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"New Orleans Is Sinking" Single by The Tragically Hip from the album Up to Here Released 1989 Genre Rock, Blues-rock Length 4:16 Label MCA Writer(s) The Tragically Hip Producer Don Smith The Tragically Hip singles chronology Blow at High Dough
(1989)'New Orleans Is Sinking'
(1989)Boots or Hearts
(1990)"New Orleans Is Sinking" is the second single released by The Tragically Hip from the band's debut studio album, Up to Here. The song reached #1 on the RPM Canadian Content chart.[1] The song has since become one of the band's signature songs and still receives consistent radio airplay. In 2008, the song was ranked #24 on a CFNY-FM (102.1 "The Edge") list of the Top 200 New Rock songs of All Time.[2]
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Hurricane Katrina
In October 2005, several radio stations, including CKQB-FM and CHEZ-FM, temporarily stopped playing the song out of sensitivity to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which had devastated the city of New Orleans in early September of that year.[3][4][5][6]
Charts
Chart (1989/1990) Peak
positionCanadian RPM Singles Chart 70[7] RPM Canadian Content Chart 1[1] U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 30[8] References
- ^ a b "Canadian Content (Cancon) - Volume 51, No. 3, November 18, 1989". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6611&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ "Top 102 New Rock Songs of All Time". edge.ca. August 31, 2008. http://www.edge.ca/Music/Top102AllTime.aspx.
- ^ MacDougall, David (2005-08-31). "Ottawa Radio Stations Pull Hip Song After Hurricane Tragedy". Chart. http://www.chartattack.com/news/39426/ottawa-radio-stations-pull-hip-song-after-hurricane-tragedy. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ Armstrong, Denis. "Storm sinks Tragically Hip classic". Jam!. http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/T/Tragically_Hip/2005/08/31/1194947.html. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
- ^ The Coast - (The Tragically Hip) lost a ton of royalty money when radio stations pulled...
- ^ Archive News, Glasgow Caledonian University - Tragically Hip song pulled from playlists
- ^ "Top Singles - Volume 51, No. 8, December 23, 1989". RPM. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6681&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ "The Tragically Hip - Billboard Singles". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-tragically-hip-p5683/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
External links
The Tragically Hip Gordon Downie • Rob Baker • Johnny Fay • Paul Langlois • Gord Sinclair
Davis ManningStudio albums Up to Here · Road Apples · Fully Completely · Day for Night · Trouble at the Henhouse · Phantom Power · Music @ Work · In Violet Light · In Between Evolution · World Container · We Are the SameLive albums EPs Compilations DVDs Singles "Small Town Bring-Down" · "Highway Girl" · "Blow at High Dough" · "New Orleans Is Sinking" · "Boots or Hearts" · "38 Years Old" · "Trickle Down" · "Little Bones" · "Three Pistols" · "Twist My Arm" · "Long Time Running" · "On the Verge" · "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" · "Fifty Mission Cap" · "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" · "At the Hundredth Meridian" · "Looking for a Place to Happen" · "Fully Completely" · "Grace, Too" · "Greasy Jungle" · "Nautical Disaster" · "So Hard Done By" · "Scared" · "Thugs" · "Ahead by a Century" "Gift Shop" · "700 Ft. Ceiling" · "Flamenco" · "Springtime in Vienna" · "Poets" · "Something On" · "Fireworks" · "Thompson Girl" · "Bobcaygeon" · "My Music at Work" · "Lake Fever" "The Completists" · "Freak Turbulence" · "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken" · "Silver Jet" · "The Darkest One" · "Vaccination Scar" · "Summer's Killing Us" · "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night" · "In View" · "The Lonely End of the Rink" · "Yer Not the Ocean" · "Family Band" · "Love Is a First" · "Morning Moon" · "Speed River" · "Land"Related articles Discography · Another Roadside Attraction · Canadian rock · Trailer Park Boys · Made in Canada · The Sweet Hereafter
Side projects: Coke Machine Glow · Battle of the Nudes · The Grand Bounce · Stripper's Union · Stripper's Union Local 518Categories:- 1989 singles
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