"Regimental Marches" 1st Royal Dragoons & Royal Scots Greys: Band of the Life Guards 1928

Описание: Broadcast Twelve 5006-A. Recorded 1928. Band of the Life Guards, conducted by Lieutenant William Gibson.
Regimental walk march of the 1st (Royal) Dragoons - "The Royal Dragoons Slow March" or "The Royals". The same march was played in quicktime as the regimental quickstep. The original composer of this march has never been accurately ascertained. It was probably a former German bandmaster of the regiment.
Regimental walk march of the Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) - "The Garb of Auld Gaul". This ancient scottish march was composed by General John Reid. In 1903 when the War Office first published all the then existing cavalry regimental marches the score also included another melody, here included, which, according to a 1914 newspaper article , was known in the regiment as "Cordinot" or "Cessnock Banks". This tune is an ancient Scottish melody that can be traced back to 1710 then known as "Queensbury's Scots Measure". Two works by Robert Burns are sung to this tune "The cardin o't" and "The lass of Cessnock Banks". At some later date the regiment adopted a different version of "Garb of old Gaul", and dropped "Lass of Cessnock Banks/Cardin o't"!
The Wiltshire Regiment also used "Cardin o't/Cessnock Banks" as the first part of their slow march, but in the trio used the song "Auld Robin Gray" , but then called the whole march "Auld Robin Grey"
It's all very, very confusing.....