Stockton Commodores Drum & Bugle Corps

The Stockton Commodores, formed in 1969, was an Drum & Bugle Corps based in the heart of the northern California delta. Harold "Pops" Ott was the corps' director. Ott's son, arranger and composer Jim Ott, led the corps to a signature sound and to a unique and playful character on the field. The corps specialized in a nautical theme, wearing the short-sleeved horizontally striped shirts and white ducks of the British navy. The Commodores had the distinction of reaching DCI's top 12 in DCI's second year of existence; they finished 12th. The corps folded in 1977. [DCW, 8/31/02, p.3; DCW, 67/8/90, p.8]