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Thread #65481 Message #1080622
Posted By: GUEST,Frank
27-Dec-03 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: Worst singing accent.
Subject: RE: Worst singing accent.
"Funny that you mention Ewan McColl, Joybell, because he had quite an English accent in normal life but his Scots accent, used when he was singing, was pretty awful.
Not that I would say anything against his songs!"
As I understand it, Ewan McColl (nee Jimmy Miller)isn't Scottish.
When you hear many Eastern American singers affect an American Southern country accent, that's not convincing either but many do put the songs across in an effective manner.
Yesterday I heard the three Italian tenors, Pavarotti, Domingo and ? (can't remember his name) sing in English some American pop Christmas songs. The quality of their voices overrode the
peculiar accents for me.
Sometimes a bad accent doesn't get in the way of a good performance.
Frank