[Dixielandjazz] Rhineheart

[Joe Carbery]

Dear Robert,

I fear your article is wasted on this mailing list. It warrants submission
to the nearest university as a doctoral thesis. The only question would be
to which faculty would you submit it: English or music. Such a valiant
effort deserves academic recognition.

Joseph T Carbery.

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 5:21 PM, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Or however the name is spelled.
> My experience of ancient and crackling blues records sharpened my
> listening, and some years of classical vocal training taught me a few more
> relevant things.
>
> What Jimmy Rushing sings on the ancient item is pretty well "I'n her ...."
> etcetera (rather than "I'm her..."
>
> There is no grammatical place for anything else and one problem is that
> Jimmy had something of a nasal projection of the voice.  Try saying "mime"
> or "I'm" with your mouth open, and you might get the same effect ---
> instead of the humming sort of sound being resolved into an "m" it turns
> into an "n" because there has to be some consonant there before "her" ---
> refer to examples from French and Portuguese for n and m sound
> relationships.  "Her" as normally spoken also involves a not very resonant
> or singable vowel -- a slightly stifled "aah"
> Hay bee aah hoe who  (if one of those vowels is entirely absent from an
> attempt to sing a vowel, the sound will not carry, the vowel will remain
> unsung)
>
>  "I'm" is a diphthong, in order to be heard singing Jimmy (and anybody
> else trying to project that vowel!) has to sing Aaah-eeeh (I, eye) and
> Jimmy is swung as much as rushed into the opening of the vowel ---
>
>  Go Aaaaaaaaaaaaah.....  and you get an "r"-like sound -- some asses tell
> you that the way to pronounce the name Janacek, which has an accent above
> the second a (as well as the one which turns c to ch as in chop) not
> JanAHcheck but JanARcheck -- too many sloppy Englishfolk call drawing
> droaring without any of the justifying swing of Jim.
> Engrish Lubbish, as a man in Duesseldorf might say.
>
> It's perfectly straightforward to understand how Jimmy's "I'm" could get
> so distorted in the course of standard vocal production as to sound like
> Rine. He slurred words comprised by some of the most awkward vowels to
> sing. Quite an achievement the speech-like naturalness he achieved.
>
> If you find the above ingenious but incredible you know nothing of the
> basics of singing technique in the English language, and if you don't enact
> any of that in efforts to sing, few and progressively even fewer people
> will hear you as a result of your pointlessly straining your throat!
>
> Reinherzlich,Robert R. Calder
>
>
>
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