My dad was a barber shopper in the fifties (The Uncalled Four, out of the Johnny Appleseed District). They did an arrangement of Take Me Out to the Ballgame where they dropped the first word (Take” and advanced each word/syllable by one count, ie, they started with “Me out to the ball-game, take, Me out to the crowd Buy,” etc. at the end, you have run out of words, so they would just leave the last chord unresolved. Of course it drove an audience crazy to have that last chord hanging. My brother has memories of lying in the grass with the neighbor kids listening through the basement window as they practiced. I was too young to remember that, but I still have barbershop in my blood! Dad was the tenor and had a beautiful welsh tenor voice. I miss him.
@@dimaskr2000 Me too! Dad used to say he was looking forward to singing the Hallelujah Chorus in heaven. He wanted a choir with 1000 sopranos, 1000 altos, 1000 basses, and Dad would be the only tenor. I think he could pull it off, too!. We have a record the quartet cut but it was just too scratched to hear. My brother took it to a professional music studio to see if they could recover it, but it was just in too bad condition. Someday…..
I've heard this arrangement! I don't know if it was your dad's quartet, but I've definitely heard it. And it's how I sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame now.
Apparently he lived on a ranch at one point during his childhood. There's an interview where he talks about some of the rhythms from tasks and equipment on the ranch inspiring some of his music.
@@wendyzuckerman553 How nice ro get such a comment from a stranger! The surgery and healing Prozess went as they should. But since it was done to implant a port for chemotherapy, it will be some time before "all is well".
I just wish I could find the old recordings of a quartet called the "Chords Unlimited". They were out of the Chicago area, and they were awesome. They did several great parodies, like a rendition of "My Wild Irish Rose" with 57 key changes, and a glorious version of "Rubber Duckie". I used to have the LP with their work about 40+ years ago, but can't even find a reference to them anymore. The Bass was the leader, a man named George whose last name escapes me, who was also the conductor of the DuPage County SPEBSQSA chapter (when they still had the jawbreaker acronym instead of "Barbershop, Inc.") If anyone has recordings squirreled away someplace, I'd love to have copies, especially of those two songs. My father was a member of the chapter and used to be their Stage Manager when they did their annual big shows. My Mom was a member of the Sweet Adelines, and I used to sing with both of them. I was in high school at the time, and was always underfoot, helping with shows, stage makeup, set construction. I wasn't an actual member since I was so young, but I loved the music and the people were always so friendly and warm.
Or he could do a self-quotation from "Every Whitacre Piece Ever," which some have pointed out sounds oddly like Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque" at the beginning.
@@wyattstevens8574 yeah! it was really fun! i got to be the person that said "it's the twelve days of /Christmas/" when a senior in my class started singing the dreidel song. :]
Thank you so much for your beautiful music and for the free pdfs you leave on your website! My high school buddies learn and sing these occasionally for our choir class and the class goes bonkers! Thanks!
What would have made this 10x better is if you added the Jim Henry "Lucky old Sun" tagline from the very end... "Ooooold mcdonald had aaaaa faaaaaaarrrrrmmmm!"
this is most beautiful thing i've heard today, how is this could be considered bad? you should learn a thing or two from other parody classical musicians. there's no totally impossible to play irl parts, there's no megalovania references... this piece is unironically charming and beautiful.
Did you know: Once I saw a FNAF ripoff-like trailer where a crocodile (not Montgomery) and his friends sing “Old McDonald” and after that they scare the camera
I'd argue those C-naturals are B-sharps (since they resolve onto C-sharps, the voice-leading looks nicer, and an aug6 chord is still standard), but notational quibbles aside, very entertaining.
@@wyattstevens8574 Given that they still have to have an accidental written next to them, it's exactly as cluttered as a B-sharp would be. And even if not, there are better ways to declutter than misspelling your notes lol.
@@Whatismusic123 But it is a leading note to the C-sharp. The D chord is not the 'resolved' chord, but the 'tense' chord, and see how that note resolves onto the C-sharp.
Least cursed barbershop arranger:
I did not expect someone who has a PhD to be in this comments section
I expect everyone in this comments section to have at LEAST one PhD.
I like it how Simon and I get the same recommendations
@@FreddyWickhamMusic I have a PhD: Particularly hellish Disposition
@@FreddyWickhamMusic I have 2
On that farm he had a Rick,
E I E I O.
Never gonna give you up.
Never gonna let you down.
E I E I O.
The impact of domesticated Dave Brubeck on our society cannot be understated.
I used to have a domestic Dave Brubeck, until my cousin's domestic shark ate it.
This is so cursed and yet so relaxing
The biggest crossover since Endgame.
Why are folks saying "cursed"? Lol
@@maestrobjwa90 Because some things should never be mixed together.
The quartet did such a good job they deserve to "Take five"
I'd like to see them "Unsquare Dance" while they're at it!
Maybe I just don't have enough barbershop in my rotation, but as silly as it was I got chills with the slidey chords
It may be silly but it’s still chilly
My dad was a barber shopper in the fifties (The Uncalled Four, out of the Johnny Appleseed District). They did an arrangement of Take Me Out to the Ballgame where they dropped the first word (Take” and advanced each word/syllable by one count, ie, they started with “Me out to the ball-game, take, Me out to the crowd Buy,” etc. at the end, you have run out of words, so they would just leave the last chord unresolved. Of course it drove an audience crazy to have that last chord hanging. My brother has memories of lying in the grass with the neighbor kids listening through the basement window as they practiced. I was too young to remember that, but I still have barbershop in my blood! Dad was the tenor and had a beautiful welsh tenor voice. I miss him.
I wish I could hear him!
@@dimaskr2000 Me too! Dad used to say he was looking forward to singing the Hallelujah Chorus in heaven. He wanted a choir with 1000 sopranos, 1000 altos, 1000 basses, and Dad would be the only tenor. I think he could pull it off, too!. We have a record the quartet cut but it was just too scratched to hear. My brother took it to a professional music studio to see if they could recover it, but it was just in too bad condition. Someday…..
I've heard this arrangement! I don't know if it was your dad's quartet, but I've definitely heard it. And it's how I sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame now.
@@davidwalter2002 I've heard this rendition by Ringside Quartet before!
@@suecave7139 Do you by any chance have the name of the record? Was it sold anywhere, or just a personal record?
There is a level of humor here that is not accessible to the average bear. Luckily, I am an above average alpaca. Well done.
My favorite farms are the ones that have Dave Brubeck on them. Very impressive!
Sincerely,
Oyster
Apparently he lived on a ranch at one point during his childhood. There's an interview where he talks about some of the rhythms from tasks and equipment on the ranch inspiring some of his music.
It gives me Straight No Chaser 12 Days of Christmas vibes. And I love it.
You know what? Now that you say that, it does that to me too!
Okay, you got me laughing when Brubeck showed up on the farm.
Everyone saying it’s cursed, excuse me, but this is the most beautiful barbershop quartet mashup arrangement I’ve ever heard
ong the Brubeck roll was immaculate
Now this is a proper cursed sheet music video. xD
1:16 That F natural sounds magical
Remember when accidentals were cancelled in the following bar? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
AHHHHHHHH I've got so into barbershop lately and this scratched all the itches as well as making me laugh!!
the mention of Dave Brubeck made me lol
Ah, that's what PDQ Bach's "By the leeks of Babylon" refers to
This is just gold! E-I-E-I love it
First i thought:
Beautiful harmonized.
Now i still think that, but i also have a big smile on my face.
Well done!
I'm a barbershopper, and I approve.
I knew it was only a matter of time until Freddy falls into barbershop. Welcome to the club :D
What a wonderful treat when coming home after some surgery had to be performed! Thank you.
Hope all is well with you.
@@wendyzuckerman553 How nice ro get such a comment from a stranger!
The surgery and healing Prozess went as they should. But since it was done to implant a port for chemotherapy, it will be some time before "all is well".
@@ulrikebildstein3895 Oh, dear. Best wishes that your treatments go as smoothly as possible.
Best barbershop arrangement involving a farmer and his eclectic selection of livestock. Ever.
This was.....disturbing...but beautiful.
I just wish I could find the old recordings of a quartet called the "Chords Unlimited". They were out of the Chicago area, and they were awesome. They did several great parodies, like a rendition of "My Wild Irish Rose" with 57 key changes, and a glorious version of "Rubber Duckie". I used to have the LP with their work about 40+ years ago, but can't even find a reference to them anymore. The Bass was the leader, a man named George whose last name escapes me, who was also the conductor of the DuPage County SPEBSQSA chapter (when they still had the jawbreaker acronym instead of "Barbershop, Inc.") If anyone has recordings squirreled away someplace, I'd love to have copies, especially of those two songs. My father was a member of the chapter and used to be their Stage Manager when they did their annual big shows. My Mom was a member of the Sweet Adelines, and I used to sing with both of them. I was in high school at the time, and was always underfoot, helping with shows, stage makeup, set construction. I wasn't an actual member since I was so young, but I loved the music and the people were always so friendly and warm.
That sounds like a pretty crazy farm
This is actually amazing.
all it's missing is "and on that farm he had a Sans, E-I-E-I-O, with a dodoDOdo-"
I lost it at Dave Brubeck!
"On that farm he had some sharks" hit me like a brick and I thought theh were going to sing the Jaws theme
finally, some fkin good absurd music ideas
“this seems pretty good, idk what the big deal is”
“oh”
very nice! I'd suggest adding in Schumann's "The Happy Farmer" too somehow
That one RCM2 song everyone knows somehow
…and it exploded.
unexpected bill wurtz
I liked that very much.
Nice job, that's actually pretty funny! That Dave Brubeck part was especially impressive!
Part of me wishes you had an Eric Whitacre on that farm and just got in another eight people and did When David Heard out of nowhere
Or he could do a self-quotation from "Every Whitacre Piece Ever," which some have pointed out sounds oddly like Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque" at the beginning.
Loved this one, reminds me of the king singers from the 80s and 90s
I hate that I love this
omg we did something like this for the 12 days of christmas in my choir group!!
Was it like the Straight No Chaser recording? This gave some of the commenters (including me once I saw that from other comments) SNC vibes.
@@wyattstevens8574 yeah! it was really fun! i got to be the person that said "it's the twelve days of /Christmas/" when a senior in my class started singing the dreidel song. :]
@@spookysomeone "Dreidel... dreidel.... Sorry."
References:
V1: none
V2: Barbara Ann
V3: Baby Shark
V4 I don't know
V5: Take Five
V6: self-descriptive
V4 is the theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
@@aidanmallon9879 Oh, thanks! But "Take Five" being referenced in V5? That doesn't seem like a coincidence!
Thank you so much for your beautiful music and for the free pdfs you leave on your website! My high school buddies learn and sing these occasionally for our choir class and the class goes bonkers! Thanks!
Meanwhile, somebody in other channel sing it differently :
Old Mac Donald had a farm, and it's *expLOded* !
Forget the title: this is just so brilliant! Bravi, gents! 🎉
That mexican standoff! 😆😆😆😆
What would have made this 10x better is if you added the Jim Henry "Lucky old Sun" tagline from the very end... "Ooooold mcdonald had aaaaa faaaaaaarrrrrmmmm!"
This is sung really well.
Thx for that. Now I have about 5 new songs such in my head 😅👌🏼
this is most beautiful thing i've heard today, how is this could be considered bad? you should learn a thing or two from other parody classical musicians. there's no totally impossible to play irl parts, there's no megalovania references... this piece is unironically charming and beautiful.
Wouldn't be surprised if I heard the dapper Dans do this
old macdonald but i got distracted
Love this song
That was radical!
Okay, okay, but I LOVE IT
Cops: What are those boys doing in that alley?
Me and the boys:
Hilarious, absolutely loved it!
man, this made laugh this morning. Thanks.
Someone needs to send this to Julien Neel!
Barbershop quartet Lunch Break should seriously consider perform this!
Wickham mentioned Lunch Break in the description: he found their parody when he was writing this.
I was expecting you to go somewhere _way_ different with those 18 cowboys on the farm
This is awesome!
Amazing....
Ohhh it's beautiful!! I love it, thank you!! ❤️
absolutely amazing and funny! thank you for this masterpiece!
Loved it! Barbershop is not my genre but wow, those are some incredible chords and shifts. I love the chromatics 🎼
That ... was pretty good!
genuinely deranged i love it
OMFG, that CS1.6 reference in the upper voice at 1:10-1:18!
Beautiful!
winner
Did you know: Once I saw a FNAF ripoff-like trailer where a crocodile (not Montgomery) and his friends sing “Old McDonald” and after that they scare the camera
This was lovely, thank you.
I'd argue those C-naturals are B-sharps (since they resolve onto C-sharps, the voice-leading looks nicer, and an aug6 chord is still standard), but notational quibbles aside, very entertaining.
Maybe having them be C natural is just to declutter the pages.
@@wyattstevens8574 Given that they still have to have an accidental written next to them, it's exactly as cluttered as a B-sharp would be. And even if not, there are better ways to declutter than misspelling your notes lol.
no, that doesn't make sense
when you hear a chromatic note lead downward, it's a flattened note. for it to be B#, it would have to be a leading tone to C#, which is is not.
@@Whatismusic123 But it is a leading note to the C-sharp. The D chord is not the 'resolved' chord, but the 'tense' chord, and see how that note resolves onto the C-sharp.
What about a silly 12 day Barbershop Christmas? It’s a party in a pear tree!
Some commenters, myself included, said this sounds a lot like "12 Days of Christmas" covered by Straight No Chaser, which I'd say is equally funny.
The preface to Old MacDonald's Deformed Farm
He linked Deformed Farm in the description- ran across it while arranging this!
Awesome!
Brilliant
When it reached cowboy, I expected to hear Big Iron. Still great though!
I love it
Very funny and clever!
Quality!
I like this song
Love this modulations per glissando
Love barbershop, gotta do some FRED sometime. Have some good ones.
the newfangled four would totally sing this
Totally their thing!
Old macdonald had a farm and on that farm he had my evaline (my evaline)
Brill! Thanks Freddy.
Well, that WAS awkard.
0:52 (++) "With extra cringe" XD
On Spotify when?
Very funny
Cow:
Sheep: Barbara Ann
Shark: Baby Shark
Cowboys: Wild Wild West
Dave Brubeck: Take Five
Barbershop Quartet: jazz chords in general
To be specific, V4 was the theme from "The Good The Bad And the Ugly."
Very silly. Sharks would be terribly uneconomic to farm. They have long lifespans, grow slowly and are predatory and therefore expensive to feed. ;)
I lost my sht when I realized that the chicken dance song was based on old macdonald
(Sanctuary Guardian starts playing)
What
How
Okay...interesting
Wondering how to make vocals sing lyrics in score playback
Brilliant, four stars!
The one inaccuracy is that the last note was only 15 seconds instead of 3 minutes
Well, if you listen to "Lazy Day" by the Gas House Gang, that last chord definitely isn't 15, but is at least 10.