Loudest singers

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: GUEST,patriot
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 06:17 AM

-it's not about being good, or what makes a good singer Sandman, this thread is about being LOUD

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 06:31 AM

I did once get a folk club thrown out of a pub for being too loud (3 Mariners, Laancaster), but that was partly the concertina to blame.

Fred Vanner was definately the loudest singer at Cheddar Folk Club.

Robin

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 07:39 AM

I can certainly echo what Lucy said sixteen years ago about Kevin! In Bude we also have "Jan" Hicks, who also can't half give out when he wants to...

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 11:22 AM

From: JennyO - PM
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 08:35 PM

She mentioned Danny Spooner:
About 10 years ago, he visited here and stayed with me a couple of days. We took him to a pub that featured a Sea Songs night. It was an odd room, long front to back with a ceiling beam running across it the short way in the center. The host singer took a spot against the wall in the center under the beam. The usual practice was for those who were not near the center to come up near that spot so as to be heard more easily. (Those who were not singing and only there for drink & chat usually stayed near the entrance & front window
    Danny & I were a bit late, and only got seats on a bench against the back wall. When the option to sing came to the back, I told Danny that he ought to move closer to that center spot.
   He didn't reply or bother... he just leaned forward a little and opened his mouth... and people in that front window stopped what they were doing and looked to see where that VOICE was coming from!
It was one of the few times I ever saw the entire room shut up and pay attention to the singer. During the short break, the shanty bunch made a pilgrimage to out table to meet Danny... and data was exchanged.

'Twas a special occasion....

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 02:48 PM

A loud voice gives one an advantage
in this age of social distancing.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: RTim
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 03:10 PM

Again - Talking of Danny Spooner.....At the Mystic Sea Music Festival several years ago I was doing a concert in the Chapel and tried to sing a song I had never sung in public before....and all I could hear was Danny's booming voice somewhere else on the Festival Grounds... and I just could not stop hearing him, and had to abandon the song and sing something else more familiar...

But he was a lovely man.......and we all miss him.

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: vectis
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 01:36 AM

Nobody has mentioned Jon Harvison yet, he is well loud.

I agree about Danny Spooner, Martin and Redd, Johnny Colins and Jim Magean and the irrepressible Geoff Higginbottom.

As to us girls I am pretty loud but Hilary Spencer and Theresa Tooley would be hard to beat.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: vectis
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 01:37 AM

I forgot Rosie Longhurst from Cornwall.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: JHW
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 06:23 AM

I think I've scrolled through them all. My first thought would be Geoff Higginbottom. If someone said 'we've got him on tonight' I'd know to open the window at home. I have heard he wasn't too well so hope he is ok. Alas many of those in this thread are RIP. Johnny Collins, Theresa and many more sadly missed. Wilsons sure are loud. The PA man gives you a sound quieter than they are actually singing. Balance. If groups are allowed why not choirs.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 06:22 AM

Twice I’ve been at concerts where the electricity failed.
Once was with the McCalmans in Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh: says Ian McCalman : “We are definitely LOUD”, so they just carried on.
The other was at Sidmouth in the big Ham marquee when Show of Hands were on: Steve Knightley’s big voice kept that one going.
Kimber’s Men for another shanty group: fingers in the ears for me, and still too loud!
Alan and Carole Prior both have big powerful voices, especially Alan. “Bar-stopping” is how I described it when Alan starts up at our very noisy New Year gathering.
Then there’s Janet Weatherston: she says that when she made her first CD, her daughter’s comment was “At least we can turn you down now, Mum!”

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: JHW
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 07:08 AM

When I last had a ticket for a Ham show I listened sat on the wall by the Sid. More pleasant.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 07:42 AM

Going back a decade or two - I had been known to sing unamplified loud enough to get the pub's noise limiter to flash!!!! Have to hold back quite a lot for zoom sessions.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 09:59 AM

Frankie Armstrong could shake the walls on occasion. Son House too.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: DonMeixner
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 10:21 AM

No question in my mind. Danny Spooner.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 05:46 AM

Nobody has mentioned the one person whose voice I can pick out, without fail. She has a voice that just carries, without harshness, or stentorian bellowing. She has the sort of projection that some folks dream of.
I refer of course, to the lovely, and wonderful, Maddy Prior.
Absolutely unmistakeable.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 06:06 AM

Steve , i have heard you a number of times live i would not say that you were excessively loud ,now John Morris[ midlands based] there was a loud singer.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 06:28 AM

loudness is achieved by singing from the diaphragm, listen to opera singers. dave bryant was another loud singer

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 07:41 AM

Tommy cooper Joke

You know Al Jolson. He never needed a microphone. He used to sing and dance at the same time in these massive theatres, five or six thousand people. Hours at a time...

if he saw a microphone, hed say - I don't need that. I'm Al Jolson!!

And you know...wherever Al performed, you could hear a pin drop.....just a single voice filling the theatre shouting...speak up mate! we can't hear you!!

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: GUEST,Jo Jo
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 11:57 PM

Yes, John Morris is the absolute loudest voice I have ever heard ! Fantastic !!

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: GUEST,Karen Impola
Date: 27 Mar 21 - 05:01 AM

Frankie Armstrong was mentioned above. I once saw her play a gig at a music store. I was sitting near the wall where stringed instruments were hanging. After her voice had died out in the room, I could still hear it reverberating back out of the sound holes of the various guitars and mandolins. A fascinating experience.

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Mar 21 - 02:10 PM

Nigel Denver was pretty loud

Subject: RE: Loudest singers
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 04:16 AM

Above, Linda Kelly suggested Hull's Mick McGarry here is Mick singing Linda's song "The Luckiest Sailor"
Hull Freedom Festival Mick McGarry    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZ0QxEaais