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TRACK LISTING 1. THE QUEEN’S ROYAL LANCERS - Stable Jacket 2. THE QUEEN’S ROYAL HUSSARS - The Queen’s Royal Hussars 3. THE KING’S ROYAL HUSSARS - The King’s Royal Hussars 4. THE PRINCESS OF WALES’S ROYAL REGIMENT - The Farmer’s Boy/The Soldiers of the Queen 5. THE ROYAL GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BERKSHIRE AND WILTSHIRE REGIMENT - The Sphinx and Dragon 6. THE HIGHLANDERS - The Queen’s Own Highlanders & Cock of the North 7. THE BRIGADE OF GURKHAS - Yo Nepali 8. THE ROYAL LOGISTIC CORPS - On Parade 9. THE ADJUTANT GENERAL’S CORPS - Pride of Lions 10. CORPS OF ARMY MUSIC/RMSM - Blow Away the Morning Dew 11. THE QUEEN’S DIVISION - The Queensman 12. THE KING’S DIVISION - Bond of Friendship 13. THE PRINCE OF WALES’S DIVISION - God Bless the Prince of Wales 14. THE LIGHT DIVISION - The Light Division 15. ROYAL AIR FORCE NURSING SERVICE - Skywards 16. ALLIED RAPID REACTION CORPS - Fortune Favours the Bold 17. ARMY BENEVOLENT FUND - Action Support 18. SSAFA - The SSAFA Concert March 19. THE BRITISH KOREAN VETERANS ASSOCIATION - The Hills of Korea 20. THE ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA - Boys of the Old Brigade 21. THE ROYAL STAR AND GARTER HOME - The Royal Star and Garter 22. CIVIL ADMIN (MOD) - Soldiers First 23. ST DUNSTANS - St Dunstans 24. ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS - Swift and Sure 25. ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS - The Signaller |
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Quick Marches of the British Armed Forces Volume 4 Band of the Royal Corps of Signals Conductor: Captain D F Wall
Compact Disc only £10.00 — buy all four for £30.00
This is volume four 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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