Fight Songs

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Series: Touchdown Song
Length: 12:01

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F-ohio_state_fans_cheering_small There's nothing to make you feel team spirit or school spirit like a fight song. In this installment, Tom Hedden (who composed songs for 19 years at NFL Films) tells us about some of the famous people who've written fight songs, why most of them were written with in just a few years of each other and why they're called "Fight Songs" in the first place.

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There's nothing to make you feel team spirit or school spirit like a fight song. In this installment, Tom Hedden (who composed songs for 19 years at NFL Films) tells us about some of the famous people who've written fight songs, why most of them were written with in just a few years of each other and why they're called "Fight Songs" in the first place.

Transcript

(MUSIC – UCLA Trombone cheer)

This is “Touchdown Song” – a look at music and sports. I’m Tom Hedden; I spent ___ years writing music for NFL Films. In this segment we’ll talk about a kind of song that belongs to everyone who’s ever gone to college, a plenty of folks who haven’t.

(MUSIC – UCLA Trombone cheer)

Whether you went to a Big 10 school

(MUSIC University of Wisconsin Marching Band – On Wisconsin on the Album "Fight On: The Greatest College Fight Songs;" Audio CD (September 24, 2009), Label: Cobra Entertainment LLC, ASIN: B000001V56)

Or the Ivy League.

(MUSIC – Yale Spizziwgs - Down the Field)
Lyrics: March, march on down the field / Fighting for Eli / Break through that crimson line
FADE AND LEAVE UNDER

Fights songs can stir something inside you. And the funny thing is, they stay with you.

(Man singing – Cal. Fight Song)
LYRICS: On our rugged Eastern foothills / Stan...
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Timing and Cues

IN (music) This is "Touchdown Song"
OQ: performing arts (music sting)

Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
On Wisconsin	University of Wisconsin Marching Band	Fight On: The Greatest College Fight Songs.	Cobra Entertainment LLC	2009	00:00
Notre Dame Victory March	Notre Dame University Marching Band	Fight On: The Greatest College Fight Songs.	Cobra Entertainment LLC	2009	00:00
Anchors Away	The United States Naval Academy Band	Gameday Faves: Classic College Fight Songs (Volume 2).	: 2Thumbz Entertainment	2008	00:00
Across The Field	Ohio State University Marching Band	Fight On: The Greatest College Fight Songs.	Cobra Entertainment LLC	2009	00:00
Harvardiana	Harvard Glee Club	Harvard Glee Club 150th Anniversary Concert.		2009	00:00
Aggie War Hymn	Texas A&M University Marching Band	Fight On: The Greatest College Fight Songs.	Cobra Entertainment LLC	2009	00:00
They Eyes of Texas	University of Texas Marching Band	Fight On: The Greatest College Fight Songs.	Cobra Entertainment LLC	2009	00:00
Soldiers Field	Harvard Glee Club	Harvard Glee Club 150th Anniversary Concert.		2009	00:00
University of Iowa Fight Song	The University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band		University of Iowa	2001	00:00
Iowa Stubborn	The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast)	The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast) .	Angel Records	1992	00:00
I Get A Kick Out of You	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook.	Polygram Records	1997	00:00
10,000 Men of Harvard	Harvard Glee Club	Harvard Glee Club 150th Anniversary Concert.		2009	00:00
Meet The Mets	words and music by Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz	Meet The Mets - Official Song of the New York Mets.	Goldenrod Music, Inc.	1963	00:00