Hoya Saxa

Lie Down, Forever, Lie Down

The Georgetown Chimes treasure their tradition. It is for this reason that several of our seventeen albums are musical anthologies. In a way, this too is an anthology, but unlike the others, we didn’t use tapes of soloists with their own active group, but rather, called them back to sing the songs with our group. Perhaps the most active of our alums is Kevin O’Brien. Throughout the year he has sung “So Much in Love” to the delight of Chimes’ audiences everywhere. He was also M.C. for this year’s Cherry Tree Massacre and was responsible for our appearance on “P.M. Magazine.” Steve Mohyla solos “Great Historical Bum” and helped on many of the baritone parts. Tim Naughton was called in to sing “Good Fellow,” despite his voice, and Bob Gaylord, specialist, was brought in for the final bell chord. Another alumnus we’d like to thank is Mark Ganz. Although he has no solos on this album, he too helped with many of the baritone parts and was part of last year’s active group. He was our only loss this year, but he helped to develop the sound we have now; for that we are grateful. “St. Louis Blues,” with its three solos, posed a particular problem. We had to try to synchronize the schedules of Mark Williams (’59), Dave Walsh (’58), and John Sheridan (’59). Not only that, but we had to put up with them for the recording weekend. In spite of the logistical difficulties of getting all these alumni together for the album, it has been a lot of fun, and it has reminded us once again what the group really means to each one of us. We realize that this camaraderie cannot be conveyed on a 12-inch disc of vinyl; nonetheless, we hope you enjoy this album as much as we enjoyed singing it for you.