CASA - The Contemporary A Capella Society

Vocal Chords is the weekly a cappella and vocal music show from the College of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.   The show airs/streams from 8:00-10:00 a.m. CST (-06:00 GMT) on Friday mornings, repeating in the same time slot on Sunday mornings.

Happy New Year!  Let’s hope 2010 is a good and harmonious one for all of us.

Got new music you’d like to share with my audience?  My full contact information is at the bottom of this playlist.  The e-mail address for the show is vocalchords2@unl.edu.

Playlists for the show are posted here each week:
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Let me get caught up on a couple of weeks of playlists.  With the Christmas and New Year’s holidays falling on Fridays, I programmed a couple of weeks of replays from previous holiday seasons.  New shows resume the weekend of January 8-10.

First, here is the playlist for the four-hour all-holiday music show from Christmas morning, December 25:

The Liberty Voices - The National Anthem - A Cappella Americana
The King’s Singers – Born On A New Day - Christmas
Opening Themes: Boyz Nite Out - BHX – Director’s Cut;
                                The Bobs - 47 Reasons – Plugged
Vox Bop - A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Vox Bop Christmas Variety Hour
First Call - An Evening In December - An Evening In December, Vol. 1
Musae - I'll Be Home For Christmas - Alegria y Placer
Ball In The House - Some Children See Him - Believe
An Octave Above - Toyland - Come On And Take A Sleigh Ride
Huddersfield Choral Society - Hail! Smiling Morn - The Carols Album
Ensemble Amarcord - O Sanctissima - In Adventu Domini
Yale Whiffenpoofs - New Hymn - A Very Whiffenpoof Christmas
Pacific Chorale - Angels We Have Heard On High - Christmas Time Is Here
Voice Male - The Chipmunk Song - Jingles 2
Overboard - Wonderful Christmastime - Tidings
Straight No Chaser - The 12 Days Of Christmas - Holiday Spirits
Dale Warland Singers - Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine - Christmas With The Dale Warland Singers
Chanticleer - Ave Maria - Our Heart's Joy
Choir Of King's College Cambridge - Once In Royal David's City - Best Loved Christmas Carols
Mulberry Lane - Silver Bells Prelude - Snug Holiday Bonus
Mulberry Lane - We Three Kings/Star Of Wonder - A Very Merry Mulberry Christmas
The Roches - Here We Come A Caroling - We Three Kings
San Francisco Choral Artists - Sweet Was The Song - So Gracious Is The Time
The GrooveBarbers - I Have A Little Dreidel - Glory
Ball In The House - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Believe
Musae - This Endris Night - Alegria y Placer
Straight No Chaser - Indiana Christmas - Holiday Spirits
Washington Men's Camerata - Betelehemu - Sing We Noel
The Swingle Singers - The Shepherd's Farewell - The Story Of Christmas
--A Chanticleer Set:
    Ríu, Ríu, Chíu - Psallite!
    A Christmas Carol - Sing We Christmas
    Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant - Our Heart's Joy
    Huron Carol - Christmas With Chanticleer
    Ding Dong! Merrily On High - Let It Snow
    O Jesulein Süß, O Jesulein Mild - Sing We Christmas
Impromptu - Quem Pastores - All For An Apple
San Francisco Choral Artists - Noel Nouvelet - Star Of Wonder
Bing Crosby - The Littlest Angel - I Wish You A Merry Christmas
Eric Medley - O Holy Night - demo
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge - Wexford Carol - In Bleak Mid-Winter
Baby Needs Shoes - The Wren - Happy Holidays From Baby Needs Shoes
Vox One - White Christmas - Say You Love Me
First Call - Tennessee Christmas - An Evening In December, Vol. 2
Eclipse - What Child Is This - Three Kings
Octapella - Stars Were Gleaming - Christmas
No Better Cause - Perfect Peace - Perfect Peace
m-pact - Snowfall - The Carol Commission
Golden Gate Men's Chorus - Hodie Christus Natus Est - Tidings Of Comfort And Joy!
Anúna - Pie Jesu - Christmas Songs
The King's Singers - Veni, Veni Emmanuel - Christmas
baSix - River - Christmastime
The Vocal Majority - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - White Christmas
Linda Ronstadt - Welsh Carol - A Merry Little Christmas
The Accidentals - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - I'm Not Going Home for Christmas
Coventry Green - Kling Glöcken - Coventry Carols
Inner Voices - Fum Fum Fum - Christmas Harmony
The Mitchell Boychoir - Noel - The Bishop's Wife soundtrack
The Real Group - Sankta Lucia - En Riktig Jul
Artisan - First Christmas Away From Home - Paper Angels
Enya - Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) - The Christmas EP
SoVoSó - Snowflakes - A Cappella Christmas Party
The Edlos - Winter Song - A Capellan Christmas
The Bobs - Fifty Kilowatt Tree - Too Many Santas
Rockapella - Please Come Home For Christmas - Comfort & Joy
--A Blenders Set:
    The First Noel - Nog
    Hark The Herald Angels Sing - When It Snows
    I Wonder As I Wander - Most Wonderful Time
Acoustix - The Christmas Song - Cool Yule
Rescue - Mary Did You Know - The First Christmas
moosebutter - Rudolph - dee's ember
Glad - Break Forth, O Beauteous Heav'nly Light - An Acapella Christmas
Avalon - Good News – Joy

Next, here is the playlist from Sunday, December 27, a replay of a show from the last weekend of December, 2008:

The Liberty Voices - The National Anthem - A Cappella Americana
The King’s Singers – Born On A New Day - Christmas
Opening Themes: Boyz Nite Out - BHX – Director’s Cut;
                              The Bobs - 47 Reasons – Plugged
Musae - Queen Jane - Musae
Musae - Vus Vet Zayn - Alegria y Placer
Ball In The House - Believe - Believe
Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble - Skye Boat Song - To Every Thing There Is A Season
Bathtub Dogs - Because Of You - Studio 354
Mezzo Sotto - Mezzo Blues - Acappella Made In Italy
Voice Male - Sing A Song - Kid Stuff
San Francisco Choral Artists - The Marriage - Music Among Friends
Straight No Chaser - Auld Lang Syne - Holiday Spirits
Nathaniel Adams - A Pretty Girl Is Like A Memory - demo
Alexander Campkin & The London Oratory Choir - Sleep, Holy Babe - demo
McLemore Brothers - In The Light - Sunday Drive
Dick Van Dyke & The Vantastix - Bare Necessities - Put On A Happy Face
Musae - There Is A Balm In Gilead - Musae
No Better Cause - It Is Well With My Soul - Sanctuary
The Hyannis Sound - Rocksteady - Shirt, Tie, Khaki
Chapter 6 - Hot Fun In The Summertime - With The Windows Down
--A Holiday Season Set:
    The Schola Cantorum - In The Bleak Mid-Winter - This Christmas Night
    Baby Needs Shoes - Prairie Winter - Happy Holidays from Baby Needs Shoes
    Eclipse - This Year - Three Kings
    Octapella - Sleigh Ride - Christmas
    First Call - An Evening In December - An Evening In December
    Anúna - Winter, Fire And Snow - Christmas Songs
    The Blenders - Let It Snow - Nog
    Voice Male - Baby It's Cold Outside - Jingles 2
    Overboard - Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Tidings   
    The Vocal Majority - Auld Lang Syne - White Christmas

And finally, here is the playlist for this weekend’s shows – a replay from the first weekend of 2009:

The Liberty Voices - The National Anthem - A Cappella Americana
The King’s Singers – You Are The New Day – New Day
Opening Themes: Boyz Nite Out - BHX – Director’s Cut;
                              The Bobs - 47 Reasons – Plugged
Musae - Bright Morning Stars - Musae
Five O'Clock Shadow - Far Away - So There
Sixth Wave - Another Grey Morning - Happy Madness
Eclipse - Be Still, My Soul - Grateful Praise
The Real Group - Love And Let Go - Commonly Unique
The Hyannis Sound - Ready For Love - Shirt! Tie! Khaki!
The Hyannis Sound - Don't Cry - Route 6
Vocal Jazz Quintessence (Conard H.S. - West Hartford, CT) - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Best Of High School A Cappella 2007
Boston Jazz Voices - Black Is The Colour - To Every Thing There Is A Season
Cosmos - Pa Un Par - Pa Un Par
High Street - Saturday In The Park - HighStreet
Scott Leonard - 4U4Now4Life - 1 Man 1 Mike
baSix - Roof Garden - Star People
m-pact - I Thought You Cared For Me - m-pact
Virginia Tech Juxtaposition - Get Set - BOCA 2001
Rajaton - Vanishing Act - Out Of Bounds
The Vocal Majority - The Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi - VM X
Anúna - Tenebrae IV - Sensation
Naked Voices (UC Santa Barbara) - Winter - BOCA 2004
Tufts Beelzebubs - Let's Get It Started - BOCA 2006
Glad - O Sacred Head Now Wounded - Receive The Glory
The King's Singers - Versa Est In Luctum - The Golden Age
Vox One - You Know - Pure Imagination
Martin Carbow - Lift Your Head Up High - A Cappella & More
Inner Voices - Goodbye Old Paint - Prairie Jazz
The Bobs - I.T.H.O.T.M.O.A. - Plugged
The Bobs - Spontaneous Human Combustion - Shut Up And Sing!

Thanks to all the artists, performers, promoters, a cappella catalogs and listeners (on the air and on the web!) who make the show happen each week.  Please feel free to contact me with suggestions, comments, and recommendations.

And if you have music you would like me to include on the show, please send it along!  I would also appreciate press kits, concert schedules, and contact/ordering information.  My address:

Rick Alloway
Vocal Chords
90.3 KRNU
147 Andersen Hall
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0466

Phone: (402) 472-6856
FAX: (402) 472-8403

vocalchords2@unl.edu – or –
ralloway1@unl.edu

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