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Lotsa A Cappella

with Marjie Kennedy

Sunday at 7:00AM

Marjie Kennedy features vocal music from all over the world each Sunday morning from 7:00 until 8:00 Central Time. Mostly unaccompanied by instruments of any kind, Lotsa A Cappella ranges from funk to jazz to rock and roll, bawdy madrigals and saintly motets, the ringing chords of traditional barbershop quartets, authentic tribal chants, Southern-style shape note singing, the twang of bluegrass, the fervor of gospel, the croon of doo-wop, and more.

To quote a casual listener to the program: "I never realized that the human voice could sound like that!" Give Lotsa A Cappella a try. You never know what you might hear!

Playlists

Archived playlists for Lotsa A Cappella:

- July 18, 2010 - July 11, 2010 - July 4, 2010 - June 27, 2010 - View full archive

Playlist for Lotsa A Cappella on January 19, 2003.

Song Title Artist Album Label
Good Old A Cappella  The Persuasions  We Still Ain't Got No Band   
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen  The Blind Boys Of Alabama  Holdin' On   
Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed On Freedom  Sweet Honey In The Rock  Freedom Song (soundtrack)   
During the Civil Rights Movement, new words were added to many old gospel and spirituals. This song was originally "Woke Up...With My Mind Stayed on Jesus." Berniece Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey In The Rock, was one of the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Freedom Singers in the 1960s.
A Change Is Gonna Come  A Perfect Blend  Encore   
How I Got Over  Richard Allen Singers  Wade In The Water Vol. 3: African American Gospel: The Pioneering Composers (various artists)   
Smithsonian Folkways Series
People Get Ready  The Persuasions  Street Corner Symphony    +
In That Great Gettin' Up Morning  Leonard De Paur Infantry Chorus  The Gospel Tradition: The Roots & Branches (various artists)   
Letter To Dr. King  Sweet Honey In The Rock  Live At Carnegie Hall   
Thanks to ARI for including this track on their tribute to Sweet Honey In The Rock, October 2002. If you'd like to listen to the Sweet Honey program in Real Audio, try the following link and scroll down to "A Cappella Radio International: October 2002" http://www.spebsqsa.org/web/groups/public/documents/webassets/jukebox.hcst
Pride In The Name Of Love  Voice Male  6   
Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray  Howard University Choir  A Choral Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Choral Arts Society) (various artists)   
Pass Me Not  Total Experience Gospel Choir  Harmony Sweepstakes 2000 (various artists)   
Why Am I Treated So Bad?  Pops Staples/ The Staple Singers  Freedom Highway   
If You Miss Me From The Back Of The Bus/ Sister Rosa  Street Sounds  Street Sounds   
Street Sounds takes the old spiritual "If You Miss Me From Praying" and changes it into a protest song, followed by a cover of the Neville Brothers' "Sister Rosa."
Gonna Be Free One Day  Sounds Of Blackness  The Evolution Of Gospel   
Harriet Tubman  Jasmine  Jasmine (Wild Strings)   
Yes We Can Can  17th Avenue All-Stars  True Colors   
I'll Make It Somehow  The Golden Harps  All Of My Appointed Time: 40 Years Of A Cappella Gospel (various artists)   
For What It's Worth  Middlebury Dissipated Eight  BOCA 3 (Best Of Collegiate A Cappella) (various artists)   
Ballad Of The Sit-Ins  Sweet Honey In The Rock  The Women Gather   *
Plenty Good Room  Moses Hogan Singers  Choral Series 2002   
from a double CD with 39 spirituals
Lift Every Voice And Sing  Women Of The Calabash  The Kwanzaa Album   
Wade In The Water  Fisk Jubilee Singers  Wade In The Water Vol. 1 - African American Spirituals: The Concert Tradition (various artists)   
Smithsonian Folkways Series (produced by Berniece Johnson Reagon) The 4 CDs in the series are available individually or as a box set.
I Shall Not Be Moved  The Zion Harmonizers with the Olympia Brass Band  Best Of New Orleans Gospel: Traditional Negro Spirituals   
this CD includes several a cappella tracks as well as many accompanied by the Olympia Brass Band
My Soul Is A Witness  Kansas City Gospel Singers  Swing Time Gospel (various artists)   
Oh Freedom  Princely Players  Wade In The Water Vol. 1 - African American Spirituals: The Concert Tradition (various artists)   
Troubles Of This World  The Landfordaires  The Gospel Tradition: The Roots & Branches (various artists)   
Precious Lord, Take My Hand  Choral Arts Society: Combined Choirs  A Choral Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Choral Arts Society) (various artists)   
Pass On The Love  The Persuasions  Spike Lee's Do It A Cappella (various artists)   
I'm On The Firing Line  Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers  Jesus Gave Me Water   
Steal Away  Ambiance  Jazz Ladies   
Elijah Rock  Moses Hogan Singers  Choral Series 2002   
Come Sunday  Barbara Hendricks/ Monty Alexander Trio  A Tribute To Duke Ellington   
(I know I played this track earlier in the program, but forgot to write it down in the correct order.)
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Thanks for all the nice phone calls and emails in response to our annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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