a Ramblin' Wreck was adapted from an old drinking song called Sons of the Gamboliers and first appeared in print in the 1908 edition of the Blueprint, Georgia Tech's yearbook. The song was subsequently scored by Frank Roman. Roman's version, marked by its trumpet flourishes, has arguably become one of the most recognizable school songs in the world.
Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1958 to reduce the tension between them. As the story goes, Nixon didn't know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew that one American one as it had been sung on the Ed Sullivan show.
I'm a Ramblin' Wreck has had many other notable moments in its history, including being the first school song played in space. Gregory Peck sang the song while strumming a ukulele in the movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. John Wayne whistled it in The High and the Mighty. Tim Holt's character sings a few bars of it in the movie His Kind of Woman (1945). There are numerous stories of commanding officers in Higgins boats crossing the English Channel on the morning of D-Day leading their men in the song to calm their nerves.
a Ramblin' Wreck was adapted from an old drinking song called Sons of the Gamboliers and first appeared in print in the 1908 edition of the Blueprint, Georgia Tech's yearbook. The song was subsequently scored by Frank Roman. Roman's version, marked by its trumpet flourishes, has arguably become one of the most recognizable school songs in the world.
Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1958 to reduce the tension between them. As the story goes, Nixon didn't know any Russian songs, but Khrushchev knew that one American one as it had been sung on the Ed Sullivan show.
I'm a Ramblin' Wreck has had many other notable moments in its history, including being the first school song played in space. Gregory Peck sang the song while strumming a ukulele in the movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. John Wayne whistled it in The High and the Mighty. Tim Holt's character sings a few bars of it in the movie His Kind of Woman (1945). There are numerous stories of commanding officers in Higgins boats crossing the English Channel on the morning of D-Day leading their men in the song to calm their nerves.