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Eli's Coming (3:41)
L. Nyro • EMI Blackwood Music, Inc. (BMI) • arr. Harwood 70, rev. Westerfield 79
Solos: Mraz, Pelto, Gooding, Flucker, Woods, Slade, Mitchell

When Sunny Gets Blue (2:30)
M. Fisher & J. Segal • Sony / ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP) • arr. Girdler '61 • Solo: Slade

Trickle, Trickle (3:03)
C. Bassett • Regent Music Corp. & Villanova Music Co. (ASCAP) • arr. Pelto '80
Featured vocals: Slade / Stuart, Mraz, Lee / Slade / Stuart, Gooding / Kasimer / Flucker / Knishkowy & Finder.

On Broadway (3:21)
B. Mann, C. Weil, J. Lieber & M. Stoller • Screen Gems - EMI Music Inc. (BMI)
arr. Rosenblum 75 Solo / Duet: Gooding, Gooding / Kasimer

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (2:11)
Trad. • arr. Kinzel '58

Hurry Sundown (2:41)
E. Robinson & E.Y. Harburg • Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP) • arr. Brush '69 • Solo / Duet: Stuart, Stuart / Gooding

Too Darn Hot (2:22)
Cole Porter '13 • Chappell & Co. (ASCAP) • arr. Prestley 77 • Solo: Evans

Java Jive (2:52)
B. Oakland & M. Drake • Sony / ATV Tunes LLC & Warner Bros. Music (ASCAP) • arr. Natelson 73, rev. Evans '80
Slade '80 • Guitar: Evans • Quartet / Solos: Knishkowy / Slade / Flucker / Pelto, Lee, Pelto

For All We Know (2:01)
S. Lewis & J.F. Coots • Cromwell Music Inc. & Songwriters Guild of Amer. o/b/o Toy Town Tunes Inc. (ASCAP)
arr. Thomas 78 • Solo: Woods

Song of Long Ago (219)
C. King • Colgems-EMI Inc. (ASCAP) • arr. Burke 72 • Solo: Finder

Time After Time (2:02)
© Robert Birge '68

Slap That Bass (1:24)
G. & I. Gershwin • Chappell & Co. (ASCAP) • arr. Girdler '61 • Solo: Kasimer

The Boys in Blue (1897) (2:12)
Charles Ives '97, ed. K. Singleton (1975) • Music dir.: Flucker

Twisted (2:34)

W. Grey & A. Ross (A. Short) • R & H Music Co. o/b/o Second Fl. Music & Raybird Music, Inc. (BMI)
arr. Glicker 76 • Solo: Mitchell

Every Time We Say Goodbye (2:02)
Cole Porter '13 • Chappell & Co. (ASCAP) • arr. Burke 72

Little Pony (3:52)

N. Hefti, J. Hendricks • WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) • arr. Rosenblum 75 • Leads / Solo: Knishkowy / Mitchell, Teig
Aj, lucka lucka siroka (1:36)

Trad. Bohemian marching song • arr. M. Bartholomew '07S

Strike Up the Band, Here Comes A Sailor (2:24)
C.B. Sterling &A.B. Ward (1900) • arr. Hemingway '45

Mavourneen (0:56)
V. Herbert & G. MacDonough, refrain of "Barney O'Flynn" from Babes in Toyland (1903)
arr. unknown (Yale Songbook)

My Kind of Girl (2:03)
L. Bricusse • Hollis Music (BMI) • arr. R. Birge '68 • Solo: Knishkowy

Minnie the Mermaid (1:55)
B.G. DeSylva (1923) • arr. unknown • Solo: Finder

When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (1:44)
I. Mills, J. McHugh, G. Austin (1924) • arr. Kaestle '62 • Solo: Slade

Haven't We Met (1:51)
© Robert Birge '68 & Beverly (Loftus) Guthrie • arr. Birge '68

We're Saving Ourselves for Yale (3:52)
© 1956 David M. Lippincott '49 • arr. Wolff '50 • Solo: Stuart

When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues (2:46)
J. McHugh & J. Frost (1922) • arr. Gregory '56 • Solo: Lee

Sunshine Girl (2:23)
B. Merrill • Music & Media Int'l o/b/o Golden Bell Songs • arr. Eppes '58 • Solo / Duet: Mraz, Teig/Mraz

Daddy Is A Yale Man (4:16)
© 1946 David M. Lippincott '49 • arr. W.S. Collins II '48 • Solo: Knishkowy

Macnamara's Band (1.39)
S. O'Connor & J.J. Stamford (1917) • arr. Girdler '61 • Solo: Lee

The Whiffenpoof Song (1:59)
Tune attr. to Tod B. Galloway or Guy H. Scull, lyrics by Meade Minnegrode '10 & George S. Pomeroy '10 • arr. trad.

 


Pictured (left to right): Bryant Woods, Joe Finder, Joe Teig, Jeffrey Knishkowy, Don Gooding, Richard Slade, Jonathan Lee, Bill Kasimer, Bill Pelto, Dave Mraz (business manager),  Douglas Stuart, Johnson Flucker, Calvin Mitchell, Peter Evans (pitchpipe). Not pictured: Alex Tang.

 

"Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest."

Oh, it was so easy to sing those words while we were still seniors (some of us, at least) and didn't have to live up to them. Even on Class Day, as we sang the Whiffenpoof Song for all our graduating peers, it wasn't real: we still had a jamboree and a long tour ahead of us. It has been 25 years since then, and many Whiff groups have come into being and been "forgotten" in the meantime. How ironic it is, in a way, that the Whiffenpoofs were created shortly after phonograph recording was invented, so that once ephemeral song could be preserved. We made an album -- so maybe we never quite intended to be forgotten. And due to the marvels of digital technology, we can re-master it and even add live tracks from various performances that happened to be recorded.

It was fun being a Whiff. The Joes (Finder and Teig), who made a habit of writing parody lyrics to our songs, summed up our year: "Weren't we stars in sleek rented cars, and wasn't it all so grand?" Well, the cars have been returned, the perpetually open bar closed decades ago, the audiences swoon for younger faces and more updated styles, but here we are, just as we were, doomed to pass eventually but not yet be quite forgotten. Enjoy! - Richard Slade

Original 1980 recording (tracks 1-16,29) produced by Jeffrey Knishkowy & Peter Evans. Recorded in Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Gene Kimball, engineer), except tracks 3,7,8,14 & 16, recorded at Trod Nossel Studios, Wallingford, CT (Richard Robinson, engineer). Original cover produced by Calvin Mitchell, Peter Evans, and Joe Finder; original front cover photograph by Yee-Fun Yin; thanks to York Square Cinema, Audubon Copy. Original manufacturing through ERH Inc., New York, NY.

CD re-issue (2005), containing additional material (tracks 17-28), produced by Alex Tang, Peter Evans, Don Gooding, and Joe Finder. Additional mixing: Peter Evans. Digital re-mastering: King Street Recording, Malvern, PA (Emmet Robinson, engineer). Photos: Alex Tang (European Tour), Jon Lee (Sweden, Switzerland, Hawaii, Monaco and Hingham), Peter Evans (2001 retreat); campus photos used by permission of Yale Univ. Office of Public Affairs (OPA). Tracks 17-19 & 21 recorded in Woolsey Hall; track 20, recorded at Trod Nossel Studios. Tracks 22-28 recorded in concert, June 10,1980, from ORTF live radio broadcast (Strasbourg, France). Thanks to Don Gooding (Mainely A Cappella, www.a-cappella.com), Richard Slade, Jack Thomas (Yale '80 Class Agent), Dennis Cross (Yale Whiffenpoofs Alumni, Inc.), Richard Gould (Whiffenpoof logo), Kathleen Castellon (Yale OPA).

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Bronxville, NY 10708-5999
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  1. Eli's Coming (341)
  2. When Sunny Gets Blue (2:30)
  3. Trickle, Trickle (3:03)
  4. On Broadway (3:21)
  5. Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (2:11)
  6. Hurry Sundown (2:41)
  7. Too Darn Hot (2:22)
  8. Java Jive (2:52)
  9. For All We Know (2:01)
  10. Song of Long Ago (2:19)
  11. Time After Time (2:02)
  12. Slap That Bass (1:24)
  13. The Boys in Blue (1897) (2:12)
  14. Twisted (2:34)
  15. Every Time We Say Goodbye (2:02)
  16. Little Pony (3:52)
  17. Aj, lucka lucka siroka (1:36)
  18. Strike Up the Band, Here Comes A Sailor (2:24)
  19. Mavourneen (0:56)
  20. My Kind of Girl (203)
  21. Minnie the Mermaid (1:55)
  22. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (1:44)
  23. Haven't We Met (151)
  24. We're Saving Ourselves for Yale (352)
  25. When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues (246)
  26. Sunshine Girl(223)
  27. Daddy Is A Yale Man (416)
  28. Macnamara's Band (139)
  29. The Whiffenpoof Song (159)

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www.yale.edu/whiffenpoofs/alumni
To purchase copies of this CD,
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