Chicago Voice Exchange
Chicago Voice Exchange have been entertaining and confusing audiences for over 8 years-- from corporate to school events, from low brow to high (and even uni-), their insouciance and self-deprecating humor leaves a trail of smiles and broken dishes wherever they go. Winners of the 1995 and 1997 Midwest Harmony Sweepstakes, they just missed a bronze in Synchronized Swimming at the last Summer Olympics. CVX is Andrew Blendermann, Joe Dennis, Tim Eaton, John Milne and the ubiquitous Bryan Chadima.
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Jingle Bells Carol O' Bells Little St. Nick We Three Kings Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Gabriel's Message Deck The Halls You're A Mean One Mr Grinch White Christmas Mistletoe and Holly Holly Jolly Christmas Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Gloria In Excelsis Silent Night Walkin' Around You'rd Better Open Up My Present Feliz Navidad |
CVX has wowed us from more than one Harmony Sweepstakes Finals stage, and this
is their raucous, more than slightly irreverent, fun Christmas CD! 14 songs:
"Jingle Bells," a jazzy, driving "Carol O' Bells," the Beach Boys' "Little St.
Nick," "We Three Kings," "Santa Claus" (who has whether you've been good or
bad "on videotape"), a delightfully oily "Mr. Grinch," "Deck The Hall," "Mistletoe
and Holly," "Holly Jolly Christmas," the requisite "Rudolph," "Silent Night,"
the hilarious "Walkin' Round In Women's Underwear" ("Later on, if ya wanna,
we can dress like Madonna"),the raunchy, macho "Better Open Up My Present,"
and finally "Feliz Navidad," which becomes the little-known Jewish carol--"Feliz
Hannukah." This is a party Christmas CD--not for everyone, but then it doesn't
try to be!
| 6986 CD $14.98 |
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Spiderman Crocodile Tears Grooveline/ YMCA Stray Cat Strut It's All Right So Far Midnight Train To Georgia (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher Underdog Raccoon The IHOP Song Mary I Hear The Fat Lady Singing |
Ecoute! C'est bon! Magnifique! However, this CD is neither live nor recorded
in Paris - nor is it a collection of French "chansons" - so I guess we're not
in on the joke, but what it is is a musically diverse, often sardonic and thoroughly
solid slate of songs. Disco schtick ("Grooveline/YMCA"), cartoon themes ("Underdog")
and seventies soul ("Midnight Train to Georgia") are interpreted fervently,
but the originals have the staying power: "The IHOP Song," "Crocodile Tears,"
and the Sweepstakes best original song winner, "So Far," which nails those dulcet
Beach Boys-type harmonies to the most engaging of melodies.
| 2794 CD $14.98 |
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Hodja Yuppie Refugee In The Still Of The Night High & Lonesome Uncle John's Band Mexican Polka That Lonesome Road The Beat Goes On Message In A Bottle Rooftop Dancing Tempted It's Only Life Inertiaville Love The One Your With Carry On |
CVX presents us with a wide variety of covers, Todd Rundgren's "Hodja," a doo wop "In The Still Of The Night," the Grateful Dead's "Uncle John's Band," to name a few. The delight of the album is found in the humor of the originals all of which poke sympathetic fun at social stereotypes. Yuppie yucks, falling in love, lost love drowned in booze, feeling bad, the inertia in small towns and the terminally straight-laced are all dealt with by these 1995 and 1997 Harmony Sweepstakes Chicago Regional winners. They're a complete delight.
Listen to "Yuppie
Refugee" in Real Audio.
| 2540 CD $14.98 |
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