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Recordings.com a. Disk 3 – 1 x track Willie Wood b. Disk 18 – 2 x tracks Willie Wood c. Disk 133 – 2 x tracks Ifor James d. Disk 177 – 8 tracks Roy Newsome e. Disk 196 – Besses Boys x 7 Barrie Chappel f. Disk 197 – 9 tracks Roy Newsome g. Disk 254 – 7
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Besses Boys' Band was formed in
October 1943, having been preceded from 1940 by classes that taught musical theory and practice. There had been a trend for the creation of junior bands since around the early 1930s. J. C. Wright was the first bandmaster and senior members assisted in teaching the
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National Youth Band Championships in five of the six years between inauguration of the competition in 1945 and its demise in 1950. It was ineligible to compete in 1948 because the rules stipulated that a band that had won on three consecutive occasions could not compete.
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A census of 1896 indicated that there were 40,000 brass bands in the United
Kingdom, and Trevor Herbert describes Besses as "The most remarkably forward-looking and entrepreneurial band of the nineteenth century". In the 1880s, the band bought a building at Moss Lane, Whitefield, from which to
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in May 1904. Although instrumentation remains the same today as it was then, Arnold Myers notes that the instruments have "evolved" in the interim and that, "In general, the modern band is louder and thicker, the late
Victorian band brighter, lighter, and crisper". The quality of the earliest
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British Open and the National Championships, but there were many other more local events. By the 1870s, the roster of instruments permitted for use in contests had been codified and the number of members in a competing band was generally set at 24.
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Public interest in contests was in decline from the 1950s but Besses was among the bands that had diversified into recording its output. Sales of recordings continued to be significant for another decade. Among the band's earliest recordings was
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The instruments used by the band in its early years were more varied than later became the case. Describing the Besses assemblage of 1818 as "extraordinarily haphazard", J. H. Elliot lists among its instruments the
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as its conductor, the band visited
Australia, Canada, Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand, South Africa and the US. A tour of Canada between August and October 1932 saw them play 112 concerts.
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most relied on membership subscriptions, public appeals and concerts for their income. The latter was particularly significant but noteworthy institutions such as Besses and the
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earned large sums from participating in contests. Although there had been a few contests before 1850, they came to the fore after that time and owe much to the enterprise of
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Besses o' th' Barn Band was in existence by 1818 and probably originally called Clegg's Reed Band, after a local cotton manufacturer and
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was a notable member. He had success as a singer-pianist and entertainer, sometimes collaborating with the
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newcomers, who numbered around 60 boys within a year. Besses Band faced "massive problems" during the
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