High school homecoming song for the week

Homecoming committees collect themes, dress-up days, and a playlist, and then forget that Friday still needs a sound the alumni and the freshmen can share. A radio single is not your school. A $40 original song can be, if you aim it at the right hours. Order from the high school sports page. The Bonita player on this page is a finished team chorus you can judge before you write your own brief.

Map the week, then give the song one job

A useful homecoming week looks like this. Your dates will move. The jobs will not.

1. Monday and Tuesday are dress-up and hallway noise. A song does not fix the hallway.
2. Wednesday or Thursday is the rally. That room wants a short chorus. The pep rally guide is the gym version of this plan.
3. Friday is the game. Timeout, pregame, or the walk-on. The football page covers the booth.
4. A parade or float, if you have one, is a bad speaker in the wind. Chorus only.
5. Saturday's dance is a DJ's night. Do not make your original song compete with the songs people came to dance to, unless the court entrance needs a ten-second cue. Say that if it is the job.

Pick one primary job in the intake. "Homecoming week" is not a job. "Rally chorus, and the same chorus for a Friday timeout" is a job.

If the rival is the homecoming opponent, keep the lyric on your school. Read rivalry lines that stay up. If seniors walk that Friday, their names belong on the senior night song, not crammed into this one.

What the committee should send

The buyer might be a parent on the committee. The facts should come from students who will be in the bleachers.

• 1
  School short name and mascot.
• 2
  Theme, only if the kids will actually say it. A theme nobody remembers should not be the chorus.
• 3
  The chant that already works.
• 4
  Game date, rally date, parade if any.
• 5
  Whether alumni are in the stands. If yes, skip slang that only the seniors get.
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  Court names, only if the cue is the court and the students have agreed to be named.
• 7
  Lyric limits from the advisor.

Example. Eastview, mascot Comets. Theme on the posters is "back to our lights," and the kids do say it. Primary job: Thursday rally and a Friday timeout, same chorus. No opponent name. No court names in the song, because the court announcement is live. Parade truck will play the chorus once if the file is offline. That brief is specific. "Make it fire" is not.

Lyrics for a mixed crowd

Alumni, little siblings, and the principal are in the same hour. Write for the youngest guest and the strictest adult.

Court couples change, and a recorded name is awkward when a pair is no longer a pair by Friday. Let the announcer say those names live.

When to buy

The week's schedule is usually real ten days out, even if the float is not. Pay then, the same day the advisor confirms a recorded cue is allowed. Put the game date and the rally date in the intake. We do not publish a delivery promise, so the committee should not print "our song premieres Thursday" on a poster until the file has been previewed.

One person pays $40. Homecoming budgets are famous for arguing about tissue paper. This does not need a motion.

Who holds the file each day

One song, three possible rooms, three people.

• Rally: the advisor's laptop and the captain's phone. Preview on the gym speaker.
• Game: the coach or the PA student, file named School-Homecoming.mp3.
• Parade: a student on the float with the file in airplane mode and a speaker strapped down. They play the chorus once, then stop. They are not a rolling concert.
• Dance: only if you asked for a ten-second court cue. Otherwise leave the DJ alone.

Test the parade speaker in the driveway. Wind and a truck bed will embarrass a phone speaker you only tried in a kitchen.

Mistakes that waste homecoming week

Committees try to make one song the theme, the dance, the court, and the game. It arrives as a muddle, and then nobody programs it because it does not fit a single slot on the run of show. Pick the rally plus a Friday chorus. Let the DJ own Saturday.

Printing the premiere on a poster before the preview is the second miss. If the gym eats the vocal, you are stuck explaining a poster. Preview first. Announce second.

The parade miss is a phone speaker no one tested in wind. Put a real speaker on the float, tape the phone so a pothole does not pause it, and tell that student their only job is chorus on, chorus off. They should not be holding a sign at the same time.

Checklist

• 1
  One primary job, plus Friday only if it is the same chorus.
• 2
  Theme used only if kids say it.
• 3
  No court names unless that is a separate short cue everyone agreed to.
• 4
  Rival lines kept off the sheet.
• 5
  Rally preview booked.
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  Game file named for the booth.
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  Parade plan is chorus-only and offline, or there is no parade plan.
• 8
  $40 paid, dates in the intake, nothing printed until the preview.