The Four Freshmen - Shangri La (1962)

"Shangri-La" is a popular song written by Carl Sigman (lyricist), bandleader Matty Malneck, and Robert Maxwell in 1946. The term comes from "Shangri-La," the hidden valley of delight in James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon." The term "Shangri-La," especially in the 1930s and 1940s, was slang for heaven or paradise, and the song is about the joy of being in love. The Four Freshmen is a multiple (six) Grammy-nominated American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmony jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires (Glenn Miller), The Pied Pipers (Tommy Dorsey), and The Mel-Tones (Artie Shaw), founded in the barbershop tradition. The Four Freshmen is considered a vocal band because the singers accompany themselves on guitar, trumpet, bass, and drums, among other instrumental configurations.

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[Bruno47602]

Thank you for this music!

[luvjsu]

this is the best version of this song. Thanks for posting.

[spacepatrolman]

@spacepatrolman which should have made their vocal chords geneticly similar and blendable like the beach boys

[spacepatrolman]

@dwsingrs sickening means too sickeningly sweet to the point of being disgusting nauseating anoying cloying boring no 4 or 5 part harmony like the four freshman they take pains to point out on the back of the lettermans album that they are actual rah rah dumb jock head letterman but nothing about them ever studing music i found the record in the garbage along with the bachelors another sickening vocal grouop their own manager said they couldnt harmonise too well even though they were brothers

[dwsingrs]

@spacepatrolman

Noted. Thank you. Congenially request that you define the term "sickening."

[spacepatrolman]

@dwsingrs The letterman get too sickening and they dont play instruments the freshman are fresher tighter better

[dwsingrs]

This is very enjoyable to listen to. It's right up there with the version by The Lettermen, for who the Freshmen were a great inspiration.

[ReLoadMeBoy]

Great just great.....Thank you..

[iambibby]

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