The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97841 Message #1934269
Posted By: The Shambles
12-Jan-07 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: Sandy Denny's birthday (6 January 1947)
Subject: RE: Sandy Denny's birthday (6 January 1947)
No but I know what you mean.
The same action can inflict pain on some of us and pleasure on others.
To me (always assuming we are referring to the same recorded version) it is the very best version of her fine song and hearing it, inflicts only pleasure to my ears - rather than pain.
But this does open the question whether anyone singing their own song in the way they choose - can be singing it wrong, too flat, too sharp or whatever?
If that is the way they hear it and wish it to sound - those hearing it can like the sound or not but perhaps not say that the singing is right or wrong.
That someone may have transcribed a note actually sung to be D or D flat, does not mean that was the singer/composer's intended note - for their intention may well have been something in between.