Song title is "Old 1812" and us marching to it
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The Excelsior Brigade Fife and Drum Corps marches through the union camp at the 2006 Hamlin Beach State Park Civil War reenactment. Old 1812 is a standard tune played by many ancient fife and drum corps and reenactors alike. This video, in it's original format, is a good example of the style of marching used by most ancient corps, and is an easier style with longer step than modern drum corps use.
15 year update.
1) the audio is soooo loud and cuts off before the end of the tune
2) the street beat / cadence was written by the bass drummer in this video, Bob (Hugh) Frail. Bob was a great man, veteran and drummer for around 70 years (really, he played with Acton Ostling's Union Endicott Colonials as a youth), sadly passed away July 31, 2017.
3) Johnny, in the mullet, is director of field music at an historic fort producing amazing results
The band continues to make music, holding irregular rehearsals and attending events as possible, given the current climate of 2020/2021. We expect a return to a more normal calendar in 2022.
This performance is killer. One of the best renditions of Old 1812.
Thanks, that's very kind of you to say. (This is Ken, one of the fifers in the video, the guy who runs the drum corps)
@@mundanestuff still replying 15 years later, wow
@@amxelcbis4464 I get the email notification from UA-cam when people reply, lol, and we are still the same band for the most part. Except nearly everyone rotating out. There may be two or three from the early videos who are still in the group. Two passed away, others just moved out of town or left the hobby, and others joined since.
@@mundanestuff I've been doing ACW reenacting for some time now, And you guys on the fifes (and drums) probably did the best job at this song that I've heard of
@@yellingyank1862 awe, thanks! I appreciate that! We are recording some tunes on Sunday in Fairport, NY if it's not pouring out. The intention is to roll through as many as we can before the cops kick us out of the park, or we get too cold, whichever comes first.
Back in 15 years when this gets recommended
If you look close you can see The Outlaw Josey Wales getting ready to make his charge out of the trees.
He's gettin plum mad dog mean
he is rather mad at them and grant
“You gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?”
History Teacher: We're going to Gettysburg as a field trip!
Girls: Eeewww it's so muddy and there are mosquitos!
Boys:
I remember when they played this song. My unit was coming back from drill when we heard this so we just march to that tune. Great job, boys. Hope to see y'all there this year.
Captain Morrison
5th VA
you are a time traveler? :O
@@jepp6419 you living for today?
Are you still around?
@historyandhorseplaying7374 oh yes, I'm still around reenacting
@@5thVA hm I'm in the 2nd Florida
Man these guys are good.
Over the years I keep coming back to this video again and again.
I love and miss hearing “Field music”. This brings back many memories of time spent with my “Pards”. RIP to all who have gone before me. I hope to see you around the camp fire on the “Other side”. OVCWA.
This band still practices every week and plays out about 12x a year around Rochester. In some ways it's better today in some ways not. A few of the folks in this video have passed away. RIP Hugh (Bob) Frail, and Greg Marion.
from one reenactor to another, awsome video.
Absolutely immaculate .. I Rember these days in battle ,, we fought hard then .. but fell hard as well .. thank you for these memorys
So you fought in the civil war? Lol
Wow! You remember the Civil War?
I imagine my great great uncles who fought in the Civil War were familiar with this tune. Pennsylvania volunteers. Gettysburg. Antietam.
Probably! The tune was in a bunch of period music books.
This is defininatly my favorite march! I could be a reannactor just to listen to this all day!
..love it when that soldier from the Yellowcape Regiment, provides an escort through the lines..
As a re-enactor, I can tell you plain that this is the tune which makes marching feel the most natural; a very easy gait.
All you guys need is a Regiment of muddy campainers slogging through the mire and the clang and rumble of limbered Artillerymen thundering by and this would be perfect. Having practiced field musicians at events makes a good event Awesome! Keep it up!
For a 2006 UA-cam video, the sound quality is surprisingly good.
The video was filmed on a Kodak digital camera. We still have it, but can't remember the model. Cheap consumer camera. But yeah, no external microphone , seems interesting that the sound isn't as big a potato as the video quality :-)
I'm a horn player.....
But thass some kickass drummin' !
"That's right, hunnies; ain't no dream. We runaway slaves, but we come back fighting men. Go tell your folks, it's the year of the jubilee!"
Thanks so much for the music and all of you re-enactors. My wife and I have greatly enjoyed seeing Civil War re-enactors at several locations.
The boys were sounding good this AM. March on Lads. !!
"20th Maine, forward! maaaarch!"
The height of the Hamlin event. Tim and Brian doing a great job organizing it. When many of the local units could put large numbers of troops on the fields, The 5thVa, the 43rdSC, the 28thNY, Cushing's and Reynolds', the 137thNY... others... And yes, it was, of course, raining....
What happened to the 5th Virginia? I've not seen or read anything about them and their ongoings in years Company G or K.
@@traviskarnes6825 If we're thinking of the same 5thVa, out of Perry, NY, it just kinda faded away as the leader had a lot of personal stuff going on. Any other company I don't know about.
@@DJ-bh1ju
the 5th I am talking about was based out of Beckley WV they were "Company G the Staunton Rifles" they were originally reenacting with the StoneWall Brigade then Longstreet's Corps.
Company K was out of upper WV they stayed with the StoneWall Brigade but wow it seems now all of the 5th is no more WV/NY alike.
Sad I had my start with the Staunton Rifles those were fun times anyways thank you for the info many blessings to you
@@traviskarnes6825did you ever find out? I'm in WV and would like to get involved
I loved marching to this.
Thank you for the Great video
Superb timing !
Brilliant.
When you're in a long column marching to the field at a big national event, there's nothing like the fifes & drums to keep up your spirits no matter how exhausted you are. Hope to see you at 145th Gettysburg in 2008.
Fantastic videos! Thanks so much for sharing these, all those years ago..,
We published a few new ones :-) 14 years later.
Got something specific you want to hear? Gives us a good reason to record some jam sessions if we have some requests.
"Whooped 'em again Josey!"
It appears i have found a old historical youtube video! 2006 what a time!
This video is almost as old as the music we're playing (in dog years?)
Well heck, I just realized that UA-cam was founded in 2005 and the first video came out just 9 months before this video was published. I guess you could call us early adopters.
@@excelsiorbrigade right! Almost first but not quite! Still love the video
I love the little kid, makes it more authentic!
They tore it up !
POV: You are a confed and you see them approaching: Oh HECK NO PREPARE THE CANNON
Thirty years in The Gray gives me license to say, "Well done, Yanks."
Thanks. We really need to update these videos, so many faces have changed, we've lost two members to old age and cancer, we've sent a few onto military service, college, retirement, other hobbies, but the corps still lives on, playing many of the same tunes. We hope to post new content, frankly, why not, it's just music, we know how to play, we like to play, they're good solid beatings and melodies that have stood the test of time. Let's jam!
@@excelsiorbrigade I've been trying to find the period reveille. If you guys have that in your songbook, it would be great. (Especially with the period Tattoo!)
Splendid!
In the film Glory this tune was used when the 54th Massachusetts got their shoes and used again when Rawlins (Morgan Freeman) got promoted to Sgt. Major.
I also heard this in the film Gettysburg when the 20th Maine was on the move and when Col. Joshua Chamberlain got the word that the 120 men of 2nd Maine (who resigned in protest) decided to join up with the 20th (all but 6).
Also the theme song in The Outlaw Josey Wales and I also came here because of Glory
For "Glory" we did the sound over for all drum and fife songs heard in the movie on a Wednesday afternoon before they would let us eat lunch. That was on Jekyll Island.
I served in the 'Exelsior Brigade' 1988 in the 125th Gettysburg Anniversary......Great comrades .........
One of our founding members, Greg Marion, attended that series of events for the 125th cycle and always had good things to say about it. He's the source of the name for the drum corps, based on his recommendations 24 years ago.
@@excelsiorbrigade
Now im 61 years old.......
1988 I was 25....
Always I remember the sound of fife and drum......
Especially the second Day...(the wheatfield)
素晴らしい‼️👍
Great job guys! I'll admit that the clothes are a bit off, but the marching and the playing is spot on! It's always great to see so many young people enjoy history! I wish we had more young people up at our fort.
Huzzah boys huzzah!! Greetings from the 32nd MO Infantry (Union)
Excellent !
I wish the Hamlin reenactments could start back up. They were a great time!
"They were decently treated, they were decently fed and then they were decently shot. Those men are common outlaws, nothing more."
As an ambassador for all of Canada, speaking to you Yanks on 1812, I can proudly say...
Good fight.
yea drumline and fife&drum are almost 2 different kinds of rudimentary drumming, and styles of drumming. for example marching band snares are like 10 times heavier and use a different kind of sling. also the marching band play with faster tempos fife and drum usally plays with a more medium kind but anyway they are definatly playing very well
absolutely love it!
@excelsiorbrigade whoo and was that a KILLER event... litterally...... Good fightng with you guys out there
Jackson Smith 2nd NC Infantry
Hear!Hear!
Chears from Rochester NY!
Drums have always been stirring.
Who here had family in Michigan fight for the union I did long live the union and Michigan
march on pards *LIKED* the video
Awesome!!!
Exceptional!
very nice! from fifes and drums of Frejus, france.
thank you
wow, y'all have a lot of musicians! whats your unit? we have 2 drummers (only one drums every event), and a fife player.. who cant make it most of the time. It sounds really great! Keep it up!!
It is possible it is an outside music corps affiliated with the company, I know I do revolutionary war reenacting and every year at the event at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts the fife and drums of the village accompany the American battalion, but very few if any companies have their own musicians at the event
@RedZeroFive At most Lee's Army numbered 75,000 at Gettysburg. The Union Army had 8 infantry corps numbering 10,000 per. Their cavalry was around 10,000 more.
"Aim low boys"
excellent job guys!
Very good!
The title proper is "Welcome here again"
The songs are very similar. Derivative tunes for sure. There's a bunch that are all based on each other, John Brown's Polka is a good example. Welcome here again debuted in 1734 in Young's Drummond Castle manuscript, and modified extensively over the years into 1812, Bayham Abbey, Duncan Davidson, Gentle Ann, and a pile of other melodies with slight variation of the rhythm and melody. In the fife and drum traditional music scene, 1812 and Welcome Here Again are tunes very similar in structure and melody, you wouldn't want to play them back to back, but they are played as distinct tunes. Page 5 of the Company of Fifers and Drummers book 1 has Welcome Here Again, fife part. Page 20 had the drum part for Roving Sailor matching the fife part. While 1812 is on pages 7 and 42. Played here as a "stop beat" where the snare drummer pause while the bass drum solos.
I can see a wagon pull up full of army shoes soon !
Union ❤❤❤
Too soon 😉 i’m just getting around to King Phillips war…
15 years on ya kinda wonder where these people are now
Two have passed away. The older gentleman playing bass and a tall fifer. RIP Greg and Bob (Hugh). The rest of us are just a little older and a little fatter.
@@excelsiorbrigade Thank you for the update
We are ready
Yeah, I know. I was apart of one of the lead units and was surprised to hear that we had 800 re-enactors that signed up.
I'd love to know. excelsiorbrigade has made a very good case for using the fife instead of the piccolo, so the mystery thickens as to why they don't choose the inconvenient one.
Man up And To your post And Let No Man forget today that you're from old California California California
I wouldn't mind playing and marching snare drums. However I play matched grip is that an issue, is traditional grip required?
God Bless the Union!
Nice to hear you're about to venture into the Napoleonic period :)
Put the speed up to 1.25 no need to thank me y’all long live the union!
Too fast
Right. Cause I've heard it in Gettysburg, Glory and even The Outlaw Josey Wales-so there are some people who find it as addictive as I do. Well, Hollywood can't be expected to get it right all the time, LOL
Great !
So by your conclusions he wasn't a liberator in the real sense of the word. Finally, an honest analysis
Very good yanks, Keep marching Johnny Home
Ryan Townsend
52nd Geo. Co. I
The Union had Drummers young as 8 years old in the line of battle
Ahh, I see.
Well, thanks for the video.
DEFEND THE UNION! :-)
Poor kid in the middle, drum is almost as big as himself. Sad thing was that children as young or younger than he who is shown actually served in the army and combat was the least of their concerns, illnesses like flux and typhoid fever killed more than lead or iron.
Hammer Geil the best version on UA-cam die besten Märsche sind immer noch die guten alten Deutschen Märsche und die Fife and Drum Marches des Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges Thanks for Upload.
sweet; ! A guy I taught with had a relative who was in the Anderson prison camp but I don't know any more than that.
@dravenik The audio and video are slightly out of sync. This is most evident when the unit marches past the camera; the snares' cutting out lags the actual movement of the drumsticks, if you watch carefully.
God bless the Union of the United States!
dang yall are good. how far south do yall make it. i would love to see yall at an event
Oh HELL YES! Well done, y'all!!!
Amen.
well said
Love these historians.
You should see this live? It's amazing.
Better still, join up! Learn an instrument or march as color guard or as the drum major and help us continue this wonderful tradition into the next decade.
if only there were more soldiers like that, it would BETTER!
I am in the NY Young Colonials and I am a snare now and we do this song. Are those Flam a cues? We did Gadadca or whatever its called this year and this was my novice solo. :D
Those are not bad ideas. We could use a fife and drum corps at Hamlin. I would be honored to march with y'all. I don't have a Federal uniform and the one my CO has is Fed Cav, but I doubt it fits me anymore. We also need members real badly. We have about 20 adults and 2 youth.
They appear to be marching in time. It is very hard to change your steps with those drums banging at your leg. Also the snare you play is different than what we use.
@Smitheeboy94 And you must also realize that the south did little documentation during the war and just as the uniforms they wore what they had and to many of the Irish the bagpipe was a soothing sound and was played in camp and field at times
Love it
@silvrantsbob The North had bagpipes too and all Irish regiments as they had more Irish to draw from.
nice
16th NY....March!
To all re-enactors the weekend of September 12-13th 2015 in MI old historic fort wayne will be having a civil war re-enament wish all to come we dot have very many re-enactors in the battles would appreciate more
+Elise - we're having a drill at historic Fort Wayne in Detroit weekend of 4-21-17! Thought I'd let you know....