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Over the
years, first as a boy scout corps, then as
the Toronto Optimists, and finally as the
Seneca Optimists the corps played an
impressive array of tunes that reflected
both trends in drum corps styles and the
popular culture of the time. |
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Toronto Optimists
Drum & Bugle Corps |
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Year
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Title, Description and Field Position
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1952
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1953
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1954
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1955
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1956
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1957
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1958
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When You're Smiling
(fanfare and off the line)
Song of the Vagabond King from Desert Song
Halo (fanfare)
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
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When You're Smiling
(fanfare and off the line)
Song of the Vagabond King from Desert
Song
Halo (fanfare)
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
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Meadowlands
(off the line)
Manhattan Beach
Halo (fanfare)
Hail to Optimism
To Each His Own (concert entrance)
Serenade from The Student Prince and In
The Mood (concert medley)
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
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Cockeyed Optimist
from the film South Pacific
(off the line)
Meadowlands
Fascinating Rhythm
Just In Love
Manhattan Beach (concert entrance)
Serenade from The Student Prince and In
The Mood (concert medley)
Fanfare (concert exit)
This Is The Army, Mister Jones
To Each His Own (field exit) |
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1962
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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
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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)
Chatanooga 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
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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 Cumbachero (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
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Who Will Buy
from the Broadway musical
Oliver
(off the line)
Alabama Jubilee
Big Bad Bill (concert entrance)
El Cumbachero (concert)
Mandy (concert exit)
Battle Cry of Freedom and Oh Canada medley
(colour presentation)
More from the motion picture Mondo Cane
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1966
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Food
from the Broadway musical Oliver
(off the line)
Battle Cry of Freedom and Oh 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
medley (concert)
Old Devil Moon (out of concert)
More from the motion picture Mondo Cane
(off the field) |
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1967
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Born Free
from the motion picture Born Free
(off the line)
Battle Cry of Freedom and Oh 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
medley (concert)
Old Devil Moon (out of concert)
More from the motion picture Mondo Cane
(off the field) |
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1968
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Seneca Optimists
Drum & Bugle Corps |
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1976
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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
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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
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Sorcerer and the Latin
(field entry)
West Side Story medley
Farandole (field exit) |
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Optimists Alumni
Drum & Bugle Corps |
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2003 |
Who Will Buy
Eager Beaver
Old Devil Moon
The Party's Over |
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2004 |
Who Will Buy
Taboo (1962 Version)
Drum Solo (Rebound)
Battle Cry of Freedom / O Canada
Eager Beaver
Drum Solo (Hazard)
Old Devil Moon
Big Bad Bill
The Party's Over |
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2005 |
Old Devil Moon
Taboo
Drum Solo
(Rebound)
Paint Your Wagon
Drum Solo (Hazard)
Big Band Concert
The Party's Over |
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2006 |
Tabu (new arrangement)
Battle Cry of Freedom / A Place to Stand (Ontario)
Drum Solo
Paint Your Wagon
Drum Solo
Big Band Concert |
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2007 |
Paint Your Wagon
Tabu
(new arrangement)
Drum Solo
Big Band Concert
Battle Cry of Freedom / A Place to Stand
(Ontario)
More and More |
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2008 |
Lawrence of Arabia fanfare
Love theme from "El Cid"
More & More
Drum Solo
Big Band Medley (In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, Gene Krupa theme, Tuxedo
Junction, Caravan)
Battle Cry of Freedom / A Place to Stand (Ontario)
with new ending
San Francisco (Wear flowers in your hair) |
