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Music video clip - ''Who Spiked the Eggnog?'' Straight No ChaserAssociated Press TelevisionNew York - 17 December 20092. SOUNDBITE (English) Seggie Isho, Dan Ponce,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAtlantic Records = No re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003eAtlantic Records\u003cbr/\u003e1. Music video clip - ''Who Spiked the Eggnog?'' Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003eAssociated Press Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 17 December 2009\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Seggie Isho, Dan Ponce, Charlie Mechling (l-r), Straight No Chaser:\u003cbr/\u003ePonce: \"Yeah, it was 1996 and we were all undegrads at Indiana University and we''re all part of a show choir called The Singing Hourchers, and I just decided I wanted to start an a cappella group, as good as of a music school that Indiana University had, there wasn''t an a cappella group on campus. So within The Singer Houcrchers, within that show choir, pretty much I hand picked the guts that became the original Straight No Chaser. We pretty much just wanted to sing to sorority girls.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAtlantic Records\u003cbr/\u003e3. Music video clip - ''Who Spiked the Eggnog?'' Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003eAssociated Press Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 17 December 2009\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Seggie Isho, Dan Ponce, Charlie Mechling (l-r), Straight No Chaser:\u003cbr/\u003eMechling: \"We were kind of all over the place. I was doing music and theater, Dan: music and journalism. One of the guys was a math major, biology, biochemistry...Seggie...\u003cbr/\u003eIsho: \"I was trumpet performance actually, so completely opposite of vocals.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePonce: \"people studied a lot of different things. We had telecomm majors, biology majors. We were there connected because we loved a cappella singing.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAtlantic Records\u003cbr/\u003e5. CD artwork - ''Holiday Spirits'' Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003e6. CD artwork - ''Six Pack'' (EP) Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003e7. CD artwork - ''Christmas Cheers'' Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003eAssociated Press Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 17 December 2009\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Seggie Isho, Dan Ponce, Charlie Mechling (l-r), Straight No Chaser:\u003cbr/\u003ePonce: \"The first year that we were together, it was almost experimental. We kept our fulltime jobs, we did this as well. And it wasn''t until the album, ''Holiday Spirits,'' went to No. 1 on iTunes and Amazon, that''s when we looked at each other and said you know that, we can do this fulltime. And that''s when we recorded our second album ''Christmas Cheers.''\"\u003cbr/\u003eAtlantic Records\u003cbr/\u003e9. EPK clip - Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003eAssociated Press Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 17 December 2009\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Seggie Isho, Dan Ponce, Charlie Mechling (l-r), Straight No Chaser:\u003cbr/\u003eMechling: \"I got a lot of frequent-flier miles doing that. I was living in Vegas where Seggie still lives, and I was leaving Friday night from my life in Vegas coming to New York, or Bloomington, recording, rehearsing and then taking a redeye back. I felt like a businessman that didn''t have any benefits or paycheck.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePonce: \"It''s nice to be able to be doing this fulltime. It feels good.\u003cbr/\u003eAtlantic Records\u003cbr/\u003e11. Music video clip - ''Who Spiked the Eggnog?'' Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003eAssociated Press Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 17 December 2009\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Seggie Isho, Dan Ponce, Charlie Mechling (l-r), Straight No Chaser:\u003cbr/\u003eIsho: \"Our first album is your more traditional, gather-round-by-the-fire, relaxing, very soothing album, it''s gorgeous-sounding. And then ''Christmas Cheers'' is where you loosen up your tie, and it''s the party album. It''s a lot of fun. There''s definitely some comedic twists that''s weaved in and out of the album.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAtlantic Records\u003cbr/\u003e13. Music video clip - ''Who Spiked the Eggnog?'' Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003eAssociated Press Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 17 December 2009\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Seggie Isho, Dan Ponce, Charlie Mechling (l-r), Straight No Chaser:\u003cbr/\u003ePonce: \"On the tour bus, yes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMechling: \"Where are 10 guys not really too much? But it''s necessary. That''s what gives us the sounds that we have, the fullness in a live show and stuff like that. Having so many voices, I mean, I can''t imagine doing it without anybody.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAtlantic Records\u003cbr/\u003e15. Music video clip - ''Who Spiked the Eggnog?'' Straight No Chaser\u003cbr/\u003eAssociated Press Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 17 December 2009\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Seggie Isho, Dan Ponce, Charlie Mechling (l-r), Straight No Chaser:\u003cbr/\u003ePonce: \"It''s gonna be a tough ...It''s gonna be challenge. Because a cappella music still has yet to really cross to the mainstream where we can be on a Top 40 radio station. I mean, that''s bold. I think we can do it but we gotta go with baby steps. It''s like we start with our YouTube hit, now we have a Christmas album, and we''ll see where it goes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAtlantic Records\u003cbr/\u003e17. Live performance clip\u003cbr/\u003eImagine this: By day you''re a typical businessman, working the 9 to 5. Your nights and weekends, however, are spent sharing a stage with nine other guys just like you - performing a cappella songs in small venues while recording an album under Atlantic Records.\u003cbr/\u003eThat was the double life for the members of Straight No Chaser, an a cappella choir of 10 men who formed in 1996 during their college years at Indiana University.\u003cbr/\u003eThey say their pursuit in music was experimental at first. Dan Ponce even jokes that they got together because they \"wanted to sing to sorority girls.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"It was an interesting balance for that first year,\" said Ponce, who formed the group, which performs with eight of its original members.\u003cbr/\u003eCharlie Mechling, to laughs from the other group members, recalled how he earned a lot of frequent-flier miles jetting between his job and rehearsals.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I was leaving Friday night from my life in Vegas, coming to New York, recording, rehearsing and then taking a redeye back,\" he said. \"I felt like a businessman that didn''t have any benefits or paycheck.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIn college, some of the guys studied music, but not all of them. Others focused on mathematics, journalism or biology, among other subjects.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We were there connected because we all loved a cappella singing,\" Ponce said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe group first caught attention when the CEO of Atlantic Records saw on YouTube its rendition of \"12 Days of Christmas,\" which has been viewed more than 10 million times.\u003cbr/\u003eOnce signed, the group recorded a Christmas CD, \"Holiday Spirits,\" released in September 2008. It followed that with another holiday album, \"Christmas Cheers,\" which has a studio version of \"12 Days\" and was released last month.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our first album is your more traditional, gather-round-by-the-fire, relaxing, very soothing album,\" member Seggie Isho said. \"''Christmas Cheers'' is where you loosen up your tie, and it''s the party album.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut more than just creating CDs good for stuffing Christmas stockings, the singers hope to be played on iPods offseason, too.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Come Jan. 1, I am done with Christmas music,\" Mechling joked.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile on a North American tour, which wraps up this month, the group is performing holiday tunes as well as hit songs from the Billboard charts. In August it released \"Six Pack,\" a six-song EP with covers from Amy Winehouse''s \"Rehab\" to Stevie Wonder''s \"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I''m Yours.\" The group also says it''s working on a pop album to showcase how it can be more than a \"Christmas comedy act.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Some of us have been concerned that people will only think of us as Christmas group, and that''s not the case at all,\" Ponce said.\u003cbr/\u003eCrossing over to Top 40 radio with an a cappella sound and style will be challenge - but one the group says it''s up for.\u003cbr/\u003e\"A cappella music still has yet to really cross to the mainstream where we can be on a Top 40 radio station,\" Ponce said. \"That''s bold. 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