Take John Philip Sousa With You on Memorial Day

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[pttttt]

This leads to a good set of links for discovering Sousa and his wonderful patriotic music.

Also check out http://www.dws.org/sousa for their RealAudio March of the Month.

[MozartLover]

Sousa ping.:)

[Utah Girl]

I love Sousa! Thanks for the ping.

[csvset]

Lol, I have a Sousa CD. As a kid, the school would play John Philip Sousa over the PA system during lunch. It must have become engrained in my head.

[joesnuffy]

My pop was career military and often when he was home would wake us up with Sousa
Spent alot of times at parades...great music..brings back lots of memories...thank you

[Maceman]

Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! I always loved "Stars and Stripes Forever" and now being able to hear it whenever I want, plus having the stirring lyrics, is great!

[Willie Green]

Sousa is good.

I also like Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians

[eno_]

Sousa and other patriotic marches are available here. This is by the USAF Heritage band. Other music by our armed forces bands is also online.

What a shame the hollywood vampires want to extend copyright duration to where we will never be able to access our current artistic heritage as e are able to access this.

[Charles Henrickson]

Thanks for the link!

I love listening to Sousa especially on patriotic holidays. I wish more marching and concert bands today (high school, college) played more Sousa.

Last year I took my family to see the musical El Capitan, for which Sousa wrote the score. He and his lyricist did some Gilbert & Sullivan-like light comic operettas. We enjoyed it.

Bump for the March King!