[musictlk] A random music question

[Timothy Clark Music]

first of all the blind boys from alabama are fantastic even the mighty clouds of joy. ::) 
 Who hasn't heard of them needs to catch up on some music listening. 
 Timothy. 
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On Jul 18, 2012, at 12:47 AM, Joshua Lester wrote:

> The growl is famous in Blues, and African-American Gospel groups.
> The Mighty Clouds of Joy are from Los Angeles, CA.
> Had you heard of them?
> Again, I wouldn't recommend this kind of singing, to anyone.
> Also, why does Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama, do the
> same stuff?
> Thanks, Joshua
> 
> On 7/17/12, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> The falsetto actually is the best part of the song.
>> Counter tenors are some of the highest paid classical singers in the world
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1e49KLXNU
>> Is one of the more famous ones, but there are quite a few. It's hard to
>> become good and their music is pretty exclusively choral and baroque. I was
>> 
>> seriously  considering becoming one till I found my bass baritone voice. Now
>> 
>> it's kind of like a passing fancy, like what's needed in Carmina Buana.
>> They are showing some wair though, the guy singing has a slow vibrato which
>> 
>> comes from singing to forcefully. The falsetto is delicate, but those guys
>> were ratting on it pretty hard. Their throat growls sundered the worst to
>> me.
>> But it's really not true that a high C is high, I can hit a high F, F5 I
>> believe, although I'm a lower falsetto  singer. What's really cool is this
>> guy:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k8_WS9UOVU
>> He can hit everything in his chest voice what I couldn't dream of in my
>> falsetto.
>> BTW, if you want an amazing watch, all 6 parts of the BBC show on castrati
>> are something that shouldn't be missed. Except for the extreme covetous of
>> the narrator counter tenor to be a castrato, and the castration devices,
>> it's quite gripping... (Not to say the castration devices wouldn't be
>> gripping, just perhaps in another way, not so nice.
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Brandon Keith Biggs
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joshua Lester
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:47 PM
>> To: NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: [musictlk] A random music question
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWpIWEWT76o
>> How can these guys sing like this, and not ruin their voices?
>> Their lead singer has been doing this since 1960, and is still able to
>> do songs in the same key!
>> Wow!
>> I wouldn't advise anyone to sing like that!
>> Thanks, Joshua
>> 
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