Butler, who directed the Million Dollar Band from 1935 to 1968. Sample wrote the arrangement on joining the music faculty back in 1958, by commission from Col. UA’s fight song dates back to 1926, but the arrangement everyone’s familiar with – bold, triumphal brass introducing a slowed-down fanfare, based on the melody, with following lines layering descending and ascending flourishes, ramping up to the foot-stomping full tempo – came courtesy of professor of jazz studies Steve Sample. “The first time we played ‘Yea Alabama’ in fall camp, it really brought chills to everybody,” he said.
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