling of nastalgia and puts me right back to being a kid I Cape Breton in the early 90s with my parents and family drinking and shaking the floor and walls of the small bungalow I grew up in while dancing in the living room with their friends until the early hours of the morning. God bless The Rankin's for basically being the soundtrack to my childhood

[@carmendawnallan8871]

Great Reply. :D There a Fav,In Alot people's Lives. 😊 I'm Happy to,Be One.

[@kylekelly123]

So much talent on the east coast

[@JFD1220]

John Morris Rankin's daughter is in a band called Alvvays, check em out!

[@jackerbeans1]

+EsEfGee her band is awesome

[@oldwest517]

This is the kind of sound that people have been dancing to on little dance floors for at least 60-70 years. It could be a country band, a Western swing band, a rock and roll band, a Cajun band -- pretty much any kind of dance band could have played this tune and people would be out there moving. Can't believe I had never heard of the Rankins until I stumbled across them on Spotify when I looked up a different song I had heard on Heartland.

[@kevincampbell6197]

Love them

[@shawnbrown5498]

I'm not sure where I've been for the past 20 years, but somehow this has just made me the happiest person on the planet!

[@spiderman0863]

That my friend is the best comment on KZbin.

[@leslieholman3121]

The Rankins , Rita, and the Men of the deeps sure make you proud to be a Nova Scotian

[@nancymarcotte8390]

Love the Rankins..so sad 2 of them gone much too soon.😍

[@steveendicott1855]

Let's not forget John Morris who also passed away

[@geejackson2312]

Awesome group have always loved em too 👍

[@svpst1]

Anytime i feel bad I watch this video, what a picker upper!

[@charlottesmoke9882]

Great people comes great music ..love this song ..proud canadian..

[@kimcampbell8750]

how much do I love these people? it's crazy. I'm feel'n pretty gd good!

[@newlevelaerial4875]

There's no need in asking because everyone in the comments feels the same way too ❤️

[@geohburson]

I wish everyone felt the same way too.

[@willettmary889]

I just love them...I always go back to their videos when I feel someone needs to know how I feel.

[@cyclonesgoalie1]

For those of you who may not know me well this is me :) this group and family is me and Nova Scotia and what family is all about

[@boscohemi3874]

+Kayla Gallagher So proud I come from there, Alberta owns me now!

[@marvinpearce3201]

As an Albertan, glad to have you in our midst! Nothing like cranking the Rankins up sitting in the Rockies by a waterfall!

[@lindamugford5507]

Love this family RIP Raylene

[@tyronesinclair7160]

normally i grew up on metallica and am still a hard core metallica guy but this is friggin awesome! lets get drunk have a good time and forget the bullshit. thats the message to this song.

[@magos2610]

There's a girl named Molly Rankin (John Morris's daughter). She's a great singer as well and a frontwoman of the Alvvays band.

[@SDCDIABLO]

That's how I found these guys, her band is amazing. This is some great sounding Canadian folky music. The intro kinda reminds me of blue rodeo

[@kaylandixon8324]

Molly is amazing!

[@RandomNonsense1985]

Antisocialites and Blue Rev are amazing!

[@Reatunes]

I got to meet her and she was a good friend of my aunts... I loved the Rankings music when i was child and still do today. RIP Raylene

[@Hockeyfan9884]

And to this day, April 30th, 2023 and beyond, I keep listening to the great muscial talent you, the RANKIN FAMILY HAS.

[@samueldumoulin5622]

Amazing memories come from hearing this song. Thank you!!!!

[@kinglud999]

Even though it's about feeling down, seeing those three adorable little women boogieing like kids just takes it to another level of happy. And then they start to chime in with their voices...🥳

[@BC-ui9yt]

They're sexy in a wholesome way. The enthusiasm, the passion, and my God, the talent.

[@mattwilson531]

I've always loved this song!! Will always be a fan of the Rankins!!

[@mmm-uw1ep]

They're singing live and its perfection. They're so cute you sometimes forget what amazing musicians they all are. So glad I found my way to this blast from the past. Thanks Rankins.

[@Builder99]

I wish all families would get along as well as the Rankin's do...Just a world class talent...Bless them...

[@lisahardy9707]

Family is a Canadian Treasure

[@collinmacvicar9422]

Tears in my eyes watching this incredibly loving talented family,,,they have certainly made CapeBreton and all of Canada very very proud!!!!

[@user-uk6gq3xb3q]

Another example of the cape Brenton musical talent factory,,i lived and worked a coue if yrs,am a brown guy,but i can di the jig,been to many a concerts there,a picturesque

[@dakotanorth1640]

Heather has such a beautiful voice.

[@blueparadise15]

This is Canada

[@blueparadise15]

Protective

[@fayebooth1978]

Wow, could Cookie ever dance in this one! Love Raylene and Heather’s vocals! The Rankin Family Music will never leave us, thanks to Heather Rankin...keep on singing girl!

[@DalekQueen]

almost wanted to cry when watching this... RIP Raylene...you are beautiful and so is ur voice and heaven gained a beautiful angel

[@melmack2003]

Thank you, Raylene, for beautiful memories.....your gift will live on.

[@karenwesley7519]

When I lived in Peterborough, Ontario my husband now a widow, and myself were in Tim Horton's way up Landsdown st.. Well we were sitting at the table having a cup of coffee and the three sisters walked in and sat down at the table beside the window. Well I told my hubby not to disturb them, as nobody else did. Well he just had to go and bother them but needless to say they didn't mind for a bit. One of the ladies said to him after a few minutes, well we came in here to have something to eat after the concert we did last night, so would you please let us have some peace. Like I was so embarrassed to say the least, and after we returned to the car I told him in a nice way nobody else did that, and I thought that was rather rude of you to disturb them. He said I just wanted to say hello, well I left it at that.

[@karenwesley7519]

@@darinchiasson I do realise that. Thankfully I have manners however my ex seldom did.

[@adrienneseabrook8338]

Love the Rankins, my fiance is from Cape Breton, can't wait to marry him. He grew up in Wreck Cove on the Cabot Trail.

[@RobertMacleod-dw5ny]

Yup I grew up in wreck cove

[@adrienneseabrook8338]

Yep must of been some good Ole times

[@01baxie]

Another beautiful voice in heaven's choir. RIP Raylene

[@peterhadikin7535]

Saw Jimmy perform at Blue Frog Studio in White Rock, BC. He was sick as could be and still put on a tremendous show and told so many cool stories. Great entertainer!

[@stevewilliams9306]

Heather is doing well ... new album , touring !! .... way to go !

[@janicemcginnis1032]

❤makes me proud to be a cape Bretoner

[@Gmanzable]

Ah love these guys, used to spend Saturday nights at the Birchmount Tavern in Scarborough. Lots of east coasters having a great time especially when this song came on. Very East coast cdn. Always a good time.

[@Playingwith3D]

Makes me homesick as hell.

[@BillWay-ic3gz]

What an amazing band. Perfect harmony and entertainment factor is a 10+++

[@spikeironwood1472]

I’m a yank living north of Los Angeles and I had never heard of the Rankin Family until we saw Jonny Harris interview Heather on the Mabou episode of Still Standing on Prime Video.

[@jacquelinehowatt8467]

SO proud to live in Cape Breton!!!!

[@johndoe9965]

RIP Raylene and John Morris

[@mitchmitch9177]

This is just a great song and such a nice piece of music and these capers no how to party and sing

[@dionyerama2656]

What a great Canadian band from the east cost Visit the east coast it I'd absolutely beautiful.

[@annemerrithew7680]

GREAT SINGING Playing and dancing.

[@eyeswideopen67]

They really sounded great.

[@hughcarola3964]

Yes, they did. :(

[@georgecheverie4047]

So Poud of this Maritime family ... they get our mojo going , & not just on a Saturday nite.

[@stephenm3874]

I love reliving the glory days of the late 90s Rankin family. For me it was a special moment in time I'll always cherish. Thank you so very much for giving me the opportunity to experience the Nova Scotia sound and presence. I'll cherish it forever.

[@bobmartens1089]

Favorite song ever ❤

[@bbriggett]

always will love this band! 🇨🇦💖

[@karenwesley332]

Love The Rankin Family, I've been listening to their music since 1989. Pity two have passed.

[@niagararails]

Myself also since 1989. Really sad to see that kind of music doesn't dominate Canada like it did. .

[@karenwesley332]

@@niagararails Ditto.

[@karenwesley332]

@@niagararails I was lucky enough to see them some years ago, at Tim Hortons in Peterborough, Ontario on a Sunday morning. They had did a concert the night before. I never bothered to speak to them but my ex husband just had to say something to them. All three went into the Tim Hortons, and believe it or not, nobody recognised them.

[@stylianosorphanoudakes56]

I adore so much this band, they had their own point of view about the canadian folk music but so underestimated. Anyway, greetings from a fan fron Greece, my folks. 😉

[@oldbikerbear]

I agree. They were a world class band on a small town stage.

[@LiquidDemonsVIDS]

Cookie so rocks that 2nd verse!

[@dungnguyen3111]

i love you rankin family.

[@TheRidiculouslyOptimisticGuy]

Had to check them out because of Alvvay's Molly Rankin. The fiddler of this band's her dad. Awesome family.

[@fireguy8549]

Her dad, John Morris, was playing piano

[@evetzerza]

Good ol 90s baby

[@canoegirl6335]

Loved this group. Sad loss of 2 of these amazing artists.

[@canoegirl6335]

Karen Wesley really? I thought only John Morris and Raylene passed away from the band. Who else?

[@JasonConlan75]

@@canoegirl6335 Geraldine Coyne (Rankin), died January 10, 2007, the result of a brain aneurysm, at her home in Calgary. She had not performed with the group since prior to the first recordings' being released.

[@canoegirl6335]

@@JasonConlan75 so much sadness and loss for such an amazing family. 😞

[@visqurin]

This is the sound of my home you want to crank a party up and get everybody moving you play this song or anything by the rankins you'll have a kitchen party in no time

[@lauriesteele550]

Get your Saturday going great with this song 🎶🎶🎶🎶 !!!

[@michelegiorgi4561]

loved it back then still love it now

[@lindamurphy9120]

East coast talent 👍

[@timothygraham4304]

Talent without boundaries.

[@MsMarge73]

I love the Rankins & love this song alot ..

[@derricklafrance9440]

I could see Rankin Family and Blue Rodeo on a concert bill together. Their music compliments each other.

[@DiminishingAugmentation]

I'd pay to see that. Blue Rodeo is great live!

[@rejeangagnon9168]

What a phenomenal group of performers. Family or not! Check oput their Fare Thee Well song!! What a great grouping. Abba # ?

[@melissacamus5499]

Cape Breton, represent! I've Loved these guys my entire life, since seeing them as a child in Cheticamp, NS. They blew my mind. Nobody understands my obsession with them now haha