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March Comes in Like a Lion

Jan 21, 2017
1 min read

In honor of today's Women's March (or rather, Marches), here's the Smothers Brothers with the song, "Marching to Pretoria."  Yes, I know the connection is thin, but it popped into mind, and I've always liked their version.



They included the song on their first album, but this is a live performance from 1963 on the TV show, Hootenanny, in front of a crowd at Rutgers University.


And hey, as long as we're on the theme and you're marching along, here's the famous "Colonel Bogey March" scene from the movie, ​The Bridge On the River Kwai -- which the Brothers talk about in their performance.  (Don't adjust your volume control, it's quiet at the beginning.)


Oh, heck, while we're at it, let's throw in a bonus.  It'll be a long march, after all.  In their comic bantering above, the Smothers Brothers talk about Mitch Miller and the sing-a-long gang having a hit record with "The Colonel Bogey March" at the time of the movie -- which is true.  No words, just whistling (and a very slight bit of humming).  So, for the record (literally...), here it is.




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