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  1. There was also the failed experiment to call the corps from Seattle's Kennedy High School the Mouchoirs, which means tissue or handkerchief in French.

    Nobody knew how to pronounce the name, or what a Mouchoir was, so eventually the corps became the Continentals, and they lasted through 1979.

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  2. 1 hour ago, kdaddy said:

    Please have enough respect for us to not randomly choose two adjectives and a noun to form a fake corps...

    In this case, Oblong is the name of a city in Illinois.  

    There was a published photo of one of the corps' booster buttons in a 1950s drum corps magazine.

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  3. 10 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:

    any video of the show?

    It would be GREAT to have videos of virtually the top 21 from '77!!  (I should say non-finalist corps.)

    I had to include the 21st place Royal Crusaders, just to be able to see Patty Beggy dance during the Chorus Line feature.  The crowd went nuts!

    Anaheim, Oakland, Guardsmen, Boston, North Star all had that Boulder crowd going wild!

  4. 1 hour ago, Ediker said:

    1989 Suncoast Sound: the corps that knew it could.   They were 9th overall, but brass snagged 3rd (ahead of Blue Devils) at semi-finals. 

    I was always amazed at how brass judge Bill Doyle seemed to be a GREAT fan of Suncoast Sound.  In that '89 championship, it was him that awarded Suncoast 3rd place, while at finals Mike Rubino gave them 9th.  In '86 Doyle had them 1st at finals, while Dallas Niermeyer had them 3rd at prelims.  In '84, Doyle gave Suncoast 1st at prelims, while Bernard Baggs had them 6th at finals.

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