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Regular readers of The Randy Report know I’m a big fan of Christmas music in the house throughout the holiday season – so, it’s time! Continue reading “Christmas Music: Straight No Chaser ‘The 12 Days Of Christmas’”
Straight No Chaser
Regular readers of The Randy Report know I’m a big fan of Christmas music in the house throughout the holiday season – so, it’s time! Continue reading “Christmas Music: Straight No Chaser ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’”
Going way back to almost the beginning of the aca-awesome group, Straight No Chaser performs their unique “12 Days of Christmas” for the first time, on December 7th, 1998, in the Musical Arts Center at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. Great arrangement. Clever, funny, and smart. If you don’t know these guys, make sure you check out their many holiday albums as well as their cover versions of pop songs here.
I’ve been a fan of Straight No Chaser for years. Their excellent musicianship and fab sense of humor are hallmarks of all these handsome guys do in their music.
I recently posted their newest single, “Text Me Merry Christmas,” but this clip takes us back to one of their earliest performances that really put them on the map and showed what it was they are about.
If you don’t know these guys, you’re about to smile.
Animated with a vintage flair, “Text Me Merry Christmas” is the joint effort by Straight No Chaser, Kristen Bell, JASH, Atlantic Records and the songwriting team of Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum. Cuppa Coffee Studios provide the fab animation.
Clever lyrics for this techno age.
From Straight No Chaser’s new holiday album Under The Influence – Holiday Edition
Love these guys and their music. Long before GLEE introduced the world to the “Warblers” – we had Straight No Chaser.
If the phrase “male a cappella group” conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses… think again. Straight No Chaser (SNC) are neither strait-laced nor straight-faced, but neither are they vaudeville-style kitsch. As original member Randy Stine comments, “We take the music very seriously; we just don’t take ourselves too seriously.” In the process, they are reinventing the idea of a cappella on the modern pop landscape.
The group originally came together in the fall of 1996 at IU, basically as “10 guys who happened to be good friends who also liked to sing.” Choosing the members carefully for personality as well as vocal talent — Stine, Mechling, Jerome Collins, David Roberts and Walter Chase remain from the original lineup — SNC set itself apart from other a cappella groups with its contemporary repertoire and dynamic approach, quickly headlining concerts both in Bloomington and on road dates.
They have a great sound AND a sense of humor that really entertains – see their live version of “The 12 Days of Christmas” below – viewed over 13 million times on youtube.