While watching the Nevada game tonight on ESPN i noticed that Nevade has the same fight song as Lehigh. Bucknell i believe has the same one too. Any other schools that share fight songs?
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While watching the Nevada game tonight on ESPN i noticed that Nevade has the same fight song as Lehigh. Bucknell i believe has the same one too. Any other schools that share fight songs?
I remember quite awhile ago that somebody was giving Montana a hard time for having basically the same fight song as another school, a major I-A school from back east if I remember right (with some words changed, of course). Probably not too helpful, but I'm sure somebody else will expound.
Those rat bast*rds at Wisconsin have the same fight song "On Wisconsin"(music) as my old junior high, the Oak Street Bobcats, "Forward Oak Street". I'm sure we'll be suing them for copyright infringment any day. :)
I believe this is the song to which you refer (from Georgia Tech):Quote:
Originally Posted by Tod
Up with the White and Gold
Oh well it's up with the white and gold
Down with the red and black
Georgia Tech is out for a victory.
We'll drop our battle axe on Georgia's head
When we meet her our team is sure to beat her.
Down on the old farm there'll be no sound
Till our bow-wow's rip through the air.
When the battle is over Georgia's team will be found
With the Yellow Jackets swarming round.
...and I thought Montana's fight song lyrics were archaic! Well, okay, maybe they're both archaic (but they're both from the 1920s, I think, so the image of raccoon coats that comes to mind is pretty accurate).
Okay I just listed to "Up with the White and Gold", and while it is clearly the basis for "Up with Montana", it has a bunch of curlicues and filigree in it that "Up with Montana" lacks, there are some measures that differ slightly, and UwM is played at a much faster tempo--all of which, in my undoubtedly biased opinion, make it a much more rousing tune.
Listen for yourself:
Up with Montana
Up with the White and Gold
I like Montana's pace better, especially when they kick it up a notch the second time around, and the flourish at the end kicks it up one last time.
My high school has the On Wisconsin music as well. Best fight song in college sports belongs to Army.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bub
Michigan stole my high school's fight song!!! :mad: :nonono2: ;)
It's the easiest fight song to play I've ever heard....think "High School Band" difficulty.
Yale and Oklahoma share one to the tune of "Boomer Sooner."
I don't think anyone else has ours. You can listen to No. 5 on the link below. There are about 40 other songs recorded from half time shows. Feel free to listen to several as the Southerners are a very good band. Overlook the Flaggots (male flag carriers).
http://www.marchingsoutherners.org/media/
How nutty is it that more than 35 years after the fact I can still sing, word for word, my junior high fight song? My older brother can still sing it too. Are we just goofy or are there others out there equally nuts? :coach:
The Nerds use that as the alternate fight song. Im sure you're familiar with "Wramblin Wrek"? They also play "Up with the Calculators" much faster at the games than on that recording. Doubt they wore raccoon coats due to the fact it might aggrivate their allergies.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrunchGriz
Furman and Elon share their fight song. Another thing they have in common.
Those words are also used for Cal's fight song:Quote:
Originally Posted by CrunchGriz
So well it's up with the blue and gold
Down with the red
California is up for a victory.
We'll drop our battle axe on stanfurd's head
When we meet them our team will surely beat them.
Down on the stanfurd farm there'll be no sound
When our Oski rips through the air.
Like our friend Mr. Jonah
stanfurd's team will be found
In the tummy of the Golden Bear
Of course you meant to say "Yale and Oklahoma share one to the tune of 'Boola Boola.'"Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivytalk
How many of Towson, Princeton, Savannah St., Tennessee St., Jackson St., and Texas Southern play the "Tiger Rag" with Auburn and Clemson?
SHSU's fight song melody is from the Coast Guard anthem "Semper Paratus". It is also my junior high school's fight song too. Blinn College in Brenham, TX shares it's fight song with Notre Dame.
Notre Dame's has to be #1. It sure is played the most.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNH 40
HERE is a link to some of the UCA Band's songs...they are really good so you should give them a listen. My favorite is the train!
[QUOTE=EagleCrusade]The Nerds use that as the alternate fight song. Im sure you're familiar with "Wramblin Wrek"? They also play "Up with the Calculators" much faster at the games than on that recording. Doubt they wore raccoon coats due to the fact it might aggrivate their allergies.
Furman and Elon share their fight song. Another thing they have in common.[/QUOTE]
Really I admit I have never ever heard Elon's band, but that surprises me
From the Wisconsin site...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bub
The tune was originally composed in 1909 by Chicago's William Purdy, and the words were written by Carl Beck. Purdy and Beck had been fraternity brothers at Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) and were roommates in Chicago. Purdy was going to submit the song for a $100 prize the University of Minnesota was offering for a new football song. When Beck heard the music, he offered to write words and suggested that Purdy offer it to Wisconsin, where Beck had once studied. The song was an instant hit on campus and spread throughout the world. It was especially popular with military bands.
Some 2,500 schools and colleges have adopted the music and changed the words to suit their needs. "On, Wisconsin" was sung for the first time at the 1909 homecoming game vs. Minnesota.
It's not our fight song, which I'm pretty sure is App-only, but I really don't like the "Its great to be...a Mountaineer...I said it's GREAT to be a MOUNTAINEER" chant. Who doesn't use that? One of the primary reasons I turned into such a huge anti-UGAy fan was the f'ing CONSTANT chanting of "It's great to be...a Georgia Bulldog...I said it's GREAT to be a Georgia Bulldog"...
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I love Notre Dame's fight song but there is something about the Army fight song I love.Quote:
Originally Posted by I-AA 2005
I don't think it's too odd that some western schools have fight songs that originated with schools in the east - generally (although not always) the schools in the west are newer than the eastern schools and may have "borrowed" tunes from already established fight songs. While it's nice to be original, if you find a good tune that works go with it. Can never have too much of a good thing and besides, I'd rather have a good re-used fight song than a bad new one - and there are plenty of bad ones out there (for the record I greatly enjoy UD's own original fight song).
So did Lehigh steal it from Bucknell? And Nevada from Lehigh?
Semper Paratus was also my high school's fight song...Whitehouse H.S. in Whitehouse, Tx.Quote:
Originally Posted by gokats85
Fine, Wisconsin had the song first. They're still rat bast*rds! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by bunny
In the 1920's, 30's & 40's when a lot of high school football teams and bands were starting up it was pretty customary to use part of a march for your fight song or a well known college fight song. If using part of a march it was generally the trio. The UCA Fight Song that I just listened to is the trio from the march "The Purple Pageant" by Karl King. The h.s. that I am a band director uses a trio for their fight song and I think most of the schools in our district do as well. My alma mater, Northwestern St., uses the trio from the March "The Brittish Eighth" and is pretty unique as I have never heard anyone else use it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshUCA
P.S.-What's up with the trumpet player at the end of the recording? :nono:
Well this discussion got going over on eGriz concerning the Montana song "Up With Montana" and Georgia Tech's "Up With the White and Gold". And it looks like we might have had it first.
"Up With the White and Gold" was published in 1931.
Georgia Tech Music History
"Up With Montana" was being used as far back as 1921 at Homecoming from Montana Artifacts.
Montana Artifacts
[QUOTE=OL FU]Do they actually have one?Quote:
Originally Posted by EagleCrusade
Both are great for sure. You hear the Army caisons song on all army base parade grounds, but I'm not sure every Catholic church uses it. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by UNH 40
Okay, I retract part of what I wrote in this post. It appears that "Up with Montana" predates "Up with the White and Gold", as the music is copyrighted by Richard Howell of the UM Law School. He wrote the song in 1914.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrunchGriz
The Navy has another version of the song, "Up with the Navy", but on their webpage they clearly note that the song is "Up with Montana", by Dick Howell.
UM's Howell wrote the song in 1914
Frank Roman, of Georgia Tech, copyrighted "Up with the White and Gold" in 1931, but there's another website that states that he wrote neither the lyrics nor the tune:
Roman has the copyright, but didn't write it
There's no attribution in this story, so there's no way to know how this author knows that Roman didn't write the tune, but it lends further credence to the fact that it was Georgia Tech who ripped off Montana, not the other way around.
I've found a site selling a 1925 recording of "Up with the White and Gold" by the Georgia Tech band, but I've also found a link to a Montana history magazine that notes a copy of a UM game program from 1921 with the current UM lyrics.
I haven't yet found anything that says Georgia Tech was using the song before 1925.
Yep ol' CrunchGriz did some great research and found that "Up With Montana" does indeed pre-date Georgia Tech's "Up With the White and Gold".
This is from the article about the 1914 game with Montana State.
"To commemorate the rivalry, Richard Howell of the UM law school has written "Up With Montana," which remains the school's fight song."
Mmmhmmm, LOL...i was thinkin da same thing. big ass :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono:Quote:
Originally Posted by NSUDemon98
He was obviously going for the high Eb[concert Db] at the end of the song but fell off of the Bb[Concet Ab]....needless to say, they should have re-recorded it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TxState_GO_CATS!
Okay, I have to amend one more time (the last, I hope), and, unfortunately for Griz fans, it's not in our favor. It appears that we ripped off Cal for the song, then Georgia Tech and Navy ripped us (or Cal--hard to tell) off later with their "Up with..." versions.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrunchGriz
Explanation of "Up with Montana" origin
one question is whether we (Lehigh) have an 'official' fight song. Certainly, there has been "Lehigh Will Shine" for close to 100 years, but we also play "Down the Field" at all pregames with the band spelling L-E-H-I-G-H as it marches down the field and then sings, there is our beloved, "Silver Goblet" and "Hats off to Lehigh" as well. I've always thought "Lehigh Will Shine" is THE fight song, but I've never seen it officially declared as such. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Go Lehigh TU owl
I believe that all the Universities of California (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Cruz [eventually Merced but not San Francisco]) have the same fight song.
I thought for a long time that ASU used a fight song that was also used by a larger, national-type school. I just never knew whose song it was. It kinda has a pepped-up Notre Dame feel to it, if you ask me. Maybe that's what mixed me up.
I played through every I-A fight song on EA's NCAA Football, 2006, and couldn't find one that sounds like ASU's. I'm guessing it's an ASU original.
I've never figured out what the words have to do with the music, though.
UC Davis' fight song is "Aggie Fight" (original song)Quote:
I believe that all the Universities of California (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Cruz [eventually Merced but not San Francisco]) have the same fight song.
We play "Big C" like the others UC's, but it is not our fight song.
I for one am looking forward to UCA begin SLC conference play in a few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshUCA
Who's fight song has "It might be cold, but we're HOT HOT HOT!!!" It's on the tip of my tongue....
Yes they should have, but Ig uess whoever he/she was that did that is semi-famous now and made their mark at UCA by overplaying...UCA's version of American Idol goes Marching BandQuote:
Originally Posted by NSUDemon98