Come Join The Band is the official
fight song
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of
Stanford University
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. The lyrics were written in 1907 by screenwriter and playwright
Aurania Rouverol, then a student at Stanford, and are set to the trio from
Robert Browne Hall
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's ''New Colonial March.''
Although ''Come Join the Band'' remains Stanford's official fight song, the
Stanford Band
The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) is the student marching band representing Stanford University and its athletic teams. Billing itself as "The World's Largest Rock and Roll Band," the Stanford Band performs at sporting ...
nowadays plays ''
All Right Now
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'' as their usual fight song at football games.
Recordings
"Come Join The Band" has been recorded several times, and has been featured on at least four albums:
* ''Ultrasound'' (1999), by the
Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB)
* ''Up Toward Mountains Higher'' (1999), by the
Stanford Fleet Street Singers
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[Davi, John. Liner Notes of ''Stanford: Up Toward Mountains Higher, A Century of Cardinal Favorites'', Stanford Fleet Street Singers, Stanford, 1991.]
* ''This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things'' (2003), by the
Stanford Band
The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) is the student marching band representing Stanford University and its athletic teams. Billing itself as "The World's Largest Rock and Roll Band," the Stanford Band performs at sporting ...
* ''The One, The Only'' (2008), by the
Stanford Band
The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) is the student marching band representing Stanford University and its athletic teams. Billing itself as "The World's Largest Rock and Roll Band," the Stanford Band performs at sporting ...
Related songs
Other
Stanford University
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fight songs include:
* "When Stanford Begins to Score," by W. A. Irwin (1899)
* "Victory Song," by G. H. Yost (19000
* "Just Because They Hit That Line So Hard," by M. A. Thomas Jr. (1904)
* "The Cardinal Song," by Alice Kimball (1904)
* "Sons of the Stanford Red," by William Achi (1911) and Geoffrey F. Morgan (1909)
* "The Cardinal Is Waving," by William G. Paul (1917)
References
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American college songs
College fight songs in the United States
Stanford University
Pac-12 Conference fight songs
1907 songs