Watch this train conductor lead the Yale Glee Club in a spirited Christmas carol
Next stop: holiday magic.
Railroad conductor Bob McDonough has had his share of interesting passengers on the MTA Metro-North Railroad. But when the Yale Glee Club boarded his train this past weekend, McDonough got to try his hand at a new type of conducting.
When the glee club boarded the New Haven to New York train Friday, McDonough asked them to sing him a song, and posted a video of their impromptu performance of “Here We Come A-Caroling’’ to his Facebook.
When the group once again boarded his train for the return trip to New Haven on Saturday, he approached them with a video idea: let him be the conductor.
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Video of the glee club’s pitch-perfect rendition of “Carol of the Bells’’ and McDonough’s enthusiastic conducting has been viewed almost 700,000 times, and has news outlets like Good Morning Americatrying to contact the genial rail director. But McDonough has been sure to give credit to the students, responding to a post from the Yale Glee Club thanking him for his honorary conducting with kind words.
“No, Thank You!’’ McDonough wrote on the glee club’s Facebook page. “You all sounded AMAZING and were very generous with your talents. So much fun!’’
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