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On my radio show, I had a segment called "This Week in West Side Story." Every week for 11 weeks I played a different WSS show, either one that was nothing but WSS (like '97 Kiwanis Kavaliers) or one that incorporated it in a significant way ('98 Blue Devils). True story. And yes, that was all an effort to point out just how frequently it gets played. On the final show, when I did my personal top twelve, I included '84 Garfield.

On the last broadcast of my radio show, I did a special salute to Dutch Boy's program this year and played "Quiet Mountain Town." I couldn't be more thrilled that they're doing the show they are. I just wish I could see it!

You took me seriously?.....Wait, don't tell me.....you've either never encountered irony before, or you're a LITERALIST! Also, go Blue Stars! Very happy to see them back in Open Class (!) and doing so well.

Hey, me too!

That was 1991. But yes. Great show.

The playlist for my last broadcast was my personal Top 12 (that day), plus '72 Kingsmen (with a reading of all corps in DCI competition in 1972) and a little "Spotlight on Dutch Boy." Of course, my Top 12, much like anyone else's, is always subject to change. It was a lot to pack into three hours; I think I ran long that day. 1972 Anaheim Kingsmen 1984 Garfield Cadets 1986 Blue Devils 1987 Santa Clara Vanguard 1987 Garfield Cadets 1988 Blue Devils 1989 Phantom Regiment 1990 Star of Indiana 1992 Cadets of Bergen County 1993 Star of Indiana 1995 Madison Scouts South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut OST / Quiet Mountain Town 2000 Cavaliers 2001 Santa Clara Vanguard

At the time, we were the only radio station (we knew of) playing drum corps on the radio. At the time. It doesn't surprise me too much that someone else had done it before. Someone ought to be doing it all the time. And I mean broadcast radio, not exclusively webcast (even though a good portion of my listeners -- say, six out of eight! -- were probably listening to the Internet stream and not the radio). We're only a 200kw station, but if every college radio station had a weekly drum corps show, you'd be able to hear drum corps on the radio practically everywhere.

And just this past spring, there was a weekly drum corps radio show in Southern California. Imagine that!