Long forgotten musical tracks #2

This week's long forgotten musical track is Colonel Bogey. It was written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881--1945), a British army bandmaster who later became director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth.

I heard this one, for the first time, while watching the film, 'Bridge on the river Qwai,' starring William Holden, as a whistled marching tune. It became very popular later and even Indian Army adopted it in their ceremonial functions. It has bee recorded by many bands and orchestras around the world. 

 

This is the original version brought to you, thanks to You Tube.

If you can not see the embedded video on your android devices, here is the link.

Otherwise, you can also copy and paste the link http://youtu.be/QuVYS4uw0as in your You Tube App.

Here is the film version, again  thanks to You Tube. It was my great favourite once. I also wrote one blogpost about the railway shown in the film. It was commonly called as death railway because of so many construction workers died while building it. You can read the blogpost  here.

If you can not see the embedded video on your android devices, here is the link.

You can also copy and paste the link http://youtu.be/83bmsluWHZc in your You Tube App. Enjoy!

21 July 2013