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Post by Eggman on Oct 14, 2003 2:44:15 GMT
It is true or Ringo was joking?  RINGO 1968 (about the song 'Lady Madonna') RINGO: "It sounds like Elvis, doesn't it? No, it doesn't sound like Elvis... it IS Elvis . Even those bits where he goes very high." What do you think about Ringo's words?  |
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Post by byrdsmaniac on Oct 14, 2003 2:53:59 GMT
Well it sure doesn't sound like any of the Fab Four or Five, that's for sure!
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Post by Eggman on Oct 14, 2003 2:59:21 GMT
Thats for sure byrds!!! But could it be Elvis voice with some modifications? |
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Post by byrdsmaniac on Oct 14, 2003 3:03:44 GMT
By the way, what was the response of the interviewer to Ringo's words?
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Post by Eggman on Oct 14, 2003 3:08:05 GMT
Sorry, I don't know yet, I just have this quote, but I'll try to find the whole interview ok? |
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Post by TheeCavendeshLane on Oct 14, 2003 5:01:13 GMT
I mentioned this before--that even at the time that this song came out people thought the voice was odd--it was a strange song. McCartney was obliged to comment that he was using the 'Elvis'
voice that he had developed and often used with the band when they
were doing clubs in Germany. I found it interesting that enough
people found the voice odd enough that he was obliged to comment
upon it at the time. I also it find it strange that prior to the Beatles
breakup the songs were said to be a collaborative effort, Lennon and
McCarntey almost being each other's editor and muse. But after
the break up songs started to be attributed to this one or that one or appropriated by this one or that one and Ringo singing became Paul
and so on.
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Post by MotherNaureSon on Oct 14, 2003 7:14:09 GMT
It is true or Ringo was joking? RINGO 1968 (about the song 'Lady Madonna') RINGO: "It sounds like Elvis, doesn't it? No, it doesn't sound like Elvis... it IS Elvis . Even those bits where he goes very high." What do you think about Ringo's words? That's not Elvis, for sure. It's obvious that it's an strange voice indeed, but Faul knew how to sing with different voices. Look at "Let it be" for instance to see him singing like two or three different people, including a funny tenor voice in "Besame Mucho". In this case, it's a kind of Elvis impersonation, that's all. |
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Post by PaulBearer on Oct 14, 2003 7:26:00 GMT
Would you belive that Eddie Addison (remember him) told us in a post that Elvis was the singer on that song and it was heavily disguised with electronic distortion etc.
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Post by SunKing on Oct 14, 2003 7:59:12 GMT
So Elvis sung "You Never Give Me Your Money" too? ;D ;D ;D
"Out of college, money spent
See no future, pay no rent
All the money's gone, nowhere to go
Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning, turning back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go
But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go
Oh, that magic feeling
Nowhere to go"
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Post by TheWarmGun on Oct 15, 2003 18:02:49 GMT
I always thought it sounded like Ringo. Silly me!
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Post by Imgonnaopenmymind on Oct 15, 2003 22:32:43 GMT
I stripped down the "Lady Madonna" track, removing the apparent distortion on the voice, and sure enough, it does sound like Elvis. So much like him that I think an Uberkinder voice comparison is in order.
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Post by eyesbleed on Oct 16, 2003 2:17:58 GMT
I stripped down the "Lady Madonna" track, removing the apparent distortion on the voice, and sure enough, it does sound like Elvis. So much like him that I think an Uberkinder voice comparison is in order. HOLY CRAP!!! I gotta hear this! |
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Post by TheWatusi on Oct 16, 2003 2:22:01 GMT
yes, i would LOVE to hear that.
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Post by Perplexed on Oct 16, 2003 3:48:00 GMT
This Elvisesque voice turns up again on "Abbey Road". I have to get the CD form the car (been listening a couple days) is it "You Never Give Me Your Money"? I'll double check---anyone remember?
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Post by PaulBearer on Oct 16, 2003 6:30:43 GMT
Just going by natural hearing capacity, the voice for "Lady Madonna" and "You Never Give Me Your Money" does sound like Ringo but...  |
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Post by Perplexed on Oct 16, 2003 6:54:29 GMT
except, for my ears at least, the (forgive me Ringo) the pitch is less, uh, variable. and the accent seems far less Scouse or NW Brit or whatever it is called. Except the word, "creeping like a nun" almost sounds like "noon" to my american ears. The american "schwah" sound, the unspecific "uh" seems less common in the Beatles accents...............I will say, Ringo had the heaviest, or "butchest" timbre of the group, manliest, whatever. With all due love for the Beatles music, occassionaly, when John, Paul, and George would sing high, loud three note chords on the early dance music, I almost hear Alvin and the Chipmunks. Brite brite, brite, 'specially when George and John were voiced on top and singing loud. Paul's voice had a more dulcet sonority, almost slightly muted or covered, in a real smooth way. So, (as I drone on and on) Ringo sound does , it would seem, MATCH the darkness of the Elvis imitation. Elvis sang covered and dark, especially on the ballads and religious or patriotic tunes. Eleanor Rigby has a manufactured dark, artificially heavy quality to it. I think muscleing the voice in that way would have made Bill hoarse. But I give up. Mysteries mysteries. I am sleepy.... gotta crash.............................
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Post by IanSingleton777 on Oct 16, 2003 12:20:40 GMT
I stripped down the "Lady Madonna" track, removing the apparent distortion on the voice, and sure enough, it does sound like Elvis. So much like him that I think an Uberkinder voice comparison is in order. OK...now go one more investigative step; slow down the speed/pitch 3 to 5% or so...tweak it, so to speak for the vocal on lady madonna of WHOMEVER is singing it, has been SPED-UP slightly in pitch. I can tell; I do it myself for my own tunes. The Beatles were famous for doing this; remember the 'Rarities' album, with Ringo's 'Don't Pass Me By' on it? The version on there was of a weirdly-too-fast pitch control on the vocal...... TRY the slowing down of the pitch/speed a tad bit...and THEN tell us if it sounds TOTALLY like Elvis the Pelvis.  |
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Post by beldabeast on Oct 16, 2003 14:43:33 GMT
I always thought it sounded like Ringo. Silly me! Don't feel bad ! I was confused about who sung what . Only now I know WHY ! I attributed ( blamed ) the post -Beatles " Smile Away" on Ringo , only to learn last month it was the fake Paul. |
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Post by Eggman on Oct 16, 2003 17:59:22 GMT
I stripped down the "Lady Madonna" track, removing the apparent distortion on the voice, and sure enough, it does sound like Elvis. So much like him that I think an Uberkinder voice comparison is in order. I can't wait to hear it too!!!! |
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Post by Asher on Oct 16, 2003 19:22:27 GMT
I thought it was Ringo too.
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Post by TheWarmGun on Oct 27, 2003 23:54:35 GMT
I was really just trying to sound ironic when I said Lady Madonna sounded like Ringo - because it was apparently Ringo (according the the first post) who said it sounded like Elvis.
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Post by PaulBearer on Oct 28, 2003 4:21:23 GMT
It was probably Ringo who sung and he was having us on - "hey yeah man, it was Elvis!", just a joke I think.
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Post by lennonlives on Oct 28, 2003 22:08:30 GMT
Just going by natural hearing capacity, the voice for "Lady Madonna" and "You Never Give Me Your Money" does sound like Ringo but... i know it sounds a bit like Elvis, but i went to see macca (or whoever has become macca, whatever) at the NIA in Birmingham this year and he rocked, but more importantly he sang those songs exactly how they sound on the LP's. yesterday, lady madonna, we can work it out etc. now i know these can be reproduced using technology but i know that only macca singing yesterday can get the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. and it did that night!. |
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