"Big League" is a song performed by Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, recorded on the album Victory Day in 1988. The song appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Hard Knocks".

NotesEdit

• The song references a young boy who planned to play "big league" hockey, but tragically dying before attending college on a hockey scholarship. The song has been featured on Canada's long-running hockey show Hockey Night in Canada.
• Cochrane and Red Rider performed the song at the 2008-09 Vancouver Canucks NHL season opener paying tribute to Luc Bourdon, who tragically died in a motorcycle crash in May 2008.
• "Big League" reached #9 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, but not the Hot 100.

PerformersEdit

• Tom Cochrane - lead vocal, guitar
• Ken Greer - bass
• John Webster - keyboards
• Denny Fongheiser - drums

TOM COCHRANE & RED RIDER - Big League(04:04)
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