Sky Ryders

Other Names:AL Lyle Rischel Post # 68

Hutchinson, KS United States
Founded: 1955

Inactive Junior

Year	Position	Score	Theme/Songs
1960			Blue Skies (from Alexander's Ragtime Band) * Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) * My Country 'Tis of Thee * Stars and Stripes Forever * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Shangri-La * National Emblem March * Bye Bye Blues
1962			Rhapsody in Blue * National Emblem March * Where Or When (from Babes In Arms) * Temptation * Exodus * I Didn't Know What Time It Was (from Too Many Girls) * Maria (from West Side Story)
1963			Dear Friends * This Is A Great Country * I Am An American * The Doxology * Temptation * Land Of Milk And Honey * That Was Yesterday * Young And Foolish
1971			Opening Fanfare * Spanish Rogue * Lincoln Portrait * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Walk On By * The Yard Went On Forever * Freak Out - A Musical Trip * Shenandoah
1972	20	67.100	(Repertoire not available)
1977	203	66.350	(Repertoire not available)
1978	31	66.800	Threshold * I Get Crazy * Echano * Ding Dong the Witch is Dead (from Wizard of Oz) * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
1979	22	70.850	Threshold * Here's That Rainy Day * Echano * Maple Leaf Rag * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
1980	17	69.700	Enough is Enough * Night Streets * Here's That Rainy Day * Fire Dance * The Storm * Rainbow Connection * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
1981	14	77.550	Faces * Night Streets * Fire Dance * Storm * Here's That Rainy Day * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
1982	10	83.100	Faces * Quien Sabe (Who Knows) from Cuban Fire Suite * Dr. Macumba * La Virgen de la Macarena * Come in from the Rain * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
1983	12	73.750	Home on the Range * Quien Sabe (Who Knows) from Cuban Fire Suite * La Virgen de la Macarena * The Road Runner Theme * Here's That Rainy Day * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz)
1984	17	80.700	Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) * Home on the Range * Journey from Mariabronn * La Virgen de la Macarena * Claire's Song
1985	15	83.400	Wizard of Oz Highlights - Ding Dong the Witch is Dead (from Wizard of Oz) * Follow the Yellow Brick Road (from Wizard of Oz) * If I Only Had a Brain (from Wizard of Oz) * The Merry Old Land of Oz (from Wizard of Oz) * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) * We're Off to See the Wizard (from Wizard of Oz)
1986	9	87.000	Wizard of Oz Highlights - Wizard of Oz Highlights
1987	12	81.900	West Side Story - Prologue (from West Side Story) * Overture (from West Side Story) * Gee, Officer Krupke (from West Side Story) * One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story * Rumble (from West Side Story) * Somewhere (from West Side Story)
1988	12	85.100	The Sound of Music - Prelude and The Sound of Music * Overture (from The Sound of Music) * Do-Re-Mi (from The Sound of Music) * My Favorite Things (from The Sound Of Music) * The Lonely Goatherd (from The Sound Of Music) * Edelweiss (from The Sound Of Music) * Climb Ev'ry Mountain (from The Sound of Music)
1989	14	82.200	March (from Symphonic Metamorphosis) * Carmina Burana
1990	19	75.900	Savannah River Holiday * Wonderful Town * Divertimento for Orchestra * Liberty Fanfare
1991	12	82.900	Camelot - Fanfare Theme from Camelot * Overture from Camelot * If Ever I Would Leave You (from Camelot) * I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight (from Camelot) * Parade (from Camelot) * How to Handle a Woman (from Camelot) * If Ever I Would Leave You (from Camelot)
1992	15	82.100	Brigadoon - Once in the Highlands (from Brigadoon) * Down on MacConnachy Square (from Brigadoon) * Almost Like Being in Love (from Brigadoon) * Come To Me (from Brigadoon) * The Chase (from Brigadoon) * Brigadoon * Heather on the Hill (from Brigadoon)
1993	20	74.300	Connotations * Second Symphony, Fourth Movement
1997			Kansas City * Ride Like the Wind

Position 200+ indicates Division II, Position 300+ indicates Division III, Position 400+ indicates Mini Corps.

The Sky Ryders, formed in 1955, was a junior marching and maneuvering corps based in Hutchinson, Kansas. They were sponsored by the Lyle Rischel American Legion Post 68, and competed in the Great Plains Drum and Bugle Corps circuit. Professor McCosh was one of the founders.

Among the corps’ many accomplishments were the Kansas State American Legion Championships from 1959 through 1962 and 1964, and top ten finishes in the American Legion National Championships from 1959 through 1962.

A distinguished alumnus of the Sky Ryders was Drum Corps World publisher Steve Vickers, who aged out of the group in 1970.

The corps had its down years. One early 1971 score for percussion was 00.00. By the end of that year, however, the corps' had moved to 15th at the VFW Nationals.

The Sky Ryders took part in the first DCI Championships, finishing 20th in 1972, but then did not return to international competition until 1977, when the corps finished 3rd at the DCI World Championships Class A Finals. They entered the DCI top twelve in Montreal and did not look back. Moving up to Open Class, the Sky Ryders competed through 1993, making Finals five times and finishing as high as ninth, in 1986.

In 1990 the corps transplanted from its traditional Kansas soil to Desoto, Texas, a suburb of Dallas; as many as three quarters of the corps' membership was being drawn from Texas anyway. The move was engineered by Jim Hildebrand and Paul Proctor, who had planned to start a corps in Texas before the Sky Ryders' availability became known.

One of the more unusual charts played by the 1964 Sky Ryders was "Overture from Tenderloin." The group also claims to be the only drum corps in history to incorporate animals in a show. In the 1984 DCI Prelims in Birmingham, they released live pigeons to enhance the finale to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

The corps colors were gold and black.

[Encyclopedia of Drum and Bugle Corps, 1966; DCW, 3/90, p.16; DCW, 6/8/90, p. 3; DCW, 6/22/90, p.1; A History of Drum & Bugle Corps; DCW, 5/04, p.3; Craig Coldren]

Members (62)

Member Name	Section	Years Involved
Barrow, Dean	Contra	1983 to 1984
Bateman, Freddie	Color Guard	1987
Blackaby, Boyd	Contra	1982 to 1983
Bowsher, Creighton	Baritone	1990 to 1991
Buxton, James	Baritone	1987
Cameron, Scott	percussion	1979
Cameron, Scott	percussion	1979 to 1981
Cameron, Scott	tenors	1979
Coldren, Craig	drumline	1974 to 1980
Corum, Thomas	Flugelhorn	1982
Croy, David (Beaker)	Bass	1989 to 1991
Dancinger, Jeff	Baritone	1985; 1987
Dancinger, Jeff	Baritone	1985 to 1987
Dancinger, Jeff	Baritone	1985 to 1987
Dismuke, George	soprano	1993
Dismuke, George	soprano	1993
Gaines, Ted	Drumline	1982 to 1983
Galloway, Daniel	Mid-Range	1991
Gardner, Clark	Snare	1989 to 1991
Gilbert, Michael	Soprano	1987 to 1988
Glover, David	Flugelhorn	1986
Griffin, Brian	Soprano	1986 to 1987
Hanscom, Cheryl	Colorguard	1980 to 1981
Harris, Mike	percussion	1983 to 1984
Heinrich, Craig	Contra	1982 to 1984
Higgins Jr., Bill	Soprano, Mellophone	1983 to 1985
Howard, Richard	Baritone	1983
Janner, David	Drum line	1971 to 1979
Johnson, Scott (Scooter)	Contra Bass Bugle	1984 to 1985
Jordan, Kevin	drumline	1989 to 1990
Keys, Corkie	Color Guard Instructor	1983
Knudson, Todd	rifle line	1983
Kviz, Andy	Baritone	1989
Kviz, Tim	Mellophone	1985 to 1988
Kviz, Timothy	Mellophone	1985 to 1988
Leonard, Kim	Colorguard	1980 to 1981
Maben, Kevin	Mellophone	1983 to 1986
Meadows, Scott	Brass	1980 to 1981
Montalvo, Rudy	Pit	1989
Mumma, Mark	horns	1979
O'Connor, Michael	baritone	1981 to 1982
O'Toole, Heather	Cymbal Line	1990 to 1991
Parkinson, John	Soprano	1980
Perry, Steve	Snare	1992
Poulan, Key	Marching Staff	1985
Poulan, Key	Staff - Visual	1985
Presley, Scott	baritone	1990
Rainey, Ryan	Baritone	1990 to 1991
Rask, Gale	Baritone/French Horn	1988 to 1989
Redman , Caroline	Cologuard	1992 to 1993
Reeves, Alexander	Horn - Mellophone	1983
Rosa, Sonny	Front Ensemble	1989
Sanders, Jeff	Flugelhorn	1987
Smith, Jimmy	Guard	1982 to 1983
Sucha, Bill	Flugel	1983
West-Manning, Whitney	Guard/Dorothy	1986
Whipple, Carl	Baritone	1986; 1989
Whipple, Tom	Soprano	1987
Whipple, Tom	Mellophone	1989
White, Kale	battery percussion	1980 to 1983
White, Kale	Snare 2 yrs. / Tenors 1 yr.	1980 to 1981; 1983
Worthington, Lewis	Pit	1982

CORPS 33 items

Sky Ryders

0 2 Photos

1959 1 Photos

1979 19 Photos

1980 20 Photos

1981 14 Photos

1982 30 Photos

1983 10 Photos

1984 24 Photos

1985 1 Photos

1986 1 Photos

1987 34 Photos

1991 1 Photos

1992 1 Photos

Members (62)