No Place Like Yokosuka for the Holidays

Here's a 60-second American Forces Network spot on the 7th Fleet Band spreading joy around Fleet ActivitiesYokosuka.

Three Cheers for the Quartet

Okay, the audience member who posted this may have a spelling problem, but I had no problem tapping my toes along with this version of "Stars and Stripes Forever."

This 2008 performnce by the Northwest Navy Band Barbershop Quartet (LT Chuck Roegiers, MU1 James Raacsh, MU2 Eric Cavander and MU3 Drew Williams) was a part of the 17th Annual International Military Band Concert.

Happy New Year, Shipmates

I'm thinking about the salts who stepped off before me, the sailors with whom I marched, and the Navy men and women who still follow the cadence of service and tradition.

May the parade never end.

Christmas with Navy Band Newport, 1993

God Rest Ye Navy Band Great Lakes

Christmas Greetings from the CINCLANT Band, 1973

It was a quarter well-spent at a used records sale: "A Special Holiday Greeting From Danny Thomas and Your Local Navy Recruiter."

The 33RPM album is from 1973, full of Christmas music by the Naval Academy Band, various contingents of the U.S. Navy Band and the Bluejacket's Choir from Great Lakes.

One fleet band is represented: the Atlantic Fleet Band, Norfolk, Virginia, playing "Sleigh Ride." 

Here it is, in its monophonic glory. 

Does anyone remember recording this? Who's playing? Who's conducting?  

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