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http://www.amazon.com/Innocence-Despair-Langley-Schools-Project/dp/B00005Q6NP 
http://www.last.fm/music/Langley+Schools+Music+Project

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The Langley Schools Music Project
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Langley Schools Music Project is a collection of children's chorus recordings made from 1976-77 by Canadian music teacher Hans Fenger in a school gymnasium in Langley, British Columbia, near Vancouver. The students performed unique versions of pop hits by the likes of The Beach Boys, David Bowie, and Paul McCartney. The recordings were quickly forgotten until Victoria record collector Brian Linds found the first record in a thrift store and sent it to author, WFMU radio DJ, and "outsider music" enthusiast Irwin Chusid in 2000. After ten label rejections, Irwin managed to get the album released on Bar/None Records, and it immediately created an international buzz, making many end-of-the-year best album lists in 2001. VH-1 coordinated a reunion of Fenger and dozens of his former students in 2002, and produced a documentary about the project.

Richard Linklater's 2003 hit film School of Rock was inspired by the Langley CD.

Discography:

Lochiel, Glenwood, and South Carvolth Schools, 1976
   1. You're So Good to Me
   2. To Know Him Is To Love Him
   3. Help Me, Rhonda
   4. Space Oddity
   5. I'm Into Something Good
   6. Band on the Run
   7. Rhiannon
   8. Little Deuce Coupe
   9. Saturday Night

Hans Fenger/Wix-Brown Elementary School, 1977
   1. Venus and Mars/Rock Show
   2. You're Sixteen
   3. Wildfire
   4. In My Room
   5. I Get Around
   6. The Long and Winding Road
   7. Desperado
   8. Good Vibrations
   9. God Only Knows
  10. Sweet Caroline
  11. Mandy
  12. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

Innocence & Despair, 2001
(Compilation of previous 2 LPs, recorded 1976-77)

   1. Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Paul McCartney & Wings)
   2. Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)
   3. God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)
   4. Space Oddity (David Bowie)
   5. The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)
   6. Band on the Run (Paul McCartney & Wings)
   7. I'm Into Something Good (Herman's Hermits)
   8. In My Room (The Beach Boys)
   9. Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers)
  10. I Get Around (The Beach Boys)
  11. Mandy (Barry Manilow)
  12. Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys)
  13. Desperado (The Eagles)
  14. You're So Good To Me (The Beach Boys)
  15. Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
  16. To Know Him Is To Love Him (The Teddy Bears)
  17. Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
  18. You're Sixteen (Johnny Burnette)
  19. Little Deuce Coupe (The Beach Boys)
  20. Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphey)
  21. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (Klaatu)

Quotes:

* "The backing arrangement is astounding. Coupled with the earnest if lugubrious vocal performance you have a piece of art that I couldn't have conceived of, even with half of Colombia's finest export products in me." - David Bowie (on "Space Oddity")

* "The effect of all those young voices singing 'Calling Occupants' is charming." - Richard Carpenter, The Carpenters

* "When I heard about the Langley project, it seemed very interesting, but I did have the thought that it might sound like children singing off-key in a gym. The reality blew me away-- a haunting, evocative wall-of-sound experience that is affecting in an incredibly visceral way. What an amazing CD!" - Fred Schneider, The B-52's

* "I find myself calling friends, turning The Langley Schools Music Project up really loud, holding the phone out and going, 'Can you hear that?' I put it on at odd times during the day, tuning it in and out, sometimes wincing as the singers hit a strange note, then shaking my head in puzzled wonder when the music suddenly, and against all odds, transcends the kitsch limitations that seem designed to keep it earthbound and soars off into the realm of true art. It flies -- crooked as a butterfly's flight, but it still flies. I wish every school taught music like this. I wish every piece of music recorded in a school gymnasium were this haunting... and then I suspect that, if I listened to them right, maybe they would be." - Neil Gaiman

* "I knew virtually nothing about conventional music education, and didn't know how to teach singing. Above all, I knew nothing of what children's music was supposed to be. But the kids had a grasp of what they liked: emotion, drama, and making music as a group. Whether the results were good, bad, in tune or out was no big deal -- they had élan. This was not the way music was traditionally taught. But then I never liked conventional 'children's music,' which is condescending and ignores the reality of children's lives, which can be dark and scary. These children hated 'cute.' They cherished songs that evoked loneliness and sadness." - Hans Fenger, Langley music supervisor/arranger


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MP3s made with eyeD3, EasyTAG, and... I forget now because I had to try way to many programs just to set a good bitrate (Sound Juicer would only let me do 128kbps... grrr) it was something that didn't automatically do the tags hence the eyeD3 and easyTAG

Pictures and liner notes edited with GIMP

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