The Air Force played this song during our basic training graduation parade march. "Pass and review" So proud to have served my country for twenty two years in the military. God Bless America
All of those are great marches. Sousa would probably like all of them. And I do, too! I think for a lot of people, the best march is the one they're listening to at the time.
I came specifically for this part, it was the part that played while my commissioning Air Force class was passing the group commander during our graduation parade
+Emi Jenks Our boys all died together in Normandy and elsewhere. Many of us Americans have much love for the British empire and much of your music. Rule, Britannia, The Black Bear, The British Grenadiers, Highland Laddie, Scotland the Brave... There's something about these songs that instill something in a man which can not be explained properly with words. Never forget we are all children of the Most High and never forget what so many of your ancestors fought and died to win and preserve for you. Was a very short time ago that men were being mowed down by the hundreds as they scrambled for a foothold in hopes that you might not live under foreign oppression. Do not allow what Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito could not take with force to be handed away under a guise of new age understanding and cooperation!!!! May The Lord Christ Jesus keep and bless you, young lady. Adios
+Daniel Boone As much as I agree with you, Mussolini wasn't a threat. Mussolini was a good man. If you study Italy during the war, you could see that Italy had great respect for America. And that Italy wanted to ally with Britain and France, but France and Britain refused. Italy also didn't commit any war crimes. Hitler and Hirohito on the other hand, did many war crimes, and caused the war in the first place.
We play this in our band and we're german lol Last weekend, we even played during a concert at Schützenfest, a very traditional and German fest. I guess the people liked it. Bands around the world play German marches, why shouldn't we play this nice piece? Btw our conductor is British and he can't evade all the Brexit jokes now :D
I'm in 10th grade and my band class is learning how to play this song. It makes me really excited for the concert! Hello to other fellow clarinet players!! Edit: I am now a freshman in college. I'm also in my college's marching band--which just happens to be one of the best in the country--and I'm still playing clarinet! Never be afraid to dream big!
Yes I played this in my sophomore year of high school what a great march! Honestly I think it's better than the stars and stripes forever it was a patriotic tone with the national anthem melody in the trombone part! I played trombone
This song was for Navy bootcamp graduation but I only got to hear 10 seconds of it for rehearsal. 3 months of the drill tape and on the day before graduation, I went through a full simulation and as the song played I braced for the music to cut off after 10 seconds. It's didn't and played through the whole song. I burst into tears in rank because bootcamp was finally at an end.
@@ehetenandayo2742 this song was used in an Oversimplified video about the Pig War. For context, a British governor was annoyed when American settlers moved to his territory. This music played in the background during those scenes. I recommend watching his video fully, it’s quite funny.
This is a fun and spirited march to play while the troops pass in review. Still after many years of being out of the military I love nothing more than a good march played by a good band.
Played it as a member of a drum corps-style, comptitive marching high school band every Memorial Day down the streets of our small Ohio 'burg. Love Phantom Regiment!
A few years ago, I was playing the Snare Drum at the Brass Band in Japan. At that time, we performed this march. Even now, It is my favorite song, and my memories :D
this song reminds me of early 1989 when i served in korean army as staff sergeant, the military band performed this marching song but i did not know who wrote this song, anyway it made me feel so good .
I agree . . . and so would Sousa. When asked to name the three most effective street marches ever written, Sousa named two of his own compositions . . . and this one.
When I graduated basic, they played this song but started at 1:46 and all I could think of was the Dirty Dozen and in the marching formation before we did our eyes right it brought a smile to my face
My favorite. On the US Air Force base in Germany where my dad was transferred (Weisbaden) in the 1950s they played this on the American radio station every morning.
What an excellent march. I was lucky enough to play it under the inspired direction of the late, great John B Robbins in the late 60s. Thanks for fine memory. Regards
I remember this march being played at my Naval Recruit Training graduation in Orlando, FL in 1969. Always loved this particular march of the many that have been written.
Played this as the last piece in our wind ensemble concert last school year, was such a joy to play!! Played Semper Fidelis the quarter before, that one was just as fun! Edit: this is actually my band director's favorite march!
I heard a lot of American military marches over the years. This song almost became the "Second Stars and Stripes Forever"---it sounds a bit like John Philip Sousa music-wise--has the same aspects of a Sousa-style American military march, even though Edwin Eugene Bagley did that and not Sousa. It was one of the mainstay songs of Washington DC's grand 4th of July firework spectacular for lots of years in the patriotic music medley during the fireworks.
Ahh... what a beautiful, unspoiled corner of the British Empire. I've got my spotted dick, my Spice Girls fan club membership and an unrelenting negative outlook on life that affects everyone around me. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT STEVEN? Yes, Truly British! What the.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This music recalls me a precise quote: Pinkley: [impersonating a General] Where are you from, son? Soldier: Madison City, Missouri, sir! Pinkley: Never heard of it.
In high school, the band played, and marched to, this piece before every home game. The ROTC cadets would carry a HUGE garrison sized flag onto the field with the band who would, after an invocation or prayer, play the national anthem. Though most of the band members hated the ROTC, as this was in the early 1970s, it was one time they would work together.
We are a British brass band. We rehearsed this superb American march this evening and will be playing it in concert next year. I had intended to ask our musical director if he would play it , but he coincidentally got it out before I asked him.
hey same here. Isn't it strange never getting bass music? I get from trombone to baritone tuba, all the low brass. I keep having to write in the note higher on some of the tuba stuff tho.... hbu
I love this march.When you have a Brigade or Division parade with fixed bayonets it sucks standing at parade rest because you have guys falling over and passing out sticking some guy in front of you.When this comes on it means "Pass and review",and oh what a relief just to move your legs.Memories and some real funny ones too.
Someone tell me why, when most of our enemies are armed with AKs, we still have a weapon which requires closing in to about three feet to use, by which time any competent enemy has put a half dozen rounds in us. More of a risk of training deaths (and in this case, parade injuries) than a serious weapon. My unit had bayonets and never issued them, even in Iraq, but everytime we had an inventory they had to be counted; for some reason it was tough to get the same number twice.
James Horn Yes thats true even we are in the 21st Century.Its more today of a ceremonial weapon like the sword.Its the last symbol of the Infantry's use of cold steel.I remember a couple of years ago i was watching some vintage Saddam era Iraqi films made during the 80s here on RU-vid about the Iraq-Iran war.Every Iraqi soldier from commander down to private looked like Saddam wearing a mustache and always heroic.It showed Iraqi and Iranian infantry bayonet fighting with AKs and G-3s in no mans land like it was the Western Front of WWI.Good bayonet action from the actors but i thought it was hilarious.So i went and asked an Iraqi old man who owns a pizza joint here in Vegas if they fought with bayonets during his time fighting the Iranians?He said it was true because he was fighting in Southern Iraq across from Um Quasar and in Iran near the Abaddan oil fields.The Iranians would infiltrate their Infantry at night to take out their positions via close combat.They would shoot it out and fight hand to hand all night until they would beat back the Iranians.If you ever look at the aftermath footage of that war in that area,the battlefield was littered with bodies like WWI.Even though bayonets are archaic they still did see some use.
James Horn Back in the old days of single shot muskets (that took forever to reload) after the musketeers had emptied their weapons, the enemy could rush the musket line. The first idea was to have men with spears covering the musketeers. Later they got rid of the spears, and just stuck a knife on the end of the musket. And that was the bayonet. With the coming of multiple shot rifles, the bayonet was no longer practical. But you must admit, a bayonet charge is still pretty intimidating.
Edward Wood If the enemy pops up from 20 meters away, yes. But on the whole, I would rather face someone who thought the bayonet was a good idea rather than someone who stands off and launches grenades and rpgs. Gen Shoomaker put out a combat training manual which recommended a 300 meter bayonet assault course. The minimal hand to hand component of his training program we were exposed to prior to deployment to Iraq cost us 3 soldiers out of 76 permanently, are 4 more who rejoined us in theater after weeks of treatment. (I admit to taking some satisfaction that one of the instructors suffered a broken thumb) I think some of our soldiers fired while on convoy, but no one used the hand to hand stuff, and our bayonets never made it out of the Conex.
The trio at the end is used to advance the colors for presentation to the reviewing stand in parades. It's among the most recognizable part of this march.
