it’s hard to “write out”, but if you’ve watched any college football or basketball games in the last (year? two years?) then you’ve certainly heard it…
“whoaaaa… ho ho ho ho ho hohhh… whoaaaa… ho ho ho ho ho hohhh…”
for those of you who know what the hell I’m talking about - is this part of a song that’s too “hip” for me to know where it’s derived from? Is it one of those FSU “tomahawk chop” things that originated at just one school, and then went “viral”?
I can’t imagine there’s a wikipedia article behind this one, but if there is - consider this “ignorance fought”.
naw, that’s a fair shot (I think that’s one of the iconic “stadium anthems” that you do hear all over the place), but the one in my head is one that has zero music attached to it, it’s more just people “chanting”, similar to the tomahawk-chop chant thing.
Boom! Ignorance fought, and thank you! What’s sad is I actually recognize the song, but I just never “connected the two”, or figured out how it became the “in-thing” of stadium chants.
I’d be interested in that history, too, if anyone knows.
My best guess would be that some band played it a lot, then people sang along with, and then moved to places without bands. But you’d think that would take a while.
I think a lot of stadiums decided to stop playing Rock and Roll Part 2 after the whole Gary Glitter kiddy-porn thing became news stateside (apparently long after it happened in the UK, because Coke did a huge ad campaign focused around the song at about that time.)
I’d guess it’s descended from the chanting of the howl at Braves and Seminoles games back in the early 1990s.
Outside of college sports the first time I think it entered popular culture was in the 1991 World Series where the Braves faced down the Twins. The Tomahawk Chop started being a ‘thing’ there - as it has been at many sporting events where one team has a native American theme or connection.
From there it’s spread and the White Stripes song sort of overtook the original chant.
