Scabby Doug: In the years when I was going to Lutheran Church... my family heritage, I always got the creeps when the choir would do gospel songs. They always sounded like an out-take from a Disney soundtrack, for starters. Even if they didn't try to copy old transcriptions of words, they enunciated the words so precisely, that the song lost any resemblance to what it must have once sounded like. Live Pavarati )sp?) trying to do You Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog. Sometimes, get all the words right, but miss the song completely. And, choirs don't bend notes, or slut words. It's against their principles. Maybe all of this is all right. In the long run, it's not the most terrible thing I've ever heard. Just loses all flavor. Like Chum Gum, back in the 40's.