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
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!)
@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.
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.
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.
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
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
@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.
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.
It's a crime this isn't used anymore.
If elected prime Minister, I would bring this bacj
@@lofimannetti8548make it so.
Blame TSN. Never should have been allowed to buy the rights.
I used to watch hokey just to hear this song
It's used in RDS games...
does just hearing that song give anyone else goosebumps?
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.
@@eph2vv89only1way That's so unfair!!!!
@@Clarkeisawesome I agree. But it was a common attitude in the 60s
Yes!
Please rise for our national anthem
I play this and mute the tv when HNIC comes on.
rodzor i
#CanadaGoldSucks
Good idea
Ditto. It just feels right. ❤
This is the ONLY hockey song I listen too.
*****
Touche.
@@glaxko2 Atlanta Thrashers are the best team in the NHL right n-- oh.
@@Mo-qe3ep Fun fact, they have a 100% win rate when leading after 3 periods.
Well , maybe Tom Connors “Hockey Game”. It’s the good ol’ hockey game!
What about "Right Back Where We Started From"?
This intro will always be the most special HNIC variant to me.
I remember listening to song with my grandpa just bring back memories
We need this back in our lives
I love how Newfoundland is separated with the United States in the opening clip. That must have been before NL joined Canada I'm guessing?
When Foster Hewitt said that, it was either in the 30's or most of the 40's. Newfoundland became a Canadian province in 1949.
@@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.
The voice must be before 1948 then.
I think it was the 1920s when Radio was becoming more common
@@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.
Although i really love the new theme, i miss seeing this before every game so much!
It really sends shivers down your spine.
You summed up my feelings exactly
iv had a jingle stuck in my head ALL day and finally i just figured out it was. so happy rn
This theme is the GOAT.
No one:
All of Canada when anyone plays hockey at any level: (HNIC Theme)
This should be played instead of national anthem, this should be Canada’s national anthem
Canadian Gold!
the GOAT OF THEMES
No, that is NHL intro on ESPN.
Actually, it's the NFL on FOX.
This was the pinnacle of CBC. How the mighty have fallen...
Canada was a proud country.
Hear to pay respects to Bob Cole 🙏🏻
#Godspeed, good sir
Me too
The puck you never shot will never go in.
Ahhh... the good ol childhood memories. On the couch with chips and soda. On a serious note tho, cbc should bring back this theme to hnic.
they can't because it was bought by TSN years ago
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
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Ain’t from Canada I’m from AZ USA but this a helluva theme song!
Damn my childhood
Best Sports Song Ever.....Pure injection of Adrenaline..!!!
thx for giving the date. :)
Hello Canada hockey fans in United States and Newfoundland.
0:05, The 1989 theme song plays....
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!)
the Winnipeg Jets have returned to NHL in a way. The Atlanta Thrashers became the Winnipeg jets in 2010 I believe
anyone know the ending tune, the jazzier version of Hockey Night in Canada? thanks in advance.
It's SO GOOD!
its awesome to have the JETS back !!! now lets bring back the old theme tune !!! its a fukkin classic !!!
@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.
0:04, This theme IS Hockey!💯
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"
The CBC version of The Hockey Theme is true nostalgila unlike the TSN version, uck! TSN sullied the theme and it doesn't sound that good at all.
Wrong.
TSN's one is amazing
@@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.
Still miss this song, selfish family saying we cant use it
2018
@jeanArther
Actually ESPN only owns a fifth of TSN; with CTV I think owning 80 percent of TSN and RDS
Rip Dolores Claman.
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.
Hey if the Winnipeg Jets could return to the NHL maybe this theme can return to CBC
That sadly never got to happen, as The Jets were a mainstay on TSN, just like the Sens and Leafs.
@Inquisitive0Minds Exactly. It's an anthem to us. I just can't believe they would let it go over money.
I wish tsn didn't get the rights to this theme
Satellite Hotstove Babyyyyyyy
yeah I know, but the sound is so different. It dosen't feel the same to me. Plus it hurts to see TSN paired with the theme.
this is the way better than the shitty new one
I know this is a Classic, but i kinda like the new theme too :$
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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
Shit ain't the same without coach's corner and don cherry. I don't watch NHL anymore because they got rid of don cherry.
Huh? The NHL didn’t get rid of Don Cherry, Sportsnet did.
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
They actually are still using Canadian Gold in the Sportsnet broadcasts, just a different arrangement!
oh, well in any case I miss the old arrangement
Bell Media owns the Hockey theme rights & is used for NHL on TSN.
@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.
The NHL wouldn't risk pissing off AN ENTIRE NATION & The Government would fight like hell to not let it happen.
It's the old one.
Go leafs!!!!!!!!!!!!
2011 actually
Noticed how HNIC has been crap overall since they lost this song? It's just they've just given up.
1989 version is best
Well, this is the 1989 rendition! This one has a bit more flair and effort.
yeah actually and I'm not even a sports fan.
Taxpayers didn't need to pay for that ll those years. Any other broadcaster would have done it as well or better, and for free.
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.
I hate Bell Media
I hate CTV now