"The uniforms look incredible." At the time, they were older than the people who wore them! Some other fun facts: This was Cadets' 50th anniversary show,. hence the gold drum shells and guard tops. This was also the last time a 1st-time champion successfully defended it's 1st title...hasn't happened since. Lowest caption placement for a championship corps (7th place drums...3 years later they'd take their first drum title with a perfect score) 1st year on-field vocals were allowed. Last year Cadets used a left-foot stepoff. Barbara Maroney's last note in the ballad was 19 seconds on one breath....amazing lungs. Since she had no left arm from the elbow down, Barbara could not work the 1st valve tuning slide...and all the corps old-timers know she had to "lip" those notes up to get them in tune. (You had the right person, Courtney....she used a prosthetic claw to hold the horn) Correction tho...Cadets didn't beat Santa Clara by one tenth, they beat Blue Devils (me) by one tenth! And Cadets won their 2nd championship with this show. Glad you enjoyed it!

Courtney, yes the Mellophone soloist had a prosthesis on her left arm. George Zingali designed the drill to drop her off to play her many solos then pick her back up genius! If you get to watch just the overhead video you'll see what I mean. It was a great summer the second of our third DCI Finals wins, 83-85 Good Times!!

13:55 It’s the Z-pull! Iconic for all time!

Barbara Maroney on mellophone, best ever!!

Cadets where the first corps to win three years in a row... 83,84, and 85.

I know you love Crown Brass. Here's WHY! Jim Prime wrote this brass book and Donny Van Doren taught this brass book. They then moved to Star of Indiana in 1985 and turned them into a legendary brass line. Star's members joined the Staff of Crown and taught the same pedagogy/technique to those brass players. It all Started with Garfield (The Cadets / Cadets of Bergen County / Holy Name Cadets) For a VERY VERY long time, this was considered one of the best horn lines in DCI history.

I love that you react to DCI. It's really cool to watch someone that otherwise wouldn't even know this activity exists enjoy something that means so much to so many of us. Thank you.

I find it amazing that you caught on to some of the innovations this corps brought to the field especially the drill. It was revolutionary at the time.

That drill was written by the legendary George Zingali who left us way too early right after he wrote the drill for Star of Indiana in 1991. He was ahead of his time back then and although I never met him, his impact has had a lasting effect in the DCI community that lasts to this day. I also want to say I always look forward to watching your drum corps reactions. I sincerely hope you get to hear and see one in person because I don’t think a sound system exists anywhere that can come close to the experience of hearing it live. When you do see one live, you have to record yourself watching it for us to see!! ❤️❤️🎺🎺🥁🎶🎶

What a classic, true-to-form, all star DCI show. This was my senior year of HS when PBS would broadcast the championships. My buddy and I would record the broadcasts on VHS and go back and watch these performances over and over again, memorizing guard routines and picking up different lines to play on our respective instruments. Barbara’s mello solo stands the test of time as one of the purest representations of tone and pitch to this day. And I was in the McDonald’s All American HS Band that year with the trumpet soloist toward the end. He was incredible. So, good. So, clean. And that z pull at the end; classic, rip your ears off DCI brass. I love this show so much and it brings back so many wonderful memories! Thanks for posting, Courtney!

You’re right! Barbara Moroney was the one-armed mellophone soloist. She’s still considered the standard of excellence for mellophonists. That instrument in particular is super hard to play and keep in tune. But she made that horn sing. I loved watching your reactions to this epic, legendary DCI show. This is still considered one of the greatest shows ever put on the field. It holds up across the decades. Thanks for this vid!!! You should also watch the 1985, 1987, and 1989 (Garfield) Cadets. In 1989 (I was a member 1989-1992) we dropped Garfield and went with just The Cadets.

Our HS band would listen to this show as well as Santa Clara and the Blue devils of the same year before every show we did. We loved it so much we replicated the unfolding of the front line when we did @ Courtney Tonight, Tonight. Thanks for the memories!!

Your are correct about the girl soloist. She was at the start and end. Her name is Barbara Maroney. She is INCREDIBLE. She became an instructor for several years - my instructor for two years.

I marched in Garfield that year. Our uniforms were very old, lined with horse hair, and after our 25th or more show that summer they smelled so bad. You could smell us before you saw us. They bought old buses for us to travel in that year and they broke down alot. We had no dedicated food truck like today's corps. The rental truck we had broke down even more than the buses. So there were days we had cereal for 2 meals and sandwiches for dinner. We broke down at the Canadian border crossing, and the Blue Devils came thru shortly after us. Buses are inspected so we ended up sitting awhile next to them. It was very early in the morning, like 2 am or so, and someone mentioned to them that we hadn't eaten since 5pm, before the show the previous night. The Devils had a bus as a mobile kitchen, and they opened the door and Windows and proceeded to feed as many of us as they could. I will never forget that. They gave us beef stroganoff .. LOL.. I was never so grateful for a bowl of Dinty Moore. (unless it was home made, then I'm even more grateful) It showed that even though we were fierce competitors on the field, off the field we were all one in the love of the activity and would help each other when ever we/they needed. Barbara had perfect tone. Her lack of an arm didn't hinder her in any way. If we were tuning before a show, and the battery operated tuners weren't working, we all tuned to Barbara. She is that good.

The Cadets created the non-stop drill format seen throughout marching today. And, yes, mellophone soloist Barbara Maroney is an amazing musician! All this incredible sound with no microphones, amplifiers, speakers, etc. It was an amazing time in marching music.

This show is a classic! Their color guard was truly exquisite. I got to see this show many times as I marched a drum corps called the Freelancers from Sacramento in 1983 and 1984.

Courtney, thank you ☺️ that was so much fun to watch this CLASSIC drum corps show, Garfield Cadets set the standard back in the 80’s! And yes Barb, the soloist, was an incredible person, musician and teacher!!! Yes Barb had one arm but that didn’t stop her from being so fierce.

One of my favorite shows musically.

What amazed me was the footwork. It's easy (HA!) to have precise marching (every step the same, all synchronized with all the other marchers) when you're marching forward. Almost half the time, though, these people were marching backwards. Backwards! And they still hit every mark and made every precise turn needed!

I know I paid for this one....but almost 40 years later, losing to it by .1 still stings.

If you play drums, this is very much an 80's show! The item that was being played on the ground is a brake drum from a car, gives a metallic- high pitch sound. Definitely, a classic DCI show with constant drill movements and precision marching. Always love your DCI reactions!!!!!

Best show in DCI history.

This is one of my all time favorite shows that year.

Zingali's "Z-pull"..... absolutely still amazing to this day.

Love the Z-pull at the end - classic Zingali move and execution by the Cadets!

Incredible musicianship, show and drill for its time ..pioneering! ...Bravo!

I always loved the music from West Side Story. Maria (the opening piece) is one of the all-time great songs. 1984 was the year I first got into the TV production industry, so I know how differently things were done back then.

Hey Courtney ... another awesome reaction. These days in DCI they use electronic synthesizers to produce certain sound effects. Back in those days they had to make all the sounds down front, like the siren the one person was winding. Very cool stuff.

Imagine the victory margin if the Drums were top 3. They didnt get to achieve any of that until after 1986, when it took Glen Crosby to work out the chops.

Old-school DCI. Back when they still played on 2-valve G bugles. Later they went to three-valve bugles and then to regular Bb and F trumpets, horns, baritones, and tubas. Very different sound back then. I was 2 when this happened, but it influenced a lot of the marching I experienced in the 1990s. Really, really good playing.

Barbara Maloney wasn't even a French horn player. My big brother marched Cadets 1987-88. We spoke yesterday. Barbara was staff when he marched. She never played horn in her life and sounded better than my big brother who plays horn professionally. He was blown away too. We both think she's the best DCI mellophone/French horn soloist of all times.

The abstract design was by George Zingali a genius comparable to Mozart. We couldn't take him anywhere! At Wendy's everyone kept staring at him. Too many stories not appropriate enough to tell!!! He was a nut and a good friend. Best visual designer in history.

That Z-Pull. 🥰 I put that in a lot of my drill as a tribute.

You know that Gary Powell, the drummer from The Libertines marched Cadets

As someone who marched in this group 40 years ago I appreciate your commentary. Yes the mellophone soloist had a prosthetic left hand. Same girl in the beginning and the end. Look for an interview with Barbara Moroney if you want to learn more about her

4:14 -- "I can't believe this is 1984!" That comment really puts the avant-garde nature of this show in perspective. 27th Lancers were still doing a production number, fer cryin' out loud.

Great comments and spot on- that show DID "push the boundaries" at the time..a very special and unique corps staff were together that year....basically a team of DCI future hall of famers. Tour was very hard on the members that year...but they got it done.

If a corps did this exact show at DCI finals, in those uniforms, using 2 valve bugles.....the audience would weep with excitement.

Courtney, if We're going more old-school, please react to Madison Scouts 1988! Best rendition of Malaguena to ever be marched.

FOR HOLY NAME SHALL ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My love to my family of the 80's - I miss you.

I marched in Cadets 88 thru 90. 84 rocks but 87 is closest to my heart.

Yes, that was the person with the one hand. Her hands was taped up all around that horn. Also this was a really great pic. I thought because this was the 80s it was going to suck but you have to appreciate it because if we didn't have that we wouldn't have drum corps as it is right now. But this was really really really really good. Like they played. I've known Drum Corps now for 21 years and I never heard bugle sound as good as it did in this one show

They did so many firsts in that show!

They are the originators of the abstract drill design.

6:10 Hand-cranked siren.

I know those uniforms looked great, but they smelled so bad. DCI Finals were held in Atlanta, Georgia that year and I just remember how hot and sticky it was in the stadium. (1983 was even worse as Finals were in Miami, Florida!)

Courtney, now that you watched this you need to learn the story of Barbara Maroney (mellophone soloist throughout the show). You will be inspired! www.middlehornleader.com/Maroney%20Interview.htm

Still waiting for Madison scouts 1988 and Cavaliers 2006...😁

My dad always said "Barbara Mahoney, was perfect player to solo one hand, one heart" !!! what a terrible joke but was that a perfect solo

you should react to cavaliers 2006 next, one of the most creative and most well-executed shows of all time in my opinion

The good old days!

0:02 that Smile 😏👌🙌🔥🔥

That little whining pitch was a siren

Cavaliers' Spin Cycle or 2005 Cadets :)

I would give anythingfor our corps to be back in that uniform on the field doing what they did best.

I could be very wrong, but I was told once that the young man that was shown in the pit percussion, particularly at the very end right after the last cut off was blind.

You seem to love the drums- you have to check out 1990 Blue Devils then!!!!

The 80's where dominated by the BD and The Cadets...almost the whole decade was only these two corps winning...with the exceptions of the Scouts in 1988 and Vanguard in 1989. I do not remember who won in 80 and 81... BD 82 Cadets 83,84,85 BD 86 Cadets 87 Scouts 88 Vanguard 89 Cadets 90

Loved it..I knew some of those peple

I would like to see your reaction to Fife & drum section of US Army. Old Guard.

Now go ahead 5 years to 89 Phantom Regiment. 🙂

Next Holy Name Cadets 2009

Courtney i think you'd like this one (and if someone who actually has money wants to guarantee this) DCI lately have been releasing "who did it best?" videos, taking different corps. performing the same song in different shows and comparing them. Here's the latest one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oJemnbSI1623lp8.html I'd love to see who YOU think did it best :)

I wonder how she would react to VK 87...hmmmmmmmmm........someone should say something to her.....COUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now do 94!

Courtney, have you seen the movie West Side Story?

Attempt 5: Please watch video on b 21 raider. It's the replacement for the b 2 and basically all other strategic bombers

Nice! Super early for this one

Reaction to Captain Phillips Situation

Those are Napoleonic uniforms

Hi Courtney, if you liked this group I put in another DCI request for The Cadets 2005. Thank you for all you do for our community!

Can you a reaction video of Food Insider video on iconic US foods,desserts,sandwich, etc.... & you should react to other video from Food Insider Love your reaction video Take care

react to the story of Michael Monsoor

U should react to PBR rodeos

React to Clint romashe Medal of Honor

Hi Courtney nice beautiful hair :D & ur smile is always lovely as always & I like this Reaction vid to Garfield Cadets 1984 West Side Story this was when I was 1 years old when it came out I was a baby back then :) also Courtney when u have the chance can u check my vid recommendation request for u? :) I'm still waiting for ur reply :) sending u my love

I think we need someone to send some guaranteed request for the top 8 shows from 1989. Like, all of them are great. That being said the Bluecoats show is definitely the weakest of those 8. The Madison Scouts show is just a good one for all of us brass lovers. Star of Indiana was also a great brass show. Then you got the Cadets with their Les Miserables show, which I personally think is one of the best 5th place shows ever. Then you got the Blue Devils who basically spend 11 minutes just jamming and playing some fantastic jazz. Then you got the Cavaliers with their show Gloria. Personally this one is my least favorite, but it is a very clean and well done program. Next up is my personal favorite, Phantom Regiment's program From The New World...Into a New Age. Such a great show. That hornline might be my favorite apart from maybe Phantom '91. Then, last but not least we have The Santa Clara Vanguard who repeated their 1988 show Phantom of the Opera since they were salty they lost. I actually like the 1989 version more than the 1988 version. But I do think that Phantom should have gotten first and that Vanguard should have gotten second. Anyway, thanks for the video. I always love your DCI reaction videos

Look as beautiful 🤩 as ever

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