First to use a goal horn and song

[Roomtemperature]

When did the goal horn come into hockey? Which team was the first to use one for a goal scored also what team was the last? Also when did using a pre made song (not a public domain organ diddy) that the fans can sing along with like Chelsea Dagger, Rock and Roll #2 etc start? Also last team to use the goal song too

 

[GreatCanadian]

I searched all over the internet for an answer, and apparently the Chicago Black Hawks first used it in Chicago Stadium in the 1973 Stanley Cup Finals. It was a Kahlenberg Marine Horn. They used it off-and-on for about a decade, before both them and the Minnesota North Stars added permanent goal horns around 1983-84, and the rest is history!

Chicago was also the first NHL team to add a permanent organ in 1929, apparently.

 

[Buck Aki Berg]

I think Toronto may have been the last to use a goal horn. I can remember games from the early days of the ACC where there was no horn. Then for a few years they had a goal horn that was so low it was barely audible on TV over the crowd noise, and now they have the Kings-esque one they use today.

 

[saskganesh]

Islanders had a siren installed for the 81 playoffs maybe earlier. it was terrifying.
Canadien (and Nords?) fans had Na Na Hey Hey as a song in the 80's.The fans actually sang this song, and it wasn't piped in as entertainment.

 

[reckoning]

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I miss the days when the loud noise you'd hear after a goal was the roar of the crowd.

 

[EpochLink]

The Jets used a CP Rail train horn as their goal horn..the weirdest one I heard back then was Calgary's when they would score I would always hear a school bell sound..

 

[Prussian_Blue]

I'm almost positive that the Colorado Rockies were the first to use "Rock and Roll Part 2" as a goal song in 1976.

I was there in the early days, and remember that very well.

 

[Sinter Klaas]

The Blackhawks will the first to use on a regular basis as stated earlier, but I always wonder who was the 2nd team to use one? As sort of getting the ball rolling.

It might have been the Caps using their goal siren during the 87' playoffs.

I also heard that the North Stars might have unveiled theirs around that same time.

Buffalo debuted theirs the next season. The Rangers also had theirs around then.

The teams to last use one I think were Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal and Toronto.

 

[GreatCanadian]

Winnipeg didn't get theirs until..... 1992-93 or so?

I remember their double-OT goal vs. Edmonton in the playoffs in 1990 and I am almost certain they didn't have one then. But, I am pretty sure there was one when Teemu Selanne broke the rookie scoring record a few years later.

 

[Buck Aki Berg]

I remember their double-OT goal vs. Edmonton in the playoffs in 1990

No chance in hell you'd've heard the thing anyway

 

[Peterpuck7810]

I would say the 1st goal song was the Whalers. Goal horn, the first I remember was Washington and their goal siren thing they still use. I remember that back in the early 80s...

 

[c9777666]

Islanders had a siren installed for the 81 playoffs maybe earlier. it was terrifying.

It was earlier. You can hear a siren in the 79 playoffs for their home goals against the Rangers

 

[hacksaw7]

Does anybody remember the Blackhawks playing New Kids on the Block after goals? At Chicago Stadium...up until the building closed

 

[tarheelhockey]

Chicago was also the first NHL team to add a permanent organ in 1929, apparently.

Indeed, the organ was installed in Chicago Stadium during construction of the building.

In that time period, the other options were either a live band or an album played over the PA system. A pipe organ would have added quite a different sound than what people were used to hearing.

 

[PurpleMouse]

I feel like I remember hearing Brass Bonanza playing for Whalers goals even back to their WHA days, should be some highlights on YouTube somewhere.

 

[boredmale]

Rock and Roll #2 etc start?

According to this video the AHL Kalamazoo Wings first started to use it(not only for first for hockey but all sports) and the music director for that team then starting using it for the Colorado Rockies in the late 70s when he got a job there, which quickly expanded to other Colorado Sports teams and sports teams in multiple leagues in general

I was Pretty Sure about the Rockies being the first NHL team to use it(I heard that story on multiple occasions) but I just wanted something to verify it, so that is the first time I found out it started in the AHL

 

[The Panther]

Back in the latter-half of the 80s, the Chicago one was kind of cool because it sounded like the foghorn of a ship coming in off of Lake Michigan.

But the one that always demanded my attention was the Washington one. Frankly, it was kind of annoying. I'm not sure if it was a police siren or if they just sampled a Public Enemy record....

Agree about that early Calgary one. It was weird, like the lunch-bell at school (followed by the crowd's inevitable "Yahoo!").

 

[Fenway]

Brass Bonanza does go back to the WHA days - I have a 45 of it and on the flip side is the call of Gordy Howe scoring his 1,000th in Birmingham, Alabama

The Hammond electric organ was invented in the mid-1930s and both Madison Square Garden and Boston Garden installed one.

The Rangers organist Gladys Gooding was also the first anthem singer as she sang it while she played it. Here is a clip of her from Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn.

 

[JianYang]

I think Toronto may have been the last to use a goal horn. I can remember games from the early days of the ACC where there was no horn. Then for a few years they had a goal horn that was so low it was barely audible on TV over the crowd noise, and now they have the Kings-esque one they use today.

The habs might be the last one to use a horn. They didn't start using one until the 98/99 season, but i do remember that the bruins and leafs were also late to the party.

 

[McGarnagle]

According to this video the AHL Kalamazoo Wings first started to use it(not only for first for hockey but all sports) and the music director for that team then starting using it for the Colorado Rockies in the late 70s when he got a job there, which quickly expanded to other Colorado Sports teams and sports teams in multiple leagues in general

I was Pretty Sure about the Rockies being the first NHL team to use it(I heard that story on multiple occasions) but I just wanted something to verify it, so that is the first time I found out it started in the AHL

I miss Rock and Roll Part 2. It's the perfect hockey goal song.

It should be phased back in at some point. Gary Glitter no longer receives any royalties on it, and I think that clearly anyone with a brain knows that the NHL is not endorsing underage sex tourism by letting teams play a song.

Maybe after Gary Glitter dies they'll loosen up a little. The song slaps and should be played after goals.

 

[Jonny HabsFan]

I don't know...it seems to me that Montreal was playing that song "Les Canadiens Sont La" FOREVER after goals. At least in 1979 but quite probably before that. I grew up watching Hockey Night In Canada which of course showed only Montreal and Toronto games 99.9% of the time but also I watched the Red Wings on WKBD 50, since I live across the river from Detroit. They would show a game now and then either at home or on the road and with all of those games in my memories, I am positive Montreal was the first team I ever heard play a tune/song after goals. Having said that, I never saw any Blackhawk games back then. There have to be other Habs fans on here who remember what I'm talking about.

For those of you who don't know, here is a link to a game between Quebec and Montreal where the Habs hang 8 goals on the Nords and their old coach Jean Perron. "Les Canadiens Sont La" is played after every single goal...it's unmistakable even under the commentators and crowd noise:

 

[Fenway]

Brass Bonanza started in 1975

It was the brainchild of Whalers PR director Bill Rasmussen.

Rasmussen was fired by the Whalers as Colleen Howe didn't like him. Out of work, he came up with an idea to create a Connecticut Sports Network on cable that would be based in the city of Bristol. It was named ESP Network.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Brass Bonanza started in 1975

It was the brainchild of Whalers PR director Bill Rasmussen.

Rasmussen was fired by the Whalers as Colleen Howe didn't like him. Out of work, he came up with an idea to create a Connecticut Sports Network on cable that would be based in the city of Bristol. It was named ESP Network.

Bristol, my hometown!

Now live in Southington, about 2 miles from ESPN.

 

[hacksaw7]

Btw that Caps police siren they use, I think that dates back to the late 70s at the old Capital Centre (dimmest arena in hockey