Orbison was unhappy with the first two takes, but in the third, he abandoned the idea of using falsetto and sang the final high G sharp naturally, so astonishing everyone present that the accompanying musicians stopped playing.

Singers Manuel, Danko, and Helm each brought a distinctive voice to The Band: Helm's southern voice had more than a hint of country, Danko sang in a tenor, and Manuel alternated between falsetto and baritone.

Second, he primarily sang in falsetto register, adding another flavor to his music.

At this time Mastrangelo sang the bass parts, Milano the second tenor, D ' Aleo the falsetto, and DiMucci did lead vocals.

He also coaxed one-time schoolmate Jordan Knight, who sang an exceptional falsetto, into auditioning for Starr as well.

The physician, Giovanni Camillo Maffei, in his book Discorso della voce e del modo d ' apparare di cantar di garganta in 1562, explained that when a bass singer sang in the soprano range, the voice was called " falsetto ".

The falsetto register is used by male countertenors to sing in the alto and occasionally the soprano range, and was the standard before women sang in choirs.

He sang over a thousand songs, such as " La Malagueña, El Jinete, La Noche y Tú, and La Del Rebozo Blanco ", many of which utilized falsetto.

On the song Three Little Pigs Maynard sang backing vocals ( he sings the falsetto " Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin.

Although technically Kendricks was first tenor in the group's harmony, he predominately sang in a falsetto voice.

St. John sang the highest and lowest parts including the falsetto, and Dee Dee sang in the middle notes.

According to Allmusic journalist Steve Huey, " best known for his 1960 R & B smash, ' Handy Man ,' Jones sang in a smooth yet soulful falsetto modeled on the likes of Clyde McPhatter and Sam Cooke.

Thus, on the highroad, a troop of soldiers `` marched in their own dust and sang '', while on the footpath one man walks alone.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

Cash and his family sang it to themselves while they worked in the cotton fields following Jack's death.

Catherine Malfitano repeated her role as Jenny, while Felicity Palmer sang Begbick, and Kim Begley sang in the role of Jimmy.

Chiang Kai-shek, father and son, sang the Republic of China National Anthem while leaving the Academy all the way to the airfield.

Danny sang while his friend Louis played the guitar ; the pair eked out a living like this for a while.

Also sung by Della Reese in Episode 424, " Elijah ", of Touched by an Angel while Bruce Davison sang " Eliyahu ".

He remained at Bologna in the care of a pork butcher while his father played the horn in the orchestras of the theatres at which his wife sang.

Tapp, or whoever it was, would often stand with their back to the viewer while Campbell sang the new, humorous verse solo, holding a scythe.

In 1992, as a close friend of actresses Jill Bennett and Rachel Roberts, Anderson included a touching episode in his autobiographical BBC film Is That All There Is ?, with a boat trip down the River Thames ( several of their professional colleagues and friends aboard ) to scatter their ashes on the waters while musician Alan Price sang the song " Is That All There Is?

In the Temple, the Levites sang Hallel while the priests performed the sacrificial service.

He formed another band called The Teen Kings, and sang at night while working in the oil fields or studying during the day.

Comedian Bob Hope led a pregame ceremony honoring the Apollo astronauts, while Anita Bryant sang the national anthem.

Even more unusually, however, many of the solo songs on Maxinquaye featured little of Tricky's own voice: his then-lover, Martina Topley-Bird, sang them, including her reimagining of Public Enemy's militant 1988 rap " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ", while other songs were male-female duets dealing with sex and love in oblique ways, over beds of sometimes dissonant samples.

The first half of their performance consisted of rock standards, and during the second half, Ono took the microphone and along with the band performed an avant garde set, ending with music that consisted mainly of feedback, while Ono screamed and sang.

" My Heart Belongs to Daddy " catapulted her career and became very special to Martin — she even sang it to her ailing father in his hospital bed while he was in a coma.

As for the lyrics, Henny now sang about growing older ( much to Ernst's annoyance ); opening-song Alles Doet Het Nog ( Everything Still Works ) is about coming back in a world dominated by teenagers while the bigband-skanker Dansmuziek ( to be adopted as the theme-tune of an I Love The 1980s-style programme ) portrays a former King of the Dancefloor trapped in a fat man's body.

In 1929, there was an incident on the cruiser Emden, which while in port in a visit to Colombia, a group of sailors had a party during which they wrapped red headbands around their heads and sang the Internationale while being very rude to their officers after they complained about the amount of noise.

In the commercials, she sang a note that shattered a glass while being recorded on a Memorex cassette tape.

This version of the series included musical questions ( wherein Davidson, a former recording artist, sang songs for the celebrity to finish ), questions involving props in a panelist's square or presented as skits involving outside actors, " surprise " special guests, and even an episode done while the set was being struck down in preparation for the show going on the road.

Denver attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock and sang in a folk-music group called " The Alpine Trio " while pursuing architecture studies.

" But he did not give up music ; he composed the music for Meyerhold's famous 1906 production of Alexander Blok's play Balaganchik ( The Fair Show Booth ), and his songs were popular among the Petersburg elite: " He sang them, accompanying himself on the piano, first in various salons, including Ivanov's Tower, and then at The Stray Dog.

Watson sang Bob Dylan's " All I Want To Do ", accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica.

Her first stage performance was at the age of six at the Queen's Theatre in Bundaberg, where she sang the American folk song " The Merriest Girl That's Out " with her father accompanying on piano.

These gigs were followed in April 2008 by the release of his jazz album, Sentimental Me, on Rhino Records ( UK ), containing well-known jazz songs he sang at the above-mentioned gigs and a self-penned song, as well as an accompanying tour throughout the UK.

The music which he composed with accompanying words were submitted to the late Dato Sri Andika di-Raja, who was ADC to the Sultan and also a member of the Council of Ministers, and a few days later Mohamad Hashim bin Abu Bakar was commanded to appear outside the Istana Kolam, and he sang the anthem to the accompaniment of the Band of the Sultan Sulaiman Boy Scouts Troop in His Highness's presence.

In 1503, Princess Margaret, daughter of Henry VII and engaged to marry James IV of Scotland, passed through Newcastle, noting in her journal a number of children in surplices " who sang melodious hymns, accompanying themselves with instruments of many sorts ".

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

Tony himself, in dress clothes and top hat, sang his ballads, a gallant trouper introducing Lillian Russell and others to fame through his audience .</ p >

Wills himself largely sang blues and sentimental ballads.

At the age of nine, calling himself un petit Huguenot, he refused to attend Mass, sang Protestant psalms to his sister Margaret ( exhorting her all the while to change her religion and cast her Book of Hours into the fire ), and even bit the nose off a statue of Saint Paul.

Naming the band after actress Marilyn Monroe's final film The Misfits ( 1961 ), Danzig recruited guitarist Jimmy Battle, bassist Diane DiPiazza, and drummer Manny Martínez to fill out the lineup while Danzig himself sang and played the electric piano.

Drake sang the theme song himself, using an old music hall number.

Drake sang the theme song himself, based upon an old music hall song

At the same time, he sang with local bands, calling himself " Dino Martini " ( after the famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, Nino Martini ).

In the United Kingdom, he also appeared in several commercials for the Hula Hoops snack, both as himself and as a voice for a cartoon ( in one of these commercials he sang his hit " Minnie The Moocher ").

He sang a song, ' I Turn About and Wheel About ', and each night composed new verses for it, catching on with the public and making a great name for himself.

* The epigraph of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ) is from Browne's Hydriotaphia ,( Chap. 5 ): " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ".

: What Song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling Questions are not beyond all conjecture.

Some sentences of the 5th chapter were cited by Edgar Allan Poe at the beginning of The Murders in the Rue Morgue: " What Song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling Questions are not beyond all conjecture.

Hoppus played by himself and sang in the band Pier 69, primarily covering songs by The Cure, and recorded a live demo with a group named The Attic Children in 1988, featuring covers of The Cure songs.

He sang about life, jail, drinking and drug addiction ; although he himself was a light drinker and did not use other drugs.

By his early teens, he had already taught himself to play piano and had formed his own gospel vocal quartet, known as " The Jubilee Boys ", that sang at church functions.

In 1719 he obtained a singing post at the court of Brunswick, where in 1721 his first opera, Antioco, was performed ; Hasse himself sang in the production.

While his nurse would sometimes sing folksongs, the peasant choirs who sang using the podgolosnaya technique ( an improvised style — literally under the voice-which uses improvised dissonant harmonies below the melody ) influenced the way he later felt free to emancipate himself from the smooth progressions of Western harmony.

Paul Ryder himself had a cameo role in the film as a gangster and Rowetta Satchell ( who sang for the band on Pills ' n ' Thrills and Bellyaches and Yes Please!

Jackson himself graduated from Morehouse College in 1956 when he was only eighteen years old, where he sang in the Morehouse College Glee Club.

He wrote and sang the song " Anarchy ", which became a hit in clubs, and spawned subsequent remixes of the track done by Sköld himself.

Additionally, he himself sang on Igginbottom's Wrench and The Things You See.

The parents of Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) could not read music, yet Haydn ’ s father ( who worked as a wheelwright ) taught himself to play the harp, and the Haydn family frequently played and sang together.