> ah! the joys of incidental disagreement... > > << Mind you, still not quite convinced by lower > voices > for instance doing the crooner thing. . .? Having > said > that, I'd far rather have Moon River than Mozart's > Figaro anyday!! Lol! >> > > are you saying that it is wrong (bing, dick > haymes, late frank, joe > williams, scott walker, etc.) for lower voices to do > the crooner thing? or, > just not your preference? englebert humperdink > (the real one, not that > silly opera composer guy) is a baritone, so are > scott walker and 'old > blue-balls'. do you consider baritone to be other > than a lower voice? >
Hi Mike,
Just thought I'd say hi and send you this privately. Re. your thoughts on the crooner thing and baritono's, I think the baritone voice is the hardest and perhaps most interesting to deal with? It's certainly very useful!!! However, I do think lots of people get it very confused in relation to it's bass & tenor counterparts. These days I tend to say "I'm, a singer. Sometimes I sing high, sometimes low", that seems to shut people up! If you have, as I do, a long range, the minute you go up to the top part, people are always saying "Are you sure you're not a tenor?" etc. Very aggravating. I'm certainly not saying it's wrong for a lower voice to do the crooner thing: as far as I'm concerned, it's marvellous. I'd much rather have Gordon MacCrae crooning away, than some clapped out operatic baritone whoofing with some ugly manufactured tone. I've no idea what this is turning into now, but what the Hell!! I know!!! I meant that lots of 'baritones' try and do a pop type thing, but it just sounds like very bad karaoke!! There, that's it I think?
Take care, and I must say that you constantly write sensible posts which are interesting and human. Some of the people on here are nothing but wankers!!!
Speak to you soon.
Ian x
ps: Love the term 'old blue balls!! hehehe
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