7:00 PM - Meeting at Ponders. Rehearsing these songs;

The Old Songs
Down Our Way
Shine on Me
Sweet Adeline
Blue Skies arr. by Clay Hine
Minstrel Montage
Wait Till The Sun Shines, Nellie
Fun in Just One Lifetime
Yesterday
Darkness On The Delta
When She Loved Me
Let the Rest of the World Go By
Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)
God Bless America
Keep The Whole World Singing

Annual Show Songs: Blue Skys, Darkness on the Delta, Fun in Just One Lifetime, God Bless America, Hello Mary Lou, Let the Rest of the World Go By, Minstrel Montage, My Wild Irish Rose, The Old Songs, Wait, Til the Sun Shines, Nelly, When She Loved Me, and Yesterday.

Repertory: America the Beautiful, Armed Forces Medley, Blue Skies, California Here I Come, Can You Feel the Love Tonight, Darkness on the Delta, Georgia on My Mind, God Bless America, Hello Mary Lou, I’m Sittin’ on Top of the World, It’s the Music that Brings Us Together, Let’s Get Away from it All, Old Folks at Home, Star Spangled Banner, Welcome Song, When She Loved Me, When There’s Love at Home, Yesterday, and You Tell Me Your Dream

Need to turn show program ads in this Thursday if at all possible. We need to give Steve Wixson time to get that all together and to the printer. If anyone has tickets that they don't think will be sold can turn those in Thursday also. We may have to get more printed. Pete

There will be a Celebration of Life for Barry Owens on Saturday, August 5th, at Heritage House located at 1428 Jenkins Road in East Brainerd from 12 Noon to 4 PM. This will be a come and go type gathering, but the family would like those willing to sing a song or two in Barry's memory to do so around 2 PM. More details will be shared as we receive them.

Barry Owens was born September 30, 1943 in Chattanooga, and passed away on July 26, 2023. He and his late wife, Nancy, had three daughters, Mary, Billie, and Becca, and Nancy was one of the starters of the Choo Choo Belles. Some of his jobs were U.S. Navy and Combustion Engineering for 30 years. He taught sixth-grade math for 10 years. For more about Barry's life in general, click HERE to go to his Facebook Page, and HERE for his Obituary..

Barry was a card-caring member of the Salvation Army during his youth, and that's where he started singing. He was in the high school chorus his senior year. He sang in the Navy's Bluejacket Choir while in Boot Camp.

After seeing a Choo Choo Chorus Show at the Tivoli in 1985, he came to a meeting the next Monday, and was a member ever since, except for a few years when he was a [Charter] member of the Cleveland Chorus. He was Board Member at Large within a year, and served as Program VP, Show Chair, Publicity, Program and Printing with wife Nancy, Bulletin Editor and recently as Secretary.

He had been to Harmony College several times and many International Conventions. He sung in the River Blenders quartet, Mixed Blend quartet (Dixie Novice Champs, 1981, photograph below, Barry, Bernard, the late David Collins, and Johnny), and Classic Harmony shown in the photograph above (Barry Owens, the late Dave Abercrombie, members Clarence and Chuck). Barry had several 'Men of Notes' including current members Bernard and Wilbur.