OK, this MP3 a day series is going to be wicked cool. The first three days were pleasant oddities (an old 78rpm record of a couple of women, a woman named The Space Lady, and a toe-tappin' organ grinder record), but today's offering is The Dondero High School Symphony Band and A Capella Choir doing Sweet's Fox On The Run and Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love.
Oh. My. God. This is so cool. It's exactly what it says--a high school symphony band and accompanying choir (not a capella, of course) from Royal Oak, Michigan, on a casette someone found in a thrift store, entitled "Pop Concert 1996." I love the way they do the "echo" at the beginning of the verses on Fox On The Run.
Even cooler, it lead me to The Langley Schools Music Project. I realize that some of you already knew about this gem, but it's the first time I had heard of it. It's a 60-voice chorus of kids from western Canada in 1976-77, singing the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers and others. It's just a 2-track tape deck in a school gymnasium and wasn't "...staged to achieve money or fame, to sell albums or land a record contract."
Amazing stuff. Simple. Free-spirited. Unpretentious.
Now, I need to find Mr. Bangs and see why we only ever sang stuff like Kenny Rogers' You Decorated My Life. *shudder*
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