1969 Loara High School Band Purple Carnival March All Western Band Review

Loara Saxon Marching Band and Drill Team 1969 Purple Carnival March at All Western Band Review. Sweepstakes Winner. Audio is the actual recording from the competition. This was the year Loara earned the title "Show Band of the Western States".

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• 1969

[mannytrumpet]

How come i dont see any flutes?

[namelessrevisited]

@mannytrumpet They all were playing the piccolos. Flutes weren't loud enough

[sozialdemo]

I was a senior class of 69 (not at Loara). Thanks again for putting this piece together.

[namelessrevisited]

@sozialdemo What high school did you go to? My sister was in the class of 69 also. This was my sophomore year. See if you can pick us out. Shouldn't be to hard.

[THE3FATGUYS]

@namelessrevisited let me guess. you were one of the trombones and your sister a piccolo player? was i right :o? haha what's up with the tree at the end?

[namelessrevisited]

@THE3FATGUYS That's right. That same night we toilet papered Marino's house and that clip at the end with the tree. We marched and played (without a permit no less) from Loara to his house on Sunday morning in our street cloths to clean up the mess.

[ugm0]

Rick Marino.

[VKDM8687]

THAT OPENING NOTE! HOLY CRAP! That was AWESOME!!! I got HUGE chills just now.....oh my GOSH this band can PLAY!

[unchartedNightmare]

glad to be a saxon

[deadcoww]

@namelessrevisited Man, reading you and THE3FATGUYS talk about the fun times in your past really depresses me. It's amazing the kind of bonds marching band can create.

[trumpetchump]

Wow!! This is amazing and very cool!

[ugm0]

@GayleWilson1

yes. Rick became an SCSBOA judge after he retired from directing and was a master clinician to other bands as well.

[GayleWilson1]

This was the year after I graduated (I was in the band '66 to '68) but watching this video made me feel like I was right there, marching with them.  Mr. Marino helped us be nearly flawless, didn't he? We almost always won competitions and we were great at halftime. I loved our uniforms...am I right in remember '66 as being the first year of the big shako hat?... Mr. Marino was very proud of us getting those. He was always proud of us too. That band was the highlight of my high school days!

[GayleWilson1]

@ugm0 Is this Mr. Marino the band teacher?

[BassClefFTW]

I've watched this video SO many times, just listening to the music, that I didn't notice how flawless there marching is!

[UnboundChaosControl]

Mr. Marino clinicians my high school's band every year hes one of the best clinicians we get hes a great clinician thanks to him and the movement he did to the band and the advice he gave us we got sweepstakes at our very first competition

[Euphreak]

One day...I'll be able to play Baritone just like this.

[twphilosopher]

@namelessrevisited jebus.... <3 proud to continue the tradition of excellence!