June 17th 2023

Main Line Singers presents …

WELCOME TO OUR SHOW!

Jump on board our magic carpet for a musical ride around the world!

Enjoy the concert – and if you’re so inclined, feel free to sing along!
(Scroll down for lyrics!)

We are always looking for new members! We rehearse on Wednesday evenings and a love of fun music is all that’s required (no auditions!)

Our mission is to enhance our community through music; bringing joy, and enrichment to our singers and our audiences.

Main Line Singers is a 501c3 organization. All donations to Main Line Singers are tax deductible.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR HOST
St. Katharine of Siena Parish
for providing our performance, rehearsal and event space
We love it here! And are so grateful for your community-minded parish.

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SONG PROGRAM

1. TAKE THE R5
   Words by Billy Strayhorn and C.J. McGroarty | Music by Billy Strayhorn | Arranged by Kirby Shaw
2. COME TRAVEL WITH ME
   Words, Music and Arrangement by Scott Farthing
3. FAST CAR
   Words and Music by Tracy Chapman | Arranged by Jake Alexander
   Ensemble: Abigail Boyer, Laura Brady, Juliet Breslin-Romano, Kathryn Hershey
4. ROUTE 66
   Words and Music by Bobby Troup | Arranged by Kirby Shaw
5. BLUE BAYOU
   Words and Music by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson | Arranged by Teena Chinn
   Ensemble: Laura Brady, Susanne Neubig, Tanja Praefcke, Betty Prescod
6. CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’
   Words and Music by John Phillips and Michelle Phillips | Arranged by Mac Huff
7. HOW ARE THINGS IN GLOCCA MORRA?
   Words by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg | Music by Burton Lane | Arranged by John Purifoy
   Ensemble: Lawrie Harris, Emmerich Hauf, Christina Hayes, Beth Incollingo, Anne-Marie Richards
8. COME FLY WITH ME
   Words by Sammy Cahn | Music by James Van Heusen | Arranged by Mac Huff
9. LEAVIN’ ON A JET PLANE
   Words and Music by John Denver
   Ensemble: Peg Gibb, Vicki Gratz, Suzanne Sennhenn
10. AFRICA
    Words and Music by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro | Arranged by Roger Emerson
11. WALKING IN MEMPHIS
    Words and Music by Marc Kohn | Arranged by Mark Brymer
    Ensemble: Esther Everts, Christina Hayes, Eils Lotozo, Matthew Mani, C.J. McGroarty, Kyle Whitehouse
12. GO THE DISTANCE
    Words by David Zippel | Music by Alan Menken | Arranged by John Leavitt
13. CUPS (WHEN I’M GONE)
    Words and Music by A.P. Carter, Luisa Gerstein, Heloise Tunstall-Behrens | Arranged by Deke Sharon
    Ensemble: Julia Bartosh, Joanie Brundage, Kim Carr, Vicki Gratz
14. SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
    Words and Music by Bud Green, Les Brown, Ben Homer | Arranged by Hawley Ades
15. HOMEWARD BOUND
    Words and Music by Paul Simon | Arranged by Roger Emerson
16. HOME
    Words and Music by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden | Arranged by Greg Gilpin
    Soloist: Juliet Breslin-Romano
17. ALL ABOARD! (A Medley of Chattanooga Choo-Choo and On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe)
    Words by Mack Gordon, Johnny Mercer| Music by Harry Warren | Arranged by Jay Althouse

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

CJ MCGROARTY

ERICKA KLEIN, DMD

LOU PACE AUTO BODY

MAINLINEFREUNDE

NEOGILITY

PHL DETAIL

SAGE REALTY LLC

Dr. Edward D. Latham, Artistic Director

debbie ney, Accompanist

KYLE STRUVE, PERCUSSIONIST

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR DONORS

THE ABEL FAMILY
IN HONOR OF KIMBERLY CARR

LAWRIE HARRIS

JOYCE MILNE
IN HONOR OF KIM CARR

DAVID AND NATALIE PEDERSEN

JOANNE AND BART PITTARI
IN HONOR OF BRIANA WISNIEWSKI

GRAYSON WALDRON
IN HONOR OF HIS MOM

KAREN WISHNER
IN HONOR OF AMY WISHNER

Dr. Edward D. Latham is Associate Professor of Music Studies and Coordinator of the DMA in Music Performance program at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, where he advises some of the Greater Philadelphia area’s finest student musicians. He is a professional tenor, and has performed with the resident choir of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Singers, the Philadelphia Chamber Choir, the Medelssohn Club and the Music Group of Philadelphia. He has toured the world with various choral ensembles and has over 150 performances to his credit. Currently the Director of Music at St. Thomas of Villanova Parish (Villanova, PA) and the Associate Director of Liturgical Music at St. Katharine of Siena Parish (Wayne, PA), Dr. Latham accompanies regularly on both the piano and the organ, and directs multiple choirs of all ages.

Debbie Ney is a Philadelphia-area-based Collaborative Pianist and Accompanist. She is currently the Organist and Choir Director at Resurrection Episcopal Church in Aston, PA as well as Accompanist for the Main Line Singers and Dunwoody Retirement Community. Previous residencies include Syracuse Musical Stage, The Rock School of Ballet, University of the Arts Ballet Program, and The Havertown Choristers. A passionate teacher, Ms. Ney’s career has spanned over 40 years. Ms. Ney has taught at both the college and pre-college levels – including Syracuse, Kutztown, and Millersville Universities. She most recently retired from the Rose Tree Media School District after 20 years of service. Ms. Ney also worked as a music therapist at Norristown and Embreeville State Hospitals.

PERSONAL MESSAGES

Congratulations to everyone on a job well done!! 
YOU ALL ROCK!
– Vicki

Best wishes to our singing Angel Suzanne.
– With love and harmony, Clarissa and Nadya

This is our best concert yet!
We are so proud of how hard everyone has worked to travel here!
– The MLS Board

Thank you for all your hard work to make this a great concert!

LYRICS

TAKE THE R5

All aboard!
All aboard!
All aboard!

You must take the R5
To hear us singin’ pretty on the Main Line
And if you take the R5
You’ll hear us singin’ pretty on the Main Line

Hurry, the old rail cars are comin’
(Better not miss ’em)
Can’t you hear those singers hummin’!
(Pucker up and kiss ’em)

Aboard!
We’re at the station
Better not miss it!
And we will serenade you on the Main Line

Doot doo doo doot doo doot

Hurry, the old rail cars are comin’
(Better not miss ’em)
Can’t you hear those singers hummin’!
(Pucker up and kiss ’em)

Aboard!
Get on the R5
Better not miss it!
And we will serenade you on the Main Line

All aboard!
All aboard!
All aboard!
All aboard!
All aboard the R5!

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COME TRAVEL WITH ME

Let’s go!
Whoever you are,
Let’s go!
Come travel with me.

Let’s go!
Whoever you are,
Let’s go!
Come travel with me.

We will go
Down the open road
We will go
Where high winds blow,

We will go
Down pathless and wild seas,
The world before me!

Let’s go!
Whoever you are,
Let’s go!
Come travel with me.

There are things
More beautiful and divine
Than words can ever tell

There are things
That will never, never die,
There are things that will not grow old.

Let’s go!
We must not stop here.
Let’s go,
And we will not fear!

Let’s go,
I give you my hand,
I give you my heart,
I give you myself.

Let’s go!
Come travel with me
Let’s go,
Let’s go!

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ROUTE 66

If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way
Take the highway that’s the best
Get your kicks on Route 66

It winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66

Well you can go through St Louis
Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma city is mighty pretty

You’ll see Amarillo
Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona
Don’t forget Winona

Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino
Won’t you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip

Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on route Sixty Six.
Get your kicks
Get your kicks on Sixty Six

Lose your blues
Lose your blues on Sixty Six
You can cruise
You can cruise, you can’t lose out on route Sixty Six

Well you can go through St Louis
Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma city is mighty pretty
You’ll see Amarillo

Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona

Don’t forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino
Won’t you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip

Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66

Oh yeah!

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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is gray
I’ve been for a walk
On a winter’s day

I’d be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.
California dreamin’
On such a winter’s day

Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees
And I pretend to pray

You know the preacher likes the cold
He knows I’m gonna stay
California dreamin’
On such a winter’s day

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is gray
I’ve been for a walk
On a winter’s day

If I didn’t tell her
I could leave today
California dreamin’
On such a winter’s day

California dreamin’
On such a winter’s day
A winter’s day

All the leaves are brown

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COME FLY WITH ME

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AFRICA

I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She’s coming in twelve-thirty flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me toward salvation

I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some long-forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say, “Hurry boy, it’s waiting there for you”

It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless, longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what’s right

Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what’s deep inside
Frightened of this thing that I’ve become

It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

Hurry boy, she’s waiting there for you
It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

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GO THE DISTANCE

I have often dreamed of a far-off place
Where a hero’s welcome would be waiting for me
Where the crowds would cheer when they see my face
And a voice keeps saying this is where I’m meant to be

I’ll be there someday, I can go the distance
I will find my way if I can be strong
I know every mile will be worth my while
When I go the distance, I’ll be right where I belong

Down an unknown road to embrace my fate
Though that road may wander, it will lead me to you
And a thousand years would be worth the wait
It might take a lifetime but somehow I’ll see it through

And I won’t look back, I can go the distance
And I’ll stay on track, no I won’t accept defeat
It’s an uphill slope
But I won’t lose hope, ’till I go the distance
And my journey is complete

But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part
For a hero’s strength is measured by his heart

Like a shooting star, I will go the distance
I will search the world, I will face its harms
I don’t care how far, I can go the distance
‘Till I find my hero’s welcome waiting in your arms

In your arms

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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories

Got my bag, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child in wild anticipation
I long to hear that all aboard

Seven, that’s the time we leave, at seven
I’ll be waitin’ up for heaven
Countin’ every mile of railroad track
That takes me back

Never thought my heart could be so yearny
Why did I decide to roam?
Gotta take this sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home

Seven, that’s the time we leave, at seven
I’ll be waitin’ up for heaven
Countin’ every mile of railroad track
That takes me back

Never thought my heart could be so yearny
Why did I decide to roam?
Gottatake this sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home

Take a sentimental journey home

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HOMEWARD BOUND

I’m sittin’ in the railway station
Got a ticket to my destination
On a tour of one-night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one-man band

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escapin’
Home where my music’s playin’
Home where my love lies waitin’
Silently for me

Every day’s an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines
And each town looks the same to me
The movies and the factories
And every stranger’s face I see
Reminds me that I long to be

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escapin’
Home where my music’s playin’
Home where my love lies waitin’
Silently for me

Tonight I’ll sing my songs again
I’ll play the game and pretend
But all my words come back to me
In shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought’s escapin’
Home where my music’s playin’
Home where my love lies waitin’
Silently for me
Silently for me

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HOME

Hold on to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
‘Cause I’m gonna make this place your home

Settle down, it’ll all be clear
Don’t pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear

Trouble, it might drag you down
You get lost, you can always be found

Just know you’re not alone
‘Cause I’m gonna make this place your home

Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Settle down, it’ll all be clear
Don’t pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear

Trouble, it might drag you down
You get lost, you can always be found

Just know you’re not alone
‘Cause I’m gonna make this place your home

Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

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ALL ABOARD

Pardon me, boys
Is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
Track twenty-nine

I can afford
To board the Chattanooga Choo Choo
I’ve got my fare
And just a trifle to spare

You leave the Pennsylvania Station ’bout a quarter to four

Read a magazine and then you’re in Baltimore
Dinner in the diner
Nothing could be finer
Then to have your ham an’ eggs in Carolina

When you hear the whistle blowin’ eight to the bar
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far

Shovel all the coal in
Gotta keep it rollin’
Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are

There’s gonna be
A certain party at the station
Satin and lace
I used to call “funny face”

She’s gonna cry
Until I tell her that I’ll never roam
So Chattanooga Choo Choo
Won’t you carry me home?
Won’t you carry me home?

Do ya hear that whistle down the line?
I figure that it’s engine number forty nine
She’s the only one that’ll sound that way
On the Atchison, Topeka and The Santa Fe

See the old smoke risin’ ’round the bend
I reckon that she knows she’s gonna meet a friend
Folks around these parts get the time of day
From the Atchison, Topeka and The Santa Fe

Here she comes
Whoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Hey, Jim you’d better get the rig
Whoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
She’s got a list o’ passengers that’s pretty big

And they’ll all want lifts to Brown’s Hotel
‘Cause lots o’ them been travelin’ for quite a spell
All the way from Philadelphiay

On The Atchison, Topeka
On the Chattanooga Choo Choo
All aboard, all aboard

All aboard that train!

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CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE!
from the MLS Board of Directors

Karen Huang | PRESIDENT
Kim Carr | VICE PRESIDENT
Peg Gibb | SECRETARY
Mimi Kaloustian | TREASURER
 
Julia Bartosh | VOLUNTEERISM
Esther Everts | BOOKKEEPING
Alice Kirsch | PERFORMANCE
Valerie Lee | OUTREACH
Natalie Pedersen | MEMBERSHIP
Tanja Praefcke | MUSIC  
Barbara Sharf | MARKETING
Simon Trowell \ DEVELOPMENT