The Denville Sting Band has many historic photos in its photo galleries.  But until recently we had no audio record.   What did the Band sound like originally?  Were they good musicians?  Did they have complex interesting arrangements?  We had no way of knowing.

That all changed when a person who had been a member of DSB in the 1970s found an old reel-to-reel tape deck in his attic with a recording of a rehearsal from 1976.  He remembered the rehearsal; they were practicing for a series of special parades for the United States Bicentennial Celebration scheduled for that year.  As a result, the rehearsal contained quite a bit of patriotic music.

Below are audios we obtained from the tapes.   The reel-to-real tape was set to run at the lowest speed, only 1-7/8 inches/sec.   This setting conserved tape but the sound quality suffered.  The audio files here are the best we could do.

Those guys were good.  The saxophone section was solid, the banjos had some guys playing chord-melody, and the drums were perfect.   They played a lot of medleys in those days.  The current Band plays a few but not to the extent they played then.

Here are the audios.