Moonlight Serenade Glenn Miller's signature tune. The Maple Leaf Rag With lyrics by Hugh Emerson, who shamelessly plugs himself therein. Amazingly, the chorus is pretty much as he wrote it he actually wrote the "Yes, she is gone!" line ably sung by Abe. This is the first version, which is more or less as Schumann arranged it, but I've done a quartettier one since.Įvangeline A song by Will S. The arrangement is not one of my better efforts, so it's just as well that I can't post it yet.ĭu Bist wie eine Blume PowerMac can sing in German, but their American accents are obvious. Let's Do Something Cheap and Superficial The song struck me as funny. As sung by a hungry barbershop quartet and an order-taker at a local Taco Bell. Other Songs Tacobell's Canon in D Yes, that one. Too new to be in the public domain.Ĭhristmas Opener (YouTube video!) Haven't heard this one? Music and lyrics by Hugh Emerson tells the story of a group in need of a new song trying a new approach for song acquisition: ask Santa Claus for it! The Secret of Christmas I just like this tune, and the arrangement turned out well, but it's not very barbershop-y. The Hallelujah Chorus Edited a bit for length, and it's not easy covering both the orchestral and vocal parts, but somehow PowerMac gets it done.Ĭhristmas Chopsticks (A Visit From Saint Nicholas) The tune should be familiar, as should the lyrics by Clement Clarke Moore. Welcome, Christmas The song the Whos in Whoville sing at the end of the cartoon version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". The Grinch Song (You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch) Someone jumped through the hoops to get me the permission to do this arrangment, but I haven't seen the paperwork, so I'll assume I shouldn't put the MP3 up yet. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Some very un-barbershop chord choices in there. The music is by Handel, but it's sung as only PowerMac can. Linus' Monologue This is what Linus says at the climax of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Once again, Robert sings something completely different on the third verse. Wait, Robert, what are you doing on that second verse? Isn't that other song in e minor? I don't know what inspired me to name it in German. Lift Every Voice and Sing the official song of the NAACP.Ĭhristmas Songs Engelskanon Three Christmas carols about angels sung at the same time with a bass line added.
Psalm 23 (The Lord is My Shepherd) Unusual in that each voice gets a different part in each of the four verses. The English lyrics aren't old enough to be public domain. How Great Thou Art An adaptation of the way the Statlers sing it. Psalm of Praise Based on a processional song from Cameroon, a country in western Africa.ĭepth of Mercy Tune more or less by Sibelius, I think. Abe, Robert and Andy sing the Bach keyboard part while Richard soars on the Gounod melody. Yes, I wrote them, and they're silly, and I hope they don't cause an international incident.Ĭhurch Songs Ave Maria The Bach/Gounod version. The Natioanl Anthem of Spain is one of the oldest established national anthems, and it has lacked lyrics until now. The National Anthem of Mexico in barbershop style there are several chords in this that one has to have at least 3 semesters of music theory to name. Also the alma mater of a lot of other schools the only thing unusual about this arrangement is the barbershop tag-style ending. The bridge between is usually chanted rather than sung. The former sounds like a cross between a fight song and a drinking song, and the latter sounds like a march from a cartoon show.Įvery True Son/Fight Tiger The fight song(s) of the University of Missouri - Columbia (Mizzou). The Star-Spangled Banner Unusual among barbershop arrangements in that the second tenor has the melody except for the very last note or two.Īdvance Australia Fair It was fun trying to make an American-developed program sing with an Australian accent.įratelli d'Italia Two national anthems stuck out in my hearing as being particularly cheerful: Italy's and Brazil's. I'm a little shaky on the availability of the Missouri songs, but I work at MU, and that probably accounts for something. I've assumed that all of these are in the public domain. Many of these MP3s are mono 24-bit sampled files to make them as small as possible.
(As of 8/2015, I'm running a Mac Mini with Snow Leopard just so I can use VocalWriter.) PowerMac consists of "Andy" on tenor, "Richard" on lead, "Robert" on baritone, and "Abe" on bass.
The quartet is called "PowerMac", and they're synthesized voices created by software called VocalWriter, which is shareware that's only available for Macintoshes. Not many of these tunes are arranged in the barbershop style per se, but they're TTBB, and the melodies are generally in the second tenor part. Barbershop MP3s Barbershop MP3sOkay, the title is somewhat deceptive.