The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13703   Message #114967
Posted By: Rick Fielding
17-Sep-99 - 01:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: This Land (Canadian version)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: This Land (Canadian version)
You're a gutsy guy Steve.
Back in the bad old days when I did gigs, gigs and more gigs, sometimes something truly horrific would come up. Since I no longer have a therapist (Duckboots took him) I tell the Mudcat instead.(it's cheaper)

I got a call to do a commercial extolling the Ontario Govt. health plan (OHIP) and was asked to record a truly awful song (written in "Brand New Folksong" style) called "Ontariariario". There would be a voice over telling the civilians how wonderful it was to live in Ontario, where you didn't have to be rich to survive an illness. The lyrics went:
Give us a place to stand, and a place to grow,
And call this land Ontario,
A place to stand! A place to grow!
Ontariariario!

The only "Canadian Song" that I disliked more was Bobby Gimby's "Canadaaa!", sung by a chorus of annoying small children. Had the otherwise impeccably-tasted Peter T. not reminded me of that song, I might never have thought of it again. I'm not sure but Peter may have told me that he joined that chorus as a seven year old in order to recruit junior Green Party members.

Rick (fibbing slightly)