NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday

#BryanFerry - "I Thought" (2002)

#Eno collab in #falsetto vibrato, I'm seeing stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw59rgP0NPE

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#LutherVandross - "Take You Out" (2001)

I don't always love this man's material, but I'll never fail to give props to his velvet tenor - especially when it's this song. Plus he's improvising with a little #falsetto at the end. For once, #JayZ and I agree: this is late-life Luther greatness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJtgjsruj8

#NowPlaying #MondayCovers #SunCityGirls #BillyPaul #Falsetto

Mrs Jones Mrs Jones Mrs Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xidLpQEKQMo

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Dancehall #Ragga #Falsetto

#TenorSaw - "Pumpkin Belly" (1985)

How water walk, go a pumpkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTTZ6eWHQA

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Falsetto #AfricanMusic

The keen ears at @blogamf hipped me to #CrammedDiscs’ 2022 release of this lost 1987 album by Congolese-born/Belgian-raised #MauricePotoDoudongo. It's future forward electro-funk, ala #ZazouBiyake - or #Prince, fr christs sake! - but steeped in the rhythms and textures of #CongoleseRumba and #Soukous. Rich, joyful, and really quite beautiful, this one gets me moving and still sounds relevant today.

https://crammedarchives.bandcamp.com/track/tik

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday

#AnnafikiDitau - "Re Babedi" (from the I'm Not Here To Hunt Rabbits comp, 2018)

#Botswana #falsetto at its most bracing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cS5M44aAmA&list=RD3cS5M44aAmA&start_radio=1

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Falsetto

The life struggles behind #Debarge couldn't be more tragic - it's astounding that to date only Bobby has passed. But on record, their collective voices were nothing short of angelic. "I Like It" was a great illustration of just how celestial Randy, Bunny, & Eldra could be when they flew high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqaKisKIyUo&t=1s

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday

Never met a #GreggAlexander song I didn't like; most I absolutely love. Thankfully his songwriting credits are plentiful. His original, unreleased demo of "The Game of Love" has the edge on the kinda smug, big hit version by #Santana feat. #MichelleBranch - the lo-fi production and heartbreaking #falsetto of his gives it real feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bJrHl4TeN0

#NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday

Junkie #falsetto? I say unequivocally this is a thing (plus, there's medical research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892199724004478).

Examples include #KeithRichards in the #RollingStones' "Coming Down Again", or #DaveKusworth's work with #NikkiSudden in #TheJacobites . . . or better still, those solo acoustic turns by #JohnnyThunders. For a while Johnny's voice got so jaundiced and gossamer-thin, you'd think his vocal folds had been replaced by corn husks! But it's what he left us, utterly affective, part and parcel to his essential beauty. Miss him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTuNu-JOq4&list=RD6nTuNu-JOq4&start_radio=1