MrTrapdrummer
The channel represents an historical sound and picture archive, documenting the music and uniforms of military bands from the earliest days of recording, up until the demise of the 78rpm disc in the late nineteen fifties.
All the recordings featured are drawn from my vast collection, the result of a lifelong collecting mania...
Where possible - each sound recording is accompanied by photographs or postcards of the band contemporary with the recording - or within two or three years either side of it. This means that you are likely to be looking at some or all of the musician's who were in the studio when the disc was cut.
I also have an extensive collection of ceremonial uniforms and accoutrements, and photographs of the band uniforms and equipment are also featured in the videos when contemporary with a recording.
Currently I am working my way through British bands, band by band, but I do have recordings of the bands of other nations which will be featured eventually.
"Regimental Marches - Suffolk & Royal Berkshire": Band of the Coldstream Guards 1915
"Regimental Marches - Border & Royal Sussex & KRRC: Band of the Coldstream Guards 1915
"Monsieur Beaucaire" - Incidental Music (Rosse): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1915
"By the Swanee River" - Descriptive (Myddleton): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1915
"D'ye ken John Peel" - Descriptive (Arr. Shipley Douglas): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1915
"The Friendly Rivals" - Cornet Duet (C.Godfrey): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1915
"Il Bacio" - Cornet Solo (Arditi): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1915
"Merrie England" - Fantasia (German): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Sicilian Vespers" - Selection (Verdi): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"The Sorcerer" - Selection (Sullivan): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Fall In!" - March (Cowen arr. C. Godfrey Jnr): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
King's Champion March (Belcher): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Demoiselle Chic" - Intermezzo (Fletcher): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Humoreske on the Soldiers' Song" (arr. Shipley Douglas): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"A Toi" - Valse (Waldteufel): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
Reverie - Valse (Waldteufel): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Doges March" from "Merchant of Venice" (Rosse): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Namur" - March (Richards): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"La Riterata" - March (Drescher): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Youth and Vigour" - March (Lautenschlager): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Colonel Bogey" (Alford): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1914
"Meistersinger - Overture" - selection (Wagner): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1913
"Cavalry Trot" (Rubinstein arr. Saro): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1913
"The King's Command" - March (Lewis Barnes): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1913
Review of the Brigade of Guards in Hyde Park 1913 (Studio Recording) Band of the Coldstream Guards
"Swing Away" - March (Cheeseman): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1913
"Le Dieu et la Bayadere" - Overture (Auber): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1913
"Princess Ida" - Selection (Sullivan): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1912
"Fidelio" - Overture (Beethoven): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1912
"La Reine de Saba" - Grand March (Gounod): Band of the Coldstream Guards 1912