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It only took the first few notes of the Dalton Academy Warblers' a cappella crooning to capture the attention of "Glee" fans everywhere when they sang Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" in November, with the single taking the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart. The latest "Glee" compilation, "Glee: The Music Presents the Warblers" comes out in stores Tuesday.
Five months after the a cappella group's first appearance on the hit Fox show, every "Glee" fan knows the fictional Warblers, but many still may not know the real collegiate group behind their favorite school uniform-donned singers.
The college students who make up the Tufts University Beelzebubs voice the Warblers that back "Glee" series regular and Warblers lead vocalist Darren Criss. As the cast of "Glee" films and records in Los Angeles, the Beelzebubs record their parts in between classes, in a studio about a mile away from their Somerville, Mass. campus.
Video: The "Glee" Warblers perform "Bills, Bills, Bills"
The Beelzebubs boarded "Glee" after the show's producers called the group's business manager, Evan Powell, a junior at Tufts. Powell received the voicemail from the producers while in a class and listened to it as soon as he walked out of the classroom.
"Of course I quickly called them back, and it all sort of ballooned from there," Powell said.
The all-male a cappella group was familiar with the recording studio -- in its 45-year history, the group has recorded 27 albums -- and with television, having appeared on NBC's "The Sing-Off" in 2009, placing second. But recording the songs before performing them live was new to the group.
"You're really skipping a step," explained Ed Boyle, an alum who arranges for the Beelzebubs and has arranged all of the Warblers songs. "You don't have to concern yourself with 'Oh, is this the exact number of parts as I have number of singers?'
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