Duckworth Chant Ft Slocum 1945 VDisc TSgt Felice Intro & Main Version

In mid-1944, then-Pvt. Willie Lee Duckworth Sr., detached from Camp Kilmer NJ to Ft. Slocum NY for Provisional Training, devised a marching cadence. It is known first as the Duckworth Chant, later as the Jody Call; it was also copyrighted as Sound Off and various pop recordings were made of it. Although he first devised it on post, Duckworth led it (as the introduction here recounts) marching back from bivouac in nearby Ardsley. After Duckworth returned to post, he was called in by the Commanding Officer, Col. Bernard Lentz. (He is shown in front of the tent.) During WWI Lentz had invented The Cadence System of Teaching Close-Order Drill, and was enthusiastic about Duckworth’s cadence. In the time remaining before returning to Kilmer, Lentz detailed Duckworth to work on the cadence with instructors in the Provisional Training Center, including T/Sgt Henry “Jack“ Felice, seen on the viewer’s right in the group shot, and WO Edward “Eddie“ Sadowski, then leader of the post b