----Original Message----- >From: Ian Belsey <Idbelsey@y...> >From: Ian Belsey <Idbelsey@y...> >Subject: Re: [vocalist] strangest singer ever >Date: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:42 AM > >Actually the other way round. > >Englebert Humperdinck probably influenced Scott >Walker!! Enge had been around all through the late >fifties and sixties, so he would have been well know >to the Walker Bros. > >Having seen Englebert several times in London, he's a >marvellous turn too!! What a voice: a sort of male >Shirley Bassey!! What I call classical pop. One of the >highlights is when he does a number without the >microphone, just to prove he can really sing!! > >Another tuppence ha'penny worth!! > >Ian >
I wonder if this classical pop genre would include the likes of: Roger Whittiker (sp?) &/or Sergio Franchi? Classically speaking - would Tom Jones have been a powerful Cavalier Bariton or could he have become a Heldentenor? TJ - what a *mensch*!
EV who is really procrastinating from painting (as in 'pittore di bodega') the window sills not the canvas :-/
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