Tuesday Trivia - September 18, 2007

I'm sitting here at my desk, shaking my head and cracking up over the interest in last week's Tuesday Trivia ... for two simple questions to grab the attention they have is quite fun for me!

From several variations on Jo, this one's too easy, to a message that came in just after midnight from someone anxious to know if they had won this week, it's heartening to know many of you are enjoying this trip down memory lane.

So, here goes ...

• Part 1: What horns did we replace with when we bought our mellophones?
  French horns
• Part 2: What was the major defining characteristic about the players in our mellophone line that made it unique in corpsdom at the time?
  All the members were female

The first person to respond with the correct answer this week was ... Billy Meyer! Other two-parts-right participants were Pete Crafts, Goober Chez, and Althea. Those who at least got Part 2 right were Judy Stewart Sgammato and Jackie Bodzas.

Some background on Part 2 provided by Althea: I think our first French horn line was me, Denise Holton, Donna Kurucz (sp?), maybe Mary Harkins. Sue Hickey and Chris Quadt joined us later. We were all females from the beginning as far as I can remember, which continued in the mellophone line - 16 of us at our largest.

There was a question posted by Jackie which I couldn't answer: did we ever have some type of smaller baritone horn?

A quick note -- a VERY good trivia question has been submitted this past week ... for reasons that will make sense, I'm postponing using it until September 25th.

In the meantime, here's what I think is probably a fairly easy, one-part question for this week:

• One of the songs in our repertoire that was NOT used in field competition was the Theme from the Mickey Mouse Club. Why did we learn it to begin with?

When responding, please use Trivia in the Subject line of your e-mail. Send your responses to joparente.saintsdrumcorps@gmail.com.

Hope to see many of you this Friday at the Annex!

All for now -- corpsdially yours from jo!

PS: The answer to Jackie's question about the small baris has been submitted by Billy Meyer -- Yes, we all (except Mike Wargo, I think) had a slide / valve baritone about the size of a french horn in the early years. Thanks, Jackie, for remembering, and Billy for filling in the gaps!