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maria jose
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Post subject: Re: Elvis' vocal range Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:13 pm |
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hello wanda: I'd would like reading all the post about of Elvis and I also enjoy reading your talks or dialogue that you had with E and are funny and emotives. I don't post but i have been reading and I enjoy this page and I wish that it continues for ever... good luck Maria José
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Liliane
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Post subject: Re: Elvis' vocal range Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:38 pm |
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I read and interesting fact that Elvis had three 1/2 octaves ranges.
_________________ Liliane __________________ "Value are like fingerprints. Nobody's the same, but you leave them all everything you do" ELVIS AARON PRESLEY
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AngelEyes
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Post subject: Re: Elvis' vocal range Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:52 am |
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Professional music experts says that Elvis' voice had a range from 2 1/2 till 3 octave. Gregory Sanders, professor for music at the university of Columbia said:
"I suppose you'd had to call him a lyric baritone, although with exceptional high notes and unexpectedly rich low ones. But what is more important about Elvis Presley is not his vocal range, nor how high or low it eytends, but where its center of gravity is. By that measure, Elvis was all at once a tenor, a baritone and a bass, the most unusual voice I've heard."
Henry Pleasants, music historian and critic said:
"What Elvis does with his voice depends on what he is singing. He has always been able to duplicate the open, hoarse, ecstatic, screaming, shouting, wailing, reckless sound of the black rhythm & blues singers. But he has not been confined to that one type of vocal production. In ballads and country songs he belts out full-voiced high Gs an As that an opera baritone might envy. While he has not learned to sing comfortably and predictably in the "passage", he learned early how to focus his voice when he got above it. For those who have any doubt about this, I suggest that they listen to the 1960 recording of "It's now or never", where he ends on a full-voiced cadence A-G-F, that has nothing to do with the vocal devices of rhythm & blues or country. That A is hit right on the nose. It is rendered less astonishing only by the number of tracks where he land easy and accurate B flats. Elvis is, in a word, an extraordinary voice - or many voices.
Norbert Putham, Music producer:
"Elvis could do everything, from a quiet sensual moan and groan to a high-panic screm, and was willing to do it within the context of a three-minute song, with no inhibitions whatsoever. He was far and away the greatest purveyor of emotion in a song - and I have worked with two thousand singers."
Elvis himself in 1957:
"I have never thought I had a good voice. I just, well, I enjoyed what I'm doing. I put my heart, soul and body into it... I guess one of the reasons that people have liked it is because it was a little different. To be truthful, I can't handle ballads nearly as well as I can the other kind because I don't have the voice for it."
In 1960 Elvis said:
"I think it would be a bad mistake if I had someone else tellin' me what to record or how to record it, because I work strictly on instinct and impulse. I don't read music. My taste might be a little different because I choose songs with the public in mind. I try to visualize it as though I'm buying the record myself. Would I like it? I don't think anybody could choose 'em for me like I can."
_________________ The biggest part of Elvis Presley was his big heart. It was full of love for everyone
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AngelEyes
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Post subject: Re: Elvis' vocal range Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:03 am |
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your welcome, Rose-Lynn. John Lennon words: Before Elvis there was nothing. But I like to change his words into: Before Elvis was a lot, but after Elvis there is nothing. There always were a lot of really good singers but I think there was and will be just only one Elvis. Think that he was a incredible Singer and Entertainer and a very special and extraordinary Person, full of love for all people. Sadly that so often he is missinterepreted and missunderstood and the picture what painted his "friends" of him in their book is till today circulating and all this crap believing a lot of fans. I really asking myself question why they believe so much of this B.S. what is written about Elvis. Just hear him laughing and you will know what kind of person he was. And his actions speak louder than words. Because his deeds are better than the words of all this people who think they know him!
_________________ The biggest part of Elvis Presley was his big heart. It was full of love for everyone
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