Originally Posted by
singingcanadian:
“LOL, you obviously don't know much about Hayley Sanderson or listened to any thing she's done outside of Scd................Hayley has done an enormous amount of singing/songwriting with some very big names.....I would say the average person on the street can manage 1/2 Octaves, do you actually know what an Octave is? Your limited knowledge of Octaves shows you know nothing about music. After seeing Hayley perform at many venues including the infamous Ronnie Scotts ( which don't have just anyone perform) I can assure you 4/5 Octaves are more like it
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Oh dear!
Here we go.
If you've a different opinion, do you think I'm going to be impressed by you getting "personal?" It's a rather pathetic trait.
So now as a musician, I'll give you a bit of an education.
Do really know what four to five octaves sounds like?
In a popular song it'd be pretty awful.
You obviously know very little about popular music which has traditionally been used for ballroom dancing.
All the household name songwriters of the most memorable tunes, wrote with the vocal range of little more than one and a half octaves. This was because they wanted the public to be able to sing the tune themselves if they bought the sheet music to play at home, which is where they made much of their money.
Until well into the fifties, the "top twenty" published in the musical press, was actually based on the sales of sheet music.
That was Sinatra's range by the way. Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald could easily manage two and a half octaves, but rarely used their full range as their best songs didn't require it.
Most of what Sinatra recorded make good fox-trot or quick-step tunes. Pity more of his repertoire isn't used.
Show songs (often used for ballroom dancing) for Ethel Merman by one composer, he said were "written around her three best notes." I mention this because range isn't that important to a well-written tune.
Don't run down Ronnie Scotts, it's never been "infamous." I joined it when it opened.
I don't mind you liking Hayley, but she struggles on a lot of the more contemporary stuff chosen by the producer. That isn't her fault. But how many people would go out and buy a CD of hers?
Err... Apart from you, of course