The Roches Hallelujah Chorus 1982

The Roches singing Handel's Hallelujah Chorus at Improv 1982. FYI they have just released new CD "Moonswept" and are currently touring.For more info. go to their website www.roches.com

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• Hallelujah+Chorus
• 1982
• Improv

[daddy09imp]

The SNL version of them singing this song was the one that, many years later still sticks in my mind!! It was UNBELIEVEABLE!!! please post it again! I am from a sibling singer family and one of my best memories was of us singing flawless harmonies, many of which no one could ever duplicate.

[carrolly2k]

@daddy09imp NBC owns the rights to that and you are not allowed to post it.

[doctorgooz]

Some people are interpreting this as non-sacred music. My point, which I probably didn't express well, is that, while I don't agree with that point of view, whether or not the Roches believe in the divinity of Christ is beside the point, its still a great rendition.

[fek2000]

Attention Britney and Miley--don't try this at home

[jh82vid]

@daddy09imp You can watch it at their web site and if you subscribe to netflix, it is available for streaming, plus the other song they performed that night. Season 5 episode 5 with Maude (Bea Arthur) hosting. The netflix one is very good quality.

[davidlenander]

@rootedsorrow You might be thinking of Lucy Wainwright Roche, who's now a singer/songwriter in her own right.  In fact, she pops up on the side suggestion panel here in a performance with her mother & aunts. I think she's also done some things with her older half-siblings, Rufus and Martha.

[moonharp]

12 people are still angry that they didn't make Madrigals in 1972...

[YCHumanities]

You can find it on the Roches own website.

[rogerdotlee]

I also remember this rendition from SNL lo these many years ago. I couldn't believe what I was hearing when I heard it and I couldn't find a recording of it for years afterwards (much to my eternal chagrin). Imagine my joy when I was searching for Cohen's Hallelujah and this popped up. Whether or not God smiles every time they sing this aside; I know I and a lot of others do. Thanks, ladies.

[amerikanprincess]

IMHO, God smiles every time they sing this.

[kittyprydekissme]

Crossing Delancey was on TV tonight, so I just had to look these ladies up. It'd been so long since I heard them do this (I actually saw this back when it was on TV in '82, and before that on Saturday Night Live). I wish somebody could post the songs from Delancey on here, especially Pounding, which is what I came onto Youtube specifically to find. Oh, well.

[rootedsorrow]

I think Suzzy is pregnant here. She is the mother of one of Loudon Wainwright's children.