Your Favorite Bass Voice Songs
pickwick33
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Enough with all these helium falsettos, let's give the bass singer some!- "Silent Night," Temptations (Melvin Franklin's greatest performance!)- "Blue Moon," Marcels- "Old Man River," Ravens- "Get On Up," Esquires- "Can't You Hear That Beat," Carltons
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Barry White and Issac Hayes were the soul singers I thought of.
Somewhere I have a cassette with a 50s acapella gospel quartet with bass lead singing Just a closer Walk With Thee that is definitive.
I've been digging Albert King singing The Very Thought Of You.
Johnny Cash - It Makes Me Tremble
B*** P*****
I Want Jesus To Walk With Me
I wish I had a clip to pay, but yes I love that track and the drums at the beginning always bug me out, but nearly as much as the deep as fuck baritone voice that comes in 20 seconds later
(someone please post audio)
I heard the Notations' version of it, and they were defninitely losing without a deep "she's gonna chaayaayaaaange"
No offense, but that's what I hate about the funky-breakbeat community...folks are too paranoid to pass on knowledge.
No sense in talking about B.P. if ya can't tell us B.P.'s name!!
Something like "Put A Little Love In Your Life?"
yes! thank you! thats been itchin' my brain since I posted...
This reminds me of the bass voice in the Radiants'"Voice Your Choice": "yeaaaah, but is he the one?"
Also, from a totally different field: anything by country singer Dave Dudley, particularly his big pop-crossover hit "Six Days On The Road."
I'd say who it is but I took a vow of secret squirrel silence on this album a while back and must follow it until I'm told that the cats out the bag.
Many people on this board do know who/ what I'm talking about so hopefully one of them can post audio
I found a clip of her singing Nessun Dorma at the White House, but the audio is unacceptable. She sang it on some award show but I guess some legal folks are keeping it off youtube.
Aretha proves she's still a musical force
A week after she stole the Grammy Awards show, the bouquets were still arriving at Aretha Franklin's house.
Franklin, who had already rocked New York's Radio City Music Hall with Respect, topped herself by stepping in at the last instant for ailing opera star Luciano Pavarotti and blowing everybody away with Nessun dorma, the hero's big aria from Puccini's Turandot.
The Queen of Soul sang the Unknown Prince's signature number in Pavarotti's key (three steps lower than her own) with a 72-piece orchestra after a mere eight minutes of preparation backstage. Just another triumph for a diva who has sung for presidents, kings and queens, won more Grammys (15) than any other woman and was the first female admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
After a lifetime of transcendent moments, she still love(s) to do it. I had a great time singing it." Apparently, much of the audience - including 25.1 million TV viewers in the USA alone - had a great time hearing it.
The reaction has just been overwhelming, says Franklin, 55, in a phone interview from home. I've gotten the most beautiful, exotic floral arrangements. Eddie Murphy sent me several dozen pink roses. The house is lined with big, beautiful arrangements from one end to the other. I just can't stand it.
Pavarotti just called her at home. They had a lovely conversation about doing the aria as a duet in June at a charity benefit in his home city of Modena, Italy.