Bandleader, choral conductor, glee club pioneer, music educator, entrepreneur and renaissance man Fred Waring was a pioneer in every field of show business as well as music education and manufacturing. As the guiding force behind his large musical organization, he and his musicians earned accolades from listeners and critics alike throughout a career that spanned almost the entire 20th century. The Fred Waring Collection contains historical memorabilia reflecting Fred Waring’s nearly seventy-year career as a choral conductor and entertainer. For almost seven decades, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians entertained audiences throughout the world on stage, radio, television, records, and in motion pictures, and toured America and other countries. Known as “The Man Who Taught America How To Sing” and “America’s Singing Master,” he is credited with bringing choral music into the popular realm as well as with helping to make the popular song a classic American art form.
To learn more about the Fred Waring collection, please visit the finding aids listed here for the collection.
Music manuscripts of Pennsylvanians' arrangements, indexed alphabetically by song title, can be found the Waring Arrangements document (Microsoft Excel file).
To explore recordings on CD available for purchase, visit the Fred Waring's America Order Form.