Longest notes held in songs

[Ekim23]

almost 20s... LIVE

check out at 2:20


AGUILERA - AT LAST

 

[Fucker29]

Patti LaBelle - Once Before I Go LIVE

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVcR3eAAS_8[/ame]

22 seconds....fucking powerful crystal clear LOUD note!!! It's towards the end.

 

[Ekim23]

I agree It's weird... but she's done better than that ...

and it makes me remember the list of the 100 greatest singers of all time by the ROlling stones ...

where aguilera's ranked 58th being the youngest and the only one frome her generation to be ranked on that list...

so that was just coz i think aguilera deserve to be in a thread like that

just sayin

 

[radioian]

The bridge bit in "Wind of Change" by Petula Clark

 

[G-Lexington]

Donna Summer's "Dim All the Lights" I I THINK beats the Air Supply one. She holds the last note of the last line of the first verse ("let it fill you up") for...seventeen seconds? I don't have the song handy, and all the youtube clips of the song are from the 2000s where (not surprisingly) she can't hold that note that long.

Lex

 

[josher]

16 seconds? 17 seconds? LOL

Barbra Streisand has been holding notes for upwards of 40 seconds for decades.

 

[G-Lexington]

In a recorded work? Or on stage?

Lex

 

[AdmiraalW238]

16 seconds? 17 seconds? LOL

Barbra Streisand has been holding notes for upwards of 40 seconds for decades.

In this clip she holds a note for 19 seconds

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[MCsNo1Fn]

18 Seconds

 

[G-Lexington]

While in the studio to record their duet "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", Donna Summer tried to hold a note longer than Barbra Streisand...and end up semi-passing out and falling off her stool. Donna recalls opening her eyes to see Barbra upside down, peering down at her. "Uh, are you OK?"

Lex

 

[Ekim23]

I think it has to be taken in accoutn wether it's live or record

coz its obivous live 's much more accurate ... singers can hold a note for 2 seconds and then copy it for 20 seconds when they r not on stage

 

[josher]

While in the studio to record their duet "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", Donna Summer tried to hold a note longer than Barbra Streisand...and end up semi-passing out and falling off her stool. Donna recalls opening her eyes to see Barbra upside down, peering down at her. "Uh, are you OK?"

Lex

I was thinking of that note, as well as, the Copeland piece.

I actually laughed out loud when I bought Barbra's Wet album and listened to Enough Is Enough/No More Tears for the first time. It was so clear Donna was trying her best to keep up. But when Barbra holds that note and Donna just has to give up, it's too funny.

And I shouldn't have said 40 seconds above, but rather 30. She's held some unbelievably long notes at her concerts, all of which I've been to. How she can still do this at 66 (almost 67) and after so many years of smoking is almost unfathomable.

 

[MCsNo1Fn]

Anyone searching for this stuff should try searching for "longest sustained note." You could try other musical terms like "longest glissando" but you might have to include the word "vocal" in your search else you risk getting results for all instruments instead of just someone singing.

As far as that Aguilera "At Last" clip, I just can't stand to hear her sing that song, I enjoy the more subdued renditions. I love the tone of her voice, her pitch is amazing but she has to stop singing 500 notes per word.

THANK YOU. Thank GOD someone else realizes this. She fucks performances up for that reason alone. Shes got a voice, but she ruins it with the multi-note syllables lol.

 

[andy_05]

Barbra Streisand - "Don't Rain on My Parade," "He Touched Me," and "A Piece of Sky (from Yentl) all have long, powerful ending notes. God save Barbra Joan Streisand.

 

[AngelFromAbove]

I guess it's more of a personal preference but when I listen to a performance I like the collection of sounds to compliment one another, sporadically trading off the spotlight rather than having one drown out all the others. She's drowned out every band she's ever performed with. She never stops singing so you can't hear the music, she might as well not bother recording over music.

I just don't understand why she feels the need to be singing something in every single measure. When she sings it's just one continual stream of arpeggios and "yeah yeah yeah"s.

I definitely understand what you're saying. For me, it's not as bad when she is singing her own material, but when she begins to cover other material...

 

[deltablues2]

I'll nominate Journey's Faithfully & Air Supply's Making Love Out Of Nothing At All.

 

[Fucker29]

Actually you're right. With her own stuff she'll sometimes exercise a little restraint but as soon as she does a James Brown or Aretha Franklin tribute she gets into "Must be singing for the entirety of the next 4 minutes" mode.

Indeed. Like with the song "Hurt", although the piano melody is a rip-off from another song, she was actually singing the WORDS and not merely singing the NOTES (as she does like 90% of the time).

 

[Fucker29]

Exactly. She tries too hard to show her pseudo-improvisational skills (it's ironic since she does the same things line after line, note after note...improvisational skills my ass! Couldn't be more predictable and calculated!). She's just yet another example of great technical ability eclipsing the expressive ability. *sigh*

 

[thevofl]

Here's a 20 second note by a male (at 3:36)

 

[scrapple]

I always think of Cher, hitting that note at the end of "Half-Breed", Barbra at the end of "The Main Event, and best of all, Bill Withers going without a breath in "Ain't No Sunshine".