Does Everyone Know What a Falsetto Is?

[david13]

I hope so. My neighbor didn’t. He actually told me, “oh no, that is his natural voice (Frankie Valli)”. ??
If there is anyone on this forum who does not know what a falsetto is, please tell them. I can’t understand how a full grown adult can walk around, and not know that.
dc

[Aristus]

1. My next-door neighbor's wife wears them. She's pretty flat-chested...

:P

[madinmaryland]

2. *snort* You owe me a new keyboard!!1!!

:spray:

[rurallib]

3. those are the Italian models, right?

[amerikat]

4. stiletto shoes made in China?

[Brother Buzz]

5. Tiny Tim's falsetto was as real as his name

Herb Khaury, A.K.a Darry Dover, Rollie Dell, Vernon Castle, Emmett Swink, Larry Love, Judas K. Foxglove and Tiny Tim was the greatest put-on artist in the world. Here he was with the long hair and the cheap suit and the high voice, but when you spoke to him he talked like a college professor. He knew everything about the old songs.

[av8rdave]

6. Sounds pretty fake to me!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Technically, a falsetto is a man singing in a high head voice

Listen to the vocal groups Chanticleer or the King's Singers, groups of men who sing music that was written for soprano-alto-tenor-bass.

Here is Chanticleer, singing a Renaissance arrangement of the traditional Christmas carol "In Dulci Jubilo."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYmIyg1OZVE&feature=related

Here are the King's Singers, with one of their best-known songs, "You Are the New Day."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2W7tSGuT0&feature=PlayList&p=8F53EC411D874E0D&index=0&playnext=1

On the other hand, there are women's groups that sing quite low, such as in Balkan singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmjgvsta39M

In the quartet part of this song, one of the women is singing in the tenor range, between middle C and E below middle C.

[david13]

8. I know that Tiny Tim spoke like a college professor. I spoke to him

and he was very knowledgeable about music, like a college professor, and he did have a deep sonorous voice.
But he sang in falsetto.
Gallagher's joke about Frankie Valli was based on his song "Walk Like a Man". Walk like a man, talk like a man, but sing like a girl.
I have been listening to Chanticleer, as Rich Caparella, no, Jim Svejda was interviewing a former member of the group. And playing their cds yesterday.
dc

[Kat45]

11. Tiny Tim didn't always sing in falsetto.

I saw him play in a club sometime in the nineties, and "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was the only song he did in falsetto. He actually had a pretty good voice. I was surprised because that was the only song of his I'd ever heard, so I'd just assumed he always sang in falsetto.

[Orrex]

9. "My last pupil, she had a false set o' teeth."

The image is from the wrong film, unfortunately...

[leeroysphitz]

10. Ha HA!

[es350_ibm]

12. ask robert plant

[old mark]

13. Not a REAL etto.

The original is still the best.


mark