At 1:53 PM -0700 5/13/11, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote:
Voices like that, John? They'rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre Grrrrrrrrrrrreat!
Thurl Ravenscroft immediately comes to mind.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft> for those not
familiar with the name.
I never knew his name. Thanks for the link. That was a voice that
can honestly be called "unique"!
Another was the guy who sang bass with Singers Unlimited, whose name
I can't remember. I think he did The Jolly Green Giant commercials.
(Gene Peurling was bass with the Hi-Lo's before Singers Unlimited,
but he was never really a bass. And because of that he came up with
the trick of using bowed string bass as a 5th low voice, going back
to the early Starlight albums.)
John
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John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
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