It’s time for part two of the Big Ten fight songs. Featuring some of the conference’s oldest and newest members, the history behind all nine of these schools’ traditional tunes is rich. Ohio State: ...
The presence of McCartney, still very much a pop radio mainstay in the early 80’s, virtually insured the song’s acceptance at white radio. And, aware that MTV didn’t play videos by black ...
It was based on a poem by Jewish communist Abel Meeropol, written in response to the lynching of two black teenagers, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, in Indiana in 1930. It opens: “Southern trees ...