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The Sea Chanters (officially the United States Navy Band Sea Chanters) are a component unit of the United States Navy Band. Activated in 1956 by order of Admiral Arleigh Burke , the unit is a mixed chorus principally charged with "perpetuating songs of the sea ".
The United States Navy Band, based at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., has served as the official musical organization of the U.S. Navy since 1925. The U.S. Navy Band serves the ceremonial needs at the seat of U.S. government, performing at presidential inaugurations, state arrival ceremonies, state funerals, state dinners, and other significant events.
Writing for Renowned for Sound, Angus Fitz-Bugden commented "While it’s a little difficult to adequately review a motion picture soundtrack when it’s divorced from the plot of the film/theater show itself, as a standalone collection, the Jersey Boys soundtrack serves as a pretty great introduction to one of popular music’s greatest entities as performed by the group themselves and those ...
Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and breakup of the 1960s rock 'n' roll group The Four Seasons. The musical is structured as four "seasons", each narrated by a different member of the band who gives his own ...
The enduring power and appeal of great mid-20th century American pop music, shows no signs of abating, which is a kinder way of saying that boomer music is outliving the boomer generation. Just as ...
Even though “Jersey Boys” is dubbed a jukebox musical, it’s part of a new category that tells the group’s story through its songs. In contrast, shows like “Mamma Mia!” were written to ...
These are songs of summer, and ones you want to hear as you start your adventure to the Jersey Shore. But the best music is collaboration. Send us your favorites so we can add to the list.
La Rosa's Navy peers promoted him to Arthur Godfrey, one of America's leading radio and television personalities and a Naval Reserve officer himself.George Andrews from Omaha, Nebraska, was a mechanic on Godfrey's airplane, and he struck up a conversation with Godfrey and told him that he should hear his friend sing.