Until I Met You was originally released under the title Corner Pocket by Count Basie on his 1957 album April in Paris, and has since become a jazz standard. It is about a couple who were lonely until they met and now they are enjoying all of the benefits of being in love. This
Category Archives: A Cappella
Time for some Humour. More Than Birds is a parody of the song More Than Words that was originally released by Extreme on their 1990 album Pornograffitti and as a single. This version explains how birds are not only evolved from dinosaurs but are actual dinosaurs too. It is a truly beautiful performance
Michelle was originally released by The Beatles on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It is a courting song where the singer professes love for Michelle. This is a beautiful a cappella version of a beautiful song. Ingrid gives an expert performance, multi-tracking the lead and the accompaniment parts with perfect harmonies. Ingrid Pontes (9)
Chanson D’Amour [Love Song] was originally released by Art and Dotty Todd in 1958 as a single, but the best known version was by The Manhattan Transfer on their 1976 album Coming Out and as a single the following year. It extols the virtues of love songs and calls for more. This is a
Java Jive was originally released by The Ink Spots in 1941 and instantly became a Jazz standard, having been recorded by many artists with the Manhattan Transfer version being the best known now. It is a song singing the praises of the mighty brew coffee, and also tea but mostly coffee. This is a
Mashup 2017 is a medley of 10 different songs from 2017 all mashed up together seamlessly to make a single coherent song. The 10 songs are: Slow Hands, originally released by Niall Horan on his album Flicker and as a single; Perfect, originally released by Ed Sheeran on his album ÷ and as a
Banting’s Imparted Years is based on the tune of Barrett’s Privateers which was originally released by Stan Rogers on his 1976 album Fogarty’s Cove. It tells the story of Leonard Thompson, who was the first diabetic to receive an injection of insulin to relieve the symptoms of the then always fatal disease, and the
Tales of War is the latest video from The Quintessence. It is a series of nonsense syllables sung to traditional Georgian tunes in a contemporary jazz arrangement by the group’s Artistic Director, Buka Kartozia, producing a beautiful, complex piece that fascinate your ears and entertain your mind. This is an incredible a cappella performance,
But Beautiful is the new video from Touché. It is a song about love that describes many of the attributes of love, both good and bad, and concludes that love is beautiful in the end. It is a truly beautiful, slow piece where the backing voices concentrate largely on harmony. It has a natural
Time for some comedy. Evo-Devo is a parody of Despacito [Slowly] which was originally released by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee in 2017 as a single. Evo-Devo is short for Evolutionary developmental biology and takes the tune of Despacito to explain this biological theory covering evolution, DNA, and other aspects of developmental biology that