Vassar alum., 3/10/97 : party songs and dorm songs

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Vassar College. Class of 1948

Vassar College. Class of 1949

Participants/Performers

Members of Vassar College Classes of 1948 and 1949 (Anne MacKay, Barbara Muhs Walker, Lila Silverman Gimprich d'Adolf, Sylvia Bowman), solo voices or unison chorus; in part with piano accompaniment

Imprint

[1997?]

Note

A performance of songs sung at Vassar College between 1945 and 1949 from the class parties, and songs sung in the dorms (Raymond, North, and Lathrop) during that time. Sung in English. Title from cassette labels. Beginning and end of Side A is cut off. Recorded 1997 March 10 Skinner Recital Hall

This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Table of Contents

Party songs from before 1944: [Title not identified] ; Blow hot, blow cold ; Prom blues -- Raisin' the deuce : Class of 1946 Soph party. Don't you know ; Coney, Coney Island -- Of monocles and men : Class of 1946 Senior party. You're essential to me -- Head over heels : Class of 1947 Soph party. Stars in the sky -- Ahoy and a girl : Class of 1947 Senior party. Here we are together ; Hit the deck -- The spiral weekend : Class of 1948-49 Soph party. You haven't started to live -- You haven't started to give : [new words to You haven't started to live, for the 1981 reunion] -- The spiral weekend. I don't want what's past ; Magnolias in your eyes ; Drums ; Lonely dawn ; Nuts to convention/Only time will tell -- The reader's diatribe : Class of 1948 Junior party. The trouble with men and women ; Irish love song -- Class of 1949 Senior party. Bread and Butterfly Society ; This is the day we go home -- Excerpt from Class of 1950's Soph party -- The nickname song : written for Class of '48/'49 40th reunion -- All-College songs and dorm songs: Fling the banner wide ; Where oh where are the virgin freshmen? ; [Song to honor someone] ; My girl's from Vassar (based on the Vassar Hygiene song) ; North (Jewett) after dinner song : Home on the quad ; Lathrop song

Subject

Vassariana

Subject (Topical)

College musicals--Excerpts--Vassar College

College wit and humor

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