More finishing

Amanda’s high school commencement was last night. She’s already gone onto college (where she is doing very well and is quite happy, thanks for asking) and I had a hard time convincing her to go to the formal ceremony at all. She had stuff to do and wasn’t tremendously into the whole public thing. I insisted. I told her that after all these years of homework and alarm clocks, projects and coming up with bristol board or muffins on short order, that frankly, I didn’t give a crap if she wanted to go or was fulfilled by the experience. I wanted the experience, and I think (having done a pretty good job of the homework/ clock/ projects/ bristol board/ muffin thing) that I deserved it. After all of that, a mother wants to see her kid stand up there, get the diploma, smile and have their picture taken.

I told her that I consider it the least that I am owed for my contribution.

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She went. (There’s a good girl.) She got her diploma. She earned a music award, and I got my moment.

These milestones are significant, I told Joe last night. Standing up there means something really important. Not just that she has the minimum required education…not just that she accomplished something that was difficult, but because that night changes what is possible in her life. Amanda can (and likely will – she’s young) screw up a fantastical number of things, but I feel like as the girls get older they hit these milestones that make you heave great sighs of relief. Your daughter turns 16? Awesome. No matter what, she can never be a 15 year old mother. 17? Wicked. She can never be a 16 year old addict. 18? The police can never bring her home charged under the young offenders act…..

After last night, we hit a big one.

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Amanda can never be a high school dropout. Score.

For the record, though I didn’t get much done, (I’m just at the beginning of clue 7) I did only work on the Mystery Stole last night. Finally, some time ago I tried to explain to my American friends what the most iconic Canadian song was. I tried to tell them, that we all know this song, and they mocked me, and worse, I don’t think they believed me. For them, I have procured proof, when I whipped out my digital camera and recorded what Amanda’s school band was playing last night.

There you go. The song we can all hum up here. I’ll draw a name from among those who get it right and mail some sock yarn. Double points if an American wins.

570 thoughts on “More finishing

  1. Hey, Amanda — Congrats to you!
    I have no idea what the song is — but I always love those squeaky horns that *almost* make the correct notes.

  2. Yay, Amanda! You Rock! (Not least for humoring your mum and going through with all the hoopla.)
    I have a good ear for melodies, though I don’t necessarily have a good brain for remembering what they are (unless they have words, then I can sing along and figure it out; must all be in different parts of the brain). And I do not think I have ever heard this. I’m thinking it must be from a Canadian TV show or movie or commercial or something??

  3. That sounds vaguely familiar, like the Ur-80’s TV Themesong, or somesuch. Am I close? (I have no idea. Just an ignorant American here.)
    But boy, hearing a high school band does bring back the memories, as well as feelings of love for my parents, who sat through so much of it when I was growing up.
    Congrats to both of you for getting through the graduation!

  4. Is that “Hockey Night in Canada”? I ask not because I’m up on my Canadian music, but because that’s what the YouTube icon says it is. And I always believe everything I’m told by the Internet.

  5. Congratulations to Amanda! I’ll have that wonderful feeling myself next year when #1 graduates.
    I should have known that theme song if Mary dB is right. I’m shamed.

  6. That is Hockey Night in Canada, from the CBC.
    Thank goodness its that time of year again.
    Let’s go Ducks!!!!!!!

  7. Of course it had to be the Hockey Night in Canada theme – I figured it was going to be hockey-related. I admit, though that I was kind of hoping it was going to be Stompin’ Tom Connors’ The Hockey Song……..

  8. First of all congratulations to Amanda (and to you, too, for doing such a good job getting her to this point).
    As for the song, even as an American, I recognized the Hockey Night in Canada theme from the first few notes. I suppose that comes from being married to a Canadiens fan!

  9. Of course, it’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme. I’ve even heard it sung to the bride and groom at a wedding!

  10. HNIC. We have friends who live in International Falls and are fans. Hello from Minnesota!

  11. “The Hockey Theme” or “Hockey Night in Canada”. Kinda like “Are You Ready for Some Football?” for us south of the border folks, I guess.
    Catchy.
    Congratulations, Amanda, on the achievement and on making your momma proud!

  12. Hmm… Hockey Night in Canada? No, I didn’t know it, I’m just going with the flow here. You may put me in the drawing, or not, as you wish — assuming that the Canadians here aren’t just having me on.
    My daughter is absolutely, unquestionably, on pain of my never knitting her another pair of socks going to her high-school graduation. (Keeping my fingers crossed here.) Also playing in the band, if she’s still playing the flute by then.

  13. HA.. I laughed when I heard that and said YEP, that’s our song. It brought a tear to my eye that the school band was playing it.
    CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada.
    Way to go Amanda, good job eh!
    As a mother it’s always a big sigh of relief that they got their SSGD.
    Denise in Caledon

  14. My 2 year old son can identify that song, and he is a big fan of “the zamboni guy”.
    Even if Amanda did not think so at the time, participating in the process does give you a sense of completion/closure/fulfillment. When you look back at it you finished!
    Congrats to all – my older son will be starting highschool next year and I have similar life markers I am mentally checking off (passed grade 8 without starting smoking…first highschool dance … getting into a responsible peer group…)

  15. Yeah, not a song I know at all. And, I live in a state where they tried to make “Louie, Louie” the official state song.
    Congratulations, to both you and Amanda for getting her through. It means she stuck with it, and no one can ever take that away from her. If she thinks something is going to take too long, remind her how long it took her to get that piece of paper. It is a huge investment of her time, even if the time was not willingly spent, she did it.

  16. Oh, yeah, I am from the U.S. (southern part originally), now living not far over the border from Ottawa and wishing I could move to the other side, as my spirit is definitely Canadian. Love that Hockey Night in Canada theme! Go Sens!!! (A good friend’s son is one of their coaches, so I cheer them out of solidarity with her.) On the graduation note: yes, those passages are really, really important. Kudos to you for–um–encouraging her to show up!

  17. ah – hockey night in canada being played by a highschool band. nothing spells “growing up in canada” better than that!

  18. Hockey Night in Canada Theme song.
    I read everything you write & know you are amazing.
    Thanks for being a ray of sunshine in my life.
    Martha

  19. Wow! I wish my high school band played that! Watching CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada last night I got tingles when I heard the song. With the amount of hockey we watch here in Ottawa, I’m sure that even my 10 month old can hum the music. It was practically the only thing we watched for the first few months of his life.
    Congrats to Amanda and the great parents standing behind her all the way!

  20. And we owe Amanda, ‘cuz the whole homework/ clock/ projects/ bristol board/ muffin thing made for really good blog fodder! Stephanie, I have to say that Amanda has grown into a stunningly beautiful young woman. Look at that smile–she could conquer the world!

  21. No doubt about it. “The Hockey Theme” (a.k.a. Hockey Night In Canada Theme) was written in 1968 by Dolores Claman. She was born in Vancouver (I was born in Vancouver too!)
    I love hockey and it’s season opener for the Canucks tonight, which I won’t be at home watching and will be stuck on a ferry, but alas, I think the ferry will broadcast it. It’s wouldn’t be very Canadian of them if they didn’t. 🙂

  22. I’m an American and I knew it was the Hockey Night in Canada theme song 🙂
    But, i grew up in a “hockey town” and in a “hockey house”

  23. Hockey Night in Canada…Wikipedia says it is “Canada’s Second National Anthem”. Don’t doubt that.
    Congrats to Amanda–and her loving (and relieved) family!

  24. That surely sounds like it came from a John Wayne film… or North By Northwest…. but it’s probably Maple Leafs On Ice.

  25. Congratulations Amanda!! And an undoubtedly silly question from a US citizen: Why high school graduation in October?

  26. Hockey night theme song. Hey – High school gradutations seems very informal up north in Canada. What no cap and gown? Congratulations!
    Kathy from Massachusetts – the home of the lack-luster Bruins.

  27. Ha, figured from the word “iconic” that it had to be the Hockey Night in Canada theme, even before I clicked “play” on the video. Ya gives good clues.

  28. I can’t claim that I knew it. But I’m not surprised that it is so well known by the Canadians. I think more American folks know our Monday Night Football theme than they realize.
    The CBC Hockey Night in Canada theme sounds an awful lot like some of the old Western TV show theme songs doncha think?

  29. Good old Hockey Night in Canada. Go Canucks!
    Congrats to Amanda. My youngest just graduated high school and I can definitely relate to your feelings of satisfaction and pride.
    Just got back from holidays and am catching up on posts. I was interested in reading about your experiences in New Orleans as we were there a year before Katrina. We loved our time there and were heartbroken to watch the tragedy unfold on tv. Cafe au lait and beignets brought back good memories though!
    Looking forward to your new book!

  30. Congratulation both to Amanda and Stephanie for this landmark.
    Come to think of it, I haven’t seen that many finished Mystery Shawl 3s on the web.
    I did skip my college graduation. I didn’t like my school, had finished mid-year, would have needed to ask for the day off work, and the ceremony would be on folding metal chairs in the full sun in late June in the Central Valley of California. The day turned out 105 degrees F. Even my grandmother agreed the choice was good.

  31. Congratulations Amanda!
    As for the music, “Hockey Night in Canada”.
    Mum asked why I was watching hockey when I started playing the clip. LOL

  32. Congratulations, Amanda! Give yourself (and ok, your mum) a pat on the back for a job well done.
    And still, after 25 years here, I am not yet a Canadian. Had no idea what that tune was. None. I’ll try to do better. Maybe by the time another 25 years have rolled by? if we’re still blogging by then, I’ll let you know…

  33. What an awful rendition of the HNIC theme! Even in Connecticut, I know what that is! (And I can’t wait for Saturday night, either.)

  34. i cheated. i read the comments. i won’t guess, lol. i would have said the bonanza theme song, lol!
    congrats, amanda, you’re on your way.
    ain’t it scary, mom?

  35. Congratulations to Amanda. An appropriate song for an important milestone in life. Doesn’t every Canadian feel their heart swell a little at that tune.

  36. I was sure it was the theme song to “Dallas,” but after a YouYube check I have to concede that I don’t recognize the music, thus proving I am not a Canadian.

  37. Of course it’s Hockey Night in Canada.
    Made that much sweeter by my beloved Senators’ 2 game win over the evil Leafs.
    Go Sens Go!!!
    Congrats to Amanda, and a special hurray (and sigh of relief) for her “coach”.

  38. Heh. I knew it wasn’t gonna be God Save the Queen, but expected O Canada… Hocky Night in Canada, ROFL, shoulda known.
    Amada: you will be glad you did this! Promise! Congrats & kudos for doing your Mom & Dad proud.

  39. Aack, you’re killing me here. I am stuck at work so I can’t hear the clip (stupid firewall – I will listen as soon as I get home tonight) and I could so have named the HNiC theme aka La Soirée du Hockey in one note, and I am American, and I am from the UP of Michigan where my high school band played it as our encore to every spring concert – complete with the *almost* notes! I love living near the border so we can watch CBC. We thought having a live band on the ice to back up Constable Slewidge for O Canada last night was very cool. (It must be so nice to have an anthem that people with an average singing range can actually sing.) The strangest place we have heard the HNiC theme was in a piano bar in Jamaica as some Canadian guests tried to stump the pianist but he knew it!
    Hooray Amanda!!

  40. yeah – you make it easy with the YouTube titling – that’s Hockey Night in Canada 😉
    congrats Amanda – and I’ll remember that as my oldest hits the teen years in a couple and can I just say – ack!

  41. Hockey Night in Canada, of course! (Though when you said “iconic” I was half-expecting it to be Stompin’ Tom or the Smarties theme…)
    Congrats, Amanda! I hope you’re glad later that you indulged your mother by going to the ceremony. I refused to do the same for my Dad when I finished university, and I’ve always been sorry I missed it.

  42. 8 most and MY oldest won’t be able to be a high school dropout, either.
    Why is the graduation ceremony so late? Didn’t school end in June?

  43. Hockey night in Canada theme. I haven’t watched hockey since my Dad died many years ago. Guess my memory bank is still in some kinda working order. Congratulations Amanda–and by the way you look really happy that you went. Please don’t miss out on any of your graduations–they make great memories for the future –besides your Mom is right you owe her that much. Good for you.

  44. It’s CBC’S Hockey Night in Canada Theme Song … pretty good for a gal who grew up in Phoenix, don’t ya’ think?!
    Congrats Amanda! You’ve only just begun, but you’re off to a terrific start!

  45. Yay Amanda! Hurrah for stinky High School bands!
    That’s the Canadian Equivalent of “Are you ready for some Football!” in the United States, right?
    I used to have season tickets to the L.A. Kings (i know, pity me). I miss that a bit!

  46. For the love of hockey, my co-worker has that song – Hockey Night in Canada theme song – as the ring tone on his cell phone. Very well timed post for those of us on the west coast who are kicking off the season tonight too! Go Canucks!

  47. Hehe, that’s what I tell my mother (I say “at least I’ll never be a teenage mother). She needs a LOT of reassurance. Really she hasn’t got too much to worry about. But she’s on the other side of the world (and I mean, EXACTLY on the other side) so I suppose there’s one for you: “at least my daughter’s not on the other side of the world”!
    Why do they call it a high school commencement when they’re finishing? At my school (although we didn’t get diplomas, just a certificate in the mail from the government, not the school) we had “prizegiving”.

  48. I can’t listen to the clip for being at work – but there’s no way I need to. The Hockey Night in Canada theme was part of the soundtrack I grew up with and was played at my first wedding (as iconic as the song is, there was a reason that marriage didn’t last…). It was a song my high school band played 15 years ago. Along with Tim Horton’s, the loonie and toonie, the maple leaf, the loon and the beaver, HNC is part of my Canada. Although chesterfields everywhere would really appreciate it if Don Cherry would stop stealing their seat covers.

  49. Hey, even I know that one, and I never even knew that hockey was on TV until I got married. That’s Hockey Night in Canada!

  50. You know, it’s funny. I have this thing about kids performing, and accomplishing things, and trying new skills and doing a great job. Always makes me weepy. I love that hearing a high school band perform the Hockey Night in Canada theme moved me to tears! Watching the kids I coach have a good swim? Yup, weepy. Just imagine what it was like listening to my son’s JK class sing Oh Canada the other morning! Good thing he couldn’t see me… 🙂

  51. That is Hockey Night in Canada! We heart Don Cherry in this house- even my 3 year old knows who he is (and we live in the USA)!

  52. Hockey Night in Canada music . . . I am a bit of a closet hockey fan. Sssh . . . my son plays football. And he is very close to graduation also! I love that, “Not a highschool drop out.”
    Congrats!

  53. I did know it!!! I just had to wait until I got home at lunch (for sound–kinda helps!).
    It’s the Hockey Knight in Canada theme!!!
    🙂

  54. I think the music may be entitled “The Hockey Theme” and is used as a theme song for a Canadian hockey show.
    Congratulations to Amanda (and you). May you have many more milestones to celebrate together!
    I’m looking forward to the new book and your next visit to Southern California.

  55. Hockey Night in Canada. Oh my god. I am so American, but I know that because one of our best friends’ family is from Hamilton, Ontario (and they are conveniently last named….Hamilton) and at his wedding, they were asked what a ‘traditional Canadian wedding song’ was.
    And they all launched into humming that.
    chicagowench

  56. Beware. My mother forced me to go to my High School Commencement against my wishes (I had adreadful time in HS) so when college commencement came around I did not go. I figured, I paid for my own college, I worked, got loans and scholarships, and didn’t sign up for commencement.
    Today as my parents approach their 80’s, I regret denying them that pleasure of seeing me graduate. At the time I just didn’t see the point of wasting several hours in the hot sun waiting for my name to be called when they would mail me the diploma anyway.

  57. I had no idea what it was, but I was thinking it HAS to be the theme song of an old Western. Guess not 😛

  58. CONGRATS Amanda!!! Way to go! And way to go, mom, too, for shepherding her through those difficult years (and proving to me, a mother of a 3- going on 13-year-old) that they DO survive their toddler years, they DO make it from 3 to 4 without mom throttling them (I’ve been close!), and they do move on to become functioning, productive members of society (well, some of them!)
    Thank goodness for the hubby’s love of hocky – it’s Hockey Night in Canada!

  59. When I was in band in high school (in Alberta slightly less than 10 years ago), every concert we had was kicked off with Oh Canada. Every once in a while, our conductor would ask everyone to “please stand for the national anthem” – and instead we’d play the Hockey Night in Canada theme song.
    It was always a highly amusing joke.
    Go Canucks!

  60. When my third daughter was 20 and had completed her Red Seal (Journeyman Cook’s papers), she exulted that, to paraphrase, she was young enough that she could make a life mistake or two and still have lots of time and skills to overcome it! An odd thing to taunt one’s mother with, the emphasis on possible life mistakes, but I knew what she meant and was pleased that she felt competent enough to know she could overcome mistakes — at least she’d never be a 19-year old without a trade, I guess, to phrase it in your terms, harlot! She’s since made a decent mistake or two, but none of the ones I might have feared, and is now a rather accomplished, well-travelled, chef at 25. Sounds as if your daughter is well on her way to her own list of accomplishments — congratulations to both of you!

  61. OMG, Hockey Night in Canada!!!! You go baby! Every time I heard this (while Mark & I were dating) I knew that I was getting me some during the 2rd & 3rd period intermission. Couldn’t grab a quickie during the 1st ’cause we had to listen to Don Cherry, lol. Only a Canadian would understand this .
    Take care Steph!

  62. Totally the “Hockey Night in Canada” theme…and I guessed before I clicked on the YouTube link and saw the name of the clip. Just because I knew it had to be something to do with hockey.
    Congratulations to Amanda! Graduations are great milestones, and nearly always more fun than you expect them to be. (At least, the events surrounding them are fun…commencement ceremonies themselves are often long and dull, and that’s okay ’cause they’re great excuses to have fun.)

  63. congrats to both of you! and amanda, i’m glad you went through the ceremony for your mom’s sake. depending on what size college you go to, h.s. graduation may be more meaningful — being one of 5,000 grads isn’t quite the same as being among 300 or so going across the stage to get your diploma.
    back in the day we used to joke about young women getting their Ph. T — Putting Hubby Through — degrees. now i’m hoping to get a PTD — putting daughter through.
    my 2000 high school grad was a mom and abused wife at 19. now, she’s a single, strong mom of a smart and sweet little girl, and a college student planning to graduate in june.
    so i really identified with “she’ll never be a (??)-year-old (whatever), stephanie!
    ellen in indy
    p.s.: i didn’t know the “hockey night in canada” theme, but from the days when wayne gretzky played on our minor league team here, i do know most or all of the words to your anthem. does that count?

  64. Hockey Night in Canada – wish we could teach it to the high school band here … it’s a great tune. My band kids (2 already in college) laughed out loud when I tried to play the clip for them to help me identify. My current band kid is always embarrassed by his mom. That may be the only difference between boys and girls, because they all three knit.

  65. da da da DA da da…
    That’s hockey night in Canada! This always makes me think of evenings hanging out with my dad, cheering on the Canadiens when most other southern-Ontario households cheered for the Leafs… and then crowing on Monday at school if the Canadiens won while the Leafs lost….

  66. Was that the theme song from “Gunsmoke” or “Bonanza”? It brings back childhood memories!

  67. Of course it’s Hockey Night in Canada – and congrats to Ann-Marie who had the sense to _email_ you instead of posting it here – I think she should get the sock yarn by default, just for having the sense! 🙂
    Congratulations to your daughter too, not for graduating, but for putting up with the “right of passage” bit. Further proof of her burgeoning adulthood.

  68. That’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme from the CBC.
    Hilarious, I loathe sports with the exception of hockey, so that explains the familiarity.
    Plus. I’m American.

  69. Longtime lurker, first time poster – about daughters, not knitting. Your daughter post got me all choked up – as mine has just begun her senior year in high school. Tonight is her last homecoming, and I keep wondering how many lasts I’ll get choked up over during the next year. So – all knitting aside, congratulations to you and your girl!

  70. Of course it’s the HNIC Theme song! It was the first thing that came to mind even before watching. There is no more iconic Canadian song!! It’s my ringtone on my cell 🙂
    Congrats to Amanda!

  71. It took two bars to spot “Hockey Night in Canada.”
    You’d think the better part of a decade overseas would have drummed that out of me. But no. Shelagh Rogers was right to ask an arena full of spectators to rise for the national anthem that one time, I swear.
    (Old friends have maintained that the real national anthem is, in fact, “Eye of the Tiger.” I’d like this to be true.)

  72. Oh, the Hockey Night in Canada theme. Playing it in a band at a hockey game is the best feeling because everyone can sing along.

  73. Hockey Night in Canada theme! Otherwise known as the unofficial Canadian national anthem. By a woman! Dolores Claman.

  74. why that’s Hockey Night in Canada of course….
    i’m an American, but no double points here because i’ve lived in Canada for five years.
    congrats on the graduating. that’s most definitely a milestone.

  75. I knew it was gonna be the Hockey Night in Canada theme even before I played the video. Not that I don’t like our anthem but what if schools played this everday?! Way to go on the grad!

  76. The Hockey Night in Canada Theme! For I moment I was wondering if they were going to play some Stompin Tom Connors – “Oh, the good ol’ hockey game …”

  77. Nope, don’t know the song but I think you could have made that fellow standing in the foreground sit down with a good poke from a knitting needle.
    My father once told me that one could lose or have taken away many things in life but a diploma is one thing that you can never lose or have taken away. Once a high school grad, always a high school grad.
    Yeah Amanda! It was wonderful for you to go to the ceremony for your parents. Parents rarely get to feel that ‘Touchdown’ feeling when it comes to parenting but a high school graduation fills the bill.

  78. Congratulations!
    I always felt it was my duty to go to my graduations so my parents could enjoy it. I think of it as a way to say “Thanks” to my family for their support. Weird way, to sit around for hours to shake someone’s hand, but hey, it makes them happy.

  79. Hockey night in Canada – not to be rude to hockey fans but it was always the warning signal to change the channel before my dad realized a game was on and claim that it was just a snippet played on a news program instead. I think he thought it was also the theme to Road to Avonlea since that was invariably on the only other channel we could get and he would hear the song only to see Sarah Polley…
    Definitely a Canadian classic no matter how you look at it

  80. For Amanda (Stephanie…look away):
    If you think your mum was psycho about the high school commencement, just wait until you graduate from college/university. You can look forward to the motherly tradition of trying to secure more than your two alloted seats at the event: you know, enough for your entire family, friends, neighbours, the local knit night…..

  81. Of all of the things to bring me out lurkdom. Of course we all know the Hockey Night in Canada theme song – I think it must be genetically encoded.
    It sure is bright out here after the shadows of lurk – land. I just want to say thank you for writing and for writing so well about this crazy passion of ours called knitting. It makes me feel good to know that there is a group of people out there to whom I’ll never have to justify buying more sock yarn (because we all know, sock yarn doesn’t count in the finally stash tally ;P ).

  82. Amanda – congratulations! You not only graduated but you managed to make your mom happy at the same time!

  83. Definitely the Hockey Night in Canada Theme song. I hear that more often than any other song played in my house. Sad..isn’t it?

  84. Living in Minnesota finally pays off! That’s Hockey Night in Canada!
    I always figured that walking at my high school and college graduations was for my parents….
    Congratulations to Amanda!

  85. Oh, Steph, I never took you for such a pessimist!
    “Your daughter turns 16? Awesome. No matter what, she can never be a 15 year old mother. 17? Wicked. She can never be a 16 year old addict. 18? The police can never bring her home charged under the young offenders act….. ”
    I never thought of it that way. Here’s my take on it. I’m a cancer survivor – so far. No one gets out alive, and don’t feed me any BS about how I’m not supposed to be negative, I’m not, but I refuse to be delusional. I’m a scientist and I don’t buy some of the PR dished out by various organizations. Melissa Etheridge saying “I’m cancer free” – if she wanted to say anything, the only truthful statement would be “They didn’t find anything in my last tests”. My daughter is 13. Anything I get to see her do is gravy. I could wish that she not wait as long as I did to become a parent, but that actually has nothing to do with the cancer – my husband and I are ‘older parents’, but I won’t push her, even when she is old enough and married. (Yes, married first.)
    I didn’t have brothers, and when I got to know my husband-to-be, I was amazed that he and other males make it to adulthood, after listening to some of the stories.
    So congrats! Have a beer or something stronger! You (and Joe) have delivered her to adulthood with apparently intact body and psyche, and apparently with some sense and some level of work ethic, and apparently with more than the necessary minimum. Who can ask for more.

  86. Yay! Hooray Amanda! and Congratulations Stephanie, you’re raisin’ some fine kids. And the song… ‘Hockey night in Canada’ theme song. Yep, I’m an American, but as I live in Michigan, I’m close enough to get CBC.

  87. Hockey Night in Canada! from Alameda, California! (but that might not count, as I am married to a Nova Scotian)

  88. Congratulations to Amanda
    Thats Hockey Night in Canada (YAY HOCKEY). Go Canuks!

  89. That’s so Hockey Night in Canada. I’ve known that song since I was 6 years old and my brother started playing hockey. Hearing it evokes a Pavlovian desire to eat a bag of Potato chips.
    Congrats to Amanda. FTR, I didn’t want to go to my commencement either, my mom made me.

  90. Congratulations Amanda!!
    Not only have you given yourself a memory, but you’ve set a wonderful example for your sisters –
    (Steph, note the “family tradition” argument – might come in handy later -)

  91. Congrats to Amanda! I remember when i went through that stage – it was a big moment for me because I didn’t speak any English when I started high school and I graduated with honors. I know my family was definitely not letting “not walk” the stage. (that was like 10 years ago, holy! time flies!)
    Hockey Night in Canada – it’s like “Are you ready for some football” song for us Americans… Lucky me who went to RPI the Hockey school.

  92. Oh, memories of my childhood in New England!!! Haven’t seen a hocky game since…well, we won’t mention the year, we’ll just say: since I moved to Western Oregon.
    Hockey night in Canada!
    Congrats to Amanda and to Mom and Dad – one down, 2 to go!

  93. Congratulations Amanda, you’re wonderful for giving your parents their closure on your childhood.
    DH and I grew up in northern Montana, he even went to Canadian schools (walked over the border) and played hockey, but alas, I didn’t know the famous theme song. It does have a sporting kind of flare. Somewhere out there is someone who makes a living writing TV sports theme songs, (and you thought knitting humor was an obscure genre), heh, heh.

  94. I guess I’d have to knit my husband something with the yarn if I win.
    He’s the master at hockey trivia.
    Hockey night in Canada is my final answer.
    Congrats to your daughter. I guess I can now say that my son will never be a 1 year old juvenile delinquent. Go me!

  95. Hockey Night in Canada’s music! AND I’m an American — with the “advantage” of having grown up in Michigan’s UP (da Soo), so I know hockey. *g*
    Congrats to Amanda, you and your hubby for the big accomplishment!

  96. Bwahahah! Hockey Night!!! My ex used to hum that song. That, an appreciation for Smarties, and the ability to name the provinces and their capitals – I really came out of that relationship with some treasured memories.
    Yay, Amanda!!!!

  97. that’s the hockey night in canada theme song!!!!
    No Detroiter would ever miss that question (or miss Hockey Night in canada with Grapes during intermission)

  98. Hockey Night in Canada–duh. It pleases me immensely that it was written by a woman. There’s an all-gal jazz band in Vancouver (Mother of Pearl) who do a WICKED version. Also a trombone quartet (I Tromboni). Come to think of it, I must have heard eleventy million versions of this, including one for solo harp. It’s, as they say in the tv commercials, “a part of our heritage.”
    GO AMANDA!!!

  99. Congratulations to Amanda!
    ‘Tis the Hockey Night in Canada Theme, composed by Doris Claman in 1968. I was a teen when Doris was composing, therefore I have heard it so often that I think it has become embedded in my genetic code (not a comfort, I might add!).

  100. Ahhh… Hockey Night in Canada.
    (Being a geek, I spent a few minutes before hitting play, trying to guess what it could be… Gordon Lightfoot, the Polka Dot Door, the Smarties commercial, the theme song from the Calgary Olympics (which all the highschool bands played back in my day) – silly me, of course it’s HNiC! – go Habs!)
    Congrats to you and your daughter.

  101. Of course it’s Hockey Night in Canada. (Though I too, was kind of hoping for Stompin’ Tom.)
    Congrats to Amanda!

  102. YAY! I’m still a Canadian!! Because I totally know this song and could hum the rest if it cuts out midway. 😀 (Between that and the red smarties test, it’s OFFICIAL PROOF accepted at Canadian consulates everywhere.)

  103. I don’t even know if it’s fair for we Minnesnowtans to weigh in with Hockey Night in Canada – we’re practically sitting in your lap, and we sang O Canada for you, and we can say ‘eh?’ without attracting quizzical stares from passers by…
    Um. I was a high school dropout, and a college-goer, and my kid was homeschooled and isn’t going to graduate and he’s going to college early. So I can’t say that I share in your feeling about the whole graduation thing.
    On the other hand, I was REALLY mad at my cousin for eloping and not letting his parents know that he was getting married until after the fact. So I do understand the whole milestone thing.
    (Congrats for getting one child to her majority without smothering her when she interrupted you for the 48th time while you were on a tight deadline. They should have a graduation ceremony for MOMS!)

  104. Hockey Night in Canada
    (or in this house, it’s the theme song of “Curl Up Next To My Husband But Don’t Talk Till The Commercial Night”

  105. The CBC Hockey Night in Canada Theme song. We were all humming it here last night. Congratulations Amanada!!

  106. Congratulations to Amanda — and to you.
    And I’m glad to read that it’s not the theme to “Gunsmoke,” an American tv show from the mid-’50s. It didn’t quite match up and I just couldn’t figure what you Canadians would be embracing in such a firearm-themed song.

  107. I just about fell off my chair laughing. I haven’t heard this theme in years. Made me feel all fuzzy inside.
    It’s the theme to “La soirée du hockey” on Radio-Canada. A.k.a. Hockey Night in Canada.
    And congrats to Amanda on graduating. 🙂

  108. Sounds exactly like what’s on my mind this month as my oldest turns 21. (The cake baking is commencing as we speak.) He’s clocking those milestones at a rapid pace this year as he’ll graduate in June and be out in the “real world” working soon thereafter. Congrats to Amanda on her milestone!

  109. The theme music to Hockey Night in Canada, but the actual piece of music is called The Hockey Theme by Dolores Claman – I’m American. 🙂
    I have to give credit to my husband for knowing it and he claims that it’s the unofficial 2nd anthem for Canada.

  110. Congratulations! To you and Amanda:) Does she know what she wants to get her degree in? I’m in my last year of college (nursing school) and it’s gone by so fast!

  111. Hockey Night in Canada? The hockey song? I called it the hockey song. XD But I’m a silly American and it’s been awhile since I’ve been back.
    I went to my graduation. And I welcome her into the folds of people going to college.

  112. The Hockey Theme! I wanted it for a ring tone, but can’t find it here in the states. We have a fair number of Canadian friends down here and all you have to do is start humming it and the whole group joins in. Greg and I often hum it before we watch hockey. Thanks for letting us hear it!
    Congrats to Amanda and you and Joe!

  113. Stephanie, Congratulations on Amanda’s graduation.
    The youngest of my three graduated high school in June. Definately a milestone now that all three are either in college or on their own. It’s great to look back over eightenn years and be able to say, “We did it!” For child and parents it’s a right of passage.
    Amanda, Good for you for going to the ceremony, and enjoy your college experience. You’d be amazed how fast it goes by. Best of Luck!

  114. Hockey Night in Canada, baby! I’m one of those poor, in between wretches. Stuck in purgatory just minutes from the Canadian border. Too Canadian for the rest of the States, yet mocked by my Canadian sister-in-law for being so American. I cannot win.
    Best wishes Amanda. Wait a few more years to become an unwed crack mom, ok? Actually I have full confidence that any child of the Harlot is destined for nothing less than being an absolutely stellar human being. Enjoy life!

  115. My husband/parents/brother/etc… would never forgive me if I got this wrong – Hockey Night in Canada theme music!

  116. Ooooo, oooooh, I know I know (plus I live in the States, do I get double points?
    Hockey Night in Canada!
    Grats to all the grads!

  117. Okay, I’ll be the honest American. I had no idea what the song was, but once you get onto the youtube page, the link tells you what the song is. So, anyone on youtube knows that song is Hockey Night in Canada.

  118. The theme from Hockey Night in Canada. Ya got the part about us all being able to hum along, right — I’m not even remotely a hockey fan and I know what it is!
    Congratulations to Miss University Student and congratulations to you, too, Mum! You have every right to be proud of her.

  119. Congrats Amanda and Mom and Dad. I hope to be one of those proud parents too in a couple of years.
    While you’re on a finishing kick, how’s the gansey? (evil grin)

  120. I’m not sure if its kind of ‘patriotic’ or kind of embarrassing that we all recognize it as Hockey Night in Canada. I got it after the first few notes. But then again I get kind of choked up and emotional when the tune starts up on CBC on a Saturday night. As a country there really is no denying that we definitely love our hockey.

  121. That brings back such wonderful memories..First Congrats to Amanda!! She will look back fondly some day Mom!
    And for the song…HNIC!!! Back in the day when there were games ONLY on Saturday night TV, supper was early and fast as we had to watch the game!!!
    thanks for the memories..

  122. hockey night in canada!!!!!!! and i didn’t even cheat … i grew up in detroit and we used to watch HNIC on the cbc feed from windsor all the time. in fact, i was in detroit (from nyc) for the red wings game on wednesday and we were bemoaning how much we miss the old cbc announcers. wow – that makes my afternoon. (also – congrats!)

  123. Not only do I know that is Hockey Night in Canada, I had the song played as the DJ announced my hubbo and I as Husband and Wife at our wedding in New York state. All of my Canadian famiy knew it, none of the Americans (except hubbo)knew.

  124. No Idea what that song was – though most commenters gave it away!
    Ya know what iconic song every Ohioan can hum? “Hang On Sloopy” by the McCoys, recorded in, like, 1965 or something. Crazy, I know! It’s the theme song for Ohio State University’s marching band.

  125. Hockey Night in Canada. Not because I knew it myself, but I had a Canadian friend over for playdate this morning and she knew it. Oh, and because about a million others have spilled the beans already.

  126. Congrats Amanda! My daughter graduated from college in 2006, so I called her and asked if she was going to go through commencement…there was silence. So I said, well ok, we will see you later in the summer…and she immediately said…”YES, I am going to go to commencement and WALK Across the Stage! I want you to see me graduate!” So we drove a thousand miles for a commencement ceremony.
    The song is Hockey Night in Canada.

  127. hmmmmm…. could it be Hockey Night in Canada? hahaha (Like I really knew it or something) I was thinking it sounded a little like Gun Smoke, too, but not. So I’m a total follower, but now I have ONE more Canadian bit of info for when I defect.
    Congrats Amanda! And, thanks from all the moms out here that hope their grads will someday be as sweet as you and go thru the ceremony for Mom’s sake. =)

  128. Hockey Night in Canada…and I knew it before I came to the comments. Mostly because when I did the video clip it took me to you tube, where the title was listed….is that cheating? But I agre with you about milestones. My college student son is being inducted int o the Communications major’s National Honor Society on Sunday and can’t undertand why my husband and I are proud of him. He told me that all he did was all his work and reading and studying…so what was the big deal? Hello?! THese are the moments a mother lives for!

  129. Ahhh… the Hockey Night in Canada theme. And I’ve never even seen a hockey game. Bad Canadian! Bad!

  130. LOL! I knew before I even clicked on play that it was going to be the Hockey Night in Canada theme song. What else could it be?! I thought it was a brilliant rendition.
    Congratulations to you for getting your daughter through all these milestones.
    Congratulations to Amanda!

  131. I’m glad other people knew what it was because I was thinking it was from West Side Story. But that didn’t seem quite right.
    Congratulations on the milestone–both for you and Amanda. There is a Chinese proverb or Hallmark card or Hodding Carter quote that says, ““There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.” Thank you for showing us how to do both with such grace.
    Barb

  132. That’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme. Even French Canadians know this one (which I am part of…). It’s also probably one of the only songs that both French and English Canadians all know!

  133. Congrats on your daughter’s graduation! Only 3 more years and I’ll graduate my oldest.
    The song: Hockey Night in Canada! (Rats, the Devils lost last night…not a good start to the season!)

  134. It very well may be the theme from “Hockey Night in Canada” but it sure sounds like a rip-off of the theme to “The Big Valley”.

  135. Oh, the highschool commencement, what fun that is.
    The song is none other than the wonderful theme to Hockey Night in Canada, to which our good friend Ron McLean just signed on for 7 more seasons of. Fabulous.

  136. I wish I could say I knew it without reading other people’s comments, but I have never heard it or heard of hockey night in Canada. Alas.

  137. Congradulations, Amanda! Now you will never know the shame of being a high school dropout. It may not seem like a big deal now but time changes our perspective. All of us are proud of you.

  138. I don’t think it would be fair to enter as an American. But can I tell you that it was my first ambition as a kid to grow up and play the organ for the Canadiens?

  139. Hockey Night in Canada.
    I knew because I heard it on youtube with some South Park spoof someone had done. I asked a friend from Canada what the music was.

  140. Why it’s “Hockey Night in Canada” alrighty
    next to our beautiful anthem, a song every Canuk can hum!
    Donna
    can’t wait for next book!

  141. Hockey Night in Canada, eh? AND I am an American! we only get it on Saturday nights tho’ – boo
    I love MacLean and Cherry…

  142. Congratulations to the proud parents – oh – and the graduate also. Hockey Night in Canada – a tune I haven’t heard for a while, as a Canadian living in the US doesn’t have much hockey choice. It thrills the heart. Thanks for this.

  143. Well, I can see from the comments that my guess of “The Theme from ‘Bonanza'” is just not going to win.
    Congratulations on the graduation! I never really thought of the milestones in quite that way before. I suppose I’ll have to be content with, “I’ll never have to send a kid to kindergarten in diapers” for the time being.

  144. Hockey Night in Canada, my husband and I are moving back to Canada in less than two months (he is American) and I have totally converted him. He LOVES hockey now. He is excited to get back to root against the Maple Leafs. LOL

  145. OH OH OH!!!! Oh, it’s been TOO long since I heard Hockey Night in Canada!!! No fair making me all weepy & homesick for maple leves and Tim Horton’s on a welend when I’m already going, “But my heart says THIS is Thanksgiving.”
    Thanks, Steph, for the music …. the memories of wathing the hockey game so I could talk it over with the cute boy in chemistry the next day … and for reminding me of October commencements. Oh, the things you miss when you move away …

  146. Hockey Night in Canada.
    Go Islanders!!!!
    Hubby and I love Hockey. We go at least once a year to see the Islanders play. (going monday Yeah!!)

  147. Congratulations, Amanda, and good on ya for going to through the ceremony. There are too few times as adults we get to stand up and be celebrated for our achievements. Well done, and well deserved.

  148. Good golly, make a girl break down in tears, why don’t you? Homesick! Ack.
    Hockey Night in Canada theme music can give me big breaking waves of nostalgia like nobody’s business. And I’m not alone. When my brother was living in Australia, they hosted the World Expo (88?). He’d been away from home for over a year, and went to see the whole show. He said he went into the Canada pavillion, and it started out with a scene like that out of any generic Main Street. A sidewalk, with shop windows. And in one window was a bank of television sets. This guy walks down the street, and sets up a folding chair in front of the dark shop window. Suddenly, all the TV’s spring to life, and the Hockey Night in Canada music starts playing. He told me that he immediately began crying, and met a lot of other ex-pat Canucks, because they were all blubbering boo-hoos, too.

  149. The Hockey Night in Canada Theme! I’d agree – all Canadians know this, even if they don’t like or watch hockey.
    Congratulations Amanda!

  150. Oh man! I almost fell out of my chair laughing! Hockey Night in Canada? Got to love it. For the record, I am American, but I cheated (I went to art school in Calgary). Congrats to you and Amanda.

  151. The song is “Hockey Night in Canada” by the CBC. (I will confess to asking a musically-inclined friend for help, and not peeking at other commenters before getting that help.)
    Congratulations to your daughter for the award as well for graduation. It’s quite an accomplishment, and all accomplishments sould be celebrated!

  152. I was expecting to hear “Oh, Canada” but no, that is definately Hockey Night in Canada – I grew up in a family of hockey fans. Memories,.. just brought a little tear to my eye. We are American but just barely – Rochester, NY. I am now grown and have been living in Atlanta, GA for a long time. Even though we have a hockey team here, this is just NOT a hockey town!!

  153. Congratulations, Amanda – and good on ya for indulging your mum. (Plus I’m envious; you didn’t have to wear stupid [and horribly cheap] robes? Cool!) Enjoy the glow, Stephanie!
    As to songs… Not. A. Clue. Until I started reading comments. Of course, unless it involves horses or gymnastics, I hate sports, so I’ve never seen a hockey game in my life. [g] ::waits out the gale-force wind from gasps of horror:: But, um… PDX has a junior (or whatever) team, the Winterhawks! And hey, we *used* to have a curling competition during our Rose Festival! (No idea why they stopped that. I only watched it on TV once, but surely that counts for something, right? And I *own* a copy of “Men With Brooms,” so there – some redeeming qualities!)

  154. I’m a girl from Oklahoma and smiled big when I heard that song.
    It’s called “Hockey Night in Canada”
    LOL funny to hear it played like that. I like it
    rori

  155. Hockey Night in Canada theme song (hurray! I wished they’d played it at my high school graduation), one of the reasons I knit as much as I did in my teens. Having a boyfriend who loved hockey sent me back to the craft my mum taught me when I was five!

  156. Err.. Hockey Night in Canada theme? I truly have no idea, but thats what youtube tells me it is 🙂
    Good job mama. One down, two more to go, right?

  157. Congratulations and well-done Amanda! Have a fabulous time at college.
    I have no idea what the music is – it keeps sounding like things I know and then changing. But then I didn’t expected to get it, I am on the other side of the Atlantic.

  158. Hockey Night in Canada, of course! Although… as a Canadian, I am not properly patriotic and have to admit that I… ummmm… strongly dislike hockey.
    Worse yet, I live very near a major hockey stadium, in a city that was absolutely FANATICAL when I first moved here because “their” team was in the playoffs!

  159. Here you bring me up to expect “The Logdriver’s Waltz” and then you pull the rug out from under me. Bless Ruth for pointing out that it’s labled on YouTube — smooth, Harlot.

  160. Hockey Night in Canada (I have friends in Vancouver and they told me). I didn’t peek either!

  161. and on a separate subject, what I admire about Amanda is her ability to be in situations she may not have entered 100% willingly and to pull off a dazzling, wholehearted smile. Nothing stingy about that girl.

  162. For as long as I can remember that song has been playing somewhere in the background of each and every significant event of my life. Okay, I may be exaggerating there a wee bit.

  163. Thanks for making me realize that, although my daughter could still be a high school drop out, she can no longer be a 15 year old mother. Whew! That’s a relief. Oh, and the Hockey Night in Canada theme. (I may be American, but hockey is so much sexier than football.)

  164. JUNE GRADUATION – tearful goodbye to friends, cap and gown ceremony, prom dresses & tuxedos, pomp and ceremony for about a week, and the rolled up paper you get on “graduation day” actually says “Congrats, you *finished* high school”.
    FALL COMMENCEMENT – when they have actually tallied the last exam scores and added up your courses and determined that you, in fact, have actually and legally GRADUATED high school, and then give you a real legal diploma with a seal and junk on it.
    And that is why this is the real milestone for Amanda. Best wishes to you, Amanda, thousands of knitterly Aunties and Uncles are proud of you, too!

  165. AWESOME! I wish they played the “Canadian theme song” at MY high school graduation! That song always gives me chills when I hear it now – probably because I don’t get to hear it so often living in The OC.
    Congratulations Amanda!

  166. Well, I see that I probably didn’t need to worry about sending the answer via email… 😉 Even some of us Americans know that one.
    Congratulations to Amanda!

  167. And to think I thought the tune sounded like the theme from The Price is Right Show! Must be the acoustics.

  168. Too easy. It’s Hockey Night in Canada. I guessed it might be that before the clip downloaded (dialup!!!) and I confirmed it after hearing two notes!
    Congratulations to your lovely daughter Amanda. These moments are thrilling, and lovely, and after all a bit sad. Why do they grow up so fast?

  169. Too easy!
    Congrats on the milestones! I’m still working on “being out of diapers” “no more terrible tantrums” “no eating off the floor” and other major life events like that. Looooong way to go….

  170. Hockey Night in Canada!
    I may be born/bred in US, but my family LOVES their hockey! And I dated a Canadian once…I think that’s when I learned about it!

  171. HAHAHA! Hockey night in canada! Score! I’m Canadian, though, so I don’t think I count. I SO remember playing that in band.
    By the way, congrats on your daughter’s graduation! You must be prouder than a rooster!
    K

  172. Yay for Hockey Night in Canada! One of the little highlights of my life was when a friend let me drive a Zamboni around the rink. Not a cool as knitting, but pretty fun.

  173. Congrats to Amanda, and to you too Stephanie!
    The music is, of course, the theme to Hockey Night in Canada. I have heard it is a great way to locate other Canadians when you are overseas- just start humming and they come crawling out of the woodwork. I am happy to say that, after living up here for 27 years, I am finally making it official and becoming a Canadian citizen on Ocotber 16th.

  174. Yep, Hockey Night in Canada. Oddly, I seem to have played a variant on that theme when I was in my (American) high school’s band, way back when.

  175. Don’t the people who leave the answer in the comments understand that they just ruined the whole contest? I like to think that knitblog readers aren’t that clueless about how a blog works . . .
    I’ve never heard that tune, but it definitely is a good one, even with the “high school band in the auditorium” rendition. That’s a pretty decent HS band, as well.
    Congrats to you and Amanda, Steph. I’m glad to see such an important WIP (the HS thing) on the FO list.

  176. Ummm…the Hockey Night in Canada theme song?
    I must admit that it first sounded like the “Bonanza” theme song to me, but that just doesn’t make any sense. 🙂
    -Amy in NY

  177. Actually, I guess it’s actually called “The Hockey Theme,” isn’t it? Well, you know what I mean. 😉

  178. I was a dedicated follower of hockey for many years – Toledo (Ohio) Golddiggers to be exact, and also the Detroit Red Wings, so recognized but could not name that tune. It does put me in the spirit for a hockey game though. Good luck everyone!

  179. The Theme from Hockey Night in Canada. Guess it doesn’t count if I’m really an American who’s been living in Canada since 1971, eh?
    Congrats to Amanda. She’ll be glad she went, down the road.

  180. I’m Canadian and my husband is an American who loves hockey so when got married in the US he arranged it with the DJ that he would play the Hockey Night in Canada theme song when we walked into the reception hall for the first time as husband and wife. My Canadian family loved it. He’s the number one son-in-law now.

  181. I know everybody’s wired differently, but I think most people would have some regret some time in their lives about not walking for their diploma.
    I was so tired of my graduation (you shoulda seen the rehearsals) by the time I got there, but hearing my name and my family’s cheers and a few stolen moments in the gown-return room with people… well, some I haven’t seen since…
    I would have wondered.
    Good for you, Amanda! Both for graduating and beating back the ceremony ennui and donning the cap and gown.

  182. Would this “Hockey Night in Canada” be your equivalent to our “Are you ready for some football…” from Monday Night Football? I can only imagine the number of Americans that can sing that theme song. My husband would love to have the first notes be our doorbell!
    Happy sports seasons to everyone!

  183. I knew the answer before I saw it posted – Hockey Night in Canada.
    Even though I live in Florida we catch the hockey feeds every know in then. 🙂

  184. Hockey Night in Canada. I’ve heard snippets of it…and that’s not easy for a Southern. (Southern United States that is)

  185. “Hockey Night in Canada” – yahoo. Did they also do the monologue of “My name is Joe and I AM Canadian”?

  186. Not only do we all hum the CBCed tune (HNIC), once someone starts, any Canadian in earshot inevitably has it in their head for days.
    In an undergrad class we actually talked about this, a Canadian “moment of simultaneity”. Comforting, like the masses running when Roll Up the Rim starts…

  187. OMG, the ONE time I don’t preview my post there’s a ridiculous typo. I meant Song. (I’m so blushing!)

  188. Congratulations, Amanda. Well done — and nice of you to give your mom, dad and family the moment.
    I knew it was the Hockey Night in Canada theme song… even guessed that is what it would be before the file played… but as usual am probably too late for the entry.
    If you get a tie with American entries, ask for the freezing temperature of ice to narrow down the finalists. [Celcius of course!]

  189. Wow! The Hockey Night in Canada theme! I didn’t know schools here did that. Mine never did, and I was in the band. I feel as if I missed out now.

  190. Ah, good old Hockey Night in Canada–my kids could hum that from an early age. It’s the ringtone on my BIL’s phone and is a reason to have a case of beer in the house on Saturdays.
    I always liked The Shuffle Demon’s version.

  191. Well I was originally going to say the theme sone to Bonanza (because…well..that’s what it sounds like!) But I guess that would be wrong and it’s Hockey Night in Canada like everyone else said….because…well…they must be right.

  192. Three cheers for Amanda!
    I’m definitely showing this post to my daughter (15 on the 7th!) so she’ll have a better idea of what courses through my mind when I fret about her.

  193. Absolutely the Hockey Night in Canada theme! One major benefit of living in Detroit is the closeness of Canada…not a Saturday night goes by that I don’t tune in for some hockey and Don Cherry.

  194. Congratulations Amanda. In four years, we can look forward to another milestone, your college graduation. (No pressure here!)
    I have no idea what that song is. It sounds familiar, but then I played so many theme songs and anthems and excerpts when I was in high school band that I can’t identify anything anymore. If everyone else says it’s the theme song for Canadian hockey, that’s good enough for me. I’ll agree with them.

  195. hockey night in canada? it sounds so familiar, maybe all those years of watching the bruins play the canadian teams, i dunno. glad to hear amanda was able to fulfill her obligation. 🙂

  196. Congratulations Amanda! I skipped out on my undergrad graduation ceremony to attend a good friend’s wedding, and my mom is still bitter! I’m glad you don’t have to worry about that.
    The interweb tells me that’s the theme to Hockey Night in Canada. Awesome song for a graduation! =)

  197. Oh, gee, I almost feel bad voting. Of course it’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme, and you’re right about it’s iconic Canadian-ness.
    I cracked up within the first three notes of hearing it. Perfect.

  198. That is hilarious! I didn’t recognize it, but it’s so very Canadian that it should be the Hockey Night theme song.
    As a 3 time grad, let me tell you, the ceremony loses something after a while. Especially if you went to a large high school (667), larger college (thousands) and grad school that only had commencement once a year, months after you finished. Sitting through all those names means nothing to me any more as long as I got the diploma. But I get that it means a lot to the family.

  199. It’s a song that makes me shudder, because it means that Don Cherry can’t be far behind. Hockey Night in Canada theme music. (Pretty good for a transplanted Californian, eh?!)

  200. Way to go Amanda!! My daughter did the walk this year too and it is a great moment for a mommy.
    The music, as all good Canadians know, is the theme from Hockey night in Canada.

  201. HNiC. Too easy for a Canadian, even one who watches basketball through the winter, not hockey. You can tell Joe that he’s not the only one “a little slow on the ice”.

  202. Hockey Night in Canada!
    I’m sure others have said this, but this is going to be one hell of a sock yarn draw.
    I think one of the US stations has “Football night in America” or something like that.

  203. Apparently it is HNiC, but I have dial-up and you couldn’t prove it by me. When I hit a You Tube “play” button, I can then go about my business and for the next 20 minutes or so I get episodic bursts of sound, several seconds long, every 2 or 3 minutes. Musically speaking, an interesting artistic choice, but it lacks flow.
    In episodic bursts, your song sounds a LOT like the theme song from “Bonanza.” On the other hand, perhaps every song ever played by a high school marching band and heard in fits and starts sounds like the theme song from “Bonanza.”
    Seems likely, that.

  204. Hockey Night in Canada… hmmm… it scares me slightly that there is even a song named that. At first I thought it was Magnificent 7. The only Canadian song we ever played in high school band was Oh Canada for the UWEC hockey games.

  205. The Hockey night in Canada theme – since I live in the Detroit area I get to watch Canadian TV!
    Air Farce is on tonight – live!

  206. Hockey Night in Canada theme song… takes me right back to my grandparents kitchen, where we made pizza with the Kraft pizza mix, with hot dogs on it 🙂

  207. Congratulations Amanda! She didn’t look too unhappy to be there.
    The music – well everyone has said it “Hockey Night in Canada”, but whether or not that is the correct title – who knows? It will always be known as that.
    Greetings from a snowy and very windy Yellowknife.

  208. I din’t know the song, but your high school auditorium is eerily similar to my high school auditorium here in Pittsburgh!

  209. Hockey Night in Canada. I loved playing that song in The Saskatoon Community Band a while ago. (a 50 something knitting mother of 5 playing in a band? Yup.. and lovin it.) Sure hope I win the sock yarn. I have 4 sons I knit socks for.

  210. Duh……when I scanned over the little video screens underneath the one you submitted it said “Theme from Hockey Night in Canada”……..ummmm..is that cheating ?…..I might have guessed it I hadn’t read it first. Btw, thanks for giving me a good laugh at least once a day. Irene in Wpg.

  211. Good Girl!
    contest: hockey night/ canada…i WAS a big Oilers fan in the lovely 80’s. I’m not quite giving away my age…. i was a “wee” tot don’t cha know.

  212. Of course! Hockey Night in Canada! (and I’m American!) My father used to watch that when I was a kid, and my sister and I used to watch along with him.
    I guess I could knit a scarf out of sock yarn …if I win …

  213. I was a Rangers fan. They broke my heart too many times. I don’t pay attention any longer.

  214. Hockey Night in Canada. Easy peasy lemon squeezie. Gives me the shivers!
    Congrats to Amanda! I got the same routine from my parents at graduation… I tried to leave the country before the ceremony but they were having none of it.

  215. Yeah, that’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme. Took about three notes before I could name it…would have taken less if I’d turned up the sound on my computer. Ta Da!!

  216. This is by far the MOST canadian song ever!!! Thank goodness for Hockey Night in Canada and it’s theme!!!!!!!!!!!

  217. Hockey Night in Canada! In upstate NY we get Canadian TV. Unfair advantage? Maybe. But when I moved up here from the DC area, I found it was one of the delights of the move. This is a different part of the world.
    Congrats on the graduation. Milestones ARE important.

  218. OK, I had to cheat and ask my hubby, so I guess if you draw my/his name, he gets the sock yarn. Maybe then I can teach him to knit. Yeah, that’ll happen. Anyway, he says it’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme song, aka the Second National Anthem of Canada. He says he could see Don Cherry’s LOUD blazer as he was listening to the theme. I’m thinking he means loud in a complimentary way. No, he doesn’t, he just said. Did I mention he was born and raised in the second hockey capital of the world, Tampa, FL, home of the Tampa Bay Lightning? Don’t hold that against us. It’s not his fault.
    Side note, did I tell you that my socks took the second place ribbon in that fair? First in the county, but second in the state. Still cool though.

  219. The other things about the Hockey Night in Canada theme song are that it was written by a woman, and it is the perfect antidote to having an annoying song stuck in your head. Just hum it and the annoying song is wiped out for good.
    Oh, and congratulations!

  220. It’s The Hockey Theme, by Dolores Claman!
    It’s always made me cringe, cause I know TV pickings will be scarce – some Canadian huh!

  221. “Hockey Night in Canada” LOL A several years ago when our local hockey team had more Canadians than Americans, after both National Anthems were played, they played this song too, (I had to ask back then) Guess it made those boys feel more at home while they were here in Illinois! 🙂

  222. CONGRATULATIONS to Amanda! I haven’t got a clue about song, but it sounds like some Big 10 college football fight song! I’m sure it’s much lovelier than that. :o)

  223. “hockey night in canada”
    And Happy High School Graduation. I know what you mean about those milestones. I was amused the other day by my 12 year old daughter commenting on how cute a boy in her school is and when I heard his name I thought “Spencer? You used to bite him in the playgroup we were in when you were 2”? Ack.

  224. ha! hockey night in canada! i’m american and i can hum it! which with as much hockey that is on in my household during hockey season (year three of the NHL center ice package), it would be weird not to be able to! LOL

  225. I was waffling between the Bonanza song and the HNIC song, glad I wasn’t the only one! Are we sure they didn’t use the same music?

  226. Bwahahah! I can’t believe they were playing the theme for “Hockey Night in Canada”. Being a good Canuck, I recognized it right away.
    From the cryptic description, I was expecting something more obscure, like “Big Joe Mufferaw”.

  227. Honest, I guessed it was the “Hockey Night in Canada” themesong before I looked at the other comments. Not that I’ve ever heard the tune before, but I figured it was logical, not least because of how amused I’ve been at NBC’s recent attempts to create an equally iconic “Football Night in America.”

  228. I cheated, I called my sister-in-law who grew up in Newfoundland. She listened and said it is Hockey Night in Canada. I then came to post a comment and saw that many other’s had posted before me. Oh well, I tried and I am 100% American with a 1/2 Canadian Nephew. I know you are on Ravelry. I am too and I have your picture on my profile, taken in Lexington, KY this spring. I hope you don’t mind. It is one of my “proud” moments.

  229. my mom was on HNiC once, in one of the clips Don Cherry showed….(we’re from Detroit)

  230. As soon as I started listening, I thought Hockey Night in Canada. Then I immediately doubted myself and thought maybe, but isn’t it also the theme song of some American tv show where they ride horses and live in cabins…so much for self doubt. I bet there is some history to this song…

  231. Just curious – why is HS graduation in October? Is this a dumb question? Congrats all around, however!

  232. Ah, yes. “High School Band Cacophony” I remember playing that song myself.
    Congratulations to you and to Amanda.

  233. The song, I didn’t recognize. Guess I don’t watch enough (any?) hockey.
    But am I the only one who is curious as to why graduation is in October and not in May or June? Is that a Canadian thing?

  234. Congratulations, Amanda!
    I’m joining the chorus of ignorant Americans who are confused about commencement ceremonies in October.

  235. Congrats, Steph. Well Done – oh, and you, too, Amanda.
    Hockey Night in Canada – but, of course. Did you think they would be playing the Monday Night Football song…”Are you ready for some football?!”
    Of course not!

  236. well, I am an american in japan….and when I fly, I use the Vancouver airport… I can read (300 comments!!!) so I know now that the clip is the music from Hockey Night in Canada!!!!!
    in Washington state, I would have expected the song to be Louie Louie or Tequila….
    congratulations Amanda…

  237. Ya hav’ta be kiddin’ me…
    The theme to “Bonanza” (or maybe it was “Big Valley”)
    All I know is my mother had those shows on every Saturday afternoon as we did household chores and one followed the other…
    I think she turned them on because those shows bored the tears outta us and we slipped off into coma-like naps every Saturday. (She’s a smart woman)

  238. While I couldn’t “Name that Tune”, I did the best that I am equipped to do, which is “Recognize that Chorus”. I now know, too, that it is Hockey Night in Canada, but only because other commentators told me. Oh well!

  239. wow* i’m not sure what the name of the song is , but i know where i heard it in my younger years. …i just email you and wish me luck.
    congrats to you and Amanda.

  240. Still another wondering about the October commencement… Maybe if there are enough of us, you’ll see if this far down in the comments?
    Also, with reference to the “Are you ready for some football?” US answer to that, I”m just not sure I could see the football song played at the graduation ceremonies!

  241. My husband and I were trying to figure out which Western movie/TV show it was the theme song to when, at the end, a thumbnail came up and told us what the answer was 😉

  242. Hoo-boy that brought a tear to my eye. From fits of laughter!
    I read the post, watched the video, after about 2 seconds or so declared to myself that it was the Hockey Night in Canada theme.
    THEN… I read a few comments! LOL oh boy, Bonanza! That’s a good one!
    Funny, funny people out there! (sorry but it DID say CANADA’s most iconic song)
    was I supposed to e-mail? sorry about that!

  243. Well, after reading the first couple of comments, I know the truth, but for a few moments there I could’ve sworn everyone was going to burst out in “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner.”

  244. Hockey Night in Canada – and hockey is the coolest sport in the world because you get to skate and chase balls, I mean pucks, and don’t let me win because I already have more sock yarn than most small countries.
    And hurrah for Amanda!

  245. Hockey night in Canada. We have hockey in the states too. My daughter loves to go to watch the fights that break out and that’s the onesamong the fans!

  246. Okay, the October commencement thing: I can’t speak for every part of Canada, but at least in southern Ontario, the high school celebration ceremony is often in October. This is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, so lots of kids are coming home from university for the long weekend. So instead of having a big graduation thing at the end of June, when school ends, it’s at Thanksgiving. It gives kids a chance to see each other again, compare how they’re doing during this new phase of their lives, and impress everyone with how those first few weeks of university (or whatever) have changed them.

  247. CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada!! THAT is Canada’s tune – we all know that even if we don’t follow hockey. If I win please redraw – an American knitter deserves this prize. Too easy for us Canadians. Congrats Amanda!! It is a big deal (at least for us parents).

  248. The Hockey Night in Canada theme! It is too an iconic Canadian song – one of my friends even has it as his ringtone. 🙂

  249. Hey that’s “The Hockey Theme” (written in 1968 by Dolores Claman and has been referred to as Canada’s second national anthem according to Wikipedia).
    Congrats on the graduation!

  250. It’s the “Hockey Night in Canada Theme” according to the YouTube title. Congratulations all around on a fine accomplishment! It truly is a time to celebrate:~D
    Lana
    Springfield, Missouri USA

  251. Amanda, thanks for making your mum happy and doing the grad ceremony. Wish I could hug you again; I liked the one I got over the summer.
    Instead of griping about kids who skip milestones, now we can hear about how she’s cast on a million new things and lost interest in all of them and can’t find the last skein of yarn for the mystery stole and she’s not sure there will be enough fleece to finish the gansey and Kauni has to be ripped back again and the squirrel’s back and she doesn’t know what to do. More entertaining.

  252. I thought it was saturday for a minute, you had recorded the theme to Hockey night in canada!!!! good childhood memories!!!!
    Congrats to both you and your daughter on the milestone!!!!

  253. Hockey Night in Canada! Go Penguins! Ok, that’s an american team, but they play in Toronto on the 13th so I’ll hear it again then

  254. its the hockey night in canada theme song…I live right on the border and have listened to it many times

  255. Oh dear, the theme song for Hockey Night in Canada. That has to be the BEST graduation theme song ever. Also, do I still get the bonus points for knowing that, even if I lived in Canada for a period of time?
    Best of luck to Amanda. Steph, you can now tell yourself that you have one down and only two to go.

  256. I didn’t know the song, but apparently it’s the theme from Hockey Night in Canada. Funny. You know, for a high school band, they weren’t all that bad. Nice.
    Special congrats to Amanda (and to you, dear Harlot. She’s a tribute to your parenting skills)!

  257. I have no idea about the song, but congratulations, Amanda! Believe it or not, this is a milestone that you will someday remember fondly. Where I teach, many members of the graduating class are first-generation high school graduates, and watching what it means to them and to their families is a real thrill. For my own children, it was just a step on the way to somewhere else. May your future be bright!

  258. Hockey Night In Canada theme song of course. I’ve heard it all too often in this household, from October until May. My son just asked me to turn the computer down as it was playing because Royal Canadian Air Farce was on, how Canadian are we?

  259. was there anyone who did not get this one?
    Hockey Night in Canada, did anyone here not grow up listening to this every Saturday night during the winter?

  260. The song is Hockey Night in Canada, which I believe was also the theme song for ‘Bonanza’…eh? Okay, bad American humor, bad Southern Indiana American humor.
    Congratulations Amanda…well done…WELL DONE!!
    diana

  261. Hockey Night in Canada theme, of course.
    I did know it, being Canadian, but by this point in the comments you could actually just look at what previous Canadians wrote!

  262. Hockey Night in Canada! 🙂 I’m an Amurrikin but I lived in Buffalo for 4 years, so maybe I don’t count. Bruce (husband) just walked in and heard it, and he knew what it was right away too. He’s salivating for cable now. Thanks a lot! He’s a bit of a hockey fan who reads about it more than he watches at this point in our lives.
    Congratulations, Amanda!

  263. Hockey Night in Canada theme song!! I actually have friends who are considering entering their wedding reception with this playing in the background….wild!

  264. What a beautiful young woman you are .. AMANDA!! but of course you have a great role model…
    YouTube’s sound leaves much to be desired .. but .. that’s Hocky Night in Canada theme song … been hearing it for decades!!! even before the flag was around….

  265. Congratulations, Amanda & family! 😉
    I can completely relate to the feeling that it’s YOUR moment too — I’ve been repeating myself since this past May, “She’s done! They let her graduate and she’ll never have to do high school again!”

  266. It’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme song! Finished projects are something to be proud of – no matter where you live!
    Congratulations to both of you!
    P.S I am an American (double points for me) with strong Canadian ties!

  267. Well, I’m surely WAY LATE, but I knew right away it is the theme from Hockey Night in Canada! One of the things that says “autumn” for me is the beginning of hockey season (I’m a Red Wing fan)!

  268. First time posting a comment, but I just had to say thanks for the memories. I watched a lot of hockey growing up in NB. Now I’m a transplanted Canadian in Mississippi.

  269. Good grief, I hadn’t realized how much that song has infiltrated the Canadian psyche…my DBF is sitting beside me, and although I don’t think he’s ever watched a hockey game in his life, asked me why Hockey Night in Canada was playing from my laptop. I nearly spit my tea across the screen!

  270. Why, it’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme! Before I heard the clip, I wondered if it was going to be something by the Irish Rovers or the theme song to The Beachcombers(now THAT’s something that only Canadians, and Canadians of a “certain age”, know about)….

  271. is there any point in emailing that that was the hockey night in canada theme song since you have 300 comments saying it is? geez.. we canadians, huh?

  272. MaryB is right – it is totally the Hockey Night in Canada theme. I was wondering why the theme song to “Ponderosa” or “Bonanza” would be iconic for Canadians (my first guesses, I’m afraid). This makes much more sense.
    From one who grew up on the border of New Brunswick and got the CBC (in English) and CTV…

  273. P.P.S. I love that Cat Bordhi played, too!
    Cat – shhh, don’t tell Stephanie, but I prefer knitting socks with two circulars!

  274. Yeah, Hockey Night in Canada!! AND I’m an American, and I knew it before reading the 300 comments. Maybe I’m a spiritual Canadian? Also, not that it’s worth anything at all, I have a young friend playing in the BCHL!

  275. Congratulations … she looks happy, and you must be proud/pleased/releved/a little sad!?!
    What High school band doesn’t know the Hockey Night in Canda theme song — its a freaking institution up here! I remember growing up, we only got 2 channels on the tv (rural life!) … the CBC and CTV, out of Halifax. Every Saturday night, at 9 p.m. Atalntic time, “Dum Dum DUm dum dum, dum dum DUM Dum, Dum Dum DUM dum dum … DUm dahdahdahdahDAH, ” and I could go on humming, but we Candians know the tune. It was also cool to go to choir practice at the church before the organist came and play it on her organ … you just brought back a lot of fun memories, Stephanie!

  276. I’m not sure if that song as an “official” name, but I believe that is the theme song from “Hockey Night in Canada”. Not bad,eh, for someone who doesn’t know too much about hockey. (Yes, I am Canadian.)
    One of my fondest memories is watching my hockey loving aunt watching hockey. It was hard to not watch her when the coffee table went carreening into the air when the Maple Leafs got a goal!
    Congratulations on your daughter’s achievement!

  277. Hee hee!! As a fellow Canadian and a hockey mom, I knew it right away…Hockey Night in Canada! (With Don Cherry and the CBC!)
    Congrats, Amanda!!

  278. Hockey Night in Canada! And I’m part Canadian. And I attended my high school graduation, too. 🙂 There were only 22 of us that year, and only 11 of us showed up for the ceremony…

  279. It’s the hockey night theme from CBC and here from Radio-Canada ( it’s the same in french). Maelenn from Lavaltrie (near Montreal)

  280. Ah, Hockey Night in Canada! When I was a kid in the suburbs of Detroit, we could get Canadian TV from Windsor (this was before cable TV). My dad and brother are hockey fanatics, hence the memories.

  281. Hockey Night In Canada! Congratulations to both of you for reaching such an important milestone. Your daughters are very lucky to have such a wonderful role model as a mother.

  282. Hockey Night in Canada! Congratulations on finishing the book. For a person who usually only uses the library, I will actually be buying your book. My daughter and I can’t wait to read it.

  283. Hockey Night in Canada! Which I think is starting tonight….well here it is.
    That’s awesome that they played that at the commencement.
    Congratulations to you and Amanda.
    I LOVE the way you measure milestones Stephanie. One more girl to go and you will have raised not a single High School Dropout!

  284. Congratulations to Amanda, and to you and your husband as well! What a great accomplishment!
    Not sure if I’m too late now that you already have well over 300 comments, but “Hockey Night in Canada” is the song, right?

  285. Hockey Theme written in 1968 by Dolores Claman.
    aka Hockey Night in Canada.
    Nothing says Canada like a high school band banging that out with glee! I hope I win something. I’m an American living in Canada does that count?

  286. HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA!!! As soon as I heard it, I started humming along and then yelled the name out (my husband may think I’m crazy!!)

  287. I can’t believe you guys had the theme from Hockey Night in Canada at the graduation party. Perhaps I don’t understand Canada as well as I thought or at least appreciate their love of hockey that well.

  288. Ah, Hockey Night in Canada. My best friend in high school played this in her cadet band – it was pretty incredible to hear this group of kids all decked out in their naval uniforms playing this song.

  289. Yay! HNIC is a great song…. it makes me want to go to the rink! I always thank my Canadian neighbors for getting me into the sport!

  290. well, of course every canadian knows that tune! even if you think you don’t know it, you do! it lurks in the recesses of the brain of anyone living this side of the world’s longest undefended border. it’s the theme music to HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA with your hosts the long suffering Ron Maclean and the sartorially-challenged Don Cherry!

  291. Dude? You sure do know how to come up with the best comment bombs.
    It’s the Hockey Night in Canada Theme. And I think some non-Canuck *who didn’t use their google-fu or wave a wiki around* ought to win the prize. Or maybe me. I’m good either way.

  292. Totally “Hockey Night in Canada” on the CBC (you can’t say on CBC, it has to be on The CBC) didn’t even have to hear the second bar.

  293. Congratulations to Amanda, by the by!
    It’s always great when the kids exceed the lowest standards and make you look good.

  294. I never watch any sports on TV (except for UNC basketball) but I went to the Utube video and googled Hockey Night in Canada thinking that that was just the title of the video. I know- -very unsportsmanlike but what’s a hockey impaired Yank to do? So apparently either the Hockey Theme or HNIC theme is acceptable, eh?

  295. I knew within moments.
    Hockey night in Canada!
    Duh.. (and I don’t watch much hockey.. yeah boo hiss 😉 I prefer to watch lacrosse or curling)

  296. Hockey Night in Canada! I’m not even a hockey fan, I think I just remember it by osmosis. Why on earth would the band play that at a commencement? Way to go Amanda!!

  297. ps. I left my answer in the comments because how else do we contact you? ESP? Trained squirrel?

  298. Congratulations Amanda!! I just graduated this year as well, although I was homeschooled. :-)I do have this one question: is it normal in Canada for graduation/commencement ceremonies to be in October? Here in the US it seems like they are almost all in June; mine was!

  299. Hearty congratulations to Amanda — and her parents! A happy milestone. Out of curiosity, why is h.s. graduation held in September when many are probably away at school or,if going locally, are very busy with college?

  300. ****Hockey Night in Canada ****
    A hearty congratulations to Amanda and her Mum,
    along with best wishes for the future!

  301. yay! Hockey Night in Canada! I heard a Canadian friend of mine humming that this morning and I asked her what it was…how funny…I love that the band played that at graduation….
    Congrats Amanda, welcome to the land of “what do I do now?”

  302. Bristol board?? This Louisiana girl is baffled by that one. I tried to read through comments to see if anyone else was mystified but apparently it just puzzles me…maybe I haven’t been reading long enough. Someone please explain……….
    And congrats on the family milestone; graduations are a real tribute to a family accomplishment as well as recognition of the hard work of our students on their journeys to adulthood.

  303. Ooh, that one’s easy – I live in Buffalo, so we get CBC, and my boyfriend is a hockey fanatic! (I even took a picture for him of the huge posters of Don Cherry in the CBC building windows last time I was in TO.) Hockey Night in Canada is great. =)

  304. Congrats to your daughter!
    The song is
    “Hockey Night in Canada Theme” aka “Canada’s Second National Anthem”
    I from Eau Claire, WI – the city with the piped in music…..

  305. It’s Hockey Night in Canada Theme!!! I love hockey!!! <<33 I knit while I watch the Pens… 🙂

  306. It’s Hockey Night in Canada. Because YouTube said so, and because a gazillion Canadian YH fans agree.
    I’m a native of Manhattan. Can’t get more NY than that – NY City, NY County (that’s Manhattan), NY State. But, if you draw my name, I’ll feel like I cheated, so please don’t.
    dee near Berkeley

  307. So, is the Hockey Night in Canada theme song analgous to the ESPN theme or the Monday Night Football theme here stateside? Either way, congrats on having your grad make it this far and starting off on a new bright future!

  308. It’s Hockey Night in Canada. I have heard this forever! Congrats to Amanda and a bit pat on the back to Joe and Stephanie. This is indeed a milestone.
    Nita

  309. Hey, it’s the “Hockey Night in Canada” theme! (I knew that even before reading the 400 or so comments above, and before seeing the YouTube title.) It was composed by a woman, no less; who also co-wrote “A Place to Stand (Ontari-ari-ario)”. Boy does that bring back memories!

  310. I remember the only high school dance I went to (small alternative school with 10% of students adults) and the ice breaker came after a LOOOONG 1 1/2 when the dj played Stompin Tom’s Good Ol Hockey Game . 30 Students once standing around awkwardly or playing cards singing along and knowing every sigle word, In cluding me and I could have sworn I never heard it before…

  311. That would be the Hockey Night In Canada Theme as written in 1968 by Dolores Claman.
    Thanks for the post!

  312. Hockey Night in Canada! Even those of us who grew up loathing the game (only left the t.v. on until Mum and Dad left for square dancing- no cable- only other thing on was Don Messer’s Jubilee followed by Tommy Hunter) can ID the song.
    I graduated my younger son in June. Heavy sigh of relief, and he has all of a sudden grown up. Doesn’t even yell at me when I get him up for work at 6 in the morning. Your milestones made me feel like I wasn’t as concerned, or maybe the glass was a little more on the half full side. You really looked at the worst case scenario, didn’t you? I’m sure that Amanda was never a serious risk for half what you imagined!

  313. Hockey Night in Canada.
    Although it sounded like a bastardized cross-dressing version of “Bonanza” and “The Big Valley” with a little “Shane” thrown in for some hot saddle action.

  314. Congrats Amanda!
    I am a teacher in Saskatchewan, and we have our grad ceremony in May or June. I didn’t know some schools still had theirs in the fall. Cool.
    Growing up with a dad who was a major Habs fan, and now married to another Habs fan, I know that song so well, I hear it constantly this time of year, and it brings back so many memories. Hockey Night in Canada! Yeah!

  315. It’s Hockey Night in Canada!
    My Canadian friends and I are known to torment our American buddies by singing it (“dah dah dah dah daaahhh, dah dah dah dah da-daaahh” etc.) … loudly … at the slightest provocation. Like when one of them refers to our national bird as the beaver …

  316. I have no idea of what the song is, but I think it sounds like music to a 1970s crime show. Or sit com. Or one hour drama. Can you tell I never got the music lessons I really wanted?

  317. Congratulations from one Amanda to another!!!!!!
    (And congrats on to Steph as well for raising a daughter to graduation age without selling her on ebay…)
    Manda

  318. Congrats to Stephanie and Amanda! I felt the same way when my son graduated. The joke was that it was his first diploma and my second.
    So curiosity piqued, I had to listen to Amanda’s band and see what the song the band was playing. Oh my God! I haven’t heard that since I moved from my hometown and couldn’t get CBC anymore. I started listening to the music and said “I know that!!” Within a few bars I was humming along with it too LOL! What is that song…..That was on TV….. It was a TV show….. with hockey players! I know what it is! What a riot! Hockey Night in Canada indeed. Ok, now we just need the Friendly Giant and I will have a serious childhood flashback. My hometown is 30 miles from the US/Canadian border. We only had 3 or 4 TV channels for a long time and the CBC was one of them. We always have long cold winters so hockey and skating were the winter sports. You hadn’t really dated until you dated a hockey player. Also, it was mandatory that everyone learn to do a hockey stop, even if you had figure skates, which is very, very tricky. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Now if only I found a recipe for real butter tarts!

  319. you never cease to amaze me. not only are you an amazing knitter, hilarius writer, but you are a great mother and all around Wonder Woman. Your daughters and granddaughters will immortalize someday- you’ll just have to wait–now go knit something, or touch some yarn!

  320. I always get a kick out of reading your blog. Today was no exception, the HNIC theme song always makes me nostalgic for my highschool band – especially now that I am living abroad.
    Congratulations to Amanda for making it through highschool!

  321. For those wondering about bristol board – it’s what’s called poster board in the States – you know, the oversized sheets of shiny white cardboard that kids only need at 9:00 on the night before the project is due.

  322. CBC’s Hockey night in Canada! My son-in-law says that I have to support the Senators (I’m in Ottawa).
    Congratulations, Amanda! A high school diploma is a good thing to have as you start a lifetime of new experiences. Things you learned there are the foundation for what comes after.
    Harlot, I understand the significance of seeing your daughter reach all the milestone ages without becoming a teen mother, drug addict or other statistic along the way. I’m thrilled that mine has reached the ripe old age of 26, settled into a good relationship and job, and looks like she’ll make 30 without a catastrophe or criminal record. 🙂
    Thanks for sharing your joy!

  323. Hockey Night In Canada. I remember that theme from being forced to watch hockey when my uncles came over back in the 70’s. Hold on! I’m no hockey hater! No one explained to me HOW to watch hockey until I married my Montrealer husband. Now? I scream at the players on tv more than he does.

  324. I laughed when the music played… Of Course the theme song from Hockey Night in Canada! Even though I have absolutely no interest in hockey and left the room when Dad watched the games and I can hum the song!
    Congratulations on raising a highschool graduate and congratulations Amanda for persevering.

  325. Duh!! It’s the theme for Hockey Night in Canada! Americans really don’t think we know that one?
    Belated Congrats, Amanda. Enjoy College!

  326. All Hockey Night in Canada, all the time…
    congratulations to Amanda and you, for getting through it all and coming out on the other side – gives me hope for what will (hopefully) come in another 5 – 6 years or so…

  327. I may be an American, but living 6 miles from the border, we get Canadian television, and having a brother who watched hockey all my growing up years, I’ve heard the song a time or two. It’s the theme song for Hockey Night in Canada.
    And congratulations to Amanda and to you. My daughter will be 20 in December and that means she’s skated through her teens and escaped all those not so good milestones, so I understand your relief. It’s not easy being a parent.

  328. Congrats to your daughter. One thing for sure you can never take away an education. I recognized that theme right away living close to the border.Hockey Night in Canada is a Saturday night favaorite progaram in my house.

  329. How wonderful for me to hear that tune! I’m a homesick Canadian who’s been living in the midwestern USA for close to ten years now. I really miss Hockey Night in Canada and many other things that can only be found in Canada! (butter tarts) Thank you for making my day for the umpteenth time!
    Congrats to Amanda.
    Cheers

  330. Hah! I knew it! I first read your blog yesterday at work — where there are no speakers — and wondered if it were true. And it is: the Hockey Night in Canada theme! Go Flames Go! and Bravo, Amanda. As a mother approaching yet another set of graduations (M.Ed for DD, 26, and BFA (Drama) for DS, 22), my mamma’s heart joins yours in Pride for Kids’ Accomplishments!

  331. Why, that’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme. (Thank you for putting the title up on YouTube, it showed up when I hit Replay.) I did go to hockey games when I was in college, does that count? Even though I am an American.
    Congrats to Amanda!

  332. I have never, ever watched an entire hockey game (yes, I am Canadian, yes I still live here, no I don’t drink beer either. Sorry. Haha, apparently I do appologize though!) and even I know that one – the Hockey Night in Canada theme!

  333. Hockey Night in Canada! My soundtrack to some uninterrupted knitting time while my fiance watches the game!

  334. Congrats Amanda…and Steph. Another big milestone under your belts!
    The theme song…Hockey Night in Canada. I’m a 2nd generation American of French Canadian descent. Not knowing that would be like cheering on the Yankees around my Boston relatives! 😛

  335. One day this summer, the XM Home Ice channel was talking about HNIC and possible changes to the show. Many, many people called in and said how they loved the music, and talked about the memories of that music, and how it could not possibly be changed. It’s great music, but now I realize how much it is a part of Canadian culture! Thanks for a glimpse of your life. (I had an 18 year old graduate last spring – I know what you mean about milestones!)

  336. 1) NO idea what that song is (though bands in Canada sound a little better than the HS bands I’ve heard here); 2) Can’t *imagine* that you’ll read down this far, I’m something over #440; 3) i’m SO glad to see you have the polished Jewish-Mother-Guilt-Trip down (clearly, you don’t have to be Jewish…nor even a mother OR female…to perfect it – I hear Irish cops have it down, too); 4) Now I can go back and read the other 440 comments. Whew!

  337. Hockey Night In Canada of course. I almost split my sides laughing. Congratulations Amanda (and Stephanie). My daughter’s name is Amanda too.

  338. Sorry that I missed you when you were in Houston/Spring. I would have loved to been knitting with you. I did not get the info until I read the paper this morning.
    Ruth

  339. I think Amanda should have had the right to not go to her graduation. A graduation ceremony isn’t what’s important–it’s the meeting the graduation requirements and getting your diploma (in the mail if you wish). Celebrate her accomplishments, not her docility.
    My note to Amanda–okay, you’ve done this one. Don’t feel forced to go to your college graduation or have a big wedding because someone else wants you to. You have the right to decide what’s right for you.
    Stephanie, be proud and supportive of Amanda. Choose your battles wisely and only fight the ones that will have mattered five years down the road.

  340. Hockey Night in Canada, and for the record, I think they played that at my commencement a few years ago (at a completely different highschool) I should as the kids who graduated this year what they played…
    Congrats to Amanda, in the words of the guy I dragged along to my commencement, “you’re a real woman now.” I guess it’s because you’ve experienced the last stupid the the TDSB can throw at you, graduation three months after you’ve finished school and forcing you to see all those people you hoped to never ever have to spend time with. Welcome to the real world!

  341. Of course it’s “Hockey Night in Canada”!! Go NY Rangers!! Congrats, to Amanda and the proud and deserving mom!!

  342. That would be the Hockey Night in Canada theme song, which is heard quite frequently in my house.
    I don’t enjoy hockey, but I do enjoy having my feet rubbed by my husband while the game is on!

  343. Do I get extra points because a) I live in Texas, b) I live in SOUTH Texas, and c) I knew it even before I played the clip? 🙂 Hockey Night in Canada! One of many reasons I wish I could get Canadian hockey broadcasts down here instead of the US ones that get pre-empted by baseball and basketball.

  344. Hurrah for Amanda!! It’s always nice to have a night of pomp and guffooferah to look back on. I think the song is Hockey Night in Canada, and I’m also an American, a Missourian no less. Congratulations again!!

  345. The song is the “Second” Canadian National Anthem, the NHL theme song. As a Canadian Expat. I brussled with pride to hear it played by the band. 😉 The only thing that could have made it better is if Ron McLean was the MC for the night. 😉
    Félicitations Amanda!

  346. La soirée du hockey!! Hockey Night!!! I luvv that song. BTW, HABS v.s. MAPLE LEAFS tonight!!!! Habs is gonna win win win ! Go habs Go!!
    Congrats to Amanda!

  347. Hockey Night in Canada theme song, of course. Do they really play that at commencements and weddings? That’s so asking for a brawl.

  348. Congratulations Amanda! And Hockey Night in Canada….I could be on a desert island for twenty years, but I’d know that theme as soon as I heard it!

  349. Ha! I figured it would be the Hockey Night in Canada theme song before I even played it. A couple of guys were humming it on the radio yesterday saying how they should hum it for a ring tone to sell for cell phones.
    Congratulations Amanda! Another of life’s milestones completed. 🙂

  350. Never would have guessed the hockey night thing, but it’s comforting to know that even in Canada all school bands sound the same. So this yank has to ask…why are you folks having commencement in October? Shouldn’t it have been last spring? I’m confused – and what about the kids that went far away to college? Did they all have to come back for commencement? That just seems wrong.

  351. Oh wow, that’s Hockey Night in Canada – and I’m an American.
    I love that song. I even made up words to it:
    The hockey game’s on now
    We’ll get to see what Don’s wearing!
    It’s a work in progress.

  352. As a mom, I so understand that feeling of relief when your children graduate. At my children’s high school, they have a lovely part of the ceremony where the graduates stand up and applaud their parents for all of their help. The kids are on the gym floor and we’re in the bleachers, so they turn to each side as they applaud. We all know it’s coming, but there still isn’t a dry eye in the place, including the dads.
    Congratulations to Amanda and her parents.

  353. Well I guess I make a lousy Canadian, then. Here I am, been in the country 12 years, newly resident in Toronto, perhaps living only minutes from you, and I hadn’t a clue.
    My husband on the other hand (and he’s an American, I kid you not), looked up from the other side of the table and said “What on earth are you playing? That sounds like somebody’s school orchestra trying to play ‘Hockey Night in Canada'”.
    If that qualifies, and he wins some yarn, you’ll *hear* me laughing all the way over at your house, I swear it.

  354. What do you mean, it’s the “Hockey Night In Canada” theme? I thought every night was hockey night in Canada? I could tell it was someone’s theme music, and for a minute there it started to sound like Star Wars music.
    And I thought the band sounded pretty good, by the way.
    Congratulations to Amanda and her family – I love your view of all those milestones. I have a 17 year old here myself – so far, no drivers’ license and we are looking at colleges. Scary stuff.
    I have to say – it is a little unusual to have commencement the following September. I am sure there is a valid and clever explanation for this; I just can’t imagine what it might be.
    Knit on – can’t wait to see your Swan Lake!

  355. I know Canadians have Thanksgiving in October and have something like the 4th of July on July 1st (or did I make that up?) But how and why do you hold high school graduation in October, if you are in college already?

  356. Wow, Hockey night in Canada. I remember watching TONS of hockey with my Dad. We lived in Buffalo and rooted for the Sabres but we all secretly admired the Maple Leafs and Canadians. My, that brings back some good memories 🙂

  357. The song may be HNIC, but Dolores Claman wrote it in 1968 and the Magnificent Seven was filmed in 1960 – it sounds like she could have been influenced by this film’s theme.

  358. Well, I swear I didn’t cheat, and my equally-non-hockey loving brother also got it right. The theme from Hockey Night in Canada.
    (But in Alberta we kind of think that Four Strong Winds is the most Canadian song. Or maybe One Warm Line by the late and sorely missed Stan Rogers.)

  359. That is an easy one. Hockey Night in Canada. Congratulations Amanda! She has such a proud mommy!

  360. Also an American, I’m gonna go with “Hockey Night in Canada” theme. Until today, though, I had no idea it was considered Canada’s second national anthem.
    Any chance of a butter tart accompanying the socks if one of us here in the states wins the drawing?

  361. Woohoo! Hockey Night in Canada!!!
    That was my cell phone ringtone for a while – the problem is that it starts off kinda quiet so it had to go for quite a while before I heard it. 🙂

  362. Congratulations to both of you!!!
    Regarding the melody…I had no clue. After reading the entries I realized why. I grew up in sunny Guatemala…no ice hockey 🙁

  363. I should lose my US pop-culture citizenship AND never be allowed into Canada for thinking Stephanie had actually posted the theme song to Bonanza.
    So yeah, Hockey Night Canada, not Bonanza. Dur.

  364. I live in Louisiana, and even I know that’s the hockey tune!
    But, I didn’t know it was offically, “Hockey Night in Canada.” Just “the hockey tune.”
    Congrats, Amanda. Sure, you want to get on with life, and starting college means you’re not a kid anymore … but? Going to that tedious high-school graduation ceremony and getting the diploma so your Mum can see and get all puddle-eyed … that was a very grown-up thing to do.
    I won’t chime in on the comments “that you will look back on this fondly one day.” You may, and you may not. But your Mum always will. Thanks for making her happy, and best of luck to you in all your future endeavors.

  365. Ah, Kathy at 7:06 — “Four Strong Winds.” I still remember the opening ceremonies of the Calgary Olympics (does YouTube have them?) with mega-star singer after singer, all Canadian, and the roar when Ian and Sylvia got to “Think I’ll go out to Alberta…”

  366. How could I NOT recognize the theme music from Hockey Night In Canada? CFCF from Montreal was one of the 4 English speaking TV stations we got in upstate NY, specifically Peru, when I was growing up. Go Habs!

  367. Hockey Night in Canada is the song! How many years have I listened to that. Best wishes Amanda, you’ve done well
    Pat
    in rainy Port Coquitlam, BC

  368. First……….congrats to Amanda (and her parents)on a job well done. The song……the theme to “Hockey Night in Canada” , my favourite sport!, played as only a high school band can! ….. 🙂 Gail in Surrey

  369. That’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme song – and, as far as I’m concerned, our real national anthem.
    Congratulations to Amanda!

  370. It’s the Hockey Night In Canada theme-I remember picking the notes out on the piano at the ripe old age of 5 in the late ’70’s!! My Dad was so proud!!
    Congrats to Amanda!

  371. I’m late to the party but it’s the theme song to “Hockey Night in Canada”. Congratulations Amanda! You made your mom very proud.

  372. Please don’t revoke my partial Canadianity! I ‘recognized’ the song in that I remember hearing it before, but couldn’t name it…None of my Canadian relatives are bigtime hockey fans…*blushes in shame* My aunt LOVES the Blue Jays though…

  373. Hockey Night In Canada theme song. Give yourself a pat on the back for having gotten a child through school in one piece 🙂 and congrats to her as well

  374. Ah, the Hockey Night in Canada theme song! Even when it’s bad, it’s good. Congrats to your baby 🙂

  375. i recognized the song 10 notes in, and sent off my entry email to steph. then i looked at the comments, and realized that everyone has already given away the answer! kinda defeats the purpose of a contest . . .

  376. yep – Hockey Night in Canada is the music played
    – ALL RIGHT!!!, the high school graduation – it is important to recognise and celebrate achievements, no matter how unimportant they seem at the time – Congratulations Amanda!

  377. Congrats to Amanda! I am in Napa and I saw a wonderful wine called The Harlot! I wanted to buy it, but it was super expensive! Good to know you are costly!

  378. Congrats to Amanda… my dad “made me” attend the ceremony too, and I realized years later I would have missed a great milestones… I now look back at such events as rungs on a ladder, you don’t want to skip one of those, they’re symbolic!
    as for the song, well, obviously, Hockey night in Canada… or in, fact, for me, La soirée du hockey, à Radio-Canada…
    As I turned on the video, my 4 1/2 year old came over to check it out and said: you’re watching hockey on the computer?indeed, an icon recognized even by the young!!! lol!
    that’s a good one, thanks for the morning laugh, it’s always a pleasure reading you!

  379. Hockey Night in Canada! I never thought I’d miss hockey, but I don’t get to see much of it living in Sudan, so I watched a whole game last night!

  380. I saw my sister had a link to your blog, I just wanted to stop in an say – THANK YOU – your words of wisdom are quite inspirational. I Love the mile stone passages – I have a 7 year old and have a long road ahead of me, but seriously LOVED IT! Thank you – Karol from Chicago

  381. can proudly (or should that be “sadly”) say that i recognized it in seconds – HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA!!! made me sad that they don’t show hockey on tv here (japan). thanks for the videoclip!

  382. I don’t recognize that song. But I can feel like I’m not just one more faceless soul in the (Canadian) crowd, that I’m special and different, because I’m perhaps the only one of 500 or so commenters who didn’t recognize it. And I don’t knit socks anyhow.

  383. I knew it was hockey night in Canada! My boss is a Canadian, and all things Canada earn me major brownie points….so I’ve actually researched these things 🙂
    Jen

  384. I woke up this morning with this blog post in my head and an old commercial jingle about coffee…so even though everybody says it’s Hockey Night in Canada, I say it’s coffee time, grab a cup… LOL.
    (Don’t ask. There were no drugs involved, honest!)

  385. hockey night in canada of course. Been listening since I was a babe 48 years ago – of course then it was radio, a

  386. Oh too easy, Steph! Have you ever tried whistling it in an airport? I so want to do that when next I go to NY 😛 I’m sure my usual travelling companion will be right in there with me LOL. ‘Course we’ll have to do it before our rides get there, else they’ll not pick us up from the airport. Her cuz tells us “you’re so Canadian” LOL the funny part, both of them were born in Montreal.
    Thanks for the upbeat take on parenting. It’s a good way to look at it, to get them past the ‘big’uns’ and then they get to make mistakes instead of screwups for the rest of their lives, like everyone else.

  387. A wonderful, proud day for you and Amanda! Congratulations to her. And you, of course!
    🙂
    Happy Thanksgiving, Dear Stephanie! May you always have lots to be thankful for!
    xo

  388. Many congratulations to your daughter on her completion of High School!
    Woo hoo!!! I finished Mystery Stole 3 last night and it is blocked and drying on my gues bedroom floor. Can’t believe I finished before you did. Now my copy “Victorian Lace Today” is SCREAMING my name.
    No, I will be strong like Steph… I will finish another project-already-underway before I start on something else. AND… If I’m a really good girl, I will finish *2* before starting another… Is this delusional on my part?

  389. OK…I see from the comments that the song is a Canadian hockey theme but I have a question…
    What is that also used for? That sounded like some hollywood type snagged that for a TV show theme. Is that also the theme for the old 60’s show Wild Wild West? Gunsmoke? Something western-ish from the 60’s?

  390. I forgot the most important part…
    Congrats, Amanda. And good girl for listening to your mom and walking with your class!

  391. Congrats to mom and Amanda.Major accomplishment. My mom made me go to my HS graduation too. I didn’t want to go either.
    Didn’t get the song thought it might be the theme from a western show or something. But I’m guess it might by hockey. I don’t get into hockey or football. Love baseball. I’d actually rather watch curling than hockey. No offence to hockey fans, I just don’t get it. Seems to be more about beating the stuffing out of each other with sticks than scoring goals.

  392. It’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme song! Of course I cheated a bit and asked my husband…he’s from Montreal. He tells me it’s the second Canadian national anthem. 🙂

  393. Congrats Amanda!! And Steph!! I don’t have a clue about the song. But I think is sounds like the theme song to Magnum P.I., or maybe Bonanza. I know I’m wrong based on the answers in the above comments, but those were my first thoughts. And then I thought, WHY would Canadians KNOW the theme song to Bonanza? Maybe Magnum P.I., but not Bonanza. I mean, Tom is so cute and all. Ok, done now.

  394. It’s the Hockey Night in Canada theme… the only reason to get the NHL CenterIce package, living here in the states, being an American – Don Cherry is the best – HNIC should have been the one and only reason to avoid the lockout (morons!) We had the Hartford Whalers song, Brass Bonanza played at our wedding!
    Congrats on your daughter!
    rachel

  395. Congratulations, Amanda!!!
    I don’t think there’s even a chance that it isn’t Hockey Night in Canada. Just thought I’d mention it. 🙂
    Take care,
    Rosane.

  396. Wow. My husband, who is Canadian, but has been living in the US for 10+ years, lost his accent and event (gasp) drops his “u”s sometimesthought for a minute and said ‘Hockey Night in Canada”
    I guess you’re correct!
    Incidentally, we were in Ontario this weekend (St. Catharines) visiting relatives and I decided that spending gift money in a foreign currency (in this case Canadian dollars) on yarn does not count as spending on stash. Then I had a alling down and left the yarn store 20 (yup, 20 – they were on sale! and it was gift money in a foreign currency!) skeins later. I like this new rule. Our relatives are always mailing us $20 bills (canadian 20’s, not American) and I never know what to do with them, since we don’t spend much money when we visit (bad tourists, I know) now I can buy yarn!

  397. BAWHAHAHA! That’s SO CANADIAN! And there’s just something about a high school band to make it extra quirky. Love it!
    Congratulations, Amanda. A wonderful rite of passage, indeed.

  398. yup, it’s hockey night in Canada… they always played it when Don Cherry (spelling?) came on with all of his funky ties when I was about four years old. Is your daughter a knitter too? That would be the coolest! Me and my mom decide what to make together.

  399. Hockey Night in Canada, of course. I had it as my phone ring for years.
    Does the 523rd email still get to be in the draw?

  400. Congrats Amanda! And you and Joe, too, Steph, for getting her thru.
    Oh, and Hockey Night in Canada… my son started hockey practice yesterday, we get CBC out of Thunder Bay 🙂

  401. Hockey Night in Canada! Oh, you crazy Canadians . . .
    I guess our song would be whatever they always play at football games–I’m a bad American because I’m not a football fan at all. I prefer soccer, thank you very much.
    And congrats to Amanda! I didn’t want to go to my graduation either, but I did it for my mother. Those things do mean the world to them.

  402. Congratulations, Amanda. All the pomp and whoopee-te-do will be fun to remember when you attend your 40th Class Reunion. The world is yours … pay attention, there is still so much more to learn and experience.
    You are a lovely young lady. Thank you Stephanie for sharing a part of your joy.

  403. Being a tune-deaf, and lives waay over on the other side of the globe, I’ve no idea what the song is. But when the first couple notes came out, I thought it reminded me of those Superman movies! Congrats to supermom and Amanda. Stephanie, you have a unique way of looking at things!

  404. Now that I’ve had the hockey tune stuck in my head all day … is it just my imagination, or is this not the same tune that was also the soundtrack for the Marlboro Man ads back when we had a black and white TV with three channels? They would play the tune, with these mountain views, and then a cowboy would come galloping up and the announcer would say, “This … is Marlboro country.”

  405. Sheesh, now my sons are grown and gone, I wouldn’t even have recognized the NFL themesong had you played it! Congrats on getting daughter #2 to this milestone, but be careful! I like to ‘complain’ that boys grow up and then they leave. I hear that girls come BACK home and DON’T leave.

  406. As many others have already identified it is of course Hockey Night in Canada. It always reminds me of Saturday nights. my father and brothers watching the game (go Habs!). The cheers of ‘SCORE’ would make it into the kitchen where my sisters and Mom and I were playing cards or a board game.
    This is now the third time I’ve gotten a little homesick from your blog. Is my Mom paying you to entice me back to Canada??? 🙂

  407. I only clicked to confirm…. Who wouldn’t believe that we could all hum that.
    Mat (my partner) figures the equivalent for Brits is the theme tune to Match of the Day.

  408. It sounds like a Hockey Night in Canada Theme…
    I have never heard (about) it before but did a little internet search and here you go!
    I did not go for my college graduation and know my parents would love to be there taking pictures of me, but I was leaving the country and starting studies in Ireland. Hopefully in not so far future I will ask them to fly over from Poland, so that they can have their moment while I receive a PhD diploma.
    Oh, and MS3, I am so far behind everyone, that most likely I am the last one to finish MS3. Clue 5 is killing me …

  409. Congratulations Amanda! I know the song, but can’t think of the name. But now that tune is stuck in my head for the rest of the day, at least. 🙂

  410. It’s my mobile phone ringtone over here in grey, rainy England, where no one gets it except me, and I don’t mind one bit. Even if I have a pavlovian desire to drop everything and run, not walk, to the television when I hear it. Hockey Night in Canada, obviously!

  411. I had hoped it would be “If I Had a $1000000”. That seems to be all my Canadian friends sing… Belated happy Turkey Day.

  412. Hockey Night in Canada! Nice one!! I’m an Aussie… but lived in BC for a year (yay the Canucks!!)
    When I was there, there was this hilarious ad where all these guys are waiting for their girlfriends in a department store, and one guy starts whistling the HNIC theme and the others all spontaneously join in… do you remember that one?? I presume it was a Molsons ad.
    Cheers!

  413. Ooo, Ooo, Ooo!! Just listened to this on Saturday! Hockey Night in Canada! Wouldn’t be a good weekend with out it. 🙂 And I’m from the states. My husband won’t let me change cable providers unless they carry CBC. 🙂

  414. Congratulations to Amanda for a job well done and for going to the ceremony. Congratulations Stephanie! You go girl! We moms need our moments. I flew to Scotland to watch my daughter graduate from Glasgow University! It was awesome!

  415. Frankly, I was wondering if it was the theme song to some Western movie, it kind of reminded me of The Magnificent Seven. And congratulations on being the proud mom of a high-school grad!

  416. Congratulations Amanda 🙂 Good for you, going even though you didn’t want to. We Mothers need these things 🙂
    That is hilarious, Hockey Night in Canada…it’s like playing the Monday Night Football song here!

  417. “Hockey Night in Canada”
    A bit late but hey…
    Congratulations to all of you and continued success to Amanda!

  418. hockey night in canada!
    cbc windsor 9, serving windsor, essex and lambton county!
    raciot car commercial before dropping the puck!
    coach’s corner with ron mclean and don cherry!

  419. Hockey Night in Canada. Feels like cheating since pretty much everyone got it.
    Is this (550 comments) a record of any kind? What is your highest number of comments?

  420. Congratulations. This is an especially beautiful moment in your life. I hope she remembered to wear something you knit for her. 🙂 You’re an awesome mom.

  421. Well done you!
    When my youngest turned 21 earlier this year I gathered the three young people I’ve brought up around me and said:
    “Job done, three kids, all reached 21 with no untimely pregnancies, no police at the door and all in education or a job. Well done to dad and me! Now it’s time for you to take responsibility for your own future, as your dad and I have done for so many years.” They all laughed and their dad stared at me in disbelief, but I blooming well meant it!

  422. ***jumps up and down, waving her hand in the air*** Ooh, Hockey Night in Canada! You’ve made this Canuck living in the UK a very happy girl. Around here everyone knows the Match of the Day music, which isn’t a patch on HNiC.
    Well done to Amanda. You go, girl, and best wishes for the future.

  423. Yes that would be the Hockey Night in Canada theme song. I have a Canadian friend who married an American woman and they had this song play as they were introduced and entered the reception hall. And the Canadian wedding guests let out a cheer! All the American bride could say was “I knew what I was getting myself into”.

  424. “Hockey Night in Canada” But being an American living in Detroit and also being a season ticket holder for Toronto FC (yes, we make the trip there and back in one day just to see a game – for most all of the home games), might make me an atypical American, at best.

  425. I totally hear you!!! There is no “your job is done” whistle, you never win the parenting championship…sometimes, you just do the job, make the yardage and cheer one touchdown at a time.
    SCORE!!!
    Congratulations, Amanda!

  426. OMG – a high school grad! I remember when your mother was expecting you! God are we ever getting old. Major congrats!!!!

  427. Am I too late to say — Hockey Night In Canada?! Canada’s other anthem … Happy (belated) graduation.

  428. Hockey Night in Canada, of course!
    Somehow I picture you with a cold beer and hot needles settling down to watch a game. Thanks for making us all smile, day after day.
    Happy Graduation to Amanda – it’s a milestone for the whole family.

  429. I am not a hockey fan, but every Canadian knows the “Hockey Night in Canada” theme song!
    I never went to my high school graduation which also took place in the fall. It seemed so irrelevant after I was in University to go back to high school and graduate, but now I regret that I never attended the ceremony. Congratulations to Amanda and I am happy for all of you that you had the experience.

  430. Add my vote for the Hockey Night in Canada. My Dad told me that one. Being Canadian for many years, he played hockey as a young adult, and my parents always watch hockey on tv now. We live in California now, but still have fond memories of Canada.
    It was so wonderful having the chance to meet you in Los Angeles recently. What a fun time we had!!!

  431. I just had to come back and comment. I had never heard “Hockey Night in Canada” before this post. I teach music in Nairobi, Kenya, at an international school. One of my fifth graders asked to play a song for the class today. The song? “Hockey Night in Canada”, which he proudly proclaimed as Canada’s second national anthem. Y’all train ’em young!

  432. Hello from Minnesota!! I thought it was the theme from “The Big Valley” which I am sure no one remembers. congratulations, Amanda, and thanks Stephanie for allowing me to appreciate the transitions in a young child’s life. Your insight was greatly appreciated. Now that my child is 4, I am happy to know that she will never be a 3 year who runs naked through the mall.

  433. I was waiting for it to kick into the “Bonanza” theme. Sounds a bit “The Price Is Right” too. 🙂
    The video is up to 11,000 views!

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