The Evergreen Singers

A performing chorus of The Evergreen State College

Repertoire for Spring Quarter:
In conjunction with the eight-credit program The Fifties, Fab and Fraught, we will learn and perform a wide range of American music from the nineteen-fifties:

Goodnight , Irene by Huddie Ledbetter, inspired by the Weavers' 1950 recording
Everybody's Boppin' by Jon Hendricks, inspired by the Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross 1959 recording
West Side Story medley by Leonard Bernstein, from the 1957 Broadway musical
Come Softly to Me by The Fleetwoods, inspired by their 1959 recording
The Best of Buddy Holly medley (Peggy Sue, It's So Easy, & That'll be the Day), inspired by Buddy Holly and The Crickets' recordings from the late 1950s.
Songs from the Civil Rights movement:

Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn me Round (trad.)
You'd Better Leave Segregation Alone (Little Willie John, words by James Bevel & Bernard LaFayette
Woke up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom (trad., words by Rev. Osby & Bob Zellner)
We'll Never Turn Back (trad., adapted by Bertha Gober)
I Know (trad., words by James Bevel & Bernard LaFayette)
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (trad., words by Alice Wine)

Omnia Extares (The Evergreen Alma Mater)
Geoduck Fight Song Intro
Geoduck Fight Song

All composed by Malcolm Stilson and arranged by Linda Waterfall.