So hockey's pretty big in Canada, eh. Every Saturday, the most popular live hockey program, Hockey Night in Canada, gets broadcast.
Now, along with great production value and entertaining personalities like Ron McLean and Don Cherry, Hockey Night in Canada had an epic theme song. I bet every Canadian knows it. Dundun duh duh da DUH DUH! There's many versions of the song as it's been updated throughout the years. Here's the more recent version:
And the old school one:
Anyways I forget the exact details, and for the purpose of this it's not important. CBC lost the rights of the song to another Canadian broadcaster, so Hockey Night in Canada needs a new theme song.
Now, along with great production value and entertaining personalities like Ron McLean and Don Cherry, Hockey Night in Canada had an epic theme song. I bet every Canadian knows it. Dundun duh duh da DUH DUH! There's many versions of the song as it's been updated throughout the years. Here's the more recent version:
And the old school one:
Anyways I forget the exact details, and for the purpose of this it's not important. CBC lost the rights of the song to another Canadian broadcaster, so Hockey Night in Canada needs a new theme song.
CBC opened the new theme song to an online competition that SomethingAwful immediately spammed. Here is the number one competitor right now:
http://torontoist.com/2008/07/logan_aubes_hockey_night_theme.php
And here is the composer on a national broadcast:
I was crying at work so hard when I heard these.
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