I agree, 'Run With Us' Rocks!

Several years ago, i took part in summer rock camp where i played keyboards, sax and sang. It was a good time. Had a lot of fun.
After it was over, some guys from one the other bands at the camp (they divide us into several separate bands who all work on their own songs independently) approaached me and asked if wanted to play some sax with them for a public performance unrelated to the camp they'd be doing soon. I agreed. Their songs were pretty funky so i found it easy to add sax parts in that worked. We only had to rehearse a few times together before everything gelled.
So we had one last rehearsal the morning of the gig (we'd be playing on a stage downtown where a street had been closed off to traffic for the week so stores can have sidewalk sales - it happens one week out of the summer every year here. It's called "Action Week" and it's pretty lame.) Lots of lame bands would be playing on that stage besides us. We were set to play at noon.
Anyway, just before packing up our stuff to drive to the gig, the other guys in the band all starting playing this song with a really familiar baseline. It was Run With Us! I pointed this out and they laughed and told me about how they just sort of learned to play it one day without really trying. They'd been playing it a lot lately just for fun. I told them I'd be prepare to sing it if we played it downtown. So they said ok. I knew most of the words but very quickly located them on the internet and printed them off.
So we played a pretty good set of our funky, new-wavey tunes. Mike, the bassist, then stepped up to his Mic (there were some rare moments of vocals in the previous songs, as performed by Mike) and he told the audience that they were "in for a treat". "Nostalgia, comin'at ya!" or something like that.
I took centre stage and we launched int0 Run With Us. The crowd reaction was great. Sure, there were some kids there too young to know the show but the majority of the people there defintely remembered the song. Mike backed me up on the "run with us" parts in the chorus and i even took a sax solo after the bridge - something i hadn't planned on doing.
We ended with a lot of fanfare with some crazy drums and chord shredding. The applause was immense. Far beyond anything you'd expect at such a lame venue. I mean the bands there are just a bunch of nobodies who play whatever they've got while people mill around and shop (there are seats but most people only sat to watch people they knew - we filled them by our finalé)
It was one of the most fun things ive ever experienced in my life. Someone might call that just sad. They just dont know.

Yeah, i agree "run with us" is brilliant, i used to watch the Raccoons years ago when i was a kid! Brings back some great memories.
When people watched the raccoons programme on saturday mornings, the song was so popular that people wrote into the TV studio and ask the announcers not to talk over the end credits so they could hear the song!!! I downloaded it last week and cant stop listening to it!!

simply download it!!

May I state to snowdropbaby the I love your Raccoons post ! There is somebody else who remembers " Video Hits " ( 1984 - 1994 I think ) !

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- Fezzik, " The Princess Bride " ( 1987 )

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'Run with Us' should be Canada's national anthem.