VJEZD GLADIATORU
Created on 21/05/2003Latest update on 10/05/2024
Artist: Julius Fucik
Author: Julius Fucik
Year: 1912
Original Czech title (1897) of Einzug der Gladiatoren/The Entry Of The Gladiators/L'entrée des gladiateurs/Thunder And Blazes, the most famous of all circus tunes. As Einzug der Gladiatoren sheetmusic goes back to 1900, as Thunder And Blazes, the wind instrument varation, to 1901. That's the one who made it as standard welcome tune in circusses. Send in the clowns!
Covers:
- 1915:
New York Military Band [as Entry Of The Gladiators; on Edison]
- 1930:
- 1944:
Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey [as Thunder And Blazes]
- 1957:
Gustav Brom [Czech title]
- 1958:
Randy Randolph [in Yakety Sax]
- 1961:
James Darren [in Goodbye Cruel World; n°3 US]
- 1961:
Nero & The Gladiators [as Entry Of The Gladiators]
- 1962:
Freddy Cannon [organ part in Palisades Park (see there)]
- 1968:
Rolling Stones [idem in their Rock And Roll Circus program]
- 1973:
Leo Sayer [intro The Show Must Go On; n°2 UK]
- 1974:
Three Dog Night [idem; n°4 US]
- 1988:
Dickies [in Killer Klowns]
- 1989:
Bobby Brown [in We're Back on Ghostbusters II]
- 2002:
Enrique Guzman [as Adiós Mundo Cruel]
Fucik (1872-1916) was a pupil of Dvorák and got famous for his marches. His Florentiner Marsch is reputed for being played twice a day in Auschwitz.
