TRACK LISTING

1. SUB MARINERS - Up Periscope

2. ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS - Sarie Marais

3. THE BLUES AND ROYALS - Grand March from Aida & The Royals

4. 4th/7th ROYAL DRAGOON GUARDS - St Patrick’s Day

5. THE QUEEN’S OWN HUSSARS - Light Cavalry

6. THE ROYAL HUSSARS (Prince of Wales’s Own) - The Merry Month of May

7. 13th/18th ROYAL HUSSARS (Queen Mary’s Own) - A Life on the Ocean Wave and Balaklava March

8. l4th/20th KING’S HUSSARS - Royal Sussex

9. 16th/5th THE QUEEN’S ROYAL LANCERS - Scarlet and Green

10. IRISH GUARDS - St Patrick’s Day

11. WELSH GUARDS - Rising of the Lark

12. THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF FUSILIERS - The British Grenadiers

13. THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF FUSILIERS - New Fusilier

14. THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT - Rule Britannia & Speed the Plough

15. THE DEVONSHIRE AND DORSET REGIMENT - Widdicomhe Fair, We’ve Lived and Loved Together and The Maid of Glenconnel

16. THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayreshire Regiment) - Whistle o’er the Lave O’t and British Grenadiers

17. THE 22nd (CHESHIRE) REGIMENT - Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie

18. THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT - The Kinnegad Slashers

19. THE QUEEN’S LANCASHIRE REGIMENT - The Attack & The Red Rose

20. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S REGIMENT (West Riding) - The Wellesley

21. THE STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT (The Prince of Wales’s) - Come Lasses and Lads and The Days We went A-Gipsying

22. THE BLACK WATCH (Royal Highland Regiment) - Highland Laddie

23. THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS (Princess Louise’s) - The Thin Red Line

24. THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT - Ride of the Valkyries

25. 7th DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S OWN GURKHA RIFLES - Old Monmouthshire

26. GURKHA ENGINEERS - Wings

27. GURKHA MILITARY POLICE - The Watch Tower

28. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS - Here’s a Health Unto His Majesty

29. SMALL ARMS SCHOOL CORPS - March of the Bowmen

30. MILITARY PROVOST STAFF CORPS - The Metropolitan

31. ROYAL PIONEER CORPS - Pioneer Corps

32. ARMY CATERING CORPS - Sugar and Spice

33. ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT - Sprig of Shillelagh & Garryowen

34. ARMY LEGAL CORPS - Scales of Justice

35. STRIKE COMMAND - Strike Command March Past

36. ROYAL AIR FORCE POLICE - Royal Air Force Police March Past.

Quick Marches of the British Armed Forces Volume 2

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 two 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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