May 2020 - Dedicated to Canadian Blood Services Plasma for Life. And let's give our local hero a cheer!
For your listening pleasure, and dedicated to Canadian Blood Services - The Dr Jaffrey Song, a nod to my grandfather, who single-handedly created and produced a convalescent plasma serum during the height of the 1918 pandemic, right there in Hamilton, when he was the City Pathologist. It was reported so be so effective, life-saving in fact, that hospitals in Hamilton and Toronto wanted as much as they could get. For three 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, go to
blood.ca/en/plasma/donating-plasma, and please arrange to make a plasma donation for this clinical trial. 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. All set to music by me.
I hope the track helps to generate some “energy” around this plasma research being done by Dr. Dana Devine and the Canadian Blood Services team, including my good friend Sarah McElcheran, who is doing that work in Ottawa.
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Dr. Jaffrey's distinction and and remarkable achievements with both an experimental vaccine and a plasma serum were heralded in the press in 1918, and we can once again, as we face our own crisis, give our local hero a cheer!
To learn more about the story visit
drjaffrey.blogspot.com
If you would like a track for airplay, please send me an email:
drjaffrey@oxford.net
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.
released May 30, 2020
Lyrics Tony Quarrington, music Margaret Stowe
Guitars, synth Margaret Stowe
Bass Jeff Bird
Harmonica Ian Bell
Brushes Michelle Josef
Vocals: (in order) Tony Quarrington, Ian Bell, Bob Bratina, Ian Thomas, Sonny Del-Rio, Margaret Stowe.
An Ozworld Toronto Production
Mastered at the E Room
Recording done by all of the above "at home."