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Jul 17

Summer Camp show – Tonight You Belong To Me

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Here’s a video of the Barton Hills Choir singing the Patience and Prudence classic Tonight You Belong To Me 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:

  • Patience and Prudence McIntyre were two sisters who recorded Tonight You Belong To Me at age 14 and 11, respectively. It reached #4 on the Billboard charts in 1956 and sold over a million copies.
  • The girls reportedly learned the song while at summer camp two years earlier.
  • Tonight You Belong To Me had originally been a hit for Gene Austin in 1927.
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Jul 15

Rockin’ Robin video from Summer Camp show performance

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Here’s a video of the Barton Hills Choir singing Rockin’ Robin 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:

  • Composed by Jimmie Thomas, Rockin’ Robin was originally a hit for Bobby Day, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, in 1958.
  • Michael Jackson recorded and released a cover version of Rockin’ Robin in 1972, which was taken from his first solo album titled Got to Be There.
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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.
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Jun 29

‘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
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