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From: trb@masscomp.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Broadway Melody, Barbara Ann, and a new category
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Date: Sat, 17-Nov-84 11:58:08 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 17 11:58:08 1984
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In article <> acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) writes:

>The new category:
>    You've heard of good lyrics and bad lyrics.  How about...
>      Innovative Presentations of Lyrics ?
>What is the most unusual way you have heard of for presenting lyrics?

One novel form that always caught my attention was a simple trick used
by Jim Morrison in the song "Riders on the Storm."  As far as I can tell,
Morrison sang the words normally, and then later mixed himself in, whispering
the same words.   This gives the vocal an interesting eerie quality, and
I've never met anyone else who noticed it.  (Is it my imagination?)

As I recall, Ian Anderson also accentuates certain words in this way in
the song "Songs from the Wood."

Is this whispering a common practice?  I guess, if it ever was, it has
probably made way by now to some high tech synthetic substitute.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Masscomp Inc  Westford MA   (617) 692-6200 x274