Georgia Tech re-debuts lost fight song!
by GT_Jason on Jun 30, 2010 5:16 PM EDT
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I work at the Georgia Tech Alumni Association and am a current student myself. Today history was made. Or more precisely, today history was welcomed home. See this afternoon we honored our resident historian's work of 20+ years. Her name is Marilyn Somers. She created our Living History program over 15 years ago which has not only served to preserve the stories of nearly 1000 prominent alumni and friends of the Institute in video interviews, but through that work she has verified and clarified all of our famous traditions. As part of our celebration for her this afternoon a small summertime contingent of the Georgia Tech Glee Club sang (for the first time in over 50 years) an old lost GT football song that Marilyn helped find and resurrect - The Georgia Tech Victory March!
I have nothing of it to show you here other than to assure you that it is a very moving collegian fight song that, in my opinion, would be very rousing for a football crowd (especially as it would roll perfectly into Up with the White and Gold then, of course, straight into Ramblin Wreck). Its copyright has (after a multi-year process) been re-acquired by Georgia Tech, and I dearly hope it is being arranged for the marching band soon. Today's "public" debut was small with no more than forty people in the Alumni House ballroom, but I can assure you that every alumnus in attendance (and there were some 'heavy hitters' there) was impressed and wants the song to be shared. It would be such a nostalgic addition to our already history-rich gameday pageantry! I just wanted everyone to know that White and Gold Nation just got a little closer to its roots today!
Go Jackets!
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Is it as cool as this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_aoOZbT9I
Because that would be pretty f-ing cool.
A week ago Saturday lastly
My ears were assaulted quite ghastly
When I clicked on a link
Before stopping to think
I wound up at a song by Rick Astley
+1 for drinking songs!
-1000 for heckuva
by Winfield Featherston on Jul 1, 2010 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions
It was the '50s
They couldn’t say “helluva” or “Ohio State” back then. It just wasn’t proper.
L'Équipe! L'Équipe! L'Équipe!
Thank god we don't break out in conga lines every time that song starts up.
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I passed this along to the band folk
and an alum found this song on a 45 record, where it was called The Victory Song. Is this the Victory March?
http://www.zshare.net/audio/7804671660dcece2/
Because my years of marching band have made me an authority on football.
It's not new, and there is a band arrangement
We played The Georgia Tech Victory March in the band (mostly in pregame) in 1988 & 1989. I’d say it was only lost in the sense that nobody looked for it. (As we didn’t win many games in ‘88, we sang it as "We lost the game, We lost the game; We lost the game let’s drink some beer!") It’s not a bad little tune, a bit cheesy, but very of its time.
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