Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What's the deal with peanuts and Cracker Jacks? Are they really the most popular stuff or is that just the song...
...Sean: I think the hot dogs are the biggest but there's no way to incorporate the word into the song. The nuts at Fenway are far different...
...crowd is liquored up enough not to care. Because of artistic differences, the boys explain, they got rid of the rest of the group, and now perform high classical works. The crowd chuckles tentativley, someone blows a pitch and suddenly the two boys are crooning a gassed-up country song about "dee-troit barbeque ribs." From out of the audience, two more tuxedoed guys spin around and race to the stage, doo-wopping and snapping to the tune. Others follow, tripping down the fire escape in the back of the room or popping up from behind the piano...
...sure), the gratis filet mignon and the reliable applause could keep them singing this stuff for a dozen hours every week. Although the stirring ballad "Loch Lomond" is referred to simply as "Loch"--so often does the group sing it--several members of the group do know what the song is about, having visited the actual Loch on their summer tour. In the green of the Scottish Highlands, they sang the tune in what was, for one Krok, "the most sacred moment in my time in the group." But their arrangement of William Blake's "Jerusalem" is shabby...
Thomas, who is part Cherokee and a member of the Boston Lyric Opera, performed a traditional Comanche song, as well as a version of what in English is "Amazing Grace" but was also an anthem of his people when the U.S. government relocated them to Oklahoma...