Needed: Taco Bell Canon Arrangement
Deborah903
Canon. Can anyone help? Many thanks!
Deb Forsdick
deb...@aol.com
Scott Adler
(Deborah903) wrote:
Well, I know that the Cornell Class Notes's took their arrangement from my old
group, University of Michigan's Amazin' Blue's album
_Coed_Naked_A_Cappella_ (Taco Bell is also on our CD titled _ABCD_) Since
we toured through cornell wile we were selling Co-ed Naked...well the
sequence of events seems obvious. AB was performing it since 1987. I think
the arrangement came from Amazin' Blues founding member Mike Wang, and it
probably was from Yale's Mixed Company. I may have the arrangement in my
old files, I'll have to check... and then check with the person who did
the arrangement.
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Michael Wang~
In article <Scott_Adler-1209941049420001@mac_dyn156.altair.wes.mot.com>, Scott...@wes.mot.com (Scott Adler) writes:
> In article <34tlit$q...@search01.news.aol.com>, debor...@aol.com
> (Deborah903) wrote:
>
> > I am looking for an SATB arrangement of the Cornell Class Notes' Taco Bell
> > Canon. Can anyone help? Many thanks!
> > Deb Forsdick
> > deb...@aol.com
>
> Well, I know that the Cornell Class Notes's took their arrangement from my old
> group, University of Michigan's Amazin' Blue's album
> _Coed_Naked_A_Cappella_ (Taco Bell is also on our CD titled _ABCD_) Since
> we toured through cornell wile we were selling Co-ed Naked...well the
> sequence of events seems obvious. AB was performing it since 1987. I think
> the arrangement came from Amazin' Blues founding member Mike Wang, and it
> probably was from Yale's Mixed Company. I may have the arrangement in my
> old files, I'll have to check... and then check with the person who did
> the arrangement.
>
Lately I've seen a small flurry of interest in TBC, so I thought I'd post a
quick note about the history of the tune. What Scott describes here is correct.
The arrangement originated with Yale University's Mixed Company (not to be
confused with Stanford's group of the same name), and I did bring it with me
to the University of Michigan and to Amazin' Blue.
The way TBC came together was kind of a group effort, so it's really tough to
put a single person's name on any aspect of either the arrangement or the lyrics.
(Of course, credit is due to Mr. Pachelbel for his part!) The whole thing
started back in the early years of Mixed Comapany, around 1984 or so. We were
sitting around, if my memory serves, while on a spring tour, and one of the guys
mentioned that he and his friends always called the Pachelbel Canon in D the
"Taco Bell Canon." This prompted one of the women to start singing "I like
tacos. I like tacos." to the tune of the Canon, and things sort of snowballed
from there.
After a few minutes of wild improvisation and a lot of excitement that this was
a pretty good idea, one of the group volunteered to try to put something together
for the music part of the song. A week or two later, she had things together.
Interestingly enough, there weren't any lyrics attached to the musical notes that
Mixed Company used (at that time) for TBC. The words were put together, again, in
a group setting, with everybody contributing bits and pieces where they would fit.
These were passed on by word of mouth in rehearsals, and when I had to recreate
them from memory for Amazin' Blue, I'm sure things changed quite a bit. But then
the MC oral tradition left a lot of room for change, too.
I'm glad to know that something we did way back then is still alive and well, and
especially that people are out there enjoying it enough to want to perform it
themselves!
Mike
DJ
Taco Bell?
Perhaps Pachelbel? (I may be off a bit in the spelling myself,
tho.)
Dana Johnson
Andrew A. Alexis
>
> In article <Scott_Adler-1209941049420001@mac_dyn156.altair.wes.mot.com>, Scott...@wes.mot.com (Scott Adler) writes:
> > In article <34tlit$q...@search01.news.aol.com>, debor...@aol.com
> > (Deborah903) wrote:
> >
> > > I am looking for an SATB arrangement of the Cornell Class Notes' Taco Bell
> > > Canon. Can anyone help? Many thanks!
> > > Deb Forsdick
> > > deb...@aol.com
> >
> > Well, I know that the Cornell Class Notes's took their arrangement from my old
> > group, University of Michigan's Amazin' Blue's album
> quick note about the history of the tune. What Scott describes here is correct.
> The arrangement originated with Yale University's Mixed Company (not to be
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Are there any recordings in print of the Taco Bell Canon? I would
dearly like to hear this arrangement.
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Andy Alexis(nd...@netcom.com OR ara...@dbserv2.teale.ca.gov)
Sacramento, CA "The Pearl of the Central Valley"
Andrew A. Poe
>Are there any recordings in print of the Taco Bell Canon? I would
>dearly like to hear this arrangement.
Taco Bell Canon is on the Amazin' Blue albums "Coed Naked A Cappella" and
"ABCD." Both of these albums are unavailable.
More recently, the Class Notes from Cornell University put it on their
"Naturally" album. This album is available.
You can mail order it from the Cornell Campus Store for $15.00 plus $3.95
shipping and handling, plus appropriate sales tax if necessary.
Send your check to
CORNELL CAMPUS STORE
ITHACA NY 14853-2001
Or, you can put it on your credit card by calling them at 1 607 255 8277 or
1 800 624 4080 (ask for the gift department).
The Class Notes probably sell the album directly, avoiding the Campus Store
middleman. I do not know what the rates are, but you can contact the
Class Notes at
THE CLASS NOTES
WILLARD STRAIGHT HALL BOX 36
ITHACA NY 14853-8201
I don't have a phone number, but you can contact one of their members,
Michael Beversdorf at md...@cornell.edu .
The very first group to record the song was the Yale Mixed Company. I have
no idea if they have the song on an available album, nor do I know offhand
how to contact them.
Good luck. It's a great song. Way back when I joined Amazin' Blue, that song
went over at least as well as any other, and better than most!
--
Andrew A. Poe
522 HILL ST
ANN ARBOR MI 48104-3223
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
+1 313 665-4920
andre...@umich.edu
Scott Adler
Wang~) wrote:
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Back in Amazin' Blue we had three songs that we had been performing since
the creation of AB, and Taco was one of them, so while I was there one of
the guys wwrote it out very neatly, exactly the way we had performed it.
He wanted to make sure that 20 years from now AB could perform it exactly
the same way. I think I may have that copy around if it is needed. Please
look at my new thread about arrangements, and distribution, though.
Deborah903
writes:
Dana,
It's the Taco Bell Canon, a parody of the Pachelbel Canon. It's very well
done and extremely funny. If anyone has an acappella arrangement of
Pachelbel's Canon, I'm sure we'd be interested in that, too. But I am
looking for something that is really, believe it or not, called the "Taco
Bell Canon"!
Deborah903
Deborah903
Scott...@wes.mot.com (Scott Adler) writes:
Scott,
If you can part with your TCB arrangement, we'd be really appreciative.
The ACappelicans is a mixed group; I don't how your arrangement is
arranged. I will read your note re arrangements and distribution as
requested.
Thanks muchly.
Deb Forsdick
180 Brimfield Rd.
Wethersfield, CT 06109
The Singing Towel
>The very first group to record the song was the Yale Mixed Company. I have
>no idea if they have the song on an available album, nor do I know offhand
>how to contact them.
It's on Mixed Company's Vertical Hold album (and probably others--that's
just the most recent one that I know about (1991?)). I'm not affiliated
with the group at all, but probably could find out where to get it if
someone's interested.
--Ben
DJ
Really? It's a real thing? I'm familiar with Pachelbel's Canon
(in fact, we used it in place of the traditional Wedding March
at our wedding.) but "Taco Bell"? I love it. Too funny, and I
must admit I'd love to hear it myself. Good luck in your
search.
Dana