Show 128: Close Harmony and Barbershop

[Added on 2015/7/18:  This used to be called Show 28.  I've renumbered the shows, so that this one is Show128.  For instance, the July 4^th show for this year will be numbered numbered Show201, and so on.  If you didn't figure this out yet, my first show aired the week of July 4th, 2014.]
 
Well, something went slightly wrong with last Saturday's broadcast; the programming computer was cutting songs off before they were completed, so that the program ended several minutes too early.  Anyway, here is the podcast.

Part A

Ever since my father brought home an LP of the Yale Whiffenpoofs (the glee club) in 1964, I was hooked.  I was surprised and delighted to learn that my eldest stepdaughter had belonged to a girl barbershop quartet in high school, and saw several videos of them performing at the State Fair in Bloomsburg.

Close Harmony and Barbershop are not exactly the same thing, but I'm going to include both kinds, even a little classical music.  The groups being featured are the Yale Whiffenpoofs of 1973, Chanticleer, a group from the San Francisco area; the King’s Singers, alumni of the world-famous choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Manhattan Transfer; The Chordettes, a female group from the fifties, and The Quintones, from even earlier, and a couple of others.

At the moment, the selections by the King’s Singers are a little on the esoteric side, consisting of madrigals, both English and French and Italian, and one in German.  The playlist is as follows (with possibly some changes in sequence):

Puttin on the Ritz
Mr Sandman:  Roberto Rico and his band.

Sweet and Low:  The Chordettes

Amor vittorioso, balletto for 5 voices: King's Singers

Mozart:  Piano Concerto No 21 (Elvira Madigan) -- iii-Allegro vivace assai

When My Sugar Walks Down The Street:  The Quintones


Brigg Fair: Chanticleer (Wondrous Love)

Part B

Popurri los Trios: Sin Ti, Solamente Una Vez, Sabor a Mi, Quisas Quisas,  by Mariachi Sol De Mexico (La Nueva Era)

The Times They Are A Changing: Peter, Paul & Mary (Lifelines)

El Manisero: Chanticleer (Wondrous Love)

Stewball: Peter, Paul & Mary (Lifelines)

Of All the Birds That I Do Know

The Silver Swanne, madrigal for 5 voices: The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

Loch Lomond:  Chanticleer (Wondrous Love)

Aphrodite: Whiffenpoofs of 1973 (Sunshine Girl)

La, la, la, je ne l'ose dire: The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

Sunshine Girl: Whiffenpoofs of 1973 (Sunshine Girl)

Il est bel et bon, commere, mon mary (Chansons musicales, Paris 1534)

The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

Whiffenpoof Song: Whiffenpoofs of 1973 (Sunshine Girl)

L' Amour de Moy: Chanticleer (Wondrous Love)

We Three: Chordettes (Close Harmony)

Lirum bililirum (Un sonar de piva in fachinesco), madrigal

The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

Java Jive

Whiffenpoofs of 1973 (Sunshine Girl)

Il bianco e dolce cigno, madrigal for 4 voices, S 2

The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

La Villanella

Chanticleer (Wondrous Love)

Tantzen und springen

The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

Un Gentil Amoureux

The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

Cucu, cucu, cucucu, cancionero (from Cancionero de Palacio)

The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

Babylon / Oh, Sinner Man

Peter, Paul & Mary (Lifelines)

Nelly Bly

Chanticleer (Wondrous Love)

Oy, Polná, Polná  Korobushka

Chanticleer (Wondrous Love)

Delia

Whiffenpoofs of 1973 (Sunshine Girl)

Vitrum Nostrum Gloriosum

The King’s Singers (Madrigal History Tour)

Glorious Apollo

Harvard and Michigan Glee Clubs

Leroy Anderson Potpourri

Lycoming College Band (Spring Concert 2015)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte  /  Divertimento, O Isis

Bernd Hassel, Juergen Gode, Stefan Zimmer (Music for 2 Clarinets and Bassoon.)

Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine

Lycoming College Choir, Lycoming Community Orchestra

Mozart: Piano Concerto 21

Annie Fischer, Philharmonia Orchestra