Watch what you wish for...

[Bob Kolada]

Ever wished you could blow the walls down on a pedal Z, blow up cats, and crash ballet performances?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6PikfC ... re=related


Not tuba related, but kinda...

[Bandmaster]

For a really DEEP bass voice, I like Thurl Ravenscroft, of Disny fame, the best.

Aspleep in the Deep - at the end... Wow!

The Headless Horseman - check the 2:02 minute mark.

[Kevin Hendrick]

Ever wished you could blow the walls down on a pedal Z, blow up cats, and crash ballet performances?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6PikfC ... re=related


Not tuba related, but kinda...

Yes, the price was a bit high for all that, wasn't it?

For a really DEEP bass voice, I like Thurl Ravenscroft, of Disny fame, the best.

Aspleep in the Deep - at the end... Wow!

The Headless Horseman - check the 2:02 minute mark.

Also the Grinch song -- knew that wasn't Boris Karloff when I first heard it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itkOswldUEo

And then there was JD Sumner ("the spot" is around the 1:40 mark):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nezep7BoAZI

[MartyNeilan]

I miss when men sang like men - the Statler Brothers, the Cathedrals, Johnny Cash, even Elvis. I love a meaty bass part on a lot of the old gospel tunes, but most modern "P&W" music is three part harmony with the one male voice part way too high.

[tubaforce]

Hi!
How sad! We haven't had a Bass in any form of popular music since Barry White! A few Baritones like Neil Diamond are still kicking, but the only place Baritones, let alone Basses, can be heard regularly is on Country stations! Not one low voice Like Joe Williams has emerged in Jazz or Blues either! I remember my folks listening to Baritones Like Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra! Heck, I can remember hearing Tom Jones on AM top 40 radio, or Tony Bennett even. In fact, other than the Walrus of love, and the afore mentioned Mr. Williams, I can't recall hearing any other Bass voices as the lead (Johnny Cash was a Baritone...)!!! As Mr. Neilan pointed out, even Harmony is Bass-less anymore! Heck, I rarely attend Church, but even there I am alone singing the low part on Hymns. Everyone else is on the Melody, with maybe a few blue haired ladies singing Tenor...
I think this is a direct result of the disappearance of Music appreciation being required in our schools, and the cotinued downward spiral of pop "music"! It was 30 years ago that the Manahattan Transfer had a top 40 song (Java Jive?). The rap and "vomit singing" garbage that most young kids listen to these days consists of Bass drum and screaming. There may be three chords if you're lucky! And country music isn't too much better, although there are sometimes sub-dominant, or "exotic" triads with 11th's or other "unusual" chord extensions! The only "sophisticated" music i can get my kids to listen to is by my favorite Libertarian, the late Frank Zappa, and I have to filter which tracks I expose the kids to for obvious reasons...
I think there have been too many parents, for too long, not sharing their love of music with their kids! How lazy they are! Just let Junior have his headphones, and we won't have to listen to him complain about the Blues on NPR! Such "parents" are blissfully unaware, and/or just don't care that the "music" on that walkman glorifies prostitution, drugs, and violence!
When the Beach Boys sang about "spilling coke all over your blouse" that merely hinted at what is fully described in today's lyrics!
I would give the proverbial left side of my man parts to go back to those days! I hated the "Boy Bands" of recent years, but they did at least sing in tune, and didn't describe acts that should be kept private...

Rant over for now,
Al

[normrowe]

There was also Tennessee Ernie Ford. There's a really cute video on YouTube of him singing with a bunch of kids on an old TV show and one of the kids just gets totally carried away. Ford had a hard time keeping from losing it and rolling on the floor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqWcn2gbTM" target="_blank

Robert Goulet tended to sing in baritone range, but his strict instructions to the arrangers was that he was not to be given a note higher than D because he felt that D was the highest note he could sing and still sound good. Vaughan Monroe ("Ghost Riders In the Sky") had a low voice too.

[Biggs]

Hi!
I think this is a direct result of the disappearance of Music appreciation being required in our schools, and the cotinued downward spiral of pop "music"! It was 30 years ago that the Manahattan Transfer had a top 40 song (Java Jive?). The rap and "vomit singing" garbage that most young kids listen to these days consists of Bass drum and screaming. There may be three chords if you're lucky! And country music isn't too much better, although there are sometimes sub-dominant, or "exotic" triads with 11th's or other "unusual" chord extensions! The only "sophisticated" music i can get my kids to listen to is by my favorite Libertarian, the late Frank Zappa, and I have to filter which tracks I expose the kids to for obvious reasons...
I think there have been too many parents, for too long, not sharing their love of music with their kids! How lazy they are! Just let Junior have his headphones, and we won't have to listen to him complain about the Blues on NPR! Such "parents" are blissfully unaware, and/or just don't care that the "music" on that walkman glorifies prostitution, drugs, and violence!
When the Beach Boys sang about "spilling coke all over your blouse" that merely hinted at what is fully described in today's lyrics!
I would give the proverbial left side of my man parts to go back to those days! I hated the "Boy Bands" of recent years, but they did at least sing in tune, and didn't describe acts that should be kept private...

Rant over for now,
Al

You're old, we get it.

[Bob Kolada]

Come on guys, let's focus on the humor and not whatever lousy bass singers you remember from cartoons.
I like all the funny little things in the cartoon- how he kinda flips up in the audience, how the "contemptuous bass singer" is just -standing- there, how the newly anointed guy bounces up the church stairs, how every time he goes into manly mode he turns his head to the side and seems to get weirder and weirder,.... That's funny stuff, man!

[Rick Denney]

To all the guys who liked "manly" bass singers remember this; bass singers have NEVER dominated the charts for one reason.
As I said before; Women have higher voices, your mother was a women, you love your mother, you like higher voices.

FWIW; The late Michel Jackson could, according to his voice coach, sing well into the bottom of the baritone range, but chose not to.
This may partially explain why he was a multi, multi millionaire.

Michael was beating Carolla's prediction by about 70 years.

Rick "who can't sing at all" Denney

[Donn]

Come on guys, let's focus on the humor and not whatever lousy bass singers you remember from cartoons.

I didn't get the scenes with someone in a chair holding a wine glass. Same guy, the other scenes are in his head? Why crush the glass?

Who sang along to see if you could match him? Felt like Bb, A, something like that.

[Dean E]

And now for something entirely different!

Mongolian Throat Singing;
Low notes at 1;05-1:30; 2:13; 3:26.
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I don't know whether this cures headaches or causes them!