Re: Renee Geyer album harmonica solo - Morning Glory

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Mark.Crowley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< ps - was utterly disgusted with a documentary tonight called 'the voice' 
tracing the history of American(?) popular singers - started with an 
interesting line of discussion of tone/phrasing vocal effects of Louis Armstrong, Bing 
Cosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Elvis, Bobbie 'Blue' Bland (even old footage 
of Aretha Franklin's dad preaching and doing his throat thing) - then it 
jumped straight to Bono and Chuck D (Public Enemy rapper) - 
 surely that is travelling from the sublime to the ridiculous.
 it may not be purely about american popular vocalists but that's even worse 
to jump from elvis to bono - there was nobody in the world who filled that 
space? >>

i wouldn't object to where they ended up, but to skip anyone between elvis 
and bono or chuck d is to miss a bunch of stuff...several soul and r&b singers 
come to mind...otis redding, smokey robinson, and marvin gaye straight off the 
top...as well as this folk singer from hibbing, minnesota (like him or not, 
his vocal style was important).  several country singers, too...george jones, 
for instance.  were there no women discussed?  
harp content...the folk singer sometimes plays harp.

steven j gatorman