Word: cappella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highlights of any Harvard Krokodiloe concert comes with the group's rendition of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It." The Kroks, the 12-man cappella undergraduate singing group, always revises the lyrics of this randy war-horse to give it that unmistakable aroma of burning rubber--the smell of tires and gonads hot for another trip to Wellesley...
...Bunky Sheppard tells it now, and he was riding in his car past the corner of 58th and South Park in Chicago. He passed a group singing a cappella, letting some high sweet harmonies drift up into the metropolitan air. Bunky drove around the block, came back to that same corner, listened a little harder and made his move...
...pasted on, but the real meat of it is in the (spontaneous?) dialogue coming from Strummer, as he talks politics or introduces the song "I'm So Bored with the USA," dedicating it to Freddie Laker, "the man who made it all possible." Later, Strummer sings lyrics a cappella on a studio dub of "All the Young Punks," undermining his own lyrics with harmonic "c---s" on the final rhyme. One senses validity and importance in this early version of the Clash; one also imagines Clash Muzak in some future elevator...