Funny Songs for Middle School Choir
Various Arrangers : Singing About Singing in the Choir 
Lighthearted, humorous songs about singing in the choir. "We Can Sing That!" - With a text by the composer, this is a delightful kaleidoscope of musical snippets that highlight the joys of choral singing! "A Place in the Choir" - Here is a perfect lighter selection or encore for adult or community choir! Bottom, middle and top, every part gets to shine as all your singers take their places in the choir. What fun! "I Just Want to Sing in a Choir" - May I please sing with the choir? This novelty number answers that question with humorous lyrics and clever solo lines. Add some staging for a sure audience pleaser. "We're the Choir!" - Kirby has designed this piece so that the distinctive melodies which showcase each section at the beginning are combined for a glorious finale! A brilliant recruiting device with a lot of quasi-operatic tongue-in-cheek humor! "The Do's and Don'ts of the Audience" - After hours and hours of rehearsal, your choir is ready to perform, but is your audience ready to listen? Here is your chance to teach the audience how to perform their part of the concert! Sneezing, coughing, cell phones, when to clap - it's all here in a clever novelty madrigal style that will be just as much fun to perform as it is instructive!
Songlist: The Do's and Don'ts of the Audience, We're the Choir!, I Just Want to Sing in a Choir, A Place in the Choir, We Can Sing That!
The Bobs : The Bobs Songbook Vol 2
Here's another 10 terrific original songs as sung by the Bobs. This songbook covers the decade of unforgettable tunes, from "My Shoes" and "Pounded on a Rock" to "Kill Your Television" , "Late Model Love" and "There's a Nose Ring in my Soup" Sing them if you dare!
Songlist: Pounded on a Rock, My Shoes, Angels of Mercy, Forty Seven Reasons, Rainbird, Kill Your Television, Stranger Than Love, Late Model Love, There's a Nose Ring in my Soup, 50 Kilowatt Tree
Bruce Sled : Fun and Nonsense
"Jing-ga-lye-ya" has been an instant success for everyone who's tried it. Using nonsense words, it is rhythmic and upbeat, and uses cyclical repetition in the parts creating an incredibly catchy groove! A must-see. "La-ba-lin-da" - This gentle, lilting song is flirtatious, with a swinging Latin beat. "Simba Samba" Here we go! This is a Latin-style romp. Women will be swinging their hips and men will be looking ever so suave! (At least that's the theory.) "Binga Bango" is another up-beat and exciting piece from Bruce. Perfect for High School or community choirs.
Songlist: Bingo Bango, Jing-ga-lye-ya, La-ba-lin-da, Simba Samba
Eric Whitacre : Animal Crackers
Here are six whimsical settings of Ogden Nash poems that are perfect for a lighter portion of your program or as an encore. They are easily-learned and fun to perform!
Songlist: The Panther, The Cow, The Firefly, The Canary, The Eel, The Kangaroo
Frank Bridge : Peter Piper
Here is a delightful extended arrangement of the classic children's nursery rhyme. The tongue-twister becomes a fun and challenging piece to sing. It also helps with annunciation, teaches alliteration and a useful teaching tool as well as a great deal of fun for both the performers and audiences alike.
Gordan Hamilton : The Facebook Song
Made popular on Toy Story 3 = Awesome this humorous piece simultaneously ridicules and celebrates user-generated content. The lyrical main theme rolls around in vibrant familiarity, always rocking between the major keys of C# and E. This tension between genuine and mock exuberance is the central irony of the piece.
Gyorgy Ligeti : Nonsense Madrigals
First premiered by the King's Singers in Queen Elizabeth Hall these compositions are a delight and will be a welcome addition to your repertoire. English text by William Rands and Lewis Carroll. Difficult.
Songlist: Two Dreams and Little Bat, Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree, The Alphabet, Flying Robert, The Lobster Quadrille, A Long, Sad Tale
Irving Fine : McCord's Menagerie
Subtitled "Four Vivariations", Irving Fine's McCord's Menagerie, are settings of humorous poems by David McCord. With the bumbling "loo's" accompanying the tenor melody, Fine's setting of Vultur Gryphus implies a harmless creature. Instead of the movie western's ominous bird associated with death, Fine's animal seems too lazy and stupid to get his own food! Jerboa, classified as the genus jaculus jaculus, is as active and scary in Fine's world as Vultur Gryphus is laid back and friendly. Fine agrees with those to whom a darting (the translation of the Latin jaculus) small rodent is sinister and creepy, attributes he conveys through abrupt entrances and minor tonality. In Mole McCord compares the over-soul of man, a Unitarian concept put forth by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with the limited capacities of the mole. In Clam, Fine and McCord give in to their silliest selves. McCord observes how man the diner and clam the dinner (in chowder no less) both evolved from the same ancestor; man is saved from the clam's fate, according to McCord, by his own initiative and work ethic. Fine has a lot of fun with the sounds suggesting insouciance, which explains why the clam never got ahead! Lots of fun here.
Songlist: Jerboa, Vultur Gryphus, Clam, Mole
Norman Luboff : Much Ado About Nothings
With the sub-title of "13 Paradoxical Pithy Paraphrases for Punaccompanied Pchoir" these very short pieces are a delight. Some of the texts are from epigrams, proverb, signboards etc. most of them however are completely manufactured nonsense. Lots of fun here.
Songlist: Something Lovely, Punctuality, Prayer, Age Before Beauty, Mother, A Fool, Two Heads, The Centipeded, My Aunt, Love, Tally Ho, Air Pollution, That's All
P.D.Q. Bach - Peter Schickele : Madcap Madrigals
A whimsical collection of original madrigals written by the maestro of classical mirth. Your ensemble will have as much fun singing them as the audience does listening.
Songlist: My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth, Four Curmudgeonly Canons, The Queen to Me a Royal Pain Doth Give, O Little Town of Hackensack, Throw The Yule Log On, Uncle John, Good King Kong Looked Out, Two Hearts, Four Lips, Three Little Words
P.D.Q. Bach - Peter Schickele : Christmas Fun
Professor Peter Schickele is an American treasure who is been delighting audiences for almost half a century with his clever, humorous and very entertaining alter ego P.D.Q. Bach. Here are three of his finest songs for SSAA voices. Fun for singers and audiences alike!
Songlist: Throw The Yule Log On, Uncle John, O Little Town of Hackensack, Good King Kong Looked Out
Paul Carey : Play With Your Food
This clever, lighter concert number for more advanced choirs is a three movement set featuring humorous texts by poets May Swenson, Sid Hoddes and Grey Held, inventively interpreted for choirs by composer Paul Carey. A challenging performance piece, but a lot of fun! Movement titles: Summer's Bounty, Mashed Potato/Love Poem, Vending Machine. Total Duration: ca. 7:00. (Movements may be performed separately.)
Songlist: Summer's Bounty, Mashed Potato / Love Poem, Vending Machine
Peter Schickele : Go For Broke - A Comedy For Chorus
Around the turn of the 17th century of small group of Italian noblemen and composers, seeking to re-create classic Greek tragedy as they understood it. invented the opera. A somewhat earlier, simpler, and less revolutionary form of musical storytelling was the madrigal opera or madrigal comedy developed by Vecchi and other composers. These works, which were not necessarily staged, consisted of a series of madrigals that told a comic story; unlike opera as we have come to know it, however, this was basically choral form, with vocal ensemble playing the part of a narrator as well as that of each individual character.
Go For Broke is patterned on this model. It consists of six madrigals, that tell the story of a man who find out that good luck is not enough. Sometimes the chorus' words are those of a narrator (Prologue: "Here's John Q. Public..."), and sometimes they are those of our hero himself, or his friend the bartender, or the host of people who descend upon him when good fortune strikes (the middle numbers: Taxes, Charity, and Company at the Bar). The Finale even has a moral. The piece may be done as a concert work or it may be staged in a variety of ways. Although some of the sections may, at the discretion of the performing group, employ solo voices, GO FOR BROKE is basically a story told by a chorus.
Songlist: Prologue, Taxes, Charity, Kin, Company at the Bar, Finale
Various Arrangers : Six Silly Songs of the Season
Wonderful and Wacky Holiday Chorals for 2-part Voices. The Alfred Top Pop collections feature outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.
Songlist: Born To Shop, Merry Christmas to Me!, The Reindeer Rap, S.A.N.T.A., Snow Day!, The Twelve Groovy Days of Christmas
Various Arrangers : Real Men A Cappella!
Have some fun with your male voices with these clever and humorous arrangements! "Manly Men's Chorus Extravaganza" is a light-hearted choice for men's choir, the "extravaganza" pokes gentle fun at the male chorus singing tradition. Echoing themes well-known to most men's choirs, this is a singer's song. Moderately easy. From the Real Group's Anders Edenroth "The Modern Man" is great fun for choirs and their audiences. It's a 'tongue-in-cheek' piece on the meaning of being 'a modern man.' Fine selection for festival and concert. Written expressly for the three men of Swedish vocal jazz phenomenon The Real Group. Great entertainment!
Songlist: Manly Men's Chorus Extravaganza, The Modern Man
Various Arrangers : Fun Sounds!
These songs gives your choir the chance to sing something different and have lots of fun while doing so! "A Song Of Rain" gives your chorus a chance to play with sound: tone clusters build, and the choral wind machine cranks up, to herald the storm. Then the choral "pitter-patter," using hocket and overlapping rhythms, portrays the rain falling on parched Australian towns. Elizabeth Barrett Browning meets Mae West in this swing setting of the immortal love poem "How Do I Love Thee?", paraphrased by the composer. "Boh-doo" and "wah-wah" scat passages put an original spin on this text, and bring the house down when it is performed with gusto. Winner of the Diva Complex 1996 Composition Contest. The utterly silly text free-associates from "Tango Dada" ("A tutu and also a tattoo") as the chorus sings sultry tango rhythms. With castanets, of course! Written for Diva Complex. With pentatonic tunes backed by syncopated repeated patterns "Make Melody", in 4/4 throughout, recalls Alice Parker's leading of improvisatory sings.
Songlist: A Song Of Rain, How Do I Love Thee?, Tango Dada, Sing and Make Melody
William Schuman : Mail Order Madrigals
William Schuman's hilariously entertaining Mail-Order Madrigals, the words taken straight out of an 1897 Sears Roebuck catalog.
Songlist: Superfluous Hair, Dr. Worden's Pills, Sweet Refreshing Sleep, Attention, Ladies
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