From: hbawl@usmi02.midland.chevron.com (Wilber L. Baker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.marching.misc
Subject: Re: School Songs
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:34:24 GMT
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In article <jgladu-171292075904@128.249.27.63> jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu (grungy (John F. Gladu)) writes:
> Where do school songs come from?
> Where do they go?
> What schools are playing stolen or borrowed tunes as school songs?
> 

  [.. really good description of RICE's school song history..deleted.. ]


   Texas A&M :

   Aggie_War_Hymn     (it's not a 'fight song', it's a WAR HYMN)
          Original & copyrighted     (does borrow one strain from
                                      some old 'folk' song )
          I believe written by a former student during WW II .

   Spirit_of_Aggieland                  (Alma Mater)
          Original & copyrighted... by Cadet Marvin H. Mimms
          while a Junior at A&M back in 1950-something.
          Kind-of  'dirge'-like  but definitely brings tears
          to the eyes of former students every time  (from
          fond memories...not sour notes).   At a football
          game, the band plays it twice while the crowd does
          a sequence of Yells (cheers) in rhythm.

   
   12th_Man        (refer's to the students ready to go in and 
                    play if the football team was too injured)
          Original & copyrighted.    I think by the wife of
          a former Band Director or maybe College President.
          An interesting..'fun' song.   Unfortunately it's
          just not the style of our other music...
          It's kind of 'hoakey' or High School-ish.

          It's now only played when the Ag's lose a football game.
          Sometimes during basketball games.


    I'm really ashamed that I can't remember the exact 
    names and dates....In the band, you HAD to MEMORIZE all
    sorts of trivia like this...I've only been out 3 years....

    There are other songs that are very traditional to the Band.
           Nobel Men of Kyle         (Kyle Field is our stadium)
           Brazos Briggade           (Brazos River runs near campus)
           When Johnny Comes Marching Home
           Ballad of the Green Berets
           Patton       (arrangment of Movie theme by former director)
    ...All marches.
          
> reference to the method used to squash it.  Somehow the alumni set
> conditions for playing the tune (I have no idea how this was enforced) - it
> could only be played:
> a) after the game was over;
> b) if Rice won the game;
> c) a petition was presented to the Student Association Senate and the
> Senate  
>    voted to have the band play the song if the first two conditions were
> met.
> 

     Similar fate as our   12th_Man  ... only I don't think there
     was any politics envolved.


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