Mitch Miller – The River Kwai March – Colonel Bogey March



Mitchell William Miller (born July 4, 1911) is an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive. He was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s. In the early ’50s Miller recorded with Columbia’s house band as “Mitchell Miller and His Orchestra”. He also recorded a string of successful albums and singles, featuring a male chorale and his own distinctive arrangements, under the name “Mitch Miller and the Gang” starting in 1950. The ensemble’s hits included “Tzena, Tzena, Tzena”, “The Yellow Rose of Texas”, and the two marches from The Bridge on the River Kwai: “The River Kwai March and Colonel Bogey March”. The Bridge on the River Kwai is a British 1957 World War II film by David Lean; based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942-43 for its historical setting. It stars Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins and William Holden. In 1997, this film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry. Two prisoners of war are burying a corpse in the graveyard of a Japanese World War II prison camp in southern Burma. One, American Navy Commander Shears (William Holden), routinely bribes guards to ensure he gets sick duty, which allows him to

25 Responses

  1. TheMercinary60 Says:

    @BrotherJulien or the Americans ya know whatever we kicked their ass over two wars and we can sure as hell do it again USA USA!!!!

  2. CommanderC00L558 Says:

    Hitler, he only had one ball
    Mein kampf, was there to hide it all,
    himmler, had something simmler,
    but goeballs, didn’t have any at all.
    But then there, was Mr. Staffenberg.
    He was, supossed to stop the “Herd”
    He had, only one bomb, but two would’ve ended it all!

    So the yankies, went to crush his ball
    the Ruskies, were apart of it all…
    If only, they could catch this hag
    He hid his, lonely ball in the reichstag,

  3. xxmickaylakins12 Says:

    i love whistling this when i get yelled at by my teachers:)

  4. boardey Says:

    In respect off al those who died.

  5. xkhokokox Says:

    nice music

    i been happy of of it LOL XD

  6. lamxungftu Says:

    i love the whistling part :x :x

  7. BrotherJulien Says:

    Hats off to the greates army in the world!! The British!

  8. Lovi1212 Says:

    A KATONA mindig katona marad!

  9. mudrake2 Says:

    Lyrics of the Col. Bogey March:

    Hiter has only one ball, Goerbbels has one thats twice as small, Himmler has got one similar, and Goering had no balls at all…

  10. Revildonator Says:

    @StephenB58
    Kind of like saying, “Hey, being paralyzed isn’t so bad, you got lucky you didn’t get killed” to someone whos been in a car accident.

  11. steinover Says:

    I saw a documentary last night. In the beginning when thay wistel this theme. They actually marched in 10 days and 10 nights, thay where getting wiped all the way and the ones who coldnt walk anymore got their head cut off with sword. Lovely theme and movie. (Even if it isnt coplitly true)

  12. StephenB58 Says:

    Hitler wasn’t so bad. He had only around 7,000,000 people killed. Now Stalin and Mao; well between the two of them, had over 160,000,000 people killed. But that’s OK, I guess. Hitler was a facist; but Stalin and Mao were communists. So that’s better.

  13. mcgigglish Says:

    @99007003 wins my vote for best comment on youtube

    and I’ve read too many, too many….

  14. yourass117 Says:

    Personally I prefer the ” General Hostile vigourous walk”

  15. engnffc Says:

    well said mate100% correct

  16. 12pona Says:

    Good song

  17. mareckbamf Says:

    Poerisija I think there could be an argument for the old roman empire, but obviously Great Britain would be in the argument. If you judge a great nation by what their people have accomplished, you have to throw the US in the mix, too.

  18. dutchbuilder007 Says:

    love his moustache, he should cut it a centimeter at both sides :P

  19. Poerisija Says:

    @Patel10314 Great Britain is probably the greatest country ever to have existed.

  20. 227060 Says:

    Hitler has only got one…moustache

  21. MrMattyBoi Says:

    Is this a brass band?

  22. ubsswp Says:

    Thank you!

  23. MICHELANGELO4811 Says:

    i love this melodie .. great video man

  24. pleunx Says:

    Indeed nice song, i seen it+fucking nice end
    **BOOM**

  25. CatsLairArchives Says:

    fishslayer4, the criminal supporting troll!

    Two can play the cyberstalking game, FISHbag.

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