Let Me Call You Sweetheart - Valentine's Day Barbershop Quartet

[@232mumboy]

Oh wow. My great great grandma wrote this song. I can remember my grandfather talking about how he still got royalties for it until copyright lapsed. Thank you, Trudbol, this song means a lot to me and you performed it beautifully.

[@JulienNeel]

Oh wow, how cool this is part of your family's history. Thanks for sharing and watching, glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@TherealDanielleNelson]

Your great great grandma is Beth Slater Whitson?

[@robincortez6586]

It's a beautiful song!! 💗 WONDERFUL family history!!

[@user-ur8ro1gn3m]

That’s so cool! I’ve always thought this song was so sweet, and have heard it many times. Just the other week, as a matter of fact, I was watching an old episode of The Waltons (The Shivaree? Episode) and they sang it on there. It was, hands down, one of the best moments in television history. Your great great grandma was super talented, and I’m so glad she chose to share her talent for the rest of us to hear! ❤️

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

That's so cool. It really is a beautiful song.

[@datdeerdude5139]

I remember watching his first “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” video… must have been 8 years ago now!

[@JulienNeel]

Yes! But it was... 11 years ago lol

[@Susansuth]

This song made me happy. Beautiful. :)

[@JulienNeel]

My pleasure and thank you!

[@jimfrazzitta4218]

Otherworldly. This music makes the world a more beautiful place.

[@Andromeda1741]

HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ianboard544]

Thank you thank you thank you for including the intro.

[@sonyahannah]

Warm and wonderful. . . snapped me back to the day that one of my favorite English prof colleagues received a lovely audible Valentine's Day gift: her husband, a music prof in the other end of our lengthy building, recruited a barbershop-type quartet of his male students to serenade her outside of her office, enlivening the day beautifully for all of us.

[@gjunior2471]

Sweet.

[@hensegundo]

Wow! That's awesome harmony. Great stuff!

[@JulienNeel]

Gracias!

[@SuzyMcCheese]

And now it's truly Valentine's Day! What a wonderful full version of this classic. Stunning. So beautiful.

[@5Puff]

I give a huge thumbs up to the fact you included the beginning lyrics, most people forget about those

[@jasonyoungblood9359]

Wow! Very nice rendition! You're really making me want to start my own barbershop quartet. :)

[@JulienNeel]

Go for it!

[@iciclecold2991]

Darn it! I just missed your premiere... but that's okay. I am just happy to listen to you sing. Never stop singing Julien, you bring great joy to us all. :)

[@JulienNeel]

Haha, no worries: there was no Premiere this time, I just released the video directly and went straight to bed (it was 1:30AM). :) Thank you for your kind message, I'm glad my musical contributions are putting smiles on faces. We need more of that these days.

[@martiniquejunebug2284]

OH MY GOD THIS SONG I used to hear it every year on Valentine's,, ahh thank you for covering this 💞

[@corbse2059]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE THE FIRST TIME I'VE WATCHED YOUR VIDEOS THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@JulienNeel]

My pleasure and thanks! :)

[@harmonysinger8077]

This is one of my favorite polecats.

[@MiscMitz]

I love this! Don't think I've ever heard the whole song before. Thank you

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks for dropping by! :)

[@gleudissonpereirabrandaoju3773]

I love songs like that! And your voice is so beautiful ❤️

[@robincortez6586]

SWEET, SWEET, SWEET, SWEET. 💕💕💕💕😍👌

[@TheRealDrJoey]

Damn! You are awfully good, aren't you? I wish I had one-third the range you have. And a great song, with even a great intro verse.

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks for the high praise! It's not a very rangy song actually, I'm careful about my choices. :)

[@kevinbrennen6773]

My barbershop ensemble in High School won a competition with this piece some 30 years ago now, such memories, love it!!

[@Greenpoptartover9000]

Great work as always! Happy Valentines Day!

[@JulienNeel]

Thank you! To you as well!

[@gailsfoodandstuff]

you just keep putting out amazing stuff time after time! now, i must find the “donate” button so i can support your channel once again. :-)

[@JulienNeel]

Thank you, I appreciate it! :) I just added the link to the video description.

[@gailsfoodandstuff]

@@JulienNeel i will go and look now, thx for the link.

[@gailsfoodandstuff]

@@JulienNeel ok, just sent some money, and i hope others do as well, maybe go back to each video and make sure there is a link at the end of each list, as others will find your music for days, weeks, months, even years, and may want to support you as well. :-)

[@gailsfoodandstuff]

@@JulienNeel ok, just sent some money, and i hope others do as well, maybe go back to each video and make sure there is a link at the end of each list, as others will find your music for days, weeks, months, even years, and may want to support you as well. :-)

[@JulienNeel]

@@gailsfoodandstuff Thank you Gail, I am grateful for your gesture and kind message. Cheers

[@adamhenderly1602]

Outstanding performance I give you a superior rating.

[@JulienNeel]

Much appreciated!

[@GraverOne]

finally new uh...old...whatever XD great performance as always! greetings from germany

[@Clarkfamilyorchards]

Very nicely done sir.

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks David!

[@davidmckinney6577]

So beautiful ❤️ singing Julien. I sure love 💕 your singing voice and to get a notification from you..

[@bryanrendleman2001]

O so beautiful ! We need this beauty more than ever.

[@anastasijakildisa]

Wonderful ❤❤❤🥺🥂

[@JulienNeel]

Aww thank you for dropping by and taking a moment to listen, I'm honored!

[@MarcusStaAnaBurSelF]

Happy Valentine’s Day A Cappella Trudbol!❤️😌.

[@MarcusStaAnaBurSelF]

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!❤️😌.

[@jeffreyhale5981]

I have been waiting for you to do this song! Thank you so much it sounds amazing!

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks! I actually sang this tune on my channel over 10 years ago. :)

[@jeffreyhale5981]

@@JulienNeel Yes I remember that! I started listening to your music around that time... About 10 years ago. And because of you I love barbershop music and I'm actually performing with my barbershop quartet at a festival this weekend! Thank you for your inspiration and all of the videos you post! 🤙

[@JulienNeel]

@@jeffreyhale5981 Oh that's awesome!

[@benjaminprietop]

that was awesome

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks, glad you like it :)

[@loszhor]

Yay! You made the full version!

[@JosannaMonik]

Wow beautiful Valentines' tribute!

[@StumpkillerCP]

My Mother had Swiss Thorens music box that I now have. It plays three melodies: I Love You Truly. Let Me Call You Sweetheart, and Brahms Lullaby. My oldest memories are listening to this in a rocking chair held by my Mother. Thank you.

[@wisdomknowledgelover6293]

The Most beauriful I have ever heard this song...

[@dannychacon6592]

That was beautiful ,Well done!

[@JulienNeel]

Thank you!

[@allie1953]

I remember this from our old Edison phonograph. The old wind-up type with those thick records. The recording I was listening to (back in the 1960s) was probably from sometime in the 1920s.

[@peterharrison5833]

Julian, I'm two years' late but definitely not two dollars short on this blog. I've been following you for about a decade or so now, and am always impressed with your choices of tunes, arrangements, and of course your impeccable singing--it's always a joy. You saved my bacon tonight as I'm a local piano player (and sometime singer) who does a regular gig at a local old folks' home here in Alabama, USA. The crowd loves to sing this one as a singalong, and I've been through several good recordings by different BSQs and well-known American pop singers and not a single one of them sang the verse. Thanks for posting this for that part--it'll be a great help to do this anytime for the folks at the home (and especially on Valentine's Day) with me using the verse as a surprise intro. Merci beaucoup, mon ami, pour toutes les chansons que vous chantez, et j'espere a vous ecouter dans le futur pour beaucoup ans! Respectfully, PMH

[@freakklomp]

great song as always! happy valentines day from me and my partner rita p!

[@fsuseminoledc98]

Wonderful as always - you are so talented! Happy VD!! ♡

[@TheRealDrJoey]

You might not want to abbreviate this particular holiday like that.

[@rogerallen6644]

Very beautiful!!

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks! :)

[@DoccieDraaiorgel]

How amazing, I love the harmonies in here! Are you planning on releasing the sheet music for sale?😃

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks! I borrowed heavily from the Heritage of Harmony Songbook version: www.barbershop.org/files/documents/hoh/Let%20Me%20Call%20You%20Sweetheart%20(HOH).pdf

[@user-ur8ro1gn3m]

Wonderful job as always, Julien!!! ❤️

[@danieldunlap4077]

I haven't heard this song since the third season of Downton Abbey

[@billmackey5498]

I remember the first time you sang this song. It's the reason I started following your work. I was hoping you might do an update. Thank you very much. Great job!

[@thestepup2009]

fantastic as always

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks!

[@caitries7421]

amazing as usual!

[@gumisse]

Love this version.

[@ihbarddx]

Tangentially: This shares at least a progression with _I'll be Home for Christmas_, (Which, of course, came later.) There is a reference to "Love Light" in both songs in the same verse. They can be sung together or in a mash-up.

[@Private_Frenchy]

I accidentally found this and thought the song name very familar and then when the line "Let me call you sweet heart I in love with you" come up I suddenly realised that I've heard this song before from Adventure Time season The Elemental.

[@tammyhanes5806]

😢❤ my 😢 I miss Georgia brinkmann she passed away died dec4,23 I miss her she loved 🥰 that song. She gave me something plays tune . ❤

[@kurikokaleidoscope]

This is totally is totally amazing.

[@lizwatson717]

Omg this is awesome I love this song 💘🤗

[@Moon-a-Stan-Fan]

So beautiful! I love this!

[@Owool17]

I absolutely love this! ❤️

[@Lanthanaas]

I would love for you to do a version of Up Where We Belong.

[@TrayMarsh]

Check out his orig 12 years ago. Talk about growth!!! IMPRESSIVE!

[@retroman2199]

Greetings to you! I really want to hear the song "Raindrops Keep falling on my head" in your voice range and incredibly beautiful performance! Can my simple dream come true???

[@clericofchaos1]

Do you and your buddies ever get dressed up and go out into parks and sing?

[@JulienNeel]

We'd love to but we need to buy four horses and some hay first.

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

Please do the Johanna Quartet from Sweeney Todd!

[@buiscuitmajor445]

Am I going crazy or did you already do this song before?

[@JulienNeel]

Both? ;)

[@moneydynamicmatanya9541]

Amazing! Suggestion: Do you know the song called Bye Bye Blues? I think that would be sound nice!

[@JulienNeel]

Thanks! Yes, I know it. I actually covered it a while back (10 years ago) as a collab with a classical guitarist.

[@catsofsherman1316]

I know this song from Little Rascals short film from the 30s

[@jamccarthyson]

Who else only knows this song from Adventure Time?

[@JulienNeel]

Who else knows Adventure Time? ;)

[@berenerchamion3347]

That's brillant ! Bravo ! I'd like to be able to sing like you. Does it takes natural abilities or is it possible with practice for a random person ? Continue comme ça en tout cas (si tu parles français, comme j'ai vu sur certains de tes commentaires) 😁👍

[@englishwithmiranda]

Any chance of adding the cc lyrics to your videos? I'd love to use your videos in my English classes.

[@VanNessy97]

Girl help I'm turning into candy

[@gailsfoodandstuff]

i dont have patrion and last time you gave me a link to donate. cant find that in your side notes. sigh.

[@richardsmits8597]

Could you tell me which arrangement this is? Is it available online or to order? Excellent work, as always!

[@JulienNeel]

What I sang is heavily borrowed from the heritage of Harmony songbook arrangement: www.barbershop.org/files/documents/hoh/Let%20Me%20Call%20You%20Sweetheart%20(HOH).pdf

[@richardsmits8597]

@@JulienNeel Thanks so much!

[@zusrecall1086]

Hey, what music software do you use to make your videos?

[@TheRealDrJoey]

Whenever I watch your videos I try to figure out which version of you it is singing the various parts. Here's my guess: Stage right is Bass, second from stage right is the lead--I'm pretty sure of that one., third is Tenor, and fourth is Baritone. How far off am I? And is that always the order you line up in your videos, or do you shuffle it around?

[@JulienNeel]

Close. :) The layout in barbershop is generally the same: the main parts Lead and Bass in the center, with Tenor & Bari on the sides, Tenor next to Lead and Bari next to Bass. So that yields two solutions: - Tenor / Lead / Bass / Bari - or Bari / Bass / Lead / Tenor. In the above video, I went with the first solution. You can spot it more easily when you listen to the video with stereo headphones.

[@TheRealDrJoey]

@@JulienNeel Thanks. Don't have headphones I'm afraid. Usually I pick out the bass when there are contrapuntal parts, and I've tried guessing by watching your technique, but you look the same singing each part! I would have thought you'd have to put your chin down to your chest to get those real low notes--that was the technique my Dad used when I was little, and he would sing "Many Brave Hearts Are Asleep In the Deep" into my belly:-)

[@JulienNeel]

@@TheRealDrJoey Haha :)

[@annpirtle713]

Is it quadruplets?

[@JulienNeel]

It's just me singing, as a one-man barbershop quartet. You'll find plenty more videos on my channel.

[@erics670]

What about Danny boy?

[@TheCanadianGoose]

you should do bill nyes theme lol

[@wisdomknowledgelover6293]

Quadruplets?

[@nakedhombre]

Fabulous sound but no attention was paid to personality. I see zero expression on all the faces of the singer. What a shame as if presentation doesn’t mean anything! It does it is judged it is worth points. Somethings no amount of training can benefit certain people people if you don’t get it…

[@JulienNeel]

lol thanks for your input