09-13-2014, 11:25 AM
After a discussion in another thread about the Stanford Band's rendition in the 60s and 70s of Ragdoll, I went looking through old games posted on youtube to try to find it. Alas, so far I have failed. However, I was amazed to come across a complete and uninterrupted halftime performance from the 1970 Stanford Washington game. That was the game that clinched a trip to the Rose Bowl for us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdLg1MtJ2g
The halftime performance appears on the 3rd section of the video, beginning at 11:18 and extending to 20:40. The performance is an early tribute to "Women's Liberation." The TV announcer introduces each piece, names all five Dollies, and a little incongruously for a womens' lib tribute talks about "that cute girl" as the camera work travels up her leg. The pieces performed are:
Walk Like a Man
Green Eyed Lady
Honky Tonk Woman
Cracklin Rosie
The Love you Save
Lucretia Macevil
In The Love you Save "Pill?" changes to "Pill!"Â And the exclamation mark looks suspiciously like...well, you can decide.
Quite amazing to see a national telecast covering and announcing the whole half time performance for 9+ minutes. To put it in perspective, womens' lib in 1970 was still a very controversial subject--before Roe v Wade (1973), before Gloria Steinem and Betty Freidan founded the National Woman's Caucus (1971), etc., and one year after CBS cancelled the Smothers Brothers for being too political (1969). This was cutting edge stuff, and the broadcast let them do it. Amazing.
Obviously, you will also see the Dollies as Indians and if you look at the first reel of the game there is footage of Prince Lightfoot dancing. For that matter, the game itself shows off Plunkett and Vataha to good advantage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdLg1MtJ2g
The halftime performance appears on the 3rd section of the video, beginning at 11:18 and extending to 20:40. The performance is an early tribute to "Women's Liberation." The TV announcer introduces each piece, names all five Dollies, and a little incongruously for a womens' lib tribute talks about "that cute girl" as the camera work travels up her leg. The pieces performed are:
Walk Like a Man
Green Eyed Lady
Honky Tonk Woman
Cracklin Rosie
The Love you Save
Lucretia Macevil
In The Love you Save "Pill?" changes to "Pill!"Â And the exclamation mark looks suspiciously like...well, you can decide.
Quite amazing to see a national telecast covering and announcing the whole half time performance for 9+ minutes. To put it in perspective, womens' lib in 1970 was still a very controversial subject--before Roe v Wade (1973), before Gloria Steinem and Betty Freidan founded the National Woman's Caucus (1971), etc., and one year after CBS cancelled the Smothers Brothers for being too political (1969). This was cutting edge stuff, and the broadcast let them do it. Amazing.
Obviously, you will also see the Dollies as Indians and if you look at the first reel of the game there is footage of Prince Lightfoot dancing. For that matter, the game itself shows off Plunkett and Vataha to good advantage.
