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Popular Reunion performers aim for a 2022 return<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Orientation Week, August 1964, and Ron Johnson \u201968, BS \u201969, had just arrived on the Hill as a first-year Hotel student. He recalls walking around campus and seeing all the \u201ccome join us, freshmen!\u201d posters advertising a multitude of clubs and organizations. A sign for the Sherwoods of Cornell caught his eye, promoting an opportunity to hear the popular a cappella<\/em> group perform that afternoon in the Ivy Room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another men\u2019s troupe, Cayuga\u2019s Waiters, performed first; Johnson recalls enjoying their \u201csimple harmonies but very impressive music.\u201d Then the Sherwoods took the stage, clad in their signature dark green blazers. \u201cThey completely blew me away,\u201d he says. \u201cThey not only had much more complex musical arrangements, but they did introductions of each song by stepping forward and ad libbing, little stories or jokes or whatever, that were very humorous. The audience was enraptured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So was Johnson, a baritone who had sung with a barbershop quartet in high school but was new to the more complex arrangements the Sherwoods had showcased. He went to the auditions they held later that week in Willard Straight Hall and made it through to the final tryouts the next weekend, held at Toboggan Lodge next to Beebe Lake. After spending the day learning and practicing a complex a cappella<\/em> arrangement, Johnson and a few others were each asked to go on stage. \u201cThey said, \u2018Ron Johnson, you\u2019re next; come on up and make us laugh.\u2019 Amazing. No pressure,\u201d he recalls with a chuckle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson made it into the group, and he\u2019s been a Sherwood ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sherwoods of Cornell perform in Jamaica during a tour in 1960. (Photo: Provided)<\/em>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glee Club origins<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Like Cayuga\u2019s Waiters before them, the Sherwoods originated as a small official subset of the Cornell University Glee Club<\/a> and later split off from it as their popularity grew. They first appeared at the Glee Club\u2019s fall 1956 concert, and, by the following summer, were already on their own international tour. The group\u2014a \u201ctriple quartet\u201d of twelve singers\u2014officially separated from the club in 1958 and enjoyed a decade and a half of success, with seasonal concerts on campus and regular tours taking them to the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia, including USO trips to entertain U.S. servicepeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name \u201cSherwoods\u201d reportedly comes from the group\u2019s visit to well-known Ithaca haberdasher Irv Lewis to decide on a defining look. Since the Glee Club wore navy blue and red was taken by the Big Red Marching Band, Lewis offered them jackets in \u201cSherwood green\u201d and the group was sold; the name evoked the royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, and the legend of Robin Hood. It also came to be associated with the singers\u2019 ad lib style: as Michael Slon \u201992 observes in his 1998 book Songs from the Hill: A History of the Cornell University Glee Club<\/em>, \u201c[T]he group often responded to the impromptu invitation, \u2018Would you like to sing,\u2019 with the answer, \u2018Sure would.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An early appearance in the Cornellian<\/em> yearbook describes the musical style of the \u201ctraveling troubadours extraordinaire\u201d as \u201cfeaturing a repertoire which ranges through rock-n\u2019-roll, close harmony, Calypso, novelties, folk-songs, and nearly every other type of music popular in America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unique to the Sherwoods were their famously intense two-hour daily rehearsals, increasingly complex six- and eight-part harmonies, and a growing repertoire of original arrangements created by Frank Holden \u201962, Fred Kewley \u201965, and, later, Dan Murray \u201970. Sherwood alum Bill Hazzard \u201958, MD \u201962, says the broad scope and complexity of the group\u2019s harmonies and their diligent rehearsing helped the Sherwoods to \u201cdemonstrate excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sherwoods of Cornell released eight LPs during their student years. (Images: Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The more challenging arrangements were based on popular songs of the time and \u201ccontained some of the first-ever uses of voices as percussion or rhythmic \u2018drivers,\u2019\u201d says David Hunter \u201968, who notes that the group\u2019s novel combination of songs and humor earned it frequent invites to college choral festivals. The Sherwoods grew over time, expanding to 15 and even 18 singers, giving them a bigger sound and more vocal complexity. They released eight LPs during their student years and, decades later, produced two remastered compilation CDs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Famous Sherwoods included Harry Chapin \u201964, who sang with the group and wrote two songs that became part of their set list (\u201cLet Me Down Easy\u201d and \u201cWinter Song\u201d). \u201cHe was a funny guy. Humorous, but driven,\u201d Johnson recalls. \u201cHe\u2019d be down in the Ivy Room with a stack of napkins, writing lyrics \u2026 One of his big songs, \u2018Taxi,\u2019 he composed at Cornell.\u201d Kewley, the group\u2019s musical director, became its longtime alumni leader and went on to have a notable career in music industry management for artists like Chapin, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Earl Klugh, and Chet Atkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Reunions, a renaissance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The popularity of a cappella<\/em> groups waned in the early 1970s and the Sherwoods stopped auditioning new members; they last appear in the Cornellian<\/em> in 1973 and last performed as a student group in 1974. Save for fond memories, that might have been the end of the Sherwoods\u2019 story\u2014but a new chapter began just over a decade later, when the Class of 1965 invited them to perform at its 20th reunion. \u201cIt was exciting,\u201d Johnson recalls. \u201cWe contacted all the singers from approximately the \u201963 through \u201966 era. And everybody said, \u2018Let\u2019s do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without the benefit of sheet music\u2014as Johnson explains, \u201cNothing had been written down\u201d\u2014the group re-learned about 15 songs in preparation for the Reunion performances. The show was such a hit that the Class of \u201966 invited the Sherwoods to its<\/em> 20th Reunion\u2014and they kept coming back, year after year. Essentially split into two subgroups\u2014the \u201cyounger\u201d Sherwoods from the classes of \u201964-\u201974, and the \u201cfounders\u201d from \u201958\u2013\u201963\u2014they\u2019d give performances for classes from the late \u201950s through the mid \u201960s. \u201cWord got around that the Sherwoods were a hot act,\u201d Johnson says. \u201cIt was a terrific time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Word got around that the Sherwoods were a hot act. It was a terrific time.<\/p>Ron Johnson \u201968, BS \u201969<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In 2000, Sherwoods alum Jon Dickinson \u201960, LLB \u201964, created The Pipes Are Calling<\/em>,<\/a> a short film about the group that he describes as more of a visual statement than a typical documentary. Says Dickinson: \u201cWhat it does is show, in imagery, the depth and power of the deep friendship bonding which exists with this collection of early Sherwood members\u2014a bonding rooted in the years spent together beginning with our shared time at Cornell\u2014and a bonding enhanced progressively in the many years thereafter as we relinked from year to year, usually for a week at a time, to sing and enjoy our friendships.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sherwoods of Cornell alumni gather for a group photo during a practice in 2019 in Longboat Key, Florida. (Photo: Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After Kewley died in 2013, Hunter took over as musical director, and Johnson continued to manage group practices and get-togethers (often held in the fall in Longboat Key, Florida) and serve as business manager. Hunter\u2014a Minneapolis-based physician who also studied voice for many years\u2014carefully trains the alumni to maximize their sound without hurting their vocal cords. \u201cI have learned a great deal about how to optimize the aging voice,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sherwoods held regular Zoom get-togethers, and they aim to return to in-person Reunion performances in 2022. The group wants to keep singing \u201cas long as we\u2019re still standing,\u201d Johnson says. \u201cThe reality is, we won\u2019t live forever. But our voices, fortunately, are hanging on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top image: The Sherwoods of Cornell sing \u201cSo Sad Baloney\u201d (an arrangement of the Everly Brothers\u2019 \u201cSo Sad\u201d), one of their big in-concert hits, to a female student on stage at Bailey Hall during the annual \u201cFall Tonic\u201d concert in 1966. (Photo: Provided; Photo illustration by Cornell University)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published October 5, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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