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2 unusual facts about When Johnny Comes Marching Home


Fool's Overture

During the music explosion/Jerusalem section of the piece, when performed live from 1977 to 1983, John Helliwell would play a different saxophone solo each performance with some ranging from "The Star Spangled Banner" to "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" to just a plain saxophone doodle.

Raymond Agoult

Agoult also made an arrangement of When Johnny Comes Marching Home which can be heard on a recording with the Band of the Grenadier Guards on Entertainment Sales ESI-106.


Boy Howdy

A year into their union, the band independently released a rendition of the Civil War standard "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," at the height of the Gulf War.


see also

Phil Spitalny

Spitalny appeared in at least ten musical shorts and two features, When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942) and Here Come the Co-Eds (1945).