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Along with being the Fight Song of Northwestern University, "Go U Northwestern" is the fight song for many high schools, with some using it under the original name. [3] Several other colleges and universities use the song as well, including Northern Oklahoma College Enid [4] and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 1998 to 2010.
The Visiting Team's Fight Song "Go U Northwestern," featuring drill in the shape of the Northwestern Athletics "sculpted N" logo "Star-Spangled Banner" The pregame show is performed using traditional chair-step marching only because Northwestern is in the Big Ten. The band's halftime shows primarily use the glide step technique.
The Northwestern Wildcats have several traditions relating to its athletics teams including the official chant, "Go U! NU!” and the Wildcats' fight song, "Go U! Northwestern!” A secondary fight song is "Rise Northwestern (Push on Song),” the final 4-measure tag (ending with a shouted "Go 'Cats!”) of which is often played after first downs.
Fight songs are sing-alongs, allowing sports fans to cheer collectively for their team. [2] These songs are commonly played several times at a sporting event. [1] For example, the band might play the fight song when entering the stadium, whenever their team scores, or while cheerleaders dance at halftime or during other breaks in the game.
Oskee-Wow-Wow (along with "Illinois Loyalty") is the official fight song of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [1] The song was written in 1910 by two students, Harold Vater Hill, Class of 1911 (1889–1917), credited with the music, and Howard Ruggles Green, Class of 1912 (1890–1969), credited with the lyrics.
The song follows a chord progression of G – D – Em – C, and Platten's vocals span from G 3. to E 5. [1] Musically, "Fight Song" is a pop rock song backed by a piano. "Fight Song" starts off with a simple melody played on the piano, as Platten starts to sing the first stanza and pre-chorus which introduces a drum and horns that play ...
Portrait of composer Stanleigh P. Friedman. Stanleigh Pohly Friedman (1884 – 1960) was an American early 20th century composer of popular music. He is best known for writing the melody of the Yale fight song, Down the Field, also known as "March, March on Down the Field".
[2] Nonetheless, the 1985 film Volunteers features a lyrically correct rendition of "The Fight Song" by John Candy, whose character, Tommy Tuttle, is an alumnus of the university. In the plotline of that film, "The Fight Song" is subsequently adopted by a group of Thai communist partisans as a battle cry. [3] [4] [5]