For a very short time as a freshman in high school I sang in a choir. It did not last, my voice has a twangy nasal quality suitable for early country western honky tonk tunes.

These guys make me think that I perhaps missed out on a good thing.


The Cottontown Chorus - Fat Bottomed Girls

The Cottontown Chorus - Fat Bottomed Girls - YouTube

They look they are having fun; do you still sing in a choir?

The last thing I remember about singing in a choir was: "Hey, Mr. Fischer is looking for a couple of tuba players. Why don't you go down to the band room and see him."

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Been singing in choirs since Jr. H.S. When I went to college, I figured out real quick that there were lots of girls in the music department... but not so many men! So... I joined up. They were thrilled to have a bass voice that could hit low tenor. I was thrilled to be around 80 or so girls every afternoon... with just myself and about 14 other men in the room. Choir tours were a hoot! Lots and lots of fun. One Sunday morning my brother and I went over to the college and followed a couple of car loads of girls over to a church in the area. That was the morning I met the girl who would have mercy upon me and marry me! My wife is an outstanding vocalist. She began singing in church choirs as a small child. Her parents wisely saw to it that she received excellent professional vocal training. She went to college on a full scholarship graduating w/ honors w/ a degree in fine arts (vocal music). Thank God for choir! And most especially thank God for that wonderful girl who is my wife! Come August... we'll celebrate 35 years together as man and wife. Praise God!

Solo and choral singing has been a real help in my pastoral ministry, especially in churches where there has been a need for me to lead the music. From time to time I've been known to pick up a guitar and punch out something. Most everyone seems to like it. About 10 years ago my wife pretty much started doing all the leading of the worship music/choirs, etc. which I really appreciate as she is extremely good at it. In my current appointment I serve four rural churches. My wife and I sing in two of the choirs. Wonderful people. Tremendous fellowship. Would recommend it to anyone! Try it! You'll like it!

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Yeah, I think it was second, or third grade. It was a dark time in the history of that elementary school choir...

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Haven't sung in a choir since I was twenty, which was right after the Battle of Yorktown.

At twelve I was a boy soprano in a children's choir. At fourteen I was anchoring the bass section of our church's adult choir. From sixteen to twenty I was in a touring concert choir.

Now I have no lungs, my hearing is going, and I can't stand very long. But on good days I can still hit low notes only seismographs and elephants can detect.

I sing to my dog, but he forgives me.

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Oh well, what the hell.

When I sung in choir in high school I was cut at the try out. The is a bible verse that states make a joyfull noise unto the lord. it was amended to say except for Norm, that's me.

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I sung in a choir in 2d grade. We had a Christmas program; I enlivened the occasion by giving a bloody nose to a felow chorister who richly deserved it. I was not invited to the Christmas Party.

I tried out for choir because I had a huge crush on a girl that sang. We had some preliminary try-outs, the teacher would get us all on stage and we'd start singing some song. I could see her moving her head from time to time and finally she stopped us and pointed at me and said "You...Just move your lips." That was my last day in choir.

Choir in elementary and junior high. Sang sporadically with a couple of bands in high school. The use of cigarettes for 50+ years has wreaked havoc on my vocal cords. First thing to go was the falsetto. I still whistle pretty good though.
f.t.

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In elementary, back then we called it grammar school, I sang in the choir for a couple of years. Tenor even! Catholic Church 1960's Brooklyn.

Now, if I sang in church, people would be praying for me to shut up.

I've sung in most everything. I love opera but church choir is my favorite.

Good you tube video.

I sang in grammar school. In my middle school years I spent my money for singing lessons on wild women. Sorry Ma forgive me. Well I drank some of it too.

I asked him how he came to be sitting across the table from me, and he shook his head, took a drag on the cigarette he'd bummed from me and said "Singin' too loud in the choir."

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I'll forever be haunted by this video. Besides the obvious historical importance, (it was Mass for the victims of 911 at the National Cathedral), the sound of this choir reminded me of the choir I sung in as a kid. Putting the two together gives me chills every time I hear this.

National Cathedral - My Shepard Will Supply My Need - YouTube

Thank you very much for this post.

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Sang in high school had to since it was a family thing fine Welsh voice and all. Recently I was told I should sing a tenor solo, ten or so miles away low enough no one can hear.

We have a Choir at my church every Sunday when we have enough people. None of professional but, we do sound reasonably good. It is one of the hi-lites of my Sunday.

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I believe the Welsh and the Russians are born singing four-part harmony. It's kind of uncanny, and wonderful.

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I tried singing in the choir and was told I should be on the stage. I was then told that there was one leaving in 30 minutes and I still had time to catch it!

I love good choir music - from Gregorian chants to Mormon Tabernacle. If I listed every choir I've been in it would take a half day to type and a half hour to read. Remember me, the music major? I convinced the powers that be in high school that all my music classes were my equivalent of the vocational requirement - so no shop class to drag down my GPA, because I'm all thumbs. My friends joke that I'm not allowed to use power tools unless someone has already dialed 9-1-...

Mom sang and studied opera in Paris after the war, and made certain her children were exposed to music. Even though my first focus was instrumental (piano lessons started at six years old) I was in a choir from the time I was old enough to be in whatever ensemble it was. Late bloomer - I was a first soprano in boys choir until I was 13. My voice changed right about then, and the church choir director was ecstatic to get a tenor. Concert and jazz choirs all through high school, voice lessons, tryouts, competitions. Again, being a high tenor with an almost two octave range helped (not counting falsetto - I could still falsetto the first soprano part all through high school). Ask any choir director if they've ever had so many first tenors that they could afford to turn one away - the answer will be "no".

Did a bit of solo work with the various ensembles - always had the solos in church choirs, especially when we did "Messiah" or any of the Easter cantatas. But I loved big band singers. If you'd have asked me then what I wanted out of life, I'd have told you I wanted to be the next Tex Beneke. (look him up, youngsters)

Met a lot of people that I'm still friends with because of music and choir. Enjoyed pretty much every minute of it.

Sang in high school and still sing in our St. David's Day choir every year. (Welsh settled this area of KS and I'm one that stayed.)

Jr. High & High School. Then community theatre for years. Had a 4 octave range and could really belt out the songs. Couldn't read music, but if heard it I could sing it. Now I squeak.

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I played in bands all through school. I have sung in church choirs since puberty as well as Community Chorales, male chorus groups and Symphony Chorales. It is rewarding and fun.

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I sung in a choir, and I even had a soul, I was told to sing so low that no one can hear you

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Carpriver.