Grace, Too

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"Grace, Too"
Tragically Hip - Grace Too cover.jpg
Single by The Tragically Hip
from the album Day for Night
ReleasedSeptember 1994
Genre Rock
Length5:34
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) The Tragically Hip
Producer(s) Mark Howard
The Tragically Hip singles chronology
"Fully Completely"
(1993)		"Grace, Too"
(1994)		"Greasy Jungle"
(1994)

"Grace, Too" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released in September 1994 as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Day for Night . The song peaked at number 11 on the RPM Canadian Singles chart. [1]

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Live performances

On March 25, 1995, The Tragically Hip performed the song on Saturday Night Live after being introduced by Dan Aykroyd. [2] Aykroyd, who is a fan of the band, had personally lobbied SNL showrunner Lorne Michaels to book them as a musical guest. [3] On the show, Gord Downie notably flubbed the start of the song—rather than the normal opening lyric, "He said I'm fabulously rich", Downie sang it as "He said I'm tragically hip". [4] The band later attributed the error to their pre-show used of marijuana. [4] Subsequently during live performances, Downie frequently sang the opening line as "He said I'm tragically hip", often to applause from the crowd.[ citation needed ]

The band also opened their Woodstock 1999 performance with this song.

Covers

In 2011, the song was covered by Selina Martin for the first Have Not Been the Same charity compilation. [5]

Singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge covered the song for his 2014 album Daredevil , an album consisting entirely of Tragically Hip covers. [6]

Following Downie's death in October 2017, country singer Dallas Smith performed the song during his concert at Kingston's K-Rock Centre on October 19. [7]

On October 11, 2018, six days before the one-year anniversary of Downie's death, Johnny Fay and Rob Baker joined Choir! Choir! Choir! at Yonge-Dundas Square (now Sankofa Square) for a live performance of the song. [8]

The song was covered by Twin Flames on their 2020 album Omen. [9]

On September 5, 2024, it was one of three songs, alongside "Ahead by a Century" and "Bobcaygeon", performed by Choir! Choir! Choir! in a public singalong following the premiere of the documentary series The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. [10]

Charts

References

  1. 1 2 "Top Singles - Volume 60, No. 17, November 14, 1994". RPM. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  2. ↑ "Tragically Hip - Grace Too - SNL-1995". Vimeo.
  3. ↑ "Dan Aykroyd on the Tragically Hip, the blues, ghosts and the Caesar". CBC Radio. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  4. 1 2 Phelan, Chris (March 26, 2025). "The Tragically Hip Tell the Story of Their Flubbed Lyric on SNL 30 Years Ago". NBC.com. Retrieved June 26, 2025.
  5. ↑ "'Have Not Been the Same' Book Spawns Covers Comp Featuring Kevin Drew, the Hidden Cameras, Great Lake Swimmers, Bry Webb". Exclaim! , November 14, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Justin Rutledge Ropes In Brendan Canning, Jenn Grant, Andy Maize for Tragically Hip Covers Album" Archived 2014-04-09 at the Wayback Machine . Exclaim! , January 30, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Dallas Smith Sings Tribute to Gord Downie at the K-Rock Centre". Kingston Herald, October 20, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Watch the Tragically Hip join Choir! Choir! Choir! for a touching rendition of Grace, Too". Q , October 17, 2018.
  9. ↑ Alan Cross, "Twin Flames honour Gord Downie with inspired Grace Too cover". A Journal of Musical Things, July 24, 2020.
  10. ↑ David Friend, "Tragically Hip fans belt out band’s classics en masse as TIFF gets underway". Toronto Star , September 5, 2024.
  11. ↑ "The Tragically Hip - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard .
  12. ↑ "RPM 100 Hit Tracks of 1994". RPM. Retrieved November 23, 2017.



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