Posted on Facebook this morning was a video of a Drum & Bugle Corps out of Northern New Jersey called the New York Skyliners. The video was from 1977 and I joined this corps shortly after the in the spring of 1978, and played a baritone bugle with them for two seasons.
Many of those in the video are friends and acquaintances I made in those years. Even the drum major in the video as well as myself grew up in the same small village in New York State. I still communicate with a few of those friends today but unfortunately a number of them have passed away since including the drum major in 1993.
If you haven't figured it out yet, it is because of my association with this musical organization that I chose the user name of Skyguy79 with the 79 representing my last year of marching in a drum and bugle corps, something I did since I was in high school in the mid 1960's.
http://youtu.be/OABQufdnvMc
The video and sound are a little rough, but videos from that time were rare (especially colored) and I was very pleased when I found it even if it wasn't from my years. Hope you enjoy it!
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