Audio Recording Archive
The Royal Cavaliers Present: This is My Country
Second Annual Concert – Starlight Bowl
June 26, 1965
John W. Combes, Jr., Director
Concert Band
Americans We – Fillmore
Star Spangled Spectacular – Cohan
Junior Band
Brasses Triumphant – Holmes
Dance Band
Girl From Ipanema
Pink Panther – Mancini
Concert Band
Battle Hymn of the Republic featuring Miss Diane Jordon
How the West was Won – Hawkins
Royal Cavaliers Youth Choir
Speak Up! – Zaninelli
Senior Band and Choir
This is My Country
Encore
World’s Fair March – Antonini
Royal Cavaliers Senior Youth Band Fifth Anniversary Concert
October 8, 1967 – Reseda High School Auditorium
John W. Combes, Jr. – Director
La Marseillaise – John Bower Conducting
March of the Olympians
Selections from The Music Man
Ballet Parisien – Overture
Ballet Parisien – Finale
French National Defile
Pageant – Persichetti
Swing Low Sweet Chariot – Moffitt
British Eighth
Fantasia on Dixie
Tuxedo Junction
1971 Recordings
Sweet Charity
Joyce’s 71st
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
JC Intro to Field Music
Field Show Music
Seattle Torchlight Parade
Field Show Full Version
1972-1973 Recordings
RCYB Drumline Rehearsal, 1973
RCYB City of Hawthorne Parade, circa 1972 – Hallelujah Chorus
1973 West Coast Invitational Field Show
1973 Burlington Canada Field Show
1973 RCYB Judges Tape – Steve Abrams – GE
1974-1976 Recordings
1974 Field Show
1975 RCYB Judges Tape
1975 RCYB VFW Prelims
1975 RCYB VFW Finals (Video)
1976 Field Show
1979-1981 Recordings
1979 RCYB Odyssey Classic
1981 RCYB Torrance Standstill
If you have any corrections or audio files for our archive, please email them to: Michael Drapkin
Wow, this was my first year to do a field show, I was in color guard then.Hearing this after what, 36 years!
Thank you to those that made it available to us, Mike & the judge who’s name I forgot!
Michael thank you so much for doing this! what an amazing journey down memory lane. Can’t wait for some video to surface.
Can’t even begin to describe the emotions hearing this audio! Listened for the first time with my 15yr old son (trumpet player) who is the same age I was that summer, I think I went up a few notches on the cool factor. Only wish there had been film to view at the same time. Thanks Michael.
Thanks for this. That early 80s standstill is 90% of 1978’s show. Instead of Step to the Rear, there’s Danse Macabre. The rest is identical. I guess toward the end, there just wasn’t the time or budget for much new material; but it’s great to hear the 1978 show played just as my memory recorded it!
Mike: Fabulous website!!!!
Brings back great memories.
Smiles,
Bob
there is a video of the ’76 show somewhere. I think it was shot in Lexington, Ky. I showed it to our High School Marching Band to try and recruit some new members.
i was in rcyb from 1980-81, bruce nelson was the drum major and i have wonderful memories. i’m sorry i missed the reunion some years ago. i didn’t know rcyb had been around for such a long time. i thought of john combs as such a great person, as the ‘god father’. i hope he is well – bert gonzalez