On the Playlist 24DEC2018…
Bob and Doug McKenzie - Great White North
As I will be travelling and may not get to post I am going to post this one a bit early. My final installment of Christmas music.
Growing up in Edmonton in the 80s there was a cultural phenomenon that later gained worldwide prominence that was recorded in Edmonton - Bob and Doug McKenzie and Second City TV. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas went on to fame as comedic actors but their original Great White North segment on SCTV was filler to meet Canadian content rules and was filmed with just the two of them and one camera improvising. They became the most watched segment on SCTV and later released an album called "Great White North" which went to number one in Canada and included a song that I have already included in the run up to this holiday list - "Twelve Days of Christmas". Bob and Doug's version is hilarious and my final Christmas song on the playlist. I was in high school when this came out and everyone knew this album.
Incidentally this album also features another classic song that includes Geddy Lee from Rush (another Canadian music Icon). Moranis and Lee went to school together. The song "Take Off" is the highest single in the US that Lee ever had including any Rush song.
Bob and Doug McKenzie - Great White North