{"id":272,"date":"2009-06-03T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T11:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:34:30","slug":"the-yiddishe-cup-fight-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/the-yiddishe-cup-fight-song\/","title":{"rendered":"THE YIDDISHE CUP FIGHT SONG"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yiddishe Cup’s singer, Irwin Weinberger, <\/strong><\/span>wrote a sweetly nostalgic song<\/a> about attending baseball games with his father, who was a Holocaust survivor.\u00a0 Irwin even mentioned The Rock in the song: Rocky Colavito.\u00a0 (Next up, a song about Harvey Kuenn for the Detroit market.)<\/p>\n

Nowadays Irwin is laissez-faire on sports \u2014 unless the Indians get hot again.<\/p>\n

Guys are supposed to talk about sports, and drink when they get together.\u00a0 I know this isn’t always a fact.\u00a0 One Yiddishe Cup musician calls sports a “cult.” \u00a0This musician is proud he doesn’t know a thing about pro sports.<\/p>\n

The whole town went ape-wire <\/strong>over the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/span><\/span> He didn’t care.<\/p>\n

Some of the other guys did.<\/p>\n

The previous time Yiddishe Cup was sports batty was 1997, when the Indians were in the World Series, and Yiddishe Cup was playing Simchat Torah gigs.\u00a0 (Goys<\/em>: Simchat Torah is right after Succot.)\u00a0 We hid in the temple’s cloak room and caught bits of the action on a small portable TV.<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup is not sports adverse. <\/strong><\/span>Yiddishe Cup plays a variety of fight songs, including The Yiddishe Cup Fight Song, which is a major-key freylekhs<\/em> (hora) interspersed with the verbal chants of \u00a0“Go Cup Go” and\u00a0 “De-feat Maxwell Street.”\u00a0 Maxwell Street<\/a>, from Chicago, is our archrival. \u00a0They probably don’t know that.<\/p>\n

Here are other fight songs you need to know in our part of the Midwest:<\/p>\n

1. Ohio State.\u00a0 Use “Hang On Sloopy” or “Fight The Team Across the Field.”\u00a0 Sometimes we hold off on “Hang On Sloopy” until the Buckeyes score.\u00a0 That’s the protocol. \u00a0Be aware of this if a guest is listening to the game at a gig.\u00a0 If you play “Hang on Sloopy” before the Bucks score, it’s bad luck.<\/p>\n

2. Michigan’s “The Victors” is a biggie. <\/strong><\/span>This tune is one of the most insipid tunes of all time.\u00a0 Or greatest \u2014 depending.<\/p>\n

Other requests: Michigan State, “On Wisconsin,” and the Pitt fight song, which is not the same as the Steelers’ song.<\/p>\n

Forget about Notre Dame unless they get a Jewish quarterback again.<\/p>\n

Be flexible.\u00a0 For instance, Yiddishe Cup knows “Are You From Wooster?”:<\/p>\n

If you’re from Oberlin or <\/em>Denison<\/em> or <\/em>Wesleyan<\/em> <\/em>U.<\/em>,<\/em><\/p>\n

The Scots will take good care of you before they’re through.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wooster has many international students<\/strong><\/span> and a lively Hillel.\u00a0 Check out The COW (The College of Wooster) with your 16 year old.\u00a0 Great school. \u00a0Yiddishe Cup has played there a half dozen times.<\/p>\n

Another good, small Ohio school is Kenyon, which Yiddishe Cup has played a few times.\u00a0 \u00a0Kenyon has a Medieval dining hall out of Hogwarts.\u00a0 The school’s swim team dines there wearing big purple capes and eats tons of priceless food.\u00a0 Swipe that college ID card.\u00a0 Free food to students, $50,000 to Dad and Mom.
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\nTomorrow:<\/span>
\nDOUBLE PORTION OF MANNA . . . Bandleaders’ pay.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yiddishe Cup’s singer, Irwin Weinberger, wrote a sweetly nostalgic song about attending baseball games with his father, who was a Holocaust survivor.\u00a0 Irwin even mentioned The Rock in the song: Rocky Colavito.\u00a0 (Next up, a song about Harvey Kuenn for the Detroit market.) Nowadays Irwin is laissez-faire on sports \u2014 unless the Indians get hot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer","category-sports-pages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8752,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}