Trivia:Most Played Song in Drum Corps History????

DannyBD00

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Jun 9, 2001, 7:46:25 PM6/9/01

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I know that back in the day, corps had "signature" songs... Like Boston playing
Conquest year after year... But what song has been played the most time by the
most corps...???

Bob Shreffler

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Jun 9, 2001, 8:02:37 PM6/9/01

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My guess would have to be "Battle Hymn".

Bob Shreffler
Norwood Park Imperials 1970-73; 78-79
Cavaliers 1974-76
Spirit of Atlanta 1980

Rogelio

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Jun 9, 2001, 8:25:09 PM6/9/01

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"Malaguena"?

Roger
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Dance like no one is watching, and Love like you won't get hurt."

BOY1230

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Jun 9, 2001, 8:14:34 PM6/9/01

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West side story !

Geoffrey

Rick and Sue Deschene

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Jun 9, 2001, 8:25:05 PM6/9/01

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"Children of Sanchez."

;-)

Nah, just kiddin'. It just *seemed* that way back in '79.

Sue

OrlandoMike4

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Jun 9, 2001, 8:39:34 PM6/9/01

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>West side story !
>
>Geoffrey

At one time .....1984-85??? Drum Corps World published a list of the 20 or so
most played songs and West Side Story was at the top of the list.

SD Dolfan

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Jun 9, 2001, 8:57:43 PM6/9/01

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If you want, you can do a search of the CorpsReps database:

http://www.corpsreps.com/search.cfm

PJC11251

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Jun 9, 2001, 10:26:31 PM6/9/01

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The Battle Hymm of the Republic

In the late 60's an the early 70's most circut corps (Class B Corps)played
Battle Hymm as a color pre, one year or another.

Phil "A 1973 Ageout"
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Jeffsjetta

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Jun 9, 2001, 11:49:15 PM6/9/01

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Malaguena

Sharcast2

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Jun 9, 2001, 11:53:05 PM6/9/01

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>From: jeffs...@aol.com (Jeffsjetta)

>Malaguena

Has to be Battle Hymn.

Sharon

Clifford Soderlund

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Jun 10, 2001, 10:40:40 AM6/10/01

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The theme from "Rocky".....almost drove me crazy! <smile>. Theme from "Star
Wars" also. Seems like every corps from little beginners to seniors played
it. <smile>

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Mike Duffy

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Jun 10, 2001, 3:15:16 PM6/10/01

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makes way perfect sense to Mikee McD

Wink

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Jun 10, 2001, 7:00:00 PM6/10/01

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Just about every corps back in the 50's played "My Country"

Wink

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Chris Maher

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Jun 10, 2001, 7:01:45 PM6/10/01

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In article <20010609194625...@ng-mn1.aol.com>, DannyBD00 says...

Here's everything played at least 20 times (juniors only) as recorded in
corpsreps. In the case of a play (such as WSS) the counts mean that a corps
played at least one selection. If a corps played a medley or based their whole
show on the play, that would still be one count.

So for those who said WSS or Battle Hymn, looks like you were right.

94 West Side Story
91 Battle Hymn of the Republic
50 Porgy and Bess
47 Wizard of Oz
44 Captain From Castile
44 America
40 Jesus Christ Superstar
39 The Sound of Music
37 When Johnny Comes Marching Home
37 Night and Day
36 Babes in Arms
35 Malaguena
34 How the West Was Won
33 Fiddler on the Roof
32 Carousel
32 Children of Sanchez
31 Sing Sing Sing
31 My Fair Lady
30 Yankee Doodle
29 Caravan
27 Man of La Mancha
26 Hair
26 Star Wars
26 Hang 'em High
25 America The Beautiful
25 Shenandoah
25 The Wiz
25 Pictures at an Exhibition
24 Appalachian Spring
24 Stars and Stripes Forever
24 Malaga
23 The Red Poppy
23 National Emblem March
22 Ben Hur
22 The Planets
22 Alexander's Ragtime Band
22 El Capitan
22 American Salute
21 Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
21 On the Town
21 Victory at Sea
21 Greensleeves
20 El Amor Brujo
20 Yankee Doodle Dandy
20 Firebird Suite
20 Ghost Riders in the Sky
20 Carmen

Chris

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LHall10784

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Jun 10, 2001, 7:22:13 PM6/10/01

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>. But what song has been played the most time by the
>most corps...???

Theme from SWAT in 1976. Every other corps in Class A played it and back then
there were tons of corps

danfitz1

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Jun 8, 2001, 7:30:31 PM6/8/01

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Hi, Danny!

I don't know whether anybody has a real objective answer, but I'd like
to have a nickel for every time I played "Lord and Master" with
Archer-Epler between 1975 and 1995! And Archie must have played it
hundreds of time prior to those years!

BTW, nice to read that you're playing "spectator" a little bit! I hope
I get to see you sometime this summer!

Danny Fitz

Smata2

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Jun 10, 2001, 10:46:05 PM6/10/01

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>I know that back in the day, corps had "signature" songs... Like Boston
>playing
>Conquest year after year...

Actually "Conquest" did not become BAC's signature song until the DCI era. Back
in "the day" they only played it for 2 seasons, 69 and 70.

Smata2

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Jun 10, 2001, 10:49:21 PM6/10/01

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If you went to shows in New England during the 60's it would have to be a toss
up between "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Climb Every Mountain".

Frank S. Jacobson

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Jun 11, 2001, 12:51:13 PM6/11/01

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According to Cheech and Chong, the three most played songs in the world
are:

1) Happy birthday to you
2) Auld Lang Syne
3) Inna Gadda Da Vida

jake
NWV - The Evil Twin

Catherine

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Jun 11, 2001, 1:35:29 PM6/11/01

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank S. Jacobson" <frank.j...@pss.boeing.NOSPAM.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.marching.drumcorps

> According to Cheech and Chong, the three most played songs in the world
> are:
>
> 1) Happy birthday to you
> 2) Auld Lang Syne
> 3) Inna Gadda Da Vida

Those are good.

Add:

(off-topic) Louie, Louie
(on-topic) Mambo
Batman theme
Laugh-in's little "transitioning" jingle
(ending) duh-dada-duh! <no tongued releases, please>

-- Catherine

Donald Rennard

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Jun 11, 2001, 10:32:07 PM6/11/01

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In the 60's the all-time, never-to-be-beaten record was "Hello, Dolly".
::gag::

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