Sousa at the White House in the movie "Stars And Stripes Forever"

Sousa at the White House. This is a bit fanciful story of Sousa's first White House appearance with the Marine Band. In the movie it is July 12th 1889 and the President is Benjamin Harrison.
The marches played in this clip are Hail To The Chief and Semper Fidelis
Sousa’s first White House appearance with the Marine Band was at the New Year’s reception of 1881. The order of the guess entry was ambassadors, cabinet, supreme court, officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, bureau chiefs of departments, followed by the general public. Customarily the band had played music which Sousa described as “too robust for the limits of the White House.” So he had the band music much subdued, especially during the entry of the first guests. As they came in greater numbers, the band played the light Opera excerpts, and for the latter guests, music of very lively character such as marches and polkas. Afterwards he was told by President Hayes’ secretary that the president was less fatigue than by previous receptions and had met many more people.

[@BonsaiBlacksmith]

"Tell the President we will do what we can to alleviate the situation." -Every Marine ever

[@soniazavala2369]

What do you think that makes sense to me 😮

[@Ihni2000]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@soniazavala2369If it doesn’t make sense to you then the comment wasn’t meant for you. You’re not the only person in the world, don’t act like that’s the commenter’s fault.

[@IronPiedmont]

This might be one of the very rare times Benjamin Harrison has ever been portrayed in any form of media.

[@kylemorello4787]

Don't you love firsts?

[@williampaz2092]

IronPiedmont1996 TRUTH!

[@williampaz2092]

TRUTH!

[@Vomaxx1]

Yes! Now, if only Millard Fillmore could also get his due. :-)

[@bengemeister]

Thank goodness!

[@TheCarnivalguy]

I haven't seen this movie in many years. This makes me want to see it again. I won the John Philip Sousa award my senior year in high school. I played trumpet for 12 years, 5th grade through high school & 4 years of college, and I sure miss it.

[@patriotalways4811]

I know what you mean. I played for 10 years in school and put the trumpet down. 24 years later I started playing for my Church orchestra and have been playing now for another 14 years. You should start playing again!

[@hobodarkness7696]

Ayyy me too lmao same instrument

[@hobodarkness7696]

@@patriotalways4811 church orchestra? Where do i sign up?

[@patriotalways4811]

@@hobodarkness7696 Where do you live?

[@pattysalmon1962]

See if there's a community band nearby?

[@Ben_not_10]

Some years ago I went to a convert featuring a lot of Sousa music. Two rows in front of me there was a group of marines home on leave. They were all dressed in their dress blues, and when they band got two bars into this piece they snaped to their feet like they were on a parade ground. I looked around the room and there were men and women all over the place here and there that were in the same position. Marines do love themselves a good March.

[@smwca123]

Semper Fi.

[@jayfeder8217]

Greatest Clifton WEBB MOVIE EVERCR

[@rcanterb7126]

2:22 One of the best renditions of this march I’ve heard. Also a great movie overall.

[@Ben_not_10]

Agreed. The first two bars of Semper Fi (in my opinion) should drive the audience into their seats and/or snap the backs of soldiers into attention without command

[@filipjandus4537]

All the marches played in this movie are performed very well!

[@Dproud2700]

Ex high school band member and I always loved playing Sousa music. SEMPER FI

[@misterwhitman4368]

Clifton Webb is marvelous in this grand gem of a motion picture!

[@billhuber2964]

With a tune like that no wonder why the marines are a very proud corps. HOOYAH from your brother in the navy.

[@nemochicky4697]

zipZIP And composer for the Marine Band

[@danbytp]

You mean...OORAH...Mr.Huber!

[@billhuber2964]

Oorah for you marines.. hoorah for us sailors.

[@herondelatorre4023]

One ironic fact about this movie which came out in 1952 is that two actors in this movie Clifton Webb and Robert Wagner appeared again together in the following year 1953 in a movie called Titanic.

[@huskyfaninmass1042]

How is that ironic?

[@herondelatorre4023]

@@huskyfaninmass1042 It means the fact that the same two actors appear together one year in a movie and then appear together again the following year in another movie. How often does that happen with the same two actors????

[@huskyfaninmass1042]

How is that an example of irony?

[@herondelatorre4023]

@@huskyfaninmass1042 Maybe you didn't understand when I said the word "ironic". I meant to say that word in a different meaning such as surprising or fascinating. Ok.

[@iangreer4585]

Another form of irony is their last names. Webb and Wagner are also the last names of famous composers, the latter of which is famous for "Ride of the Valkyres"

[@thomasfenton4957]

Sousa was a true genius

[@kepckatherinec805]

I saw this movie when I was a little kid, and I loved it! I still feel a thrill when I hear military band music.

[@jimswonger8111]

The littlest smile of his at the end is a wonderful statement about his relationship with his wife.

[@thomashogan16]

Good acting indeed. Webb was totally gay.

[@donaldhelton9308]

I'd love to see this movie again.Loved the story and music

[@mikebrzostowski8183]

When I was 13 yrs. old everyone was playing Beatles music. The first album I bought at that time was March music by John Philip Sousa. This have it. Sousa, it's in his last name. USA! His music will live forever.

[@omniryx1]

The first time I ever heard the Marine Band, performing at the Barracks, they opened with the National Anthem and next played The Standard of St. George by the British composer Kenneth Alford. A beribboned Marine colonel sitting next to me leaned over and said, "Boy, Sousa wrote some great stuff, didn't he?"

[@defox5019]

Yeet

[@nemochicky4697]

TechTog He did write great music including our national march, the Stars and Stripes forever

[@dolvaran]

Ah! Good old Major Ricketts! Often known as the British Sousa.

[@smwca123]

Did they play Semper Fi?

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Always amazing to me how lighthearted USA marching music is; sometimes almost humorous. I like marching music from many other countries but the others seem to lack those qualities.

[@vincentlefebvre9255]

Kenneth Alford's music is also very good .

[@bengemeister]

Many (most?) of Sousa's marches were concert pieces in an era of bands giving formal concerts and not suitable for military or civilian parades. Just like the famous waltzes that are concert pieces and not intended to be danced to.

[@mariovilchis1280]

This goes to everyone we are so glad that we have John Philip sousa music played in parses in u.s.

[@Ben_not_10]

Ngl if I was president, protocol be damned I would have the band play at every function I attended and this would either lead or end the musical program

[@jamessidebottom5868]

How Elegant people were then and graceful and good mannered Look whats happen Now to the world !

[@GentlemanlyOtter]

agree!!

[@johnfogg7858]

Indeed! Now in 2024, the President falls asleep and poops his pants!

[@GentlemanlyOtter]

@@johnfogg7858 at least pooping one’s pants doesn’t equal 34 felonies

[@johnfogg7858]

@@GentlemanlyOtter If you think for a second that those "felonies" are legit and anything other than election interference then you are a complete M0R0N.

[@johnfogg7858]

@@GentlemanlyOtter ....and if you think for a second that those "34 felonies" are anything more than fabrications aimed at election interference, you are complete M0R0N.

[@josephdunlap6747]

Great American film and rendition of “Stars and Stripes Forever!”

[@smwca123]

No, this is Semper Fidelis.

[@toyman9642]

The MOVIE is called Stars and Stripes Forever.

[@lynnpeppa1]

Thx

[@whdstudios2441]

@Rob Tro Thank you for saying that. I almost thought i was fake news'd as our Official National March is called "Stars and Stripes Forever".

[@angelgutierrez-kg5du]

Forever and ever

[@misterwhitman4368]

That tune has been getting rather popular lately!

[@hilakummins3104]

Why aren't they playing the stars and stripes? Did I miss something 😂

[@sartainja]

They broke the mold when JPS was made. He was the GOAT before the term was invented.

[@kirkvandegrift3015]

Sousa, Greatest American Composer

[@TheStockwell]

Sure, if you pretend George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and John Williams were never born.😐

[@Martifox1]

Good movie! Sousa was a really great composer. I still enjoy his music

[@billhuber2964]

The marines always live up their motto " Semper fideles".

[@trevormiles5852]

At the beginning the presidential seal has the eagle facing the arrows, normally the eagle faces the olive branches. Looking for peace but arms always at the ready. This was changed in 1945 by Truman when he made the Presidential seal and flag official.

[@siberian1958]

Semper Fidelis , Fantastic March!!!

[@TheLocalLt]

This is low key hilarious

[@yank-tc8bz]

Great music, great movie

[@dam1041960]

The MARINES to the rescue of a president.

[@arielhernansuaznabar9527]

This can not be more literal than that :P

[@kaziiqbal7257]

I was talking to one of my musician friends when that whole world war three business was going on and he said "ah yes, we'll fight them off with our tunes."

[@드넓은세상]

very good.i'm koreani love you music

[@thomashogan16]

God bless you brother!

[@harrykuheim6107]

I remember this movie...

[@2manyIce]

Good thinking: too many guests of honnor? Just play a quick march and get on with them.

[@jeremycorbynsucksdicks5133]

2:24 OORAH! PROUD TO HAVE A FATHER WHO IS A MARINE!!!!!

[@markw3598]

.... and well you should be.

[@wagner9050]

Thanks Uploader... & YT.

[@SonshineLady7]

Love Sousa marches and enjoyed watching this movie years ago!

[@traviswilliam5453]

my great grandfather was the band leader for the 7th Caverly and we were told he wrote the Drum and bugle section of that march. Can't prove it, but it's a nice story.

[@ironwolf3699]

Semper Fidelis is my favorite march by Sousa

[@inaciosthirdstudio]

2:46 This music was heard in the Ren and Stimpy cartoon “Insomiac Ren”.

[@gray3553]

love Sousa, greetings from the UK, you Americans still love those redcoats lol

[@orencio1969]

we cousins always fight but in the end we are family

[@gray3553]

@@orencio1969 Always have been always will be.

[@donbrynelsen2157]

I don't know if Sousa was around when Theodore Roosevelt was President, but I remember a story about TR's daughter Alice asking the Marine Band to play the latest Ragtime dance tunes at her 1902 White House coming out party!😄

[@trapezemusic]

Sousa led the US Marine Band from 1880-1892.

[@jackmorrison7379]

The presidents entertained by Sousa in order: Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland and B. Harrison who is a portrayed in this segment.

[@adrianwilson4197]

SOUSA DIED IN THE YEAR 1932.

[@vertxxgg]

mr Belvedere (Clifton Webb ) looks magnificent and magnidico :-)

[@defox5019]

The music from this movie sounds better than the music they have on videos from now

[@smwca123]

I first saw this movie in 1989, just before the birth of my 2 elder nephews. Had I played it to my sisters with the babies present, I would have told them "Brace babies!" just before Sousa struck up Semper Fi. They probably would have taken it much better than Senator Gasbag. This scene was apparently based on a real-life White House scene, also involving 23rd President Benjamin Harrison, who was not exactly one of the most sociable Presidents.

[@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565]

Estraordinaria escena.

[@Rolistem]

Good age! I would have been lived on this years

[@lethalweeaboo2239]

I wonder how they kept Clarke's, Mantia's, and Pryor's instruments from catching fire in the sousa band days.

[@vaq33ens]

I believe Sousa wrote "Presidential Polonaise" as a response to President Harrison's dislike of "Hail to the Chief".

[@smwca123]

"Hail to the Chief" was of Scottish origin.

[@billhuber2964]

semper fideles oohrah

[@joevasquez6375]

I loved this movie and wish TMC would do more classics instead of favorites!

[@johnybarron-8660]

Semper fi

[@sousafan100]

ah semper fidelis - sousa's famous ballard...lol

[@markw3598]

'Ballad' You foorl!

[@sousafan100]

hahaha

[@davidwarner3326]

Earlier in the movie, he plays this ballad for his wife, who suggests he speed it up.

[@richboyd8635]

Great movie. A little research showed Sousa and his band performed in Flagstaff, Arizona at was the teachers college

[@vernonleephillipsjr2189]

Reliable & believable Fables 4 certain as J. P Souza! ! Great inspiration even today. T B 2 G

[@mikelynch3792]

Amazing that Harrison didn’t wear his military uniform to this event

[@louiseake1899]

I love all the uniforms in this movie. where can I watch?

[@nemochicky4697]

Six chief executives Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president that’s what I meant with 6 chief executives. Although when Sousa was the leader of the Marine Band he was there for five terms

[@instrumentalheadquarters7062]

I like the use of a actual sousa sousaphone

[@davidwarner3326]

Not invented until later...

[@HironoriSakai-b5v]

Could anyone tell me the name of the music played until 1:00?

[@davidwarner3326]

Hail to the Chief

[@HironoriSakai-b5v]

@@davidwarner3326 Thank you so much!!

[@Ben_not_10]

Ngl if I was president I probably would do this a lot with the marine band 😂.

[@patriot4786]

can somebody tell me who was the man requesting to mr Sousa on the president's behalf? was he like the personal secretary or who was he?

[@CaryCarpenter]

The song they're playing is "Semper Fidelis"

[@summerinspringville-hill]

ty I was wondering what it was

[@Zonksmobile]

What Was The Name Of Song Played Before Semper Fidelis? 🤔🤔🤔

[@samli8080]

Hey, that was Robert Wagner pretending to play the rain catcher.

[@psps6623]

0:50 Not goona lie....Antonia Banderas looks good for negative 8 years old in 1952

[@wrybreadspread]

What the Prez wants, the Prez gets. Clifton Webb usually looks so straight laced and severe in his movie roles. The beard imparts a (rather) rakish look.

[@peterpluim7912]

Some people know some things about the president, even fewer people remember the people who were introduced to the president that night but it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t recognise the tune of at least one of Sousa’s maches. Now, I’m sure there is a lesson in this but I don’t know which one. :)

[@hankkingsley2976]

1:19 It's Shag Wright! OMG! Wayne in da house!

[@martialmusic]

but the march they play is semper fidelis not stars and stripes forever

[@tapsbugler]

The movie is called.....

[@smwca123]

"Semper Sousa" may be more fitting; mostly you hear Semper Fi or Washington Post. King Cotton, written for the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, is mentioned but not played in this movie; and the title march only at the end.

[@davidjensen1167]

you need to see the movie. ITs at the end.

[@berhorst59]

Robert Morecook the movie is "Stars and Stripes Forever "

[@scottkester7178]

The title of the movie is "Stars and Stripes Forever." Nowhere is it claimed that this march is called by that title.

[@hankkingsley2976]

At 2:47 have to look and see if that's the actual tuba sorry original sousaphone part or if that's just an actor but later on they're playing the damn parts

[@falcon01i]

What's the name of tune in the start? Thanks. Edit: found it. It's hail to the chief, if anyone is wondering.

[@SouthernMaineFoamer]

In my family, if you weren’t part of the Army or Navy, you were a Marine. At least, that’s what most of the family thought. But either way, Semper Fi!

[@bengemeister]

WOW-Chester xxxxxxx Auther!

[@jrt818]

Think it was Benjamin Harrison portrayed in the movie, however Chester Alan Arthur had requested it earlier and this was one of two Souza came up with.

[@maureencora1]

Semper-Fi!

[@pghsquid]

I miss the days when the President was presidential!

[@Azishome]

+pghsquid, thank you. He President Trump is.

[@trapezemusic]

For heavens sake, please keep politics out of this!

[@thomashogan16]

You ain't gonna have it now that Joe sleeps in Lincoln's bed. God have mercy.

[@SoothingSounds-kq6yg]

The list of names he rattled off, they're the 1927 Yankees linep, right?

[@bengemeister]

I would like to recognize the modern "Sousa band" that tours small cities in the summer (or at least used to) with music educators and dedicated musicians who can devote a summer to keeping the tradition alive. Saw them at the Galveston Opera House where the Sousa band actually played.

[@trapezemusic]

Would you know their website?

[@natheniel]

It's "Semper Fidelis"

[@rotunda57]

At 2:47 I can clearly see a gent playing a French horn. Not a mellophone or an alto horn, but a French horn. I never heard of Sousa having a French horn in his band. And, the Sousaphone's player is using the wrong fingerings for the notes coming out of the horn. ???

[@peteraschaffenburg1]

The Sousaphone "player" is the actor Robert Wagner. he probably wasn´t able to actually play the sousaphone. ;-) Just like the actor playing Sousa obviously isn´t a conducter.

[@jerrymejias5940]

What was the chamber music played?

[@wurly164]

My channel shows many Sousa marches played on carousel band organs

[@dam1041960]

USMC to the rescue Mr. President.

[@BillMurray360]

OORAH

[@Shimshashuii2743]

Are the Marine musicians is actually drawn from the real Marines musicians in this movie???

[@GodsCommandmentsAreTruth]

Ah yes... when America was still America.

[@dominicalati4946]

Actually, that is not factual. Harrison hated "Hail to the Chief" and did not have it played during his term.

[@ProjectSilvr]

This isn't hail to the chief.

[@Invalid06]

What the heck the tuba doing

[@johngreen3543]

Not a tuba but a sousaphone.

[@Invalid06]

@@johngreen3543 thanks for correcting me

[@melodymelody3096]

😍😍😍

[@granskare]

the "stars & stripes" was based upon an English drinking song.

[@rjwiechman]

You are thinking of "The Star Spangled Banner", whose melody was based on "To Anacreon In Heaven", the favorite song of the Anacreon Society, which celebrated drinking and womanizing.

[@rjwintl]

I'll drink to that !!! ... LOL !!!

[@joeavent5554]

Even Presidents want to sleep...

[@JRicardohr]

Which is the name of the begining's song ?

[@jeremycorbynsucksdicks5133]

Hail to the chief

[@d.h.f.3972]

Como se chama esse filme ????

[@mbtaamtrakrailvideos5965]

Stars and Stripes is a 20th Century Fox movie

[@arielhernansuaznabar9527]

Hi! Which march it is played at the beggining of the video?

[@georgemood5881]

It is the Presidential Anthem - Hail To The Chief.

[@trapezemusic]

It' s not a march but it's title is Hail to the Chief.

[@smwca123]

@@trapezemusic "Hail to the Chief" is an old scottish boating ballad.

[@RufinoMedado]

Now who the hell made the sousaphone sit in the front

[@hankkingsley2976]

Well that crappy original design with a bell up doesn't make much difference where you park him

[@smwca123]

The original version, with the bell pointing upward, was called a "raincatcher".

[@vonmazur1]

Waldo Lydecker was Sousa???

[@carloberg8772]

you knew he was crafty.

[@smwca123]

No, in this movie Clifton Webb played Sousa.

[@benjaminfolkers4466]

Innacurate. The sousaphone was invented in 1894.

[@IkanGelamaKuning]

Today, see the dj and ask him to play other song. Put 10dollars in his pocket. Sure works. He will save the day.

[@juansierra5704]

Mrs. Sousa is pretty.

[@penguinexpress12]

Did Sousa really call them Sousaphones?

[@wilhard45]

Actually, yes he did. The instrument was based on specifications of Sousa and named after him. You might not have noticed but the guy playing the sousaphone was Robert Wagner.

[@penguinexpress12]

wilhard45 I did not notice that. I understand they’re named after him, I just thought it was peculiar that he would refer to them that way (or at least be portrayed)

[@chenliu3480]

Is this a movie except?