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Riverside’, ‘Little Brown Jug’, ‘In The Mood’, ‘It's a Small World’, ‘Pink Panther’, ‘La La Land’, 'Bimba Boom' (children's song), ‘Lavender's Blue’, ‘Copacabana’, ‘Winter Games’, ‘Sing Sing Sing’, ‘Back to the Future’, ‘Super Mario’, 'Faith', ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Lavender's Blue’

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The band's visit was enabled by the Green Band Association.
The band was 132 strong, including a number of alumni who were invited along. The cameraman moves around amongst the band members, letting us see their joy at being there. Nearly an hour long, but worth making the time to watch!

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We are standing among the crowd in the square, waiting as the band approaches, stops to perform 'Sing Sing Sing', then continues the morning parade. The new students following behind are the 118th class who could not have guessed at the difficult times that lay ahead for them with Covid.

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2025 Rose Parade. It contains beautifully filmed brief scenes from practice sessions, Pasadena Bandfest, Disneyland, the Rose Parade and the Benefit Concert. Kumagai-san has clearly captured some amazing footage and, hopefully, we may eventually see longer videos of these performances from GBA.

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‘Smoke on the Water’, ‘Make Your Dreams Come True’, ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘It’s a Small World’, ‘Prayer and Honor in our Hearts’, ‘Thriller’, ‘I’ll Be There’ and ‘I Want You Back’. The students take gifts to their host families. The concert ends with ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’ and ‘Sing Sing Sing’.

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The music for the first part of the show was ‘I Can't Turn You Loose', ‘Soul Finger’, ‘In the Mood’, ‘I Need to be in Love’ with DM ‘Ron’ playing clarinet solo, Star Wars ‘Cantina’ music and ‘Sing Sing Sing’. Next is a seated performance of Deep Purple’s ‘Burn’, ‘Highway Star’ and
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between Tsugio Ano and KT’s own drummer, ‘Rany’.
Mr Ano released this video showing him rehearsing this with the band. Wait for the amazing play-off between Tsugio Ano and KT's drummer!

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The tune was originally recorded in 1983 by the British band Shakatak, which had become popular in Japan, winning awards in Japan for the best international instrumental album six years running.
[For comparison, here is the Shakatak version: youtu.be/5NzN2yXAVl0 ]

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stationary performance was given, under the shelter of a canopy. Whilst this performance doesn’t have quite the visual appeal of the outdoor parade, you can hear all the instruments playing clearly, not just those passing the camera! (The rain stopped later and the afternoon parade went ahead.)

[2] Expo event in May. The music was 'Down by the Riverside', 'Back to the Future III', 'Poker Face', 'Daydream Believer', 'Vacation', 'Best Friend', 'Take Me Home, Country Roads', 'Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend', 'Feel it Still'/'Rebel Just For Kicks', 'I see the Light' and 'Samba de Caribe'.

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recording from 2006 by ‘Orange Fairy’ even more special. Band members are wearing their traditional Japanese ‘Happi’ coats with white skirts or shorts.
‘Kaze Ni Naritai’ had been KT’s signature piece, with which they usually ended performances, for several years until ‘Sing Sing Sing’ took over.