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Now ubiquitous at every hockey arena in the land, "The Hockey Song," though a title track on one of Stompin' Tom's albums, wasn't really played much until the 1990s, about the time that NHL arenas began filling stoppages of play with canned music (personally, I miss the organ). It made the Chart magazine list of top Canadian singles in 2000 and 2005, placed 12th in CBC Radio's 50 Tracks: The Canadian Edition, and ranked 86th in Bob Mersereau's The Top 100 Canadian Singles.
With Tom Cochrane's "Big League" or Ron Hynes's "Sawchuk" or Jane Siberry's "Hockey" or any of a dozen better hockey songs out there (even Captain Tractor's "Frozen Puck to the Head" or the Shuffle Demons' "Hockey Night in Canada"), I am a little disappointed that this one made the cut – while I'm a big Stompin' Tom fan (I own something like two dozen of his records, have a Stompin' Tom t-shirt in regular rotation, and took my dad for his 65th birthday to Dryden for a show), I find this to be one of his corniest songs (give me "Muckin' Slushers" any day).
| Hometown: | Skinner's Pond, Prince Edward Island |
| Canadian Content: | duh |
| Release Date: | 1972 |
| Composer: | Tom C. Connors |
| Album: | Stompin' Tom and the Hockey Song |
| Style: | Country folk |
| Charts: | #29 Canadian Singles Chart (on re-release) |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not rank |
| Mar*Star 150: | 89 |
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