Enjoy the sounds of the Salem High School concert bands from the 1950s and 1960s led by Howard "Doc" Pardee.
Special thanks to Doc and his foresight in recording the concerts and the generosity of his children and SHSAA alumni. SHSAA now has more than 15 hours of SHS concert band music online including classical, big band, jazz, marches, and Broadway tunes.
Best of Doc's Bands - Selections from SHS Band Concerts: 1953-1968 (CD available for $10 + postage - click HERE) (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Florentiner March '56
- Variation Overture '63
- Adagio Cantabile '53
- Folk Song Suite '59
- Pageant Op.59 '64
- Song of Bells '56
- Sea Portrait '58
- Prelude Act I LaTraviata '68
- Irish Tune from County Derry '65
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun '61
- El Capitan '59
- Phedre Overture '66
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot '60
- Lincolnshire Posy '68
- Barnum and Bailey's Favorite '66
1953 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna
- Richard the Third March
- Vanished Army
- Fantasia and Rondo (Nancy Bailey soloist, Bruce Snyder accompanist)
- Love of Three Oranges Op. 33- March
- Adagio Cantabile
- Prelude in G Minor
1956 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Sven Dufva - Harold Hedman
- Buglers Holiday - Leroy Anderson
- Song of the Bells - Leroy Anderson
- March Fantasy
- TV Suite- Sagebrush Sage - Harold L Walters
- TV Suite- Whodunit - Harold L Walters
- TV Suite- Hayloft Hoedown - Harold L Walters
- TV Suite- Big Name Band - Harold L Walters
- Nutmeggers March - Eric Osterling
- On the Square - Frank Panella
- Florentiner March - Julius Fucik
- Good Friday Spell from Parsifal - Richard Wagner
- New World Symphony Finale - Anton Dvorak
- Aguario March
- Unknown - Benjamin Godard
- Procession of the Sardar - M Ippolitov-Ivanov
1958 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Finale Saint-Saens Symphony in E Flat
- March Inglesina
- Allegro from Mozart Clarinet Quintet K. 581 in A major, Martha Ann Dougherty, Clarinet Soloist;
- Around the World in 80 Days
- The Swan, Robert Taylor, Cello Soloist; Linda Whinnery, Accompanist
- Sea Portrait
- Part 2: (a) Carnival of Venice, Pagani, Tom Althouse (Bandsman of the Year '58) playing Euphonium, Accompanist on the piano bandsman Lynn Bates '58; (b) Maderia March, de Sousa; (c) Andrea Chenier, Giordano
1959 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Chicago World's Fair Centennial Celebration March 1933
- Ein Heldenleben-The Hero's Courtship
- Prelude to Act V of King Manfred
- Folk Song Suite-Seventeen Come Sunday, My Bonny Boy, Folk Songs from Somerset
- Night Soliloquy-Marjorie Vaughan, Flute Soloist, Bonnie Minth, Accompanist
- Student Prince
- Five Dances for Five Clarinets-Guest Soloist, Donald McCathren, Duquesne University Band Director
- The Music Man
- The Waltzing Cat
- El Capitan
1960 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Love of Three Oranges
- Sandpaper Ballet - Part 1
- Sandpaper Ballet - Part 2
- Sandpaper Ballet - Part 3
- Sandpaper Ballet - Part 4
- Marches (Patriotic)
- March (not identified)
- Bell of the Ball
- Waltzing Cats
- Flute Cocktail
- Marriage of Figaro
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Bob Dodge, soloist, Bandsman of Year)
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
1961 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Reverie
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- The Southern Cross (Ed Masters Soloist, KSU Director of Bands)
- When You're Away (Ed Masters Soloist, KSU Director of Bands)
- Sound of Music
- Beguine for Band
- The Conqueror
1963 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Passacaille--Woodwind Quintet_ Kay Koontz, Becky Taylor, Lois Whinnery, Lynne Miller, Lanny Broomall.m4a
- Woodwind Quintet Encore
- West Side Story
- Adoration March
- Concertante, Tuba Soloist, Joe Horning
- Victoria Waltz--Cornet Trio-John Stadler, Rick Shoop, Tim Hutson
- ASBDA March
- Manin Veen, A Manx Tone Poem
- 1. Good Friday Spell from Parsifal. 2. Variation Overture
1964 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Concerto in B flat, Clarinet Soloist, Lois Whinnery; Accompanist, K. Tomkinson
- Valdres
- America the Beautiful
- The Calif of Bagdad
- Caucasian Sketches
- Pageant
- Sven Dufva
- 1. Serenade 2. Reverie
- Clair de Lune
- Carnival
1965 SHS Band - Part 1 - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Hands Across the Sea
- Irish Tune from County Derry-Oh Danny Boy
- Shepherds Hey
- Concert Suite- Fanfare and Scherzo
- Concert Suite- Religioso
- Concert Suite- Allegro Vivace
- Festa dela La Madonna
- Prelude to La Traviata
- Semper Fidelis
1965 SHS Band - Part 2 - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Sonata-Clarinet Choir
- Moods in Contrast-Brass Sextet - Part 1
- Moods in Contrast-Brass Sextet - Part 2
- El Capitan
- William Tell Ballet Music
- Tamerlane
- Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
- March (Unknown)
- Liebesfreud
1966 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of David E. Navoyosky '66)
- Chaplain Brennan- arr. Pardee
- Liebestod - Wagner
- Finlandia - Sibelius
- Bravura March - Duble
- Clair de Lune - Debussy
- Phedre Overture - Massenet
- Girls of Baden - Komzak
- Barnum and Bailey's Favorite - King
1968 SHS Band - Director Doc Pardee (courtesy of Lorraine Pardee Bell '61)
- Nordic March
- Praeludium
- Fingal's Cave
- Sextet in A Major-Brass
- Lincolnshire Posy
- Valzer Campestre
- Prelude to Act 1 of La Traviata
- Florentiner March