[Best Baritone Soloists]

Some of my faves, off the top of my head:

Two names from a bygone era: Bill Hightower and John Simpson. Two absolutely awesome players, considering the tinker-toy brass instruments they were playing on in the early 1960s.

Doug Kenyon should probably be on anyone's "best of" list.

Ruben Ariola, now with the NY Skyliners Alumni corps. He gets my vote for the loudest baritone player in the history of drum corps (you gotta hear this guy bring the heat!!!!), with a great tone and technique to match.

A not-as-well-known name from the 1970s: Dennis Dewey. A great bari player with the (then) Garfield Cadets.

Fran

and just to give you an update dennis went on to teach for 33 at a high school on long island and before retiring his band won state many times including 2 of the last 3 years he taught.

[Shout out to the 1977 Garfield Cadets]

Hey! Tell Dennis Mike Davis says "Hi!" We had a great time when we marched together.

hey mike if you are on facebook friend request dennis he does have a facebook account along with several other cadets.

[Shout out to the 1977 Garfield Cadets]

Just gotta say that Greg Cinzio is still playing and can be found in the horn line of the Skyliners Alumni. Besides being a player, he is a great guy and and member! Every corps should have a couple of "Greg Cinzios" on their roster!

Ray

i remeber greg though it was his dad who was doc cinzo. i know cause he looked at my wrist after i feel at cornell university and had bob cardineao take me to the campus heath center to get my arm put in a cast. doc cinzio hit it right on the head when he said i had a green branch fracture.

[Shout out to the 1977 Garfield Cadets]

Hey! Tell Dennis Mike Davis says "Hi!" We had a great time when we marched together.

i will tell him. he is teaching part time at a college now after teaching for 33 years at the same high school on long island. so he is still into the music

[Really Old Drum Corps]

I realize that there are some people out there who are sick and tired of "we" old folks talking about the "good old days." But I beleive there are many "new" drum corps people who don't know what went on in the 50's and 60's that helped make this great activity of ours what it is today. Has anyone ever thought "what happened to drum corps in New Jersey?" New Jersey was the center of junior drum corps in the 50's. There were 2 different types of drum corps.....junior corps, age till you were 21 and then senior corps.......21 and up. I may be wrong but there isn't one top junior corps from New Jersey, What happened to the foks who marched with Blessed Sacrament of Neward, St. Joe's of Newark, St. Vincents of Bayonne, St. Lucy's, Audubon Girls Corps, etc. We all know about Holy Name Cadets and they are the only one that kept going but they are now out of Pennsylvania. Massachusetts also was huge in the 50's but right now there is only the Boston Crusaders, what happened to the others.

I would love to get some interest in the past but never forgetting how great the present is.

Thanks and I hope I hear from all of you.

i remeber the all girl audubon corp. they were still active in the 70s but they did dispand though i am not sure when.

[Shout out to the 1977 Garfield Cadets]

I know he marched in 71 and 72, two of my years, but I am not sure when he and his younger brother Mike (RIP, sad to say) left.

Both of them great guys!

hi i am one of dennis dewes sisters. he marchedwith cadets threw 76 and was a horn instructor in 77 and 78