A Holiday Story...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Back in the mid to late nineties, a group of 10 male college students decided to try and enrich their campus with an a cappella group. The group came together through the work of one individual by the name of Dan Ponce, who knew what the group needed to be and sound like. This group started out only having one song, Billy Joel’s “For the longest time.” They grew substantially from there and became “Straight No Chaser”.
The original members of group started out small but by the end of their days in 1999 they had sold over 50,000 copies of 3 albums. When the members graduated they hand chose their replacements to guarantee the continued success of the program. The original members went their separate ways, becoming news anchors, cruise line performers and even Simba of the Lion King. Then in 2006, things changed.
Indiana University decided to have a reunion of the original SNC group. Randy Stine of the original group had gone on to have his own video recording business. For fun he decided to compile a few of the old home videos into a DVD and even went as far as posting a few clips on youtube.com for the group and who ever else to see it. Well, more than a couple people saw it. By the end of December 2007, the website clip had received more than 6 million hits.
A certain music exec Atlantic Records Chairman/CEO Craig Kallman was one of the many who saw the video. Kallman contacted Dan Ponce the man who started it all and well now the group has a record out and who knows where they will be headed in the future. For more information, check out their web site at www.sncmusic.com
Happy Holidays to all.
Minda
Comment
I just finished watching like 14 of their videos after reading this. They’re fantastic thanks for letting us know about them.
— Rick · Dec 2, 11:24 PM · #
Just an FYI update: I have been told that their CD is available at Borders. Something to check out.
— Minda · Dec 5, 10:50 AM · #
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