Who Needs to Move to Hollywood When You've Got YouTube?

We always hear of the internet coming back to haunt people, ruining their careers and forcing them to apologize to their boss, President-Elect Barack Obama. But for one group of University of Indiana students, a 10-year-old clip of them singing "The 12 Days of Christmas" became so popular, Atlantic Records offered them a five-record deal and a concert tour.

The members of the all-male a cappella group are not living rock stars yet--all of them still have their day jobs. One of them is Dan Ponce, one of the founders of the group named Straight, No Chaser, is a reporter for the ABC news station in Chicago.

Straight, No Chaser comes to Los Angeles on December 17 for a show at Largo.

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There is no such insitution as the University of Indiana. I suspect you mean that they are from Indiana University.

There is also no such word as insitution. I suspect I meant institution. There also doesn't seem to be any way to edit a comment after it's posted.

Suspicious minds.

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