Aura Lee (Love Me Tender) - A Cappella barbershop - trudbol & nnosd

Aura Lee - Barbershop Quartet
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Here is a short render of the first verse of the classic barbershop arrangement of "Aura Lee", sung as an a cappella inter-region multitrack, with my YouTube friend Les:
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"Aura Lee" (also known as "Aura Lea") is an American Civil War song about a maiden. It was written by W. W. Fosdick (words) and George R. Poulton (music).

The Elvis Presley song "Love Me Tender" (lyric by Ken Darby) is a derivative adaptation of this song. A later Presley recording for the film "The Trouble with Girls" entitled "Violet (Flower of N.Y.U.)" also used the melody of "Aura Lee".

There is also a version of "Aura Lee" called "Army Blue" associated with the U.S. Military Academy. The tune is sung to lyrics specific to the academy; the original lyrics to that version were by George T. Olmstead, an 1865 graduate of the academy. It is the running theme music in the background of the 1954 John Ford film The Long Gray Line.

Aura Lee was memorably sung by Frances Farmer and a male chorus in the 1936 film "Come and Get It", based on Edna Ferber's novel.

The television comedy F Troop used a variation of the song to welcome saloon singer Laura Lee in the episode "She's Only a Build in a Girdled Cage". (source: Wikipedia)

-- LYRICS --
As the blackbird in the spring
'Neath the willow tree
Sat and piped
I heard him sing
praising Aura Lee.
Aura Lee! Aura Lee!
Maid of golden hair
sunshine came along with thee
And swallows in the air.

-- CREDITS --
Bass vocals by Les:
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Other vocals, audio & video mixing by Julien Neel
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