I played the drums on that album. We had no idea it was going to go big. I think I did the drums in one take thinking it wasn’t going to be on the album because of the F bomb. The true star here is the writer Gaye Delorme. He was an amazing guitar player and song writer.

@keithmills778

5 ай бұрын

When you say that Gaye Delorme was amazing, you're almost understating his abilities. I've got a signed copy of his "Blue Wave Sessions" CD kicking around somewhere. I accidentally left it in my sister's car in Australia and had to wait a couple of years to get it back to Calgary.

@kiwizlifemeow1878

4 ай бұрын

​@@keithmills778 Hello fellow Canadian

@rosemarydaughter

4 ай бұрын

WOW !!!!!!!

@BuddhaFpv

4 ай бұрын

you are part of a childhood memory I had of my father, one of the only good ones I have, we would be plowing and he would have this cranked up and singing along while we are smashing snowbanks and im getting tossed around the truck. thank you for being there with me

I had this played at my wedding reception in 1991 then laughed my ass off when the holier than thou guests gave my husband hell for letting it get played.

@Hoops-Senior

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely a keeper. :D

@bobanderson6656

3 жыл бұрын

Are you still married? LOL

@timefoolery

Жыл бұрын

Heh heh heh 😂 I married a Brit and made his relatives learn the Cotton Eyed Joe and the Schottische, and they made us do that insane Chicken Dance 🤣

@jasonjohnson7445

Жыл бұрын

@@timefoolery 😂

The song’s chorus sums up my feelings about most people at my work

@tanyawest2017

Жыл бұрын

Not very good at Squaredancing, huh?

As a kid. Mom would sing this song if she got too drunk. Then pass out on the toilet. It was hilarious!

Makes me proud to be from Southern Alberta.

Still love this!!!!! I just turned 65 on march 6th, It was on repeat on my all the time when having a bad day, today was one of them, lol😄

My dad was the drummer. Rip rockin Ronnie

@pmclellan123

4 ай бұрын

I don’t think so. I was the drummer on that album.

@BuddhaFpv

4 ай бұрын

Garry Lee Berthold Charles Holley Paul McLellan Kelly La Rocque Wolf Rick Patterson were them members, Paul McLellan is the drummer on this song...dads back them were proned to telling tall tales, fact checking was alot more difficult back then you know.

Heard this on Dr. Demento WAY back in the 80’s. Different experience without the bleeps every 5th word.

@augustcleavitt

11 ай бұрын

Sometimes I miss the Dr. Demento show :-)

Absolute classic! Haven't heard this in like 40 years - love it! Now I can share the joy that is this song with my wife. I just KNOW she will love it lol.

The provincial anthem of Alberta.

@lolliesofficial2215

Жыл бұрын

Legit

@jvcpaints

11 ай бұрын

You know it! 'berta 4 LyFe.

I was in High School when this song came out and it became my theme song for my last two years of school. Wow this brings back memories. Thanks for posting.

As a veteran of many years in a wedding band in the '80s and '90s, I'd have to say that if we ever could have played this song for a first dance, I could have died happy.

@Curious-Irish-Angel

Жыл бұрын

I was a bartender in Chicago This is a classic 🤣👍

Got suspended from school for 3 days and got swatted with the paddle 5 times during my Junior year in high school for singing this song out loud. 🤣🤣🤣

@stevelangstroth5833

Жыл бұрын

This song reminds me of something that would have been done by 'Chuck Wagon and th we Wheels'. It's the same vintage. Is your naughty bottom still sore from the paddle?

@jimmyjaymezc101

Жыл бұрын

@Steve Langstroth it was sore back then but not anymore nowadays lol

@jasonjohnson7445

Жыл бұрын

A former colleague once tried to get me fired for sexual harassment for singing this. She had it as one of her ring tones.

@robertmullins9922

Жыл бұрын

Jhony relmble

@buckshot_V

Жыл бұрын

😂 we sang this so hard in unison, in the old 3-2 bar in Colorado back in 82-83. But we all sang it as "Jew", not Goof.

GAWD I remember this song!!! Back in 1977-78 there was a local band that played this song at the high school dances and all over. We would beg them to play it again. They always did at the end the night!

I'm playing this tomorrow night at an open mic. Gonna be part of my sets from now on! Gonna teach the audience the chorus and make it a sing-a-long!

I had this on 45 when I was a kid and I used to invite all of my friends over to listen To it

35 years ago, local band closed final sets with this jewel. Everybody got up and danced, drunk or sober.

@michaelcap9550

3 ай бұрын

PaPa Joe's Columbus played this at closing time.

Almost got suspended from school for playing this over the PA! BWAAAAHHHHAAAA 🤣🤣🤣🤣

LMAOO Garry was my old fiddle teacher, how am I just now finding this?!🤣🤣

@tooez90

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I about died laughing when I heard my daughter belt out this song in its entirety. I didn't even know she knew it!!!

@magnificentfailure2390

3 жыл бұрын

I love that

@ahill4642

3 жыл бұрын

OMG 🤣 I love that, too

@ahill4642

3 жыл бұрын

We mothers are the last to know, huh?

For the longest time, I had no idea this was a real song. First time I had ever heard of it was in Sleepwalkers, and I thought the dude was ad libbing when he was singing it to himself.

"How much profanity should we put in this song?" "Yes."

My dad has been singing this my entire life and I didnt know it was this well known! I just found out about it through my buddy!

I was in the Marines from 1981-1991, there was a bar outside of the main gate at Cherry Point, that played this song when they turned the lights on. Good times

I grew up on a small island in BC in the 70's and recall when my friends were so stoked to play this for me, we laughed so hard!!! Good times.

I remember hearing this on the Dr. Demento show back in the day. They had to bleep most of it, but that just made it funnier.

This beautiful song was taught to me by my parents who heard it a lot at a country bar where they used to go back in the eighties. I guess I'm just sentimental but it always makes me think of them and though they are gone now I know they are dancing together to this somewhere in the great beyond.

@stunningshoulder5649

Жыл бұрын

Same here lol!!

The 137 people who disliked this song ain't got no sense 🤣😂

@katbowl9971

4 жыл бұрын

They're fuckin' jerks! 😁

@andycross9840

3 жыл бұрын

of humour?!!!!! Yeah damn right.....they really do piss me off!!!

@tracyhaverstick5672

3 жыл бұрын

Their all jerks! This is a great song!

@SmilingBluebonnetFlowers-bp9wr

3 ай бұрын

There's always stupid people

@SmilingBluebonnetFlowers-bp9wr

3 ай бұрын

​@@andycross9840❤

The first song banned on Canadian airwaves, it became known as a career killer. If you were a DJ and played this.. you'd never be on radio again

@guessundheit6494

Жыл бұрын

And yet Rough Trade's "High School Confidential" got played uncensored So was Bruce Cockburn's "Call It Democracy" while at the height of his popularity.

@TheHoovman81

Жыл бұрын

I try to work it into every show I do

@augustcleavitt

11 ай бұрын

Yet so many people try to claim Canada is so great.

Damn these boys can play - the rodeo song has been in the back of my mind since I first heard it back in ‘80 - I was 8 years old haha - my parents bought a rodeo song single 45 at a live show in Edmonton and the band signed it :) it was played at every booze fueled party they ever had, often many times a night haha - good memories

Just spent a little time reading some news on the internet.... I needed to hear this song again.

Canadian Music at it's Finest!!!! LOL!!

@goodrichfarms8795

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Gordon lightfoot

@armstronglance

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know these guys were Canadian. Always a fun song for a band to play in a bar.

@534stimy

3 жыл бұрын

Well. This song is all canada has.

My dad used to blast this when he was in the marine corps and continued to play it for my sister and I when we were probably a bit too young but we loved it anyway

@stepon222

10 ай бұрын

Oorah!!!! Your dad is a legend brother. Semper Fi!!!

This takes me back about 30 years to a drinking establishment in my home town of Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, UK, called Lasers (RIP) and Sunday night was always pool night among the gang I used to hang out with then. We were shooting a game when the DJ announced he had a new song just come in from a friend of his who lived in Canada, and he asked us to have a listen and tell him what we thought of it. As you can imagine, as soon as the first line comes in we were rolling around on the floor with laughter. I think one or two of us possibly peed their pants, they were laughing so much. I think I might have given myself a hernia! No surprise it was played every Sunday night for years, possibly until the bar closed its doors for the last time. I'm so glad I found it here as I'm going through some tough times mentally these days and playing this really is great therapy... Suffice to say I'll be annoying my colleagues at work tomorrow with my terrible singing. Thanks for posting this, it's a great help to me.

@NeonRacer73

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to a wee L'il bit o"Canada, From all of us here, to all over in UK!

@paulduke943

Жыл бұрын

@@NeonRacer73 thank you from a very proud Yorkshireman!

@NeonRacer73

Жыл бұрын

@@paulduke943 10-4 roger that. ( former Lorry driver, in Canada)

It's a good song to listen to when you're pissed off.

Well it's 40 below and I gotta heater in my truck and I'm off to work, and this song popped in my head. Lol

@rosemarydaughter

4 ай бұрын

Ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!

Been singing this song in my head for years from time to time since I was a kid and I got a hunch I might be able to find it on KZread and hear it is after 35 years I heard it again in real life 😎

Still funny after all this time. Makes me laugh every time and stays in my brain for days.

Dam I love this song. In the early 80s up in Northern Alta. this song meant alot to us.

@ergbudster3333

Жыл бұрын

Uh, you ain't one of the Michaud boys from East Van are you? Or I guess related to them.

Weird thing is that -40C and -40f are equivalents, so this song relates to canucks and americans alike.

Never heard this song before until today on Pandora. Driving down the road and when it came on I couldn't believe it. Had me laughing awhile.

Married almost 10 years now, hubby proposed to me one night at the bar - this was on the jukebox. Engraved in his wedding band is "...off to the rodeo... :)

@corinne5929

3 жыл бұрын

You had to be in Wisconsin!!!!

First heard this in the Calgary Airport hotel in 1982. Fascinated me that Canadians allowed that shit...🙂

@augustcleavitt

11 ай бұрын

Apparently they didn’t for very long.

Now that would be a damn fine Karaoke song!

@ttvshadow3073

3 жыл бұрын

My friend and sing this for karaoke a lot

@shewearswoolsocks2883

3 жыл бұрын

@@ttvshadow3073 lol that's awesome! Such a fun song! Cheers!

LEGENDARY Canadian tune

@loubricano7444

9 ай бұрын

I'm not generally a huge fan of rockabilly, but that's an outstanding song.

@Celtic4Life9

9 ай бұрын

@@loubricano7444 it's how we roll in the Great White North

@user-zr6pl6nb6z

7 ай бұрын

@@Celtic4Life9 Is it?

@Celtic4Life9

7 ай бұрын

@@user-zr6pl6nb6z apparently so

finally, I'm proud to be Canadian

I was nine years old or there about when my father took me to the base auto club to work on his car. There were a group of guys from the Canadian Airborne Regiment playing this song on the 8-track player in the car they were working on. I learnt this song that night. My father wasn't too impressed.

I have this song on an 8 Track tape. After all these years the 8 Track player still works. I was just a little Tyke when this song came out. Illinoisans love it .

Remember playing this at a friend's funeral in 1986. What a time it was.

@user-zr6pl6nb6z

7 ай бұрын

Sounds real classy.

@chantaloblander9039

7 ай бұрын

At my friends memorial there was a live band and they played this because it was one of her favorite silly songs.

@spudeleven5124

6 ай бұрын

What a great tribute!

I love the classics

Best Square Dance song ever. Such a shame they didn't play it for my mom's SQ dance classes when I was a tween, would have made them much more fun. 😁😜

Classic... freaking love this song!!

This is the song that plays in my head when I’m dealing with the drivers on the interstate

@1959hogryder

3 жыл бұрын

I'll go you one better ..... the .. Asshole Song { " Were you born an asshole , or did you work at it your whole life " } ...I'll have to look up who does it .... Now That's an interstate -song .....ha ha ...

@amsteadman

3 жыл бұрын

I work retail... Just think how often I hear it in my head. LOL

The best country song ever.

Lol! Aaaaah, my childhood just came flooding back😂😂😂

@ExpatChef71

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Endlessly entertaining to play for Australians too.

Best song since i was 7 years old

OMG I bought this cassette tape 40 years ago in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan!! I lived in Omaha Nebraska but grandpa gave us money for working on the farm 😂🤣😂.

@ahill4642

3 жыл бұрын

😛 Underrated comment. ❤️ yeeeeeeee-HAWWWWWWW

Going to the rodeo in Houston tonight and I just had to listen to this song :)

@ethimself5064

2 жыл бұрын

Gets one in the mood no doubt👍

this brings back memories of my youth! danced to this many times!

I had an uncle who had a tractor trailer repair business. This song was on one those "obscene trucker tapes" that my uncle collected from various long haul drivers coming though his shop.

Wow, does this bring back memories! I once used this as the outgoing message on my answering machine to get rid of a stalker. It worked... Thanks for putting this on KZread!

I still own that album after all these years. I got it for my 13th birthday. My parents bought it because I asked for it, they had no idea about the song lol. Wow, almost four decades later and it's still with me.

@chuckandjenbridges721

4 жыл бұрын

I bought it new in Chetwynd, BC. I was 18 in 1980 when I first heard this

@davejoe2592

4 жыл бұрын

@@chuckandjenbridges721 BC boy here myself!

@tander101

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck yeah, buds!

Pigeons.........I have a history with this song. I lived with Gaye Delorme for many years. I was there when he wrote it. I think we were in Edmonton at the time. This was probably written in '73 or so. Gaye went on to write for Cheech and Chong.......some of their funnier stuff. RIP, Gaye!

@Genesimmons8

5 жыл бұрын

Did Gaye get any royalties for the song? I read he just said "go ahead" when they asked to record it.

@bluerobinson9632

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think so, but it's possible. I honestly don't know.

@Genesimmons8

5 жыл бұрын

@@bluerobinson9632 I just found an article that says he's got a couple gold albums on the wall for that album so I'm assuming he got the credit.

@bluerobinson9632

5 жыл бұрын

I assume you saw the RIP .............Gaye died about 3 years ago.

Wow I grew up on this song and this is the first time my wife herd this song lol wish I had a pic of her facial expressions

This song is being played at my funeral

@jeffbelton9231

5 ай бұрын

Good call! I think I'll get a chip of the song hidden in my urn!

@patbrennan6572

5 ай бұрын

I'll be there then, love that song.

@Dbs45315

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

As a kid I had an uncle sing this song a lot, he was sing an edited version when us kids were around "well its 40 below and i don't give a beep got a heater in my jeep and im off to the rodeo!"

@knock3x

8 ай бұрын

Thats pretty stinkin cute (:

I remember some drunk yahoo singing this at a karaoke bar around 1985 and damn near died laughing. Stumbled across this while cruising youtube THANK YOU!

Brings back many fond memories of the Bar I used to own in Littleton Colorado I put this 45 along with the I 95 the asshole song and it warmed my heart when some lovely lady Would put their money in the jukebox and let it belt these wonderful tunes out

Just introduced my son to the song, had a great laugh 😂

I'd love to hear Corb Lund sing this one, for years I've heard about this song but only heard it for the first time a week ago. Priceless, I love it

One of the more entertaining songs to sing karaoke (if the KJ has it) because: 1) it's a two minute song, 2) you don't need to be a great singer and 3) it's profanity-laden just enough to get people laughing but not obscene. Even better when the bar owner tells you "don't sing that rodeo song" and when he leaves the KJ has you sing it anyway.

@billgrimes7146

5 ай бұрын

I’ve sung this a number of times…

Introduced to this masterpiece by radio personality Dr Demento (RIP) in the early 80's (bleeped of course). Thank you, Canada!

Just discovered wheeler walker jr and it reminded me of this classic. I bought this on tape back in the day and went on to do it at karaoke.....

I got arrested at the kit Carson County fair for playing this song while I was running g the tilt a whirl

@jeffcoxen1386

11 ай бұрын

No shit?

@sigsantacruz

11 ай бұрын

that's a perfect story to go with this song!

@JStevenBroome

10 ай бұрын

Best comment ever

@jvcpaints

7 ай бұрын

Not all heroes wear capes!

@stephendalton7098

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Written by the late, great Gaye Delorme, guitarist extraordinaire, who co-wrote and played guitar for “Earache My Eye”…

Not even joking my grandpa was the lead guitarist

@sketchyscratch

4 жыл бұрын

ur grandpa is a legend

@mountedpatrolman

4 жыл бұрын

HERO!

@blikkz5445

4 жыл бұрын

SketchyScratch I honestly thought no one would believe me 😂

@MIW_Renegade

4 жыл бұрын

Well your grandpa made something that will be an amazing song forever

@Kunstdesfechtens

4 жыл бұрын

I used to play with the other guitarist (Kelly) on the road. Damn fine guitarist. 👍

I used to beg Dad for change to play this on the jukebox in the bars when I was little.

A true CANADIAN classic 👍🍻

Hey, finally found this in stereo. 😎👍🎸

I finally found this song WHOO HOO! This was our freshmen dorm's friday afternoon anthem to start the weekend! 1982, Valparaiso University 🥳🥳🥳

@livefreeprintguns

2 жыл бұрын

Me and the boys had many a drunken nights that were started (and usually ended) with this song. 🤣😜

My uncle played this for me as a kid shortly after it was released. Funniest thing I had ever heard. It's still pretty funny.

This might be the most Albertanest thing ever

Got a copy of this from the record rep on the day it was pressed and arrived in Edmonton. I was DJing at a very popular club (where the Oilers hung out) and spun it that night. You could have heard a pin drop the first time but by the third night I could play just the intro and the entire room would sing the rest. Gaye Delorme wrote a great song and Showdown had a great cover!

This was my traffic jam song going to work from our local radio station. Still makes me laugh.

Timeless

Best. Song. Ever.

Canada’s contribution to Texas rodeo culture! Thank you!!

@no1noob194

Жыл бұрын

Canada's contribution to Alberta rodeo culture! You're welcome!

@warren52nz

Жыл бұрын

I was working at CKY Radio in Winnipeg in 1981 (might have been 1980) and a salesman from CKLG Calgary (also part of the Moffat chain of radio stations) came in with a recording of this song saying that they had recorded it in their studio so I might have been one of the first to hear it. Can't remember who he said recorded it but it was this version for sure. I use it in my show for shock value if I think the crowd is up for it. Calgary (at least at that time) had the biggest rodeo in Canada (and maybe even North America) so I doubt it was inspired by Texas even if that's where this barbaric practice originated.

@timefoolery

Жыл бұрын

@@warren52nz wikkid!! I was also a C&W DJ in the 80’s at KACT but we couldn’t play stuff like that cuz the FCC would’ve had a conniption, but practically every jukebox in Texas had it and it was played a lot at dances. AND we’d sing it at Texas Tech football games 😂 Very iconic song!

@timefoolery

Жыл бұрын

@@no1noob194 don’t take offence - I’m merely tipping my Stetson to a song that means a lot to all North American vaqueros. Btw, in 1986 during a bust, a buttload of Texas oil workers left en masse for the Oil Sands and a big load of them were rodeo riders. So until this day Alberta has well-trained Texans and their offspring producing your oil and riding in your rodeos. You’re welcome. 😂

@warren52nz

Жыл бұрын

@@timefoolery Yeah. The Program Director at 92 CITI FM in Winnipeg played it on air on his last day. It was well received.

My dad is 53 and he heard this in high school, this is an old song but great haha

Today, Feb 3rd 2023, here in Ottawa it really is 40 below.

@acetynstarr9627

Жыл бұрын

Thank you lol I couldn't have been the only one here today haha 25 mph winds of 23 degree in PA

@old-fashionedcoughypot

Жыл бұрын

Noice! We had that weather around December 18th 2022 here in the Skeena Valley in BC, eh? l had to prepare like a astronaut to take my doggo Chilly Dog for a walk. Many layers of clothing.

Love this song... so Alberta

@DonPutt

8 ай бұрын

I can see how someone can love you ❤ 😍

This used to get played in regular rotation at Camp Bowie Cruising Club in Ft Worth. Being the only teen club in town there'd be a mix of every kind, cowboys, preps, punks, etc, all laughing at this one.

I took a copy of this to elementary school grade 2 (1982) that I borrowed from my cousin's J. & R. MacKnight I shit you guys not! 🤭😝🤣 I was a kid with an early fascination with the word "f**k"!😂 And in my later adult hood, (in 2015) when I met my half brother who was coincidentally primarily raised smack dab within 10-15 minutes away from the Stampede grounds.......I would sing this at him when he pissed me off & he never "quite" understood why! 🤦🏼‍♀️😃 But oh hell yeahhhhh this song still is great to play for people today with "sensitive" ears for damn sure!!!😂😂😂

@shawnporter5109

Жыл бұрын

I got suspended for playing this song in biology class :)

@RoxxyRolla76

Жыл бұрын

Awesome yeah the first time I heard this was in grade six at elementary school too~! lol 🤣

Canada would have a stroke if this song came out today

@ergbudster3333

Жыл бұрын

Aw, you mean them back there. Out in the West we got our own way of livin'.

@soisaidtogod4248

Жыл бұрын

LOL, no we are not the excited states!

@foxymacadoo

Жыл бұрын

Not Canada but the Woke 🤣

@ZombieSlayer-dj3wb

Жыл бұрын

East more so

I haven't heard this in years! Awesome as always!

I grew up a city boy in Columbus Ohio until my family and I moved to Colorado. I did my senior year of high school in Colorado Springs. Some of my teammates on the swim team my senior year started calling me 'Goat' which baffled me until they explained that the word goat and my last name together was a euphemism for 'cowboy'. After high school I met a guy I started hanging around and partying with who introduced me to Western culture. We would go to rodeos and gymkhanas. And we would go to western bars. One of those bars is a place called for Ralph's place and the house band are used to play this song all the time. Not long after I found out that this album had the song on it and purchased it. I still have it in my vinyl collection today. Good memories

@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975

2 жыл бұрын

This song is the unofficial Montana anthem. I hear ya.. really, it is Montana.

Man, I haven't heard this in decades!

My dad first played this song as a DJ in Victoria, BC 1982 - when it was released. He has the album.

Thank you for uploading this version! I loved this song as a kid. I first heard it in the early 80s in New Jersey.

This song is the best song I've listen to

@ahill4642

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

I heard Jimmy Buffet sing this at Sun Valley in the 80's 😂🎉 weeeeehaaaa!!

@michaelmccaffrey2731

2 ай бұрын

Idaho or California?