The Bobs

Imagine Manhattan Transfer on acid. If Robin Williams met Bobby McFerrin. Zappa meets Bach. The Bobs are a truly original all-vocal band that began in the early 80's in San Francisco. Two of its original members met while employed as deliverers of singing telegrams. The band went on to garner a Grammy Nomination for vocal arranging as well as numerous TV and film appearances.

The group is known for its audacious covers of familiar tunes, its 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.