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Re: Game thread - Rally - 09-22-2015

(09-22-2015, 12:52 PM)Yvonne link Wrote:Wow! It's hard to imagine that there were alumni back then!

;)

Yep.  All rich white guys, and one ugly rich woman.

Re: Game thread - Nan3cy - 09-22-2015

(09-21-2015, 11:38 PM)JJJ link Wrote:I'm sure some of you guys have seen this version, courtesy of Brad Lawson, member of 2010 National Champion VB team:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORla11KOqQ

That is very cool. Not just a terrific vball player, but a great voice too.

Re: Game thread - Rally - 09-22-2015

(09-22-2015, 04:18 PM)Nan3cy link Wrote:[quote author=JJJ link=topic=12838.msg129957#msg129957 date=1442903885]
I'm sure some of you guys have seen this version, courtesy of Brad Lawson, member of 2010 National Champion VB team:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORla11KOqQ

That is very cool. Not just a terrific vball player, but a great voice too.
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Nice, but I prefer and remember I this way

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kwUjCWk85DI

Re: Hail Stanford Hail - JJJ - 09-22-2015

I'm very iffy on this. I seem to recall that, when I was a student, the band (and maybe even the team) went to a different section to sing Hail Stanford Hail (alumni section, maybe?), which the student section couldn't hear very well. Then they came to the student section to rock out for a bunch of songs, sometimes with some football players joining in. This would've been '81-'85. I could be way off on this recollection, though!

Re: Game thread - terry - 09-22-2015

(09-22-2015, 04:17 AM)FarmBoy link Wrote:That's a tradition Harbaugh started, right?

Yes, I think Harbaugh started the tradition of having the team singing "Hail Stanford Hail" in front of the student section.

Re: Game thread - JJJ - 09-22-2015

Just saw the rebroadcast on ESPNU and caught the players for a few seconds at the beginning and the end of "Hail, Stanford, Hail" and yes, it was very moving. Would love to know if it was a tradition that had fallen by the wayside and was revived by Harbaugh, or if he originated it. I seem to recall something after games, but I've long ago determined my memory is suspect.

Re: Game thread - Rally - 09-22-2015

(09-22-2015, 08:24 PM)JJJ link Wrote:Just saw the rebroadcast on ESPNU and caught the players for a few seconds at the beginning and the end of "Hail, Stanford, Hail" and yes, it was very moving. Would love to know if it was a tradition that had fallen by the wayside and was revived by Harbaugh, or if he originated it. I seem to recall something after games, but I've long ago determined my memory is suspect.

Every game I attended as a student.

Re: Game thread - JJJ - 09-22-2015

(09-22-2015, 08:26 PM)ferrari link Wrote:[quote author=JJJ link=topic=12838.msg130114#msg130114 date=1442978693]
Just saw the rebroadcast on ESPNU and caught the players for a few seconds at the beginning and the end of "Hail, Stanford, Hail" and yes, it was very moving. Would love to know if it was a tradition that had fallen by the wayside and was revived by Harbaugh, or if he originated it. I seem to recall something after games, but I've long ago determined my memory is suspect.

Every game I attended as a student.
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Thanks, that makes me feel a lot better!

Re: Game thread - Rally - 09-22-2015

(09-22-2015, 09:00 PM)JJJ link Wrote:[quote author=ferrari link=topic=12838.msg130116#msg130116 date=1442978794]
[quote author=JJJ link=topic=12838.msg130114#msg130114 date=1442978693]
Just saw the rebroadcast on ESPNU and caught the players for a few seconds at the beginning and the end of "Hail, Stanford, Hail" and yes, it was very moving. Would love to know if it was a tradition that had fallen by the wayside and was revived by Harbaugh, or if he originated it. I seem to recall something after games, but I've long ago determined my memory is suspect.

Every game I attended as a student.
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Thanks, that makes me feel a lot better!
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Standard feature at every game I have ever seen in person(not that many since 1970.). Complete with helmets on the ground in front of them.

Re: Game thread - Rally - 09-23-2015

(09-23-2015, 05:05 AM)garvin link Wrote:I am in respectful but firm disagreement. I attended every home game from 1971 to 1975 and did not see this, ever.

Where is the disagreement?  Notice dates.

Re: Game thread - Treebound - 09-23-2015

It's a great tradition that needs to continue!  I have always liked the Fleet Street version to jazz things up when appropriate.  Singing the Alma Mater at this year's freshman convocation with my son, did bring a tear to my eyes. 

Glad to see that Harbaugh and Shaw have elevated this tradition during their tenures.  I don't remember it as much with No Fault and Teevens.

Re: Game thread - pefloresjr - 09-23-2015

In 1984, they (whoever they are) re-emphasized Hail Stanford Hail.  For a while the team did sing it with the student section after games.  I remember the lyrics were distributed all week during the build up to Big Game and we all practiced it.  It was great to sing it in unison at Cal to remove a little of the bad taste from the last Big Game there.  After my wife's sorority sisters sang her a traditional serenade at our wedding reception, I didn't have a frat song so my friends all got up and sang Hail Stanford Hail.  I'm still one of the old farts who always stays to sing it after the game.  When the team came over and sang in front of us on Saturday it was one of my favorite, most memorable moments as a Stanford fan. 

Cheers,
Pete F.

Re: Game thread - JJJ - 09-24-2015

(09-23-2015, 11:40 PM)pefloresjr link Wrote:In 1984, they (whoever they are) re-emphasized Hail Stanford Hail.  For a while the team did sing it with the student section after games.  I remember the lyrics were distributed all week during the build up to Big Game and we all practiced it.  It was great to sing it in unison at Low APR U to remove a little of the bad taste from the last Big Game there.  After my wife's sorority sisters sang her a traditional serenade at our wedding reception, I didn't have a frat song so my friends all got up and sang Hail Stanford Hail.  I'm still one of the old farts who always stays to sing it after the game.  When the team came over and sang in front of us on Saturday it was one of my favorite, most memorable moments as a Stanford fan. 

Cheers,
Pete F.
Thanks for sharing, Pete F. I'm feeling better about what's left of my brain. Plus I was really moved by that gesture on Saturday, and I wasn't even there!

Re: Game thread - FarmBoy - 09-24-2015

A quote from B Scarlett on Stanford Facebook:

Quote:"It was my first victory against the Trojans and it felt good.”

Switching sides is already paying dividends for the young man.

Re: Game thread - Leftcoast - 09-24-2015

81-85

I remember the Band playing HSH and then moving immediately into All Right Now.  Back then Hail Stanford Hail was mostly that slow prelude to All Right Now.

I remember an Alum coming to one of the rallies and leading the crowd in signing Hail Stanford Hail and talking about  how it was a great song and tradition that we shouldn't let die.  At the time it didn't resonate but looking back I admit that he was right.

Re: Game thread - Papa John - 09-24-2015

(09-24-2015, 01:49 PM)leftcoast link Wrote:I remember an Alum coming to one of the rallies and leading the crowd in signing Hail Stanford Hail

That would make William Stokoe proud!

Re: Game thread - Rally - 09-24-2015

(09-24-2015, 08:57 PM)Papa John link Wrote:[quote author=leftcoast link=topic=12838.msg130366#msg130366 date=1443127758]
I remember an Alum coming to one of the rallies and leading the crowd in signing Hail Stanford Hail

That would make William Stokoe proud!
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And his brother Geoffrey?

Re: Game thread - JJJ - 09-25-2015

(09-24-2015, 01:49 PM)leftcoast link Wrote:81-85

I remember the Band playing HSH and then moving immediately into All Right Now.  Back then Hail Stanford Hail was mostly that slow prelude to All Right Now.

I remember an Alum coming to one of the rallies and leading the crowd in signing Hail Stanford Hail and talking about  how it was a great song and tradition that we shouldn't let die.  At the time it didn't resonate but looking back I admit that he was right.
I have a more than sneaking suspicion your memory is better than mine. At first, I didn't know what that "slow intro" to "All Right Now" was!

Re: Game thread - gocard14 - 09-25-2015

Fleet Street alum here. One of our former members arranged the Stanford hymn (aka hail Stanford hail), as well as come join the band, dirty golden bear, etc. it was a brilliant move, as they've been hired for alumni gigs ever since.

While the hymn isn't a particularly inspired melody, I won't lie that hearing it performed (very well) at our Fleet Street reunion show gave me goosebumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBchSXcyJKw, skip to 1:30:40

Re: Game thread - 81alum - 09-25-2015

(09-25-2015, 05:01 AM)gocard14 link Wrote:Fleet Street alum here. One of our former members arranged the Stanford hymn (aka hail Stanford hail), as well as come join the band, dirty golden 59er, etc. it was a brilliant move, as they've been hired for alumni gigs ever since.

While the hymn isn't a particularly inspired melody, I won't lie that hearing it performed (very well) at our Fleet Street reunion show gave me goosebumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBchSXcyJKw, skip to 1:30:40
Brilliant, Gocard.  I was hoping that someone from Fleet Street would fill us in.  No, the actual melody is not catchy, and so what I think makes the piece so effective is the Fleet Street arrangement with its chords and harmonies.  It rescued this piece from sounding like the 19th Century hymn that it is.

When I first heard the lyrics I found them to be maudlin, but they have grown on me in later years.  I have more to relate to them now that I have spent many hours hiking in the hills and baylands, watching sunsets, etc.  I remember sitting very high on the El Camino side of the new stadium a couple of years ago as the sun set over the hills to the west.  Brilliant color-streaked sky above Hoover Tower and the red roofs of the campus.  Suddenly I felt connected to the first verse in a way I had not before.  That night I left my seat early and moved to the Red zone so after the game I could sing with the students and the band and the team.