COLONEL BOGEY MARCH

Created on 27/07/2005
Latest update on 29/08/2023

Artist: Lieutenant F.S. Ricketts
Author: Kenneth Alford
Year: 1916

Conducting the Second Batallion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. First published in 1914 (a good year for the marches) under alias Kenneth W. Alford.

Covers:

1920:

Columbia Band

1920:

Henry Miro

1955:

Tony Bell [n°1 VL as Charel, that's two years before the River Kwai recording]

1957:

Malcolm Arnold [as The River Kwai March in film The Bridge On The River Kwai with William Holden and Alec Guinness; Alford/Ricketts wasn't credited]

1957:

Mitch Miller [idem]

1958:

Annie Cordy [n°1 Fr as Hello! Le Soleil brille]

1962:

Dudley Moore [as Colonel Bogey]

1967:

Who [in John Mason's Cars, twice on The Who Sell Out]

2015:

Alberto [as Onno, Mag Ik Je Toyboy Zijn]

Always been a soldier's favorite and the cruder the lyrics, the better. In wartime and peacetime alike, see the Flemish hit version of '55: Charel, ik heb uw gat gezien (Charly, I've seen your naked ass).

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