Editing Colonel Bogey March (section)

==''The Bridge on the River Kwai''==
English composer [[Malcolm Arnold]] added a counter-march, which he titled "[[The River Kwai March]]", for the 1957 dramatic film ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'', set during World War II. The two marches were recorded together by [[Mitch Miller]] as "March from the River Kwai – Colonel Bogey" and it reached #20 in the US in 1958. 
The Arnold march forms part of the orchestral concert suite made of the Arnold film score by [[Christopher Palmer]] published by [[Novello & Co]] in London.<ref>{{cite web| title=The Bridge on the River Kwai – Concert Suite (1957)| last=Arnold| first=Malcolm| url=https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/7450/The-Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai---Concert-Suite--Malcolm-Arnold/| website=[[Wise Music Group|Wise Music Classical]]| access-date=13 April 2022}}</ref>

On account of the movie, the "Colonel Bogey March" is often miscredited as the "River Kwai March". While Arnold did use "Colonel Bogey" in his score for the movie, it was only the first theme and a bit of the second theme of "Colonel Bogey", whistled unaccompanied by the British prisoners several times as they marched into the prison camp. The British actor [[Percy Herbert (actor)|Percy Herbert]], who appeared in ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'', suggested the use of the song in the movie. According to Kevin Brownlow's interviews with the film's director [[David Lean]], it was actually Lean who knew of the song and fought during the screenwriting process to have it whistled by the troops. He realized it had to be whistled rather than sung because the World War II-era lyrics (see "[[Hitler Has Only Got One Ball]]") were racy and would not get past the censors. Percy Herbert was used as a consultant on the film because he had first-hand experience of Japanese POW camps; he was paid an extra £5 per week by Lean.

Since the movie depicted [[Prisoner of war#Empire of Japan|prisoners of war held under inhumane conditions by the Japanese]], Canadian officials were embarrassed in May 1980, when a military band played "Colonel Bogey" during a visit to Ottawa by Japanese prime minister [[Masayoshi Ōhira]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KIkxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z6QFAAAAIBAJ&dq=canada%20japan%20gaffe&pg=6583%2C2935671|title=Our band hit sour note for Japan's prime minister|author=The Canadian Press|author-link=The Canadian Press|date=6 May 1980|work=[[Montreal Gazette]]|page=1|access-date=16 October 2010}}</ref>