Sure does. I grew up hearing that song every Saturday night when my dad and brother sat down to watch the Leafs. Sometimes my grandfather would come over and watch the game with them. I could watch if I had my chores done, but wasn't allowed to skip them to watch like my brother was because "girls can't be hockey fans." (It was the 60s) So I would peek around corners to watch the games while I worked.
@@daboys1215 Foster Hewitt actually started the radio version of HNIC even earlier than that. I think it was in the late 1920s. As for the Newfoundland bit, you are correct: they joined Confederation in 1949.
@@marcanthonybattenberg7636 As an amateur or experimental enterprise, or for two-way communications, radio first got going in the opening decade of the 1900s. The first sustained success as a commercial enterprise came quite a bit later, though, with the establishment of KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. To this day, KDKA is the oldest continuously operating commercial station in the world. (WWJ-AM in Detroit, Michigan, USA was on the air a few months before KDKA, but was still an amateur operation when it signed on, and didn't become a commercial operation until a few years later.) Canada's location as the friendly northern neighbor to the US meant that Canada was one of the first countries after the US to establish commercial radio. At least all of the big cities in Canada had one or more station(s) by the mid-1920s -- a national network was kind of a prerequisite to anything Foster Hewitt did. Once a robust network was in place, Hewitt wasted no time seizing the opportunity to lay the foundation of what may be Canada's greatest media franchise. The rest, as they say, is history.
They can't. They wanted to keep it back in the 00s but the court ruled that they didn't own the rights and TSN was allowed to buy the rights from the NHL
@BKAllmighty Ya it's because TSN uses a different arrangement which sounds more jazzy. This rendition was used throughout the 90s and it still my favorite.
The Hockey Theme must belong to Hockey Night in Canada! Like Monday Night Football (in the US) and its theme song, the Hockey Theme and Hockey Night in Canada go together.
Yup, but For MNF, You got to have the 1989 theme and 1994 alternate theme song composed by Edd Kalehoff, while Hank Williams Jr will do his bit.(No rappers aloud!)
I don't think anyone will remember this, but CBC used to play music that didn't have any words, usually during intermission. It only played during playoffs and I think it was during the 2000s. The music sounded like a dinner bell ringing at different pitches. During the music, CBC played highlights from the playoffs. It was one of my favourite parts of NHL playoffs. I thought it generated playoff buzz. Does anyone remember this?
YESS YESS! or during Playoffs when Ron MacLean used to interject mid game during a stop in action to provide an update for another game. "Da' da Da daa, da dada daa, dadada daaaa dadadaaa"
@@Mo-qe3ep both of y'all are wrong. Both the 1989-2008 HNIC and 2013-current TSN themes are flawless, They have pure energy and Aggression unlike other renditions of this song.
Melsandra Records -Skates and Blades Here is the submission that should have won! Imagine if recorded in a professional studio and more than 2 (not sober) guys
@iheartryanstyles More like CTV acquires Hockey Night in Canada and then we can go back listening to The Hockey Theme every Saturday night.... just on a different network.
Indeed, she was one hell of a composer. Back in 1988, in the summer before the start of the HNIC season i was commisioned by cbc executive producer Doug Sellers to arrange and record this very theme. It was a big job and we recorded this at Maclear place in one long session. We hired the best brass players in town including Guido Basso on trumpet. This version of Dolores theme lasted 20 years until CBC stopped using the music and CTV purchased the rights. The theme was re done at that time under the guidance of Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson but naturally, i am still fond of the version that we did back in 88.
@@kingslaphappy1533 Guido Basso is on this recording? Mind blown. And this is your arrangement? I am composer and recording engineer and have always loved this version of Dolores' theme. The drum sounds are killer and the spaces you've made for those rhythmic tom fills: so good.
Anybody know what will happen to the hockey theme after Rogers Sportsnet takes over hockey in 2014? I'll personally be watching nbc's coverage as I live in the states now, but just askin.
well they don't use Canadian Gold anymore if that's what you were asking, I know this sounds a little blasphemous but now that they don't use Canadian Gold anymore I kind of miss it. (I don't really miss this theme though, because TSN plays it now
This is all slowly being taken away from Canadians with the neverending lust for US market expansion, commentary done on the cheap over webcams and a refusal by the NHL to address the issue around state tax rates.
The last great hockey theme. Now they're all so generic. This would get you hyped for every game, especially with the rock guitar. Nothing beats this version or the early 90s version. The Sportsnet HNIC theme is embarrassingly bad.
