Barton Hills Choir

Jul 15

Summer Camp choir show video-Octopus’s Garden

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Here’s a video of the Barton Hills Choir singing The Beatles classic Octopus’s Garden at the choir summer camp 2012 performance. The choir is made up of 2nd through 6th graders from Barton Hills Elementary School in Austin, TX and is accompanied by Gavin Tabone on keys, Jake Perlman on drums, and Aaron Dembe on bass.

Fun Facts:

Octopus’s Garden, from the Beatles’ Abbey Road LP, was composed by drummer Ringo Starr. He was inspired to write it after being told by a boat captain “how octopuses go ’round the sea bed and pick up stones and shiny objects and build gardens.” It was only the second song he had ever written. You can see Ringo and George Harrison working on the song in the movie Let It Be.

‘Twisting The Night Away’ video from Choir Summer Camp

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Enjoy this video of The Barton Hills Choir performing the 1962 Sam Cooke classic Twisting the Night Away at the choir summer camp 2012 performance. The choir is made up of 2nd through 6th graders from Barton Hills Elementary School in Austin, TX and is accompanied by Gavin Tabone on keys, Jake Perlman on drums, and Aaron Dembe on bass.

Fun facts:

Inspiration for the song came when Cooke saw video of the Peppermint Lounge in New York on the Today Show
Sam Cooke was the first modern black artist to form their own record label and publishing company

Barton Hills summer choir sings ‘Charlie Brown’

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Here’s a video of the Barton Hills Choir singing The Coasters hit Charlie Brown at the choir summer camp 2012 performance. The choir is made up of 2nd through 6th graders from Barton Hills Elementary School in Austin, TX and is accompanied by Gavin Tabone on keys, Jake Perlman on drums, and Aaron Dembe on bass.

Fun facts:

Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Charlie Brown was a top-ten hit for The Coasters in the spring of 1959
The song is best known for the phrase, “Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me?”

‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ video

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Here’s the Barton Hills Choir performing the Queen classic Crazy Little Thing Called Love at the choir summer camp 2012 performance. The choir is made up of 2nd through 6th graders from Barton Hills Elementary School in Austin, TX and is accompanied by Gavin Tabone on keys, Jake Perlman on drums, and Aaron Dembe on bass.

Fun facts:

Queen guitarist Brian May described Crazy Little Thing Called Love as Freddie Mercury’s “tribute to Elvis.”
Freddie Mercury told Melody Maker that he composed the song on guitar in just “five to ten minutes.”