Collegiate a cappella arrived at Stanford University in 1963, when the Stanford Mendicants were founded by a transfer student from Yale University, the school where collegiate a cappella began.
The Mendicants were the first a cappella group on the West Coast of the United States.
By the 1990s, Stanford a cappella groups began receiving national recognition for their recorded music, created with audio engineer Bill Hare.
In 1995, Fleet Street won the 1995 national Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards for best album, best song, and best soloist.
President of the Society, Deke Sharon, praised the group's work, saying, "The quality [of their music] is fantastic.