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I remember being in the Marching Band and playing the Alma Mater after the football games. I was fun singing it as well when I was not playing. Hearing the people sing along to our playing was amazing. Of course playing the fight song after we scored was great too.

Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies singing High Muddy Water at Reid Athletic Center, Spring Party Weekend 1968. They were the warmup act for the Doors, but were better than the Doors by a mile.

Georgia - by Boz Scaggs. Danced many a night to this. Still brings back fond memories!

I instantly thought of "My Life is in Your Hands" by Kirk Franklin. I was introduced to it my freshman year, when Kirk made his first appearance as the headliner for Gospel Fest. The University Church community sang it many times after that: once as a tribute to an outgoing Protestant Chaplain, and finally at the last church service of my senior year, when I sobbed my way through it. The lyrics "I know that I can make it/I know that I can stand/No matter what may come my way/My life is in Your hands" comforted and inspired me and so many of my friends through tough times. It became somewhat of an anthem for us. Now it is forever etched in my heart and in my memory of my time at Colgate.

"Levels" by Avicii will always remind me of my time at Colgate. My fellow students helped bring Avicii to campus in 2012, for Spring Party Weekend, before he truly rose to prominence. In a few years after the concert, Avicii became internationally famous and I was very thankful my fellow students had the foresight to get him before he became unattainable to play at Colgate. His death, in 2018, was shockingly sad to me, because of the great times I had at Colgate to his music. Even his debut album, "True', came out on Colgate Day (September 13, 2013)! This song has to be on a playlist for Colgate Essentials. For those who were on campus from 2011-2015, Avicii's music was one of the main soundtracks to our college experience. Regardless if you liked it or not, 'Levels' will always be apart of Colgate history.

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"It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock, "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meatloaf, "OPP" by Naughty by Nature, "Freedom" by George Michael and of course, "New York, New York" by Sinatra. Clearly music reached it's nadir in the early 90s. But the song that really brings me back to Colgate is "Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer. That is the song chosen by the hypnotist in the Chapel for an epic dance-off among the students who were "put under". It was the first time I saw my now-husband dancing his hypnotized shoes off. Some might say he cast a spell of his own that night. :)