The Bobs are a "new wave" a cappella group founded in San Francisco, Califo… Read Full Bio ↴The Bobs are a "new wave" a cappella group founded in San Francisco, California. The group is known for humorous original songs and avant-garde arrangement techniques. Instead of covering more traditional doo-wop songs, The Bobs started out with songs like "Helter Skelter" (The Beatles) and "Psycho Killer" (Talking Heads). Although two of their albums are dominated by covers, the overwhelming majority of their repertoire is original, with songs discussing diverse subjects like lunar cattle farming, sleepy bus drivers, bumper stickers, laundry, hurricane-related flooding, graffiti, Oliver North, shopping-mall security guards, celebrity autographs, synaesthesia, post office violence, heart transplants, Heaven's Gate, spontaneous human combustion, turtles, rebellious footwear, tattoos, nicknames for genitalia, and felines intent on ruling the world. They are currently based in Seattle.
The Bobs have broken with a cappella tradition several times by including instruments. The majority of the 1995 album Plugged is backed by toy drums. Plugged also made heavy use of studio equipment to make the voices sound more like guitars and bass guitars. Coaster includes a rock rhythm section on one song. But this original "band without instruments" usually uses just their mouths, hands, feet and "other body parts" to fill a room with a sound as big as an orchestra.
Members of the group are always credited with "Bob" as their middle name. The name is often described as an acronym for "Best of Breed," an award given out at dog shows.
The group has garnered a healthy cult following in the U.S. and Europe in the 24 years they've been touring and recording, and has won numerous songwriting and vocal performance honors.
The Bobs have broken with a cappella tradition several times by including instruments. The majority of the 1995 album Plugged is backed by toy drums. Plugged also made heavy use of studio equipment to make the voices sound more like guitars and bass guitars. Coaster includes a rock rhythm section on one song. But this original "band without instruments" usually uses just their mouths, hands, feet and "other body parts" to fill a room with a sound as big as an orchestra.
Members of the group are always credited with "Bob" as their middle name. The name is often described as an acronym for "Best of Breed," an award given out at dog shows.
The group has garnered a healthy cult following in the U.S. and Europe in the 24 years they've been touring and recording, and has won numerous songwriting and vocal performance honors.
Christmas in Jail
The Bobs Lyrics
Snow is falling, in the place where I grew up
That's where all my Christmas memories stay
We'd salt the roads and watch our cars begin to rust
As season's changed I moved away
But now It's like Christmas in July
And it's Summer all the time
It's a holiday, everything's green
But I miss you in my life
On another silent night, I'll sing
Cause it brings me back home like a child on Christmas Eve
We'd wrap our presents and drink hot chocolate from a mug
And hang our stockings near the tree
On early Christmas mornings we would all wake up
Seems these days I oversleep
It's like Christmas in July
And it's Summer all the time
It's a holiday, everything's green
But I miss you in my life
On another silent night, I'll sing
Cause it brings me back home like a child on Christmas Eve
Let it snow now
What seasons bring I'm not home now
But I can dream
It's like Christmas in July
And it's Summer all the time
It's a holiday, everything's green
But I miss you in my life
On another silent night, I'll sing
Cause it brings me back home like a child on Christmas Eve
Holiday, everything's green
But I miss you in my life
On another silent night, I'll sing
Cause it brings me back home like a child on Christmas Eve
That's where all my Christmas memories stay
We'd salt the roads and watch our cars begin to rust
As season's changed I moved away
But now It's like Christmas in July
And it's Summer all the time
It's a holiday, everything's green
But I miss you in my life
On another silent night, I'll sing
We'd wrap our presents and drink hot chocolate from a mug
And hang our stockings near the tree
On early Christmas mornings we would all wake up
Seems these days I oversleep
It's like Christmas in July
And it's Summer all the time
It's a holiday, everything's green
But I miss you in my life
On another silent night, I'll sing
Cause it brings me back home like a child on Christmas Eve
Let it snow now
What seasons bring I'm not home now
But I can dream
It's like Christmas in July
And it's Summer all the time
It's a holiday, everything's green
But I miss you in my life
On another silent night, I'll sing
Cause it brings me back home like a child on Christmas Eve
Holiday, everything's green
But I miss you in my life
On another silent night, I'll sing
Cause it brings me back home like a child on Christmas Eve
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Robert Dwight Gentry
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