Thomas Degan's Album

From The First Hello To The Last Goodbye.

Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. By Richard and Robert Sherman. Arranged by Bill Mitchell. Sung by the Four Toms.

I was sick so I recorded a bass feature.

Hushabye Mountain

This is my cover of One Last Drink by Enter the Haggis. This is one of my favorite songs and always makes me feel better when I'm feeling a bit down.

One Last Drink

This is the Pitch Please reduction singing the barbershop arrangement of Can You Feel the Love Tonight for CTL at Home.

Music: Elton John
Words: Tim Rice
Arrangement: June Dale
Tenor: Zach Myers
Lead: Weena Degan
Baritone: Don Luke
Bass: Tom Degan
Picture: Unknown (found on Pinterest)

Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Top of the World 
by: The Carpenters
Cover by: Four Toms Feat. Jean Degan

This is a collaboration I did with my mother "for" Mother's Day. She played the piano and I did the rest. Happy Mother's Day mom.

Top of the World

Shenandoah
Traditional American Sea Chanty
Arr: Marshall Bartholomew (Yale Glee Club)
Performed by: Four Toms

Thank you to the Barnstormers for introducing me to this arrangement. It is so pretty.

Shenandoah

The Lost Chord
Words by: Adelaide Proctor
Music by: Arthur Sullivan
Adapted by: John Hyatt Brewer
Piano: Jean Degan
Organ: William Degan
Vocals: Thomas (Four Toms) Degan

Thanks again to the Barnstormers for introducing me to this song and arrangement. Thank you to my parents for playing all those keys.

The Lost Chord

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
Words: Bob Hilliard
Music: David Mann
Arrangement: Paris Rutherford

I was looking for another song when I stumbled on this arrangement I did in High School with our show choir. I love the harmonies.

In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

Music and Lyrics: Eric Cripps
Guitar: Eric Cripps
Vocals/Bass/Tamborine: Tom Degan

Eric is an old friend from the first band I was ever in. He wrote a song from the perspective of his cat.

Treats Please

Oh You Earnest Headed Donkey
Performed by: Thomas "Four Toms" Degan
By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (yes, really)
Accompaniment: Thomas Shepard
English text: Anne Grossman

My mother sent me a book she found called, "Scatological Songs and Canons of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart." This is the first song in that book. The song notes explain that song was likely written as a joke at the expense of Mozart's friend Johann Nepomuk Peierl, a famous tenor from Munich with certain speech and pronunciation idiosyncrasies. He likely then repurposed the song for other "victims" by substituting the appropriate name for the occasion. This is likely how the original title "O Du Eselhafter Martin" came about as a reference to the Viennese impresario, Philip Jacob Martin. The foot note reads, "This translation uses the name "Ernest" instead of "Martin" to preserve Mozart's delightful name-play, which is almost impossible to translate into English."

Original German:
O du eselhafter Martin
O du martinischer Esel
Du bist so faul
Als wie ein Gaul
Der weder Kopf noch Haxen hat
Mit dir ist gar nichts anzufangen
Ich seh dich noch am Galgen hangen
Du dummer Paul
Halt du das Maul
Ich scheiss dir aufs Maul,
So hoff ich wirst du erwachen
O lieber Martin, ich bitte dich recht sehr
O leck mich doch geschwind im Arsch
O leck, O leck
O leck mich doch geschwind im Arsch
O lieber Freund, verzeihe mir,
Den Arsch, den Arsch betschier ich dir
Martin, Martin, verzeihe mir!

Oh You Earnest Headed Donkey

Trashin' The Camp
Words & Music: Phil Collins
Arr: Moses Hogan
Sung by: Four Toms

From Disney's Tarzan. I sang this in high school with my show choir. I decided to sing the piano parts as well as the SATB parts. I had a lot of fun with this one.

Trashin' The Camp

Words: Mack Gordon
Music: Edmund Goulding
Arr: Tom Sando
Performed by: The Four Toms

I'll be singing this with my quartet MEN PATCH at some point. I've been in love with this arrangement for a long time. This arrangement was originally sung by Vocal Spectrum and the song was popularized by Frank Sinatra. Enjoy.

Mam'selle

Anyone want to start a band? I'm a vocalist, but I also play the harmonica, ukelele and accordion. I like Blues, Rock, and Jazz.

Four Toms

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