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Transcription: [00:24:17]
{SPEAKER name="Brother Brown"}[Cecil C. Brown]
Now, when I went to school, they had a little round thing to teach you. I'm sure everyone's familiar with that. They put you in the key that she wanted you in, but the way we do is, we hit a note not too high or not too low.

[00:24:28]
Wherever we are comfortable with that note, whether we turn a baritone or lead, that's where we keep it at so we don't hurt ourselves in the future years to come. But we can't afford, since we don't use no particular sound to start our music to make it comfortable for ourselves, we always keep it at the pitch.

[00:24:50]
And it comes in right into your mind, a certain pitch then and right off, if the leader hits too high, we know it right from the bat, before we open our mouths, but then if he hit it in the lower pitch, we know we can handle although we sing in very different pitches, but as long as it's not too high, we can handle it.

[00:25:11]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Ok, uh, our time is about up and I suggest to you that they like to sign autographs. They like to answer questions and you can grab them as they go off stage. Would either of you groups like to hit- hit one more tune? Hit a few phrases before you go?
[applause]

[00:25:36]
Wanna piece? A little bit, because I'm gonna miss them tremendously. As I said to you, this is their final performance on the Philadelphia stage. We'll have new groups coming in next week, but it really has made them feel good because you all have not only listened to them sing, you've listened to them talk and you've also listened to me talk, so we thank you for having been so wonderful.
[applause]

[00:25:59]
And we'll close out our workshop stage with just a few phrases from each of the groups. If you prefer to sit down gentlemen, that's quite alright. And their voices are tired. This has been a hard week for them, but because they love you, they'll sing anyway.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Yeah.

Transcription Notes:
Speaker identified as Brother Brown in the last recording.