Who stole our song!!!

[Tiger41]

What the hell? Did I just hear the Griz Fight Song played prior to the Duke-Georgia Tech game... I had to stand and cross my heart.... "from the Tummy of the Grizzly Be-e-ear!!" lala-dee-da!!!!

 

[bigtyme]

Yup you sure did. GT has the same music...from the tummy of a yellowjacket just does not sound right!

 

[Tiger41]

Dang... there it is again... I better gargle and get my pipes ready to sing for the next two hours!

 

[Silvertip]

Quick research clouds the claim of Georgia Tech having "stole" UWMB. Georgia Tech says "Up With the White and Gold" written somewhere between circa 1918 - 1920's by a band director of theirs. It is lyric heavy with enough words for two songs and the melody ventures off into the unknown. Also it shares school song recognition with "Ramblin' Wreck." Finally, there are not 2, but 3 schools using some version of the song - Cal has a pejorative version aimed at their trad rivals down the Peninsula with "Stanford Jonah." Frankly, Cal's rendition is truer to the sound of UWMB than the Jacket's.

There were waaaaay too many Youtube clips to list here, but you won't have a problem finding them.

 

[Grizmayor]

Quick research clouds the claim of Georgia Tech having "stole" UWMB. Georgia Tech says "Up With the White and Gold" written somewhere between circa 1918 - 1920's by a band director of theirs. It is lyric heavy with enough words for two songs and the melody ventures off into the unknown. Also it shares school song recognition with "Ramblin' Wreck." Finally, there are not 2, but 3 schools using some version of the song - Cal has a pejorative version aimed at their trad rivals down the Peninsula with "Stanford Jonah." Frankly, Cal's rendition is truer to the sound of UWMB than the Jacket's.

There were waaaaay too many Youtube clips to list here, but you won't have a problem finding them.

That's okay, whatever version I sing, I'm sure Simon Cowell will love me...

 

[griz8791]

Here is a little background on who may have been using it first:

http://www.umt.edu/montanan/s07/artifacts.shtml

Among other interesting tidbits in the foregoing article is that the US Naval Academy thinks we, not Georgia Tech, hold the copyright. My understanding is that copyright law has mechanisms to protect the person who first creates the work against somebody else coming in after the fact, falsely claiming to have created the work, and then filing for a "copyright" on it.

 

[Silvertip]

Here is a little background on who may have been using it first:

http://www.umt.edu/montanan/s07/artifacts.shtml

Among other interesting tidbits in the foregoing article is that the US Naval Academy thinks we, not Georgia Tech, hold the copyright. My understanding is that copyright law has mechanisms to protect the person who first creates the work against somebody else coming in after the fact, falsely claiming to have created the work, and then filing for a "copyright" on it.

Purported UWMB songwriter looks a lot like Scott Joplin. Hmm. Wonder how it would sound in ragtime?