Re: Ethel Merman - The Ethel Merman Disco Album (1979)

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:29 pm

Same drumbeat intro. banana bones

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:29 pm

Track something, Alexander's Ragtime Band

I hated this one at school.

Contemporary song at the time, blah-blah

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:30 pm

I don't know this.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:30 pm

I'm not that into this one.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:31 pm

I wonder if she's even heard the backing tracks when she was singing the melody line.

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:31 pm

Key change.

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:31 pm

Grandstand timpani is back.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:31 pm

Why is there a man's hand holding a hat on the cover anyway?

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:31 pm

Butterfield wrote:Grandstand timpani is back.

...Or *are* back.

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:32 pm

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:I wonder if she's even heard the backing tracks when she was singing the melody line.

I need to know how this album was recorded.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:32 pm

This is started to wear me down to a sorry nubbin now. sad yes

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:33 pm

Last track - I Got Rhythm. rim shot 2

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:33 pm

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:Why is there a man's hand holding a hat on the cover anyway?

I've always thought she was throwing the hat, in a Michael Jackson-like way. But looking at it more closely perhaps she's not.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:33 pm

Apart from one*, all the songs have the same tempo

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*some people 128bpm

by Nightjar Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:34 pm

Butterfield wrote:
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:I wonder if she's even heard the backing tracks when she was singing the melody line.

I need to know how this album was recorded.

Unsurprisingly...

Each of the songs was recorded in only one take and arranged vocally the way she always recorded them, with disco instrumentation added later as a backtrack.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:34 pm

Last one, I Got Rhythm

No kick drum intro, dontpanic

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:34 pm

Unique beginning! gasp

by Nightjar Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:35 pm

58,000 glorious posts! bowtie

by Butterfield Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:35 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Butterfield wrote:
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:I wonder if she's even heard the backing tracks when she was singing the melody line.

I need to know how this album was recorded.

Unsurprisingly...

Each of the songs was recorded in only one take and arranged vocally the way she always recorded them, with disco instrumentation added later as a backtrack.

Oh okay. I hope she heard the finished product.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:35 pm

The song has succumbed to the inevitable.

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