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Err, 'religious', so if you feel weird about that then dont look.
But holy crap... (no pun intended)
Amazing Grace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT88jBAoVIM

Pipes!

Yeahbuddy, That girl was tearin it up toppin the country charts at 14.

Yep. Nice voice, indeed.

Amazing Grace is one song that really holds up well "A cappella" (spelling?)

Hmm new question for forum.

Best song you have ever heard or rendition of a song done "A cappella"

Very nice. Thank you for that.

RobinL. wrote:Amazing Grace is one song that really holds up well "A cappella" (spelling?)

Hmm new question for forum.

Best song you have ever heard or rendition of a song done "A cappella"

acapella (I think)

Best I've heard..."My old man's a sailor" Gas house gang (barbershop quartet)

Robin - best a capella I ever heard live was The Starland Vocal Band's rendition of Paul Simon's "American Tune." You remember them as that band what sang "Afternoon Delight." I saw them at Constitution Hall at the Univ. of MD back when "AD" was #114 on the charts. 1st time I ever heard the tune, but they sure were a great band. Bill & Taffy Danoff were in it, from John Denver fame. Nice act. Too nice, almost. Coulda played in any church. Great vocals, though. There's a recording of it on the album with "AD" on it that is almost as good as they were live.

might have to search the net for that Phil....Thanks

I myself liked Starland Vocal Band

Like A capalla?

Eagles - Seven Bridges Road. Half a capella, middle section is one acoustic guitar, great song. That's my favorite one.

Jethro Tull have done some good a capella stuff at times too, one segment on the Aqualung album is great.

I can't think of any more although I know I've heard them...

Where ya been , Pete?

Yeah - I love Tull's "Songs From The Wood" too! A capella intro.

Welcome back Billy. You been tourin n playin?

That girl can sing!

Thanks guys

No, haven't been out playin, just hanging around the house trying to get ready, getting a little practice in, (but not enough) and haven't been online a lot. Have browsed through the forums a time or three but didn't have anything to add, so I guess I've been a lurker the past couple of weeks.

Been doing a bit of bird watching too, one of my various pastimes, and right now it's that time of year the ducks are appearing for the winter. Went a couple of days ago, Sunday I think, to Handy Brake, a local wildlife management area, and must have been 500-600 ducks everywhere. Mallards, Pintails, Green Winged Teal, Ring Neck Ducks, Northern Shovelers, Widgeons, I think a few Canvasbacks but not positive...plus a few shorebirds, woodpeckers (Downy, Red Bellied and Pileated) Chicadees and Pewees among others and I think I heard a Hummingbird buzz by me too. It's late for them but a few have started wintering in the US, or maybe they have for a long time but nobody knew it.

If I can get the money together I should be pulling outta here next week, really nervous about it but I think it'll be ok once I get in there and start jamming. Biggest problem is no work around here at all, and don't have enough money for the trip yet. If I do go I'd like to take the "scenic route" so to speak, and stop by to visit a couple of folks on here. Philby...you shouldn't be too far off the beaten track if I come up through Tenessee, VW and so forth right? I have another online friend in VW too, fellow computer junkie I've known for 6 or 7 years. Couple of others here I'd like to see too, and of course if I end up touring with these guys, I'll be all over hte place, you never know where I'll pop up.

Yeah philby I like the Songs From the Wood intro too, it's great. One of my old favorties.

But back to the topic at hand, I juat remembered another one. Anybody heard of a band named Louisiana's Leroux? Very good band, from Louisiana of course, the New Orleans area I think, they did a song called "Take A Ride on A Riverboat" (probably mid 70's) that had a great a capella intro too.

I did one too, influenced by that song, and written about playing in New Orleans, "Toulouse and Royal" was the name of it, (street corner in the French Quarter where I played during Mardi Gras). Had an a capella intro with 3 vocal parts, maybe I need to record it again. The full song has 3 or 4 vocal parts and 3 guitar parts, I didn't have access to a bass or drums at the time, and haven't even thought about it in a while until just a couple of minutes ago. I might redo just the intro to post here, that wouldn't be too difficult, the entire song would take up a lot of time I really need to be preacticing, so I guess it will have to wait a while uuntil I can spend some time recording.

Oh, by the way I just also remembered, I recently set up a myspace page, myspace.com/paleopete it's just barely started, but I'm not sure what to do with it yet and can't get into the editor, aparently I'll have to get out the laptop since I think it has the newer FLash on it, I haven't done this machine, it's running Linux and more difficult to deal with. Anyway if someone will tell me how I'll send out a few friend requests, I still haven't figured everything out yet...

And now back to our regularly scheduled program...

Billy,

I was trying to add you as a friend on MySpace. In order for to even get the request out to you, we need either a last name or an email address. Without either of those, anyone wanting to be added is dead in the water.