This video brings chills of JOY up my spine. I lived it…I loved going to the Arena, and the team continues to bring me entertainment over 45 years later! St Louis has had some of the best radio and TV broadcasters to this day-Jan 16, 2016 I could have been in this video….I was there for about 10 games a year for the first few seasons-very EXCITING. Let's Go Blues
Like old times:,People standing shoulder to shoulder, except so many wearing Blues jerseys in the stands instead of suits and ties. The support is great considering how great camera angles and replays are!
great video, but i wanna talk to the director who thought "we have a video about the Blues, a team based in a town that likes Blues, has a logo of a musical note…. let's use classical music for the soundtrack. perfect." lol
Ron Schock's "Midnight Goal" at 5:30 was the signature moment of the early days of the St. Louis Blues. It won the 7th and deciding game of the semi-finals in double overtime and put the Blues in the Stanley Cup Finals in their first season. I remember the game was not televised, and KMOX Radio did not switch over to hockey until the Cardinals baseball game was over. (That's how insignificant everyone thought hockey would be that first season.) They originally planned to just play a tape of the 3rd period, but when the game went into a second overtime period they went "live to Gus Kyle at the Arena." Gus was normally the color commentator on the broadcasts, but he filled in doing play-by-play that night because nobody else was available. (Jack Buck for one was doing the baseball game, and Dan Kelly didn't come to St. Louis until the second season.) That is Gus' voice on the video calling the big goal.
I was 12 when I was dialing the radio and came across Dan Kelly in 1968 on KMOX. I fell in love with the game and can't shake the addiction today in 2019. We have always had such great players and moments!
Wow. I can’t thank you enough for posting this. Despite living in Chicago, the Blues were my absolute favorite team growing up in the 60s. Living in Houston for over 40 years now, that hasn’t changed. I remember listening to nearly all Blues games on the radio from 300 miles away, listening to the greatest hockey announcer ever – the late Dan Kelly on KMOX. This awesome team let me have some years watching such greats as Jacques Plante, Glenn Hall, Doug Harvey, Camille ‘The Eel’ Henry, Dickie Moore, Phil Goyette, Jean-Guy Talbot, the three Plager brothers, and of course, the Red Baron (Red Berensen). Two of my biggest sports thrills was seeing the Blues play at home (in the old Arena) in 1970, and seeing them shut out the Canadiens 3-0 on Forum ice, with third string goalie Ernie Wakely (later of the WHA Houston Aeros) between the pipes. Seeing Bobby Orr score the 1970 Cup winning goal still makes me sick to my stomach, almost 50 years later. While I’ve enjoyed all sorts of hockey since those initial years, NOTHING comes close to those early days of St. Louis Blues hockey. I have no more to say but LET’S GO BLUES!!!
I grew up in Philadelphia in the '60s and 70s. The Blues were the class of the NHL expansion teams for the first four years. As Flyers fans, we hated that the Blues broke our hearts constantly. They were bigger, tougher, and better. The old St. Louis Arena was perhaps second to the Montreal Forum for the passion of your fans. In the 1968 playoffs, the Blues brutalized the Flyers (who won the Western Division that first year) to the extent that the Flyers owner, Ed Snider, declared that his team would never be pushed around again. This was the genesis of the Broad Street Bullies, as even Scotty Bowman acknowledged in Ken Dryden's wonderful biography of Bowman (Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other). Apparently, Bowman was pushed out of St. Louis in 1971 by the Salomans after he refused to fire Al Arbour, Tommy Woodcock, and Cliff Fletcher (Bowman's assistant) after the loss to Minnesota in the playoffs that year. Bowman went home to Montreal (where he was born and grew up) and the rest was history. What could have been in St. Louis….Ironic that it was a former Flyer player (Craig Berube) drafted by Bobby Clarke, who was GM of the Flyers after his Hall of Fame career as leader of the Broad Street Bullies, who guided the Blues to their first Cup. I'm happy to see that the Blues continue to thrive under Berube…they play an exciting brand of hockey worthy of today's era
I just want to say as a life long Montreal Canadiens fan, I have always respected and rooted for the Blues. They have always been a special organization and I really hope that Dan Kelly is fondly remembered as one of the all time greatest hockey play by play broadcasters of all time!
Growing up as a kid and a Wings' fan in the UP of Michigan, I recall on those cold winter nights when AM would be clear enough to get KMOX and listen to Dan Kelly announce the Blues' games I would be transfixed. The way he said "This is St Louis Blues' Hockey" in his clear and strong voice before a commercial break I will never forget. Listening to him call the games made me a lifelong closet fan of the Blues even though Detroit was always my team although they were terrible back then. I think the fact that the Blues were competitive gave me a team to adopt in a way and to and wish that my team could emulate their success. I was so glad that the Blues finally won the cup after all those years.
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29 years later we are still waiting for a Stanley Cup Parade down Market Street…
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What a fantastic video!! Thank you so much for uploading this. :thumbs up:
This video brings chills of JOY up my spine. I lived it…I loved going to the Arena, and the team continues to bring me entertainment over 45 years later! St Louis has had some of the best radio and TV broadcasters to this day-Jan 16, 2016
I could have been in this video….I was there for about 10 games a year for the first few seasons-very EXCITING.
Let's Go Blues
Like old times:,People standing shoulder to shoulder, except so many wearing Blues jerseys in the stands instead of suits and ties. The support is great considering how great camera angles and replays are!
great video, but i wanna talk to the director who thought "we have a video about the Blues, a team based in a town that likes Blues, has a logo of a musical note…. let's use classical music for the soundtrack. perfect." lol
Let's Go Blues Forever My Favorite Team Always; I hate Montreal and Boston and of course Chicago Black Hawks;
Ron Schock's "Midnight Goal" at 5:30 was the signature moment of the early days of the St. Louis Blues. It won the 7th and deciding game of the semi-finals in double overtime and put the Blues in the Stanley Cup Finals in their first season. I remember the game was not televised, and KMOX Radio did not switch over to hockey until the Cardinals baseball game was over. (That's how insignificant everyone thought hockey would be that first season.) They originally planned to just play a tape of the 3rd period, but when the game went into a second overtime period they went "live to Gus Kyle at the Arena." Gus was normally the color commentator on the broadcasts, but he filled in doing play-by-play that night because nobody else was available. (Jack Buck for one was doing the baseball game, and Dan Kelly didn't come to St. Louis until the second season.) That is Gus' voice on the video calling the big goal.
Hi I like to see more history of the blues
What's the songs you use?
This is similar to a heck of a year Cardinals video!
I was 12 when I was dialing the radio and came across Dan Kelly in 1968 on KMOX. I fell in love with the game and can't shake the addiction today in 2019. We have always had such great players and moments!
Wow. I can’t thank you enough for posting this. Despite living in Chicago, the Blues were my absolute favorite team growing up in the 60s. Living in Houston for over 40 years now, that hasn’t changed. I remember listening to nearly all Blues games on the radio from 300 miles away, listening to the greatest hockey announcer ever – the late Dan Kelly on KMOX. This awesome team let me have some years watching such greats as Jacques Plante, Glenn Hall, Doug Harvey, Camille ‘The Eel’ Henry, Dickie Moore, Phil Goyette, Jean-Guy Talbot, the three Plager brothers, and of course, the Red Baron (Red Berensen). Two of my biggest sports thrills was seeing the Blues play at home (in the old Arena) in 1970, and seeing them shut out the Canadiens 3-0 on Forum ice, with third string goalie Ernie Wakely (later of the WHA Houston Aeros) between the pipes. Seeing Bobby Orr score the 1970 Cup winning goal still makes me sick to my stomach, almost 50 years later. While I’ve enjoyed all sorts of hockey since those initial years, NOTHING comes close to those early days of St. Louis Blues hockey. I have no more to say but LET’S GO BLUES!!!
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Game 6 starts in about 2 hours. We can imagine. LET'S GO BLUES!!!!!
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Congrats Blues you and your fans deserve it
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Who's watching in 2019!!! LET'S GO BLUUUUUUUEEEESSSSSS!!!!!
1:03:20 Imagine no more!!! 2019 Champs!!!!
Red was the St. Louis Blues’ tertiary color beginning in 1985; it was officially dropped in 1998.
When Mike Shannan says "can you imagine if this wins the Stanley Cup here, cam you imagine? We finally can 33 years later
One of my favorite teams love the blue note. I need to get a Blues Jersey
bob plager outstanding person great player.
I have this video on VHS!
I grew up in Philadelphia in the '60s and 70s. The Blues were the class of the NHL expansion teams for the first four years. As Flyers fans, we hated that the Blues broke our hearts constantly. They were bigger, tougher, and better. The old St. Louis Arena was perhaps second to the Montreal Forum for the passion of your fans. In the 1968 playoffs, the Blues brutalized the Flyers (who won the Western Division that first year) to the extent that the Flyers owner, Ed Snider, declared that his team would never be pushed around again. This was the genesis of the Broad Street Bullies, as even Scotty Bowman acknowledged in Ken Dryden's wonderful biography of Bowman (Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other). Apparently, Bowman was pushed out of St. Louis in 1971 by the Salomans after he refused to fire Al Arbour, Tommy Woodcock, and Cliff Fletcher (Bowman's assistant) after the loss to Minnesota in the playoffs that year. Bowman went home to Montreal (where he was born and grew up) and the rest was history. What could have been in St. Louis….Ironic that it was a former Flyer player (Craig Berube) drafted by Bobby Clarke, who was GM of the Flyers after his Hall of Fame career as leader of the Broad Street Bullies, who guided the Blues to their first Cup. I'm happy to see that the Blues continue to thrive under Berube…they play an exciting brand of hockey worthy of today's era
Rest In Peace Bobby Plager. 😢
Dan Kelly….the greatest hockey play by play guy of all time!
I just want to say as a life long Montreal Canadiens fan, I have always respected and rooted for the Blues. They have always been a special organization and I really hope that Dan Kelly is fondly remembered as one of the all time greatest hockey play by play broadcasters of all time!
Celebrating 20 years of failure and losing…..wow
Growing up as a kid and a Wings' fan in the UP of Michigan, I recall on those cold winter nights when AM would be clear enough to get KMOX and listen to Dan Kelly announce the Blues' games I would be transfixed. The way he said "This is St Louis Blues' Hockey" in his clear and strong voice before a commercial break I will never forget. Listening to him call the games made me a lifelong closet fan of the Blues even though Detroit was always my team although they were terrible back then. I think the fact that the Blues were competitive gave me a team to adopt in a way and to and wish that my team could emulate their success. I was so glad that the Blues finally won the cup after all those years.
As a hawks fan I love this
This is never gets old! Thank you
This was so well done. Thank you SO MUCH for posting.