Crossroads Quartet - Barbershop Harmony Performance

while themselves together [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] without that yeah [Music] thank you thank you all very very much we are really really honored to be a part of this wonderful festival I know I think we're the first barbershop quartet for sure that's ever been here so we really thank David and Vic that that's a David too but I really mean that David and that Vic for for letting us be a part of this wonderful event we certainly have enjoyed it and we are Crossroads and we're very famous not so much for our singing actually but you've probably seen us in magazines or billboards we're also known as the four stages of male pattern baldness [Applause] so before we see any more I want to make a little special announcement a special thank you this guy that's standing to my left is not the usual baritone of crossroads Brandon Gaytan who sings baritone with us normally not to bring things down too much but right now he's in the hospital we don't know exactly what here in New Orleans I mean he flew in here and he's been sort of dealing with 102 degree fever and and so he he went to the emergency room yesterday they're still trying to figure out what's going on with him and he's spent the night there and that's where he is right now so if you're a praying person give Brandon your prayers please in the meantime this wonderful young guy Theo there's an international championship lead singer actually we called him about 8:30 p.m. last night and said Theo what do you think about flying into the New Orleans Sun tomorrow morning he's never sung with us before and so Theo is reading some of our music but I mean let's give it up [Applause] so we're really really thankful to Theo and he's just an amazing talent amazing musician so he flew flew in from Indianapolis actually and he's flying back home today at 4:00 so so this is the way he's spending his Saturday so thanks again for everything and and don't screw up okay yeah so alright I'm talking a little too much but I do want to set this song up if you were here for the lecture that David and Vik we did a song they're called sweet Adeline we're going to sing sweet Adeline again but we're gonna do a different version of a sweet Adeline I don't know if there's anybody out there who is a fan of the Golden Gate Jubilee quartet does anybody know who that is okay there's a few of you well they're worth looking up they have so many wonderful recordings and and they did a recording of sweet Adeline agreed barbershop standard but they did in their own silence an african-american quartet who actually formed as a barbershop quartet and became very very popular in the 30s 40s 50s they had great longevity they were in the movie stormy weather with Lena Horne and Cab Calloway and a lot of other luminaries probably a lot of you have seen that movie anyway they did a great recording that was sort of their own style of this great barbershop standard they did it back in 1938 I played it for the guys and we all thought that sounded so cool that we learned it by ear off the recording so we're now going to try to emulate the 1938 recording of the Golden Gate Jubilee quartet singing sweet a die sweet [Music] each night dear you know my dream you know my your fair face being your fair face [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] baritones have always been obnoxious Sweden [Music] [Applause] all right we're now gonna feature our lead mic on a great song though but everybody in the room knows is a classic by Roy Orbison and it was arranged for another quartet we promptly stole it but it was arranged by David right now David is too humble to say this but David is the greatest barbershop arranger in the history of mankind I only said that so I'd have enough time to drink a little water know he truly is so this is an arrangement that David did honestly for another quartet that didn't really sing it so he gave it to us thanks David [Music] [Music] I was [Music] I could smile but last night you held my hand so tight had you stopped to say [Music] you said so long let me stand [Music] I'm great to me cry and cry [Music] [Music] I thought that I was over you but it's true it's true true yes I loved you before but darling what can I do [Music] [Music] yes [Applause] rose [Music] crying [Music] cry [Music] oh it's all we cry [Music] [Applause] [Music] well they say [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I need some joy [Music] like free from the grief and strivings fried corn in seedy shaking it but babies are come and give me give me the simple [Music] [Applause] cool now I just want you to let's just take a minute here he learned this song beats between 8:30 and now that's incredible this guy's awesome thanks again you know that's not what's up what's up applauding for him praise him but let's this that's it that's not good big-headed but anyway that's a great song that was not arranged by David Wright but many were this is another one that was also not arranged by David Wright but this is a great song that we we became we've recently become really good friends with another great African American quartet that I bet a lot of you have heard of they've been around for literally next year it'll be their 100th year anniversary same for guys okay it's not the same for guys no but but they did form a hundred years ago called the Fairfield for any Fairfield for fans up there good okay guys gotta listen to a few singers now and then okay the Fairfield floor they're just great and fantastic guys sort of a just old southern gospel Jubilee kind of quartet and we've had a chance to do several shows and things with them and just have gotten to know and love them and this is a song that we sang we learned so that we could sing this together with them on a show it's just a great Fairfield four song it's like stepping back in history and we just love singing it it's called there must be a city [Music] well there must be City hey they must be planos there must be somewhere I can see him face to face be a mansion in the high up in the sky doo doo doo they must be a city somewhere [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] somewhere [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right what he also failed to mention actually about Brandon is that he's the one that blows all of our pitches right and so now Mike's trying to learn so now I had to learn what all that songs the keys the songs are in we're not very happy with Brandon why don't you blow the pitch pipe yeah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my soul home on my children why don't you praise the Lord you said [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] let me rock my soul till the day that I die [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] is a scam they didn't do that the next one the next one David arranged David didn't arrange that one either I guess you don't really do much room in arrangements involved well this next one we're gonna do was a David Wright arrangement we just love this arrangement it's from an old ham and we asked David there's a lot of great choral arrangements of this a lot of versions of this that you can find and we really just I was thinking about this song one day and just the message of it and really just sort of a message that we all need these days as I'm sure we all will agree as soon as you hear it and there's a lot of things you turn on the news it's pretty dire and there's a lot of just angst and turmoil and anger and and this song is just takes everything away brings us back to this great hymn just this great feeling there's also a lot of beauty in the world there's a lot of good in the world a lot of things that are worth fighting for and so as we asked David if he'd arranged this song for us because it's a song that basically says when I really look at it everything that's in the world how can I keep from singing [Music] [Music] I hear this creation [Music] music how can I [Music] when Tyra strand [Music] from the same prison cell Oh my wing when friends my shape from sea [Music] [Music] I [Applause] [Music] not one tooth a truck I'm clinging since love is [Music] see [Music] [Applause] all right here's another great Fairfield for song we learned this before we met him we loved this was one of the very first songs we learned as a quartet when Theo was still in diapers you might still be in diapers we've been singing together for how long 12 years so and how old were you 12 years ago.the oh really oh so you're an old guy already anyway this is a great great song features the bass I mean what could be better than that and it's a great song that they used to say it's called roll Jordan roll or as the Fairfield for used to do it [Music] jadynn [Music] I want to go to heaven I know brother you are too been there yes sitting in the king [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you [Music] I wanna go to heaven when I [Music] [Applause] well thank you very very much you know what Jim didn't say is that he thinks every song features the bass em doesn't it no I just want to say a special that out and thank you to Lyn Abbott she's sitting out there he was mentioned in the last lecture but my dissertation while you may not know that I have a PhD in music oh all right and and my dissertation actually was on the african-american origins of barbershop music using sort of sound clips and listening to old recordings and all of that but I was inspired to do my dissertation and therefore the course of my life was completely changed by Lynn Abbott whose seminal work I read and got so excited about as did Vic and David did too and and so that's just been so meaningful Lynn so thank you so much for the work that you've done on that so also you it was announced that we do have CDs for sale so if you'd like to purchase a thousand of those we would be grateful we got to get Theo a plane ticket back to Indiana that we've got for recordings out now it's one for fifteen dollars ten bucks you guys better get them now I'm telling you ten dollars okay cool so festival price we're gonna do one more song for you and we just have been so thrilled to be here we thank you very very much to all the organizers and especially to David and Vic who really are responsible for getting us here and I hope they've enjoyed this music and we're really really proud to be the the first barbershop quartet hopefully maybe not the last that that's that's a part of this wonderful festival and this song that we're about to do is a song that we have closed our show with for several years now probably ten years when we were competing at the international contest you're trying to find you get if you're lucky you get to sing six songs you want to find songs that really you know feel like you can pour your heart into and and that really will show you off and also that you can just feel like you know this is putting myself on stage and and it's very difficult to find that kind of music but we heard recording from the great Buffalo Bills quartet now I don't know if any of you guys know who the Buffalo Bills are but if you've seen the movie The Music Man the School Board quartet is the Buffalo Bills okay and they sing a beautiful ballad in that show called light arose and we don't know that song we should really learn that song that would be wonderful for us to learn that but there's another recording there's another recording that they made that sort of featured a tenor solo but we just loved the song and it's a song that many of you probably know and we just thought this is the one we want to sing and we asked our dear friend and mentor David Wright if he would arrange this song for us which he did and we credit this song and David's arranged David's arrangement of this song with us being blessed Eid to win the year that year in 2009 2009 and so ever since then literally we've we've pretty much always closed our shows with this so we're gonna close this one with this song as well with our thanks to you again we've really enjoyed seeing it for you if you don't mind would you please help us give another big thanks to Theo here [Applause] the audience [Music] I'm tired and weary so far too Oh forgive me if I could [Music] in the morning out on the job work like the devil for my face [Music] but that lucky your son has nothing to do but roll around heaven all day [Music] first with my woman's oil for my kids so until I'm wrinkled and gray [Music] has nothing to do but roll around heaven [Music] my soul is tired and I said why [Music] there's no relief for a bag that's break-in misery [Music] can't go on living this way [Music] [Applause] why lucky [Music] here's all in my with a silver lining wash all my troubles away [Music] [Applause] give me nothing to do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah you know somewhere Johnny Hartman and Billy Eckstine are 100 who's that nice work nice work the crosswords go 10 wonderful work what do we work they have some CDs for sale out in the lobby if what the festival prices anyway well brief announcement um I'm Don Luis and once again a hearty welcome to the annual sensual Summer Fest presented by Chevron and this is of course the Hilton Satchmo legacy stage and this event is produced by the French Quarter Festival zinc they do a lot of wonderful festivals around the city minimal cost it's just lovely they showcase New Orleans culture and heritage since 1984 this event is made possible through the sponsorship of community minded organizations and the sale of Abita beer so you know you can go ahead and take a few for the team and we'll be thankful for Jack Daniels Sonoma career Korbel tequila yes yes yes tequila hurt arid era Finlandia Pepsi aquafina bubbly by you run the French market cold brew Louisiana iced tea and festival merchandise which helps pay for 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Length: 45min 20sec (2720 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 20 2019