Do you like old timey westerns?
This piece, which is one of around half a dozen official Legion of Frontiersmen marches, would seamlessly drop straight in to the soundtrack for any John Ford western.
The Frontier March was composed by UK Frontiersman John Holliday in the late 1930s and this recording was conducted by Charles Williams and performed by the Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra in London in 1942.
John Holliday’s career was quite varied, from performing as a solo pianist to piano accompaniment, composing various ballads and for children’s pantomime. He was Chorus Master at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and was quite famous in musical circles in his day.
Aside from his service with the Legion of Frontiersmen in London, John Holliday enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company during the First World War, and with the Royal Observer Corps between 1940 and 1944, where his musical ear helped detect the sound of incoming German aircraft.