jmc5682 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 10 hours ago, JKT90 said: I'd like to see a female corps. Imagine the talent level they could draw from. There were many female corps in the early days up through the early 80's. The Freelancers, were originally an all girl corps. I remember an all girl corps from Canada called the Chatelains (I know I spelled that wrong) and they were bad ###. There were actually quite a few all female corps from our neighbors up north at the time. There were enough female corps that they had their own division at DCI. It would be cool for an all female corps to form again and do well. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThirdValvesAreForWimps Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 9 minutes ago, jmc5682 said: There were many female corps in the early days up through the early 80's. The Freelancers, were originally an all girl corps. I remember an all girl corps from Canada called the Chatelains (I know I spelled that wrong) and they were bad ###. There were actually quite a few all female corps from our neighbors up north at the time. There were enough female corps that they had their own division at DCI. It would be cool for an all female corps to form again and do well. Les Chatelaines were terrific. So were Arbella, the Capitolaires, the Ventures, St. John's Girls, the Audobon Bon-Bons, and more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmc5682 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 8 hours ago, ThirdValvesAreForWimps said: The Midwest used to dominate DCI Finals: Taking The Cavaliers, Madison Scouts, and the pre-1978 Kilts out of the equation, Midwestern finalists included Phantom Regiment, Blue Stars, Guardsmen, Glassmen, Bluecoats, Star of Indiana, Colts, and more. California used to dominate Finals - 1984 BD, SCV, Freelancers and VK all in Finals in the same year! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamarag Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 9 minutes ago, ThirdValvesAreForWimps said: Les Chatelaines were terrific. So were Arbella, the Capitolaires, the Ventures, St. John's Girls, the Audobon Bon-Bons, and more. Ventures were awesome....they won a couple of DIV2 titles in the 80's if memory serves...today's Open Class. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamarag Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, jmc5682 said: California used to dominate Finals - 1984 BD, SCV, Freelancers and VK all in Finals in the same year! Don't forget Mandarins winning a couple of Div3 championships with like nine brass or something. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby L. Collins Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 27 minutes ago, jmc5682 said: There were many female corps in the early days up through the early 80's. The Freelancers, were originally an all girl corps. I remember an all girl corps from Canada called the Chatelains (I know I spelled that wrong) and they were bad ###. There were actually quite a few all female corps from our neighbors up north at the time. There were enough female corps that they had their own division at DCI. It would be cool for an all female corps to form again and do well. The Bandettes stayed active til around 2004 I believe. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 13 minutes ago, ThirdValvesAreForWimps said: Les Chatelaines were terrific. So were Arbella, the Capitolaires, the Ventures, St. John's Girls, the Audobon Bon-Bons, and more. I never saw them but Jim and our good friend Mike Lafferty were talking about old drum corps and the all-girl corps from Port Clinton, Ohio came up. The Vacationland Sweethearts. Cool name. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 (edited) There were the Bellettes from Belleville, Illinois and the Nee-His from Clinton, Iowa. Edited August 14, 2017 by Terri Schehr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThirdValvesAreForWimps Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 6 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said: There were the Bellettes from Belleville, Illinois and the Nee-His from Clinton, Iowa. Where were the Mello-Dears from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 1 minute ago, ThirdValvesAreForWimps said: Where were the Mello-Dears from? Owego, New York. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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