InCider Press, October 2003, page 3

The following song titles should be in your music folder. If you have music other than these, please turn them in so that we can keep our library up to date.

Back In Those Days Gone By

Sentimental Journey

Take Me To That Land Of Jazz

Once Upon A Time

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

Mister Touchdown

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Home On The Range

If The Lord Be Willing

Disney Song Medley*

George M. Cohan Medley

Little Pal*

Teach The Children To Sing

Irish Blessing

Muskrat Ramble

I'll Walk With God*

Everybody Loves A Lover

Thank You Dear Lord, For Music

This Little Light Of Mine

(* Songs not in your folder, but will be issued in the near future.)

Please look through all of your music. Again, if you have music in your folder or at home that is not on this list and is chapter property, please bring it to rehearsal and turn it in.

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Lead:
10) The rest of the barbershop exists just to make you look good.
9) Who needs brains when you've got resonance?
8) Leads are really classic, they say, "I'll be --'Bach in a minuet.' "
7) When leads sing in the shower, they know the tune.
6) You are never going to sing the bass part by accident.
5) Leads want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean.
4) How many world famous baritones can you name?
3) When the fat guy sings, he's usually singing tenor.
2) When you get tired of the tune, you can sing the descant.
1) You can sing along with Michael Jackson.

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Baritone:
10) No warm up needed to sing 12 consecutive bars of E flat.
9) You get to sing the same note for 12 consecutive measures. (tang ... tang ... tang ...)
8) The top activity for old Baritones is Musical Recliners.
7) If the barbershop really stinks, it's unlikely the baritones will be blamed.
6) You have lots of time to chat during lead solos.
5) You get to pretend that you are better than the leads, because everybody knows men sing lead
so they don't have to learn to read music.
4) You can sometimes find part time work singing tenor.
3) Baritones get all the great intervals.
2) When the tenors are holding some outrageously high note at the end of an song, the baritones always get the last words.
1) When the baritones miss a note, nobody gets hurt.

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9. I will try to understand that others do not realize that it is really the pitch pipe that is off.

10. I will remember that very high notes, very low notes and the ability to carry a tune are grossly over rated and that only a Baritone can settle a chord.