John Phillip Sousa - American Patrol March

[EmpireBritish]

This March Mixed..

a few time later.. Dixle land, Yankee Doodle Dandy...

In korea. This music use a amusement park BGM

[Factnotfictionpeople]

I reckon only The Royal Green jackets could march to this one - way too fast for a march! LOL

[jeopardy60611]

I was in my high school Marching Band at Lane Tech in Chicago, IL from 1985-1988. I recall back in 1987 being at a McDonald's and my then 4-year-old brother was riding on a merry-go-round there that played American Patrol. I remember being fascinated with hearing that since I was familiar with it from playing in the band.

[BudmanPackfan]

and Glenn Miller style would be swing saxophones and have a total 40's big band feel to it....

[magicCr1]

:O nice :D

[albiorixix]

is also popular by glenn miller in 2ww...

[kaiketsu07]

5 people were assholes

[three9alpha]

I'm pretty sure this recording is by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. I had it on a 45 when I was a kid.

[shoupok]

Im gona be playin this song for contest probably=)

[jenskies12]

the beginning sounds like christmas song XD

[FiftyCaddy]

Good, but NOTHING beats Glenn Miller's version.

[Trumpetmani]

My band recently played this haha!

[GothicKnight2]

I find it funny, whenever a contemporary pop star redoes a classic, people seem to immediately pull up a video of the original and say "Oh said pop star sucks, this is real music!" Yet no one here is saying "Oh Glenn Miller sucks, this is real music."

Personally I think both versions are great music.

[1brewski2]

@GothicKnight2 Consider the possibility that Glenn Miller may have been better at what he did than said pop stars are at what they do. Just a thought. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (or beer holder), that goes without saying.

[TubaChick54321]

we are playing this song in my band class :)

[RunningBear316]

@tubamat3

You are so right.

[tubamatt3]

All of you're videos say John Phillip Sousa, but note of them were even composed by him. Sure it might be his bands recording, but seriously man. Give the credit where it belongs

[colt4667]

@tubamatt3 John Phillip Sousa would be the first to agree with you.

[tisprogunner1234]

haha our high school plays this song were awsome

[MyBhope]

This is not Sousa this is Glen Miller

[MelosAntropon]

@MyBhope No, I assure you it is not Miller's recording, which I have. But I'm not totally convinced it's Sousa either. Sousa did record this, but I am not aware of any Sousa recordings he made with strings.

[BudmanPackfan]

@MelosAntropon & all: doesn't this sound like a Fiedler-Boston Pops arrangement? just his style. Sousa wouldn't have had the strings & such in it, kept it more a military style march... but thats just mho....

[frellthat]

This is a great song, but it wasn't written by Sousa. It was composed by F.W. Meacham in 1885.

[mgwilliams1000]

A sailors' song. I'm long retired now (30 years service) but I listen to this every July 4th.....

[mycatnorbert]

i played this for my school band but we sonded no where as good as this

[mdc2296]

are there two seperate songs in this recording? starting at 1:18 what is that?

[dpbsmith]

"Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I assume it's legitimately part of the march, it's in every one of several recordings I have.

[dpbsmith]

@mdc2296 "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I assume it's legitimately part of the march, it's in several different recordings I have (including Glenn Miller). It wasn't uncommon then for patriotic songs to quote other bits of patriotic music; "You're a Grand Old Flag" quotes "Dixie," for example.

[rogermwilcox]

@dpbsmith "American Patrol" also quotes "Dixie", it seems!

[juvennino]

@mdc2296 the trio i guess... after all, its a march

[Syzygy60]

yeh just came from glenn miller version,it blows this away

[Xerxes845]

one of my favorite tunes now.

[NoGodNoProblem]

The march is nice, but personally I prefer the Glenn Miller arrangement, But I am in love with jazz so I guess that's why.

[MistressChococat]

CHIRO RULES!

[droid327]

Maybe he just tags it "Sousa" to get hits? To be fair, as a search term, "Sousa" gives you pretty much the same things as "classic American marches"...

And for some reason, I always think this song would be hilarious if sung by puppet chickens a la The Muppets...

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

I have to speak up on behalf of the person who posted this, zzahier. I've been seeing and hearing videos he's posted for a long time now and I'm convinced he knows that Sousa didn't write many of the marches attributed to him. I also like the excellent sound quality on his channel. thanks.

[dbethke1959]

This uploader seems to have attributed EVERY march to Sousa, as well as not telling us who most of the performances are by. No subscription from me!

[jmpatison]

I agree about the high quality of the recording as well as with the stuff about having the wrong composer. Just because something is an American march doesn't mean is was composed by Sousa (though the majority of the good ones were). You also make this mistake on other of your military march posts (i.e. National Emblem is by E. E. Bagley, Rolling Thunder is by Henry Fillmore, and etc.). But props and thanks for the high quality recording.

[tl1358]

I always loved playing this piece. Enough already! How many more comments are going to mention who really is the composer?

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

In defense of Zzahier.......Zzahier is a college trained chemist and I'm sure he knows this wasn't written by Sousa. I can't explain the way his music is presented but I've learned enough about the man to know he's knowledgeable and sentient.

[Asbduhas]

Not all marches are written by Sousa, you know. This one's no exception.

[xenofon2232]

I'm loving this with the vuvuzela button, lol

[Wawa297]

@xenofon2232 Haha!

[toddabearsf]

"American Patrol" was NOT written by John Philip Sousa. It was written by one F.W. Meacham in 1885. Glenn Miller made it a hit in the 1940's by playing it as a big-band era swing dance. "Columbia Gem of the Ocean" predates Sousa by quite a number of years. He didn't write "Dixie" either nor "Yankee Doodle". Those are the four tunes heard near -- none of which are by Sousa.

[MrLamontSanford]

This was also re-made in WWII, to a typical 1940's big band style sound!!

[thresher4]

This collection of marches was sold in the 60's as a set.My parents had one of these ,I liked as a kid to listen to those marches.Great work.

[Necomposer]

これはミーチャムの作曲

[elgenubi]

So......

Who made this recording? This is the orchestral version of the original (as opposed to the much later Glenn Miller). Which came first, this or the band version? Anyone know??

[Martin01516]

This is a very fantastic march!!! I love it!!! :D

[dulcihmr]

As others have said, this march wasn't written by John Philip Sousa, but by Frank Meacham. Also, this recording can't be the Sousa band, because it's an orchestra. Strings can be clearly heard.

[WillCanaris]

It is hard to believe how many people post videos with incorrect information. Col.Bogey, national Emblem and American Patrol Sousa's marches?????????

For goodness sake---please !!!!! You don't to have to be an expert to know these marches are not from the great Sousa. Even an average european like me with little knowledge of America knows that.

[Tconnolly2]

@WillCanaris I think it's Sousa and his band who are playing this recording ad that is what zzahier meant

[WoWKoest]

f.w. meacham wrote it according to my folio

[mams66]

i play this song for my schools jazz band XD on thee drum set

[castawayspirit]

I like this one from what we're playing now. it seems trumpets don't play as much. We play all but about 4 measures or so. We also don't wait for the drums

[jorgealbertobaron]

GRAN COMPOSITOR

[dachtorstrange]

American Patrol was written in 1895 by F.W. Meacham. This version is probably an arrangement by Jerry Gray or Morton Gould.

[7845lptape]

Meacham

[kowaii1]

this is the march, and most of waht i have found are more of a jazzish style, so could it be that sousa made the march? even if they are almost the same? sorry, just asking and puting another theory in there...

[mywrestlingfan]

cooler march

[RhythymX6]

Its an awesome song...sousa didnt write it

[rockgor]

The video is a little dark.

I think Sousa died in the 1930s. Used to have

an LP record of him conducting his own

marches.

Our H.S. band played this stirring piece.

The flutes and piccolos have to count about

24 measures of tacit (silence) before coming

in w/ their solo. I usually got it wrong.

Tx 4 the fun post.

[rmorecook]

Sousa did not write this.

Great music

[Omaplata41]

Not by Sousa, but whatever, this is still a brilliant tune. My band is playing and I immensely enjoy playing this! ^^

[IamN0Thappy]

wow i love the end but it scares me.When i play it it's not that intence and btw Souza isn't any kind of god

[Nsomnyak0426]

I believe you're supposed to give credit to the composer, not the band leader.

[iwema93]

not sousa, but still a good tune.

[motherfucar]

great march but not sousa. who are the dummies that keep posting these?

[swampfox1732]

This is a great recording of "American Patrol," which is a wonderful piece.  But it was composed by Frank W. Meacham in 1885, not by John Philip Sousa (although Sousa's band recorded it). Credit where credit is due!

[Racerbots]

I Love this march. It is a great tune and Souza is March God!

[chrispharis1]

sousa didnt write this march