Incredibale combination of bands including G.U.S. Footwear band of which my dad was cornet player. Lovely rare footage of the percussion section in action. Many thanks for this.❤
I can't imagine the massive sound out of these 4 bands together. Event the percussion is covered. I believe even the seismographs in the area recorded it as well.
Incredible! It really does sound like an orchestra, including strings! Whoever rescored this version is a genius! Realized by superlative playing, and good to see the great Harry Mortimer in action. Thanks for this post! (I'm not normally a fan of brass bands, incidentally!)
@@Mark64W That's right. He was solo cornet for most of Elgar Howarth's remarkable ground breaking tenure at G during the 1970s when EH pretty much single handedly broke and moved the boundaries of the Brass Band concert repertoire - I used to have 2 LP recordings from that time, one featuring EH playing his own cornet concerto and another with Paulin as soloist playing some cream puff whimsical piece in 3 short movements ( I think). You can also see and hear Paulin on the Arrividerci Grimethorpe documentary shot in the late 1970s. Btw. McCann and Paulin were contemporaries and are both Scots also 🙂
Incredibale combination of bands including G.U.S. Footwear band of which my dad was cornet player. Lovely rare footage of the percussion section in action. Many thanks for this.❤
I can't imagine the massive sound out of these 4 bands together. Event the percussion is covered. I believe even the seismographs in the area recorded it as well.
So, these are four bands together? Wowzers!
Golden age of brass bands.
Incredible! It really does sound like an orchestra, including strings! Whoever rescored this version is a genius! Realized by superlative playing, and good to see the great Harry Mortimer in action. Thanks for this post! (I'm not normally a fan of brass bands, incidentally!)
Wow!
McCann and Shepherd on the same stage!
I think Tom Paulin is here also ( Manchester CWS).
@@phillipecook3227 Later to go to play for Grimethorpre ( as I'm sure you know ) .
@@Mark64W That's right. He was solo cornet for most of Elgar Howarth's remarkable ground breaking tenure at G during the 1970s when EH pretty much single handedly broke and moved the boundaries of the Brass Band concert repertoire - I used to have 2 LP recordings from that time, one featuring EH playing his own cornet concerto and another with Paulin as soloist playing some cream puff whimsical piece in 3 short movements ( I think). You can also see and hear Paulin on the Arrividerci Grimethorpe documentary shot in the late 1970s. Btw. McCann and Paulin were contemporaries and are both Scots also 🙂
Brian Evans on Sop as well,I was lucky enough to play with Faireys at the time.