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Okla-homey
3/30/2008, 07:39 AM
UTEP.

They actually took "El Paso", a huge hit for 60's c/w star Marty Robbins and made it their offishul fight song/march.

http://fightmusic.com/mp3/conf-usa/UTEP__Miners_Fight.mp3

however, this is still infinitely more ghey:

http://fightmusic.com/mp3/big12/Oklahoma_State__Waving_Song.mp3
reevie
3/30/2008, 07:49 AM
Isn't the Australian national anthem a pop hit from the 50s/60s?
Flagstaffsooner
3/30/2008, 09:47 AM
Isn't the Australian national anthem a pop hit from the 50s/60s?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPu-C5vvzU4
King Crimson
3/30/2008, 09:51 AM
El Paso is a fun song to sing. i like it.
Flagstaffsooner
3/30/2008, 10:02 AM
El Paso is a fun song to sing. i like it.I cant get Homey's links to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCP3wKTajsU&feature=related
royalfan5
3/30/2008, 05:11 PM
I would have been more surprised if that wasn't their fight song.
Okla-homey
3/30/2008, 05:23 PM
I would have been more surprised if that wasn't their fight song.


well, they could have gone with La Cucaracha.;)
royalfan5
3/30/2008, 06:31 PM
On the same subject, why isn't Tulsa's fight song "Tulsa Time"?
BigRedJed
3/30/2008, 06:35 PM
What about Yale's (http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/trads/songs.html) old fight song, Boola Boola (http://www.cis.yale.edu/athletic/songs/boola.mp3)?

Personally, I like it.
Okla-homey
3/30/2008, 07:10 PM
On the same subject, why isn't Tulsa's fight song "Tulsa Time"?

They have a stylized arrangment the marching band plays occasionally that incorporates Eric Clapton's "Tulsa Time," Bob Wills' "Take Me Back to Tulsa" and "Get Your Kicks on Route 66." That last one is because TU is America's only university actually located astride the Mother Road.

The offishul fight song predates all those hits, and as is befitting Oklahoma's academically highest ranked university and second most successful college football program. ;)
silverwheels
3/30/2008, 10:53 PM
I like the Old 97's version of "El Paso".
King Crimson
3/30/2008, 11:35 PM
Clapton's Tulsa Time? he covered it.
TUSooner
3/31/2008, 12:25 PM
Moore West Jr High's fight song was once the theme from the Magnificent Seven, which also happend to be the Marlborough man's theme song, back in the day when ciggy makers could advertize on the TV & stuff.
Pricetag
3/31/2008, 12:33 PM
Clapton's Tulsa Time? he covered it.
Who was the first to record it, Don Williams? The Tulsa Roughnecks had that as their song for most of their time here.
TUSooner
3/31/2008, 12:33 PM
I cant get Homey's links to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCP3wKTajsU&feature=related

That's probably the best video that could ever be made of that song.
Very touching.
frankensooner
3/31/2008, 12:41 PM
The offishul fight song predates all those hits, and as is befitting Oklahoma's academically highest ranked university and second most successful college football program. ;)
Too bad their law school isn't better. ;)
jr4ou
3/31/2008, 12:52 PM
:pop:
Too bad their law school isn't better. ;)
BudSooner
3/31/2008, 01:18 PM
Clapton's Tulsa Time? he covered it.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1372

It was written by the guitarist for Don Williams, Don performed the song in '87 but Eric perfomed it in '78.

Interesting.
OUDoc
3/31/2008, 01:20 PM
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King Crimson
3/31/2008, 01:33 PM
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1372

It was written by the guitarist for Don Williams, Don performed the song in '87 but Eric perfomed it in '78.

Interesting.

i thought Williams did it earlier than that, but i could be wrong. 87 seems kinda late. there IS a great youtube of Clapton doing it.

Clapton's band at the time was all from Oklahoma, they say.

something like that, i've read that somewhere in my wasted youth of reading music mags.
BudSooner
3/31/2008, 01:45 PM
Yeah I could swear up and down he did it earlier, dad was really a fan of Don Williams and I know for certain it was earlier....mebbe not.
Either way both men perfomed it very well.
texas bandman
3/31/2008, 02:32 PM
Moore West Jr High's fight song was once the theme from the Magnificent Seven, which also happend to be the Marlborough man's theme song, back in the day when ciggy makers could advertize on the TV & stuff.

When was that. I went to Moore West the first 3 years it was a school (I was in the top grade at the school each year) and I don't ever remember that. All we ever played in band was "Onward Tigers" ("On Wisconsin). But of course that was 1972-74 and I have slept since then. :D