”Both Sides Now”: (SSAA) Joni Mitchell’s wonderful classic in a lyrical approach featuring all the four voices equally.
NEW 2025 ”Across the Universe”: (SSMAA) John Lennon’s captivating song from the 1970 Beatles album ”Let It Be”. The song is especially outstanding among Lennon’s compositions for its poetic lyrics.
NEW 2025 ”Volare” (”Nel blu dipinto di blu”): (SSAA) Dean Martin sung it in an Italian/English version, the Gypsy Kings gave their Latin spin to it, but I decided to keep the original swing feeling and keep it as simple as possible. Here it’s sung in Italian, but there are English lyrics as well.
The arrangement is also available a whole tone lower.
NEW 2026 ”Time in a Bottle”: (SSAA) A touchstone for every singer-songwriter. Jim Croce wrote it – probably because ”there never seems to be enough time to do the things you wanna do”.
”God Only Knows”: (SSMAA) The Beach Boys’ most beautiful love song.
”In My Room”: (SSMAA) Once more the Beach Boys, but no love song this time. Just Brian Wilson enjoying some ’me-time’ at home.
”Our Sweet Love”: (SSAA) Obviously the other most beautiful love song by the Beach Boys 🙂
”Pipes of Peace”: (SSAA) Paul McCartney at his best. Holding a torch for world peace!
”Fields of Gold”: (SSAA) Sting’s wonderful autumnal love song.
”Straighten up and fly right”: (SSA[A]A)The swinging jazz standard by the Mill’s Brothers and Nat King Cole. This arrangement is inspired by the male vocal group called Cadence. During the chorus section there’s plenty of opportunity for scat or kazoo improvisations! Fly safe! 🙂
”This is the Moment”: (SSAA) From the musical ”Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. I made a SSAA adaptation based on the great barbershop version by Fred King.
NEW 2026 ”Heast as net”: (SS[S]AA) by the Austrian artist Hubert von Goisern (from 1992). If you don’t know his music, I can only recommend to check him out! He invented a very original style, so that I also could have categorized this piece under ”Folk”, ”Pop” or ”Country”.
A lot of his songs, like this one here and ”Brenna tuas guat” and ”Weit, weit weg” have all become Austrian classics by now.
Also, I can highly recommend the piece even for Non-Austrian speaking singers, because it has very little text. It does contain some ”Yodeling”, but it’s more ”singing on yodel-syllables” than the more virtuosic style with the cracking. 😉
”Sing’, Nachtigall, sing’ ”: (SAA) Famously interpreted by Evelyn Künnecke 1943. You may even notice tiny bits of a song by Paul McCartney. 😉
*”Wir sind von Kopf bis Fuss”: (SSAA) Marlene Dietrich’s signature song from the movie ”Der blaue Engel” (1930)
NEW 2026 ”Il nous faut regarder”: An early chanson by Jacques Brel. Unfortunately, the virtual voices don’t sing in French. So, here you’re listening to the Swedisch version.
Swedish:
NEW 2026 ”Jag gör aldrig om det här”: (SSAA) Är detta kanske Melissa Horns mörkaste låt? En riktig utmaning i alla fall. Storartat!
NEW 2026 ”En enkel visa”: (SSAA) Jacques Brels chanson in the beautiful translation by Lars Forssell.
*NEW 2025 ”Diktaren och Tiden”: (SSAA) By Evert Taube. In contrast to ”Så skimrande var aldrig havet” or ”Så länge skutan kan gå” this short and melancholic song isn’t well known. I think it’s a hidden gem.
*NEW 2025 ”Morgon efter regn”: (SSAA) Like the other Evert Taube song above (”Diktaren och Tiden”) though also not very well known, it’s testifying both for Taube’s musical and poetic qualities.
*”Hur ska det gå?”: (SSAA) A bewildered and swinging love song from Melissa Horn’s album ”Säg ingenting till mig”, 2009.
Christmas:
”White Christmas”: (SSAA) Irving Berlin’s immortal classic in close-harmony.
”Merry Christmas, you suckers”: (SSAA) Paddy Roberts’ wonderfully ironic Christmas tune from 1962.
”X-mas is all around”: (SSAA) A highlight from the movie ”Love Actually” where Bill Nighy’s character Billy Mack is ”pressing in some extra syllables” into ”Love is all around”. In my version I was pressing in some extra melodies as well. 🙂 Additionally, the pieces ”Both sides Now” and ”God Only Knows” can work well together as a group of songs from this movie.