Marching Band: How to fire up Students and Football Players

[HelmutVII]

Does anybody want to know how respect got started?

[KajunKrazy]

Does anybody want to know how respect got started?

Not sure how it got started. But to people that grew up Cajuns fans 40 and under that song is not Respect by Aretha Franklin. It’s the song they grew up hearing at Cajuns ball games. To them it is as identifiable with Cajuns atheletics as Fifgt On Cajuns. If you ask my 22 year son if he ever heard Respect by AF he’d probably say no. But if you play it by a marching band, he would know immediately that is the song from Cajuns games.

[HelmutVII]

Not sure how it got started. But to people that grew up Cajuns fans 40 and under that song is not Respect by Aretha Franklin. It’s the song they grew up hearing at Cajuns ball games. To them it is as identifiable with Cajuns atheletics as Fifgt On Cajuns. If you ask my 22 year son if he ever heard Respect by AF he’d probably say no. But if you play it by a marching band, he would know immediately that is the song from Cajuns games.

That is correct. Respect was started in the 60's when Jack Arceneaux was the director. The band played at the halftime of the Grantland Rice bowl. They ended the program in the formation of a scale similar to the scale shown in the "blind justice" image. The scale was not balanced. The heavy side had dollar signs for LSU and the light side had dollar signs for USL. They played Respect when they made the formation because after all "all we want is just a little respect". And now you know the rest of the story. It has been played ever since. Now that you know that I don't think anybody should even come close to suggesting they stop playing it.

[Turbine]

Does anybody want to know how respect got started?

Aretha Franklin did a concert at Earl K. Long Gym.

The crowd went wild.

The band took it from there.

It went viral as they say.

[Big Poppa]

Aretha Franklin did a concert at Earl K. Long Gym.

The crowd went wild.

The band took it from there.

It went viral as they say.

I see we have conflicting stories. Where can we find the truth?

[HelmutVII]

I see we have conflicting stories. Where can we find the truth?

The band may have picked it up after the concert but I remember seeing the halftime show and the band playing Respect at the football game. I remember that because I thought to myself "that took some stones to do that.". No doubt Aretha Franklin was first to perform. The band got it from her.

[Turbine]

My bad, my sourse says Irma Thomas who filled out her set with RESPECT at EKL.

Not Aretha.

[Turbine]

Otis Redding was the first artist to perform RESPECT in 1965

Aretha 1967

[Turbine]

Irma doing respect many years later.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3R4duOY4khE

[Turbine]

RESPECT

LOUISIANA


https://youtu.be/xsrkL5t3R2A?si=WKVLjlVCYJON5mJM

[HelmutVII]

Regardless of who performed it first, the band started playing it in the late 60's and hasn't stopped since. When I was in the band from the fall of 1972 to the spring of 1976 we played Respect EVERY time we were at a sporting event. At football games the student section would chant "we want respect....we want respect" until we played it.

[Turbine]

It might be old but it's gold.