Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post provides a list of stomp & shake cheers that are known to be composed by a specific cheerleading squad (as well as specific composers on those squads if that informaamtion is also known)
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and recreational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all known and unknown past and present composers of stomp & shake cheers. Thanks all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to all those who have contributed information about these cheers.
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Past and present stomp and shake cheerleaders, and others please help document these cheers!
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
Let's be clear. There's no such thing as a "universal" stomp & shake cheer.
Traditional ("go team go") cheers are called "universal cheers" only because it's likely that no attempt was made to document their composers. But that doesn't have to be the fate of stomp & shake cheers. We can do the work that is needed to document which cheerleading squad was the first to perform a specific stomp & shake cheer.
Instead of using the term "universal" stomp & shake cheer, the terms "popular cheers" and/or "widely known cheers" could be used.
Based on my online research, stomp & shake cheers were first performed at the university level in the 1970s (at Virginia State University and at Winston Salem State University). Click
http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/when-did-stomp-shake-cheerleading-begin.html for the pancocojams post entitled "When Did Stomp & Shake Cheerleading Begin? (Online Comments & Website Statements)".
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Definition for "attributing" = crediting someone or some group with writing, saying, or creating something.
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This list is in alphabetical order based on the first letter of the university/school of the sattributed stomp & shake cheerleading squad.
I'm not using the names of the cheerleading squads as these names are subject to change.
Although all of the entries on this page don't have this information*, preferably, attributions should include which cheerleading squad and/or individual composer if known, and when the cheer was first composed, and/or when it was modified). Also, preferably, these entries should include information about where and how the person got the information that is being given, for instance, from which online article (including link), or if the person sharing this information is a present or former member of the squad, or a person who attended that university/school -and, if so, include the years that you attended that school/university).
*In the absence of detailed demographics (defined as noted above), many of these entries have the note "early YouTube videos".
These cheers are given under the names of their universities in no particular order.
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Howard University
"Sit Back Down" [early YouTube videos]
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Virginia State University
"Who Shakes The Best" [early YouTube videos]
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"Work it" [early YouTube videos]
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Winston Salem State University
"Fight The Power" [early YouTube videos]
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"You Gets No Respect In Here" [early YouTube videos]
"Rock"
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs039/1102836658889/archive/1110810635530.html "WSSU RAM BITS"
"What are the most popular cheers done by WSSU Cheerleaders?
DO IT, SURVIVAL, SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE, POWERHOUSE, AND ROCK.
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From http://ucdecheerphi.wixsite.com/ucde/cheer-phi-chronicles"WSSU’s Original Cheer Phi" by Wannette Stevens -Fripp, September 2011
"During my junior year the location of the CIAA cheerleading exhibition was not the only changes to our program. The coach that had coached WSSU for 17 years Deborah Rivers had relocated due to her job. DeMonte Cox the creator of the chant “Rock” became our coach and the legacy lived on and I was so happy! DeMonte was an excellent coach. He was so creative. He helped us make up dances, and cheers and chants. He brought stunting ideas and kept us at the top of the cheer tier. Most importantly DeMonte did not show favoritism and didn’t get involved with a lot of the petty arguments"...
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Italics added to highlight this information.
Online articles indicate that Deborah Rivers was the WSSU cheerleading coach from 1976 to 1993.
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Here's a comment that was posted in the discussion thread for "Shaw University Cheerleaders performing at 2011 Pep Rally. part 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agGZmZj6-DM
"I will say this....the "Rock" cheer was made up in 1994 by my Cheer-Phi Brother "Jamming-Ra" / roommate whom I watched from start to finish with the words and moves as part of our requirement to bring back 2 new chants before returning for Cheer Camp...Of course, he showed the chant originality to the squad and they perfected it with the infamous "shirt-shaking" and Rock was born.....AND THAT IS A FACT!"...
-CheerPhi93, 2015
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Jamming- Ra is another name for Demonte Cox.
“Cheer Phi93 is the screen name of a former WSSU cheerleader. [from his comments in various YouTube discussion threads on stomp & shake cheerleading videos],
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