University of California Men's Octet
| University of California Men's Octet | |
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| Seat: |
 Berkeley
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| Founding: | 1948 |
| Genus: | Male choir |
| Voices : | 8 ( TTBB ) |
| Website : | http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~octet/pages/home.htm |
The UC Men's Octet , also Cal Men's Octet or UC Berkeley Men's Octet , is an eight -member a cappella group from the University of California, Berkeley .
Founded in 1948, the group spanning a wide repertoire of many styles of music including barbershop , doo-wop , pop and alternative, and Berkeley fight songs. The octet has recorded over a dozen albums and has won the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) multiple times, winning the competition in 1998 and 2000.
While the octet plays regularly in the San Francisco Bay Area for both alumni and the public, the group has also toured around the world including China, Australia, Europe and many locations in the United States. The group also performs at Berkeley's "Sproul Plaza" at 1:00 am every Wednesday during the academic year.
The group hosts a number of annual concerts. In the fall there is the "West Coast A Cappella Showcase", in which several groups from all over the country are invited to perform in Berkeley. Guest groups at these concerts included former ICCA winners such as Brigham Young University's Noteworthy and Vocal Point, as well as groups from Stanford , UCLA, USC , Mt. San Antonio College , and the University of Oregon .
YouTube
The octet has gained wider popularity over the years through video contributions of their various performances on stage. The octet's most popular line-up was arguably between 2002 and 2003, with popular pieces like “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Not Pretty Enough”, “Stayin 'Alive”, “Big Butts”, “Shout”, “Blackbird”, and the like "Nirvana Medley". “Bohemian Rhapsody” has already been viewed over 2,000,000 times on YouTube. The 2004–2005 octet with the “Lion King Medley” and the 2008–2009 octet with “Men in Tights” are also fan favorites. The group members make all the musical arrangements themselves, and although there have been many requests for the arrangements, especially for Bohemian Rhapsody, the group has not released their arrangements to the public out of respect for the arranger and the group as a whole.
The octet in the media
Over the years, the male octet has appeared in several California Bay Area publications such as The Daily Review, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Contra Costa Times. The group made several appearances in other media, from annual appearances on KFOG (San Francisco / San Jose) radio station to WCAU News in Philadelphia , the men's octet was heard nationwide.
The octet recorded a public health announcement with the California Department of Health Services titled "Wash Your Hands" as part of the "Immunization Branch's" campaign against the flu and ran a radio commercial for Coor beer to promote "The Pigskin Can ”.
Octet albums
The UC Men's Octet has recorded over a dozen albums.
- High Octane (2009)
- Loves me like a rock
- Don't Stop Believin '
- Collide
- Silent Night
- I'll be
- Runaround Sue
- Hail To California
- Mr. Grinch
- Lion King Medley
- Is She Really Going Out With Him
- Always Something There To Remind Me
- Fight for California
- I Just Wanna Make Love To You
- Walkin 'My Baby Baby Back Home
- Put your head on my shoulder
- Just My Imagination
- Papa Was A Rolling Stone / Who Is He
- The Scientist
- I'm too sexy
- My girl
- Octopella (2003)
- Til There Was You
- Beauty's Only Skin Deep
- Blackbird
- The Lumberjack Song
- Not pretty enough
- Come go with me
- Let's stay together
- Liar medley
- Share Your Love With Me
- With or without you
- Perfidia
- Fight for California
- McDonald's Girl
- Baby got back
- Uptown girl
- Please
- That Don't Impress Me Much
- Beyond the Sea
- Baby One More Time
- Because
- Them There Eyes
- I've Got Rhythm ...
- Nirvana Medley (hidden track)
- Gold (2000)
- Eights Company
- Teenagers in love
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Hair
- She's got a way
- Silhouettes
- Monday Monday (Don't Walk Away Renee)
- Pink Elephants on Parade
- Who Put the Bomp?
- Drift Away
- Sandy
- The Muppet Show
- Runaround Sue
- Maneater
- Vogue
- The Promise (Just a Little Respect)
- Dreams to Remember
- Stanfurd Jonah
- Eight misbehavin '
- I get around
- When I'm Sixty-Four
- Ain't misbehavin '
- Cover girl
- Misbehavin '
- Johnny B. Goode
- 'Til There Was You
- Blue moon
- Help Me Rhonda
- Princess papules
- Misbehavin 'again
- Formal rush dropout
- Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
- brandy
- All Hail Blue And Gold
- Octogen
- Long train running
- Lessons In Love
- Heal the pain
- Under the bridge
- Glowworm
- Tragedy
- Hurt So Bad
- Copacabana
- Reach Out (I'll Be There)
- Cherish
- No excuses
- Soma
- Fading Fast
- The auctioneer
- Little Red Riding Hood
- King Of The Road
- Rhythm Of The Night
- Bye bye blues
- What's your name
- We Eight Too Much
- Hodja
- Goody Two Shoes
- Drift Away
- Elderly Woman Behind the Counter
- Monday Monday (Don't Walk Away Renee)
- Pretty little angel eyes
- Under the boardwalk
- Twenty-Six Miles
- Blue moon
- At the hop
- Fame
- Faith
- Danny Boy
- Please, Please Me
- Barbara Ann
- Put your head on my shoulder
- Next Door to an Angel
- Runaround Sue
- Jingle Bells
- The First Noel
- Jean
- Lonesome Road
- All Sing Blue And Gold
- Big C
- Toast to California
- Sons of California
- Stanfurd Jonah
- The Cal Drinking Song
- Cal Victory Song
- Fight 'Em
- Hail to California
- California, We're for You
- Fight for California
- Oompa Loompa
- Cal Alumni Hymn
- The Golden Bear
- Stanfurd's Christmas
- Raise your glass
- Palms of Victory
- Color blue
- All Hail Blue and Gold
- Eight is enough
- Loves Me Like A Rock
- Istanbul
- There must be an angel
- Moondance
- Rock Around The Clock
- Warm
- Mr. Grinch
- Please
- Shama Lama Ding Dong
- Flash Gordon
- Late In The Evening
- Oompa Loompa
- My Kind Of Woman
- Sandy
- Torna A Surriento
- Rainfall
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Trilogy Of Cal Songs
- All Hail Blue And Gold
- Stanford Jonah
- Hail To California
- Takin 'The Joke Too Far
- Shama Lama Ding Dong
- Teens In Love
- Istanbul
- King Of The Road
- Princess papules
- Johnny B. Goode
- The Things We Do For Love
- Silhouettes
- Blue Velvet
- Come and go with me
- Tired Of Your Sexy Ways
- Venus
- You Are My Destiny
- What's your name
- Workin 'At The Car Wash Blues
- Sh boom
- brandy
- Formal rush dropout
- My Kind Of Woman
- Blue moon
- Oldies But Goodies
- Sea of Love
- Let's Hear It For The Octet!
- Gloria
- At the hop
- Toast To California
- Cara Mia
- Better Eight Than Never
- King Of The Road
- Cara Mia
- Rock Around The Clock
- Under The Boardwalk
- Monday, Monday - Don't Walk Away Renee
- brandy
- Formal rush dropout
- Next Door To An Angel
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Bye bye blues
- Put your head on my shoulder
- Glowworm
- Roller Derby Queen
- Star Spangled Banner
- The Play
- Big C
- Hail To California
- Around the World in Eight Days
- Sha-Booom
- San Francisco
- Sounds of the City
- (You Sing and You're American)
- Silhouettes
- I'm Alone Because I Love You
- Stairway
- Shenandoah
- Cherish
- At the hop
- Jean
- (Awfully Splendid)
- Johnny B. Goode
- Please
- (Absolutely Fantastic)
- In My Room
- Stanfurd Jonah
- Runaround Sue
- Hail to California
- Eight Times The Fun
- Introduction
- All Hail Blue and Gold
- Come and Go
- Danny Boy
- Johnny B. Goode
- Cal Song Trilogy
- Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
- Glow worm
- Blue moon
- Stanfurd Jonah
- Aint misbehavin '
- For the longest time
- O Joe
- Teenagers in love
- The Princess Papulli
- All I Have To Do Is Dream
- Runaround Sue
- Barbara Ann
- Hail to California
- Voice of America Telecast
- Octa brew
- Sha boom
- Please, Please Me
- Teddy bear
- Bye-bye blues
- Fun, fun, fun
- Fat Bottom Girls
- Stanfurd Jonah
- Hail to California
- The Star Spangled Banner
- Glow worm
- Barbara Ann
- One of Those Songs
- Sweet, sweet roses of morn
- Yellow Bird
- The Whiffenpoof Song
- Mood indigo
- The Princess Papulli
- THE CAL DRANKIN 'SONG!
- The University of California Men's Octet
- Ain't misbehavin '
- O Joe!
- Stairway To The Stars
- I Left My Heart In San Francisco
- The Sound Of The City
- Marry A Woman Uglier Than You
- Sloop John B.
- Okie From Muskogee
- I get around
- Loch Lomond
- Warm
- How Deep Is Your Love?
- Dixie
- Cal Song Medley
- Stanford Jonah
- The Princess Papuli
honors and awards
- 1998 International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) Champions, ICCA Results Records .
- 2000 International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) Champions, ICCA Results Records .
supporting documents
- ↑ Varsity Vocals ICCA Previous Results ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Nicholas Galano, "Sound of Music Inspires, Fulfills," The Daily Review . May 10, 2004
- ↑ Connie Skipitares and Glennda Chui, "Joe Willits, Co-Founded a Pair of Vocal Octets: Valley Executive Maintained a Love of Song, UC-Berkeley," San Jose Mercury News , Nov. 5, 2003
- ^ Jackie Burrell, "Old Style, New Sounds," Contra Costa Times , March 4, 2006
- ↑ KFOG Morning Show Archives 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , KFOG Morning Show Archives 2006 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ NBC 10 News Recording
- ↑ California Department of Health Services - Wash Your Hands jingle ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
