I also agree with your point that the singers' mature voices sounded better than in the group's heyday. I saw them in Big Bear in a fundraiser arranged by Joe in Dec 2009 and they were just magnificent. I knew Joe pretty well by that point, but I had never spoken to Chad Mitchell before and had the chance to do so briefly at the meet-and-greet after the concert. He mentioned that the one concession that they had had to make to age (they were all in their early 70s then) was to lower the keys on some of the songs that required high notes that neither Chad nor Joe (who did the occasional high harmony) could hit any more. Like you, I'm a big fan of the group, and I couldn't detect which songs those might have been.
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