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Big League
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Featured in Episode
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Artist(s)
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Top Chart Position (Hot 100)
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Did Not Chart
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Year Released
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1988
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Album
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Victory Day
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Writer(s)
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Tom Cochrane
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RIAA Certification
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NONE
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Sequence song appears
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Opening at football game
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"Big League" is a song by Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, featured on the album Victory Day in 1988 and released as a single that year. It appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Hard Knocks".
Notes[]
- The song references a young boy who planned to play "big league" hockey, but tragically dying before attending college on a hockey scholarship. The song has been featured on Canada's long-running hockey show Hockey Night in Canada.
- Cochrane and Red Rider performed the song at the 2008-09 Vancouver Canucks NHL season opener paying tribute to Luc Bourdon, who tragically died in a motorcycle crash in May 2008.
- "Big League" reached #9 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, but not the Hot 100.
Performers[]
- Tom Cochrane - lead vocal, guitar
- Ken Greer - bass
- John Webster - keyboards
- Denny Fongheiser - drums
TOM COCHRANE & RED RIDER - Big League
Video for "Big League"