DCI 1982 - Blue Devils - 'One More Time Chuck Corea'

1982 DCI - Montreal, Canada

[@MikeBerbano]

no frills, just chills down the spine.. no sound system.. no electronic instruments.. no woodwinds.. no props... no huge pit.. Just Straight-up raw, in-your-face, blow-your-head-off, hard-hitting, hard-core drum & bugle corps. They don't make it the way they used to anymore, esp THIS drum corps

[@Wahl95]

Man, that soprano section is absolutely SHREDDING the whole time! Oh, man... Incredible!

[@tlewis10060]

After 31 years, still my favorite DCI performance of all time.

[@woodsman335]

Mine too

[@terric703]

Mine too! I still get goose bumps.

[@woodsman335]

Mine too dude

[@draeke8080]

That's a tall order sir, I'm still listening too. I hate what they're doing with will drum corps, f the millena useless; I don't think they know what one more time even means

[@chloepurkrabek4232]

kevin kelley ayye I know lots of people who march southwind

[@lindajamison4863]

Wish they would bring back the style from the 80s. Still my favorite!

[@ephronium]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5K3Zadnh7KmbZY

[@RocketRay]

Best drum corps song EVAR. I was a rookie in the Freelancers and got to watch this just about every night in 1982. In the Freelancers Alumni Corps we're playing this and it is SO MUCH FUN.

[@clarisusa]

I dream of traveling down south, and joining you guys in the Freelancer alumni. I was one of two Canadians, who aged out in 81'and came back to watch this performance in 82'. Unbelievably grateful for the Freelancer years of my life. I absolutely miss the people and the experience so much. All the best to you Ray. :) Darrell 🎺

[@jared0111]

that chord at 1:24 is so perfectly in tune, the high brass leading the push, i kinda want to curl up inside of it and take a nap. i almost wish that dci would go back to the tick system for just one year, so show designers can take it easy with all the crazy drill moves and get back to blowing our faces off. just for one year.

[@dwindleman1023]

Micah Lall-Trail they used to dock points for every mistake they saw.

[@stevedickson4744]

Dwindleman - tenth of a point per ‘tick’ - all modern corps would zero-out on execution scores and end up in the mid sixths for scores.

[@Tapper7]

This arrangement got me interested in drum corps big time back when I first played it.

[@southtxxbox]

My introduction to DCI thirty years ago! Like a drug...been looking for this high since then!

[@stephenchilds3667]

Yep........a good drug!!!

[@mdfs412]

35 yrs ago this song made me a BD fan for life. It's almost magical like a dream then cooks like nothing I've ever heard! Like alot of other people this IS DCI at it's best. Too much theater nowdays. I even prefer the old school unis.

[@slotcargene1]

If you've never heard 1981 Devils play this, listen to that. When we first met up on tour at the Drum Beauty show in Stillwater, Mn. was the first time I'd ever heard this, and it was like you said - dream-like, mystical sounding even, and then it cooks, but it ends differently. Anyway - I'd never seen a crowd reaction like what happened that night. Everybody was stunned when it ended, like nobody had ever heard something like that ever before. There wasn't wild applause like in '82, but almost stunned silence. A lot of it was very similar to the '82 version, but different also. They made it much more exciting in '82, and Tom Float's '82 percussion arrangement, though it takes a lot of cues from '81, just blows it away. Also, the '81 BD line was uncharacteristically weak, though I did like the parts. BUT - I do remember the crowd ROARING in Whitewater a week or so later during One More Time. I wish I had a tape recording from the top of the stadium. Listen to it though, listen to the whole show.

[@tjbiker49]

Simply the BEST ! Amazing POWER . . . . and I just don't want this number to stop.

[@woodsman335]

I was there in Canada, 1982. Loved BDs show. Still my all time favorite. I knew the 5th base drummer Red Griffin. Great times then. I still miss it.

[@txbandman1]

SWEET!!! absolutely love it!!! I had this on a cassette tape that wore out I listened to it so much!

[@rdlcbrown]

Love the 2 guys on the bottom right at the end of OMTCC ---- "throwing babies" as we used to say

[@rdlcbrown]

@@stevelenane9771 Nice recollection, Steve. I remember the gates as well. I was on the end on side 1 running backwards and when the gates clicked, the roar of the crowd is something I'll never forget.

[@rdlcbrown]

@@stevelenane9771 yeah. 81 was crazy.

[@michaelbosisto9378]

Man I miss drum corps! I wish that it was possible to catch how it really sounds when your there in person.

[@davidfisher5599]

The phrase at 1:07 gives me chills every time. Wowah. When I want to get fired up, this is what I listen to.

[@rjwilloughby1213]

before Blue Devils won titles with avant garde visual shows , they won titles with shows like this ! Great music and unbeatable execution when "tics" ruled"

[@ImVee10]

By ‘82, only drums and feet were ticked. Brass was all buildup as was Visual Analysis and 8 drum points.

[@errongarrett1801]

Actually, the chart IS called One More Time CHUCK Corea. It was a combination of Chuck Mangione's and Chick Corea's names. The a cappella group Singers Unlimited did this chart many years ago. That was the source material for BD's arrangement of the chart. Just for the record, I'm in that hornline,

[@katyornok63]

And my buddy Danny McCrossen also in horn line. BD was such a great jazz orchestra back then

[@christopherauert6634]

Oh ..to hear that BD sound again.

[@draeke8080]

@@katyornok63 It's charted 'One More Time Chuck Corea:

[@RogueBrit]

So jealous must had been epic

[@Signorellielli]

Anyone know David Signorelli?

[@user-kx7bt2lo7g]

Agreed… No shit! No bs…just pure talent…

[@artvandalay9613]

1:08-1:31 Textbook old school drum corps sound

[@NotLost]

All that with 2 valves and 2 sticks!!

[@YRebBugleman]

Another step towards a different kind of "drum and bugle corps". Really enjoyed what was achieved here!!!

[@hughdunbar9823]

That's funny, I see it as the last great hurrah of the old school, concert stand still performance, and Garfield who shot up the rankings that night as the next wave that would engulf DCI for the rest of the decade. (pretty much anyway)

[@victorlee9596]

@@hughdunbar9823 As a member of '82 Blue Devils, the last year that I marched, I totally agree. It was the end of an era.

[@hughdunbar9823]

@@victorlee9596 but what a finale! Seriously, that was in incredible show and performance. One of my favourites of all time to be certain. (and this is coming from a member of Garfield)

[@gerrycalub4684]

I remember watching this on PBS. This is the song that made me fall in love with BD

[@christopherauert6634]

I've been saying it for 2 years now.....bring back the 80's.......no dancing, no amps no props. Just great music and great drill.

[@steves9500]

1972-1976, too!

[@neilpalmer5577]

Bring back the 90s.

[@bryancook3233]

No kidding! When I aged out with BD, they just put me in the 50 yard line!

[@larryjackson1742]

Great drill? It sucks

[@gentrywalker]

Yeah this was the first thing that came to mind today. RIP.

[@coreyburrow9243]

My English teacher was a part of this amazing Corp!

[@victorlee6094]

+Corey Burrow Name? I marched '82 also.

[@dankurydotcom]

Gene Puerling's arranging and music lives on!!!!

[@PaulBHartzog]

Yeah, got chills at 3:00 My high school band played this after BD (yeah, we were that good). I was really proud of my drum line that year.

[@aarona.ferreira3045]

Paul B. Hartzog ok boomer

[@charlesheroman3126]

My HS did OMTCC my freshman year as the third movement of our show in 05. Probably my favorite unthemed set. Caravan, Con Te Partiro, and OMTCC. What a way to be introduced to marching band!

[@MikeBerbano]

@@charlesheroman3126 My HS did BD '79 Opener "Chicago 3 Suite Intro/Free" + BD tag at end of our closer -- the crowds always ate it up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqe3i5yknJqEh9E

[@71tonalbass]

i love the inovations in the drum corps scene now but still love the passion of 70s~ 90s corps

[@buzzardmotorsports]

best horn line of all time !

[@woodsman335]

I think so too.

[@neilpalmer5577]

Incredible for it's time but there have been better.

[@veronicazamora279]

Amazing. And. Beautiful performance

[@dowzycki]

Just awesome. My favorite BD year.

[@veronicazamora112]

Yes❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@HugeJohn51]

Chills, every time. Fanfuckingtastic. From a Cadet.

[@dogtorphil]

Wow, I was there! Great memories!

[@Northwesterner]

Good God these guys absolutely murdered it. I got to play part of one season with Seattle Imperials before going off in the Army in '83....which turned out to be ok because Imperials ended up folding not long after that. But we had fun.....I was an "ok" marching french horn player....not the greatest, but was definitely getting better. We were nowhere near near Blue Devils' kind of talent though....this kind of stuff is what we aspired to be. 80s was indeed the golden age of DCI. No doubt.

[@charlieTesla]

wow!!! they were good!!!

[@samsignorelli]

5th world championship that year...undefeated season and the all-time record score under the punitive judging system of the time.

[@sixty9fordkiller]

thank you!

[@bryancook3233]

We had enough money to share a corndog. Much thanks to the Sun Coast Sound for getting me home to VB.

[@bryancook3233]

I was there with the Boston Crusaders at age 11. My Brother and I snuck in to see BD and SCV.

[@veronicazamora279]

Amazing.

[@Brave_New_Tube]

Geez, that hit 3:00. I felt that.

[@jared0111]

+Modnar2011 seriously. insane. the soprano soloist set it up so nice too.

[@samsignorelli]

So many people there I would march with 2 years later.

[@AJaytheCEO]

We played this my freshman year in high school marching band

[@johnlepkowski3831]

We played this in high school too. Lake Howell hs, winter Park FL. Good times. We didn't need amplification on field back then,

[@JonSkelton]

At the cadenza left to right: Larry, Steve, Jay, and Todd!! UFLS rock!!!

[@BrassTeacher]

I always thought it was UMFLS?

[@samsignorelli]

@@BrassTeacher Nope Upper Fucking Lead Soprano is the correct term.

[@BrassTeacher]

@@samsignorelli , Tell that to Maria then :)

[@drumcorpsinprogres]

I used this to write down my timpanie solo for our 1985 show. 😁

[@BradHalls]

Legendary!

[@shanecastellano9575]

Thank you Mr Mel Stratton

[@chale1108]

While there have been many contenders since, in my opinion this is still the greatest performance in DCI history. Not the greatest show, perhaps, but simply the greatest performance - tick system, or Olympic style judging. A caveat - I never saw the 1965 Chicago Royal Aires. That show was two years prior to my birth.

[@daozenrod]

One More Time was astonishing twice. However, every college band played it and lots of High Schools too. That was not the case with Sweet Georgia Brown. Because that was the actual big dog.

[@chale1108]

+Rod Purvis My comment is not directed to "One More Time...", but the '82 Finals show in its entirety.

[@joshpr]

+Christopher Hale my list of greatest performances in DCI history: 1975 hawthorne, 1983 garfield, 1984 garfield, 1987 garfield, 1988 madison, 1993 star, 1994 BD, 1996 phantom, 2000 cadets, 2008 phantom

[@chale1108]

Hard to argue with any of those performances. Well done.

[@k_zildjian4460]

...and Cavaliers 2002

[@frankfagundes2622]

Now this how DCI should be

[@slappy1234567]

Great!

[@agogobell28]

8 brand-new K-90 contras... just listen to that beefy low end.

[@armynurseboy]

agogobell28 And those 8 K-90's put out more sound than 20 tubas being marched today.....

[@davidgibson932]

Those King Powerbore Contras were lovely to look at and lovey to play!

[@davidgibson932]

You have to give to Wayne D. and those orchestrations, too.

[@hughdunbar9823]

I was always so jealous of those King Contras. I marched with shit, even with Garfield, our contras were crap.

[@DallasHabs33]

"Let's go get our ring."

[@tommytimp]

I think they had them already. They pretty much had them by Whitewater that year. Mercy.

[@christophermelenudo6249]

Sick

[@DennisJohnsonDrummer]

It doesn't get any better than this!

[@woodsman335]

Hi Dennis. Airhead from Southwind.

[@earlviney2820]

Has anyone recently bought a CD just to listen to drum corps. I havent. Miss this era

[@RogueBrit]

R. I. P. Chick Corea

[@danielcrawford4134]

Wow! Today's hornlines sure dance better! Seriously though, I have no doubt that the average level of individual talent for the brass players in any modern top 12 hornline far exceeds the average level of individual talent in the 80s, but who cares? Will ANYONE (apart from actual members, maybe) be listening to BD's 2016 show 35 years from now? Or even 10 years from now?

[@kevinfolds4713]

Daniel Crawford that's a good question. But we both know the band instruments will never sound as good as the G bugle.

[@k_zildjian4460]

It really is too bad that the bugle had to go away. Band instruments are easier to play, probably stay in tune better, and allow arrangers more harmonic flexibility. But that fat bugle sound will likely be lost forever.

[@ultragor]

Might be just a rumor, but I heard that *blast* at 3:01 was the loudest musical note ever recorded!

[@SithScorp]

Wow.

[@johns3106]

3:00. Does everyone see the drum major down on the sideline (lower right)? THAT is how you get some emotion out of a corps!

[@earlviney5212]

Great BD hornlines where have you gone?

[@KBMOORE98]

Love the music, but glad "park and play" is a thing of the past.

[@neilpalmer5577]

Agreed!

[@samsignorelli]

We DID kinda kill the concert era with "La Fiesta" 2 yeard later.

[@sabadrum]

That chord at 2:38 though...

[@RB..1]

Always love the “woo-hoo” at 2:36

[@JerryDugan]

Does anyone else see the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle in the background?! #Sripes #BillMurray kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHaxd2Nuet58mc0

[@jimmyp8691]

dank kush

[@jimmyp8691]

Preformed/preforming this trio this year!

[@mikeroten9536]

RIP chick

[@viewslul2206]

i always heard my dad playing this until one time he told me that he had the chance to play this with them but he had to turn them down because of his girlfriend at the time, crazy my dad could have been a dci champion but i probably wouldn’t be here rn if he was

[@artvandalay9613]

Why can't DCI be even a fraction this awesome now? This is absolutely meat and potatoes.

[@woodsman335]

I think it's the new generation. They like technical; not actually entertaining. That's my thought for the day.

[@neilpalmer5577]

@@woodsman335Maybe technical shows are entertaining to them but I would love to here this type of music but with real movement. Cant beat the 90s

[@woodsman335]

@Micah the Drum Corps Pseudoboomer (Mijkah) I can certainly agree with you on that point. Most drum corps music today is bits and pieces of several songs, based on what I've heard. Current DCI music is truly hard to follow and makes little musical sense.

[@Nigelrathbone1]

A time when complete music compositions and the quality of the music was enough - now performances are multilayered WGI dance/theatrical productions of music Mcnugget vignettes. Can barely differentiate between musicians or guard anymore with unisex costuming blurring the lines. Everything is a Modern Dance production where facial expression closeups take precedence over ensemble effect. Drill used to be clearly defined and the less cluttered the better. Now it's more and more looking like cirque de soleil in costuming and random drill. Gone is the pageantry of the sharp military uniform and image which was so effective in a stadium perspective. Shows are more designed for the TV camera headshot, not the spectator on the 30- yardline in the 3rd deck.

[@k_zildjian4460]

No amplification necessary.

[@PlagueJ]

And your point is????

[@k_zildjian4460]

+rJUSTINr1995 There are a lot of wonderful things that have happened to drum (and bugle) corps over the years: better drum technology, astounding drill design, and a ridiculous amount of talent at the top end of the spectrum. But the use of amplified sound on the field is not one if them. I don't always find it offensive, but to me it feels cheesy and inorganic. I say, let the horns and the drums do the talking.

[@gentrywalker]

Have you ever even TRIED listening for tubas in a modern drum corps show? Even in crappy videos you can almost always hear a distinct "brassy" sound coming from the bottom end which is _separate_ from any keyboard patch.

[@jeffreydancinger2875]

Check it out, 8 Contras putting out maybe more sound than a current line with 20 tubas.

[@kevinfolds4713]

Jeffrey Dancinger LMAO. It's so true. And they aren't using any microphones. Oh, those were the halcyon days!

[@WapoStudios]

Drum corps don't mic their brass unless it's a solo. Also we learned how to play in tune.

[@jeffreydancinger2875]

Watch Santa Clara 2017 and Blue Devils. They Mic'd everything.

[@aweshad9]

santa only mic'd their 12 performers. dont get me wrong, i still hate it. But you gotta hate correctly. idk about devils tho. micing the whole ensemble is a logistically and tone nightmare. they at most mic'd section leaders.

[@jackdejong1485]

They also had mics every 10 yards to amplify the rest of their hornline.

[@bbourq8]

let's go get our rings

[@samsignorelli]

The words at the end were actually "watch out for that tree."

[@OursDéplumé]

could they play a steve Reich play please

[@tlewis10060]

I miss the screaming trumpets in DCI

[@definitelynotcainan3353]

+Todd Lewis Those aren't trumpets... THOSE, are soprano BUGLES. Big difference.

[@tlewis10060]

+Cainan Cornelius I know. Since they play trumpets now, I thought my comment would make more sense. I miss the screaming bugles too.

[@markcooperartcom]

+Todd Lewis I avoided checking out older shows til recently. I assumed it would be crappy compared to newer shows and it's the exact opposite. Why is this so much better? What is going on here? Whatever it is, they should fix it.

[@woodsman335]

DCI now focuses on technical shows, not entertaining music. That's the difference between the 70s, 80's and today. The 90's is when it changed to technical I think.

[@carlcarl1397]

@@woodsman335 yeah DCI shows nowadays suck it's all like etudes out of etude books or double tonguing and triple tonguing I liked it better when they did shows like this

[@joshuabarrios9984]

Woo-hoo!

[@CSRookie]

A year later they would finally be dethroned by the Cadets and the Cadets era would begin: in the next 15 years they would win half the championships.

[@derrickwilson7467]

Is that Roger Daltrey directing? 0:59

[@samsignorelli]

Ha ha...i don't think Steve Sanger ever thought of himself that way.

[@alfiocco8380]

Gino

[@erickreza69]

drum major tho

[@nycdavid68]

Troopers Pete Sapadin

[@mylesanderson5864]

These solo guys could skip leg day with all that squatting they are doing every time they hit the right high note. Lmao! That scream squat

[@michaelandcolinspop]

I think it's safe to say that no drumline today needs leg day, as all they seem to do is squat-2-3-4...lunge fiercely-2-3-4...stare down the camera-2-3-4. For God's sake, it's as if every corps today is trying to be like Blast instead of a corps. And for the noobs, Blast was a Broadway show that used to be Star of Indiana. But, hey, at least we have synths, piped-in sound, and narration now that DCI fixed the problem of corps not projecting. I mean, I could barely hear the Devils on this video. Whatever. DCI is just WGI on turf now, and that's lame.

[@daddyosink4413]

Mike Davis well.... to be honest, the narration is needed now otherwise no one would have a clue as to wtf is going on....

[@michaelandcolinspop]

@Micah the Drum Corps Pseudoboomer (Mijkah) Yep, I know, Micah. My girlfriend in HS was in competitive winter guard in ‘89-‘90 and it was basically a smaller field show as opposed to the Broadway-esque productions of today. I’m just old, I guess, but I still prefer more of the ‘80s-‘90s DCI performances to today’s theatrics.

[@mylesanderson5864]

@@stevelenane9771 Good stuff!

[@SundaySundate]

is this the scores? musescore.com/user/63177/scores/239291#

[@18choirboy]

Westshoremen's version was way less boring.

[@victorlee6094]

+Bruce Bolich Is there are recording of the Westshoremen's version on the web? I would like to hear it. I would point out that the Blue Devils were the first DCI corps to arrange One More Time Chick Corea (in 1981). I think it's fair to say that their arrangements took an otherwise obscure jazz vocal piece and turned it into a marching band and corps standard.

[@thekevinkaye]

Hawthorne played it in 1992 with a horn line that would blow the skin back off of your face. :D

[@highstimulation2497]

"Chuck" Corea? or Chick Mangione? laugh out loud.

[@agribby_]

fortnite

[@kt6550]

The songwriter's name is CHICK Corea, not Chuck. This is terrible. Not even close to Chick's original song.

[@drewpodnar4784]

Um, you obviously know nothing about this composition and who wrote it. Do a little research, my friend.

[@AZCoolhorn]

Wrong...the "songwriter" was Gene Puerling of the vocal group "Singers Unlimited", and he wrote it as a tribute to the music of CHUCK Mangione and Chick COREA...thus the title, "One More Time, Chuck Corea. A tongue in cheek reference to be sure, but that's the story.

[@jaydavidson4592]

All these boomers in here lol