Post by whammo on Feb 23, 2013 18:05:18 GMT -5
First off a story...
Back in the 80s I was working as a recording engineer for a major recording studio. One of the things that I quickly noticed was that working on jingles they like to take a popular song in the charts and clone it. For example we did a ripoff of "Ain't That America" by John Mellencamp called "All That's America". We also did one for a ZZ Top song, but we also did a Beatles themed jingle to the tune of "Yellow Submarine". This was just after Michael Jackson had purchased the rights to the Beatles catalog so there was hope of it actually seeing the light of day. "We all love drinking Diet Cherry Coke, The unforbidden fruit, Diet Cherry Coke".
Anyway, they always seemed to have someone who sounded exactly like the original artist and this session was no exception. After we did the tracking in the am we did the vocals in the afternoon with this guy who could sing like any of the Beatles, and did he ever. I just said all that to make the point that first there are people who specialize in impersonating other artists vocally and they are well known in the business. They have books filled with these people and their vocal specialties just like headshots for actors and actresses.
Also a common practice in the studio was to speed up vocals in order to sound more youthful or hit note higher than your normal vocal range. This could have been employed as a method of 'covering the seam' between two singers.
And last, I look at the Paul in that Life magazine cover and see he is not the same person. I think the whole mustache thing was simply a way to hide the seam visually between the two Pauls until the surgery was completed.
Back in the 80s I was working as a recording engineer for a major recording studio. One of the things that I quickly noticed was that working on jingles they like to take a popular song in the charts and clone it. For example we did a ripoff of "Ain't That America" by John Mellencamp called "All That's America". We also did one for a ZZ Top song, but we also did a Beatles themed jingle to the tune of "Yellow Submarine". This was just after Michael Jackson had purchased the rights to the Beatles catalog so there was hope of it actually seeing the light of day. "We all love drinking Diet Cherry Coke, The unforbidden fruit, Diet Cherry Coke".
Anyway, they always seemed to have someone who sounded exactly like the original artist and this session was no exception. After we did the tracking in the am we did the vocals in the afternoon with this guy who could sing like any of the Beatles, and did he ever. I just said all that to make the point that first there are people who specialize in impersonating other artists vocally and they are well known in the business. They have books filled with these people and their vocal specialties just like headshots for actors and actresses.
Also a common practice in the studio was to speed up vocals in order to sound more youthful or hit note higher than your normal vocal range. This could have been employed as a method of 'covering the seam' between two singers.
And last, I look at the Paul in that Life magazine cover and see he is not the same person. I think the whole mustache thing was simply a way to hide the seam visually between the two Pauls until the surgery was completed.