We've Got The Music During The Sing Off

In a land where casting is everything to keep T.V. viewers, NBC hit the mark with season 2 of The Sing Off.  Starting with history's first a capella group, The Whiffenpoofs from Yale; to glad to have you back Jerry Lawson and Talk of The Town from Oakland, CA; to the sound of American youth Eleventh Hour from Kettering, Ohio; this is a competition to watch and enjoy and mark 2010 with great singing.

After casting comes song choice, and again The Whiffenpoofs choice of "Grace Kelly" proved spot on with their par excellence singing and clever choreography to make me laugh and see the performance more than once, plus check out the lyrics for great songwriting.

Committed's "This Love" by Maroon 5 also proved smart, along with their razor sharp well-matched blend and red sweater clean cut stage presence. 

Jerry Lawson and Talk of the Town had soft-shoe charm and seasoned ease proving a capella singing has longevity and joy.  Nice cha cha cha ending.  I will be shopping for a nice grey suit, lavender shirt and purple paisley tie.

Seattle's Groove for Thought is the group I want to listen to all day and all night.  They make a capella singing look easy and have a best balance of the full range of sound.

On The Rocks from University of Oregon is highly entertaining --a stage full of sing off beasts from the nicest state and they have a see it again factor.

Eleventh Hour, our only high school group, from Kettering, Ohio are spot on with cute, fun clothes, a nice sound, an interesting group of singers, and talent to swing the vote their way. Baby, baby!

The Backbeats "If I Were A Boy" has a Southern California classy look and fine arrangement sound, but I want more range of show me what you can do from deep base to soaring sopranos.

Pitch Slapped  poor choice of "Good Girls Go Bad" proved their exit moment.  The song was like a trip to Cancun on spring breat, yet we were hoping for a world class acapella Christmas treat.

Street Corner Symphony chose a good song "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" yet looked a little sloppy and showed no big surprise with a pitchy low note.

Men of Note have the lead with the goods, but also had a bit of a slouch, sloppy style and no solid bass.  Loved the creative ending.

Over all we have an enjoyable host, Nick Lachey, smart judges, especially Ben Fouds, with plenty more world-class a capella singing to come.