Cal Bears win over UCLA Bruins in the football game Saturday October 9, 35-7. You might have been wondering why the bands from the two teams were playing two very similar 'fight songs' - you weren't going crazy. The "Big C" fight song is originally UC Berkeley's. UCLA started playing an arrangement of the tune (calling it "Sons of Westwood") after playing it in a halftime show with UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Other universities in the UC system that play the song as one of their official fight songs include UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, and UC Davis. High schools in California playing arrangements of the song include Pittsburg High School in Pittsburg, California, De La Salle High School (Concord, CA), and Moorpark High School in Moorpark, CA. So if someone in the stands ask you why UC Berkeley is playing UCLA's song, you know what to answer...it's UC Berkeley's song! Go Bears! The scoop from wikipedia: [QUOTE]"Big C" is a fight song of the University of California, Berkeley. It was composed in 1913 by Harold P. Williams, with lyrics by Norman Loyall McLaren. It was written to commemorate the construction of the large concrete "C" in 1905 on the "rugged Eastern foothills" of the Berkeley campus. The song was the winning entry in the Daily Californian school song competition in 1913. Arrangements of the tune are used by other schools in the University of California system.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Controversy Kelley James, then Associate Director of the UCLA Marching Band and alumnus of the Cal Band wrote an arrangement of "Big C," for a halftime show performed by the combined marching bands from UCLA, UC Davis, and Cal. Afterwards, UCLA continued using James' arrangement of "Big C" as its fight song, adding their own lyrics and renaming it "Sons of Westwood." It was soon adopted as UCLA's fight song. Many Cal fans, most notably Cal Band director James Berdahl, were enraged over what they saw as James' theft of their song. A bitter exchange ensued between Berdahl and James for the next several years concerning the legal and ethical grounds for James' adaptation of the song. Finally, on February 18, 1969, UCLA lawyers were told by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress that "Big C" had never been copyrighted, and therefore in the public domain. However, whenever Cal plays UCLA and "Sons of Westwood" is played, Cal fans sing a parody ending, "but damn you, it's 'Big C.'" Likewise, whenever Cal plays "Big C" UCLA plays their signature "tag" at the end, which is a part of "Sons of Westwood" but not "Big C". Other schools in the University of California system that play the song as one of their official fight songs include University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, Irvine and UC Davis. UC Santa Barbara's song mentions that "Cal Poly's men will soon be routed, and their green will turn to red", UC Davis plays a version of the song that mentions Sacramento State, its own rival, saying, "SAC STATE SUCKS! and will be routed." and "We'll stomp them in the mud and their green will turn to blood." Many high schools in California also use one of the arrangements of the tune, including Pittsburg High School in Pittsburg, California, De La Salle High School (Concord, CA), and Moorpark High School in Moorpark, CA. [/QUOTE] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_C_(fight_song)