Post by Henny Macc on Jun 26, 2020 19:33:15 GMT
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson (March 21, 1950 - )
Years active: 1969-1987, 1997-present
Country of origin: England
Recorded vocal range: G2-G♯5 (G2-A♭5) - 3.1 octaves
Band history:
- 1969-1970 - Daddy (lead vocals, bass)
- 1970-1971 - Supertramp (lead vocals, bass, flageolet)
- 1971-1983 - Supertramp (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards)
- 1983-1987 - Roger Hodgson (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums)
- 1997-present - Roger Hodgson (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass)
- 2001 - Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (guitar, keyboards, vocals)
Recorded high notes:
G♯5/A♭5: "Hungry"
G5: "Desert Love", "Hai Hai", "Poor Boy" live at Queen Mary's College 1977, "Right Place"
F♯5/G♭5: "Child of Vision" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Red Lake" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Rudy"
F5: "Bloody Well Right" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Child of Vision" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Give Me Life, Give Me Love", "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)", "Hai Hai", "Hooked on a Problem", "Hide in Your Shell", "House on the Corner", "I'm Not Afraid", "Open the Door", "Remember", "Rudy"
E5: "Bloody Well Right" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "C'est le bon", "Dreamer", "House on the Corner", "Lone Child", "Showdown", "Sister Moonshine", "The Elements", "The More I Look", "Walls" demo, "Who's Afraid"
D♯5/E♭5: "Babaji", "Goodbye Stranger" live Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Hai Hai", "Hungry", "Hide in Your Shell", "Hooked on a Problem", "In Jeopardy", "Open the Door", "Right Place", "The Garden", "The Logical Song", "The More I Look", "You Make Me Love You"
D5: "A Soapbox Opera", "Babaji", "C'est le bon", "Death and Zoo", "Desert Love", "Don't You Want to Get High" live Miners Foundey 1996, "Dreamer", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Give a Little Bit" live Oslo 2010, "Give Me Life, Give Me Love", "House on the Corner", "Hum Hum", "I'm Not Afraid", "In Jeopardy", "It's Raining Again" live Belo Horizonte 2010, "Land Ho", "Lone Child", "Love Is a Thousand Times", "My Magazine", "Open the Door", "Red Lake" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Right Place", "School" live 1972, "Shadow Song", "Showdown", "Sister Moonshine", "Summer Romance", "Travelled", "Walls" demo, "Who's Afraid?", "You Make Me Love You"
C♯5/D♭5: "Ain't Nobody But Me" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Asylum" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Child of Vision" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Don't Leave Me Now", "Don't You Want to Get High" live Miners Foundey 1996, "Every Trick in the Book" live Miners Foundry 1996, "For Every Man", "Give a Little Bit" demo, "Lord Is It Mine", "Sister Moonshine", "The Garden", "The Will of God", "Walls" demo
C5: "Along Came Mary", "Aries", "A Soapbox Opera", "Aubade/And I Am Not Like Other Birds of Prey", "Babaji", "Breakfast in America", "Chicken Man" BBC session 1973, "Child of Vision", "Crazy", "Danielle", "Death and a Zoo", "Desert Love", "Don't Leave Me Now", "Dreamer", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Every Trick in the Book" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Fool's Overture", "For Every Man", "Friend in Need", "From Now On" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Give a Little Bit", "Give Me Love, Give Me Life", "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)", "Hai Hai", "Hide in Your Shell", "Hooked on a Problem", "House on the Corner", "Hungry", "If Everyone Was Listening", "In Jeopardy", "It's Raining Again", "Keep the Pidgeons Warm (Oh Brother)" live Montreal 2006, "Land Ho", "Lady", "Let It Be" live Night of the Proms 1997, "London", "Nothing to Show", "Only Because of You", "Open the Door", "Puppet Dance", "Remember", "Remembering", "Right Place", "Rudy", "School", "Take the Long Way Home", "The Elements", "The Garden", "The Logical Song", "The Moon Says Hello", "The More I Look", "Time Waits for No One" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Travelled", "Try Again" live at Fernhalle Bern 1972, "Who's Afraid?", "Words Unspoken", "You Make Me Love You", "Your Poppa Don't Mind"
B4: "Along Came Mary", "A Soapbox Opera", "Breakfast in America", "C'est le bon", "Dreamer", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Every Trick in the Book" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Give a Little Bit", "Gone Hollywood", "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)", "Hum Hum", "Hungry", "Imagine", "I'm Not Afraid", "It's a Long Road", "Know Who You Are", "Lone Child", "Lord Is It Mine", "Love Is a Thousand Times", "My Magazine", "Open the Door", "Red Lake" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Rudy", "School", "Shadow Song", "Showdown", "Summer Romance", "The Elements", "The Meaning", "Walls" demo
A♯4/B♭4: "Ain't Nobody But Me", "All Along the Watchtower" live at the PN Club 1969, "Along Came Mary", "Another Man's Woman", "A Soapbox Opera", "Babaji", "Bloody Well Right", "Child of Vision", "Coming Home to See You", "Crazy", "Fool's Overture", "For Every Man", "From Now On" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Give Me Life, Give Me Love", "Hai Hai", "Hide in Your Shell", "Hooked on a Problem", "If Everyone Was Listening", "In Jeopardy", "It's a Long Road", "It's Raining Again", "Just Another Nervous Wreck", "Land Ho", "London", "Lovers in the Wind", "No Colours" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Pony Express" live at Maida Vale Studios 1972, "Poor Boy", "Puppet Dance", "Right Place", "Take the Long Way Home", "The Garden", "The Logical Song", "The Meaning", "The Will of God", "Times Have Changed", "White Hot Rock" live Festhalle Bern 1972, "Words Unspoken", "You Make Me Love You"
A4: "Another Man's Woman", "Aries", "Aubade/And I Am Not Like Other Birds of Prey", "Awakening", "Crazy", "Death and a Zoo", "Desert Love", "Don't You Want to Get High" live Miners Foundey 1996, "Dreamer", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Everyone Dies", "Every Trick in the Book" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Fool's Overture", "From Now On" live at Pavillon de Paris 1979, "Give a Little Bit", "Give Me Life, Give Me Love", "Hai Hai", "House on the Corner", "Hum Hum", "Hungry", "I Can See" live 1972, "If Everyone Was Listening", "I'm Not Afraid", "It's a Long Road", "Know Who You Are", "Land Ho", "Lady", "Let It Be" live Night of Proms 1997, "Lone Child", "Lord Is It Mine", "Love Is a Thousand Times", "Maybe I'm a Beggar", "Mr. Boyd", "Only Because of You", "Open the Door", "Pony Express" live at Maida Vale Studios 1972, "Poor Boy" live at Queen Mary's College 1977, "Puppet Dance", "Red Lake" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Remember", "Right Place", "Rosie Had Everything Planned", "Say Goodbye", "School", "Shadow Song", "Showdown", "Sister Moonshine", "Summer Romance", "Take the Long Way Home", "The Meaning", "Travelled", "Try Again", "Who's Afraid?", "Words Unspoken"
Recorded low notes:
F♯3/G♭3: "Across the Universe" live on Q107 2010, "A Soapbox Opera", "Awakening", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Hungry", "Lady", "Lone Child", "Open the Door", "The Meaning", "The Will of God"
F3: "Babaji", "For Every Man", "Hide in Your Shell", "It's Raining Again" live Belo Horizonte 2010, "Lovers in the Wind", "Mr. Boyd", "Just a Normal Day", "Say Goodbye", "Take the Long Way Home" live Miners Foundry 1996, "The Garden", "Words Unspoken"
E3: "Awakening", "Dans La Même Lumière (Brother)", "Easy Does It", "Give a Little Bit" demo, "Home Again", "Hungry", "Imagine", "I'm Not Afraid", "It's a Long Road", "Let It Be" live Night of Proms 1997, "Lord Is It Mine" demo, "Love Is a Thousand Times", "Open the Door", "Rosie Had Everything Planned", "School", "Showdown", "Surely", "Surely (reprise)", "The Elements"
D♯3/E♭3: "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)", "Hide in Your Shell", "If Everyone Was Listening", "The Will of God"
D3: "Across the Universe" live on Q107 2010, "Along Came Mary", "Aubade/And I Am Not Like Other Birds of Prey", "Awakening", "C'est le Bon", "Danielle", "Easy Does It", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Everybody Dies", "Home Again", "Hum Hum", "Love Is a Thousand Times", "I'm Not Afraid", "Open the Door", "The Elements", "Time Waits for No One" live Miners Foundry 1996, "Who's Afraid"
C♯3/D♭3: "Don't Leave Me Now" live Montreal 2006, "For Every Man"
C3: "Along Came Mary", "Asylum", "Danielle", "Death and a Zoo", "Even in the Quietest Moments", "For Every Man", "Give Me Love, Give Me Life", "Hai Hai", "If Everyone Was Listening", "I'm Not Afraid", "In Jeopardy", "Open the Door", "Puppet Dance", "Right Place", "Rosie Had Everything Planned", "The Elements", "The Moon Says Hello", "The More I Look"
B2: "The Elements", "The Will of God"
A♯2/B♭2: "For Every Man", "You Make Me Love You"
A2: "Even in the Quietest Moments", "Everybody Dies", "The Moon Says Hello"
G2: "Open the Door"
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*Blue marks soft falsetto notes.
*Italics mark non-melodic notes.
*Underlines mark notes in backing vocals or otherwise muffled/obscured in the song mix.
{Detailed bio}
The iconic higher voice from Supertramp, known for writing and singing songs like "Give a Little Bit", "The Logical Song", and "Breakfast in America", Roger Hodgson has established himself over the course of his career as a very capable vocalist and instrumentalist. Alongside keyboardist and co-lead vocalist Rick Davies, he served as the higher voice of the vocal duo that gave much of the band's 70s music its signature sound, before eventually leaving the band in 1983 to pursue a solo career.
When Supertramp first started out in 1969 (called "Daddy" at the time), Hodgson was serving in the role of bassist and vocalist, and handled the majority of the vocal duties on their 1970 debut album. Davies only contributed vocals to two songs on this album, and the band's guitarist at the time, Richard Palmer, also sang on two songs. In 1971, however, Palmer quit the band, which resulted in Hodgson switching over to guitar duties, and them instead hiring bassist Frank Farrell to take his place. On their second album, Indelibly Stamped, Rick Davies began to sing more, and ended up handling vocal duties on the majority of songs, while Hodgson only sang leads on three tracks. By the time their next album rolled around, 1974's Crime of the Century, Hodgson and Davies had begun to share their role equally as co-lead vocalists, with Hodgson now also handling some additional keyboard duties on less guitar-driven songs. With the addition of saxophonist/clarinetist John Helliwell, bassist Dougie Thomson, and drummer Bob Siebenberg to the band, this became Supertramp's "classic" lineup that they would retain for the next four albums after this as well, including their most famous release - 1979's Breakfast in America.
After Supertramp's 1982 album ...Famous Last Words..., however, Hodgson quit the band to go solo, which has been the primary focus of his career ever since. He has released three solo albums - In the Eye of the Storm (1983), Hai Hai (1987), and Open the Door (2000), on which he has handled most of the vocals himself, and in some cases, many of the instruments as well (including drums on certain albums). Hodgson has also been very active as a touring artist over the years since Supertramp, and has released two live albums and one concert DVD. On the side, he additionally toured with Ringo Starr in 2001 as a member of The All Starr Band, whose sets would sometimes include Supertramp numbers like "The Logical Song" and "Take the Long Way Home".
As a vocalist, Hodgson is easily recognizable for his feathery light tenor voice, which is notably higher than the average man's. He bears some tonal resemblance to Jon Anderson of Yes, and apparently was at one point considered as a replacement vocalist for the band, which I think could have worked out quite well if Anderson hadn't returned. Despite Hodgson's high tessitura, however, he can be surprisingly conservative with his range and tends to only wail out notes above D5 in full voice every now and then. He does, however, still have some very impressive mid fifth octave notes, such as the classic E♭5 from "The Logical Song" and the F5 from "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)", and also makes frequent use of his falsetto to sing higher parts with a softer tone. His voice also seems to have aged very gracefully over the years, as he still performs all of his songs in their original key and manages to sound quite natural on them.
For a long time, many notewatchers on previous incarnations of TRP suspected that due to Hodgson's high vocal placement, he was someone who had almost no low range, and because we had never heard him hit anything below C3 on any of the Supertramp albums or In the Eye of the Storm. However, apparently we simply weren't looking hard enough back then, as his later solo albums revealed to have several songs with second octave notes as low as G2! As it turns out, he is actually quite capable of hitting notes that low, and even sounds pretty solid on some of them down to A2. Overall, the recorded range that he has displayed is quite consistent, and seems to all be range that he can pretty reliably recreate when needed!
The iconic higher voice from Supertramp, known for writing and singing songs like "Give a Little Bit", "The Logical Song", and "Breakfast in America", Roger Hodgson has established himself over the course of his career as a very capable vocalist and instrumentalist. Alongside keyboardist and co-lead vocalist Rick Davies, he served as the higher voice of the vocal duo that gave much of the band's 70s music its signature sound, before eventually leaving the band in 1983 to pursue a solo career.
When Supertramp first started out in 1969 (called "Daddy" at the time), Hodgson was serving in the role of bassist and vocalist, and handled the majority of the vocal duties on their 1970 debut album. Davies only contributed vocals to two songs on this album, and the band's guitarist at the time, Richard Palmer, also sang on two songs. In 1971, however, Palmer quit the band, which resulted in Hodgson switching over to guitar duties, and them instead hiring bassist Frank Farrell to take his place. On their second album, Indelibly Stamped, Rick Davies began to sing more, and ended up handling vocal duties on the majority of songs, while Hodgson only sang leads on three tracks. By the time their next album rolled around, 1974's Crime of the Century, Hodgson and Davies had begun to share their role equally as co-lead vocalists, with Hodgson now also handling some additional keyboard duties on less guitar-driven songs. With the addition of saxophonist/clarinetist John Helliwell, bassist Dougie Thomson, and drummer Bob Siebenberg to the band, this became Supertramp's "classic" lineup that they would retain for the next four albums after this as well, including their most famous release - 1979's Breakfast in America.
After Supertramp's 1982 album ...Famous Last Words..., however, Hodgson quit the band to go solo, which has been the primary focus of his career ever since. He has released three solo albums - In the Eye of the Storm (1983), Hai Hai (1987), and Open the Door (2000), on which he has handled most of the vocals himself, and in some cases, many of the instruments as well (including drums on certain albums). Hodgson has also been very active as a touring artist over the years since Supertramp, and has released two live albums and one concert DVD. On the side, he additionally toured with Ringo Starr in 2001 as a member of The All Starr Band, whose sets would sometimes include Supertramp numbers like "The Logical Song" and "Take the Long Way Home".
As a vocalist, Hodgson is easily recognizable for his feathery light tenor voice, which is notably higher than the average man's. He bears some tonal resemblance to Jon Anderson of Yes, and apparently was at one point considered as a replacement vocalist for the band, which I think could have worked out quite well if Anderson hadn't returned. Despite Hodgson's high tessitura, however, he can be surprisingly conservative with his range and tends to only wail out notes above D5 in full voice every now and then. He does, however, still have some very impressive mid fifth octave notes, such as the classic E♭5 from "The Logical Song" and the F5 from "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)", and also makes frequent use of his falsetto to sing higher parts with a softer tone. His voice also seems to have aged very gracefully over the years, as he still performs all of his songs in their original key and manages to sound quite natural on them.
For a long time, many notewatchers on previous incarnations of TRP suspected that due to Hodgson's high vocal placement, he was someone who had almost no low range, and because we had never heard him hit anything below C3 on any of the Supertramp albums or In the Eye of the Storm. However, apparently we simply weren't looking hard enough back then, as his later solo albums revealed to have several songs with second octave notes as low as G2! As it turns out, he is actually quite capable of hitting notes that low, and even sounds pretty solid on some of them down to A2. Overall, the recorded range that he has displayed is quite consistent, and seems to all be range that he can pretty reliably recreate when needed!
{Album ranges}
Supertramp:
Roger Hodgson:
Supertramp:
- Supertramp (1970) - D3-D5
- Indelibly Stamped (1971) - C3-D5
- Crime of the Century (1974) - C3-E5-F♯5
- Crisis? What Crisis? (1975) - E3-D5-E5
- Is Everybody Listening? (recorded 1975; released 2001) - C3-F5
- Even in the Quietest Moments (1977) - A2-E♭5
- Breakfast in America (1979) - G3-A3-E♭5
- Paris (1980) - E♭3-G♭5
- ...Famous Last Words... (1982) - D3-C5-E5
Roger Hodgson:
- In the Eye of the Storm (1984) - C3-F5
- Hai Hai (1987) - B♭2-E5-G5
- Rites of Passage (1997) - D3-F♯5
- Open the Door (2000) - G2-C3-F5-G♯5
- Take the Long Way Home - Live in Montreal (2006) - C3-E5
- Classics Live (2010) - E♭3-E5
{Best displays of vocal range}
"Open the Door" (G2-F5)
"Hai Hai" (C3-E♭5-G5)
"Right Place" (C3-C5-G5)
"Even in the Quietest Moments" (A2-D5)
"You Make Me Love You" (B♭2-E♭5)
"The Elements" (B2-D3-E5)
"I'm Not Afraid" (C3-F5)
"Give Me Love, Give Me Life" (C3-D5-F5)
"Hungry" (E3-G♯5)
"The More I Look" (C3-E5)
"Open the Door" (G2-F5)
"Hai Hai" (C3-E♭5-G5)
"Right Place" (C3-C5-G5)
"Even in the Quietest Moments" (A2-D5)
"You Make Me Love You" (B♭2-E♭5)
"The Elements" (B2-D3-E5)
"I'm Not Afraid" (C3-F5)
"Give Me Love, Give Me Life" (C3-D5-F5)
"Hungry" (E3-G♯5)
"The More I Look" (C3-E5)
Previous version of this thread by lapisman47 on TRP3.
If you can find any other recordings by them (namely anything with Hodgson or Davies on lead vocals), I'd definitely be interested to hear them!