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TRACK LISTING 1. THE ROYAL NAVY - Heart of Oak 2. WOMENS ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE - Passing By 3. QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S ROYAL NAVAL NURSING SERVICE - QARNNS March 4. THE ROYAL MARINES - A Life on the Ocean Wave 5. 1st THE QUEEN’S DRAGOON GUARDS - Radetsky & Rusty Buckles 6. THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS - 3DG’s 7. 5th ROYAL INNISKILLING GUARDS - Fare Ye Well Inniskilling 8. THE QUEEN’S ROYAL IRISH HUSSARS - St Patrick’s Day, Berkeley’s Dragoons and The Galloping 8th Hussars 9. 9th/12th ROYAL LANCERS - God Bless the Prince of Wales 10. 15th/19th THE KING’S ROYAL HUSSARS - The Bold King’s Hussars 11. 17th/21st LANCERS - The White Lancers 12. ROYAL TANK REGIMENT - My Boy Willie 13. THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY - British Grenadiers & Voice of the Guns 14. THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS - Wings 15. THE ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS - Begone Dull Care 16. GRENADIER GUARDS - British Grenadiers 17. COLDSTREAM GUARDS - Milanollo 18. THE ROYAL SCOTS - Dumbarton’s Drums 19. THE QUEEN’S REGIMENT - Soldier’s of the Queen 20. THE KING’S OWN BORDER REGIMENT - John Peel & Corn Rigs are Bonnie 21. THE KING’S REGIMENT - The Kingsman 22. THE PRINCE OF WALES’S OWN REGIMENT OF YORKSHIRE - Ca Ira & The Yorkshire Lass 23. THE GREEN HOWARDS - Bonnie English Rose 24. THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF WALES - Men of Harlech 25. THE KING’S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS - Blue Bonnets Over the Border 26. THE WORCESTERSHIRE AND SHERWOOD FORESTERS REGIMENT - Young May Moon & The Royal Windsor 27. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S ROYAL REGIMENT - Farmer’s Boy 28. THE QUEEN’S OWN HIGHLANDERS - Scotland for Ever & Cameron Men 29. 15th PRINCESS MARY’S OWN GURKHA RIFLES - Hundred Pipers 30. GURKHA TRANSPORT REGIMENT - Wait for the Wagon 31. THE ROYAL GREENJACKETS - Huntsman’s Chorus & The Italian Song 32. ROYAL ARMY CHAPLAIN’S DEPARTMENT - Trumpet Voluntary 33. ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS - Imperial Echoes 34. WOMEN’S ROYAL ARMY CORPS - Lass of Richmond Hill & Early One Morning 35. ROYAL AIR FORCE - Royal Air Force March Past 36. ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT - Holyrood. |
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Quick Marches of the British Armed Forces Volume 1 Band of the Royal Corps of Signals Conductor: Captain D F Wall and Major G Turner
Compact Disc only £10.00 — buy all four for £30.00
This is volume one of a unique series featuring the official quick marches of virtually every unit of The Royal Navy, The Royal Marines, The Army and The Royal Air Force. Also included are the marches of many of the Associations and Societies connected with the forces.
There can be nothing more inspiring and heart stirring than the regimental march. Between them, the British services - the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army and Royal Air Force — possess a heritage of music unequaled in its richness and diversity anywhere in the world.
The origins of many are obscure and often little is known as to why a particular tune was adopted as a quick step. Many of the most successful are those based on one or more traditional folk songs, tunes that have virtually disappeared from general usage and would have been forgotten completely if they had not been kept alive as a regimental march. Some of these have been in use for generations or even centuries. The Royal Scots are reputed to have marched to ‘Dumbarton’s Drums’ for almost three hundred years.
Both famous composers and virtually unknown musicians have had their compositions purloined and strange adaptations have had to be made at times so that troops could march past to the most unlikely tune. Other marches such as ‘Ca Ira’ of The West Yorkshire Regiment were filched from the enemy and have become proud possessions of their captors.
In more recent years, amalgamations and the creation of new regiments and corps, has necessitated the commissioning of new marches. In some cases the tunes already in use have been cobbled together, as can be seen with The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars, whilst with others, new works have emerged. The folk tune is still extremely popular, with The Army Catering Corps laying claim to ‘The Roast Beef Of Old England’ and the Army Legal Corps using ‘The Soldier has no Fellow’ and ‘Stop, poor Sinner, stop and think’.
The senior service, The Royal Navy have used ‘Heart of Oak’ from time immemorial but in recent times the WRNS have adopted a most appropriate melody, ‘Passing By’, the first line of which is ‘There is a Lady Sweet and Kind’, and the Sub Mariners have included a snippet of a Lennon and McCartney pop tune ‘We All Live In A Yellow Submarine’ in their march past.
The Royal Air Force is still relatively new but they do possess several very fine parade quick marches in addition to the Royal Air Force March Past.
This series is the first complete set of the authorised quick marches of the British armed forces. It includes all marches of The Royal Navy, The Royal Marines, The British Army and The Royal Air Force that have been officially sanctioned by the Ministry of Defense. |
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