March On! ...the history of the
Toronto Optimists Drum & Bugle Corps
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Our Repertoire through the Years
Songs played by the Toronto Optimists, the Seneca Optimists and the Optimists Alumni Corps
Whether it was the Boy Scout Band, the Toronto Optimists, the Seneca Optimists or the Optimists Alumni, the corps has played an impressive array of tunes. Fans have always enjoyed listening to the corps because the repertoire consistently reflected the trends in both drum corps styles and the popular culture of the time.
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| 1958 |
When You're Smiling (fanfare and off the line) Song of the Vagabond King from Desert Song Halo Everybody (fanfare using Halo Shampoo commercial) Fanfare #2 Hail to Optimism It's a Big, Wide, Wonderful World Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (concert entrance) Hello Young Lovers, In the Mood and Little Brown Jug (concert medley) Fanfare #3 (concert exit) The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise The Red, White and Blue O Canada (colour presentation) Fanfare #4 Till We Meet Again (field exit) |
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| 1959 |
When You're Smiling (fanfare and off the line) Song of the Vagabond King from Desert Song Halo Everybody (fanfare using Halo Shampoo commercial) Fanfare #2 Hail to Optimism It's a Big, Wide, Wonderful World(concert entrance) Serenade from The Student Prince and In The Mood (concert medley) Fanfare #3 (concert exit) The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise The Red, White and Blue O Canada (colour presentation) Zip a Dee Doo Dah from the film Song Of The South Auf Wiedersehen (field exit) |
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| 1960 |
Meadowlands (off the line) Manhattan Beach Halo Everybody (fanfare using Halo Shampoo commercial) Hail to Optimism To Each His Own (concert entrance) Concert Medley: Serenade from The Student Prince and Blue Skies (early shows) Concert Medley: Serenade from The Student Prince and In The Mood (later shows) Fanfare #2 (concert exit) Song of the Vagabond King from Desert Song When You're Smiling Imperial Echoes O Canada (colour presentation) Lassie (fanfare) Till (field exit) |
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| 1961 |
Cockeyed Optimist from the film South Pacific (off the line) Meadowlands (Song of The Plains) Fascinating Rhythm / You're Just In Love from the movie Call Me Madam Manhattan Beach (concert entrance) Serenade from The Student Prince and In The Mood (concert medley) Fanfare (concert exit) Holiday for Lovers This Is The Army, Mister Jones / Imperial Echoes (Colour Presentation) To Each His Own (field exit) |
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| 1962 | It's a Big Wide Wonderful World (fanfare and off the line) Let Me Entertain You from the musical Gypsy Asia Minor St. Louis Blues (concert entrance) I'm In The Mood For Love and Down By The Riverside (concert medley) Tabu (concert exit) I Believe (colour presentation) The Party's Over from the musical Bells Are Ringing (field exit) |
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| 1963 | Lawrence of Arabia Theme (on the line fanfare) El Cid Love theme from the motion picture (off the line) St. Louis Blues Fairest of the Fair March (concert entrance) Chattanooga Choo Choo (concert) Tabu (concert exit) I Believe (colour presentation) The Party's Over from the musical Bells Are Ringing (field exit) |
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| 1964 | Who Will Buy from the Broadway musical Oliver (off
the line) More from the motion picture Mondo Cane Let Me Entertain You from the musical Gypsy (into concert) El Cumbanchero (concert) It's Legitimate from the musical Do Re Mi (concert exit) I Believe (colour presentation) The Party's Over from the musical Bells Are Ringing (field exit) |
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| 1965 | Who Will Buy from the Broadway musical Oliver (off
the line) Alabama Jubilee Big Bad Bill (concert entrance) El Cumbanchero (concert) Mandy (concert exit) Battle Cry of Freedom and O Canada medley (colour presentation) More from the motion picture Mondo Cane |
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| 1966 | Food from the Broadway musical Oliver (off the line) Battle Cry of Freedom and O Canada medley (colour presentation) Eager Beaver (out of colour presentation) Five Foot Two, Emily, Georgia On My Mind, Frivolous Sal, Sweet Georgia Brown, Thank Heaven For Little Girls, Charmaine medley (concert) Old Devil Moon (out of concert) More from the motion picture Mondo Cane (off the field) |
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| 1967 | Born Free from the motion picture Born Free (off the
line) Battle Cry of Freedom and O Canada medley (colour presentation) Eager Beaver (out of colour presentation) Five Foot Two, Georgia On My Mind, Frivolous Sal, Sweet Georgia Brown, Thank Heaven For Little Girls, Charmaine medley (concert) Old Devil Moon (out of concert) More from the motion picture Mondo Cane (off the field) |
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| 1968 | The Joker from the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint --
the Smell of the Crowd (off the line) Ontario from the Academy Award film A Place To Stand (colour presentation) Going Out Of My Head (concert entry) Five Foot Two, Georgia On My Mind, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sweet Georgia Brown, Thank Heaven For Little Girls, Charmaine medley (concert) Temptation (concert exit) You Only Live Twice from the motion picture You Only Live Twice (off the field) |
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| 1969 | Hang 'Em High from the motion picture Hang 'Em High
(off the line) Ontario from the Academy Award film A Place To Stand (colour presentation) Temptation (concert entry) Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In from the musical Hair (concert) Those Were The Days (concert exit) Blue Rondo a la Turk (drum solo) San Francisco (field exit) |
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| 1970 | Hang 'Em High from the motion picture Hang 'Em High
(off the line) Phantom Regiment (colour presentation) Temptation (concert entry) You Make Me So Very Happy by Blood, Sweat and Tears (concert) Flesh Failures from the musical Hair (out of concert) Little Brown Jug (drum solo) San Francisco (field exit) |
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| 1971 | Victory at Sea medley from the classic TV series Victory
at Sea (off the line) This Is The Army Mr. Jones from Irving Berlin's World War II all-soldier revue This Is The Army (drum solo) Patton theme from the motion picture Patton (colour presentation) Get Together by the Youngbloods (concert entry) Moonlight Serenade, Tuxedo Junction, Caravan big band medley (concert) Flesh Failures from the musical Hair (out of concert) San Francisco (field exit) |
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| 1972 | Paint Your Wagon, Mariah medley from musical Paint Your
Wagon
(off the line) Make Me Smile (drum solo) More And More by Blood, Sweat and Tears (concert entry) Moonlight Serenade, Tuxedo Junction, Caravan big band medley (concert) Patton theme from the motion picture Patton (colour presentation) Superstar by the Carpenters (field exit) |
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| 1973 | Le Coq D'or medley from the orchestral suite Le Coq D'or
(off the line) Caravan (concert) Make Me Smile (drum solo) More And More, Lucretia McEvil, Sometime In Winter, Hi Dee Ho, Over the Hill at 30 medley of Blood, Sweat and Tears tunes (field exit) |
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| 1974 | Le Coq D'or medley from the orchestral suite Le Coq D'or
(off the line) It Better End Soon by Chicago (concert) Beautiful People (field exit) |
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| 1975 | The Trolley Song, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, medley of Judy
Garland tunes (field entry) The Man That Got Away Papa Was A Rolling Stone (percussion solo) Soulero Indian Lady (concert) Beautiful People (field exit) Judy Garland medley (reprise) |
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| 1976 | Finale from Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony (field entry) Farandole Indian Lady Road Ode (field exit) Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony (reprise) |
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| 1977 | Finale from Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony (field entry) Children's Dance West Side Story medley Drum solo Pippin (field exit) |
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| 1978 | Sorcerer and the Latin (field entry) West Side Story medley Farandole (field exit) |
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