#MusicMonday: The United States Navy Band Brass Quintet recently recorded Kenneth Alford's "Colonel Bogey March." The melody was set to lyrics by Major Dorothy E. Nielsen, U.S. Army Reserve, as a song of the Women's Army Corps: "Duty is calling you and me, we have a date with destiny, ready, the WACs are ready, their pulse is steady a world to set free. Service, we're in it heart and soul, victory is our only goal, we love our country's honor and we'll defend it against any foe." | United States

The 'Colonel Bogey March' played by The Band of the Royal Irish Regiment. My video shows the Band of the Royal Irish Regiment performing the Colonel Bogey March. This event took place at Bangor Castle, County Down on 9th May 2025 as part of the events to mark Victory in Europe Day 80th Anniversary Commemoration. The "Colonel Bogey March" was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881–1945) (pen name Kenneth J. Alford), a British Army bandmaster who later became the director of music for

MOVIE: The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957 STARRING: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins PLOT: British POWs build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, oblivious of the Allies' plans to destroy it. | The Fabulous Fifties

The tune whistled by the POWs as the enter the camp is the first strain of "Colonel Bogey March," first composed in 1914. As the story goes, the whistling was unplanned for the film, but during filming, Director David Lean was upset that the extras who played the prisoners could not march in time, and ordered someone to whistle a march to keep time to. An extra named George Siegatz started whistling "Colonel Bogey," and a hit was born. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI ('57) makes its FMC debut Satur