It's So Hard To Say Goodbye - The Upperclass Men (SVHS 1992)

Well, they say if you can't make fun of yourself... hahah.

I've decided to embarrass myself and a few old classmates by posting a few videos of our old high school a cappella group "The Upperclass Men." Our group was comprised of 3 Seniors and 2 Juniors, all "upper classmen," thus the name of our group. I can still remember sitting at a table in the library with two other friends Phil & Squeege early our Sr. year trying to think of cool names for our group. I still have the piece of notebook paper we wrote our ideas on. It reads:

1) Under The Underwear (I STILL love that name, but our choir director would have NONE of it...her son Justin was one of the Jrs. in the group)

2) Upperclass Men (what we decided on)

3) Five Past Midnight

4) The Terrorists (A terrible idea, but of course 1991 was before any of the awful events of recent times)

5) Skirtless Panty Raiders (Was a big fan of this one too)

6) I'm Hearda Teya (An inside joke)

7) Titless Wonders (Good lord...)

8) Fivetet

Well anyway, the group was as follows:

Tenor I - C.G. "Squeege" George
Tenor II - Phil Merz
Baritone I - Justin Carlson
Baritone II - Karl Bhatnagar
Bass - Andrew Bishop (Yours Truly)

We were wildly popular with just about everybody. I still maintain we could've scored a lot more with the chicks if we would've had half a brain in our heads. Of course, the gawd-awful mullet I was sporting probably didn't help things...

Even our teachers dug us. Mr. D, our Sr. Math instructor, would always have us get up and sing if he finished his lecture early. He'd say, "Andy, go over to Mrs. Burch's class and see if you can borrow Phil to come over and sing." (The rest of us were in Mr. D's class) None of us were real serious vocalists, just good musicians. I'm the only one of the 5 of us who picked music for a profession. Please see:

www.myspace.com/andrewbishoptrumpet

This particular video is from the "Sweetheart" Ceremony (The basketball season equivilent of Homecoming) at the Friday night basketball game on Valentine's Day Feb. 14, 1992. My good friend Sarah Woodard was crowned queen, and we sang the extremely popular Boyz II Men tune It's So Hard To Say Goodbye. This song represents the very first project I ever decided to transcribe/arrange straight off an album. Technology was pretty archaic back then, and I actually used a cassette tape recording OFF THE RADIO to transcribe the piece. Nothing makes me laugh more than the fact that there we were, five 17 and 18 year old white boys from central Kansas trying to sing a Boyz II Men tune. I take that back...my unholy ridiculous outfit makes me laugh more. But I can still tell you this...that day sure was a memorable one!

1992.... wow. A LONG time ago. We were kids back then, and never took ourselved too seriously...but we still tried real hard and had a great time. Such fun memories!

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[Sethygirl]

cool

[Catfancy693]

OMG! Lovin' the mullet! bwhaha