Question: When did Rammer Jammer start?

[TIDE-HSV]

Rammer Jammer was the name of a student newspaper in the 1920's at Bama. Yellow Hammer is the Alabama state bird. And I agree we shouldn't sing it every game, only when we truly beat the hell out of a team, it would make it sweeter and more savory...unless its Auburn. Every Auburn game we must sing it.

The newspaper was banned, I think, in 1956, the year before I started, for getting a little too rambunctious in its criticism of the administration...

 

[bayoutider]

I read a comment on one of ESPN's articles that said when Fran left for A&M, Oklahoma did the Rammer Jammer to them when OU whipped them pretty badly one year. (not sure if this is true. anyone know?)

They may have. I know they played the Alabama Fight Song to aTm plus a healthy, loud and lengthy Roll Tide Roll to Fran.

 

[BamaMoon]

They may have. I know they played the Alabama Fight Song to aTm plus a healthy, loud and lengthy Roll Tide Roll to Fran.

You Tube???

 

[TRU]

I do not know for sure, but the tune is lifted from a one hit wonder band from the mid 70s called Focus. The tune was called "Hocus Pocus" It was one of the 20 minute long repetitive synthesizer based things popular to listen to while smoking a bong. I'm not exactly sure, but I want to say it was getting most of it's airplay in the summer of '73 or '74. So Rammer must have begun after then.

 

[Bamabelle in ga]

THis has been said before but listen this time. Rammer Jammer was an old newspaper published on campus years ago. Yellow Hammer is the state bird. That is the history. Period.

Ole Miss played a snazzy tune in the 70s or early 80s with the words " we're going to beat the hell out of you ".....we jazzed it up to create the present day tune. We added our spin: Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer. It is OURS.
it belongs to no one but us.

Yes, we used to play it early in the game. That changed to very late in the game. Is it controversial. How you feel about it depends on your personal, most inner most self. Quite frankly, after a hard fought game, it is a type of release to sing it at the top of my lungs!

I hope to GOD, I get to sing it in Pasadena on the 7th of January!

 

[WRhodesTider]

The cheer with the tune was first used at Alabama during the 1980 season. Alabama played Ole Miss in Jackson that year and they did Hotty Toddy to the tune. Alabama copied Ole Miss and it quickly became very popular. The rest is history.

 

[dtgreg]

I do not know for sure, but the tune is lifted from a one hit wonder band from the mid 70s called Focus. The tune was called "Hocus Pocus" It was one of the 20 minute long repetitive synthesizer based things popular to listen to while smoking a bong. I'm not exactly sure, but I want to say it was getting most of it's airplay in the summer of '73 or '74. So Rammer must have begun after then.

Rammer Jammer's actually Rock n Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter. Hocus Pocus by Focus has the crazy yodelling bit all thru it. Not sure if we were always as hated [old timers please chime in] but the level of venom toward Bama seems to have gone thru the roof since the Rammer Jammer cheer was cooked up sometime during the Perkins Era [or brought back with new music?].

 

[jangalang]

The KC Chiefs play a version of it after each score....

(in the same beat) We just beat the hell out of you...you...you...you, you, you, you.

 

[cuda.1973]

Hocus Pocus by Focus has the crazy yodelling bit all thru it.

Right. Pretty sure it was either the summer of '72, maybe '73. Definitely not '74.

 

[cuda.1973]

IIRC, there was some controversy over this cheer when I was in school. Bill Curry disliked it and the MDB wouldn't play the real version so it was done to Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll" or started up by a few loud drunks in the Student section (Proud to be one of them). Once Curry ran away it was brought back under Stalling's for good. Seriously doubt it will disappear again any time soon

J

And I used to think that anyone who blocked for Bart Starr couldn't be all bad. Even if he went to Ga Tech. Oh well.

 

[T Town Tank]

The KC Chiefs play a version of it after each score....

(in the same beat) We just beat the hell out of you...you...you...you, you, you, you.

Guess they get to play it maybe once or twice a season :biggrin2: I have mixed feelings about this cheer. I absolutely love it against Barners and Vils but don't care for it against smaller teams like UTChatt, NoTex, etc. Hope to be able to sing it the the Longhorns though.:BigA:

 

[TriadTide]

As I remember it, the band first played it at the 1980 LSU game. During that season, there was some criticism of the students being too quiet during the home games, especially after the Vanderbilt and Southern Miss games. It was felt that being two-time national champs had caused the students to be so jaded that they were more interested in dressing up than yelling at the games.

So when the LSU game came around (which was also the week after the 6-3 loss to Miss State) there was a determination to get the students more involved and more rowdy. Students were actually encouaged to wear blue jeans, and even the cheerleaders (both male and female) wore blue jeans at that game! Before the game started the band played the Rammer Jammer tune a number of times and the cheerleaders got the students trained to do the cheer. It was then used through out the game.

Anyway, that's how I remember it. And we won 28-7.

Merry Christmas

 

[drjohn432]

Can anyone tell me how the phrase "RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW(YELLER) HAMMER" makes any sense? Looks to me that there could have been better words used. I also hate singing this song when we barely pull one out in the end.... "We just beat the he$$ out of you" does not really apply alot of times. It could be sung "I am gald we had the ball last"!

Especially if we are taking a knee