Kenneth J. Alford - Other Published Works

Other Published Works

  • Valse Riviera (1912)
  • Thoughts - waltz (1917)
  • A Musical Switch - humoresque (1921)
  • The Two Imps - xylophone duet (1923)
  • The Lightning Switch - fantasy (1924)
  • Mac and Mac - xylophone duet (1928)
  • Wedded Whimsies - humorous fantasy for piano solo (1932)
  • The Smithy - pastoral fantasy 1933
  • The Two Dons - xylophone duet (1933)
  • Colonel Bogey on Parade - march fantasy (1939)
  • The Hunt - rhapsody (1940)
  • Lillibullero (1942) - A march attributed to Henry Purcell, though he probably "borrowed" it. Lillibullero is the official Regimental March of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (abbrev. REME). This Corps was established during the Second World War and so the BBC's official wartime use of Lillibullero may well have played a part in its selection by REME. It was also the unofficual marching song of the wartime Royal Marine Commandos. Ricketts' arrangement was used as a signature tune of the BBC radio program about the Commandos, Into Battle.
  • A Life on the Ocean Wave (1944) - In 1882, the Deputy Adjutant General Royal Marines requested that the Bandmaster of each Royal Marine Division (Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham) submit an arrangement for a new regimental march for the corps, if possible based on a naval song. Jacob Kappey, the Bandmaster of the Chatham Division, submitted an arrangement of "A Life on the Ocean Wave", a ballad by Henry Russell, with an eight bar trio from "The Sea" by Sigismund Neukomm. It was authorised for use as the regimental quick march of the Corps of Royal Marines in 1882. It was re-arranged by Major Ricketts in 1944.

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