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Fortunate you truly are, my tenoric friend. Tenor on!!!!! Try to not hurt Scott's feelings. He's a tad sensitive, y'know. Banging all those old ladies for a living is not something he's overly proud of. Give him a smooch from me. Isn't Larry great? And Terry changed BBshop forever. The only pre-Terry true basses were the guy who died in the Easternaires, the Buffalo Bills original bass, maybe Jay Wright, of Sidewinders and Far Westerners fame, maybe Mr. Felgen of the Four Renegades. Nowadays you can't win without a tremendous Basso Profundo. Besides Oxley, the guy from Nightlife probably gets the nod as the greatest BBS bass ever, with a deep, deep voice and such a mellow tone. Terry set the standard. The guy from the old Easternaires was such a voice and had amazing style. Listen to "Steppin' Out With My Baby", on "Something Slightly Different". A very poor recording, but what a Bass! And the rest of the four weren't chopped liver, neither. Today, though, I was listening to the Confederates' side of Barbershop Battle, and the song "Summertime" shows off their bass to truly awesome, terrible effect. But your pal is definitely in the top few, and he is SO mellow, he makes the quartet sound good no matter what. And Mr. Tully is my baritone hero. So smooth, so perfect. Seen and heard, but not much show, just perfection. Say "Hi" to Scottso for me, but don't mention the old ladies thing. He's sorta sensitive about it. They weren't all that old, either!

If you listen to Boston Common on the LP of the Top 20 of 1979, you will hear that they sang the tag of "Alone Because I Love You" in noticeably better tune than they did in this video. With serious respect to Grandma's Boys, Boston Common could have performed wrapped in duct tape and blindfolds and would STILL have deserved the gold in '79. To me, it's as bad as a group of judges voting to give the US Women soccer team's world cup victory to Japan. Boston Common scored so many vocal goals that year that no amount of 'Football Hero' choreography could have even come close to matching their superiority. Someday I might calm down about it... maybe.

Yeah. It's a bitch to win the Gold with a zero stage presence score. Now we have to look like we're actually giving birth at every high point in the performance. Thank Acoustix. If a baby dies in the lyric, I think a human sacrifice is required. Overwrought is overdone. Is "effortless" no longer the holy grail of scoring? Have they struck it from the list of what a judge is supposed to look for?The BC always looked effortless; the last of a breed. Indeed, they looked like they were having, God forbid, FUN! Today's quartets look like they're having a frontal lobotomy, with no anesthesia., or are Olympians picking up a thousand pound weight. They certainly don't LOOK effortless a la Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra. Is that no longer the goal? Or do we need to address each and every useless fill-in line as though it were the Sermon on the Mount, or the climactic "Moses on the Mount" and look as though we are passing a turd of impossible proportions, even when describing a rather pedestrian, ordinary thing? The very last word I would use to describe their performance is "natural". I guess they dropped that, too. These guys sang with great emotion. They just were about singing, not dancing. Now, their singing wasn't close to perfect. Their basic errors I could elucidate for you, ad nauseaum, but it would miss the point entirely. Their performance was alway satisfying, and they deserve credit for ushering in that nice, smooth sound, finally divorcing us from the static, chord-based model which allowed the Four Statesmen and the AutoTowners, two pathetic Champions if ever there wuzz two, to beat out so many great, entertaining, merely perfect, quartets. The Boston Common made it once again cool to just stand and sing, extremely well. For that, they will ever have a place in my heart. BUT, the tenor is ALWAYS flat, Terry loses ALL voice quality when he moves too far from his usual Basso Profundo Range, and overall, their tuning is nowhere near, say, Second Edition.. But who does not wish to hear them sing? FRED still sings somewhat OK. The tenor is, as always, flatter than a turd in the middle of Broadway. The Bass is accurate, but he ain't no Oxley. Which would you rather send your Mom tickets to? I lost the battle of the Quartets. I once got a zero score for the very "Who told you" that they sing here. Every category was a B+ score except ONE judge gave us a zero for music. Of course, the A&R wasn't with the little schmuck who gave us a zero, because it was HIS arrangement that we were singing! Instead, Gene Cokecroft told us how much he loved it, and had nothing much to say about why he gave us a 90, and his oppo gave us a zero. That's why we don't do that any more. They only confuse you. Without it, we would have easily qualified for International. I wasn't too depressed. I didn't have the dough to go to International that year, and I met my Wife while I would have been gone. The Lord works in mysterious ways, indeed. If someone can teach Ayrabs to sing Barbershop, the violence in the world would diminish by an order of magnitude. They won't stop simply just because their wives whine, and besides smoking the Hookah and drinking string coffee, what do they really spend their time doing? They could rehearse 24/7. In fifteen years, they will occupy the whole top ten. Quarteting makes one way too busy to Jihad all over the place! And I don't care HOW many virgins are on offer, how many times can you do THAT until sheer boredom sets in? On the other hand, I have seen perfectly responsible family men attempting to sing tags they do not have the faintest idea of what notes or even words are involved, until five AM, until the House Dick mentions that they have other guests and perhaps they need to wind it up. Who is going to get them in a bomb suit before they've finally gotten that tag right?? Which can take many years. I'd rather sing Barbershop. How 'bout you? Until the House Dick complains. Every frikken time.

Let me be one of the first to tell this audience that the Boston Common has been elected to the Barbershop Harmoney Society's Hall of Fame, it would seem only the 3rd to do so...so well deserved.

what is the name of the first song and is there a studio version of it?

Boston Common and the Buffalo Bills. Period,

+Bob Bobson Wow that is a crazy voicing: It's a dominant 7 in second inversion, so it's a 5-7-1-3 stack (which is closed position, meaning the notes cannot be stacked more closely together than they are in this position). The lead and bass cross voices on "by my side" and it ends up such that the lead (Rich) is on the bottom 5th, the bass (Terry) is on the 7th above him, the baritone (Larry) is on the tonic above that, and the tenor (Kent) is on the 3rd above that. You rarely see the bass above the lead, especially so high - the bass is singing an E above middle C!

BOSTON COMMON BACK IN DAD AND MOTHER'S DAY LYRICS Some folks say that I'm sentimental That I can't deny I can't help feeling sentimental (sentimental) And here's the reason why I wish they'd write songs again the way they wrote them(the way that they did) Back in dad and mother's days (those were the days) Those melodies, those harmonies Will always be a precious memory to me There were songs with a smile And there were songs with a tear There were songs of old broadway I wish they'd write songs again the way they wrote them Back in Dad and Mother's day For there was heart of my heart (my heart) I love (I love) you And there was down in the old neighborhood And strolling through the park on Sunday afternoon Or paddling Madeline home And there were songs with a smile And there were songs with a tear There were songs of old broadway I wish they'd write songs again the way they wrote (the way that they wrote) them Back in Dad and Mother's, wonderful days Take me back, back, back to dear old Dad and Mother's days (those are the good old, those are the good old days)

It was right after this song Jaycub. A man yelled "Judy tell 'em to stop with the camera's, and have a bit of respect for a great star!" - to which Judy said "Yeahhh!" and the audience went wild with applause; but I always thought that that only applied to the "Paps" who were buzzing around the stage with the still camera's and their flash bulbs??? (one or two go off right in the middle of the clip you have there). I didn't think he (the loud audience member) was talking about the 16mm movie camera's (which would have been bolted down on tripods and would have been zoomed in on Judy from different vantage points, (maybe far away? and certainly high up; above the audience; as they are almost looking down onto the stage). It's funny to point out how this man is SO LOUD that he can be heard on BOTH recordings of this concert! LOL! He's so annoying! But luckily he brought us one of the recordings; well I assume it was him anyway? Also we have to remember that Sid Luft recorded on 16mm colour film parts of 'Judy at Home At The Palace', also in 1967. That footage (with this) can be seen on the documentary "Judy Garland: The concert years" from 1985. I think the footage to BOTH these concerts must still be somewhere? It would not have been nitrate film if it was shot in 1967, so no fear of it decomposing or bursting into flames etc. So it must be somewhere; along with the colour 16mm footage that was shot at Malmö in March 1969? That entire concert was filmed, along with sound; and yet to date only one song "Till The Clouds Roll By" has turned up in full. (Other songs from that concert in Malmö, such as "Over The Rainbow" and "Get Happy" and "TMTGA" were dubbed). Does anyone know WHY Sid Luft was filming these concerts? I mean he must have gone to a lot of time and expense. WHY? And if he was filming the picture portion of the concert then it begs the question of does a professional sound recording of the Boston concert exist? (We did at one point have a FULL recording of Judy's 1967 Palace Concert (by ABC Paramount), but it seems to have been wiped, and only the master of the edited version now exists.

you are incredible Jaycub - this was amazing - Ive only seen clips and bits and pieces of Judy at the Boston Commons- you did a great job and it was a treat to see just a bit more of Judy - the worlds greatest entertainer !

Great footage!! Do you know how much of this was filmed? The portions here look professional, so maybe press?