Unknown Rookie's STRANGE WORDLESS VOCAL Spent a Record-18 YEARS on THE Charts! | Professor of Rock
1,310Improvisation is the X factor behind some of the greatest tracks of the Rock Era—moments of spontaneous genius nborn from gifted talent and instinct. On this episode we have the story of an unknown singer named Clare Torry who was supposed to sing a couple of notes over a musical bed but just belted out a wordless display of sounds that astonished Pink Floyd and became a crucial part of The Dark Side of the Moon, an album that spent 18 and a half years on the charts.
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Let’s go behind the story of Clare Torry’s remarkable performance on “The Great Gig in the Sky” from Pink Floyd’s landmark Dark Side of the Moon album: In January ’73, just a few weeks before The Dark Side of the Moon was set to be completed, the band found themselves searching for something special—a way to add an emotional edge to one of the album’s most haunting tracks, but they didn’t know what they were looking for, exactly. They decided it would be cool to have a singer come in and sing a few notes over the music of Richard Wright’s composition “The Great Gig in the Sky.” Nothing too much, just to deepen the song’s cosmic sense of mortality. As they began searching for the right singer, studio engineer Alan Parsons remembered a talented vocalist he’d worked with previously—Clare Torry, a 25-year-old songwriter and session singer. She had a reputation for her soulful, expressive voice, and Parsons thought she might be perfect for the song... He tells the rest here.