The Dr Jaffrey Song, is a nod to my grandfather, who single-handedly created and used both an experimental vaccine and a convalescent plasma serum during the height of the 1918 pandemic, in Hamilton Ontario, when he was the City Pathologist, and was one of the earliest doctors globally to do this.
Read more http://drjaffrey.ca/.
Enjoy the music and video below. Video by Ian Bell.
MUSIC and VOCAL NARRATION featuring:
Tony Quarrington, Ian Bell, Bob Bratina, Ian
Thomas, Sonny Del-Rio, Margaret Stowe, Jeff Bird and Michelle Josef.
I recorded this project back in April/May 2020, in the thick of the pandemic.
Dedicated to Canadian Blood Services Plasma for Life. DR JAFFREY SONG, FEATURING: Tony Quarrington, Ian Bell, Bob Bratina, Ian Thomas, Sonny Del-Rio, Margaret Stowe, Jeff Bird and Michelle Josef.
WHO IS DR JAFFREY?
The Dr Jaffrey Song, is a nod to my grandfather, who single-handedly created and used both an experimental vaccine and a convalescent plasma serum during the height of the 1918 pandemic, in Hamilton Ontario, when he was the City Pathologist, and was one of the earliest doctors globally to do this. The plasma serum was reported so be so effective, life-saving in fact, that hospitals in Hamilton and Toronto wanted as much as they could get. For two months he put notices in the Hamilton papers soliciting blood donations from those recovered, just as Canadian Blood Services is doing right now, as we speak.
If you have recovered from Covid-19, visit blood.ca, and please arrange to make a plasma donation. They need you to come forward! It could make a lifesaving difference to someone.
Thanks to my friends Tony Quarrington, Jeff Bird, Ian Bell, Bob Bratina, Ian Thomas, Sonny Del Rio and Michelle Josef for contributing their talent and "at home" recording efforts to this track! And especially to Tony Q for his wonderful skill at story telling and thanks to Ian Bell for his historical sensibility in the making of this video.
Dr. Jaffrey's distinction and and remarkable achievements were heralded, and his dramatic story was played out in the press in 1918. Now, as we face our own crisis, we can give our local hero a cheer! To learn more about his pandemic story visit drjaffrey.ca
If you would like a track for airplay, please send me an email: drjaffrey@oxford.net
More about the Dr Jaffrey story http://drjaffrey.ca/
Credits Lyrics Tony Quarrington, music Margaret Stowe Vocal narration (in order) Tony Quarrington, Ian Bell, Bob Bratina, Ian Thomas, Sonny Del-Rio, Margaret Stowe. Guitars, synth Margaret Stowe Bass Jeff Bird Harmonica Ian Bell Brushes Michelle Josef
An Ozworld Toronto Production
Mastered at the E Room
Video created by Ian Bell
Recording done by all of the above "at home."
This track is also dedicated to my uncle Bill Jaffrey, son of Dr.
Jaffrey, who passed away on March 31, in the middle of the current
pandemic.
