Original upload date: Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:37:06 GMT
In the spring of 1995, Andrew Callard arranged Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" for the Bear Necessities, one of Brown University's all-male acappella groups. The song soon became a grou
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p favorite, and a tradition of singing it with alumni at the Commencement Concert was born the following year. For the last 25 years, "Streets" has been passed down from one generation of Bear Necessities to the next, and has been sung in May at the group's Commencement Concert each year. Due to the COVID pandemic, Commencement was cancelled for 2020, but alums and sound engineering wizards Benjy Rose and Will Palmer were able to get 46 alums from all over the world to record their own parts remotely so that Benjy could make this virtual recording of the song in honor of its 25th Anniversary with the group.
