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TheOriginalCane

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OK, look, I'll trust a Band of the Hour alum, if you just tell me what the sheet music says.

But my college roommate (and HS best friend) was in the Band of the Hour and I never EVER heard the song called this. Sorry. Granted, this was back in the 1980s, but that's also when a silly name like this would have been more well known...


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TheOriginalCane said:
OK, look, I'll trust a Band of the Hour alum, if you just tell me what the sheet music says.

But my college roommate (and HS best friend) was in the Band of the Hour and I never EVER heard the song called this. Sorry. Granted, this was back in the 1980s, but that's also when a silly name like this would have been more well known...


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i never knew what the song was called but if you listen to it on apple music, that's what it is listed as... go figure.
 
ben said:
i never knew what the song was called but if you listen to it on apple music, that's what it is listed as... go figure.
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I know, that's why it was shocking to me. I had never heard that reference before, and my roomie was in the Band.
 
It isn't "Hail to the spirit of Miami U" or that's a different fight song. Guess I've never given it much thought. Curious to find out.
 
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There are at least three official fight songs. Miami U How Dee Doo is the one everyone probably knows, usually played in pregame and after extra points. Hail To The Spirit is the one we play after touchdowns. There's also Go Canes Go and Blow Hurricanes, also played at pregame.
 
ghost2 said:
There are at least three official fight songs. Miami U How Dee Doo is the one everyone probably knows, usually played in pregame and after extra points. Hail To The Spirit is the one we play after touchdowns. There's also Go Canes Go and Blow Hurricanes, also played at pregame.
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All good. The "How De Doo" sounds like a name that Yamma Yamma gave to the song when he was an undergrad, as those words do not appear as "lyrics" of the song.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
All good. The "How De Doo" sounds like a name that Yamma Yamma gave to the song when he was an undergrad, as those words do not appear as "lyrics" of the song.
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Written by Henry Fillmore, one of the first Directors of Bands at Miami and contemporary of John Philip Sousa. He, Sousa, and Karl King were probably the big 3 of American March music in the early 20th century.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
OK, look, I'll trust a Band of the Hour alum, if you just tell me what the sheet music says.

But my college roommate (and HS best friend) was in the Band of the Hour and I never EVER heard the song called this. Sorry. Granted, this was back in the 1980s, but that's also when a silly name like this would have been more well known...


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Yea that’s what our most recognizable song is called. Don’t ask me why, but that’s it. Also, don’t ask me how or why I know that, I just do. Chalk it up to one of life’s mysteries, and leave it at that. Unless you can find some old timer that can tell you. But I couldn’t even tell you how old the song is.
 
ghost2 said:
Written by Henry Fillmore, one of the first Directors of Bands at Miami and contemporary of John Philip Sousa. He, Sousa, and Karl King were probably the big 3 of American March music in the early 20th century.
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I see we were posting at the same time and you had the answers. Thank you for that. Fillmore is the name that I didn’t know, that’s from a long time ago. Is he in any way connected to the old Fillmore music halls in New York? Like the Fillmore East?
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
I see we were posting at the same time and you had the answers. Thank you for that. Fillmore is the name that I didn’t know, that’s from a long time ago. Is he in any way connected to the old Fillmore music halls in New York? Like the Fillmore East?
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Maybe? I know Fillmore hall at UM is named for him but I'm not sure the others. Wouldn't surprise me, he was a big name back in the day lol
 
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ghost2 said:
Written by Henry Fillmore, one of the first Directors of Bands at Miami and contemporary of John Philip Sousa. He, Sousa, and Karl King were probably the big 3 of American March music in the early 20th century.
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Yeah, I remember a lot of the facts about him from when I was an undergrad. Most people don't know that "The Band of the Hour" was a play on one of his most well-known songs "The Man of the Hour". But I swear, I never heard that title from the sheet music, that's why I wanted to verify it. Anyone can put a name of a song on "YouTube" or some other new internet source, I was just curious if the song was officially registered and licensed (legally) under the "How Dee Doo" name.

This is my favorite fact about Henry Fillmore:

"After graduating from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Fillmore traveled the United States as a circus bandmaster with his wife, an exotic vaudeville dancer named Mabel May Jones."

That's one that I did NOT know from 35 years ago, and for which I give sole credit to the modern-day interwebz.
 
ghost2 said:
Maybe? I know Fillmore hall at UM is named for him but I'm not sure the others. Wouldn't surprise me, he was a big name back in the day lol
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Yeah, I looked it up, unfortunately it wasn’t. Of course the hall at the university was, as you stated. Which makes sense of course. TBH, I never even really thought about it, or knew it until today. I just knew it was called Fillmore Hall I wasn’t a music major, or anything. I’m sure the music majors and people in the band would have known it. A lot of people that post here aren’t familiar with the university at all, they may be surprised to know that the university of Miami has one of the top music programs in the country.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
I see we were posting at the same time and you had the answers. Thank you for that. Fillmore is the name that I didn’t know, that’s from a long time ago. Is he in any way connected to the old Fillmore music halls in New York? Like the Fillmore East?
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I do not believe there is a connection. The original use of the Fillmore name in San Francisco started in the mid-50s just before Henry Fillmore died in Miami. The other "Fillmore East" and "Fillmore West" names were things that Bill Graham utilized off of the original Fillmore in San Francisco.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Yeah, I looked it up, unfortunately it wasn’t. Of course the hall at the university was, as you stated. Which makes sense of course. TBH, I never even really thought about it, or knew it until today. I just knew it was called Fillmore Hall I wasn’t a music major, or anything. I’m sure the music majors and people in the band would have known it. A lot of people that post here aren’t familiar with the university at all, they may be surprised to know that the university of Miami has one of the top music programs in the country.
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Amazing undergraduate and graduate programs. Shame the marching band is historically so small.
 
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