Stomp & Shake Cheers With Known Originators (Part I : "A-I")

Edited by Azizi Powell 

This is Part I of a three pancocojams series that presents a small number of titles of cheers that have been attributed to a specific stomp & shake cheerleading team (squad) and/ or have been popularized by specific cheerleading teams or other entities*. 

 This post lists cheers whose titles begin with "A-J".

Click __ for Part II of this pancocojams series. That post lists cheers whose titles begin with the letters "K-P"

Click __ for Part III of this pancocojams series. That posts lists stomp &shake cheers whose titles begin with the letters "Q-Z".

These posts don't include the words for these stomp & shake cheers.**

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Please add to these list and include any documentation that you are aware of. Thanks!

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and recreational purposes.

Thanks to all the originators and the popularizers** of these cheers and thanks to ll of the past and present members of the cheerleading teams who are noted in this pancocojams post.
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*By "popularized" I mean a cheerleading team or some other entity such as a movie or another mass media entity that was the first or the most well known entity to popularize a stomp & shake cheer when the originator for that cheer isn't known, or even if the originator for that cheer is known (Example: "Shabooya Roll Call" was featured in Spike Lee's 1996 movie Get On The Bus and was popularized by the 2006 cheerleader movie Bring It All Or Nothing. However, there's anecdotal records that "Shabooya Roll Call" was performed by African American high school cheerleaders before either of those movies.) 

**Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading.html for Part I of a three part pancocojams series entitled "Words For Some Stomp & Shake Cheerleading Cheers." The links to the other posts in that series are given in each of those posts.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
Most traditional, mainstream ("Go team go") cheers have no known composer. They 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.

Just as it is routine for collectors of songs and rhymes to attempt to gather as much demographic information as possible (such as who, where & when), it should be routine for people interested in stomp & shake cheers to document which stomp & shake cheerleader squad (and/or the member/s of that squad) composed specific cheers, when that was, and if the words for that cheer were modified by that squad, when that occurred.

These attributions include online links for sources, or other citations. In some cases, the term "YouTube videos" are used when I (and/or others) believe that those videos attribute that particular cheerleading squad as the original composer of that cheer. 

Unfortunately, this project is complicated as there is disagreement among some stomp & shake cheerleading squads about which squad performed specific cheers first, and/or whether a particular cheer that is associated with one stomp & shake cheerleading squad is based on a cheer that is attributed to another stomp & shake squad. This list might include such entries, along with the notes that indicates this disagreement.

Unless former and present day stomp & shake cheerleaders and others people who have direct knowledge about the composition of stomp & shake cheers begin to document which cheers were originally composed by which cheerleading squads, any attempts to document those cheers will be in vain. Instead, just like traditional cheers, all or most stomp & shake cheers will be considered "universal cheers" with no squad given their proper respect for their compositions.

I hope this doesn't happen, but I'm concerned that it will.

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LISTS OF STOMP & SHAKE CHEER TITLES WITH ATTRIBUTIONS

The entries on this list includes link to a pancocojams post that features that cheer or a link to a YouTube video of that cheer.  

When possible, these attributions are given with dates and with online documentation (as is the case with WSSU’s cheer "Rock" in Part III of this series.)

 A, B

"ALL Y' ALL CHEERS ARE BORING"

Western Guilford Middle School, Greensboro, North Carolina. This cheerleader team's  name is "The Tigers".

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/05/similarities-and-differences-between.html

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C, D

 
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E, F

"FIGHT THE POWER"

Winston Salem State University (North Carolina)

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/stomp-shake-cheerleading-who-cheers.html

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G, H

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 I, J

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This concludes Part I of this three part pancocojams series.

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