My roommate Charlie was the pitchpipe (music director) of the singing group we were both in (The Duke’s Men, at Yale—formerly all male now all gender and rechristened the Doox of Yale). Every fall there was a big jamboree where all the singing groups sang and did their best to attract new members. Charlie had a plan for making a splash, a fresh arrangement of a current hit, a song from a Saturday Night Live skit celebrating an archeological discovery. And it was to be a surprise. So Charlie was slightly nonplussed when our roommate Mark asked “how’s the arrangement of King Tut coming along?” How had he figured that out? Well, Charlie was playing the record over and over so it was actually pretty obvious!
This is inspiring me to try my hand at arranging again! And -- I remember that King Tut arrangement, and the deadpan choreography.