harvard 1989
Princeton at Harvard
October 28th, 1989
Outcome Unknown
Ladies and gentlemen, in the grand spirit of Socrates, Plato, and Dan Quayle, the Princeton University Band takes a mind-probing look at great thinkers.
(“Princeton Forward”)
Every great thinker’s career starts with a big bang, and for Sigmund Freud, it came while searching through the icebox with his wife. Freud discovered something moldy and smelly. “It’s Old Harvard” proclaimed his wife. “No, I mean old harvarti.” Thus was born the first Freudian slip. But Freud wasn’t always this brilliant. His first job was as a television producer for such shows as “Mr. Oedipus,” “The Electra Company,” “The Jung and the Restless,” and “I Dream of Mommie.” Forming Freud’s tattoo on the field, the Band demonstrates its envy for Freud’s great big…mind.
(Band forms a heart with the word ‘MOM’ and plays “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad”)
It was early in his career that Charles Darwin first introduced his controversial theory on Band evolution, Survival of the Plaidest. Deciding that the Yale Band was an evolutionary dead end, Darwin chose instead to trace the history of the Princeton Band, starting 300million years ago when they were just little plaid trumpet fish. Soon after, the Band crawled out of the water (Band crawls) and took the first few cautious steps on land (Band stands cautiously)…but decided they liked crawling better (Band falls down and crawls again). 100 million years later it was the Cro-Magnon Band who simultaneously invented fire and the F-Trumpet, but soon disregarded fire because it couldn’t do this…(F-Trumpet plays a fanfare). Growing more erect every millennia, they soon evolved into the modern Princeton Band, who now form a family tree on the field to show they haven’t forgotten their simple roots.
(Band forms a tree and plays “The Flintstones”)
Music and Politics go hand in hand. The Princeton Band has always leaned to the left (Band leans) so it’s not surprising that one of our favorite intellectuals is Karl Marx. Karl was always the black sheep of the Marx clan, until he joined the family act. Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo welcomed “Pinko” with open arms. Marx was heard to say, “This morning I shot a Capitalist pig in my pyjamas. How the Capitalist pig got in my pyjamas I’ll never know.” (rim shot) Of the Bourgeoisie he proclaimed, “I never forget a class, but in their case I’ll make an exception.” (rim shot) Saluting the most influential Marx brother, the Band plays a musical tribute to Marx’s greatest works, “A Day at the Races” and “A Night at the Opera.”
(Band forms glasses, nose, and moustache a la Groucho and plays “Phantom of the Opera”)
And now, the only band in the Ivy League that’s not of lesser quality than ourselves: the Yale Band.
October 28th, 1989
Outcome Unknown
Ladies and gentlemen, in the grand spirit of Socrates, Plato, and Dan Quayle, the Princeton University Band takes a mind-probing look at great thinkers.
(“Princeton Forward”)
Every great thinker’s career starts with a big bang, and for Sigmund Freud, it came while searching through the icebox with his wife. Freud discovered something moldy and smelly. “It’s Old Harvard” proclaimed his wife. “No, I mean old harvarti.” Thus was born the first Freudian slip. But Freud wasn’t always this brilliant. His first job was as a television producer for such shows as “Mr. Oedipus,” “The Electra Company,” “The Jung and the Restless,” and “I Dream of Mommie.” Forming Freud’s tattoo on the field, the Band demonstrates its envy for Freud’s great big…mind.
(Band forms a heart with the word ‘MOM’ and plays “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad”)
It was early in his career that Charles Darwin first introduced his controversial theory on Band evolution, Survival of the Plaidest. Deciding that the Yale Band was an evolutionary dead end, Darwin chose instead to trace the history of the Princeton Band, starting 300million years ago when they were just little plaid trumpet fish. Soon after, the Band crawled out of the water (Band crawls) and took the first few cautious steps on land (Band stands cautiously)…but decided they liked crawling better (Band falls down and crawls again). 100 million years later it was the Cro-Magnon Band who simultaneously invented fire and the F-Trumpet, but soon disregarded fire because it couldn’t do this…(F-Trumpet plays a fanfare). Growing more erect every millennia, they soon evolved into the modern Princeton Band, who now form a family tree on the field to show they haven’t forgotten their simple roots.
(Band forms a tree and plays “The Flintstones”)
Music and Politics go hand in hand. The Princeton Band has always leaned to the left (Band leans) so it’s not surprising that one of our favorite intellectuals is Karl Marx. Karl was always the black sheep of the Marx clan, until he joined the family act. Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo welcomed “Pinko” with open arms. Marx was heard to say, “This morning I shot a Capitalist pig in my pyjamas. How the Capitalist pig got in my pyjamas I’ll never know.” (rim shot) Of the Bourgeoisie he proclaimed, “I never forget a class, but in their case I’ll make an exception.” (rim shot) Saluting the most influential Marx brother, the Band plays a musical tribute to Marx’s greatest works, “A Day at the Races” and “A Night at the Opera.”
(Band forms glasses, nose, and moustache a la Groucho and plays “Phantom of the Opera”)
And now, the only band in the Ivy League that’s not of lesser quality than ourselves: the Yale Band.
