The New York Knickerbocker Drum and Bugle Corps, familiar to thousands of Yonkers parade-goers, has been chosen as New York's official musical unit at the Presidential Inaugural Parade Jan. 20, 1973, in Washington, D.C.
And a Yonkers appearance helped them on their way.
Harvey Berish, the band's general manager, says the Knickerbockers caught President Richard Nixon's eye in Getty Square during his motorcade through Westchester County on Veterans Day.
Then the band applied to the state inaugural committee, and recently received word of its official designation. But Berish feels the band was" selected by the President.'
The Knickerbockers, who are based in the Bronx, have appeared in Yonkers parades for a number of years and won a trophy as "The Best All Around Musical Unit" in the Centennial and Columbus Day Parade in October.
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