Cornell's "Give My Regards to Davy"

FS #112; FSV 101.
Another Ivy league school that is posted. There is a new fight song in their master list, but they still use this one as their main fight song. For may old timers, this is to the tune, "Give my Regards to Broadway" in their version. (There is a video here on youTube- follow the bouncing ball at 3:44 in the old cartoon, "Fresh Yeggs": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3mpn4n1DM)
By the looks of things, the students LOVE beer and to my belief, Cornell may have low graduation rates in all the Ivy League schools. (Go ahead and counter, but because the song shows this- this stereotype would hold firm until the words change.... :) )
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[argeliahizer]

nice to hear this.. :)

[fongchaynun]

ed, No, the composer/author of "Give My Regards to Broadway" wasn't a Cornell grad. It was George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, and producer, the "man who owned Broadway" in the years before WWI. AFAIK, Cohan never attended any college. Cornell adopted the song some years after "Little Johnny Jones", the musical in which the song was first heard, opened in New York.

[edgehringer]

I believe that Give My Regards to Broadway was written by a Cornell grad, and that the university adopted it as their fight song a year or two after it became a hit (ca. 1908). It is one of two fight songs I know of that were originally show tunes (the other being U. of So. Carolina's "USC Fight Song," also known by its original name of "Step to the Rear."

[PMThor]

Go Big Red!!!!