My place to be....
A couple of years back, perhaps some will remember, I fell in love with the visit Ontario commercial "My place to be" sung by Molly Johnson and later by the guy from Rusted Root.....
Well...these days in BC we are being pummelled by visit Ontario ads, but the song that made them work is not being sung by either.
Tourism Ontario missed the boat by not having their versions playing during the Olympics, as all the later versions fade into insignificance, totally non-memorable, especially in contrast to Molly's rendition.
They absolutely give me no desire to visit Ontario, unlike the 2 versions I mention....indeed the most recent one, by the blond country and western barbie of religious persuassion.... is gaggable.
Sad to see something so good trashed the way Tourism Ontario has done.
I think they should bring back the Ontari-ari-ari-o! jingle. I couldn't help but buy plane tickets every time I heard it. It was like operant conditioning: "must...visit... must... quit job... get on plane..."
Wait a second. Coming to Ontario to visit me and have $15 martinis downtown isn't an incentive? Clearly I need a better ad campaign.
How'bout with three martinis you also get me? I'm pretty cute after you've had three martinis.
Your wish is my command.
By the way - I'll bet you didn't know this - the song (music) was written by Dolores Klaman, who also wrote... the Hockey Night in Canada theme!
Thanks to this thread, I'm going to have "good things grow in Ontario" stuck in my head all day.
Gah. And now, thanks to you, so will I!
My wife is born and bred Maritime child of the 50's and 60's and she pops this one out pretty frequently.
Either we were spared it on the left coast, or it went by me.
My parents had a Centennial album with it on it. All we were living in TO, they were born and bred Maritimers.
I guess you're all too young for the Bobby Gimby Centennial song. I'll refrain from humming a few bars in case it sends any of the other geezers hereabouts into arrest or something.
I remember it. I was 3.
Oh, well, it would have been aimed right at your demographic, Caissa.
For skdadl:
Exactly. You university students would have hated it, skdadl, I'm sure.
That was the year I graduated. Feels like yesterday, too. If yesterday ended with an all-nighter writing six papers at once fuelled entirely by alternating cups of black coffee and glasses of cheap wine.
I was at Expo67 for a week or so. My brother had an apartment in Montreal while he created a mural for one of the countries represented.
awwwww, maysie and old goat, you are too sweet, and your invite is tempting, and had I the reason, I would visit primarily just for the most excellent company and of course the martinis, as I have not had good martinis since Katz in Nanaimo, about a decade ago. And now that was a trip down memory lane too, so thanks for that. ;)
But my next cross Canada trip, hopefully this summer, is going to be Cape Breton with the granddaughter to see the last remaining greatgrandma.
Back to the topic at hand, I am still quite upset that they are not at least playing Molly's version of it....even occasionally would do.
I make a pretty good martini. Very cold Tanquaray gin 3/4 way up in a largish frosted from the freezer martini glass. Slowly pass a bottle of Noilly Prat vermouth over the glass. For a sweeter martini, unscrew the Noilly Prat a bit. I like 3 olives, but will serve whatever the guest likes. I will NOT do lemon twists, that's another drink entirely.
You know, I had forgotten all about the magical qualities of Tanquaray, and never have heard of Noilly Prat, bad me......so I am going to go a looking at the local liquor barn, once I am up, out and about.
me too on the 3 olives, but then I am an olive fan and the partner says I only like martinis for the olives...and an excuse to eat them in public. The same holds true for my eating of Greek salads. :D
... have had a blackberry martinis, which was very good as well, though I would not want to have them every time I had a martini.