Humour You Brits Don't Know What You're Missing

[jbtsax]

Those of us in the U.S. get to go to college and play in pep bands and marching bands at football games. Here is the Ophir State Marching Band, one of our very finest . Ophir State Fight Song


P.S. If anyone ever tells you they can't tell if they are in tune or not, play this video for them.

 

[Jamesmac]

Well the drums were in tune.

 

[Colin the Bear]

Not to be out done, we have the Portsmouth symphonia over here. Two of my favourites

http://youtu.be/nDZZEfrRbdw

http://youtu.be/hpJ6anurfuw

 

[Jamesmac]

not to be out done, we have the portsmouth symphonia over here. Two of my favourites

http://youtu.be/ndzzefrrbdw

http://youtu.be/hpj6anurfuw

lol🙂

 

[saxplorer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia

Interesting!

 

[Colin the Bear]

Further research has turned this up

Hilarious

http://youtu.be/WIm8RZ-WJBA

 

[Tenor Viol]

At least they are tongue-in-cheek....

Back to JBT - I think the general absence of marching bands et alia in the UK is perhaps not so great a misfortune as you perhaps infer? 🙂

 

[Colin the Bear]

They're not missing from the whole of the UK. It's the silly season.

 

[jbtsax]

Oh dear. I'm afraid I've started a race to the bottom with Colin. :shocked:

 

[Kingsleyhk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c6kfDZjYbE

 

[BigMartin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c6kfDZjYbE

Ooh, that's good. I've never heard of these two before.

 

[Kingsleyhk]

Ooh, that's good. I've never heard of these two before.

As you may have read from the YouTube blurb, they were in fact Jo Stafford and her husband, Paul Weston.

Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSi6jdQAwBk

Apparently it started out as a bit of fun at parties and went form there. She had earlier done a comedy Country and Western record as Cinderella G. Stump. The famous one is Timp-tay-shun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ukeZqJYPY

 

[Bernie]

There's a long tradition of terrifyingly unmusical marching bands in the North East of England. I remember this from my youth, but was appalled to discover that it is still going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWa8Ot4lsSc

 

[MandyH]

Not to be out done, we have the Portsmouth symphonia over here. Two of my favourites

http://youtu.be/nDZZEfrRbdw

http://youtu.be/hpJ6anurfuw

I was just looking them up to quote that we are not really missing out!

You beat me to it

 

[jbtsax]

There's a long tradition of terrifyingly unmusical marching bands in the North East of England. I remember this from my youth, but was appalled to discover that it is still going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWa8Ot4lsSc

I find it a stretch to even call this group a "band" since there is only percussion and no other instruments. The Drum and Bugle Corps of Drum Corps International have set a new standard for "field show" performance here in the U.S. It is this style that all of the high school and university marching bands try to emulate. This is a clip from one of my favorite groups: The Santa Clara Vanguard.

 

[llamedos]

The important thing is that all the participants enjoy themselves - regardless of the audience's experience! Which reminds me of something I seem to recall mentioning here before - excuse the spelling but whatever happened to Margarita Prakatan who was featured by Clive James some years ago. Tongue in cheek I suspect but who could have been a featured vocalist with Portsmouth Symphonia. I believe the only qualification for membership was wanting to join in!

Dave

 

[saxplorer]

whatever happened to Margarita Prakatan

Thanks to Youtube she lives on!

 

[altissimo]

I find it a stretch to even call this group a "band" since there is only percussion and no other instruments

 

[Bernie]

Of course there were other instruments, why else would they be called "kazoo bands"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ssuV8Qa7Fo

Fortunately the video has no sound.

 

[Andrew Sanders]

Please God make it stop...............................................................................................................................