Reg Says: My god ..how old ARE you dear? :)
I'm pretty old and all I ever heard was ..bad bad bad.>>>
>>> Well, then you haven’t heard Ms. Merman’s recording of the songs
from “Anything Goes”… I was sitting in the theatre at the Shakespeare
Festival in Ashland, OR for a production of “The Man Who Came To Dinner”
and they were playing songs from the period, and one was Ethel Merman
singing “I Get A Kick Out Of You”… I didn’t recognize the voice right
away as Merman because the woman was singing in headvoice, but a very
forward placed headvoice that almost sounded like belting but it wasn’t.
I knew the show and I knew that Ethel had originally sang the role in
the show that sings that song.. and as I listened I recognized that
“Merman” vocal timbre, but it didn’t sound like the Merman I ‘d always
known.
I am in my early 40’s and didn’t know that E. Merman sang that way, I
too, only have associated her voice to that nasal sounding … loud
belting sound.
So all you know it alls.. jeez, go listen to some early recordings of
her and maybe you’ll hear some roses in the younger voice!
Deanna
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