I attended a very small elementary school in Milan, Michigan in the 1970s. George Allan Elementary was grades 1-5 with only one class of each. Our class composition changed very little during those years, so we all grew to be quite close. As the weather would grow warmer during the late winter/early spring months, our entire school (fewer than 100 students) would spend a morning watching a classic short filmstrip — Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was based on the Caldecott-award story by Holling C. Holling. We did this every year, from first grade through fifth. Watching Paddle-to-the-Sea was sort of a Michigan tradition that I'm sure a lot of you who spent their young years in the Great Lake State in the 1970s will remember. And, yes, it was a filmstrip. Garbled audio. Big projector screen. That's dating myself. I can still remember the little Indian boy painting the canoe he had carved by firelight, and setting it on top of a cliff, ready to travel the journey through the Great Lake...
http://www.detroitradioflashbacks.net/retroreplay5/TigerTheme88961.mp3
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Detroit Radio Flashbacks updated the link to the theme...
http://www.detroitradioflashbacks.net/flashbacks/drfsports/TigerTheme88961.mp3
My next task is to find the sheet music.
ReplyDeleteThanks again. I'm originally from Detroit, so reading about the theme is enjoyable.
I think it's a dead link now.
ReplyDeleteyes, that is now a dead link. can anyone please email me a copy as an MP3 file?
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thank you so much.
bob in michigan
I was able to find a site that still has the old Tigers March at http://www.mcrfb.com/files/Detroit%20Sports//Detroit%20Tiger%20Baseball%20Theme.mp3
ReplyDeleteHope this will help folks still looking.
Thanks!!!
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We too are searching. Does anyone know whether it was written for the Tigers (by whom? Date? Actual title?) or was cribbed from something else? Sounds like an old newsreel march from WW2.
ReplyDeleteAwesome. I had virtually the identical experienceso fromantic 68 thru the 70s. Thankyou. That tune was burned my brain. Love it.
ReplyDeleteI downloaded a copy of the tune with the Tiger growl and Paul Carey doing the voiceover. But does anyone know the name of this song? I also remember hearing it on Late Night With Letterman when he did a mock newsreel.
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