What are your thoughts on John Philip Sousa

[TrogL]

Too much piccolo. (sorry, couldn't resist)

[kentauros]

1. He's not Karl L. King, that's for sure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--NQIggwTaM

:D

[IcyPeas]

2. I just don't like that kind of music - sounds like high school bands

[Demoiselle]

3. We must all remember that a duck may be somebody's mother.(nt)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

9. OMG

That's what I think every time I hear that!
:rofl:

[Demoiselle]

10. Happy to make you laugh!

:fistbump:

[Ptah]

4. He's the Benny Goodman of Marching Music.

The Washington Post March - - - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOCxegQupMU

[edbermac]

5. The Justin Bieber of his era.

[Graybeard]

6. The movie is a lot of fun.

Clifton Webb plays Sousa in a highly fictionalized telling of his career, from the Marine Corps Band to international celebrity. He wanted only to write love songs ("My Heart Is A Weeping Willow") until he played one of his ballads in march time and the rest is Hollywood history.

"Stars And Stripes Forever" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045187/

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.:patriot:

[Ptah]

7. John Philip Sousa is the Colonel Bogey of the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai Theme - - - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r03GGpKedY

[bbernardini]

8. I think his stuff is brilliant. My wife doesn't care for him.

Oddly enough, it's the same way with Negativland. :)

[kentauros]

17. I think negativland takes a special kind of listener,

usually an intellectual or at least a band-geek }(

[bikebloke]

11. I liked him when he was in The Mamas and the Papas.

His solo career was a disappointment.

[Steerpike]

12. John Phillip Sousa

Probobly the best composer of that genre...followed closely by Kenneth J Alford (real name Frederick Joseph Ricketts)!

Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa stills sends chills up my spine when I hear it live.

[Taverner]

13. My thoughts are that Tuba players should be thankful for the Sousaphone

Tuba ------------------>






Sousaphone ------------>

[TrogL]

16. Tuba or not tuba, that is the question

[meegbear]

14. I prefer to think about Jon Michael Vincent

[Ineeda]

15. Reminds me of my grandfather who was a musician,

and supposedly a drum major, so once in a blue moon I get a kick out of hearing Sousa marches. Although my grandfather mostly played the banjo, so it doesn't translate very well.