NORTH Melbourne has turned to charismatic You Am I frontman Tim Rogers to lead the recording a new version of the club’s famous theme song.

Roos players, club staff and a lucky group of fans will sing on the recording.

The song — which will include the chanted “Hearts to Hearts” preamble missing from the 1970s version — will be used as the centrepiece of what North chief executive Carl Dilena hopes will become a new home-game ritual for Roos fans.

The Rogers version will replace the 1970s edition of Join In the Chorus at North home games and will be played when the side enters the arena.

North fan Rogers has already begun work on the track and will lead a club-wide recording of vocals at Arden St next Tuesday.

Words of the song will be writ large on the new LED lighting system at Etihad Stadium, with theming to match on the ground’s video screens.

“We want the crowd getting involved in what the players do when they win a game,” Dilena told the Herald Sun.

“The whole stadium will capture the essence.

“It will be a great way to kick things off, hopefully get people to the ground a bit earlier and really welcome the players on to the ground.

“The ‘Hearts to Hearts’ chant is pretty easy (for fans to participate) — people yelling it out, and that will be the thing with the record — it will be that group chant,” Dilena said.

Players and staff were looking forward to belting out the tune, Dilena said.

“It’s going to be a big production — staff and players will be the core of it, but Tim Rogers and some of his musician friends will drive it and produce it,” he said.

Rogers did not need to be asked twice when approached about recording a full version of the song.

“Tim loves the song — he’s got two or three favourite songs in his life and one of them is Join In The Chorus,” Dilena said.

“Last year there was a game where Tim was in the stands — it was the last quarter and we’ve made a good comeback; looking like we would win.

“(In the) last few minutes of the game, Tim stood up in the crowd and got the whole crowd around him singing the club song.

“It’s just fantastic to have him involved.

“He’s excited about it — without even prompting, he went and booked a recording studio and got a group of his muso mates together and they started work on it.

“It’s great to have someone like that who loves the club and wants to get involved.”

The older version of the North song — based on the Scottish ditty A Wee Deoch and Doris and recorded by the Fable Record Label singers in 1972 — will still be heard at the clubs’ away matches.

The Rogers version will be uploaded to heraldsun.com.au when the production process is finished later this month.