Anthony Newley has a very distinctive singing voice, but having no musical knowledge, I don't know how to describe it.
He seems to alternate between baritone at teh beginning of a line, then go up into tenor for some words, then back down to baritone, somethign like that? Anyone know the technical definition of what he does?
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I love his voice. The only way I can describe it is very "Irish". He's putting on a bit more in this than he normally does. He has a Broadway background, so he's used to having to be larger than life. I think he was brilliant.
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He isn't a mick you know, he was born in London.
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Having seeing him perform live and in person, he tends to stretch out every syllable to great extent.
Just imagine what he and Dudley Moore (an accomplished composer in his own right) could've done JUST ONCE?
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I believe you would say Newley was a baritone with a very good "top." I read somewhere that David Bowie was inspired by Anthony Newley, and if you think about it, there are some real similarities in their singing styles!
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Listen to Starman off Bowie's Ziggy Stardust lp. Sounds a lot like Anthony Newley. Never liked Newley's voice by the way, finger nails on a blackboard for me.
His style of singing is known as "swallowing your voice", and i think he does it very well.
shareIt's WAY too nasel for my taste!
shareKinda like a male Liza Minnelli.
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Funny you say that, because he made me think of Dudley Moore playing the Emcee in Cabaret.
shareHis singing voice is distinctive for its (what's called) "vibrato."
shareHis singing voice is ''distinctive'' because he's tone deaf.
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I believe you would say Newley was a baritone with a very good "top.
Exactly. He was just a higher baritone. There were/are opera singers like that, too. So there's no question of Newley alternating between tenor and baritone, or whatever the OP was describing. You're either a tenor or a baritone, and he was a baritone, albeit a higher, "brighter" one.