Name: Colonel Bogey March (arr. Sandy McIntire) by Kenneth Alford Piano Solo Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Sandy McIntire
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Colonel Bogey March (arr. Sandy McIntire)
by Kenneth Alford Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Colonel Bogey March (arr. Sandy McIntire)

Artist Kenneth Alford

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Kenneth Alford

Arranger Sandy McIntire

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 10

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Sandy McIntire

Level 3

Product ID 794239

Genre World Festival Contest Film/TV Multicultural Patriotic 20th Century

Instruments Piano

Product Description

The Colonel Bogey March is a British tune composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (pen name Kenneth J. Alford), a British Army bandmaster. Inspired by a British military officer who whistled a descending minor third (the notes that begin each line of the first part of the march) rather than shout "Fore!" when playing golf, its sheet music sold over a million copies and the march was recorded many times.

During World War II, the Colonel Bogey March melody was used for a song of the U.S. Women's Army Corps, and in 1951, the Colonel Bogey March was the first music played by a computer. In the film, Parent Trap, the campers at an all-girls summer camp whistle the Colonel Bogey March as they march through camp, mirroring a scene from The Bridge on the River Kwai, and in the The Breakfast Club, the teenage characters whistle the tune during their Saturday detention. The Colonel Bogey March is often miscredited as the River Kwai March. because part of the march was used in the movie. In 2019, the Colonel Bogey March also was used in the TV series The Man in the High Castle.

This arrangement is an Intermediate Piano Solo.

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