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January 16, 2007

365 Days #16 - Master Gunnery Sergeant Bill Dower - Armed Forces Workout (mp3s)

016 MP3:
1 Warm-Up: Daily Seven - Eye Of The Tiger (2:36)
2 Warm-Up: Daily Seven - Gonna Fly Now (Rocky's Theme) (2:31)
3 Aerobics: Physical Readiness Training - Beat It (2:53)
4 Aerobics: Physical Readiness Training - Always Something There To Remind Me (3:13)
5 Aerobics: Physical Readiness Training - I Ran (So Far Away) (3:26)
6 Aerobics: Physical Readiness Training - Beat It (3:06)
7 Cool Down: Stretch - Der Kommissar (4:05)

Music to exercise by while being yelled at. Perhaps it will bring back fond memories of doing pushups in the rain and mud while serving your country.

As far as yelling voices go, that of Master Gunnery Sergeant Bill Dower is quite friendly, up beat, fun, and makes me laugh right from the start. "Let's Whip It ON!"

Great song selections!

Found at the Sugar House Deseret Industries in Salt Lake City. Sometimes you CAN judge a record by it's cover.

- Contributed by: B.C. Sterrett (The Lost Media Archive)

Images: Front Cover, Master Gunnery Sergeant Bill Dower (courtesy of: swankola.com)

Media: 12" LP
Album: Armed Forces Workout
Label: Dominion
Catalog: NU4000
Date: 1984

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Comments

I've had a copy of this for years and was always bothered by two things about it. Number one, I wish the music was louder. Number two, given the fact that they obviously had these songs re-recorded so as not to have to pay hefty licensing fees, I wonder why they even put vocals on at all, since they knew there'd be a drill seargent yelling over the top??

Gerb Broman over at Record Brother posted this album a couple of years ago but I lost the files- what a fantastic record it is. One can't help but bring to mind strange "WHAT IF" visions of Olivia Newton John and Jane Fonda, had they aerobicized to this crazy workout record. THANKS!

RecordBrother

Richard Simmons would dig this

I'm surprised this is on K-Tel--it's got Hoctor Educational Records written all over it, right down to the cheesy covers to save the licensing expenses. Could be they grabbed this from Hoctor in their waning days.

Is this everything from the album, or are there versions of the songs without the drill instructor?

Let's whip it ON!!!

I was trained by Master Gunnery Sgt. Dower in 1984 at MCRD SanDiego. He was noted for having taught Louis Gosset Jr. to be a D.I. in the film "An officer and a gentleman".
His singing cadence was amazing and he was a great motivator. He also did a really great beer commercial (find it on youtube).
Semper fi !

Had the pleasure of serving with MGySgt Dower as an instructor at Drill Instructor School, MCRD, San Diego, CA during the 1979 to 1981 timeframe. PT was always referred to as Dower's Hour.

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