From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #37 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, February 11 2004 Volume 09 : Number 037 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] BF interview on Australian radio ["Anton van Lammeren" Subject: [AVALON] BF interview on Australian radio Hi, Thanks to vivaroxymusic.com: http://vivaroxymusic.com/news_20040207a.shtml and http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/stories/s1037248.htm I captured the audio on mp3. Being more than 22 minutes, even on 48 kbps (bitrate) the file is 7.6 MB. You may download it from: www.avl.dds.nl/Avalonia.htm Tara, Anton. P.S. I really don't "get" the "G'day Bryan, my wife thinks you're the ducks' guts" -bit. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:16:08 EST From: LottieStreeter2@cs.com Subject: [AVALON] Ferry's Vocal Range > And what songs he has sang that > demonstrate the lowest notes he has hit, the highest ones, and the > song with the gretest range covered. I think the highest notes might just be in "Would You Believe", part of which he sings in falsetto. Also his "Sonnet 18", from the Princess Di tribute album. "More Than This" is definitely written in a higher octave, too, he has specifically mentioned it as being difficult to sing (that's probably why it's so rare to find a live version - just that one Tokyo concert in 2001, to my knowledge). A song in a low octave that comes to mind is "A Song For Europe", he gets pretty low there, especially when he mutters in Latin. I think one of the more difficult songs to sing is probably "If There is Something"....that interesting tremor, raw emotion when he sings "I would sail the ocean bluuuuuuuuuuue", kind of hard to imitate. I don't think of Ferry having so much as an impressive vocal range as an impressive style range. After all, how often does a crooner front a rock band? That's why he's so cool..... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:24:17 +0100 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF interview on Australian radio At 10.58 +0100 04-02-10, Anton van Lammeren wrote: >P.S. I really don't "get" the "G'day Bryan, my wife thinks you're the >ducks' guts" -bit. I guees it's like Cole Porter writing "You're the top, you're Mussolini, You're Mrs. Sweeny, You're Camembert" back in 1935. Mrs. Sweeny being a beutiful wife to a golfer. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=538 - -- Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:35:56 -0500 From: KB Porter Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF interview on Australian radio Anton, thanks for the link. Anyone who has yet to listen, this interview is fabulous! Richard Glover had Ferry in a very good flow. It is the best Bryan Ferry radio interview I recall ever hearing!!! Best wishes. KBP ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:40:39 +0000 From: "Christian H. Soetemann" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan's vocal range (Then & Now) Some of the lowest notes may be in Bittersweet (and recently some low ones in Don't Think Twice), some of the highest in Just Like You, Would You Believe? and Sentimental Fool. I suppose his range was about two to two-and-a-half octaves in the mid-70s when he seemed to be in absolute control of his vocals - witness the harmonies in End Of The Line. The vocal range he's in is, I think, baritone (middle male voice). Now, the middle and most of the lower range have remained intact, the voice having grown softer, more silken - but it surely has become harder for him to hit the high notes - witness lines like 'guess who's dying...' in Dance Away on the Roxy tour - on Heart Still Beating, it's still The Bry singing them, now he modestly steps back and allows others to fill in. A true gentleman. Many have commented about the change in vocal style, but compare some of the sung lines in Psalm to latter-day Ferry - it was already in the repertoire! Mariah Carey was reported to be an 'octave wonder', as was Whitney Houston. What I think makes Ferry unique isn't his range but the (rather dark) tone colour of his voice, the most unusual tremolo ever and his interpretation. People who might not have a great vocal range but a distinctive voice are Morrissey or Lou Reed, for example. CHS NP: Tom Waits - Reeperbahn (if only it were as interesting as the song suggests) > From: Joel Hurd > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 08:10:44 -0800 (PST) > To: avalon@smoe.org > Subject: [AVALON] Bryan's vocal range (Then & Now) > > I have read a number of times about Bryan Ferry's vocal range being > limited. How many octaves? Could the more musically-minded please > comment on this. I'm wondering firstly, what you think his range is > (from what note, to what note). And what songs he has sang that > demonstrate the lowest notes he has hit, the highest ones, and the > song with the gretest range covered. > > Also, how does his range compare with other vocalists like Bowie, > Stewart, Gabriel, McCartney etc.? > > And finally, how does he compare against multi-octave talents like > Captain Beefheart, Frankie Valli, Rob Halford. > > (Also, going slightly OT, which artists do you know (male or female) > with the most impressive octave range? Kate Bush, Minnie Riperton, > Prince, and Mariah Carey spring to mind. What's the range?) > > > > . > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:47:16 -0800 (PST) From: Joel Hurd Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF interview on Australian radio > Anyone who has yet to listen, this interview is fabulous! Richard > Glover had Ferry in a very good flow. It is the best Bryan Ferry > radio interview I recall ever hearing!!! Yes, it's better than many I can recall. Seems that the Avalon album was a focus for the phone-in fans 'down under'. (There was a Liverpudlian caller too IIRC.) I can imagine Bryan late at night in front of his piano working over those melodies in his head! (Maybe I should have said that is the past tense :/ ) So, we've gotten 1 decent interview from down under, and 1 terrible one. It was worth it for the good one I guess! :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #37 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest