Songs

Our repertoire draws from many styles linked by a common arrangement style -- powerful in vocal instrumentation and rhythm.

We'll take on funk and rock, if it includes big horns, big backup vocals, or wall of guitar instrumentation, we're game. Any groove built for dancing is up for grabs, but we also love the messages in the lyrics that these grooves often accompany, so we will be heavily influenced by many of the social statement songs from the 60s and 70s -- Sly and the Family Stone, Tower of Power, Blood, Sweat and Tears, ...

Yet we will draw on a variety of music genres and virtually nothing will be off-limits. From New Orleans funk to progressive rock, latin dance groove to gospel. Maybe even an attempt to do a vocal drum and bugle core type song, or more locally appropriate, a Venice Beach percussion jam, but performed with voices.

These are just a few of the groups that will give you a glimpse of what to expect, though we hope to break new ground with the extensive vocal horn and rhythm section arrangements, as these examples are smaller groups than our goal.

Arrangements

Original Arrangements ready or Work-In-Progress (WIP)
Because, You never give me your money - Beatles
It's Gonna Rain - as arranged by the a cappella group Fourshadow
Depeche Mode medley -
Just Can't Get Enough, People are People, Master and Servant, Everything Counts
Watcha Say - Jason Derulo (chorus from Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap)
Hey Pocky Way - The Meters
Take me to the River - Talking Heads
Under the Bridge, Naked in the Rain - Red Hot Chili Peppers
I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth
No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand
SOS/Tainted Love - Rihanna/Soft Cell/Pussycat Dolls
Superwoman - Alicia Keys
So What - Pink (WIP)
Rock Me - Liz Phair
There's Only So Much Oil, Credit - Tower of Power (WIP)
Iko Iko - Dr. John/New Orleans Traditional
Over Africa - Neville Bros

Them Changes - Buddy Miles
Nature's Way - Spirit
Its Your Thing - Isley Bros. (WIP)
Thankyoufalettinmebemyself - Sly and the Family Stone (WIP)

Contemporary Acappella League (CAL) songs, with learning CDs include:
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder

Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People

Joseph Bates arrangements
Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
Vehicle - Ides of March