Abbotts Funeral Service (Rushden) kindly volunteered to sponsor The Mission Band to make a cassette tape recording. The Abbott family have been ardent supporters of the band since Jonathan and Beverley started to learn to play.

The recordings were done in the Mission Church by Andy Crawley. Two recording sessions were initially scheduled for Jan 17^th and 24^th, with the view to sell the completed tape at the Anniversary Concert on Thursday February 18^th 1993 . However, as the band not only had the concert to prepare, performing different music meant an extra recording session was required.

Mrs Pat Abbott was interviewed by Paul Needle on BBC Radio Northampton just prior to the concert, to promote the tape.

The completed tape first went on sale at the Anniversary Concert on Thursday February 18^th 1993 at a cost of £5.00. Originally 300 tapes were produced, these sold very quickly and a further 200 were made to meet the demand.

Tape Contents

SIDE A

1. HYMN TUNE – Whitburn
2. MARCH *  – Mission – C. Bugby
3. SELECTION – Oliver – Lionel Bart
4. SOPRANO SOLO ** – What a Friend – Mark Freeh – soloist: Peter Drayton
5. INSTRUMENTAL THEME – Memory from CATS – Andrew Lloyd Webber – Arr. Goff Richards
6. HORN FEATURE – Air from Suite in D – J.S.Bach – Arr. Denis Wright. Soloists: Elaine Rice, Beverley Sanders, Alison Boddington
7. PERCUSSION FEATURE – Little Lisa – James Warr – Arr. Stanley H. Boddington – Percussionist: Gordon Scholes
8. EUPHONIUM FEATURE – To a Wild Rose – Edward Macdowell – Arr. Eric Ball – Soloists: Ray Moule, Anne Atkinson, Dennis Rowlands
9. MARCH – The Beau Ideal – Sousa

To hear Track 1 - Hymn Tune, go to the RMB Centenary page

SIDE B

1.      MARCH – Star Lake – Eric Ball
2.      CORNET SOLO – The Beauty of the Barley Field – Arr. Leslie Condon – Soloist – Peter Cross
3.      FINALE – From The New World Symphony – Dvorak – Arr. Drake Rimmer
4.      CASABLANCA THEME – As Time Goes By – Herman Hupfield – Arr. P.H.Greenwood
5.      THEME FROM ASPECTS OF LOVE – Love Changes Everything – Andrew Lloyd Webber – Arr. Stephen Bulla
6.      MARCH ** – Slaidburn – W. Rimmer
7.      CORNET NOVELTY – Eine Kleine Oompah Musik – Arr. Ray Woodfield – Featuring: Peter Cross, Kevin Bates, David Rice, Kelvin Nobles
8.      ENIGMA VARIATIONS – Nimrod – Edward Elgar – Arr. Dennis Wright
9.      FOLK FESTIVAL – Hootenanny – Harold L. Walters

*  This March was composed especially for the band by Colin Bugby (B/MUS.HONS.) who is a band member at present studying at Manchester University .

**  Conducted by Peter Cross.

Conductor	Tony Boddington	Solo Tenor Horn	Elaine Rice
Assistant Conductor	Peter Cross	First Tenor Horn	Beverley Sanders
Soprano Cornets	Peter Drayton	Second Tenor Horn	Alison Boddington
	Jonathan Hart-Abbott	First Baritone	Eric Mackness
	Germaine Smith	Second Baritone	Sarah Osborne
Principal Cornet	Peter Cross	Principal Euphonium	Ray Moule
Solo Cornets	Kevin Bates	Euphoniums	Anne Atkinson
	David Rice		Dennis Rowlands
	Kelvin Nobles	Solo Trombone	Herbert Underwood
Repiano Cornets	Tim Drayton	Second Trombone	Michael Fountain
	Alan Smith	Bass Trombone	Harold Bales
Flugel Horn	Linda Bugby	Eb Basses	Alan Bugby
Second Cornets	Bill Nobles		Norman Gillett
	Matthew Wallinger	Bb Bass	Jack Wallinger
Third Cornets	René Crevel	Percussion	Gordon Scholes
	Adam Crevel
Band  President	The Rev John Williams	Band Secretary	Mrs Karon Rice

At the A.G.M. on Thursday November 4^th the £2,500 profit from the tape was allocated as follows-:

£1,000 was given to Pat Abbott to donate to The British Eczema Society

£100 each was donated to:

1.      M S

2.      Parkinsons

3.      British Epilepsy

4.      British Deaf Association

5.      The Nurses at Rushden Health Centre

6.      The Diabetic Society

£150 was given to The Rushden Mission Church

£750 was retained by the band for funds.

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