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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: WyoWoman Date: 21 Nov 99 - 04:20 PM Welcome back, Mr. Offer. I trust you'll be giving us a full report. Andres, I had the honor of hearing Ladysmith Black Mambazo in New York a few years back, just before the official end of apartheid, singing on the steps of the Museum of Natural History (I think...). It was one of the most moving performances I've ever seen, particularly when they started singing "Afrika," and everyone in the audience bowed their heads and lifted their right fists in silent salute for a united South Africa. Wasn't a dry eye in the bunch of us. Then just a few months later they came to Santa Fe, N.M., where I was living at the time and sang in a big, lousy conference center and it was an excellent performance, but not nearly as high an emotional content. But they truly are masters. I love the African form of singing, and their amazing harmonies. WW |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Nov 99 - 12:04 AM I would like to respectfully disagree with any criticism jeri may have made about the two Finest Kind CD's. These two albums are absolutely wonderful. True, they draw from a wide variety of genres, but why not? Their harmonies are just like butter, better than Streisand... Now, if you're interested in what most people refer to as a capella nowadays, you might want to try the two doo-wop box sets from Rhino, or their two girl group CD's. Not completely without instrumental accompaniment, but terrific music nonetheless. -Joe Offer, back from Italy and Israel- |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Escamillo Date: 21 Nov 99 - 12:04 AM WW, you have received so many recommendations that I could only remind you something exotic: the South African religious songs of LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO (7 male singers a capella) and those amazing harmonies I would so much like to sing sometime. Yours, Andrés Magré |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Frank Hamilton Date: 20 Nov 99 - 09:32 PM I believe that Alan Lomax's Lib. Of Cong. recordings of Iron Head Baker and chain gang songs have been recently released on CD. Frank Hamilton |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Sandy Paton Date: 20 Nov 99 - 07:36 PM There's an good article on Miles and his songmaking in the most recent issue of Living Tradition. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: bobby's girl Date: 20 Nov 99 - 05:56 PM I can really reinforce the recommendations about Coope, Boyes & Simpson, who are wonderful, but also the Wilsons singing Graham Miles, which is(or was) available on a record called Horumariye (I think) - also their version of Close the Coalhouse Door has to be heard to be believed! |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: WyoWoman Date: 20 Nov 99 - 01:21 PM Oh, WOW, dwditty -- I just went to that website! This is such a find. I'm so excited. I ordered the "Sampler sampler" to start out. This is so cool. Everyone go to www.singers.com right now and check it out. I'll wait .... WW |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: WyoWoman Date: 20 Nov 99 - 12:53 PM You know, the truly great thing about this is that, sometimes as a vocalist I begin to think that I'm in a very small (vocal?) minority because I sometimes just like to stand up and sing a song without accompaniment. And one of my favorite team sports is group harmonizing. It's so refreshing to know that there are so many people who love the sound of voices as instruments in and of themselves. Thanks, dwditty, I'm looking forward to the DVR whenever you can. And I'll going to that website right away. Thanks for the lead. WW |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Jonathan Date: 20 Nov 99 - 12:18 PM Malicorne, from France, have put all their acapella songs on one CD. I can very strongly recommend it. |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Sandy Paton Date: 20 Nov 99 - 11:48 AM The Wilson family recording of Graeme Miles songs, although it may not be available as a CD. I don't know. Most of the cuts on the fantastic 2-volume Yazoo set of gospel songs titled "How Can I Keep from Singing" are without accompaniment. This is truly great stuff! Sandy |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: dwditty Date: 20 Nov 99 - 10:16 AM Hi Wyo, No I haven't forgeotten your DVR tape, just been busy/lazy. There is an organization called Primarily A Cappella (www.singers.com) that bills itself as the largest and most comprehensive source for a.c. music. If you go to their site and send them an email, the will send catalogs. They carry everything from babershop to contemporary, choral,doo wop, etc. In fact, I think I'll go there and order a Christmas CD right now. Thanks for reminding me. DW |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 20 Nov 99 - 09:41 AM What? All those posts and nobody mentioned Artisan? (Assuming, of course, that I didn't try to read too fast & missed a crucial reference.) English trio, stunning harmonies. These days they do a small amount of traditional material, the odd English music hall song, hardly any covers (except for an intriguing and innovative version of "The Mary Helen Carter") and a whole whack of very fine original material written by member Brian Bedford. They have several CDs available. Check them out. Out of the folk realm, Bobby McFerron does amazing jazz-inflected vocal stuff (most people have never realized that "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is an a capella number). And one last: the Billy Joel thing, "For the Longest Time" is one as well. |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: WyoWoman Date: 20 Nov 99 - 02:42 AM Thank all of you for these wonderful suggestions. (Now, I need to increase my CD allowance to a bazillion dollars, but ... "bit by bit my garden grows...." Thanks again, WW |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Art Thieme Date: 19 Nov 99 - 09:56 PM Sandy---That sounds wonderful. I am snxious to hear it! Of course, people, Folk Legacy has the two BEECH MOUNTAIN cassettes with the wonderful songs of Lee Monroe Presnell and others from that part of N. Carolina. Art |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: matt Date: 19 Nov 99 - 08:14 PM THE PERSUASIONS! |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: PJ Curtis. Date: 19 Nov 99 - 03:36 PM Try The Voice Squad...The Watersons...the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet....le Mystere De Voix Bulgares....Trio Bulgarka..... Sweet Honey in The Rock. PJ Curtis. |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Sam Pirt Date: 19 Nov 99 - 03:34 PM I can strongly recomend COCKERSDALE!!!! of couse theres no bias there at all, they are a good group with plenty of recordings and a Book!!, what more need I say? Cheers, Sam |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Date: 19 Nov 99 - 02:32 PM A bunch of Scottish women called "The Fiesty Besoms" have a capella CD called "Auld Flames". It has old songs on it and new songs. |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Sandy Paton Date: 19 Nov 99 - 02:11 PM Folk-Legacy also carries Judy Cook's CD If You Sing Songs.... My new collection of traditional ballads and songs sung by traditional singers (recorded in the field over the past forty years) will soon be available. We're being held up only by our search for a CD jewel box capable of holding the 60-page booklet that goes with it! Sample coming in soon might shorten the wait. Keep an eye on our web site! Sandy |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Dani Date: 19 Nov 99 - 02:11 PM Don't forget Sweet Honey in the Rock! |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Mandochop Date: 19 Nov 99 - 01:59 PM Hey all, As an avid fan of a cappella music, I know that the hotbeds for some of the worlds best a cappella groups are the colleges and universities of the USA. Franklin and Marshall college in Lancaster, PA has a great coed group called the Poor Richards......Yale University has loads of great groups, including The Alley Cats, The Spizzwinks, and the Whiffenpoofs......Harvard University is home to The Crocodilloes amd The Din and Tonics...... I'm sure a few minutes on the web could find you a disk by any of these great groups. Also check out the soundtrack to Spike Lee's movie "Do It A Cappella" Mandochop |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Art Thieme Date: 19 Nov 99 - 11:56 AM Smithsonian Folkways can make a custom cassette for you of HORTON BARKER's great LP that was recorded for them by Sany Paton. Mr. Barker, from Chilhowie, Virginia was a blind man who just blew away the urban audiences at the first University of Chicago Folk Festival in 1961. A marvelous person and a GREAT ballad singer. EMERY DENOYER---another blind ballad singere but from the lumber woods (lumberjack songs) can be heard on several of the Library Of Congress LPs---now available in other formats I believe. He was my personal favorite a capella singer-----but there are so amny. ALMEDA RIDDLE is a great one.
the recordings of many fine singers made by the Canadian folklorist EDITH FOWKE and issued on Folkways (Smithsonian). "WOLF RIVER SONGS" collected in Wisconsin by Sidney Robertson Cowell and issued on Folkways also. AUNT MOLLY JACKSON---the Library Of Congress Recordings. JEANIE ROBERTSON (just a wondrous singer) and the CD by ROY HARRIS---LIVE AT THE LION that I made a separate thread to talk about recently. ...there are so many... Art Thieme
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Wolfgang Date: 19 Nov 99 - 11:39 AM Review of (and information on) on Frfank Harte's new CD (just to remove the one '?' in Lamarca's choice. It's truly great, however mostly not a capella. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: lamarca Date: 19 Nov 99 - 11:24 AM All my favorite unaccompanied singers are British Isles: The Young Tradition - Their early recordings have all been re-released on CDs now. Vigorous, driving vocal close harmony on traditional English songs. Coope, Boyes and Simpson - A FANTASTIC English trio who do mostly contemporary English songs; their albums "Hindsight" and "A Garland of Carols" have traditional material. My personal favorite is "Falling Slowly". Their harmonies are spine chilling. Jim Boyes was a member of Swan Arcade. Franke Harte - fine singer and collector of Irish songs, especially from Dublin. His album "Daybreak and a Candle End" has been re-released on CD, and he has a new one of songs from the Rebellion of 1798(?). Frankie Armstrong - you either love her voice or you hate it. She has a POWERFUL, projecting voice, singing everything from old ballads to contemporary feminist material. No particular favorite album. Peter Bellamy - primary force behind the Young Tradition, Peter's vocal style is another acquired taste that I have acquired hook, line and sinker. His renditions of Kipling poems set to tunes (by him) are splendid, as is his choice and singing of English traditional material. Dave Parry - the late Dave Parry of Canada did for Robert Service what Bellamy did for Kipling. A member of Friends of Fiddler's Green (also a good mostly a capella group), he had another strong voice and wonderful material. Judy Cook is being modest - she has a self-produced CD of traditional American and British Isles songs. All these recordings are available from one or more of these sources: Camsco Music: http://www.camsco.com Tayberry Music: http://www.tayberry.com Rockin' World: http//www.rockinworld.com Enjoy! |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Alice Date: 19 Nov 99 - 11:22 AM ditto on Voice Squad and King's Singers.
There is also a CD of English, French, and German songs recorded by Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, titled "A Cappella".
There is a men and boy's choir recording from St. Thomas Church called ... A Cappella from St. Thomas Church.
A seasonal one is "Carols from the Old and New Worlds", American, Irish, English, various choirs, Indiana University, Paul Hillier. alice |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Jeri Date: 19 Nov 99 - 11:06 AM I second Wolfgang's recommendation of the Watersons and the Voice Squad. I'd also recommend our own Graham Pirt's group Cockersdale. I have heard one song by Coope, Boyes and Simpson and will probably buy every recording they've ever done based on how they sound on that song. The goup Finest Kind do wonderful a capella songs, but their recordings mix acapella with capella, as well as mixing genres, including country and swing with English songs. This drives me nuts, but others may enjoy the variety. |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Judy Cook Date: 19 Nov 99 - 10:56 AM If you like English traditional song, all a capella, many solo vocalist, Fellside has an excellent sampler called "Voices". One song each by Maddy Prior, Cyril Tawney, Watersons, Peta Webb, A.L. Lloyd, Roy Bailey, Dave Weatherall&Martin Hall, Linda Adams, Martyn Wyndham Read, Peter Bellamy, Hughie Jones, Patti Reid, The Wilsons, Bram Taylor, Damien Barber, Frankie Armstrong, John Kirkpatrick, Martin Carthy, The Arthur Family, Roy Harris, Shirley Collins, Dave Burland, Swan Arcade, June Tabor, and Jez Lowe. --Judy |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: paddymac Date: 19 Nov 99 - 10:35 AM WW - "a capella" is a pretty broad descriptor. The first thing that comes to mind for me is contemporary singing in the barbershop style. And then there are the Gregorian chants; and lots more besides. There is a current group called "The King's Singers" that does some amazing things. And then the Tibetan monks that sing two notes simultaneously. Care to be a bit more specific? |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Alice Date: 19 Nov 99 - 10:06 AM Robbie McMahon of Spancilhill, tape is called "The Black Sheep". You can order it directly from him. Info is on the Spancil Hill thread (link under Memorable Mudcat Threads). alice |
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Subject: RE: A Capella CDs??? From: Wolfgang Date: 19 Nov 99 - 09:57 AM My personal favourites: Watersons (English) and Voice Squad (Irish). Wolfgang |
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Subject: A Capella CDs??? From: WyoWoman Date: 19 Nov 99 - 09:48 AM On a previous thread (I can't remember which and I'm too hurried right now to search...) someone mentioned a beautiful a capella recording. I love a capella singing and would enjoy having some CDs with such. Can you recommend any for me? Best, WyoWoman (going to work today with teeth gritted over what she knows she's going to run into today) |
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