{"id":22525,"date":"2010-09-23T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=22525"},"modified":"2010-09-25T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T18:19:26","slug":"willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-the-365-days-of-september-%e2%80%93-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-the-365-days-of-september-%e2%80%93-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; &#8220;The 365 Days Of September&#8221; \u2013 Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How happy am I that neither rain, sleet nor snow could keep the Kennett High School Marching Band from playing my song, &#8220;September&#8221; back in January of 2007?! I&#8217;ve been especially aggressive tracking down marching bands playing &#8220;September&#8221; as in a couple of weeks I have the great honor of conducting the University of Wisconsin marching band at the Homecoming halftime game when they play three of my hits, &#8220;September&#8221;, &#8220;In The Stone&#8221;, an Earth, Wind &amp; Fire song that has grown to mythical proportions in marching band repertoires, and &#8221; I&#8217;ll Be There for You (the theme from Friends)&#8221;, which I have no idea as to why it&#8217;s on the program when \u201cBoogie Wonderland\u201d or even \u201cNeutron Dance\u201d would seem more appropriate to drum the spirits up for the big game.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_4EqFuZbu1M&amp;feature=related\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22529\" title=\"http-www.youtube.comwatch-v=_4EqFuZbu1M&amp;feature=related-sept\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/http-www.youtube.comwatch-v_4EqFuZbu1Mfeaturerelated-sept.jpg\" alt=\"http-www.youtube.comwatch-v=_4EqFuZbu1M&amp;feature=related-sept\" width=\"550\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/http-www.youtube.comwatch-v_4EqFuZbu1Mfeaturerelated-sept.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/http-www.youtube.comwatch-v_4EqFuZbu1Mfeaturerelated-sept-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Despite the fact that I (co) wrote everything, I can&#8217;t read music and thought that maybe if I watched a few marching bands play the songs it might better prepare me as these arrangements always differ slightly from the records.\u00a0 I&#8217;m\u00a0 not sure how much I can really learn from the Kennett High band other than to always wear galoshes in inclement weather and to remember to practice so I can hit the notes. I will say that the rain makes an excellent percussive intro.<\/p>\n<p>For a more through exploration of my &#8220;365 Days Of September\u201d mission as well as details of how the song was written, go <a href=\"..\/2010\/09\/21\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-6\/\">here<\/a>. Until tomorrow, ba-de-ya!<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/category\/365-days-of-september\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22607\" title=\"365-Sept-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/365-Sept-logo2.jpg\" alt=\"365-Sept-logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/365-Sept-logo2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/365-Sept-logo2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How happy am I that neither rain, sleet nor snow could keep the Kennett High School Marching Band from playing my song, &#8220;September&#8221; back in January of 2007?! I&#8217;ve been especially aggressive tracking down marching bands playing &#8220;September&#8221; as in a couple of weeks I have the great honor of conducting the University of Wisconsin &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-the-365-days-of-september-%e2%80%93-day-3\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1913,283,975,87,193,13,389,113,75],"tags":[3259,61,607,3232,3245,1931],"class_list":["post-22525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-365-days-of-september","category-dance","category-educational","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-musical-instruments","category-september","category-songwriting","tag-365-days-of-september","tag-allee-willis","tag-earth-wind-fire-september","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-marching-band-september"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}