The King's Singers - I'm A Train

[@liveforlife2494]

We're doing this song in Chamber Choir, arguably the most difficult song I've ever done in seven years of choir. This, people, is a capella at its finest. You gotta appreciate the complex harmonies and rhythms, especially when each member of the group is his own vocal part. Reeeeeally nice!

[@mamareid2149]

Same

[@cjenglish3348]

Same

[@hultgrenc]

Same

[@thomasski9862]

Same

[@twentytwo__]

ong

[@markcollins2876]

My favorite group of King's Singers.

[@notyourmom850]

heard this song on the radio for the first time in my life and it is awesome! I've been trying to sing it (more like butchering it but im trying!) all day!

[@QwertyRulz2]

I loved being the starting person in my choir for this song.

[@wenglishsal]

This is The Kings singers about 1980ish... Just proves that men come and go but the fantastic Kings singers sound is always FANTASTIC... :0)x

[@soaringabovetheclouds]

Those "chookahs"... Such a tongue twister.

[@wenglishsal]

@captainmeridian .. As a Kings singer fan too, I love listening to 'em all, but the 80's 'bunch' have a special spot in my heart because I used to watch 'em on BBC2 with my Mum and Dad.. Brilliant guys all of 'em... the current 'lot' are also FANTASTIC, we have a new Bass now too.. As Stephen retired... My fav pieces are 'Short People' makes me laugh and smile... 'Barber of Saville' 80's version and 'Masterpiece', 'New Day' amongst others... *Sighs and listens again* Regards from Wales :0)x

[@katepatrick1918]

You have no idea how hard this is! A few of us tried it last weekend with Nigel conducting! We thought we were great until we looked at this again... argh!!!

[@eneedham789]

Kate Patrick Kate Patrick They shifted in pitch and ended a semitone sharper than they should’ve, but I don’t think most in the audience would notice that. Otherwise it’s perfect.

[@dreamer_4937]

@@eneedham789 what are you talking about? They end precisely in tune with the pitch pipe note at the beginning.

[@eneedham789]

@@dreamer_4937 nope. Try listening again. It helps to hear the last chord on its own, then go back to the start and listen to the pitch pipe. They finish about three quarters of a semitone sharper.

[@skywayze5797]

@@eneedham789 ok I thought something like that happened. I tried transcribing a little and I was like wait huh?

[@eneedham789]

@@skywayze5797you can buy the sheet music on their website

[@hskshag00]

1:40 the countertenor 1 almost sang but he stopped himself hahahaha

[@JordanBahrPian-UkePlayer]

It kinda looks as if that would be the case, but in my opinion, I think it's all a part of that big decrescendo to the end.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Doing this song right requires practice... or should I say "train"ing?

[@mareick6126]

IM A TRAEYAEYAEYAEYAIN

[@thatguyfromthatthing2476]

Rest In Peace, Nigel Perrin.

[@SkyTrysHard]

If you look closely, You can see that they are not actually trains! FAKE!

[@Altoclarinets]

Or are they................?

[@melisas2317]

😂😂

[@bexpring]

lol this comment made my day

[@mcferran84]

😂👏🏼

[@margaretkuwata6794]

It’s ambiguous, open to interpretation.

[@heatherrowan4862]

I remember singing this my senior year. NOSTALGIA! I still can't chooka, though, because that ish is hard.

[@HHBBdssffeeww]

God that grooves. This is the best iteration of the group imho. I wish I could get their recordings.

[@Calaverea13]

I looooveee this song! Amazing and impressive! My choir is learning this song and we're going at full speed, it's already fun! :)

[@gnangnan1]

C'est d'une telle perfection...

[@erindoodles1735]

I did this for school.. We won Choir of the year.. I'm... contemplating life..

[@NothingCanDescribeUs]

Lol just saw this performed at a concert today it was def my fave

[@helsbelscc2]

And I'm now lucky enough to sing for Nigel Perrin in Exeter Festival Chorus. And he can still sing like that!

[@wenglishsal]

Oh, thanks for the info @jowdemanne .. Mind you, I should have guessed looking at their shirts.. big collars, YEP 70's thing for sure. Oh well, still gotta love them all, whoever is in the line-up 'The Kings Singers' are truly amazing.. Best regards and wishes from Wales ..:0)x

[@IamNotANumber]

Quentin Smirhes brought me here.

[@kaptainstandley9417]

hes not as good

[@Benderinski]

This brought me to Quentin 😂

[@IamNotANumber]

@@Benderinski Welcome :)

[@jamessalt13]

Me too

[@Combatfoo]

And me

[@BrownBeast77]

it was 1978, so closer to to 1980, but yes in the 70s

[@musicalman1995]

How are people taking this seriously? It's so funny.

[@FlowersInHisHair]

It's because it's really tricky to sing, and funny at the same time. It takes a lot of skill!

[@gilloth]

Agreed! :)

[@ricko3k]

Brilliant.

[@petesmith8886]

BRILLIANT!

[@jamesmcmillan9579]

brilliant!

[@kaffelatte2]

@wenglishsal Between 1978 and 1980 some time. Bill Ives, the tenor her, joined the group in 1978, and Nigel Perrin, the 1st countertenor, left in 1980.

[@jowdemanne]

well, that's completely true =), I saw them Thursday and it was just a delight to watch, completely without microphones, everybody as silent as they could be, and then the magic could start, I would see them more if they would come more to Belgium =)

[@wenglishsal]

@kaffelatte2 ... Bill Ives is/was a brilliant singers and he has a ball in 'Short People and Barber of Seville'... But I wasn't too sure of Nigel Perrin, so thanks you very much for educating me.. King Singers Fan UNITE... Yay.. love 'em all :0)X

[@patsilee]

Love it - love it-love it ............

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

The stuff you find in the middle of the night.

[@penis2020_]

my choir is singing this next year for our festival im hella hyped

[@dadragonite6827]

I like trains

[@mareick6126]

DaDragonite NNNEEWWWWWWW

[@FrogMan1066]

*fwoosh*

[@jamatg]

My favourite song quote ever: Look at me, I'm a train on a track. I'm a train, I'm a train, I'm a chucka train, yeah!

[@Violadude96]

I love this! we do this in my close harmonoy group at school this is one of our regulars :) great piece we do it at this speed and when it gets going there's nothing better

[@pauldelcour]

The first King's Singers were the very best, different more relaxed way of singing. With all due respect to newer King's Singers, this is unbeatable.

[@jacquelinewinter7312]

um, these are by far not the first...

[@pauldelcour]

@@jacquelinewinter7312 OK, my bad, but these are the ones are got to know in the 70's. Suffice to say they are a far better ensemble than the the more recent ones. Singing has changed and not for the good. I'm saying this a a professional choir conductor. Blending is key in singing together and these were very good at it.

[@paunitka7]

@@pauldelcour Nah... The current make up is blending very well. Your complaining is mostly nostalgia. ;)

[@pauldelcour]

​@@paunitka7 Maybe. Having just listened to the current bunch it's a fair point. Some record recordings were done by each having a microphone, thus they don't blend which sounds horrible. But singers truly blending is quite rare. Only Polyphony choir was very good at it and the BBCV choir, but only if a conductor would demand it. Moist singers are trained as soloist, not choir members. Even most cathedral choirs do not blend, mainly between the boys and adults which for me spoils it tremendously. It is my experience a s a professional choir conductor that singers do not tend to blend. Once I learned how to do this most singers are absolutely stunned at the sound you get. You get a true choral powerful sound without much effort, a cloud of voicesound into which it is so easy to blend your own voice. My wife sang for 10 years in the Dutch Bach Society and their leader had the strange idea that having a bright soprano and a dull one would even their sounds out. Mind, he was at the time a professional teacher of conducting at the Amsterdam Conservatory. How wrong can you get idea about voices. On the other hand my wife sang a duet with another singer and had to adapt her voice to the other singer so they would sound as one. The result was fantastic, but the other singer had no idea my wife was doing this to make it sound good. Sometimes II get the idea most musicians have no idea what sound is and how it behaves., That is something you're not educated in when becoming a professional musician Have you ever heard the Aurora orchestra play live by heart? That is orchestra blending like you've never heard before. They themselves state that the sound is quite different and much better because they listen to each other much intensively. Audience completely agree. So, blending of voices, blending of voices. Not that all my choirs did this or were able to or interested in, but those that can, wow, what a sound!

[@skinkost89]

In Sweden we have a famous humour,actors and sing group from Gothenbourg called Galenskaparna&Áfter shave who have write a new text to this melody called "Säng säng säng" means bed bed bed. They have write new text to much different melodies like Glen Milllers:Sankt Elmer tunes =Sankt Sigfrids plan(=Sant Sigfrid place),Putin on the ritz=De fyra klädesplaggen(=The fourth clothing). One another funny song they have write a text to is Swedens tv sport signature melody ,they called it "Bara sport"

[@xiyyea5205]

harmony smooth as hell at 1:27

[@kingssingersgirl]

@wenglishsal unite indeed! a lot of fan bases of various bases, so i've heard, have conferences and such. it would be amazing to have a conference or something!

[@markwalker5723]

ohhhh wow that's the best I can all I have

[@bradenkowalski8192]

My school did this song exactly like this and it was soooo good.

[@goodhumourman]

I heard that too - it happens at 1:00-1:03, but they're so in tune with each other I don't even know whether or not it was an accident - crazy vocal control!

[@jamesconde627]

So clean!

[@iwaegian]

Genius

[@iannickCZ]

This sync is just incredible...

[@vickysifuentes97]

amazing ♥♥♥

[@my-rasuperstar8892]

Quentin Smirhes brought me here

[@1biohazard]

Love it! 1st tenor looks more like a rockstar than a choir boy..;-)

[@paulsmith5752]

That's Bill Ives (aka Grayston Ives), who then went on to be Director of Music at Magdalen College Oxford. graystonives.com .

[@1biohazard]

Yes I read that on the net...what a great performance!

[@mrbirb]

I heard this in music class and came to listen

[@nasdkhan254]

Reminds me of wet weather , tripping on my flares and no money

[@dictatornapalm1718]

Listening to this at 0.25 speed is amazing

[@winders128]

Tried it. Scary!

[@threegoldmartlets]

Nothing beats the original group.

[@MagicSteve46]

i can imagine this as a great swing piece :D

[@MikeTheGamerGuy]

THIS!

[@GTFelver]

Wow! The choir that I am in right now will never be able to get it up to that tempo, they arn't capable... This is one of the songs in our set though........ The King Singers are awesome! :)

[@hayellbayell]

holy mother of god, that was fast.

[@krisk2332]

I’m here because of the music connections textbooks my old school still had

[@yolo_xenophone]

How did the peanut vendor get me here 😂

[@TheSoundDepo]

The guy's voice at the start is velvet smooth

[@ScottishgirlAnnlorie]

@captainmeridian This is my aboslute favourite King's Singers lineup, you really cannot top Bill Ives, Alastair Hume, Brian Kay, Simon Carrington, and Anthony Holt!

[@partyup210productions7]

Is that Malcom McDowell on the far left?

[@carlkamuti]

My thoughts exactly! 🤣

[@Quilna]

Could you make more of this please? I would appreciate listening to more of this. 10 hour version?

[@timmjurgensen1624]

sehr geile version ..... yyyeeaah

[@linuxgeek87]

I am going to replace the audio for trains in GTA V with this, that would be hilarious.

[@ChookaParkerisMusic]

I'm a Chooka... Chooka Parker :)

[@liberalmonk839]

1:11 " it's a lesbian "

[@1darlin1angel1]

@bleakbear Oh my god you have no idea how happy you just made me!

[@marcelmaes5275]

Well, that was the bullet train with about 500 bpm

[@petesmith8886]

I'd love to see Down by the stream & Singapore Girl on here!

[@sibionic]

I think the best trains really think like this: 'look at me! I'm a train - yeh!'

[@erikaanker]

So funny!!

[@twentytwo__]

epic vid

[@tiredtait9660]

I love this song, I just keep hearing "ahh dave is a lesbian" at 0:32 and really am curious what they are actually singing.

[@storiesbydarksaberlight1517]

“A hard day, yes, it has been” 😂

[@tiredtait9660]

@@storiesbydarksaberlight1517 Much obliged stranger!

[@elisabeth.lillianeb4029]

im a train!

[@bombus5385]

I wana be a train!!!!!!!!!!

[@ClauseElric098]

@jumpsteady1 I heard it too, you aren't the only one.

[@CanadianBrandon]

@0:51 Andy Samberg really lets it go.

[@jj9749]

RIP Anthony Holt (3rd from right)

[@jowdemanne]

Actually, it's more like 1970ish, they performed this the day before yesterday and they said it was from the 70s =)

[@Yung_Bell]

best song ever

[@Tonamel]

@jumpsteady1 The real lyric is "It's been a hard day. Yes it has been a hard day. Yes it has.

[@Cozie_Cactus]

My high school choir teacher is making us sing this

[@dominikschwarze]

why I watch at this actually now? im really confused... maybe it's the late time ^^

[@Teros17]

You can tell it's the 80's by looking at their tuxedos.

[@alpine_berry]

I wannna be a chuugga chuuga train!!! :)

[@Jessiecartereq]

LOL IM A TRAIN

[@Raichu234]

WOOOOOOOOOOOO :O

[@Valygarx]

Ah! Dave is a lesbian!

[@yaokay5847]

Thats what i heared!

[@NormaStitz-w1f]

Dave is a lovely lass and I respect her life choices.

[@lootje145]

thumps up If you saw that on 1.40/1.41 the guy on the left thought he had to sing!

[@savagegamer4448]

I like trains. Its 2:50 am dear god

[@m.c.r.2015]

APLAUS..APLAUS.. 😂

[@skinkost89]

I will coorect my self.This sport signature i talk about before is a radio signature and not a tv signature.The tv signature is a version of theme from Shaft.

[@reydonnysben6933]

Merci à OKAmedia pour m'avoir fait découvrir cette musique.

[@sanidad27]

They went sharp :]

[@eneedham789]

By a whole semitone! I had somebody on here disagree with me on that when it’s obvious as hell lol. 10 year old comment so you might not see this 😂

[@Phalxxx]

Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games.

[@molealto]

I'm a Dalek.

[@kingssingersgirl]

@kingssingersgirl sorry that came out wrong... "fan bases of various artists." thats what happens when you run on almost no sleep

[@OHWISEONE1996]

Does anyone else dare to listen to this while high?

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

The stuff you find in the middle of the night.

[@geen-zin8187]

It's 2:05 now xD

[@SuedEsmeraldischesFernsehen]

RockyRailroad Animation . oh yes. it is 23:54 / 11:54 p.m. on the clock utc+1

[@savagegamer4448]

RockyRailroad Animation true I can't believe this is a song

[@swedishbloke]

There’s a swedish version where they instead sing about being tired, beds and sleeping so they can be “pigg” and singing about a Swedish popsicle “pigelin” Just search “säng säng säng” on youtube...

[@Kramttin]

Sova, sova, sova Säng, säng, säng...