Friday, April 11, 2008

"Greatest of Sounds"

The Knickerbocker Drum & Bugle Corps is sponsored by their own Parents and Boaster Association and by the Knickerbocker Federal Savings and Loan Association of he Bronx, New York. They are endorsed and affiliated with the Bronx Board of Trade and The Bronx Chamber of Commerce. They have also been designated as "Official Teen-age Ambassadors of Musical Goodwill" by their home boro's 2 million citizens. Also "Official Ambassadors of Goodwill for the New York City" (appointed by Mayor John Lindsay).

The Knickerbockers have two performing groups including the New York Knickerbocker drum and bugle corp which is a highly rated class "A" unit open to experienced teenage drum corps and marching band veterans or the Knickerbocker Cadet drum and bugle corps which is the units training operation and which is open to boys and girls from the age of ten to 15 who have had no experience in the drum corps filed.

Knickerbockers Music list for 1971
Fanfare.....................................Manhattan Towers
Off the Line..............................Forty Second Street, Manhattan Serenade
Color Presentation....................Knicker Dandy Doodle, An All-American Medley
Concert......................................Petrological Surprise
Exit from Concert....................Burt Bacharachs Promises, Promises
Field Production...................... Manhattan Miscagas or , Two Bit Hora
Exit............................................. Coming Home Baby

Drum-Major Bob Lopez conducting the songs.

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