76 Trombones - The Music Man

[niyad]

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Dagnab it, they don't write 'em like that n'more.

Seventy-Six Trombones

"Seventy-Six Trombones" is the signature song from the 1957 musical play The Music Man (1957), written by Meredith Willson. The song also appeared in the 1962 film and in the made-for-TV movie adaptation in 2003. It is also a piece commonly played by marching and military bands. The song's opening lines are:

Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand ...

Leroy Anderson wrote a popular arrangement of the piece that integrates other popular marches including Stars and Stripes Forever and The Washington Post March by John Philip Sousa (in whose band Willson had played), the National Emblem march by Edwin Eugene Bagley, the Swedish march "Under blågul fana" ("Under the Blue and Yellow Flag" ) by Viktor Widqvist, and the Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard march by D. W. Reeves.

And because I like Leroy Anderson a whole bunch:

[niyad]

2. thank you so much for sharing this!

[longship]

3. Now you are in real trouble, niyad!

You should already know that this addition to your thread is obligatory... YEE-GODS!

[niyad]

4. Right here in River City!!!!

I would have expected nothing less!!

[3catwoman3]

5. And, gotta include Lida Rose.

Here is the original movie version -

And another rendition with all the tracks recorded in different countries and put together. Julian Neel is the artist behind this interesting method. He is French, and has lived in the US. Loves barbershop harmony but no one in France does it, so he started recording all the parts individually to make his own "one man" quartet. Then he started ivolving other artists from around the world.

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[niyad]

6. thank you for that --wonderful video.