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Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Peter Hollens - Feat. Swingle Singers - A cappella Cover - Beatbox Play Video

Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Peter Hollens - Feat. Swingle Singers - A cappella Cover - Beatbox

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Tchaikovsky-Swingle Singers: 1812 Overture: Play Video

Tchaikovsky-Swingle Singers: 1812 Overture:

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The Swingle Singers Music Video Piazzolla 'Libertango' Play Video

The Swingle Singers Music Video Piazzolla 'Libertango'

Swingle Singers Music Video. A Cappella singing. Music by Piazzolla. Arranged by Kineret Erez. The highly anticipated music video 'Libertango' by the Grammy Award winning vocal group, The Swingle Singers featuring the...

The Swingle Singers - Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney) Live November 2009 Play Video

The Swingle Singers - Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney) Live November 2009

Blackbird a Lennon/McCartney cover New Swingle Singers album out now alled Ferris Wheel (2009) The Swingle Singers | Live at Braunston All Saints Church 21st November 2009 Presented by Pete Lawrence | Pic-Nic...

The Swingle Singers - Flying High/Wake Me Up When September Ends - Live 2009 Play Video

The Swingle Singers - Flying High/Wake Me Up When September Ends - Live 2009

Flying High/Wake Me Up When September Ends From the new Swingle Singers album Ferris Wheel 2009 The Swingle Singers | Live at Braunston All Saints Church 21st November 2009 Presented by Pete Lawrence | Pic-Nic...

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The Swingle Singers Biography

The Swingle Singers are a mostly a cappella vocal group formed in 1962 in Paris, France by Ward Swingle with Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont, Jean Cussac and others. Christiane Legrand, the sister of composer Michel Legrand, was the group's lead soprano through 1972. Until 2011, the group consisted of eight voices: two sopranos, two altos, two tenors and two basses. The French group performed and recorded typically with only a double bass and drums as accompaniment. The current group performs primarily a cappella. In 1973, the original French group disbanded and Ward Swingle moved to London and recruited all new members who debuted as Swingle II. The group later performed and recorded under the name The Swingles and then, The New Swingle Singers and eventually, simply, The Swingle Singers. Since the London group's incarnation, the group has never disbanded. As individual members have left the group, the remaining members have held auditions for replacements.

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The Swingle Singers Discography

The Swingle Singers albums.

  • Swingle Singers Going Baroque - 1964 (Philips/US)
  • A Cappella Amadeus - 19/03/1991 (Atlantic/US)
  • Bach Hits Back: A New A Cappella Tribute - 17/10/1994 (Virgin Classics/DE)
  • Swingling Telemann - 19/03/2002 (Umvd Import/US)
  • Keyboard Classics - 26/03/2002 (Primarily A Cappella/US)
  • The Swingle Singers Sing Irving Berlin - 21/07/2003 (Castle Pulse/GB)
  • Beauty and the Beatbox - 09/2007 (Signum Classics/GB)

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