Posted by Scott Orr on Sunday, May 3, 2015
Wisconsin? Anybody?
ADDED: I'm looking for musical-theater-type presentations of the Wisconsin song (and other schools' songs), not just the usual marching band things, but something different. Also, I just want to say that my mother grew up in Ann Arbor, and here I am as a little kid visiting my grandparents on South Division Street:
I'm the one I would want to be if I didn't already know which one I am. (Photo, from 1956, previously blogged in 2013.)
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I think this "generic" one is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq4K1N9XttY
Didn't listen, but did they use these, the correct words?
Hail to those masturbators
Hail to those fornicators
Hail, hail to Michigan
The Cesspool of the World!!!
Hail to those motherf*ckers
hail to those Dumb C*ck-suckers
Hail, hail to Michigan
The Cesspit of the world.
I think "On Wisconsin" is right up near the top, along with the fight songs from Michigan and USC. But no university tops Notre Dame's Victory March.
Alas that the original "On Wisconsin" was withdrawn from the Minnesota competition. Had we been able to select it, no one here would have to explain Ski-U-Mah to the rest of the world.
It's the WAY they sing it here that's significant.
Note: I went to Michigan undergrad. My mother also went to Michigan... and she grew up in Ann Arbor.
Not invested in this, but Michigan and Notre Dame are in a class by themselves.
Wisconsin is in the second rank, Tennessee's "Rocky Top" is an example of a third rank fight song.
Ah. but wait . . . they conquer no one anymore. Indiana, Purdue, Directional Michigans and Miami of Ohio, yeah but watch out for Ball State and Appalachian State. And the winning song names no school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY
I've been irritated by this subject since the Left got rid of Chief Illiniwek at Illinois, thereby ruining halftimes there forever.
The University of Illinois will never get another cent from me.
I don't know about the theatre students, but Ohio State's football students kicked the livin' shit of Michigan's (and Wisconsin and the rest). I'm guessing they're good with that.
They also have the Best Damn Band in the Land.
GO Bucks!
My alma mater, Rice, has "Louie, Louie" as it's unofficial fight song. Here is a clip showing the MOB (Marching Owl Band) performing it in the stands. You can see the keyboards and part of the string section. (Yes, they have a string section, as well as keyboards and electric guitars. The amps are on carts.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acsQW8g9RRM
Here is the studio version, as used in the "Police Squad!" film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBeWxNGSIw&list=PLEdJHRhFpf7fOTAuKbJY0KuKAGcoxzTT7
Speaking of the Dropkick Murphys, they've recorded my alma mater's fight song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArP3D_LX5w
But awesome rendition. Now I wonder how they will sing "Do you want any fries with that?"
Ohio State's Glee Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFlaapy_2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg928Cmg7iE
@Wilbur, besides, what sort of fight song is "Oskee-Wow-Wow"?
Althouse,
Point of trivia but I'm given to understand that U W no longer owns the rights to "On Wisconsin." Indeed, Sir Paul McCartney does, and that Sir Paul declined to forego the royalties thereto.
Perhaps this has changed, but my understanding is that for years the band would play the Budweiser song far more often than they would play On Wisconsin. Budweiser foregoing their royalties in a cheap way to stick it to Miller on their home turf.
Waunakee High School's school song was Go U Northwestern.
I knew all the cheerleaders moves to every chant-I was so much better than them. My arms really "stuck" to the positions.
tits.
What years did your mother attend U of M? Inquiring minds want to know.
Washington and Lee has a great fight song. No musical theater version, but here is Rudy Vallee
and Louis Armstrong.
My current best theory is the youngest girl if quite young tends to want to always be just the right contrast to whichever older girl the guy she wants is about or at the point of being about. If he likes a diverse sort of older females, that can cause her to switch emotions often, which may be mistaken for a desire to be whatever he wants to fantasize about. Not that you weren't probably too young for that sort of thing in reality, but there might have been some practicing going on in case the opportunity later arose.
Nowadays I suppose a girl like what you looked to be in 1956 would be called sassy, a word I am hesistant to embrace because it seems like it had bad connotations when I was young.
All speculation, of course. You didn't seem too entirely keen to be just like the cool brainy-looking girl on our far right.
Here is Bing Crosby singing the University of Idaho fight song in 1947
http://youtu.be/qz6SqSUcisw
The truth is, there was a storm that brought dowm a lot of tree branches, and we found the changed environment really exciting.
For all you savages in the midwest:
Ten Thousand Men of Harvard
We may no longer play top-of-the-heap football we have history of great fight songs based on our early dominance of American football. (look it up!)
Fight Fiercely Harvard
Wayne; I was hoping someone would counter with Tom Lehrer. Good going!!
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