Saturday, December 29, 2018

BAND #2


Posted by Chic Silber at 12/29/2018 01:17:00 AM

4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


I've wondered if there were

& just what music was played

for the Wild West Shows

29 December, 2018 22:44
Chic Silber said...


For Don Covington this is

Buffalo Bill's Cowboy Band

(very hard to read)

30 December, 2018 12:43
Tony Greiner said...

A friend who played trumpet on the rodeo circuit in the 1980s said they played lots of Gallops. I don't know if that would carry over to a Wild West show.

31 December, 2018 12:33
Don said...

Thanks Chic,

A lot of musicians moved back and forth between circuses and wild west operations. The music tended to be similar and the instrumentation as well. If you were a seasoned circus windjammer, you'd have no trouble playing for a wild west show.

Don Covington

02 January, 2019 02:10

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