The Yale Whiffenpoofs of 2008 - The Whiffenpoof Song

06.14.08 Kitamoto International Music Festival

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• Yale
• Whiffenpoofs
• Whiffs
• Japan

[omniryx1]

Oh for pity's sake, Aristopus, it is drinking song not a philosophical statement. Are you always so determinedly dour and joyless?

[jieprelampago]

CHEERS TO THE WHIFFENPOOFS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am the fourth generation of Yalies in my family. Will be a third generation yalie.

[shanartisan]

If they were not called Whiffenpoofs I would like them much more, vain as that may sound.

[gibsonanthony77]

cool clip thanks for sharing ..



[Greenhornet270]

This song touches my heart; I love it and has since I was small!

[delbard1]

To Aristopus: Does EVERY SONG have to be sad? I this past NFL season I needled a co-worked who is a St Louis Rams fan with this take off of it: "We are poor little RAMS who have lost our way, BAA BAA BAA This Take-off was not my invention

[Abennobashi]

@ohdarling95 out with the old in with the new WEST COAST!!!!

[ohdarling95]

@Abennobashi not sure that's fair! Lots of the east coast glee clubs that have been around for forever do contemporary things too but they're also honouring the tradition they're a part of. The Whiffenpoofs or the Harvard Krocs, they're really wonderful in a different way, I think it's still interesting and beautiful to listen to

[Abennobashi]

god i love the contrast between fresh, hip over 900k views WEST COAST U of O On the Rocks and boring formal mundane traditional and unable to get > 30k views east coast yale Wiffenpoofers. makes me glad im apart of something interesting

[cotterop]

Drinking song, yes ... but it derives from Kipling's "Gentlemen Rankers" about men of "class" enlisting in the ranks ...

[rlessley1127]

When I graduated from Yale in 1950, the Yale Glee Club sang this beautiful song with affection and respect. Then in 1949 a cartoon appeared in the Yale Record (magazine) showing a singer raising his eyeglasses as they sang "with their glasses raised on high". Modern Whiffenpoofs adopted this childish humor into their renditions and have made a disrespectful parody of this wonderful song. It pains me to see how they routinely butcher this song I remember so fondly.

[josgvis]

I can't find any good quality videos from you guys!

Great voices but it would sound a lot better if you guys had a professional to record this.

[Darkstepper219]

Yale boys.....

masons. cheers skull and bones.

[aristopus]

Very few songs have any philosophical value. For me, only three songs make any existential reference: Ole Man River, As Time Goes By, and this one.

We will pass and be forgotten with the rest.

Gentleman songsters off on a spree, damned from here to eternity.

From an existential view, the song describes the human condition. Its a work of art and spoiled kids made fun of it.

[beentheredonethatb4]

What are you referring to when you talk about making fun of humanity's existential condition?

[aristopus]

Why make fun of a humanitys existential condition? Why defile a work of art as surely as the hammer smashing the arm off the Virgin?

To me its a sign of a spoiled generation who knew nothing of economic depression and war. They goofed on a masterpiece. A bum begs for some money to eat, and a listless voluptuary jibes, Bah, bah, bah?

To them its a joke.

[descending61]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[betsy1947]

I love this. My dad went to Yale back in the fourties, so I grew up knowing this song.

[TheTerminalMoose]

I'm pretty sure he's a Yale Whiffenpoof Alumnus. They sometimes invite them up to sing the Whiffenpoof Song.

[phillipgaley]

well of course he is, he's is the professor

[consanna]

Who is the short guy who didn't dress properly? He seems to be in almost all versions no matter what year.