Your favorite a capella tracks

This has some music, but these vocals are fabulous!!!

 

John Lennon - Imagine

 

Yes - Roundabout

 

Genesis - The Musical Box

 

I can't seem to find it, but "Theodora Is Dozing" by the Bulgarian Women's Choir (Nonesuch records) is one of my all-time favorite a cappella recordings

 

Deep Purple - Highway Star

 

King Crimson - Epitaph

 

I didn't find it either, but this one will do:

 

As much as I enjoy hearing isolated vocal tracks, they aren't designed as an "a cappella" performance, and really do not count here.

 

Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

 

Maddy Prior & The Girls - Bib and Tuck, the opening track Acapella Stella.

 

The Temptations - My Girl

 

For The best and most vital acapella music one has to go to African American Gospel music.
Expand your horizons and explore this music.
A great example is "Jesus Met The Woman At the Well" by the Pilgrim Travelers, and the version by the Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham Alabama.
For those interested I can post some good starter collections

 

Michael Jackson - Beat it

 

The first time I heard this was on Radio Luxembourg the winter of 1973. Gave me chills and goosebumps! It remains one of my favorite songs of the holiday season. Erasure put a version of it on their Christmas album a few years ago which I quite like as well (though it's not a capella).

 

The post on Steeleye Span reminded me of Jacqui McShee of Pentangle.
Did and still does great acapella folk ballads.

 

Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence (+ acoustic guitar)

This is so beautiful

 

It doesn't get any better (or more authentic) than this:

Ladies and gentlemen, the godfathers of modern acappella ...

 

Foreigner - I Want To Love What is

 

And now from Finland

 

ANYTHING by Petra Haden!!!!

 

Luigi & The Wise Guys - Frank Zappa

The Dust Blows Forward... - Captain Beefheart

Their Hearts Were Full of Spring - Beach Boys