While doing a little research for my recent Marc Cohn post I ran across the Harvard Radcliffe Veritones and was flat out impressed. I love acoustic singing troupes, and these guys are fantastic. If you keep in mind that these are some of wickedly smart people on top of being fantastic singers it makes it all the more impressive.
Enjoy.
Start out with this extremely high quality MP3, and after that you can check out the videos below.
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The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car)
Garth Brooks – The Thunder Rolls
Sting – Fields of Gold
The Corrs – Breathless
Michael Jackson – Thriller / Chantal Kreviazuk – Surrounded
Madonna – Vogue
Seal – Don’t Cry
When you’re done with those, make sure and go check out their Gallery page and listen to the amazing rendition of Time After Time. Fantastic…
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oh snap! That WAS good!
They’re pretty good! I really like a cappella troupes. How much time would I have to spend to find all of the neat things that I see on your blog? Much too much in all likelihood!
Hey John,
great list, I really like a cappella music. There is another video, great song and with not a big setup like the Harvard Radcliffe Veritones, but awesome, check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVXtawJXcbg
It was a soundtrack of Garden State.
Oh and I totally forgot, check out Scala & Kolacny they are great, they are from Belgium, playing piano and only young women are singing. They covering modern songs.
U2 – With or Without You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjec7WZ41s
They also singing in German and French, here is a German song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhuZaPckto8
They are pretty popular in Europe and had several songs in the top ten. They also covered Depeche Mode, Kylie Minogue, Metallica and many more.
Enjoy!
Talented smart people.
They are really impressing,
I guess it took u some time to gather all these