Songs at hockey games
 

This is infuriating me:

what the hell is the song they always play at hockey games where it starts out with a simple drum beat... and arrives at a point where everyone in the crowd yells Hey at certain points?

You know which song I'm talking about, they ALWAYS play this song at hockey games. I tried googling this and surprisingly nothing of interest could be found.

i think it's called rock n roll..by gary glitter

Don't foget this classic hockey song (although I don't understand how it became a hockey song)

Hava Nagilah

Close... Rock 'n Roll, Part 2, by Gary Glitter (the pedophile). I don't think that there was ever a Part 1, however...

... no, wait, according to amg.com,

Part one actually had "lyrics".

I say that in quotes because the the "lyrics" weren't more that "Rock and roll, rock and roooolll. HEY!" etc.

/me doesn't remember...hasn't heard it since last year...

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...

How do you know when he is right?

My personal fave, when the Habs (Montreal Canadiens) are sure to win as third period winds down:

"Na-na nah nah, na-na nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" (repeat countless times)


God, I miss hockey... :(

"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam, although The Nylons a cappella version kicked ass.