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Two Canadian Legends Team Up For Legendary TV Show Theme
It was recently confirmed that Canadian streamer Crave was teaming up with Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg to bring back a TV classic -"The Littlest Hobo," a show about a trvelling heroic German Shepherd. (If you've never seen it, don't ask about the premise.)
Now there's more CanCon surrounding the show, with Steven Page, ex-of the Barenaked Ladies and comedian Tom Green, who sings surprisingly well, getting together to perform the theme from the show. Honestly, it's not "arf" bad.
Tom Green and Steven Page team up for cover of Littlest Hobo theme song
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The music for the Littliest Hobo theme, "Maybe Tomorrow" was written and originally performed by the legendary Terry Bush, who was also part of the group The Butterfingers (with equally legendary musician Doug Riley). Their 1965 charted hit was "Baby Ruth".
Terry Bush went on to write thousands of commercial jingles from the late 1960's to the mid 1980's.
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Doug Thompson wrote:
The Littliest Hobo theme, "Maybe Tomorrow" was written and originally performed by the legendary Terry Bush, who was also part of the group The Butterfingers (with equally legendary musician Doug Riley). Their 1965 charted hit was "Baby Ruth".
Terry Bush went on to write thousands of commercial jingles from the late 1960's to the mid 1980's.
John Crossen wrote the lyrics.
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I did not expect Tom Green to be a good singer.
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I did not expect Tom Green to be a good singer.
Surprised me, too.
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A freelance writer takes a hilarious look back at the Canadian TV classic "The Littlest Hobo."
"Hobo is a time tunnel. Watch an episode, and you will be transported back to the 1980s, when Canadian TV was immediately identifiable by its terrible production values. The writing was often stilted and hokey, the acting comically overwrought, the production values cheap in a community-cable kind of way (Hobo was recorded on tape, not film, which adds to its chintzy aura). The hair was big, the clothes tight, and the cars were American.
To be fair, it was impossible to make a credible show based on the concept of The Littlest Hobo."
Long before Rex or the upcoming reboot, Canada’s Top Dog was The Littlest Hobo
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I figured this story would get posted since it is another chance for a few on here to trivialize and mock vintage Canadian TV. The article even mentions Trouble With Tracy... (yawn).. how predictable.
The freelance writer seems to forget or understand that Littlest Hobo especially the 1979-85 version was a kids show. The characters were meant to be cartoonish and the overacting was intentional. The stilted writing was designed for a very young audience as was the comedy. Hobo wasn't really a drama, it had dramatic moments but also slapstick, comedy, suspense and general hokeyness that many kids scripted shows in that era had.
I guess it might have looked more polished if it was filmed, but in the 70-80's lots of shows were shot on video. Even Happy Days and Newhart were originally shot on video. Some mid sixties episodes of the Twilight Zone were shot on video for some reason. What made Hobo stick out was the fact that so much was filmed outside on video, much like some series in the UK and Europe.
And any program that supposedly was so cheap and poorly done wouldn't be coming back for a third time. Hobo round three is back next year on Crave. The successful second version had 114 episodes, ran six seasons on CTV and like the two season early sixties edition was syndicated. Maybe it still is.
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And for their encore...
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