Awesome Singing

Performer Ruben “Lucky” Hall aka “Flat Top” adds his unique spin to Daft Punk’s Voyager, embellishing the track with sweet vocals and robotic dance moves. Come for the outfit and hairdo, stay for the talent.

Lights will guide you home… and ignite your bones. YouTuber Sinj was playing a game of Call of Duty when Jerry-Mosses Roebeck broke out in song – presumably he was unaware that his mic was on when he started singing Fix You.

Princess Yellow Feather sounds like the name of a character from a family flick, and this amazon parrot knows how to sing Everything is Awesome from The LEGO Movie like a boss. Best comment: “Everything is awesome…when you live in a tree.”

Creative technologist, artist and hacker Martin Backes created this computerized installation which endlessly sings hit ballads from the ’90s, vocalizing the songs with a sort of robo-speak which expresses a tremendous sense of emotion.

Following up on The Wikidrummer, singer Joachim Müllner performs the same song in 15 different locales, each with dramatically different acoustic properties, including an anechoic chamber. Best experienced with headphones on.

The broadway casts of The Lion King and Aladdin found themselves delayed at the airport due to bad weather, and decided to make the best of the time with an impromptu sing-off. This never happens to us when we’re delayed. (Thanks Seth!)

Singer and music teacher Anna-Maria Hefele demonstrates polyphonic overtone singing. This uncanny technique allows her to generate two melodies in one breath and manipulate them independently.

In response to a note from a high school music teacher looking for safe-for-school lyrics, Mac Lethal proves his rap prowess knows no bounds, as he spits his rapid-fire rhymes over Mozart’s Turkish March Piano Sonata No. 11.

What starts out as a bunch of drunk blokes singing in a London bathroom quickly turns awesome when Oli Goss busts out his best impression of reggae-pop singer Shaggy and his distinctive frog-in-the-throat vocals. Boombastic!

Musician Luc Arbogast’s bald head and tattoos belie his vocal talents, an uncanny ability to sing in a range normally reserved for the most talented female vocalists. He can also sing in a more typical range as well. More here.

For his 15 seconds of Internet fame, yodeler Mark Jackson chose to throat-warble out an unlikely tune – the ominous theme music from The Godfather. And just when we thought we were out, Mark pulls us back in.

In this clip from back in 2008, Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert took the opportunity to sing a duet of The Star Spangled Banner, improvising the harmonies along the way. We just wanted to yell “Play Ball!” at the end.

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee is challenging enough to play on a musical instrument, so when we stumbled onto opera singer Malena Ernman performing the song with her voice, we were speechless.

It took vocalist Dan Buckley about five nights to record all of the 66 different voice tracks he used to create his cover of Danny Elfman’s spooky holiday classic This is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Remember Big? The classic 1988 Tom Hanks flick immortalized those giant pianos you can play with your feet. Here, a group of classically-trained singers has been programmed to make the notes instead of an electronic circuit.

Jesse and Adam Blockton of Failures have spliced together an amusing video of John Lennon auditioning on The Voice, which makes us wonder who else might bomb on that show.

If Ellen has sent her staff to find this young boy in the Philippines to sing on her show, would we be disappointed? No. Aldrich Talonding has big talent and soul in a kid’s body. (Thanks Fred!)

We’re not strangers to early rock bloomers, but little Elisabetta’s naturally harsh vocals may just be the hardest we have heard so far. Little Red Riding Hood and doing laundry were never more metal. Original video here.

A moving rendition of Simon and Garfunkel’s classic single, sung in the voices of Kermit the Frog and other Muppets. Brought to you by YouTuber Seán Thomas Gallobhaí – and a bottle of Famous Grouse whiskey.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield joins The Barenaked Ladies and a children’s choir to play guitar and back up the band in the first-ever live space-to-Earth musical collaboration. Like a happy version of Major Tom.

Jordan Lamont Landers’ older sister took this candid video of him performing an impressive cover of Ray Charles’ Hit the Road Jack. We’d go so far as to say he’s got soul to spare with a voice like that.

It’s 12/21/2012, so if the nuts out there are to believed, today is the last day for good old planet Earth. Let’s send it off with a one minute mashup, courtesy of Chad Neidt. (Thanks Jayhawk!)

The children of New York’s PS22 Chorus pay tribute to the families, children and teachers affected by the tragic events that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary last week by singing their school song.