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bigmacbear) wrote2006-10-06 02:36 pm
bigmacbear) wrote2006-10-06 02:36 pm
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I can name that tune in four notes...
The following (as best I remember) actually used to air at least once a week on a Rochester radio station:
ANNOUNCER: And now it's time to play "Canadian Or Dead?". We give you the name of a famous person, and you have to tell us: Is he Canadian? --
KAZOO BAND: [first four notes of "O Canada"]
ANNOUNCER: -- or dead?
KAZOO BAND: [first four bars of the "Dead March"]
;-)
More recently, an outfit calling itself BC Drugs has opened up in Burien (near Sea-Tac International Airport) and has been touting itself as a way to get cheap prescription drugs without having to actually run up to British Columbia to buy them yourself. In their radio ads, every time the actors mention the store's name, there's a clip of the organist at a hockey arena playing the first four notes of "O Canada."
Interestingly enough, Canada only has the US beat by two notes: "The Star-Spangled Banner" is fairly recognizable in six notes. As is "God Save The Queen", although Americans will likely call that tune "My Country 'Tis Of Thee" unless it's in an obviously British context.
ANNOUNCER: And now it's time to play "Canadian Or Dead?". We give you the name of a famous person, and you have to tell us: Is he Canadian? --
KAZOO BAND: [first four notes of "O Canada"]
ANNOUNCER: -- or dead?
KAZOO BAND: [first four bars of the "Dead March"]
;-)
More recently, an outfit calling itself BC Drugs has opened up in Burien (near Sea-Tac International Airport) and has been touting itself as a way to get cheap prescription drugs without having to actually run up to British Columbia to buy them yourself. In their radio ads, every time the actors mention the store's name, there's a clip of the organist at a hockey arena playing the first four notes of "O Canada."
Interestingly enough, Canada only has the US beat by two notes: "The Star-Spangled Banner" is fairly recognizable in six notes. As is "God Save The Queen", although Americans will likely call that tune "My Country 'Tis Of Thee" unless it's in an obviously British context.
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*sticks his tongue out*