S&M Marching Band Serie

Another Kool and the Gang classic for marching band. Together with Celebration and Cherish you will have a great Kool and the Gang show production.

The greatest hit of K.C. and the Sunshine Band now available for marching band.

Well known from the rock group Train and made famous in the marching scene by the Blue Coats!

I Go To Rio is one of the few hits of Peter Allan. The song is used in the broadway musical "The Boy From Ozz", that describes the life of Peter Allan. This smooth samba makes the audience move.

Smoke On The Water is one of the greatest hits of the founder of the ’70-s Rock: Deep Purple. This song made the band worldwide known. This marching band arrangement is written by Egbert and Dirkjan van Groningen and is perfect for street parades!

A great hitsong from the famous rock group Toto. Together with Africa a good foundation for a Toto show.

This number is made famous by Billy Joel and recently sung by the boy band Westlife. This very good playable arrangement has a short percussion break in the middle and is perfect for street parades.

This energetic hitsong by Bruno Mars is now available for marchingband/drumfanfare!

A mega hit from the early eighties from the well know Pointer Sisters.

The hit song from the musical The Wizz!

Technical exercises and Warming Ups who can be practiced with woodwinds and brass together. These exercises were being used as warm ups by the legendary horn line from Star Of Indiana. Besides the exercises for breathing, slurs, flexibility, articulation and tuning this set contains two warm up cadenzas and a choral.

The biggest hit of Kool & The Gang now in an easy marching band version. The song reached Number 1 in the hit parades in 1981.

This funky piece, including trumpet and trombone solo, is an original composition by Herbie Hancock.

Chega de Saudade, also known as No More Blues, is written by one of the worlds greatest latin artists/composers Antonio Carlos Jobim. The different percussion breaks and solo’s make this piece into a challenge for the drumline.

This This Kool & The Gang ballad became a hit in 1985 and reached number two in the hit charts. The version of Dirkjan van Groningen is good playable and is rapidly rehearsed.

Chuck Mangione’s Children of Sanchez has been a showband-favourite for many years now. We now have an arrangement that is playable for almost every band. The brass-parts are intentionally not too high and the rhythmics are not too difficult, without losing the "Mangione-sound". A must!

Two Abba super-hits combined in one arrangement. Chiquitita and Super Trooper are great for your ABBA theme show!

Disco Inferno was a great hit even before Saturday Night Fever. In 1976 "The Tramps" already had a number one hit with this song. The musical made this song get renewed interest. Perfect for your Saturday Night Fever theme-show!

The well-know soul band "The Four Tops" had many hits from the sixties untill the eighties. This song is one of them. This arrangement is specially written for smaller bands and can be played with only 2 trumpets, 1 horn, 1 trombone, 1 baritone and 1 tuba.

The cooperation of Phil Collins and Phillip Bailey resulted in 1984 in the world hit Easy Lover. The arrangement that our new arranger René Bos wrote, together with percussion-arranger Erik Albers, is playable for everyone and suitable for street parades or for your own show program.

This instrumental Santana song is very usable as a ballad in your santana theme show.

The successor of the popular movie Saterday Night Fever was Staying Alive starring John Travolta. The director was Sylvester Stallone, who asked his brother Frank to write a titlesong for the movie. It is a fast and energetic number that was the most popular song all over the world for a long time.

The movie Flashdance (1983) started the career of Irene Cara. She interpreted the titlesong, What a Feeling, and had a worldhit with that. Starting with an exciting introduction, a trombone- and trumpetsoloist take over the melody that ends in a duet. After that the tempo is being raised and the arrangement comes to a very powerful ending, with many possibilities for showaccents. Extremely suitable as an ending of your showprogram.

This tune is made famous by the blockbuster movie Rocky. Our version is bases on the arrangement of the well known high blower Maynard Ferguson.