Universal Love Found - Long lost 1997 Crows club song

[brucetiki]

Anyone else hear the current version of the song at 21:23?

It’s very faint, earphones help. Either that or I’m hearing things.

I've heard that too.

I wonder if audio from the Shed party for the game (which played the current version of the song) somehow ended up on the live broadcast before it was muted.

 

[GROTTO]

In 1997, I recorded every footy and news show pre and post grand final that had segments involving the Crows, one day I need to upload all that to Youtube.

 

[Cap]

Sick of watching decades old flag wins

 

[GROTTO]

Sick of watching decades old flag wins

Get used to it, depending on your age, it may be the last flag some in here will ever see.

 

[Samcro24]

Get used to it, depending on your age, it may be the last flag some in here will ever see.

I doubt I’ll ever see us win another flag.

And I’m immortal.

 

[Cap]

Get used to it, depending on your age, it may be the last flag some in here will ever see.

I hope not. I'm looking forward to the next 5 years and hoping we can snag another

 

[Cap]

I doubt I’ll ever see us win another flag.

And I’m immortal.

I disagree.

I think we have the hallmarks of a team on the up. Enough x factor , just need a little more support for the x factor.

 

[GROTTO]

I doubt I’ll ever see us win another flag.

And I’m immortal.

Only myself, my alias accounts and Alex and all of his will outlast all of you, even during an apocalyptic event, I will still post on here.

I write my posts in stone, if I have to.

 

[GROTTO]

I disagree.

I think we have the hallmarks of a team on the up. Enough x factor , just need a little more support for the x factor.

I think we can get to a GF, but to beat a likely a Vic team playing the Grand Final as a home game, will always be a challenging factor for any non-Vic team.

Makes Eagles flag in 2018, so incredible.

 

[Cap]

I think we can get to a GF, but to beat a likely a Vic team playing the Grand Final as a home game, will always be a challenging factor for any non-Vic team.

Makes Eagles flag in 2018, so incredible.

Agreed, it takes more work.

A bloke like Rankine could be our D Jarman.

I mean, if we aren't positive, what's the point

 

[GROTTO]

Agreed, it takes more work.

A bloke like Rankine could be our D Jarman.

I mean, if we aren't positive, what's the point

I agree we have the weapons to win one.

I also agree about "Whats the point?", after a while you lose faith. I mean its been over 25+ years and counting.

Lets be honest, there would be many Crows supporters that were in their 60s in 1998 are probably long gone by now.

 

[Rotayjay]

Has anyone ever contacted the club directly to ask whether it has the 97-98 version? Surely the club has a copy lying around somewhere - a clean copy, not in the background of a broadcast. Who would be the most appropriate person at the club?

 

[PeterSalt]

Has anyone ever contacted the club directly to ask whether it has the 97-98 version? Surely the club has a copy lying around somewhere - a clean copy, not in the background of a broadcast. Who would be the most appropriate person at the club?

You probably need to find out who manages or looks after the archives

 

[SugarShane]

Has anyone ever contacted the club directly to ask whether it has the 97-98 version? Surely the club has a copy lying around somewhere - a clean copy, not in the background of a broadcast. Who would be the most appropriate person at the club?

David Burtenshaw would probably be the best bet. He's the one with the most historical interest, always talking about old guernseys, etc on twitter. He (or the club, through him) has a collection of guernseys where each player to have worn the number has signed it. I'm not sure if he's actually employed at the club any more, but if it exists he'd probably know.

Bill Sanders was quite knowledgeable about all that early theme song stuff on one of the podcasts, but I don't think he had any of it in his possession, he was just around when it was all created (and was responsible for most of it).

I think a lot of that early 90s stuff got lost to time. I get a strong feeling that during the 90s, and at least up until our flags, no one really considered "history" at the club. Retro wasn't cool or interesting in the 90s. Everything needed to be new and flash so it wouldn't surprise me if getting a new song meant the old tape got thrown straight into the bin (especially back before digitalization of everything).

I wish I still had it but I distinctly remember going to a game in 94 or 95 and they were handing out fliers with the new song lyrics (Pride of SA) on it so everyone could learn the words to sing along. I kept it at home for a while as a kid but eventually it got tossed.

 

[Rotayjay]

This reminds me of some podcast I listened to. Some bloke in America remembered a pop song from the '90s. It wasn't on the internet and he couldn't remember the artist or title. Everyone was convinced it was a false memory until the artist himself came forward. It goes to show that something which was popular enough to make the radio could be effectively lost to history at the turn of this century.

 

[Rotayjay]

Why is this version important or better? In my view:

• It's the version we celebrated our only two premierships with and is therefore a key part of club history
• It has the correct 'mighty' lyrics*
• The key/octave is higher but it seems to be double-tracked in such a way that sounds like a crowd is singing it.
• It seems bouncier, happier and just that little bit faster
• Its intro is better and flows into the song
• So I think it's musically superior overall

* This is regardless of whether it has 'we're' before 'the mighty' or whether it says 'Camry'

 

[Firewalker]

Why is this version important or better? In my view:

• It's the version we celebrated our only two premierships with and is therefore a key part of club history
• It has the correct 'mighty' lyrics*
• The key/octave is higher but it seems to be double-tracked in such a way that sounds like a crowd is singing it.
• It seems bouncier, happier and just that little bit faster
• Its intro is better and flows into the song
• So I think it's musically superior overall

* This is regardless of whether it has 'we're' before 'the mighty' or whether it says 'Camry'

As I posted a couple of years ago, the mystical run-out & post game “We’re the mighty Adelaide Crows” is the Mandela effect in full effect, that version with that exact line in the opening verse was never used pre or post-game at AFL games involving the Crows;

The post game ‘97 Grand Final is a different recorded version that contains the 1994 lyrics of “the Mighty Camry Crows” in the first verse not “Mighty Adelaide Crows”, that opening verse seems to have a bit of Mandela effect about it, it got changed to “Known as the Adelaide Crows” from the original lyrics of “the Mighty Camry Crows” on The Fable Singers version when the AFL updated some teams songs & put them under their own copyright around 1998/99, there does not seem to actually be an official recorded version that had “We’re the Mighty Adelaide Crows” as the first verse used at Crows games.

You can even hear the confusion here in the 1997 Pre-Grand Final entertainment when they sing the Crows song at the 13:00 minute mark, they play the awesome original intro music but half of the choir seem to have had “Mighty Camry Crows” on the lyrics sheet while the other had “Mighty Adelaide Crows”

The song used post-1997 GF and at Crows games around that time at Footy Park was the original 1994 lyric version of “We’re the mighty Camry Crows”, it was just either misheard or presumed to be “We’re the mighty Adelaide Crows” at the time by Crows fans.

The Fable Singers 1998 recording with the changed lyrics is the AFL copyrighted recorded version that has been used for run-outs & post-game interstate since 1998 and around 1999/2000 at home games & is still the version being used today.

That being said in the 2 years since I posted that, I have found the fabled ‘White Whale’ “We’re the mighty Adelaide Crows” version of the song recorded by The Fable Singers that’s been wanted for years by fans, it actually was by total accident when re-watching the 1998 Premiers Victory Pack DVDs last year and it’s the menu music they use, anyway here it is:

View attachment Adelaide Crows Club Song “Mighty” version.mp3

Believe this version was recorded in the early 2000s to use on some Crows related DVDs released by the AFL, why they re-recorded it & changed the lyrics back to be more like the original but didn’t apply the changes to the run-out & post-game song who knows, just one of many ‘can’t be bothered’ decisions by this football club’s administration.