{"id":149020,"date":"2012-03-02T20:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/canadian-classics-maybe-tomorrow-1977\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T20:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T20:24:19","slug":"canadian-classics-maybe-tomorrow-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/canadian-classics-maybe-tomorrow-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Classics: \u201cMaybe Tomorrow\u201d (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe tomorrow, I\u2019ll want to settle down\u2026. Until tomorrow, I\u2019ll just keep moving on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To Canadians of a certain age, those words are as embedded in the brain as any No. 1 pop hit. The theme to The Littlest Hobo, CTV\u2019s show about a heroic German Shepherd, has endured as one of the country\u2019s greatest TV tunes. And with the series still in syndication around the world, its co-writer continues to receive praise from listeners touched by the song. Terry Bush, now retired, tells us about its legacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you come to write the theme for The Littlest Hobo?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was strongly in the jingle business when I got a call from Simon Christopher Dew who was producing a remake of The Littlest Hobo, which had been on in black-and-white in the 1960s, and he said he wanted a new theme for it. He explained what the show was and what they were looking for, and I got together with a friend from the ad business, John Crossen, who is a lyricist, and we put a demo together. I sang and wrote the music. And it was hated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like so many Canadian Classics, the execs didn\u2019t \u201chear\u201d it right away?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was rejected by the production company, who got someone from New York to produce a new song. But then they decided they didn\u2019t like that either and came back to me. There was a lot of re-writing, but I was very pleased with it in the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the initial reaction when the show aired?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe show was very popular worldwide. And that was kind of the end of it for me, for a while. But when I was doing it a musician friend told me not to give up my royalties. CTV wanted to pay me, work for hire. But instead I wrote it for nothing and kept my royalties. I didn\u2019t mange to keep the publishing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did \u201cMaybe Tomorrow\u201d start appearing in TV ads?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1999, I heard from someone that the song was being used in a commercial in England. I checked it out and, son of a gun, it was the National Westminster Bank, an award-winning ad, a huge success. So I got on the phone to CTV and said, \u201cHey, they\u2019re using our song.\u201d Deluxe Paints used it too a few years back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is that why you decided to re-record and release the song yourself?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, I put together a CD of my own so people could actually buy the song. Because if you go to YouTube there are all these different versions, but not the original. I produced this in my own studio, and I stuck to it as close as I could, with a new verse written by John. Since I put it on iTunes. I\u2019ve been inundated with letters from people thanking me, telling me stories about how it brings back memories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your fondest memory of creating it, looking back?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was just trying to write a nice song, and get the rolling feel of the dog running through the woods. And John wrote beautiful lyrics that captured the whole feeling of the show. I found out in England they sing it in pubs at the end of the night. The show is huge in England and the show is still popular here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme from the Littlest Hobo<br \/>\nWritten by Terry Bush and John Crossen<br \/>\nPublished by Agincourt Music Publishing and West Hill Music Publishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}