I posted a link to an Incredible String Band song featuring Licorice's sweet voice to a private FB group, saying I had always wanted to sing like her. Someone said she sounded like Tiny Tim. I am offended. 🎵
@RobinLily To be fair, Tiny Tim had an incredible voice... Look up his Royal Albert Hall performance. The way he could switch octaves between "male" and "female" parts in the same breath..... He was undoubtedly on the spectrum and very confused sexually, but his talent might be one of the most underappreciated of all time.
I'd personally take it as a compliment to be compared to him!
@theunabeefer Thanks, I'll listen to some of that. Didn't pay attention at the time. I was off listening to ragamuffin hippie bands ...
@RobinLily One of the things that really made sense, re Tiny Tim, was that he was trying to emulate the early 1900s cylinder record sound... When everything was recorded so vocalists had to project to one microphone.... He thought he was replicating what he heard from early radio, as best as he could hear in his head. He thought he was reproducing female voices in his falsetto... It's something so pure yet also so very comical... I kinda love it.
@theunabeefer That makes sense. That style doesn't really speak to me, but it's definitely a thing worth studying.
@RobinLily Fair. But it's a good way to retort to people who mean it as an insult!
The Albert Hall performance had Beatles, royalty, and all forms of high class, and it's a great show of people showing up to just laugh at someone, realizing there's a real talent, and in the end, very clearly appreciating someone they would gladly have laughed at.... It went from chuckles to standing ovation
Socialogically, it's brilliant.