I think I posted this item last year – the original lineup of the Indiana University a cappella group called “Straight No Chaser” and their completely hilarious “12 Days of Christmas.”
[well, crap – the original was deleted from YouTube]
The story gets better – on the strength of their YouTube output (put on the web for a reunion), the original group were offered a record contract. And so, years after graduation, they decided to grab that crazy brass ring and get back together to record a Christmas album called Holiday Spirits
Here’s them doing Christmas in Washington:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qcAVE1dRk&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/&feature=player_embeddedIf you don’t love any of these things, I’m sorry your heart is cold and dead. There’s nothing I can do for you.
I can do that.
(not). OMG! Fantastic! Buying….
khms last blog post..Guest Spot: Lyman Medeiros on Cassandra Wilson’s Belly of the Sun (which he picked out for me a couple years ago…)
Someone from my chorus sent that out last year (we were singing a spoof, “12 Days After Christmas” and she found it when searching for a video of it).
I didn’t know the whole story, but heard it on the radio when at my Dad’s. I think a lot of the claims about how the internet changes everything are overblown, but I love how this turned out! I’m sad the video was taken down, though. :(