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THE WHIFFENPOOFS OF 1967

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1.	Aj Lucka Lucka 01:21	info	buy track
2.	MacNamara's Band 01:19	info	buy track
3.	Through A Long and Sleepless Night 01:47		buy track
4.	The Gypsy In My Soul 01:34		buy track
5.	Mandy 01:18		buy track
6.	Two Sleepy People 02:21		buy track
7.	You'll Have To Put A Nightie On Aphrodite 02:24		buy track
8.	One Note Samba 01:48		buy track
9.	We're Saving Ourselves for Yale 02:03		buy track
10.	Scarlet Ribbons 02:24		buy track
11.	From This Moment On 01:16		buy track
12.	Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat 03:54	info	buy track
13.	A Quiet Girl 01:55		buy track
14.	Teasin' Quitcha (Medley) 01:42		buy track
15.	Look Away Over Yondro 01:42		buy track
16.	When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues 02:07		buy track
17.	I'll Take Romance 01:55		buy track
18.	I Wanna Be Around 01:32		buy track
19.	The Sunshine Girl 02:02		buy track
20.	Don't Blame Me 01:53	info	buy track
21.	Ostrich Picking Time In Africa 01:56		buy track
22.	The Whiffenpoof Song 01:48		buy track

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Favorite thing about singing group mystique/tradition was getting scooped up, lassoed and bleary-eyed that sweet night I became a Poof. Green cup mixture sluicing down gaping throat, shiny wet on chin, bellowing songs in the reverberating entryways, lungs iced up from the cold, blurred view of special tie slung around my sweaty neck and the rush of knowing we’d be singing Those Incredible Songs/Arrangements soon ourselves. Another thing: the unexpected separation anxiety I felt leaving the Duke’s and crossing the river to join the ‘competition’ - Spizzwinks, Baker’s Dozen, et al. We were sure we’d been the best pre-Whiffs. To leave nest and jump across the aisle to be led by a new Pipe. How did I ever get to be here in the first place? Warren Rothman was the dude who opened that door. He’d been for me why any of this felt like something more than champagne and creme de menthe. I’d been consistently blown away by his Miss Otis tenor, Dylan-esque hair and Auchincloss-seeming girlfriends. I became a Whiff in part because he did. At least that’s how I read it. Still, I loved and was moved by those surround sound voices and harmonies even as I was a musical charlatan. I ‘read’ music because the notes went up or down and got memorized (which is why I was out to lunch on my 2nd tenor parts at the one reunion I was able to attend). In my first band (Orchestra Luna) many of the parts we struggled to create came from all that chorale stuff - high school and Yale. OL even did a version (acapella) of Slap That Bass at CBGB’s - god knows what the punk audience thought. I had no clue that it was about jerking off until years later. Lastly, gotta say, ’Rockin’ The Boat’ was a huge deal for me. I over sang it I’m sure, pushing my pitch sharp in the lion’s bellow rush of being the big loud solo prince. When we sang it at Woolsey at the reunion I remember ‘rocking it up’ with faux ragged nastiness. (I’d ‘transitioned’ into a rock singer, right?) But oh my god that rich thick textured sound in that giant echoing hall (where I’d heard Nina Simone belt out Young, Gifted years back), could not be beat. Ever.

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released January 15, 2024

Recorded in the big room LIVE at Columbia Records. All 22 songs were on the double vinyl.

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A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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