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Originally Posted by Sticky
Don't foget this classic hockey song (although I don't understand how it became a hockey song)
Hava Nagilah
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according to my neighbour (who has all of the classic Summit Series on tape i.e. Canada - Russia 1972) this song became popular because
*ahem*: the 1972 regular hockey season brought about some changes in the arenas of Canada, and indeed, the entire NHL. instead of the standard trumpet call (played on the organ of course) followed by 'Charge!' or the dum dum dum dum played in ascending notes, there was a sudden popularity in things Russian: amidst the shouts of 'We want Henderson!' (apparantly Paul Henderson - local hero was in contract dispute with the Maple leafs at the time) were humourous shouts of 'We want Yakushev!' or 'We want Tretiak!'.
The organ players also began playing Russian sounding tunes, which became popular, but hard to buy music for. Hava Nagila, however was easy to find, and sounded vaguely and exotically 'eastern' or Russian. And I'm sure that not a few of the organ players did weddings on the side, and knew the tune. Thus the adoption and popularity of the tune in the arenas.
- I get loads of hockey history from my neighbour guy. he's a wealth of information (dave keon? i think is his name did some work for the leafs inthe past - i should look him up on google).
By the way, I've been to a really cool jewish/scottish wedding, where Hava nagila was played on the bag-pipes....
*** just having you on about the dave keon reference. but neighbour guy is a hockey nut...