I have a cd in the car of various music that ‘takes me back’. Not all the tracks on it mean anything specific but they transport me to times gone by. One of them is a Huey Lewis track, Naturally which I especially like because it has no instruments, just voices. We were talking about how voices are probably the most versatile instrument the other day in the car and trying to make the biggest selection of noises with our voices to prove it. I was telling the children about a cappella singing and how there was once a group who only used their voices called The Flying Pickets. Anyway today we played the Huey Lewis song and it reminded me I’d promised to try and find some a cappella music for them to listen to.
But I’ve searched the catalogue at the library and we don’t have Flying Pickets. Does anyone have any other suggestions of that sort of music or even a copy of a Flying Pickets album they could lend me / copy for me? Will add it to our charity shop wants list in the meantime.
The other thing it reminded me of was that recent car ad where the whole audio was done by voices, but I can’t recall what brand of car it was? Anyone help me on that one?
ETA – Found it 🙂
ETA again – found this, bunging it here to show D later.
how about this?
http://www.astrocappella.com/
acapella about astronomy! I’ve lsitened to clips and it’s actually remarkably okay 😉
Comment by t-bird — 26 February 2007 @ 10:14 pm
And of course there is the throat singing that Helen and Sb found so entertaining here a little while ago….
http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2006/10/29/inuit-resources/
Comment by Daddybean — 27 February 2007 @ 12:49 am