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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's do something completely and I do mean
(00:03):
completely different right now? Ay, Rod, are we ready as
far as you get the board set up and we'll
just turn on that mic when we're ready to go here.
Actually you can turn it on. You can turn it
on now, So joining me in studio right now. And
we did the last time we did this was a
few years ago, the Continuum Quartet part of the Sound
of the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We've had Sound of the Rockies in studio with us
in years past. I think I was a judge.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
On a contest some years back and that was pretty fabulous.
And they've got a great idea and they're going to
demonstrate their great idea for you here at a moment,
for something you can do for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I have to say I was looking at the
price of this.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's shockingly cheap. And what we're talking about here is
a singing Valentine.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And you can.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Surprise the love of your life with a Valentine that
they will never forget, with a court tet showing up
and singing a couple of love songs and bringing a
flower in a card and a chocolate And if you
go to Soundofthrockies dot com. You can find this Sound
of the Rockies dot com slash Valentines.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We'll get you right there. And it's it's basically ninety
five bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Like I thought it would be twice that much if
you want it in the evening, it's one hundred and
five bucks.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Is still cheap. And what an awesome thing. So gentlemen, welcome,
it's good to see him.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, real quick, we'll just go this way. Just
give me your first names and I won't remember them,
but just say them anyway. Jeffrey, Mike, Paul. Okay, and
then one more time in the same order, which I
don't know what the right term is.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Which pitch to you? Sing in tenor baritone? Whatever? Baritone?
Like does bass? Paul does leaden? Wait, okay, what does
lead mean?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
In this?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Lead is like the melody?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Typically It's not that I'm leader of the group, right,
I just think so lead could be could be baritone,
could be tenor could be anything, could be that range. Yes,
and what and what do you normally sing? Baritone tenor whatever?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Second second tenor second tenor all right? I have no
idea what that means? All right, So.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I have some idea what that means? So what are
you guys gonna sing for us? We got a couple
of songs. Okay, what's the first one? Part of my Heart,
let's hear.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It, Hid of my Hat, I love you, Live with.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You, Lie, my life, my.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Ly, I love you, I love you? Hi can forget
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
From you? O save mine for fabulous?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
All right?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Do you do you know anything? You tell me anything
about the song?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's old.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It's probably eighteen nineties, so really some place in that do.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We even know who wrote it?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Or is it just kind of one of those folk
things that we don't really know?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's just been around forever. Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
All right, one other question for you before before you
get to your next song. How much do you guys
practice together to get it sound like to get it
to sound like that?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, we've sung.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Together for years, ten years, and we rehearsed typically once
a week. Uh, But then we do shows and things
like that, so we get a chance to sing together
quite quite often.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And about how many songs do you have on the
repertoire that the four of you can can sing together?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Twenty five, thirty six, thirty six, thirty six, thirty six
somebody knew the definitive, the defendit. Yeah a pitchman, I
haven't seen that list. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And folks, if you're just joining, this is the Continuum
core Tet part of Sound of the Rockies. And if
you want to get that special person in your life
a singing Valentine, you can go to Soundofthrockies dot com
slash Valentines, all right, Soundofrockies dot com slash Valentines and
you can and you can order right there, and you
(04:45):
you basically pick by the time of day, right nine
to noon, noon to three, three to six, or six
to eight, six to eight. Costs just ten dollars more.
And and really this is this is a this is fabulous, right,
You get a core Tet showing up at the house
or wherever the office place bringing a card and a
chocolate and a flower. And what a what a great
(05:08):
thing at at an amazing price. So guys, all right,
what's what's your next song?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well we got a little Elvis for you. All right,
here we go. Valentine comes once say.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Here's my heart, So listen, love me tender, love me sweet,
never let me go. You have made my life complete
and I love you.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Love me, tender, love me, true, oh my dreams faulty.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
For my I.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Love you, and I aays weet.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Here's me, Come man, make God my sweetheart. You will know.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I love you so.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I love you. Oh that is just fabulous, just absolutely great.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I had a couple more questions because I'm partly because
I'm a nerd and because I don't know anything about
I don't know anything about how you guys do this.
So when you're gonna answer, just get pretty close to
the microphone, or you can pull the microphone out a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's very adjustable.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So I think most of these songs were not written
originally for quartets.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So what's the process of.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Putting together the arrangement so that you can sing it
this way?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, we have some pretty smart fellows, all probably with
music degrees, that specialize in doing arrangements of songs. And yeah,
there's quite a wide range of music that can be
adapted to the barbershop style, and those guys that have
the ability to do that are just amazing and they
(07:28):
really do some nice stuff. We just get to benefit
from all the nice craft work that they do.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The guys who do what you just described.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Do they work with Sound of the Rockies or are
these like national guys somewhere who just publish stuff And
then and you get the barbershop version to work from.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, we have some members in our group that are arrangers,
and then there you know, we're a national organization, so
there's guys all over the country that do arranging, and
you know, they put their music out there for people
to sing, and if we find one we like, we
we adapt it and sing it. But yeah, we've got
some very talented arrangers within our within the Sound of Rockies.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
All right, And this is probably a really stupid question,
but so then do you each get your own sheet
of music and it might have uh, you know, on
this particular word in the song, it might have the
tenor singing in a in the baritone singing a.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
See.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, I mean the arrangement is there to guide you
into putting the harmony together. A lot of what we
do in the barbershop and a cappella style is ear singing,
where we you know, you listen to how well the
chord is fitting and that guide you in the right direction.
But yeah, we work off sheet music and we try
(08:47):
to sing the notes that are written on the page,
and then then kind of put it all together with
our with our own expertise.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Is is there go ahead? Go ahead? It's it's very basically.
The music is very basically.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We get it, yeah, and we have a lot of
freedom to adapt it to our particular style of our
quartet or chorus.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That makes sense, all right. Last question for you because
it shows over in two minutes. So is there is
there something about any given song that would make it
either easier or harder than other songs? Or is it
that when they hand you the arrangement for the song.
It's it's all the same. It's just a song.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
It comes down to the creative genius of the arrangers.
And then once we kind of get a feel for
what they had in mind, then we add our own
interpretation into what they put on the paper and it all.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Kind of comes together. Just love it, absolutely, love it. Folks.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You want to get a singing Valentine for that special
person in your life, you can order today. You can
go to Soundothrockies dot com slash Valentines and you'll see
the link to order now. And like I said, you
pick in these time windows right nine to noon, noon
to three, three to six, six to eight.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You can for a.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Few extra bucks narrow down the time.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Window a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But in any case, this is just a wonderful thing.
She or he will never forget it and just be
a great story for both of you forever. Any any
last thing you.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Want to say before we got know what we do
money wise is we put it right back into the
community singing for people. FCFD has always been a big
supporter and we love to, you know, carry their banner
out there and tell the tell the people what wonderful
work they do.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Fantastic sound of the Rockies dot com slash Valentines.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
What a great, great idea. Thank you, gentlemen, Thank you.
Hopefully I'll see you again soon or at least next year,
all right, thank you so much,
All right, let's do something completely and I do mean
(00:03):
completely different right now? Ay, Rod, are we ready as
far as you get the board set up and we'll
just turn on that mic when we're ready to go here.
Actually you can turn it on. You can turn it
on now, So joining me in studio right now. And
we did the last time we did this was a
few years ago, the Continuum Quartet part of the Sound
of the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We've had Sound of the Rockies in studio with us
in years past. I think I was a judge.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
On a contest some years back and that was pretty fabulous.
And they've got a great idea and they're going to
demonstrate their great idea for you here at a moment,
for something you can do for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I have to say I was looking at the
price of this.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's shockingly cheap. And what we're talking about here is
a singing Valentine.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And you can.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Surprise the love of your life with a Valentine that
they will never forget, with a court tet showing up
and singing a couple of love songs and bringing a
flower in a card and a chocolate And if you
go to Soundofthrockies dot com. You can find this Sound
of the Rockies dot com slash Valentines.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We'll get you right there. And it's it's basically ninety
five bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Like I thought it would be twice that much if
you want it in the evening, it's one hundred and
five bucks.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Is still cheap. And what an awesome thing. So gentlemen, welcome,
it's good to see him.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, real quick, we'll just go this way. Just
give me your first names and I won't remember them,
but just say them anyway. Jeffrey, Mike, Paul. Okay, and
then one more time in the same order, which I
don't know what the right term is.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Which pitch to you? Sing in tenor baritone? Whatever? Baritone?
Like does bass? Paul does leaden? Wait, okay, what does
lead mean?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
In this?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Lead is like the melody?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Typically It's not that I'm leader of the group, right,
I just think so lead could be could be baritone,
could be tenor could be anything, could be that range. Yes,
and what and what do you normally sing? Baritone tenor whatever?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Second second tenor second tenor all right? I have no
idea what that means? All right, So.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I have some idea what that means? So what are
you guys gonna sing for us? We got a couple
of songs. Okay, what's the first one? Part of my Heart,
let's hear.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It, Hid of my Hat, I love you, Live with.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You, Lie, my life, my.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Ly, I love you, I love you? Hi can forget
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
From you? O save mine for fabulous?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
All right?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Do you do you know anything? You tell me anything
about the song?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's old.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It's probably eighteen nineties, so really some place in that do.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We even know who wrote it?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Or is it just kind of one of those folk
things that we don't really know?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's just been around forever. Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
All right, one other question for you before before you
get to your next song. How much do you guys
practice together to get it sound like to get it
to sound like that?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, we've sung.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Together for years, ten years, and we rehearsed typically once
a week. Uh, But then we do shows and things
like that, so we get a chance to sing together
quite quite often.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And about how many songs do you have on the
repertoire that the four of you can can sing together?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Twenty five, thirty six, thirty six, thirty six, thirty six
somebody knew the definitive, the defendit. Yeah a pitchman, I
haven't seen that list. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And folks, if you're just joining, this is the Continuum
core Tet part of Sound of the Rockies. And if
you want to get that special person in your life
a singing Valentine, you can go to Soundofthrockies dot com
slash Valentines, all right, Soundofrockies dot com slash Valentines and
you can and you can order right there, and you
(04:45):
you basically pick by the time of day, right nine
to noon, noon to three, three to six, or six
to eight, six to eight. Costs just ten dollars more.
And and really this is this is a this is fabulous, right,
You get a core Tet showing up at the house
or wherever the office place bringing a card and a
chocolate and a flower. And what a what a great
(05:08):
thing at at an amazing price. So guys, all right,
what's what's your next song?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well we got a little Elvis for you. All right,
here we go. Valentine comes once say.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Here's my heart, So listen, love me tender, love me sweet,
never let me go. You have made my life complete
and I love you.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Love me, tender, love me, true, oh my dreams faulty.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
For my I.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Love you, and I aays weet.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Here's me, Come man, make God my sweetheart. You will know.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I love you so.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I love you. Oh that is just fabulous, just absolutely great.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I had a couple more questions because I'm partly because
I'm a nerd and because I don't know anything about
I don't know anything about how you guys do this.
So when you're gonna answer, just get pretty close to
the microphone, or you can pull the microphone out a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's very adjustable.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So I think most of these songs were not written
originally for quartets.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So what's the process of.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Putting together the arrangement so that you can sing it
this way?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, we have some pretty smart fellows, all probably with
music degrees, that specialize in doing arrangements of songs. And yeah,
there's quite a wide range of music that can be
adapted to the barbershop style, and those guys that have
the ability to do that are just amazing and they
(07:28):
really do some nice stuff. We just get to benefit
from all the nice craft work that they do.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The guys who do what you just described.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Do they work with Sound of the Rockies or are
these like national guys somewhere who just publish stuff And
then and you get the barbershop version to work from.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, we have some members in our group that are arrangers,
and then there you know, we're a national organization, so
there's guys all over the country that do arranging, and
you know, they put their music out there for people
to sing, and if we find one we like, we
we adapt it and sing it. But yeah, we've got
some very talented arrangers within our within the Sound of Rockies.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
All right, And this is probably a really stupid question,
but so then do you each get your own sheet
of music and it might have uh, you know, on
this particular word in the song, it might have the
tenor singing in a in the baritone singing a.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
See.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, I mean the arrangement is there to guide you
into putting the harmony together. A lot of what we
do in the barbershop and a cappella style is ear singing,
where we you know, you listen to how well the
chord is fitting and that guide you in the right direction.
But yeah, we work off sheet music and we try
(08:47):
to sing the notes that are written on the page,
and then then kind of put it all together with
our with our own expertise.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Is is there go ahead? Go ahead? It's it's very basically.
The music is very basically.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We get it, yeah, and we have a lot of
freedom to adapt it to our particular style of our
quartet or chorus.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That makes sense, all right. Last question for you because
it shows over in two minutes. So is there is
there something about any given song that would make it
either easier or harder than other songs? Or is it
that when they hand you the arrangement for the song.
It's it's all the same. It's just a song.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
It comes down to the creative genius of the arrangers.
And then once we kind of get a feel for
what they had in mind, then we add our own
interpretation into what they put on the paper and it all.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Kind of comes together. Just love it, absolutely, love it. Folks.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You want to get a singing Valentine for that special
person in your life, you can order today. You can
go to Soundothrockies dot com slash Valentines and you'll see
the link to order now. And like I said, you
pick in these time windows right nine to noon, noon
to three, three to six, six to eight.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You can for a.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Few extra bucks narrow down the time.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Window a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But in any case, this is just a wonderful thing.
She or he will never forget it and just be
a great story for both of you forever. Any any
last thing you.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Want to say before we got know what we do
money wise is we put it right back into the
community singing for people. FCFD has always been a big
supporter and we love to, you know, carry their banner
out there and tell the tell the people what wonderful
work they do.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Fantastic sound of the Rockies dot com slash Valentines.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
What a great, great idea. Thank you, gentlemen, Thank you.
Hopefully I'll see you again soon or at least next year,
all right, thank you so much,
The Ross Kaminsky Show News
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