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Cori aka ChrisSCrush · 07-06-2011, 04:56 AM

In the episode where they skewer the Longfellow poem at the school talent show, what is the march played and who by? I've just played as much John Philip Sousa as I have patience for http://www.dws.org/sousa/works/marches and am beginning to think it's not by him, shocking as that may be.

Driving me nuts. Wish I could find a clip--can't believe such a classic scene is not on You Tube. Sometimes I'll forget it for a minute after having listened to so many other marches but it always comes back. All I know is, American patriotic, possibly not by Sousa. Was very well-known by the time they used it, so I should have heard it a lot, but can't think how the rest goes.

Cori aka ChrisSCrush · 07-07-2011, 04:15 AM

OMG, I found it, and you'll never guess where! On a CD available at Amazon.com called "Not Sousa: Great Marches Not by John Philip Sousa, Vol. 1." The name of the piece is "National Emblem," which Wikipedia says was written in 1902 and published in 1906 by Edwin Eugene Bagley. Sousa himself named it the third greatest march--after two of his own, of course. Now do I get my Brady trivia prize of all time? Hey, I updated the Wikipedia entry on the chance that someone else cares.

07-06-2011, 04:56 AM	#1
Cori aka ChrisSCrush Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 30, 2001 Location: USA and still trying to be proud of it! Posts: 2,068	Strains of Martial Music In the episode where they skewer the Longfellow poem at the school talent show, what is the march played and who by? I've just played as much John Philip Sousa as I have patience for http://www.dws.org/sousa/works/marches and am beginning to think it's not by him, shocking as that may be. Driving me nuts. Wish I could find a clip--can't believe such a classic scene is not on You Tube. Sometimes I'll forget it for a minute after having listened to so many other marches but it always comes back. All I know is, American patriotic, possibly not by Sousa. Was very well-known by the time they used it, so I should have heard it a lot, but can't think how the rest goes.
	Last edited by Cori aka ChrisSCrush; 07-06-2011 at 03:48 PM.

07-07-2011, 04:15 AM	#2
Cori aka ChrisSCrush Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 30, 2001 Location: USA and still trying to be proud of it! Posts: 2,068	OMG, I found it, and you'll never guess where! On a CD available at Amazon.com called "Not Sousa: Great Marches Not by John Philip Sousa, Vol. 1." The name of the piece is "National Emblem," which Wikipedia says was written in 1902 and published in 1906 by Edwin Eugene Bagley. Sousa himself named it the third greatest march--after two of his own, of course. Now do I get my Brady trivia prize of all time? Hey, I updated the Wikipedia entry on the chance that someone else cares.
	Last edited by Cori aka ChrisSCrush; 07-07-2011 at 04:53 AM.