- Production and presentation
of the UW Varsity Band's Spring Concert
is provided in part
by Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.
- Band: Step close.
[cheers and applause]
["On, Wisconsin!"]
- Ladies and gentlemen,
the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band!
[cheers and applause]
[continuing "On, Wisconsin!"]
*
["Hot Time"]
[cheers and applause]
- Mike Leckrone: Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Can you hear the trombones okay, Lady?
[laughter]
This is the University of Wisconsin Band!
[cheers and applause]
This is the band that entertained you
as we won the Cotton Bowl championship not too long ago.
[cheers]
The news of my condition confused the band a little bit.
They really weren't sure...
They didn't think I had a heart to begin with.
[laughter]
But I want you to know I've been doing everything
that the doctors have been saying.
I've been on the rehab.
I'm doing everything they say.
Twenty minutes on the treadmill every day.
Twenty minutes on the stationary bike.
And 20 minutes with free weights, you know?
[women cheering "Whoo!"]
Doctors asked me, said,
"Do you think you could do 20 minutes with the dumbbells?"
I said, "I don't know.
I have to find out what the tubas have on their schedule."
[cheers and applause]
But I want you--
I almost chickened out of the...
I almost chickened out of the procedure.
I almost decided that I didn't want to do the surgery.
I said, "Oh, I'll take my chances."
I'll just see what happens.
And I went to the doctor and I said,
"What do you think, Doc?
"I think I'll just take my chances.
What are my chances?"
And he looked at me and said,
"I think about... probably about 10."
And I said,
"Was that 10 years?
10 months?"
He said, "10-9-8-7..."
[cymbal clangs comically] [laughter]
We're going to start with an old tune
that's been around for a long time.
- Band: Whoo!
- It's a tune by Bobby Sherwood called "The Elks' Parade."
- Band: Whoo!
Hey-up!
*
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you, thank you.
I like to think I'm a student of popular music.
And I like to keep up on what has happened in the world.
As I look back on some of the great music
that's made it to the top of the charts,
I noticed
that while there was some great music
on these top of the chart tunes,
they weren't, maybe, the best tunes.
And I also noticed that
some of the tunes that were the best tunes
never made it to number one.
Never made a one on the hit parade.
- Band: Awwwwwwwwwww.
- It's a shame.
[laughter]
One of my wife's favorite-- my wife, Phyllis's favorite--
"Nobody Does It Better."
- Band: Aww!
[speaking under his breath] - I'm not sure who she was talking about.
[laughter]
But that never made it to the top of the charts.
"Great Balls of Fire" Jerry Lee Lewis
never made it to the top.
Can you believe that those tunes didn't?
So, we've put together--
[audience groans in disappointment]
What can I say?
What we've done is we've put together a medley of tunes
that didn't make it to the top of the charts
but we're great, great songs to listen to and to play,
and you enjoyed as you listened to music.
We've called this medley "Never No. 1"
- Band: Ohhhhhh
Hey-up!
["MacArthur Park"]
["Great Balls of Fire"]
["Yellow Submarine"]
[singing] - * We all live
in a yellow submarine.
* Deep in the sea
[echoing] * Deep in the sea
[bands yells chant] We want "The Horse!"
["The Horse"]
["Y.M.C.A."]
- Now, I know that you know the motions to this.
- audience: * Y-M-C-A
That's it! Everybody!
* Y-M-C-A
[humming along]
Keep going. One more time here.
["Twist and Shout"]
["Nobody Does It Better"]
[cheers and applause]
- Well, we've delighted in...
to have some great soloists on the concert.
And this year,
because of some circumstances that were involved,
we got kind of a late start getting everybody together,
but I called on an old friend,
a really old friend,
a guy who was with the band when he was here many years ago.
This is Grant Manhart,
who is a great, great trumpet player,
former band member.
- Band: SSSS.BOOM.AHHHH! ["Skyrocket Greeting" whistle]
- Grant, we-- - Band: Grant Manhart.
- Stepped on their line again.
Grant, I've known since he was a high school kid.
He was a soloist here with the band.
And we figured out, backstage,
this is his eighth time soloing with the band.
He should have it right this time.
- 'Til I get it right. - 'Til he gets it right.
But this is Grant Manhart.
He is going to do an old violin virtuoso solo by Monti
called "Czardas."
[romantic music in a minor key]
[trumpet solo]
[sustaining high note]
[cheers and applause]
[trumpet resumes in moderately slow tempo]
[lively and fast tempo]
[tempo slows slightly]
[bright, fast, and lively tempo]
[slower tempo]
[very fast tempo]
*
[tempo slows, but remains brisk]
[cheers and applause]
- Grant Manhart.
[cheers and applause]
[drumming]
- Back in 1938,
the Carnegie Hall in New York City,
there was a legendary jazz concert
led by two legendary musicians:
Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman.
We're going to present to you
our recreation of that 1938 concert.
This is a tune called "Sing, Sing, Sing."
[cheers and applause]
[drumming]
[jazz with a driving beat]
*
[drum solo]
[band resumes]
[drum solo]
[band resumes]
[energetic jazz]
*
[drum solo]
[Grant Manhart trumpets a solo]
[band resumes]
*
[Grant Manhart on trumpet]
[fireworks fizzle]
[cheers and applause]
[hand drumming]
[more drummers join in]
[band performing " The Lion King Medley"]
[trumpet Fanfare]
[rhythmic percussion]
["Circle of Life"]
["I Just Can't Wait to be King"]
*
["Be Prepared"]
*
["Hakuna Matata"]
*
[band chanting] - Hakuna - Matata
[softly] - Hakuna - Matata
[very softly] - Hakuna - Matata
["Can You Feel the Love Tonight"]
["Circle of Life" reprise]
*
[fireworks pop] [cheers and applause]
[" Fiddler on the Roof Medley"]
*
["To Life"]
*
["Wedding Dance"]
*
["Sunrise, Sunset"]
*
["Matchmaker, Matchmaker"]
- Daughter 1: * Matchmaker Matchmaker make me a match
* Find me a find
* Catch me a catch
- Daughter 2: * Matchmaker Matchmaker
* Look through you book
* And make me a perfect match
- Daughter 3: * Matchmaker Matchmaker
* I'll bring the veil
* You bring the groom
* Slender and pale
- Daughter 1: * Bring me a ring
* 'Cause I'm longing to be the envy of all I see
- All: * For Poppa make him a scholar
* For Momma make him rich as a king
* For me well
* I wouldn't holler
* If he were as handsome as anything
- Daughter 1: * Matchmaker Matchmaker
* Make me a match
- Daughter 2: * Find me a find
* Catch me a catch
-Daughter 3: * Night after night in the dark I'm alone
- All: * So find me a match of my own
* Yente see that he's gentle
* Remember you were also a bride
* It's not that I'm sentimental
* It's just that I'm terrified
- Daughter 3: * Matchmaker Matchmaker
* Plan me no plans
* I'm in no rush
* Maybe I've learned
- Daughters 1 & 2: * Playing with matches
* A girl can get burned
- All: * So bring me no ring
* Groom me no groom
* Find me no find
* Catch me no catch
* Unless he's a matchless match!
[cheers and applause]
*
["Matchmaker, Matchmaker"]
["If I Were a Rich Man"]
*
["Sabbath Prayer"] - * Ah - [echoing] * Ah
["Bottle Dance"]
*
["Fiddler solo"]
[band resumes]
[drumroll]
*
[cheers and applause]
*
We close, as we close every one of these,
with a medley of songs of our great university.
Isn't this a great time to be a Badger?
[cheers and applause]
If you know the words, sing along!
If you're an alumnus, sing along!
If you don't now the words, and you are not alumnus,
eat your hearts out!
Next year, somersaults.
["Songs to Thee, Wisconsin"]
* Songs to thee, Wisconsin
* Ever let us sing
* Praise to alma mater
* Ever let us bring
* Queen of all the West
* College we love best
* Queen of all the West
* College we
* Love best
[drumroll]
["If You Want to be a Badger"]
*
- Band: Ah... How do you like me now?
[tubas play very low bass notes]
["Varsity"]
* Var-sity!
* U-rah-rah!
* Wisconsin!
* Praise to thee we sing
[echoing] * We sing
* Praise to thee, our Alma Mater
* U-rah-rah
* Wisconsin!
[drumroll]
[cheers and applause]
[Fanfare of trumpets]
Hey!
* Praise to thee, our Alma Mater
*
* U-rah-rah!
* Wisconsin!
U-rah-rah! Wisconsin!
- Band: Hey-up!
[drumming]
["On, Wisconsin!"]
- Thank you so much
for being with us tonight,
part of this 20th Anniversary
Kohl Center celebration.
We really appreciate your being here!
*
["On, Wisconsin!"]
*
We never say, "Goodbye,"
but then again, tonight, in a way, we do.
Because we've got a group of seniors here
who will be performing their last time on this stage.
And I can't be more proud of them.
Seniors, would you please stand?
[cheers and applause]
What they have meant
to the University of Wisconsin this year
and to me,
cannot be expressed in words.
But we're going to see you soon.
We may see you back here in the Kohl Center
19th, 20th, and 21st next year
when we do this again.
[cheers and applause]
Or we may see you out in the Kohl Center
for basketball and hockey.
Or maybe out in Camp Randall.
I've been there several times,
and I'd like to see you all one more time in Pasadena.
[cheers and applause]
But wherever it is, we'll see you real soon
and "On, Wisconsin!"
Three, four!
["On, Wisconsin!"]
[fireworks whistling]
[cheers and applause]
["You've Said It All"]
* Wisconsin
* You've said it all
[fireworks pop]
[cheers and applause]