Sixteen Feet

Cantina Band

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:34:00 -0700

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arr. Jove Graham

Performed by Jove Graham, Dominic Sagolla, Morgan Phillips, Ken Williams, Scott Friesen, Demetri Bonaros, Chris Henry, and Jon Birge,

Props to John Williams, and Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes.

If you liked that, you may enjoy the rest of the album 'Sasquatch'.

Happy Birthday

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:47:00 -0700

To the Tune of the US National Anthem:

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Learning 'Roll to Me'

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:43:00 -0700

Jove has broken out the parts for the tune we're learning for reunion over on his channel. Nice!

Sasquatch on Odeo

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:52:00 -0700

For recreational purposes, I've uploaded MP3s of Sasquatch to Odeo.

Now, you can add details about the songs on those pages, and generally link them around.

OK to Go

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:48:00 -0800

So, it is officially "on." We have rounded up 7 of the 8 members of Sixteen Feet circa 1996. That is a quorum, or "Feeting" if you will.

We decided to meet in the Bahamas, at Chris Henry's Island School. Of course there's Internet there, so we'll be using Odeo.

Stay tuned!

All Four Seasons (mono)

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:24:00 -0700

A studio version of All Four Seasons, with a fresh ending.

In fine Feet tradition, it was recorded in monaural.
Spring Break 2002, Benicia, CA.

All Four Seasons (Bell Tower)

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Fri, 9 Sep 2005 21:06:00 -0700

Evan Gregory (brother of the equally incredible Andrew Gregory, also singing here) lays down a powerful rendition of "All Four Seasons."

Recorded in Clothier Tower at Swarthmore College.
Sounds like practicing those Games for Song really paid off!

[Humor Archives] Lost in Translation

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:44:00 -0700

(More funneh business I found in my email aaaahr-chives, dated 03 March 1998...)
Sixteen Feet lyrics, as translated into foreign languages and then back again using AltaVista's Babelfish

It is awake in the morning, opens its teeth, bites, around to eat, and it rolls. A thing never modifies. The week terminated, the week begins, it thinks: we regard each other and us surprise, what thinks the other one, but we never say a thing, and these crimes between us grow more deeply.

All the birds were blue, they do not know what to make since you said goodbye to me, and the flowers in their gloom just refused to flower, since we all want your behind, see you, naturally.

Forwards I found year, i am a long way down the holiday route out. Although I have no target unit received, no somebody will be going and stopping my celebration. Propel down holiday route, we go to the world Wally. Yeah!

Few Swattie, small, lets my brain come quite undone. Do you love me, do do you, to girl Swarthmore? I think that you leave a hot baby, you to us to go study into MCABE, willt you adviser I, will you, girl Swarthmore are? We go crossing to the Ville if I can to borrow someone auto, or to eat we romantic to evening; I hear that this evening they are casing casing staffcasing staff!

Foot-in for Chenry's

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:22:00 -0700

Who's goin'?

Culinary Feet

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:43:00 -0700

That's one of our founding Feet there on the cover of his new book, At Your Service : A Hands-On Guide to the Professional Dining Room

Congratulations, Fisch!

I Was a Teenage Foot (Fall 1992)

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:33:00 -0700

What good is this blog if it doesn’t give some of us old-timers a chance to reminisce about the good old days, right? So I did a little digging through old floppy disks and time-travelled back to the fall of 1992 which was the first semester of 16 Feet (and Swarthmore) for several of us. At the time, I was keeping a daily journal (something I sadly don’t do anymore) and thought I might share this first series of Foot-related entries to spark some old memories. Reflections/observations to follow....

September 5, 1992
This afternoon, Derek, Chris, and I went over to Lang to audition for "Sixteen Feet," (the male a-cappella octet), and Chris auditioned for the college orchestra. He made 2nd chair violin! I hope I got into Sixteen Feet; they were very impressed by my range, my volume, and my ability to harmonize along with them in the couple of songs that we did. They wrote, "Jove is God" down on their audition sheet, so I take that as a good sign.
September 6, 1992

I went back to Lang to audition for "Mixed Company." They were nice, and I sang well.

....After that, we watched the "Saturday Night Live" episode from last night that Kristin and I taped on my VCR. It was pretty funny. While we were watching, Bill (Hennelotter?), the Big Toe from "Sixteen Feet" came by to tell me that I had been accepted into both Sixteen Feet AND Mixed Company, but I told him that I would rather be in Sixteen Feet. YAAAY!
September 8, 1992

...And tonight, after dinner, we had the first-ever meeting of the 1992-93 Sixteen Feet! We, the feet, met in Bill (the Big Toe)'s room in Parrish, talked, discussed rehearsals, etc., and listened to some possible musical selections. Should be fun!!!
September 10, 1992

We got pizza for dinner (the Pizza dude was kind of late, though), and then I went to our first real "16 Feet" rehearsal. We learned the National Anthem, "Sh-Boom," and part of "Ride the Chariot" and "Foot Jive." It was cool.
September 24, 1992

...Then I went to 16 Feet rehearsal after dinner, and found out that we're probably going to perform next Friday for an Astronomy convention! It should be a neat "practice performance" for us, if we pull it off okay. I was pumped.
September 28, 1992

...I went to 16 Feet tonight, and although we didn't sound wonderful (we tape-recorded ourselves, and some parts were rather scary)... I think we're psyched for our gig on Friday for the Astronomers' convention. At the end, we went and sang in the stairwell of Parrish west, and it sounded GREAT!
October 2, 1992

After supper, Sixteen Feet sang at an Astronomy Dinner in Sharples. The audience wasn't the largest or the most appreciative, but we sounded okay.
[...]

Reflections/Observations:

1) I used way too many exclamation points in my writing. Phfft, what a freshman.

2) I think it’s hilarious that I am so enthusiastic about how great we are sounding... up until the day of our actual first concert, at which point I concede that we “sounded okay.”

3) But seriously, though, I have to give Bill (and Gael and Jorge) a lot of credit for whipping us into shape quickly. During our first rehearsal, we worked on FOUR songs (which is insane) and less than four weeks after our first meeting all together, we were performing for an audience!! Even if it was only “okay,” I am actually retrospectively impressed by our work ethic (or foolishness). Our next concerts were November 13th (at Mephisto’s) and 14th (at the Intercultural Center) so we didn’t waste any time.

Anyone else care to share memories (documented or undocumented) of their first weeks as a Foot? =)

Redesigns are good for the Sole

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:45:00 -0700

The Current Feet decided not to use this blog for their homepage. So, while testing , I decided to spruce the place up a bit. A bit of color, don't you know.

We now have a selection of pics from our group pool, as well as a creative commons license.

Now, pictures. Needs more pictures.

A Brief Interlude

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Sun, 7 Aug 2005 17:12:00 -0700

For your listening pleasure today:

A cappella version of the Super Mario Brothers Theme Song.

By us. Now featured on our Odeo Channel.

To the End

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:27:00 -0700

Here I am with the boys from 2002:

Friendship and Love, To the End!

We learned this tune during the 16th year of Sixteen Feet.
We're now at year 25!

Calling of the Tribes

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:08:00 -0700

Want to tune in to the Sixteen Feet podcast? Drag-and-drop this link into your iTunes 4.9+ window.

Evan Gregory again, calling the group to order.

Wikipedia is Good

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:39:00 -0700

Our Wikipedia entry has been updated.

See also: Swarthmore College.

Learn, augment, repeat.

The Old Site

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:10:00 -0700

Sixteen Feet's old site at The SCCS.

Just Go Start

sixteenfeet@dom.net (Swarthmore's Sixteen Feet) — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:01:00 -0700

Starting this baby up!

See also Sixteenfeet.net.