MikeD Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 I'm almost certain that the Garfield sops had boy scout style straight brass bugles, hanging at their side one year, along with their regular hardware, or at least one show I saw in Jersey. Might have been 1969 or early 70's. Frank Dorritie wrote the brass. He was standing next to the corps before they stepped off.Maybe I just have a poor memory. Where's Iron Lips? He would know. Hmm....let's hope he chimes in. I don't recall that at all about the 71 show, the only one in that era that Frank basically wrote in total from that era, though he was on staff in 70 and wrote the ending to White Rabbit, as he related to me (big huge mello rips!). You may be right though; I played tri-toms in 71, so I may have forgotten that this many years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsksun4 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Hmm....let's hope he chimes in. I don't recall that at all about the 71 show, the only one in that era that Frank basically wrote in total from that era, though he was on staff in 70 and wrote the ending to White Rabbit, as he related to me (big huge mello rips!).You may be right though; I played tri-toms in 71, so I may have forgotten that this many years later. I'm not positive of the year. Could have been 1975 even. Not sure. Maybe there was a song where they had bugle calls on the old fashioned horns. FTD was a proud Boy Scout in his younger years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Thunder Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 1976 was the year Garfield came out carrying the "old" bugles. They used them in the Bicentennial segment of their show until mid-season, when the brass execution judges finally forced the corps to drop them. Their scores did improve after the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsksun4 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 1976 was the year Garfield came out carrying the "old" bugles. They used them in the Bicentennial segment of their show until mid-season, when the brass execution judges finally forced the corps to drop them. Their scores did improve after the change. Whew. Thank you. I thought I'd never find that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Whew. Thank you. I thought I'd never find that out. And I thought I missed something so big when I was marching member! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 (edited) Their scores did improve after the change. Yes. Until the corps was absolutely hosed at DCI Prelims that year. Fran Edited January 20, 2008 by Fran Haring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Many corps from the 1950s and early 1960s did snippets from as many as 20 or 25 different songs in their field shows. Absolutely.... back in the days of the "Throw As Much Stuff At The Wall As Possible And See What Sticks" era of drum corps programming! Fran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDuffy Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 This topic came to me from another thread. I began to wonder…For instance, in 1970 the CMCC Warriors played ten songs during their show. Blue Rock that same year had I think ten and the Boston Crusaders a whopping fourteen! Of course that's when shows were up to 12 minutes long. No wonder there were ambulances on stand by during July and August. We were exhausted! Puppet The 1970 Troopers played: Hang 'em High, Battle Hymn, Pop's Hoe Down, Aquarius/Sunshine In, Black is the Color/How the West Was Won, When Johnny Comes Marching Home/How the West Was Won (Tag) Battle Hymn Push Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skajerk Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Well, we (Valley Fever) never played eleventybillion songs in a show, but how is this for varied? 1980 In Taberna Quando Sumus (from Carmina Burana) Theme from Masterpiece Theater Overture from Tommy Ice Castles 1981 Theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture Carmina Burana Birdland Love the World Away 1982 Finale from the Fifth Symphony in E Flat (Shostakovich) Carmina Burana Caroline Encounters Tom Swift and His Marvelous Jazz Rock Machine Love the World Away 1983 American Overture Battle on Ice (from Alexander Nevsky) Great Day (from Funny Lady) Morning Glow (from Pippin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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