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unusual facts about Hang On Sloopy


The Ohio State University Athletic Band

After the completion of Script on Ice, the band stands in place and performs a short version of Hang On, Sloopy! and then plays the traditional marching cadence of both the Marching and Athletic Bands, and marches off the ice.


Killer Joe Piro

Songs include "The Girl from Ipanema," "What'd I Say?", "Twist and Shout" and "Hang on Sloopy" as well as the main theme, "Killer Joe," by the Rocky Fellers.

The Ohio State University Athletic Band

Other traditional songs performed by the band are the 1960s pop hit "Hang on Sloopy" and the famous "We Don't Give a Damn for the Whole State of Michigan", which was popularized by James Thurber in the Broadway production of The Male Animal.


see also

Randolph County, Indiana

Rick Derringer of the group, the McCoys, who had the hit song, "Hang on Sloopy".