Greek Sing

axiduckie · #1 04-26-2007, 10:17 PM

Hi!
I was just looking for new and different ideas for greek sing! ours is coming up pretty quickly when we get back in the fall and I was just wanting to know what other schools did. Last year we did a Sister Act theme and won, and I want to win again! thanks everyone

banditone · #2 04-26-2007, 10:23 PM

AS someone that went to a school that didn't have a "Greek Sing", can someone explain exactly what it is? Thanks.

carnation · #3 04-26-2007, 10:27 PM

It's a singing competition between the Greeks. Even when I was in school, some of the skits were incredibly lavish.

Recently I got together with the woman who was president of Panhellenic at Mississippi State when I was assistant advisor and she reminded me what it was like at the Christmas Sing back in the day. She said, "Don't you remember, most of the sororities would get out there and sing "Rudolph" and then DG would go out there and sing the Hallelujah Chorus with about 16-part harmony?"

banditone · #4 04-26-2007, 10:29 PM

So the people that are in it really sing?? It's not one of those little lip-synch skit things? Wow.

axiduckie · #5 04-26-2007, 10:33 PM

Sorry. If you're not familiar, Greek Sing is usually a part of Greek Week*(see below if you're not familiar with that) where fraternities and sororities get together, rewrite lyrics to songs to make them relate to the fraternity/sorority.
Usually they're funny and fun to watch. At my school, we all perform on the same night and watch each other, then we're judged and they declare a winner for boys and then girls.

*Greek week is a week of competition between Greeks. There are fun contests like pudding eating, tugawar, human pyramids, etc. Each event is worth a certain number of points, and the fraternity and sorority with the most points by the end of the week wins. Greek sing is usually a big part of it.

Eirbear · #6 04-26-2007, 10:58 PM

My university JUST had our Greek Sing competition (like...two days ago). This year, our chapter chose to go with a "British Invasion" theme. We put together a medley of songs by British perfomers--Austin Powers theme, Spice Up Your Life (Spice Girls), I Fought the Law (The Clash), Hard Day's Night (Beatles), Wannabe (Spice Girls), and Twist and Shout (Beatles). Five of our sisters dressed up as the Spice Girls. We had a pretty intense dance routine that went with it. Now, we didn't win (we came in last in the sororities), but that was only because the judges couldn't hear us very well (at least, that's what they've told us).

arieltridelta · #7 04-27-2007, 03:47 AM

ours was an Arabian Nights theme and it was AWSOME. other themes were "girls just want to have fun," "Space Jam/Aliens," "Runway/Fashion," and i can't think of the others. last year we had a jungle theme, the year before it was a jailhouse/ bad girls theme, and the year before that it was a candyshop theme. super cute.

flirt5721 · #8 04-27-2007, 01:28 PM

If you go to http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...=vids.myvideos this is my chapter Greek Sing that just happened like 2 weeks ago. The theme was Spice Girls.

Here is Pike with Candyland http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=2023052555

PiKapp with Pirates of the Carribean (winner in 2006) http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=1360538522

And Kappa Sig with Under the Sea http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...eoid=622991019

Greek Sing is during Greek Week. It just another competition but its so much fun to watch.

alum · #9 04-27-2007, 04:15 PM

My alma mater does it a little differently:

Greek Sing
Greek Sing is an annual event in which the fraternity and sorority community at Carnegie Mellon participate. The event is sponsored by Greek Council and is the Greek community's largest annual philanthropy event. In Greek Sing, fraternity and sorority chapters perform collections of songs or excerpts from a musical or an original script. The event is held at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland, and all proceeds are donated to a charity, which is selected each year by members of the Greek community.
This year Greek Sing was held on March 24, 2007.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmugreeklife/sets/1326723/

amanda6035 · #10 10-19-2007, 04:34 PM

We dont have Greek Sing. We have Goat Night (basically the same thing....sort of. There's a banner competition, krystal eatting competition, a skit, and then song and dance). Sigma Nu won this year. I think Pi Kap and Sigma Pi tied for 2nd and AXiD got Third! First time either of the sororities placed in the top 3.

I was only able to record 3 groups (due to memory on my camera), so I got ours, Gamma Phi Beta's, and Sigma Nu's.

Alpha Xi Delta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV3G5TSObO4

Gamma Phi Beta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mE7r7q5Vzg

Sigma Nu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWdGkba8UE

manda_sai_kz · #11 10-21-2007, 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amanda6035

We dont have Greek Sing. We have Goat Night (basically the same thing....sort of. There's a banner competition, krystal eatting competition, a skit, and then song and dance). Sigma Nu won this year. I think Pi Kap and Sigma Pi tied for 2nd and AXiD got Third! First time either of the sororities placed in the top 3.

I was only able to record 3 groups (due to memory on my camera), so I got ours, Gamma Phi Beta's, and Sigma Nu's.

Alpha Xi Delta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV3G5TSObO4

Gamma Phi Beta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mE7r7q5Vzg

Sigma Nu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWdGkba8UE

Totally OT...but... what is 'krystal eating'?

amanda6035 · #12 10-21-2007, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by manda_sai_kz

Totally OT...but... what is 'krystal eating'?

Haha....oopps, sorry. Um....Have you ever heard of White Castle? Krystal is another fast food restaraunt that makes mini burgers like white castle. I think Krystal is mostly in the south and east coast. Anyway, that part of the competition is where you eat 6 krystals (thats what the mini burgers are called) as fast as you can, and depending on who finishes first, second etc, is how points are awarded.

TriDPrincess · #13 10-22-2007, 04:38 PM

On my campus Greek Sing is held in the fall and is not a part of Greek Week. Each NPC/IFC chapter comes up with ideas for themes and then Panhell votes on them. This year it's 90's themes and we're all doing songs/skits from/about the 90's. It should be a blast!

gtdxeric · #14 04-17-2008, 05:48 PM

Here's my undergrad chapter's Greek Sing from a few days ago. I'm particularly fond of the first and third songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXFHTByX4aI

GammaPhi4Life · #15 05-03-2008, 06:40 PM

We just had greek sing and we did a mary poppins theme it was really cute. We did that london bridge by fergie, umbrella, pour some sugar on me and we even had a tap dance with penguins. We also did dirty for the chimney sweep part and there is this great supercalifragilistic remix by drino man on myspace.

we should have won, everyone said we should have.