Track 12: We are Friends/Passover

This song is a classic from the movie "The Jungle Book." (Quick recap for those who haven't seen the movie recently--4 vultures who look eerily like either the Monkees or the Beatles sing about how they are friends with everybody, including the human Mowgli. Unfortunately at the end, Sher Khan shows up and sings the final line in his basso ultimo obligatto confundio) One interesting fact about this song is that we didn't have a 4-part arrangement; we only had a piano and solo version that we checked out from the Harold B. Lee Library. The music department in there is awesome, just on a side note. So, Eric spearheaded the opportunity to turn this version into a barber-shop version.

Another interesting fact--intermittently throughout the song you will hear a thick British accent in an attempt to imitate the vultures who were imitating the Beatles or Monkees, I'm not quite sure.

Some tidbits about the creation of the piece--we took advantage of Jacob's computer recording/mixing software to create a more pleasing sound. First, near the end of the song when we hold "Didn't Like" followed by Jacob's entrance into "So you can see," we overlapped two separate recordings so you can hear Jacob holding the Like and singing the next line. Second, at the end of the song, it was hard for us to imitate Sher Khan and his low C. So one morning Peter came up and recorded just the phrase "are for" where he goes down to the low C. Then we spliced it into the end of the song.

Why is the song called Passover? I don't remember exactly, but I think that the fact that the song has the lyrics "bitter end" reminded us of "bitter herbs" which are a staple of the Passover meal. Random, I know, but what else would you expect from the Ninety and Nine?!?