Ayer High School Acappella Choir
Ayer High School Band
Ayer High School Pops Staged Song Productions,
Ayer Town Hall, Spring 1962
John Carton directs the Ayer High School Choir and band, also Plays the Piano for the Pops Staged Song Productions.
Recordings and Program notes:
1962
Ayer Jr. Sr. "Spring Pops V"
Ayer Town Hall at 8:15pm
May
16, 17, 18, 1962
AHS A Capella Choir
01 Charlotte Town's Burning Down
02 Paper Reeds by the Brooks, The
03 Every Night When The Sun Goes Down
04 At The Cry Of The First Bird
05 Were You There
06 I'm Gonna' Ride That Chariot
AHS Band
07 Strike Up The Band - George Gershwin
08 Three Songs of Colonial America - Arr.
Jackson - Missing
09 Prelude In Five - Philip Gordan
10 Variations on a Tune for Timpany - Maurice
Gardner, Solo Timpani - Charles Austin - Missing
11 Show Tune Medely [The Music Man] - Meridith Wilson
12 Hennesey (McHale's Navey) - Sonny Burke
AHS Folk Singers
13 Rock Island Line, The
14 Hush Little Baby
15 Pat Works On The Railway
16 If I Had A Hammer
17 Universal Dream, The
18 Shadrack, Meshak, Abednego
AHS A Capella Choir in Productions
19 Hey Look Me Over - Wildcat - Missing
20
Somewhere - West Side Story
21 I Enjoy Being A Girl
22 Standin' On The Corner - Most Happy Fella'
23 Till There Was You - The Music Man
24 I Got Plenty of Nuthin' - Porgy and Bess
- Missing
25 Get Me To The Church On Time - My Fair Lady
26 Party's Over, The - The Bells Are Ringing
(Carole Prentiss - Solo)
If you know of any relevant information about any of the songs or about the performances, or about the Acapella Choir history - Please send your information to Jim Deering at: a2d.medialab@gmail.com - It will be greatly appreciated!
TECHNOLOGY
These Recordings were made in the Spring of 1962 the recordist is currently
unknown.
The microphone used was a Dynaco Type BM4 Ribbon microphone, center stage,
approx 10 feet above the choirs (Property AHS Music Dept.).
The Recording machine used was an Ampex 970 (c. 1960) stereo audio tape recorder (Property
AHS Music Dept.)
This particular model was one of the very first stereo audio tape recorders mass
produced. The original 1/4 inch audio tapes were duplicated in 1964 by Jim Deering on a
Roberts 770 1/4 track stereo recorder (Property Jim Deering) from which these
digital recordings were made. The original recordings were left in the care of
the Ayer Jr. Sr. High School Music Department. Over the ensuing 50 years Jim's
copies have been in storage in various garages in various states. They have been
played occasionally but full restoration has not been attempted until now
(time/money/technology).
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