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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Tue Feb 4, 2003  12:46 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Question

So, when *did* Shirley Bassey lose her spot in the Guinness Book?

Elizabeth Finkler
San Jose, California
mightymezzo@h...
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo

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" <nexxxxt@y...
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
>>
>I don't know what the 'group' opinion is of Mariah Carey's voice but
>I read this
>on a Mariah website today. If it's true... just wow and hats of to
>Ms. Carey but
>somehow to me it doesn't sound accurate. Can anyone explain if it's
>possible,
>etc...
>
>"In the latest edition of The Guinness Book of World Records, set for
>a March
>2003 release date, pop-diva MARIAH CAREY scores still another title.
>According to Guinness officials, the siren's ethereal pipes hold the
>record for
>having hit the highest note in the history of recorded music. In a
>live rendition
>of "The Star-Spangled Banner" last year, Mariah hit a G7#-note,
>outdoing
>even the piano. Technically, the exertion of G7#-notes is "dolphin
>speak,"
>since, in theory, these are the only mammals physiologically equipped
>with
>the proper lung-structure to produce G7#-notes. So powerful are
>G7#-notes
>that these are capable of countering water and electric currents, and
>have
>even been known to outdistance space and range.

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