WARFLEET PRESS
Welcome to Warfleet
Press. Warfleet Press
publishes historical books
on Musical Canadiana. We
presently have three
historical books available
on Arthur Delamont and
his world famous
Vancouver Kitsilano Boys'
Band.. They are By Jove
What A Band, The Red
Cape Boys and The
Worlds Most Famous Boys
Band. By Jove What A
Band is the story of Arthur
Delamont and his world
famous, Vancouver
Kitsilano Boys Band. The
Red Cape Boys is a
collection of 30 chapters
on 30 old boys from the
band who went on to fame
and fortune. The Worlds
Most Famous Boys Band
is a pictorial record of
Arthur Delamont and his
band, with 500 photos on
300 pages.
The Kitsilano Showboat
Book is the true story of
the Kitsilano Showboat, a
Vancouver institution, and
Bea Leinback who guided
the Showboat for decades.
Press. Warfleet Press
publishes historical books
on Musical Canadiana. We
presently have three
historical books available
on Arthur Delamont and
his world famous
Vancouver Kitsilano Boys'
Band.. They are By Jove
What A Band, The Red
Cape Boys and The
Worlds Most Famous Boys
Band. By Jove What A
Band is the story of Arthur
Delamont and his world
famous, Vancouver
Kitsilano Boys Band. The
Red Cape Boys is a
collection of 30 chapters
on 30 old boys from the
band who went on to fame
and fortune. The Worlds
Most Famous Boys Band
is a pictorial record of
Arthur Delamont and his
band, with 500 photos on
300 pages.
The Kitsilano Showboat
Book is the true story of
the Kitsilano Showboat, a
Vancouver institution, and
Bea Leinback who guided
the Showboat for decades.
FORTHCOMING
Denton Park
Those Fabulous Fifties
(Warfleet Press, forthcoming in 2012)
Reminisce with the '50s boys from the Vancouver Boys' Band, as they
talk about their days in the band and Arthur Delamont's influence on
their lives and on generations of Vancouver's youth. The lessons they
learned while in the band were far more than musical. They had to do
with management skills, deportment, discipline, team work, standing
on your own two feet, representing others, performance skills,
programming and showmanship. They learned what it meant to live a
competitive lifestyle and to strive to be in the top one percent.
"Do the best you can each day and don't settle for second best," he
would say! "Nobody remembers the also ran! You either win or you
lose!"
Some of the interviews are done posthumously, as one boy reflects
on some of the others who have passed away! The interviews offer
some insight into what it was like to have been a member of "The
Worlds Most Famous Boys Band." A true Canadian success story!
The stories they tell run the range of emotions from the humorous, to
the serious, to scary, to loving, to surprising but always from the heart!
The boys went on to become doctors, lawyers, accountants, civil
servants, engineers, teachers, scientists, composers and writers and
are today, twenty-five years after his death, The Legacy of Arthur
Delamont.
Those Fabulous Fifties
(Warfleet Press, forthcoming in 2012)
Reminisce with the '50s boys from the Vancouver Boys' Band, as they
talk about their days in the band and Arthur Delamont's influence on
their lives and on generations of Vancouver's youth. The lessons they
learned while in the band were far more than musical. They had to do
with management skills, deportment, discipline, team work, standing
on your own two feet, representing others, performance skills,
programming and showmanship. They learned what it meant to live a
competitive lifestyle and to strive to be in the top one percent.
"Do the best you can each day and don't settle for second best," he
would say! "Nobody remembers the also ran! You either win or you
lose!"
Some of the interviews are done posthumously, as one boy reflects
on some of the others who have passed away! The interviews offer
some insight into what it was like to have been a member of "The
Worlds Most Famous Boys Band." A true Canadian success story!
The stories they tell run the range of emotions from the humorous, to
the serious, to scary, to loving, to surprising but always from the heart!
The boys went on to become doctors, lawyers, accountants, civil
servants, engineers, teachers, scientists, composers and writers and
are today, twenty-five years after his death, The Legacy of Arthur
Delamont.
The Lost Chord
Strawberry Fields Forever
(Warfleet Press - forthcoming 2012)
The Lost Chord, is the third book in the Legacy series on Arthur
Delamont. This book contains thirty chapters on thirty old boys from the
sixties and seventies bands. Their anecdotes and stories from their
days in the band are heart felt and offer more perspectives into the
dynamic visionary who founded the band and led it for fifty years, Arthur
Delamont.
The band ended in 1974 when Arthur Delamont was in his eighties.
During the 60s and 70s the band made six more trips to the old
country, and to two world fairs in 1962 and in 1967. The trips were two
months in length and the band worked and played its way across
England and the continent.
Besides anecdotes and stories the boys offer their reflections on what
the band experience meant to each of them and also what influence
Arthur Delamont had on their lives. Almost all said that he was the
biggest influence on their youthful development.
As all the boys in the band went on to successfiul lives both in and out
of musical circles, they talk a little about their own careers after the
band.
Strawberry Fields Forever
(Warfleet Press - forthcoming 2012)
The Lost Chord, is the third book in the Legacy series on Arthur
Delamont. This book contains thirty chapters on thirty old boys from the
sixties and seventies bands. Their anecdotes and stories from their
days in the band are heart felt and offer more perspectives into the
dynamic visionary who founded the band and led it for fifty years, Arthur
Delamont.
The band ended in 1974 when Arthur Delamont was in his eighties.
During the 60s and 70s the band made six more trips to the old
country, and to two world fairs in 1962 and in 1967. The trips were two
months in length and the band worked and played its way across
England and the continent.
Besides anecdotes and stories the boys offer their reflections on what
the band experience meant to each of them and also what influence
Arthur Delamont had on their lives. Almost all said that he was the
biggest influence on their youthful development.
As all the boys in the band went on to successfiul lives both in and out
of musical circles, they talk a little about their own careers after the
band.
AMBASSADORS OF EMPIRE
THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH THROUGH MUSIC
(Forthcoming 2012)
This final book on Arthur Delamont and his Vancouver Boys' Band
brings into the picture a host of other characters and musical figures
that were all a part of his amazing life. It talks about the unsung heroes
such as: the Commitee members and the Mothers Auxilary who played
such a crucial role in getting the band off on its amazing trips, Garfield
White who was instrumental with securing the assistance of the CPR
both in Canada and for the trips abroad, Lillie Delamont, Arthur's wife,
who accompanied him on all the 1930 and 1950 tours. Both Lillie and
Garfield were responsible for leaving a thorough accounting of the
boys' adventures over the early years.
This book also covers the music festivals which the band entered over
the years and the British adjudicators who showered praise on the
boys often comparing them to the crack Grenadier Guards Band.
Of the over 100 interviews I conducted with old boys, I tried to include at
least one anecdote passed down to me by each boy. With some boys,
I included several, such as Dal Richards who was a wealth of
information as was Kenny Douglas, Gordon Laird and Michael Hadley
to mention a few.
This book takes a look athe meta-narrative, what was it all about?
Was it just a man with a band who took a bunch of kids on a few trips
to England? It was anything but as you will discover as you read page
after page of how Arthur took a bunch of rag tag neighborhood kids
and built them into the finest junior band in the land. Their march
through the provincial, national and world band titles is the stuff of
legends. And as one adjudicator said in Chicago in 1933 when they
beat the Chicago Boys' Band by 24 1/2 points to win the world band
title, "Their win was anything but marginal." Arthur knew what he was
doing. When one of his boys ask him what was next after their win in
Chicago he said," Why England of course!"
Arthur's band was often compared to the John Philip Sousa band and
often stood in for them on concert programs while on tour in England. I
have explored this comparison in depth and compiled it here for all to
see.
This book is filled with the bands best photos as well as lots of photos
never before seen from the private collections of several of the boys,
given to me by their relatives who I managed to track down over the
years.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH THROUGH MUSIC
(Forthcoming 2012)
This final book on Arthur Delamont and his Vancouver Boys' Band
brings into the picture a host of other characters and musical figures
that were all a part of his amazing life. It talks about the unsung heroes
such as: the Commitee members and the Mothers Auxilary who played
such a crucial role in getting the band off on its amazing trips, Garfield
White who was instrumental with securing the assistance of the CPR
both in Canada and for the trips abroad, Lillie Delamont, Arthur's wife,
who accompanied him on all the 1930 and 1950 tours. Both Lillie and
Garfield were responsible for leaving a thorough accounting of the
boys' adventures over the early years.
This book also covers the music festivals which the band entered over
the years and the British adjudicators who showered praise on the
boys often comparing them to the crack Grenadier Guards Band.
Of the over 100 interviews I conducted with old boys, I tried to include at
least one anecdote passed down to me by each boy. With some boys,
I included several, such as Dal Richards who was a wealth of
information as was Kenny Douglas, Gordon Laird and Michael Hadley
to mention a few.
This book takes a look athe meta-narrative, what was it all about?
Was it just a man with a band who took a bunch of kids on a few trips
to England? It was anything but as you will discover as you read page
after page of how Arthur took a bunch of rag tag neighborhood kids
and built them into the finest junior band in the land. Their march
through the provincial, national and world band titles is the stuff of
legends. And as one adjudicator said in Chicago in 1933 when they
beat the Chicago Boys' Band by 24 1/2 points to win the world band
title, "Their win was anything but marginal." Arthur knew what he was
doing. When one of his boys ask him what was next after their win in
Chicago he said," Why England of course!"
Arthur's band was often compared to the John Philip Sousa band and
often stood in for them on concert programs while on tour in England. I
have explored this comparison in depth and compiled it here for all to
see.
This book is filled with the bands best photos as well as lots of photos
never before seen from the private collections of several of the boys,
given to me by their relatives who I managed to track down over the
years.
ca1933 Chicago
