Don't feel bad, Naemanson: I often don't know what key I sing songs in either.

An interesting obesrvation. When a new person joins the Men's Chorus that I sing in, the Director asks them to sing a song, and then he figures out what key they're singing in. He says that that's their key... just as Ron's key seems to be D. Whe I questioned him on that, because I sing in several different keys, depending on the range of the particular song, he said that every singer has one key that's "their" key. So, I went back to my list of songs that the Gospel Messengers sing, to see if there was any validity to his generality. What I found was:

I sing songs in G, A,C,D, E and F (I don't seem to do any songs in B, but tha'ts probably because it's awkward plays a song in B on guitar. (Although Charlie Christian did The Blues In B.)

Our bass singer Joe sings in E, F, A & B

Frankie, (another baritone like me) sings songs in A, B, C and D.

Maybe it's because we all have a pretty large range. All of us can sing bass, baritone or second tenor on most songs. Joe is our best bass singer, although I sing bass when Joe is singing some of his leads. Frankie is our best tenor, although he is basically a baritone, but I sing second tenor when Frankie is singing lead. And Frankie has a fine falsetto, which he sings, except occasionally when he's singing the lead and I sing a passable, but not great falsetto to get above him.

With a trio, you do what you gotta do..

Jerry