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"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a World War II jump blues song written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince which was introduced by The Andrews Sisters in the Abbott and Costello comedy film, Buck Privates (1941). My sister and I loved this song. We would dance up a storm as our father played this tune singing out these jaunty words. Many people have performed this piece since the Andrew Sisters. Bette Midler, Christine Aguilera, The Pointer Sisters and many more groups. I have provided my favorite clip. Have you danced jitterbug style to this song?

"Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 that gives a comic perspective on military life. Berlin composed the song as an expression of protest against the indignities of Army routine shortly after being drafted into the United States Army in 1918. My father would always tease me that I didn't like to get up in the morning either. I loved it when he sang this song to me. Are you familiar with "Oh How I Hate to get up in the Morning"?

Leroy Anderson's "Bugler's Holiday" is a virtuoso piece that features three trumpeters. "Bugler's Holiday" has become one of Anderson's best known compositions and is performed frequently worldwide. In the United States, "Bugler's Holiday" is included in nearly every concert program celebrating the July 4th Independence Day. My father played the accompaniment for the Piano, I love the sound of the trumpet trio in this piece. Are you familiar with the "Bugler's Holiday"?

This song by Cole Porter is included in many war time films. You're in the Army now, You're not behind a plow; You'll never get rich, You son of a b**ch, You're in the Army now. You're in the Army now, You're in the Army now, You'll never get rich, On the salary which You get in the Army now. This version is by Al Hirt. Are you familiar with this piece?

"A Trumpeter's Lullaby' had its beginning backstage at Symphony Hall in Boston. In addition to composing and conducting, I was an arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra for a number of years. After one of the concerts I was talking with the conductor Arthur Fiedler and the first trumpet of the Boston Pops, Roger Voisin. Suddenly Roger Voisin asked me why I didn't write a trumpet solo for him to play with the orchestra that would be different from traditional trumpet solos which are all loud, martial or triumphant. " After thinking it over, it occurred to me that I had never heard a lullaby for trumpet so I set out to write one. The melody is based on bugle call notes and rhythmical figures which are idiomatic to the trumpet, but the mood is nevertheless one of a lullaby due to the relaxed playing of the soloist and the quiet background in the orchestra". - Leroy Anderson. Are you familiar with this unique trumpet solo?