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.

Getting caught up from the last couple of weeks…

This weekend’s show featured a set of songs for Memorial Day weekend.

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:
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/krnuvocalchords
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/KRNU-Vocal-Chords-A-Cappella-Radio-ShowWeb...
The Contemporary A Cappella Society: http://www.casa.org/
The rec.music.a-cappella newsgroup (RMAC)

You can also follow updates for the show on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/KRNUVocalChords

Playlist for the weekend of May 28-30, 2010:

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
Straight No Chaser - Tainted Love - With A Twist
The CHICKAdivas - Sweet Dreams - Chick Us Out
Retrocity - Something About You - Totally A Cappella: 1980s
The Swingle Singers - Unravel - Ferris Wheel
Toxic Audio - Blinded Me With Science - Chemistry
baSix - Purple Rain - Embodiment
Martin Carbow - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - A Cappella & More
Spirit - Amazon - Zoobilation
spiralmouth - Even Though - Gabe's A Cappella Studio Projects
On The Rocks (U. of Oregon) - Cry Me A River - Full Coverage
Voice Male - Song With No Words - Kid Stuff
The Accidentals - You Win - The Accidentals
The Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones - Possession - Vertigo
Dartmouth Aires - If I Ever Lose My Faith In You - Interplanetairey
Bobby McFerrin - He Ran To The Train - VOCAbuLarieS
The Stanford Mendicants - Insomniac - Best Laid Plans
Cosmos - Virtual Insanity - Pa Un Par
The King's Singers - I'm Yours - Swimming Over London
The Magnets - I Can't Go For That - Giving It All That
The Real Group - A Lifetime Takes A Lifetime To Fulfill - The Real Album
Cantus - Deep River - Deep River
--A Memorial Day Set:
-The Vocal Majority - American Armed Forces Medley - Freedom's Song
-Acoustix - The Stars & Stripes Forever & Stars & Stripes
-The Vocal Majority - A Tribute To World Peace - Freedom's Song
The Bobs - Light My Fire - Coaster

The show for the weekend of May 21 featured new music from:
Straight No Chaser – http://www.sncmusic.com/
The CHICKAdivas – http://www.chickadivas.com/

Playlist for the weekend of May 21-23, 2010:

*new to the show

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
*Straight No Chaser - I'm Yours/Somewhere Over The Rainbow - With A Twist
*The CHICKAdivas - Feller From Fortune - Chick Us Out
*The CHICKAdivas - Wintersong - Wintersong
The King's Singers - Swimming Over London - Swimming Over London
Mr. Tim - Don't Stop Believing - demo
Spartones (U of North Carolina-Greensboro) - Plane - BOCA 2010
Perpetuum Jazzile - Libertango - Africa
SONOS - White Winter Hymnal - SONOSings
Tufts Beelzebubs - Go Or Go Ahead - Play The Game
Anuna - The Heart's Cry - Riverdance
Danny and David Fong - Scarborough Fair - demo
Neri Per Caso - Amore Psicologico - Made In Italy
Rajaton - Salty Water - Out Of Bounds
Rocktavo - Oh What A Beautiful Morning - Rocktavo
Transit - Hide And Seek - Transit
Bobby McFerrin - Baby- VOCAbuLarieS
*Straight No Chaser - Don't Dream It's Over - With A Twist
*The CHICKAdivas - Hard Times - Chick Us Out
*The CHICKAdivas - One Still And Silent Night - Wintersong
The King's Singers - Home - Swimming Over London
Mr. Tim - Cupcakes - demo
University of Connecticut Conn Men - Come Around - BOCA 2010
The UNC Clef Hangers - She Has No Time - Time Out
The Swingle Singers featuring Shlomo - A Fifth Of Beethoven - Beauty and the Beatbox
Divisi - The Waiting Line - Roots
The Real Group - Prime Time Blues - In The Middle Of Life
The Bobs - Leisure Suit - I Brow Club
The Bobs - When We Start To Sing - Plugged

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

Streaming audio available at http://krnu.unl.edu
or on iTunes - select 90.3 KRNU from the list of college/university radio stations
Twitter updates: http://twitter.com/KRNUVocalChords