So, why did I write that brief tribute to a Brewers fan song forgotten by the internet? What made me try to find it in the first place? Here’s where I bring it all together.
The song might we absent from the internet, it is however permanently implanted in my brain. My older brother was a huge Brewers fan and he played that record a lot. Incessantly. That and the team’s official theme song “Come See What’s Brewin’.”
So the “Brew Crew We’re Right Behind You” song is never far from me. I find myself singing it at various random moments.
A few days ago I stumbled upon this song by Garbage, which I had never heard before:
As we get to the ending chorus, Shirley Manson sings:
Go, baby, go-go!
We’re right behind you.
Go, baby, go-go!
Yeah, we’re lookin’ at you.
It didn’t seem real. This has lyrical, rhythmic and melodic similarities to:
Brew Crew-oo, Brew Crew-oo,
We’re right behind you!
Brew Crew-oo, Brew Crew-oo,
Yeah, we’re goin’ all the way.
But then I remembered — Garbage is from Wisconsin. Is it possible this song is in their sub conscience too?
Then I went further. Various members of Garbage were bumming around the Wisconsin music scene in the early 80. They were members of bands and recording music going back to the late 70s. Their dedicated facility, Smart Studios, was started in ‘83. So it’s not impossible to consider one or more of them performed this Brew Crew Song. Heck, maybe they could have even written it or recorded it.
I can’t say for certain, but this how my mind works. I’m the James Burke of Wisconsin.
But unless I find a copy in a second-hand music store we my never know. Radio Doctors is long gone. And Milwaukee is sadder for it.