Posted on May 31, 2015
Which music did military bands play as you passed in review when you were in the service? Which are played today?
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Lucille Ball and Paula Stewart - Hey, Look Me Over - live television - 1960
Lucille Ball and Paula Stewart as Wildy and Janey Jackson.
During my year in Infantry School in 1966, all I ever heard was "Hey Look Me Over" as we passed in review at Fort Gordon, Fort Jackson, and Fort Benning. It seemed quite popular with military bands.
I was one of the few who had seen Lucille Ball perform it live inasmuch as the musical Wildcat didn't have a very long run. I saw it in Philadelphia before it reached Broadway. Sadly, Ms Ball's popularity from the I Love Lucy series got in the way and the show's run on Broadway was brief.
Still the song "Hey Look Me Over" seemed to resonate with military bands. Although the lyrics don't have much to do with soldiers on parade, the title seemed appropriate and the score had a good martial beat to it. Watching American Bandstand during the 1950s we heard teenagers evaluating music as good when they remarked, "I could dance to that". I guess soldiers liked "Hey Look Me Over" because they could march to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V2z1nSrtkI
I was one of the few who had seen Lucille Ball perform it live inasmuch as the musical Wildcat didn't have a very long run. I saw it in Philadelphia before it reached Broadway. Sadly, Ms Ball's popularity from the I Love Lucy series got in the way and the show's run on Broadway was brief.
Still the song "Hey Look Me Over" seemed to resonate with military bands. Although the lyrics don't have much to do with soldiers on parade, the title seemed appropriate and the score had a good martial beat to it. Watching American Bandstand during the 1950s we heard teenagers evaluating music as good when they remarked, "I could dance to that". I guess soldiers liked "Hey Look Me Over" because they could march to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V2z1nSrtkI
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Capt Walter Miller
Marine Band Plays Semper Fidelis at John Philip Sousa Grave
Marine Band plays Semper Fidelis at the grave of John Philip Sousa on his birthday, November 6, 2011.
Written of course by John Phillip Sousa.
The "U.S. Field Artillery March" is a patriotic military march of the United States Army written in 1917 by John Philip Sousa, based on an earlier work by Edmund L. Gruber. The refrain is the "Caissons Go Rolling Along". This song inspired the official song of the U.S. Army which is called "The Army Goes Rolling Along", although the current official lyrics and arrangement of that song are substantially different from those written for this song in 1917. - wiki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhvzWD5e88
The "U.S. Field Artillery March" is a patriotic military march of the United States Army written in 1917 by John Philip Sousa, based on an earlier work by Edmund L. Gruber. The refrain is the "Caissons Go Rolling Along". This song inspired the official song of the U.S. Army which is called "The Army Goes Rolling Along", although the current official lyrics and arrangement of that song are substantially different from those written for this song in 1917. - wiki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhvzWD5e88
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the refrain from "We gotta get outta this place" was popular in basic training.
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CPT Jack Durish
"We gotta get outta this place" was popular with the troops but I never heard a military band play it. To be honest, we didn't pass in review outside of training and that's why I don't know much about military band music following 1966. Well, except for Marine dance bands that seem to favor Santana
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Capt Seid Waddell
Every Saturday morning during wedge inspections the OTs in the band marched and played outside as the rest of us stood inspection.
I only marched in review twice after Basic training.
I was told once that the reason the Air Force wore blue suits was so that you could tell them from the military.
I only marched in review twice after Basic training.
I was told once that the reason the Air Force wore blue suits was so that you could tell them from the military.
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