Stanford Fleet Street Singers

Stanford

Every year since 1981, sixteen strapping young Stanford University men have found themselves putting on red bow-ties, calling themselves the Fleet Street Singers, and hurling a cappella at unsuspecting audiences. Scientists are still trying to explain this recurring phenomenon, although Thomas Fuller pretty accurately predicted Fleet Street in the 17th century when he said, “Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”

Fleet Street is best known for its arsenal of completely original, group-written songs, which are occasionally racy and usually hilarious. Though also armed with many jazz standards and popular music medleys, Fleet Street’s weapons of choice are its original songs, like “Everyone Pees in the Shower,” “Prayer to the God of Partial Credit,” and “Metrosexual.”