All-Time BEST All-Girl Corps

[dckid80]

Ah yes, Arbella played a very nice arrangement of Evergreen as their exit for a couple of years.

[sagnasty]

Does anyone remeber Prasedium. Sorry if a buthered the spelling. I think they were from the Detroit area. I remember them in the mid 70's.

[Northern Thunder]

Absolutely remember the Praesidium. Their drum majors gave their commands in Latin.

[wishbonecav]

If Les Chatelaines were every voters' 2nd choice behind Bon Bons or Ventures, I get it.

But 3 votes for the ladies with the chairs? Tough crowd.

[ironlips]

I'm surprised that those hellion ND-ettes from CT are not included in this survey. I can verfy that they were a force to be reckoned with, and quite a few are still bringing it pretty hard with Park City.

Of course it's unlikely anyone here would know of the Grand-Mommas of them all, the Bengal Guards from Orange, TX, who pretty much started the whole girls corps movement in the 1930s.

It's ironic that they had almost no one with whom to compete way out there. They'd have done rather well in their day with their 20-plus snares and all. They did play a few major college bowl games and other prestigeous events.

[Fran Haring]

For sheer longevity and consistency, I vote for the Bon-Bons.

Fran

[gmanbay41]

Bon-Bons, they are the only girl corps to have beat DCI CHAMPION Blue Devils!!!!!!

George

Edited July 24, 2009 by gmanbay41

[BigDale]

Bon-Bons, they are the only girl corps to have beat DCI CHAMPION Blue Devils!!!!!!

George

That's a good thing--

[Puppet]

I'd vote St. Johns but I can't - because they're not on the list.

"All Time Best All Girl":

You left off the Notre Dame all girls corps from Bridgeport CT. They had a great run back in the mid to late 1960's. Some of them are still "Doing It" in the Park City Pride Alumni corps.

Thanks for the poll!!!

Elphaba

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Definitely, unquestionably Audubon, without a doubt.

Hey, people. I know I haven't been around for a while.

I voted St. Iggy's for obvious reasons. Same instructors, etc. in the seventies they were the ###t! Ray, they were from Long Island, where is your pride? Oh, St. John's was on the list. If you're going CT - The Trumbull Troubadors probably had more girls than the whole Notre Dame all girls. (kidding- but 45 in the guard?!!!) Before 1970 Audubon, during the seventies The Girls From Long Island! Because a lot of you didn't read the whole question, I forgive you.

Puppet

[kusankusho]

Oh, St. John's was on the list.

They weren't in the first cut, but Keith kindly added them.