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  • KING COTTON !!!!!!!!!

    I love this song !

    I'm the trumpet in this song :D

  • @BiebersLermaniac Nice! Lot's of good parts for trumpet. I play First Alto Saxophone for my band. We have a festival coming up. We're going to kick butt.

  • j'aime beaucoup cette musique.

    Mais je la prends parfois pour la musique de MontyPython(Liberty Bell).

  • the trio and dog fight are amazing in this song i am playing it in my band and earlier this year our band played nobles of the mystic shrine another piece my Sousa

  • This piece makes me uncomfortably happy :D

  • Raider!

  • @Harmon1103 well mist marches are in 2/2 and sometimes in 4/4. But we play this in symphonic band and it's in 6/8.

  • We played this in honor band, i was 3rd chair alto sax.

  • Clarinets ALLL DA WAY!

  • We playrd this at our school band concert it was 7 & 8 graders. I play the flute! :-)

  • @Cierra1001 Same! expect you know you play flute and i play french horn =D

  • Otis to the rescue!

  • Me recuerda las carreras de caballos en Bogotá, Colombia, cuando era niño por los años 70s

  • I created a youtube account,just so i could like this video

  • @transformer123able OBJECTION! You uploaded a video 5 months ago, yet this comment was clearly made 2 weeks ago! Would you care to tell the court what you were doing during the four and a half month gap between you making an account, liking this video, apparently uploading a video of your own, and the time of this comment?

  • This march is featured in "Milo and Otis", At the part where Otis is fighting the bear in the river, and again when Otis rescued Milo from the hole, when they were finally reunited. I guess you could call it Otis's theme song.

  • What's the problem with 4/4? It's a march. Marches are in 4/4, aren't they. At least, if you want to march to them.

  • @harmon1103 Marches can be written in 4/4, but they more common to be in cut time, or 6/8. Cut time is just a fast 4/4, fast enough to say 1 2 1 2 instead of 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4, and 6/8 is the kinda march that reminds me of a horse, clip-e-clop-e-clip-e-clop-e, this march is in 6/8 time, marching to it is easy. Just follow the tuba! Same goes for cut time marches.

  • very nice! we had to do this song for our parade this past Memorial Day

  • Milo and Otis FTW

  • i remember my sophomore year of hs we had a playing test and i was scared shizless because we had to play it faster than this lol

  • We just started playing this piece recently in our band, and I lovee~ playing it! Even though I'm a 3rd clarinet, this piece is still mega fun to play. :D

  • Our 7th grade band is playing this for a parade!

  • Henry Mancini's version is the best, I downloaded it from Amazon : ) What a great march!

  • I all my friends have Katy Perry and crap on their Ipods, but I have Sousa on mine.

  • We playing that song !. That is one of my favorite !

  • my band is playing this we just starting playing it very slowy but are is kinda different

    thumb up if trombone rockZ

  • Cool song, my band is playing this and it sounds cool.

  • @wootosaur the high a flat's not that hard to keep in tune.

  • I like how unrelated the background is to the song

  • Every time I hear this song, the film, Milo and Otis comes to mind!

  • That was perfect !

    This is one of my favorites of Sousa's.

    But I really wish that BachnerTrpt had posted WHO the band was that recorded this version !

    They deserve credit !

  • @suze816 Probably some national band like the coast guard or presidents own. but thats just a guess

  • this is a very hard song for low brass, especially euphoniums

  • @ipownsomenoobs Try keepin the high A flat in tune :/ Songs awesome tho.

  • @Wootosaur but it's soooo high ;(

  • the ending part on trombone is very fun

  • i am playing this song on clarinet and it is EPIC!!!!!!!!

  • What great pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope to accompany the music...thanks for posting..  I also played this in high school once upon a time.

  • Damn, haven't heard King Cotton since my days in High School in the 1950s. Great stuff!

  • Much better to hear this version than Milo and Otis (with all due respect). At least this is more legitimate than the Milo and Otis version.

  • oh sousa.

    i must memorize you in a week.

  • 1:10 I'm on a carousel!

  • Out of curiosity...what's with the nebula you chose for this video? What is it? The Ant Nebula? Why did you choose to pair it with this march? Was it arbitrary? You should comment about this in your description instead of just saying "Sousa". Just my opinion.

  • @manwithabook Actually, I think this is the nebula called "Thor's Helmet." Maybe since he is a god and King Cotton refers to the dominance of the cotton crop in the southern U.S., there's some correlation?

  • @manwithabook (again) But now I see that all of the march videos have the same picture, so so much for that theory. It's still an interesting notion though, and a pretty cool-looking nebula also!

  • the trombone part at the end is very fun to play

  • Another great Poruguese in the History if USA to go along with the Giant of the Revolutionary War Peter Francisco of which General Washington said without him we would have lost many battle and probably the war.

    His Peter Francisco and Portugal their due.

    Learn More of this Giant Hero at

    historynet. com/peter-francisco-american-r­evolutionary-war-hero. htm

  • This was the last song we played at our last concert, and it was really awesome. Perfect way to end the best year of band class ever. Too bad the whole band was eighth grade and I was seventh, so I won't be having band with them next year :(

  • I remember marching to this piece and not being able to keep my bearing because I was thinking about Milo and Otis. You have no idea how long it took me to figure out what this song was called!

  • this totally reminds me in the high school band. love it

  • i luv the first clarinet part for this its so much fun to play

  • i love it when my favorite band plays this song in the stands before the football game starts!

  • i love this song// the pic. part is riduclous but fun at the same time

  • Living just north of the old Cotton Exchange in Savannah, (HHI, SC, ) gives me the old spirit of the South. Just sayin' Walk down River Street, Imagine this being played.

  • 1st Alto Sax is pretty fun for this. I get the melody most of the time! YAY SOUSA! (I watched Milo and Otis a lot)

  • this is a great song. it annoys me for trumpet though... its sound like something you would her at like six flags of something like that.

  • I LOVE THIS SONG

  • SOUSA makes me so happy!

  • This...was...in... MILO AND OTIS!!!

  • Wow. By no means am I a classical music fan.... but Sousa is awesome. I heard this piece on a movie many years ago called The Adventures Of Milo And Otis and the tune has stuck with me. I heard it again today at my girlfriend's college graduation and I found myself whistling along to it and I've been searching all night for the name and I finally found it! Sousa is awesome!

  • @Paul22085

    Hahah I also remember that this was in Milo and Otis. It is also in The Waterboy.

  • @Paul22085

    Isn't the end of the piece just the best?

  • lawll,

    it's so hard. fucking to many grace notes for 1st clarinet.

  • @hsmluver22 YES

  • I'm playing this. I really like that it has the right amount of difficulty. It's in 6/8, but my conductor just puts it in 4/4 with triplets. I find it hard to keep track of the dotted quarters on the ends of the measures because its hard to tell when to come in.

  • @AsianSharpie

    It's most curious that your maestro had given it to you in 4/4! I think many musicians would find the 6/8 meter easier and more natural to read :S.

  • @AsianSharpie Seriously, it's pretty easy to read 6/8... Have fun tho, this is fun to play.

  • @AsianSharpie why wouldnt you just conduct in 2/2? much easier.

  • @AsianSharpie Your conductor puts it in 4/4!? That's very unmusical, how do you manage?

  • @AsianSharpie then practice your counting if you cant fiure out where to come in. the sheet tells you ;) !!!!  (ps - 6/8 is a lot easier to count in 2 like cut time)

  • i can barely play this on my baritone =C

  • @jackuy12345 look for alternate fingerings, sometimes it will help alot

  • @baritone1988 sorry i only have three valves, i dont have a fourth one =CCCCCC

  • @jackuy12345 that sucks, but on the ones using 12 you can try using the 3rd valve as an alternate

  • you guys can't see it, but i'm marching around my room, waving my pointer fingers around as if I'm the conductor!

  • flippin' amazing! i can't wait to start playing this in band!

  • This is one of my favorite.

  • I love playing this march, and I suppose marches in particular.

    Lots of finger work for the baritones.

  • i gotta play this song in my band class its pretty cool

  • King Cotton? was this written about the south?

  • The copyright is for Britain and colonies/territories in 1895.

  • The king of marches! I love playing that little low brass part at the on on my trombone!

  • i think he meant 5/5 stars lol

  • he is talking about time smarts

  • @rougeleader302 You obviously dont know what your talking about.

  • There are plenty, just none of them are realy famous

  • Uhhh if you were in high school band, then you would know this is 6/8. Listen closely, it's got a waltzy feel to it.

    I love this cause it reminds me of Milo & Otis!

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  • Sousa's finest. Ledgehammer!!!

  • i happen to know for a fact that this song is in the lost meter

    L/8

  • We are playing this in class, And Im in the 8th grade. It sounds cooler here.

  • It's in 4/4 actually

    We're playing it in class. Fun song ^^

  • you must be playing a simplified version. its definitely in 6/8

  • Otis to the rescue!

  • sounds like a circus parade

  • You are right in saying that because most marches have been used on fairgrounds and in carousels.

  • They are in 2/2 I am pretty sure, with lots of triplets.

  • Sousa marches are often cut time or 6/8. Rarely is it cut time(2/2) with triplets. His cut time marches are very traditional. This march is in 6/8.

  • This one happens to be in 6/8.

    I would know, I'm playing it with a string orchestra... as odd as that is...

  • OK - I stand corrected! It has been a long time since I played this one!!

  • is it just me, or are most of Sousa's songs in 6/8?

  • We've played it a few years ago, it is not so difficult and we are an amateur fanfare!!

  • gotta love sousa

  • God Bless and Protect our troops.

  • this song can be heard in the film Milo and Otis

  • That's the film that introduced me to this wonderful piece.

  • cool march. this is what we're playing this year for the marching band. it's gonna b our competition piece. it's awesome, but we kinda make it sound bad. man, this teacher has brought so many of us down. our band as a whole sucks now. i hope we get back up to where we were

  • You keep up your spirit and hopefully it will bring up the spirit of the other members. There is nothing better than a marching band playing a good march. Good Luck.

  • yea, thanks...i try to, but it gets really hard when 3 winds keep us going the whole time and about another 3 playing for a third of the time, along with 2/3 the percussion. it's really hard. i really wish that we had our old band teacher back, but it's not possible because of her daughter.

  • I play marching bass guitar for this in our band

  • This one time, at band camp...

  • same here! camp cazadero.

  • Shut the fuck up you "give me, give me, blame everyone else for my problems" asswipe

  • You need to read more. Do you know anything about his and his parents' background and their fleeing from oppression?

  • Hey retard: cotton continued to be a huge industry in the South after the American Civil War, even without slave labor. It continues to be so because the climate there is good for it.

    J.P. Sousa is not a racist for acknowledging this in the title of a march he wrote for his Tour of the American South in the late 19th century.

    In closing, stop being a faggot. It's a great march, and placing racist connotations to it is stupid and false.

    Good day.

  • This is a superb interpretation of King Cotton, my favourite Sousa march. I've heard the faster versions (apparently as Sousa wanted them) but I prefer the slower 4/4 speed that we used to march to at parades when I was in the military.

  • 'Superb' is right! The slower tempo does demand much more attention to the rhythm to make sure the piece does not drag, and here the band is still extremely articulated and sensitive. Kudos to the players and the conductor.

  • omg this is it the sousa march i played in florida lol the king cotton march!

  • I was a music education major and took conducting lessons and played clarinet since fifth grade. I have led a band and a symphony orchestra once so I know a little bit. technically speaking, this is really good.

    Surprisingly British military bands get the idea.

    i WISH THE US MARINE BAND WOULD POST THEIR RECORDING OF THIS!

  • King Cotton is referring to the south. North Carolina is home to the largest textile manufacturing in the US \, if not the world. In more recent times, it is King Tobacco. But that might change.

  • King Cotton? This must have been written for Obama. (xD jk. and btw no I'm not really racist.)

    Seriously though, this piece is really nice. bested only by Semper Fidelis and Stars and Stripes Forever, imo.

  • You don't get the idea. Apparently your band director hasn't played you a GOOD VERSION of it so you will know what is SUPPOSED to sound like. This sounds like it might have been rearranged and you can't hear the brass and bass very well. GOOD BASS DEFINES A MARCH as does the DRUM/PERCUSSION SECTION!

    The dynamics in this recording are not very good. The musicians sound rather laid back. My grandfather conducted this march and it should be faster with a lot more PASSION behind it!

  • You have no clue about what you are talking about, do you?

  • ellycrane14, you're a serious brat, you know that? You probably listen to trash music that's memory will only last ten years, then everyone will forget about it. Unlike this. So bug off, you wank.

  • Here here!

  • This was written for the Atlanta Cotton exposition of 1898. He was the only band leader from the North that was popular

  • THAT'S where I've heard this! Milo and Otis!

    :D That is such a cute movie!

  • ach! that's where I've heard this! that's one of my favorite movies ever!

  • hahaha I recognize this from Milo and Otis where Otis is trying to pull Milo out of that damn pit.. I know nobody cares but I found it delightfully nostalgic :D

  • we're playing this and washington post for marching season

  • its so cwl and fits in wiv milo and otis well .. PIT RESCUE!

  • go brass heavy songs. Washington post is my favorite song to play and listen to.

  • played this at all city concert

  • this is hard 2 play up to tempo (140 in 6/8)

  • when I say the march is done at 140 its because thats what it says on my sheet music

  • Brings back nice memories of my time spent in an army band!

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  • its milo and otis u cuntfuck

  • I like it...my cousin's schools band needs to play this song.

  • Isn't marching supposed to be at walking speed.

  • 120 beats per minute/2 beats per second

  • Slow? Wouldn't you call this fast?

  • we played it even faster and thought it sounded fine

  • the other thing its in 6/8 time...so it cant be too fast, but my band is playing it faster and it sounds fine

  • No. This is at the right speed. The way march is supposed to be.

  • entirely too slow.

  • It should be like that. Marches shouldn't be too slow. :)

  • I don't know what band this is but I am not liking the soft pianissimo sections...it's a march, not a lullaby.

  • Thats how its written. There are a lot of marches with soft parts like that. I used to do street and the soft parts actually are seen as more of a challenge. It also makes the forte parts more forte.

  • Yeah I know it's about contrast. I guess I'm just picky. I generally like to hear it at a more energetic tempo too.

  • @RWT683 I got no prob with soft sections, I just would like them to come back with a forte` second time around

  • If this does't make you want to march, what will? That is, if you like marching and all..

  • we play this in marching band

  • I see you have a lot of Sousa up on youtube. You wouldn't happen to have Nobles of the Mystic Shrine march, would you?

  • i played that in high school =D

  • awesome

  • We peform basic strut at baton twiling national competitions to this

  • This song is the March for my school 2...I play alto sax.

  • you know this march is done at 140 bpm right...

  • I had no problem with your upload of the song.

    I just felt that the performance lacked conviction. I still do. Sorry if that angered everyone. Thank you for your repy.

  • An exellent performance of this Sousa march. Thanks for posting. Regards Raymond

  • pretty picture...we played this march this year for marching band....

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