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| From | "Frank Padellaro" <kingradio@pumpingstation.com> |
| Subject | Re: Silliest Falsetto in Rock |
| Date | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 07:45:41 -0600 |
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Hocus Pocus by Focus is even funnier than sylvia; as the years go by, and more 80's and 90's material makes it onto the classic rock format, you are less likely to hear it, but every once in awhile........
even more hilarious than the yodeling is the bit where he sings like popeye.
Frank
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: bob_hutton@standardlife.com
Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:06:40 +0000
>Forget The Darkness ... forget Tiny Tim .... forget The Chipmunks...
>
>Does anyone remember an old (70s) tune called "Sylvia" by a band called
>Focus? Mainly instrumental in nature, the ditty features a middle bit
>where a guy starts singing "La la la la, la , laaaaa" in a ball-screeching
>falsetto. Then he repeats it in a different key. Always made me laugh out
>loud every time I heard it. My buddy says that the band also did another
>song called "Hocus Pocus" where the singer yodels in a high pitch: the live
>version has an extended improvisational yodelling segment.
>
>B^)
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