Got an old Tony Christie album ("It's good to be me"? or "The World of Tony Christie") with liner notes relating a story of Tony in the eurovision song contest in, from memory, 1972.
He didn't win the comp but all the contestants went to the boozer afterwards and there Tony showed his mettle, led the sing along, owned the place.
Tony Christie may not have won but was the greatest bellower amongst them. maybe it was getting pissed and bellowing with family and mates was how Tony learned to sing.
In another discussion here someone suggested Mark E Smith was part of an oral tradition with repetition and enjoyment of the sound purely for the sound, and it reminded me that getting Larried in a group words and phrases, burps and grunts can get carried around the group, can define the night. I.e. a recording of a group pissed and carrying on could sound more like a fall song than anything else. Maybe that is how he learnt his craft, entertaining a bunch of his mates, pissed, looking to pull.
I used to say Mark E. Smith is the Mel Torme of Punk. So much scatting going on. But I read Mark won't let punks in the house.
This aint Tony Christie but it's Avenues and Alleyways covered by a contemporary kiwi bellower Wayne Anderson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jZsGyk7gsI was tempted to put this in the fall section but really it's arse blow. :)
