Just wondering if anyone had heard of show choirs before the show Glee?
No-one I know (except one gay lad) had ever heard of it before.
I’ve heard of “glee clubs”, thought they went the way of the sock hop or something.
Only through You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and I didn’t get the same picture that Glee presents. I sort of thought that they were related to cheerleaders.
At my high school it was called “show choir”, but a few people would call it “glee club”, especially the after-school activities. Don’t most schools have something like that? Mine had less than 300 students in the rural Midwest, but we could still support it.
(I was in jazz band instead of show choir, so I was a slightly different sort of nerd.)
I went to two different colleges as an undergrad, and they both had show choirs.
Yep. I was in one. I dare say all of my area high schools had them.
In middle school (grades 6-8) we had glee club. But it then became “chorus” in high school.
“I was in AV club and glee club and even the chess team.”
- Weird Al Yancovic, White and Nerdy
So, yes.
I don’t think I ever attended a school where it was called “glee club” but I knew the term. It was always “chorus” at my schools.
The video made me think that it was some weird type of medieval recreation thing.
Glee clubs yes, show choirs, no.
“Chorus” is something different than “show choir” or “glee club”, at least where I went to high school. Chorus is a mass choir with students of all skill levels. It’s practice time was almost completely during school hours.
Show choir is restricted to the best singers. You had to audition to get into it. It had regular practices after school for the extra time.
Saved by the Bell had an episode once which included a glee club. So ends my exposure to such things.
I loved that show. I’m not ashamed.
That was the visual to go with another line in the same verse, “Spend every weekend at the renaissance faire”.
I was in choir in high school, but we didn’t call it Glee. The hard core singers were in the Vocal Ensemble.
The only time I had heard of glee club prior to the show is when Joe Nameth was on the Brady Bunch.
I’d heard ‘glee clubs’ mentioned in American films, where it was clear from the context that they were choirs of some sort. I’d never come across the term anywhere else.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
The first time I heard of it was the Saved by the Bell episode “Glee Club.” My school did not have it.
My understanding was that a Glee club was a non school sponsored choir that met on campus, like any other club. It wasn’t a class, but more like being in FFA or something.
I also know that calling an official school choir a glee club is often insulting. I remember when my high school choir got put in the club section, rather than with the other extracurricular (like band and sports). There was a big stink with everyone saying “We are not a glee club.”
That said, I’m thinking about trying to start a glee club at my local community college. Having an actual class didn’t work because too many people were taking it for easy credit. I’m hoping to get my life fixed enough that I can at least do that.
I’ve seen them in old yearbooks, next to the page for the Hi-Y club.