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Warren William Zevon (24 January 1947 - 7 September 2003)
Vocal Range: B♭1 - A5
{Album Ranges}Warren Zevon:
Wanted Dead or Alive (1969): E2 - F5
Warren Zevon (1976): A2 - G5
Excitable Boy (1978): F♯2 - F♯5
Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980): G2 - A5
The Envoy (1982): F♯2 - D5
Sentimental Hygiene (1987): E♭2 - G5
Transverse City (1989): G2 - B4
Mr. Bad Example (1991): G2 - F♯4
Mutineer (1995): F2 - C5
Life'll Kill Ya (2000): D2 - G♯4
My Ride's Here (2002): E♭2 - F4
The Wind (2003): E2 - A4
Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings (2007/Recorded pre-1976): B1 - G♯5
Hindu Love Gods:
Hindu Love Gods (1990): E2 - C♯5
Wanted Dead or Alive (1969): E2 - F5
Warren Zevon (1976): A2 - G5
Excitable Boy (1978): F♯2 - F♯5
Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980): G2 - A5
The Envoy (1982): F♯2 - D5
Sentimental Hygiene (1987): E♭2 - G5
Transverse City (1989): G2 - B4
Mr. Bad Example (1991): G2 - F♯4
Mutineer (1995): F2 - C5
Life'll Kill Ya (2000): D2 - G♯4
My Ride's Here (2002): E♭2 - F4
The Wind (2003): E2 - A4
Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings (2007/Recorded pre-1976): B1 - G♯5
Hindu Love Gods:
Hindu Love Gods (1990): E2 - C♯5
Significant High Notes:
A5 ("Werewolves of London" Live Boston 1982, "Wild Age")
G♯5 ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me" Preludes Version)
G5 ("Detox Mansion", "Even a Dog Can Shake Hands", "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Wild Age")
F♯5 ("Lawyers, Guns and Money")
F5 ("Hitch Hikin' Woman")
E5 ("A Certain Girl" Live Passiac 1982)
D5 ("Accidentally Like a Martyr" Preludes Version, "Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger / Bo Diddley" Live Stand in the Fire, "The Factory", "The Overdraft")
C♯5 ("Walkin' Blues", "Werewolves of London" Preludes Version)
C5 ("Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse")
B4 ("Ain't That Pretty at All", "Detox Mansion", "Mannish Boy", "Turbulence")
B♭4 ("The Long Arm of the Law", "Werewolves of London" Preludes Version)
A4 ("Ain't That Pretty at All", "Battleship Chains", "A Certain Girl", "Crosscut Saw", "Down in the Mall", "The Envoy", "Gridlock", "I'm a One Woman Man", "Lawyers, Guns and Money" Live Passiac 1980, "Rub Me Raw", "Travelin' Riverside Blues", "Walkin' Blues", "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Wild Thing", "You Used to Ride So High")
G♯4 ("Boom Boom Mancini", "Even a Dog Can Shake Hands", "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer", "Iko-Iko", "Into the Mystic" Live Cleveland 1992, "Raspberry Beret")
G4 ("Back in the High Life Again", "Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger / Bo Diddley" Live Stand in the Fire, "The Envoy", "Even a Dog Can Shake Hands", "The Factory", "The French Inhaler", "Frozen Notes", "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down", "Reconsider Me", "Werewolves of London", "Why Can't This Be Love" Live Syracuse 1994)
F♯4 ("Battleship Chains", "I'll Slow You Down", "I'm a One Woman Man", "I Used to Ride so High", "Numb as a Statue", "Ourselves to Know", "Play It All Night Long", "Quite Ugly One Morning", "Raspberry Beret", "She Quit Me", "Something Bad Happened to a Clown", "Traveling in the Lightnin'")
F4 ("Accidentally Like a Martyr", "All Along the Watchtower" Live Aspen 1996, "Back in the High Life Again", "Boom Boom Mancini", "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer", "Hostage-O", "I Have to Leave", "The Long Arm of the Law", "Model Citizen", "Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse", "Mutineer", "Poisonous Lookalike", "Start Me Up" Live Boulder 1992, "Summertime Blues" Live Buffalo 1986, "Suzie Lightning", "Vigilante Man", "What's New Pussycat" Live Portland 1988, "Why Can't This Be Love" Live Syracuse 1994, "Wild Thing")
E4 ("Angel Dressed in Black", "Backs Turned Looking Down the Path", "The Barricades of Heaven" Live 1999, "Bill Lee", "Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger / Bo Diddley" Live Stand in the Fire, "Calcutta", "Crosscut Saw", "Desperados Under the Eaves", "Down in the Mall", "Empty Hearted Town", "Even a Dog Can Shake Hands", "Excitable Boy", "Fistful of Rain", "Going All the Way", "Gorilla, You're a Desperado", "The Heartache", "Hitch Hikin' Woman", "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)", "Iko-Iko", "I Need a Truck", "I Used to Ride so High", "Jackson" Live Philadelphia 2000, "Join Me in L.A.", "Keep Me in Your Heart", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Let Nothing Come Between You", "Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded", "Mannish Boy", "Model Citizen", "Mohammed's Radio", "My Shit's Fucked Up", "My Way" Live Boston 1996, "Please Stay", "Quite Ugly One Morning", "Reconsider Me", "Ring Them Bells" Live Denver 1994, "The Risk", "Rottweiler Blues", "Rub Me Raw", "Sacrificial Lambs", "She's too Good for Me", "Splendid Isolation", "Steady Rain", "Studebaker", "Tenderness on the Block", "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead", "Traveling in the Lightnin'", "Trouble Waiting to Happen", "Turbulence", "Walkin' Blues", "Why Can't This Be Love" Live Syracuse 1994, "Wild Age", "You Used to Ride So High")
E♭4 ("Basket Case", "Battleship Chains", "Into the Mystic" Live Cleveland 1992, "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down", "Mr. Bad Example", "Piano Fighter", "Raspberry Beret", "Run Straight Down", "Similar to Rain", "Something Bad Happened to a Clown", "Till I Go Down" Live Milwaukee 1984, "You Don't Know What Love Is" Live Denver 1996)
D4 ("All Along the Watchtower" Live Aspen 1996, "Backs Turned Looking Down the Path", "Bed of Coals", "Bill Lee", "Desperados Under the Eaves", "Detox Mansion", "Disorder in the House", "Down in the Mall", "Empty Handed Heart", "The Factory", "Frank and Jesse James", "Gridlock", "Hasten Down the Wind", "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)", "Hostage-O", "I Have to Leave", "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead", "Jesus Mentioned", "Jesus Was a Cross Maker", "Jolie Blonde" Live Syracuse 1994, "Keep Me in Your Heart", "Lord Byron's Luggage", "Macgillycuddy's Reeks", "Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded", "Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse", "Mutineer", "My Ride's Here", "My Way" Live Boston 1996, "Networking", "Never too Late for Love", "Numb as a Statue", "Poisonous Lookalike", "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Reconsider Me", "The Rest of the Night", "The Risk", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", "Searching for a Heart", "She Quit Me", "Simple Man, Simple Dream" Live WMMS Studio 1976, "Studebaker", "Suzie Lightning", "They Moved the Moon", "Werewolves of London")
Significant Low Notes:
C3 ("Accidentally Like a Martyr", "A Bullet For Ramona", "Desperados Under the Eaves", "Dirty Life and Times", "Even a Dog Can Shake Hands", "Finishing Touches", "Frank and Jesse James", "Frozen Notes", "Genius", "Hasten Down the Wind", "The Indifference of Heaven", "Laissez-Moi Tranquille", "The Long Arm of the Law", "My Way" Live Boston 1996, "Networking", "Never too Late for Love", "Piano Fighter", "Play It All Night Long", "Please Stay", "Reconsider Me", "The Risk", "The Rosarita Beach Cafe", "Rottweiler Blues", "Veracruz", "Vigilante Man", "Wild Age")
B2 ("The Barricades of Heaven" Live 1999, "Bed of Coals", "Calcutta", "A Certain Girl", "Chimes of Freedom" Live Philadelphia 2000, "The Envoy", "Excitable Boy", "The French Inhaler", "The Heartache", "Hitch Hikin' Woman", "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" Live Aspen 1994, "Jungle Work", "Let Nothing Come Between You", "Prison Grove", "Renegade", "Ring Them Bells" Live Denver 1994, "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", "She Quit Me", "Traveling in the Lightnin'")
B♭2 ("Back in the High Life Again", "Genius", "I Have to Leave", "The Indifference of Heaven", "Mutineer", "Start Me Up" Live Boulder 1992)
A2 ("5D" Live 2000, "Carmelita", "Crosscut Saw", "El Amor de mi Vida", "Empty Handed Heart", "Excitable Boy" Various Live Performances, "Figurine" Live Denver 1996, "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)", "Iko-Iko", "I Used to Ride so High", "Jackson" Live Philadelphia 2000, "Jesus Was a Cross Maker", "Looking for the Next Best Thing", "Lord Byron's Luggage", "Macgillycuddy's Reeks", "Mannish Boy", "Model Citizen", "Sacrificial Lambs", "They Moved the Moon", "Tule's Blues", "Veracruz", "Walkin' Blues")
G♯2 ("Carmelita" Preludes Version, "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer", "Going All the Way", "Leave My Monkey Alone", "My Way" Live Boston 1996, "Nobody's in Love This Year", "Stop Rainin' Lord", "What's New Pussycat" Live Portland 1988)
G2 ("5D" Live 2000, "Bill Lee", "Detox Mansion", "Don't Let Us Get Sick", "Empty Hearted Town", "Heartache Spoken Here", "The Hula Hula Boys", "Jesus Mentioned", "Junko Pardner", "Keep Me in Your Heart", "Knockin on Heaven's Door", "Life'll Kill Ya", "My Shit's Fucked Up", "Networking", "Please Stay", "The Rest of the Night", "Run Straight Down", "She's too Good for Me", "Tule's Blues", "Turbulence", "Werewolves of London", "Wild Thing")
F♯2 ("Accidentally Like a Martyr" Preludes Version, "Charlie's Medicine", "Figurine" Live Denver 1996, "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)", "Ourselves to Know", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", "Travelin' Riverside Blues", "You Don't Know What Love Is")
F2 ("Basket Case", "Boom Boom Mancini", "Dirty Life and Times", "Dirty Little Religion", "Mutineer", "Piano Fighter", "Summertime Blues" Live Buffalo 1986, "What's New Pussycat" Live Portland 1988)
E2 ("Avé Maria", "I'm a One Woman Man", "Rub Me Raw", "Wanted Dead or Alive", "You're a Whole Different Person When You're Scared")
E♭2 ("Basket Case", "The Christmas Song", "Leave My Monkey Alone", "Life'll Kill Ya")
D2 ("Avé Maria", "My Shit's Fucked Up")
C♯2 ("The Christmas Song")
B1 ("Ring Them Bells" Live Denver 1994, "Werewolves of London" Preludes Version)
B♭1 ("Mutineer" Live The Late Show With David Letterman 2002)
{Questionable Notes}C♯6 ("Jungle Work" [5])
A5 ("A Certain Girl" [1], "Lawyers, Guns and Money" [1])
G♯5 ("Gorilla" [1])
F♯5 ("She Quit Me" [1])
E♭5 ("Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger / Bo Diddley" Live Stand in the Fire [1])
D5 ("Frank and Jesse James" [1])
B4 ("Traveling in the Lightnin'" [1])
B♭4 ("Dirty Life and Times" [1])
G4 ("The Hula Hula Boys" [5])
G2 ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me" [3])
E2 ("Wang Dang Doodle" [1])
D2 ("Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)" [1])
C2 ("Piano Fighter" [1])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
.......................................................A5 ("A Certain Girl" [1], "Lawyers, Guns and Money" [1])
G♯5 ("Gorilla" [1])
F♯5 ("She Quit Me" [1])
E♭5 ("Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger / Bo Diddley" Live Stand in the Fire [1])
D5 ("Frank and Jesse James" [1])
B4 ("Traveling in the Lightnin'" [1])
B♭4 ("Dirty Life and Times" [1])
G4 ("The Hula Hula Boys" [5])
G2 ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me" [3])
E2 ("Wang Dang Doodle" [1])
D2 ("Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)" [1])
C2 ("Piano Fighter" [1])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.