Rick-An Ordinary Fool
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Is there someone that can help explain this in "everyday" language, for the people who are not knowledgable in notes, scales & key changes.
1st Example:
On the recent BBC Radio Interview, the host Mark Radcliffe was talking about someone riding in a car down the streets of Los Angeles w Karen, I think his name was Tom Bartlett (not sure of the last name) but it said that Karen was in the car & she was singing in a really high voice beautifully & Tom said to her, I never knew you could sing this high, then it was said Karen had a "4 Octave Range" (I think this is what they said) Then Karen said something like yeah, the lower octive was the money in the basement.
So Karen actually knew she could sing just as well in a lower key than she could in a higher key, right? Wouldn't it have been flusterating for Karen in her career to know that she could sing in a higher range but never had the chance to really record there cause her lower range was what the public wanted & brought in the money. I don't know....Maybe this is why Phi Ramone choose songs in a higher range for her, because he knew she could and this was what Karen wanted to do at the time?
Was a 4 range Octave something that was rare in singer of that time era? Or even this one of today's????
2nd Example:
In the liner notes from Richard on "As Time Goes By" On the track, California Dreaming-He says this: "This is one of my favorite tracks on this collection. Karen at 17 is a marvel. I especially like the way she jumps an octave, from chest voice, to head voice on the letter (and note) "A" in the opening.
What does Richard mean jumps from chest to head voice? I always thought a real singers voice comes from the diaphram (chest) not the head. Is Richard talking about the split sec in the very beginging with the A in All the leaves are brown?
If Karen was capable of singing in a 4 Octave Range, did she use this range in the Carpenters recording? Or did she only use the lower range all the time?
If you have any thoughts on this, I'd like to hear yours.
1st Example:
On the recent BBC Radio Interview, the host Mark Radcliffe was talking about someone riding in a car down the streets of Los Angeles w Karen, I think his name was Tom Bartlett (not sure of the last name) but it said that Karen was in the car & she was singing in a really high voice beautifully & Tom said to her, I never knew you could sing this high, then it was said Karen had a "4 Octave Range" (I think this is what they said) Then Karen said something like yeah, the lower octive was the money in the basement.
So Karen actually knew she could sing just as well in a lower key than she could in a higher key, right? Wouldn't it have been flusterating for Karen in her career to know that she could sing in a higher range but never had the chance to really record there cause her lower range was what the public wanted & brought in the money. I don't know....Maybe this is why Phi Ramone choose songs in a higher range for her, because he knew she could and this was what Karen wanted to do at the time?
Was a 4 range Octave something that was rare in singer of that time era? Or even this one of today's????
2nd Example:
In the liner notes from Richard on "As Time Goes By" On the track, California Dreaming-He says this: "This is one of my favorite tracks on this collection. Karen at 17 is a marvel. I especially like the way she jumps an octave, from chest voice, to head voice on the letter (and note) "A" in the opening.
What does Richard mean jumps from chest to head voice? I always thought a real singers voice comes from the diaphram (chest) not the head. Is Richard talking about the split sec in the very beginging with the A in All the leaves are brown?
If Karen was capable of singing in a 4 Octave Range, did she use this range in the Carpenters recording? Or did she only use the lower range all the time?
If you have any thoughts on this, I'd like to hear yours.