Can someone link me to the US songs that the band played for moral in ww2 or Marching bands? Does college football play them? Has the instruments used gone extinct so we can't hear the originals? I'm think many ww2 marching songs came from the revolutionary and civil war. is this close or too high tech? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGgRiR_bCwQ
Can not help you with links but a little clarification might help. First the instruments are very much alive and kicking, its just that some are a little out of fashion now. You are looking at three basic areas here. Cadence songs were ditties (think early rap) sung to help keep men in step during a march. More common in training than during front line service, they could be by our standards racist and by theirs a little raunchy at times. Parade ground music for when being inspected or put on display. Military bands had a repertoire of such which I believe are mostly in use today. Tended to include national and service anthems. Classic patriotic songs like 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the sung versions ( as opposed to instrumental) of service hymns like Marine Corps hymn.
I think you're looking for what would be termed "Marches", that music used when units are on parade. If so, the most prolific composer was John Philip Sousa, Served in the Marine Corps Band from 1868-1875, returned as it's leader of the Marine Corps Band from 1880 to 1892 during which time he composed most of his most famous marches. The Washington Post March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr0CLv1ic9o Semper Fidelis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzeqTyO5Mbs Stars and Stripes Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx9v-E0WBNg Then you have service marches, the US Army's being "The Army Go Rolling Along" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1KreBkLa_o The Marines Hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLItyhpqcAY
One particularly good march IMHO is the Marche de la Légion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXoYaHPYxr0 That said, the British (Scottish) have the BEST in their pipes, nothing stirs the blood or sounds more martial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyD370_mv5c Oh, BTW, there is reason for the beat in military marches it helps keep you in step, your left foot is supposed to strike the deck in cadence with the heavy bass drum beat.
A friend of mine's son was there I think. That parade was the return from the Iraq tour when the Black watch supported the US Marines in the Fallujah operation. A lot of these songs are recycled. "Highland laddieW played by the band was also used for a sea shanty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FO4R5SmSrw&list=PL27D88A6C0113AF39&index=24 Oh and "Piper bill Millen played "Black bear" while marching up and down Sword beach on D Day The highland division marched past Churchill; and Montgommery at Tripoli to "The Ball of Kerrimuir" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y64uWjtSKAo NSFW The German songs have history. by the time "Panzer rollen in Afrika vor" was written, Rommel wasn't doing much rolling anywhere... Adolf Galland wriote ion his memoirs, the 'First and the Last', that "Bomben Auf England" was played over all the loudspeakers in the railways stations, but by this time he knew that they didn't have the fighters to escort the bombers.
Not a band, but certainly one of my favorite martial tunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtnWVvDX6k The last verse is gold.
I did know. I think when the Welsh were fighting the English Edit: I am sure my answer narrows it down precisely.
The scene from "Zulu" where they sang that song, stirring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEU5zHgcTc
Edit: Oops thought it read BANNED songs... One of the lesser-known examples of BBC banning-hood that supplied the most intriguing parts of this entertaining (if not too profound) doc. For instance, during World War Two the Corporation became extremely hostile to crooners from the USA, seemingly because their "American sentimentalisation of emotion" threatened to undermine the nation's fighting spirit. Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Home for Christmas" was singled out for special opprobrium.
Myth No 1. In fact it was inspired by the seven year siege of Harlech castle, 1461-1468 held by the Lancastrians agauinst Yorkists in the Wars of the Roses, the dynastic struggle that inspired Game of Thrones http://history-behind-game-of-thrones.com/category/warofroses Myth No 2 Source http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/myths/myths.htm Here is The Warwickshire Lads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2KtRvnijMA
Sheldrake, I was aware that it wasn't historically accurate, I was simply stating that singing that song in the situation as portrayed in the movie, "the scene", was stirring. That is after all the intent of such Martial music. Owen, I am a big classic movie buff and was aware that the words were written specifically for the scene. The writer did a good job, the whole, "spear points gleaming" fit perfectly with the scene as shot.
Always cheerful little ditties for the Ipod while waiting to pick the kids up from playgroup and avoiding having to talk to the other child owners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYsl1WPA3L8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25JdbrqhqCU The archangel Michael, The Legionari & The Iron Guard... still to my mind one of the loopiest expressions of extremism of the C20th...
And I always thought there was a hilarious irony in a nationalist organisation using a rather weak version of another nation's... errr... nationalist song. Try harder, chaps... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQST9JiY-k
