On the Great Bud Song Scandal of 1994, Chuck Sackett writes:
>This is for all of the Main Black Bear fans out there (I know there's a lot
>of you).  Your teams have enjoyed a lot of success in the last few years, and
>I congratulate you for that.  However, I am a bit disturbed by your
>"plagiarism" (my word) of the Bud Song that has been a mainstay at Wisconsin
>games and has been our rallying cry since the early to mid seventies.
 
I'm extremely reluctant to be responsible for prolonging a band
discussion :-), but...
 
I am sure that the Maine band (and BU also, since they likewise used
the song in Milwaukee) would gladly admit to having stolen the song
from Wisconsin, since they intentionally played it to try to attract
the hometown fans over to their side.  I believe that the band leaders
from those schools even worked with the Wisconsin band folks to make
sure they played the song the right way.
 
>I'll
>admit, I was suckered at the Final Four in Milwaukee two years ago.  When the
>Black Bear Band would strike up the tune, I joined in with the other 17,000
>Wisconsin faithful and screamed "When you say Wisconsin, you've said it
>all!" at the top of my lungs.  But, please. . . .come up with a different
>song to rally your fans.  That one is taken. . . .and it's a little sacred.
 
Looks like the strategy worked - both because of the way the Badger
fans responded to the playing of the song and the way they supported
the team whose band played it.  I guess it really wasn't that sacred
after all or else the opposite would have happened.
 
The song is catchy.  No one plays it like the Wisconsin band, that I
have heard, but I'm not surprised others have picked it up.  Still,
since Wisconsin took the song from someplace else, it's hard to
criticize others who do the same thing.
 
This reminds of a post I saw on r.s.h a few years ago in which a
Pittsburgh Penguin fan railed against all the other teams and sports
out there that had stolen what he said was Pittsburgh's song - Gary
Glitter's "Rock & Roll Part 2".  He got lambasted up and down the net
for weeks by people who popped up with stories that this or that team
had been using it long before Pittsburgh ever did (I believe it
originated in Muskegon in the IHL in the 70s).  But I will still hear
of cases where fans go to an opposing rink, hear R&R2 played and want
to know why the opponents' have "stolen" their song.  Oh well...
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Mike Machnik                                            [log in to unmask]
Cabletron Systems, Inc.                                    *HMM* 11/13/93
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