Cavalcade of Martial Songs

These recordings were made between 1931 and 1940.

A small amount of surface noise and some minor blemishes exist as further cleaning would adversely affect the sound quality of the music.

Songs and Marches with Vocal Choruses

1. CAVALCADE OF MARTIAL SONGS The King’s Horses, The Toy-Town Artillery, The Tin-Can Fusiliers, When the Guards are on Parade, Something About a Soldier, When a Soldier’s on Parade, When the Band goes Marching By and The Toy Drum Major
2. THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD
3. BLAZE AWAY
4. MARCHE LORRAINE
5. CUPID’S ARMY
6. SONGS BY THE CAMP FIRESIDE There’s a Tavern in the Town, So Early in the Morning, Loch Lomond, Little Brown Jug, Polly-Wolly-Doodle, Annie Laurie, Clementine, Johnny Comes Marching Home, The Farmer’s Boy, Cock Robin, A Hunting We Will Go, Old Folks at Home, John Peel, Auld Lang Syne
7. THE STARS & STRIPES FOREVER
8. THE WASHINGTON POST
9. THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS

10. THE ALDERSHOT TATTOO With Foster Richardson (Bass-Baritone), Children’s Choir and Grand Organ

11. LET US SING UNTO THEIR MAJESTIES

12. LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY With Musician David Lloyd (Tenor)

13. ENGLAND

14. JERUSALEM
15. OVER THE STONE
16. BREAD OF HEAVEN
17. MEN OF HARLECH
18. ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
19. ABERYSTWYTH
20. LAND OF MY FATHERS

ABOUT THE ALBUM & THE RECORDINGS

This album celebrates the centenary of one of the world’s greatest military bands, the Band of theWelsh Guards, and pays tribute to the musicians who served with the band during its first 25 years.

Many of the tracks date from 1916, some from before the band played in public, so you are hearing the founding members of this world renowned band.

These same men embarked to France and Belgium a few months later for three months to take their turn in playing to lift the spirits of the Guards Division close to the front line.

Includes the first recording of the regimental music, along with marches played at the Trooping the Colour during that era and some of the popular selections of the day as well as many of the much loved melodies from Wales.

Conscription during the Second World War brought many professional musicians to the band, which raised the standard of the dance orchestra to new heights, such that it was to be one of the very few such combinations in the services to make broadcasts and the recordings featured here.

The album ends with the band’s renowned tenor, David Lloyd, singing with the band in a selection of Welsh National Songs.

THE PAINTING

The cover painting by Sean Bolan depicts the moment when 1st Battalion Welsh Guards was relieved from the trenches in 1916 and marched towards their billets at a rather dreary ruin of a village at Meault.

The band was waiting for them in order to play them back – quite a dramatic moment as these tired and exhausted men heard their own band and their regimental march. The Rising of the Lark, for the first time.