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- Win a free Pride CD! 
7/29/06; 9:47:35 AM (reads: 13766, responses:
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It's too quiet around here! Football season starts in five weeks, and the 2006 Pride of Oklahoma arrives in less than three weeks (see previous item). It's time to get revved up, so wake up and hear the Boomers.
You can literally wake up and hear Boomer Sooner with your very own copy of the 2005 Pride of Oklahoma CD. This 17-track piece of plastic, recorded in both stereo and hi-fi (oooooh!), contains all nine of Dr. Roland Barrett's arrangements from the 2005 season:
- The Movie Show
- James Bond Medley
- The Incredibles
- I Need A Hero
- The Latin Music Show
- El Toro Caliente
- Tico Tico
- A Night In Tunisia
- The Rock Show
- Hush
- Smoke on the Water
- Respect
Plus eight full tracks of newly recorded rah-rahs and spirit songs!
- Fanfare and Oklahoma
- Fight for OKU
- Boomer Sooner
- Oklahoma Blues
- OU Chant (both instrumental and a capella
- 9 and Swing drum cadence
- Stoops Stomp drum cadence
We're giving away a few of these to the people who post the best stories about their first OU game as members of the Pride of Oklahoma. What was your story? Was it 1985, when the first performance was at Texas? Did something happen to you that seemed like disaster at the time but is funnier how, like uniform failure or losing your mouthpiece on the field? Was it boiling hot, or raining, or so windy your plumes wouldn't stay on?
Whatever it is, post it here in reply to this message. Read How to post comments if you've never done it before, but it's easy and free. We'll choose the winners and contact them via E-mail to mail them their CDs. We could judge at any time, so share your stories today!
Posted by Webmaster on 7/29/06; 9:47:41 AM
from the Membership, Merchandise dept.
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Charles White
- Re: Win a free Pride CD!
8/6/06; 11:33:20 PM (reads: 5094, responses:
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| Hey Rita, thought of another incident...When spending the night at what was then the Texas Women's University, Director Hauge decided we needed more practice for our performance at the Texas game in the Cotton Bowl. This was 1949, I think. Well, since they didn't have a football field, Leonard told his assistants to mark off the yardage lines on their soccer field. They hammered in stakes at each 10 yard mark, and then...get this...stretched a white cord across the field for the lines. You know what happened. Not everybody stepped on the line (the string). When someone stepped short and pulled their foot up...along with the string...down would go the whole rank. After the second rank went down, Leonard blew his whistle and yelled, "forget it, stop it before someone gets killed!" Of course, his face was red and the blood vessels were popping out of his neck, (the usual look that Leonard would get when very, very, mad!) This was our shortest practice ever recorded ,probably!
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Don King
- Re: Win a free Pride CD!
8/7/06; 6:22:39 PM (reads: 4750, responses:
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| I went to tryouts with a pledge brother who gave me the courage to sign up. I made the Pride, but he soon became ill and dropped out of school. When I graduated in 1963 ( A loooong time ago), I was the only one with 8 semesters' membership. (See academic key in display in Catlett Center.
One year the Dallas YMCA was being remodeled and we were sent to a summer camp. The beds were small because only little kids used them and they were nailed to the walls under screened windows. That night it rained and everyone got wet.
I remember playing Army. It was foggy all m orning and people were calling radio stations offering their tickets. It was still foggy during the game.
The last game of '62 was against Missouri and the winner was to go to the Orange Bowl. We won in the rain and had a victory march in the mud and oranges. I called my sister, a student at Stephens College in Columbia. She later said that was the only time she heard excitement in my voice.
At the Orange Bowl we learned that Sen. Kerr had died that day. Pres. Kennedy was at the game. People tried toa claim our chaperones' seats until an usher told them they had been sold tickets for last year's game. Alabama beat us---soundly.
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Kevin Barrow
- Re: Win a free Pride CD!
8/11/06; 1:57:25 PM (reads: 4998, responses:
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| My first game to march as a Pride of Oklahoma member was only memorable because the Sooners lost to West Virginia that day in Sept. 1982. But if I can share one of the most memorable Pride experiences, it was 1983 when we put on, I believe, the 1st Halloween Halftime Show. The Pride slipped out little by little during the 2nd quarter to the tunnels, where every band member had stored their "costumes". The excitement built in the tunnels as the Pride members were seeing for the first time what everyone else had made for their costume. It was a big surprise. The feeling was like hiding in the dark until someone turns on the lights so everyone can yell "surprise"! to some unsuspecting birthday boy. Then there was the sense of astonishment in the stadium when the announcer said in his best Count Dracula voice, "Good afternoon, Sooner fans! Do you know where your band is?" (evil laugh). That was when the crowd really became puzzled, not finding the band on the sidelines ready to start the halftime show. The drum majors were carried on the field in coffins, which opened, then they sat up, and then blew their whistles. The Pride then came pouring out of the tunnels in costume.
It took a longer bit of time for eveyone to catch their breath and get in the place. Some costumes were not easy to march in. And that was what made the day even more memorable....the costumes and "trying" to march as normal as possible. The fans never sat down....loving every jab we would take at Texas and OSU. The most memorable costume I think was the french horn player who dressed up as Marcus Dupree....in a Sooner #22 jersey....and carrying a suitcase. It was a show that was talked about for a long time. Does anyone have a video of that day?
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Terri
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8/12/06; 9:24:38 AM (reads: 4978, responses:
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| My first time to march with the Pride was so memorable that I still remember it vividly even after 25 years. It was the fall of 1981 and I was in the tunnel, with my finger in the air ready to run to my designated spot. The time was finally here and away we ran, out of the tunnel to 75,000 screaming fans. We had practiced running out of that tunnel many times but this was different. All of those people standing and screaming seemed incredible to a small town girl from Lexington, Oklahoma. Another thing that was different from practice was that orange pylon at the corner of the end zone. Luckily some sweet little man was there to pick it up and get it out of our way. That same sweet little man used that pylon to whack several of us females on the butt as we ran by. Some of the veteran female Pride members didn't seem to miss a beat, but us rookies got quite a shock.
My most recent Pride memory will always be very special to me. I returned for the 100th Anniversary of the Pride to march with the alumni band. It was son's 1st year with the Pride and I wanted the opportunity to march on the field with him. With over 300 alumni members and over 300 Pride members I was pretty sure I wouldn't see him on the field but just knowing we were going to get to march together was great. We started the counter march, I went to the end zone, turned around and on my left was my son who proudly gave me a high five as we passed each other. I couldn't play another note because the tears were streaming. What an experience to get to march beside my son as an alumni Pride member and a current Pride member. I'm looking forward to another great season for the Pride. Boomer Sooner!!
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Jay Jones
- Re: Win a free Pride CD!
8/12/06; 2:03:11 PM (reads: 4937, responses:
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| Okay, Rita, you must have been thinking of me, "Jamie" Jones, when you were flushing out responses for the contest. I qualify under '85 Texas game AND mouthpiece disaster. Realize my grandfather was in The Pride in the '30s and my uncle in the '60s, so it was in my blood to be in the band and all I looked forward to since I started playing the cornet in the 5th grade. Our first game was Texas in '85, my freshman year, and we were playing the West Side Story medley as I recall, the greatest show ever I believe. This was a big deal to me. On the FIRST horns up, my mouthpiece goes flying!!!! AAAHHHHHHHH! Immediate SHEER TERROR!!!!! It had never happened to me before! Why me!?! Why now!?! I instinctively looked around and grabbed it off the turf a few yards away, and then tried to "melt" into anonymity. I could just feel the eyes of the sneering Texas band members standing right on the sidelines burning into me through the whole show. Afterward I knew I couldn't just let it go, so I went up to Coach on the sidelines to apologize, fearing some sort of reprisal of unimaginable proportions. He simply said, "Next time just leave it." Thanks, Coach, for not just roasting me!! The rest of the season helped me bury the experience deep into my memory. The pride of surviving the Stillwater Ice Bowl where half of us had valves freeze, and the other half had lips that didn't work (I was in the latter group). The Aggie band had those wonderful looking warm hooded coats, and we had only our paper thin raincoats. But, we still outplayed them and they hid in the tunnels in the third quarter while we chanted, "We're still here" in the stands! I swear the ice on the field was at least an inch thick! Remember the blowing sleet in our faces like needles??? Was it true or a myth that an Aggie trumpet player put his horn in front of a heater on the sidelines and it melted? Then the '85 Orange Bowl and National Championship made that first horns up almost totally fade from memory. But, it still "ain't" funny!
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Stephanie Teed
- Re: Win a free Pride CD!
8/17/06; 10:14:35 PM (reads: 5497, responses:
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| This is such a great memory!!! When Coach told us about doing this show and that we would need costumes, a bunch of us thought he'd "lost"it. But it was genius! What a way to get the football fans to notice the band. I have a great picture of a squad of trombones dressed like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I am glad you posted this. Thanks!
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John Hudson
- Re: Win a free Pride CD!
8/22/06; 4:31:35 PM (reads: 4967, responses:
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| My first game was also the 1982 loss to W. Virginia. Two memories: First, we played the W. Va. fight song, and the music had the lyrics on it. TO THIS DAY, I remember those lyrics, and the fake ones that my squad mates Steve Mays, Keith Haygood and Reid Mullins came up with. Second, while standing in endzone in the middle of pregame, my third valve slide fell out. Coach had said that if we dropped anything on field to leave it, but there was no way I was going to leave that slide. So when we started the next song, and stepped off, I swooped down and scooped it up!
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Penny
- Re: Win a free Pride CD!
9/28/06; 4:51:14 PM (reads: 4921, responses:
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| Actually, Kevin I think YOU had quite a memorable costume as the Tidy bowl man. A tuba player with a toilet seat around his neck, wearing a sea captain's uniform was quite a sight to see! Yes, the memory of that half-time show still brings a smile to my face. Thanks for posting this!
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