[78-L] A silent Goons record?

[David Lennick]

Mike Richter wrote:
> joe at salerno.com wrote:
>> I don't know about that but looking around I found some recordings of 
>> Hary Secombe on nme.com
>>
>> He actually could belt out a few notes. Amazing...I had no idea there 
>> was anything around of the serious side of the Goon show personnel.
> 
> Ron was kind enough to let me back in after some years off-list. My 
> primary interest is in classical vocal music. I maintain two WWW sites; 
> the primary one (below) has a section on CD recording and a section 
> nominally on opera.
> 
> A few weeks ago, I offered a page of Secombe in opera. The response was 
> surprisingly favorable, though the voice was more suited to the current 
> fashion than to the repertoire of his day. Although from what was heard 
> the show, Joe's description is fitting, Secombe had the basic training 
> for limited opera success. However, there was little chance he could 
> have approached the success he had in popular song and in radio comedy.
> 
> Mike

Okay..explain Andrea Bocelli (rhymes with "smelly"), whose voice sends me 
screaming into the next room whenever a certain pseudo-classical radio station 
broadcasts it (and here I use "broadcast" in its earlier meaning, the spreading 
of manure).

dl