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The OU marching band plays the fight song when the team takes the field and when the team scores a touchdown, makes a big play, or makes a play in general. They also play it along with other fight songs while the Oklahoma defense is on the field to encourage the crowd to get loud.
The "Iowa Fight Song" is one of three fight songs currently used by the University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band along with "On Iowa" and "Roll Along Iowa".The music and lyrics were written by Iowa native Meredith Willson, also author of The Music Man, in 1950.
The Goin' Band from Raiderland is the 450-member marching band of Texas Tech University. The Goin' Band's repertoire of performance music varies widely, ranging from traditional marches to jazz pieces to the works of Elton John and Carlos Santana.
"From Dixie with Love" was created as a mashup of "Dixie" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and started being played in the 1980s. [4] [5]Starting around 2004, [1] students at Ole Miss Rebels football game began altering the final line of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", which ends "His truth is marching on."
The group is considered Japan's best and most innovative high school marching band. Until just several years ago — when the school began to admit boys — the band was made up entirely of girls ...
"You're a Grand Old Flag" would go on to become one of the most popular U.S. marching-band pieces of all time. The original lyric for this perennial George M. Cohan favorite came, as Cohan later explained, from an encounter he had with a Civil War veteran who fought at Gettysburg. The two men found themselves next to each other and Cohan ...
At home games, the song is performed by the Washington Commanders Marching Band when the team scores a touchdown. The music was composed in 1937 by Barnee Breeskin with lyrics written by Corinne Griffith, the wife of franchise founder George Preston Marshall. [1] The musical arrangement and lyrics have since gone through various revisions.
"Indiana, Our Indiana" is the official school fight song [citation needed] of Indiana University.The lyrics were written by IU band director, Russell P. Harker, to the tune of the trio from "The Viking March" by Karl King, conductor of the Barnum and Bailey Circus Band.