Post by Zedd Squared on May 7, 2021 12:59:13 GMT
Member Of: It Bites (1982-1983, 1984-1990), Robert Plant (1993), The Syn (2005-2009)
Vocal Range: B1-F♯5
High Notes:
F♯5 ("Positively Animal", "Wanna Shout")
F5 ("Staring at the Whitewash" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version)
E5 ("Bat Thing", "Ford and the Dreamers", "Heartache Reborn", "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" CKDCF Benefit Concert 2012, "Midnight", "Picked You Up and Now I Can't Let You Go", "Wanna Shout")
E♭5 ("Kiss Like Judas" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Leaving the Depot")
D5 ("Bat Thing", "Blood of My Fathers", "Calling All the Heroes", "Everyone's a Star", "Feels Like Summertime", "Heartache Reborn", "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" CKDCF Benefit Concert 2012, "In the Garden of Mystic Lovers", "Jack Won't Let You Go", "Joy", "Let Us All Go", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Made in Space", "The Old Man and the Angel", "Staring at the Whitewash" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "You Make the World Bow Down")
C♯5 ("Bullet in the Barrel", "Cold Tired and Hungry", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "The Ice Melts Into Water", "I've Been Evil", "Leaving the Depot", "Limpet Man", "Moonflower", "The Mother and Father of Love" Return to the Wild Country Album Version, "My Own Reality", "The Only Thing", "Positively Animal", "Underneath Your Pillow")
C5 ("48 Hours", "All I Ever Wanted Was You", "Back in New York City", "Calling All the Heroes" Vampires Album Version, "Close My Door", "Everyone's a Star", "Grateful and Thankful", "Haunted", "Homegrown", "Immaculate", "The Johnny Podell Song", "Joy", "Kiss Like Judas", "Little Tears from a Big Pair of Brown Eyes", "Once Around the World", "Picked You Up and Now I Can't Let You Go", "Sister Sarah", "Still Life in Mobile Homes", "Strange But True", "Sunshine", "Turn Me Loose", "Yellow Christian" Vampires Album Version, "You Make the World Bow Down")
B4 ("American Life in the Summertime", "Animal Life and Water Life", "Black December", "Calling to You", "Charlie" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Climbing Up the Love Tree", "Cold Tired and Hungry", "Couldn't Find a Reason", "Crazy Is a Pitstop", "Crazy Little Heart of Mine", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "Feels Like Summertime", "Ford and the Dreamers", "Frankenstein Monster", "Glad and Sorry", "Having a Good Day", "Heartache Reborn", "Hold Out Your Heart", "Holiday" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, , "Hunting the Whale", "I Got You Eating Out of My Hand", "The Ice Melts Into Water", "In the Garden of Mystic Lovers", "Jack Won't Let You Go", "King of the Blues", "Kiss Me", "Leaving the Depot", "Leaving Without You", "Let Us All Go", "Limpet Man", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Made in Space", "Midnight", "The Mother and Father of Love", "Mr. No No", "Murder of the Planet Earth", "My Own Reality", "New Vibration", "The Old Man and the Angel", "Peace for Our Time", "Perfect Shape", "Plastic Dreamer", "Positively Animal", "Revolution", "Seventeen Fires of Love", "Staring at the Whitewash", "Still Too Young to Remember" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Strange But True", "Sunflowers", "Vampires", "The Way Things Are", "Whole New World", "Wounding and Healing", "Yam", "Yonder Mountain")
B♭4 ("All I Ever Wanted Was You", "Back in New York City", "Because I Can", "Big Fine Lad", "Blood of My Fathers", "Bobbie Jo", "Chocolate Heart", "Crazy Little Heart of Mine", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "Flower Girl", "Good Life", "Haunted", "Holiday", "I Believe I Can Change My World", "I'm In Love", "Jackal in Your Mind", "Kiss Like Judas" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Kiss Me", "Living in New York City", "Peace for Our Time" Return to the Wild Country Album Version, "Rain or Shine", "Soldier", "Someone Like Me", "Strange But True", "Sunflowers", "Sunshine", "Supper's Ready", "Too Much Saturn", "Underneath Your Pillow", "Welcome to the Wild Country", "Whole New World" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version)
A4 ("All I Ever Wanted Was You", "All in Red", "Another Day", "The Ava Song", "Back in New York City", "Bat Thing", "Big Fine Lad", "Black December", "Bullet in the Barrel", "Calling All the Heroes" Vampires Album Version, "Calling to You", "Castles", "Charlie" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Climbing Up the Love Tree", "Close My Door", "Cold Tired and Hungry", "Couldn't Find a Reason", "Crazy Is a Pitstop", "Driving in the Rain", "Everyone's a Star", "Fade Away", "Feel Like Kissing You Again", "Fire on the Plane", "Flower Girl", "Ford and the Dreamers", "Frankenstein Monster", "Grateful and Thankful", "Haunted", "Having a Good Day", "Heartache Reborn", "Heartbreaker", "Ho Ho Your Sandwiches", "Hold Out Your Heart", "Holiday", "Homegrown", "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" CKDCF Benefit Concert 2012, "In the Garden of Mystic Lovers", "In My Dreams", "I've Been Evil", "Jack Won't Let You Go", "The Johnny Podell Song", "Jonah", "Joy", "Judy Green Rocket", "King of the Blues", "Kiss Like Judas", "Kiss Me", "Leaving the Depot", "Leaving Without You", "Let Us All Go", "Little Tears from a Big Pair of Brown Eyes", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Made in Space", "The Middle of Life", "Midnight", "Moonflower", "The Mother and Father of Love", "Mr. No No", "Murder of the Planet Earth", "My Own Reality", "New Vibration", "The Old Man and the Angel", "Once Around the World", "The Only Thing", "Peace for Our Time", "People of America", "Perfect Shape", "Picked You Up and Now I Can't Let You Go", "Plastic Dreamer", "Positively Animal", "The Possibilities of Loving You", "Rain or Shine", "Revolution", "Riding on the Back", "Rose Marie", "Seventeen Fires of Love", "Sister Sarah", "Staring at the Whitewash" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Still Life in Mobile Homes", "Still Too Young to Remember" Vampires Album Version, "Stormy Weather", "Strange But True", "Supper's Ready", "Too Much Saturn", "Turn Me Loose", "Vampires", "Wanna Shout", "Welcome to the Wild Country", "What's He Gonna Say", "Whole New World", "Yellow Christian" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Yonder Mountain", "You Make the World Bow Down", "You'll Never Go to Heaven")
G♯4 ("48 Hours", "Big Fine Lad", "Blinded by the Memory", "Chocolate Heart", "Cold Tired and Hungry", "Crazy Little Heart of Mine", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "Feels Like Summertime", "Give Up and Let It Go", "Glad and Sorry", "Good Life", "Grateful and Thankful", "Heartache Reborn", "Hometown", "Hunting the Whale", "The Ice Melts Into Water", "I'm In Love", "Immaculate", "In My Father's Eyes", "Jonah", "Living in New York City", "Me and Franciene", "Multi Colored Judy Green", "Once Around the World", "Only New York Going On", "The Only Thing", "Positively Animal", "Rose Marie", "Sister Sarah", "Soldier", "Sunshine", "Supper's Ready", "Underneath Your Pillow", "Wanna Shout", "You'll Never Go to Heaven")
G4 ("All in Red", "American Life in the Summertime", "Autumn the Rain Man", "The Ava Song", "Bat Thing", "Because I Can", "Black December", "Blood of My Fathers", "Bullet in the Barrel", "Calling All the Heroes", "Calling to You", "Close My Door", "Couldn't Find a Reason", "Crazy Is a Pitstop", "Crazy Little Heart of Mine", "Driving in the Rain", "Fade Away", "Father and Son", "Fire on the Plane", "Ford and the Dreamers", "Give Up Your Day Job", "Heartbreaker", "Holiday", "Home in My Heart", "Hometown", "I'95", "I'm In Love", "In My Dreams", "Jack Won't Let You Go", "Jonah", "Judy Green Rocket", "Just Like My Father Said It Would Be", "King of the Blues", "Kiss Like Judas", "Kiss Me", "Leaving the Depot", "Leaving Without You", "Let My Heart Decide", "Let Us All Go", "Limpet Man", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Marijuana Make Those Eyes at Me For", "Midnight", "The Mother and Father of Love", "Mr. No No", "Murder of the Planet Earth", "My Old Friend Love", "My Own Reality", "New Vibration", "Nobody Else Like You", "The Old Man and the Angel", "Once Around the World", "Peace for Our Time", "People of America", "Perfect Shape", "Picked You Up and Now I Can't Let You Go", "Plastic Dreamer", "The Possibilities of Loving You", "Rain or Shine", "Revolution", "Sister Sarah", "Someone Like Me", "Staring at the Whitewash", "Still Too Young to Remember", "Stormy Weather", "Sunflowers", "Till the End of Time", "Too Much Saturn", "Turn Me Loose", "The Way Things Are", "What's He Gonna Say", "Whoever Brought Me Here", "Whole New World", "Wounding and Healing", "Yam", "Yellow Christian", "Yonder Mountain", "You Make the World Bow Down", "You'll Never Go to Heaven")
F♯4 ("Animal Life and Water Life", "Bobbie Jo", "Calling to You", "Chocolate Heart", "Climbing Up the Love Tree", "Crazy Is a Pitstop", "Don't Look Down Frank", "Fade Away", "Flower Girl", "Frankenstein Monster", "Give Up and Let It Go", "The Gulley Flats Boys", "Hold Out Your Heart", "Homegrown", "Hunting the Whale", "I Got You Eating Out of My Hand", "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" CKDCF Benefit Concert 2012, "In My Dreams", "In My Father's Eyes", "I've Been Evil", "Jackal in Your Mind", "Just a Man", "Limpet Man", "Living in New York City", "Made in Space", "Moonflower", "Multi Colored Judy Green", "Once Around the World", "Perfect Shape", "Riding on the Back", "Screaming on the Beaches", "Seventeen Fires of Love", "Still Too Young to Remember", "Till the End of Time", "Welcome to the Wild Country", "Whoever Brought Me Here", "Yonder Mountain")
Low Notes:
E3 ("All in Red", "American Life in the Summertime", "Animal Life and Water Life", "Cold Tired and Hungry", "Couldn't Find a Reason", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "Feels Like Summertime", "Heartbreaker", "Jack Won't Let You Go", "Judy Green Rocket", "Just Like My Father Said It Would Be", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Moonflower", "Mr. No No", "Murder of the Planet Earth", "Once Around the World", "The Only Thing", "Picked You Up and Now I Can't Let You Go", "The Possibilities of Loving You", "Rose Marie", "Still Too Young to Remember", "Vampires", "Wanna Shout", "Welcome to the Wild Country", "Whole New World", "Yam", "Yellow Christian")
E♭3 ("48 Hours", "Blinded by the Memory", "Bobbie Jo", "I'm In Love", "Kiss Like Judas" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Only New York Going On", "The Possibilities of Loving You" Return to the Wild Country Album Version, "Rose Marie" Vampires Album Version, "Sunshine", "Supper's Ready", "Welcome to the Wild Country" Return to the Wild Country Album Version, "Yonder Mountain")
D3 ("Autumn the Rain Man", "Calling All the Heroes", "Calling to You", "Couldn't Find a Reason", "Crazy Is a Pitstop", "Driving in the Rain", "Fade Away", "Feel Like Kissing You Again", "Hold Out Your Heart", "Home in My Heart", "I Don't Want to Be Alternative", "The Ice Melts Into Water", "In the Garden of Mystic Lovers", "Jack Won't Let You Go", "The Johnny Podell Song", "Joy", "Just a Man", "Kiss Like Judas", "Let My Heart Decide", "Little Snake", "Little Tears from a Big Pair of Brown Eyes", "The Middle of Life", "Midnight", "The Mother and Father of Love", "Murder of the Planet Earth" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "My Old Friend Love", "New Vibration", "The Old Man and the Angel", "Once Around the World", "Perfect Shape", "Plastic Dreamer", "Riding on the Back", "Screaming on the Beaches", "Seventeen Fires of Love", "Staring at the Whitewash", "Still Life in Mobile Homes", "Sunflowers", "Underneath Your Pillow" Vampires Album Version, "Whole New World" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Wounding and Healing", "Wum Wop", "Yellow Christian")
C♯3 ("48 Hours", "Chocolate Heart", "Cold Tired and Hungry", "Feels Like Summertime", "Give Up and Let It Go", "Good Life" The Gulley Flats Boys Album Version, "The Gulley Flats Boys", "Heartache Reborn", "The Ice Melts Into Water" Vampires Album Version, "In My Father's Eyes", "Living in New York City", "Me and Franciene", "Midnight" Vampires Album Version, "The Old Man and the Angel" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Stormy Weather", "Yonder Mountain")
C3 ("All in Red", "American Life in the Summertime", "Close My Door", "Fire on the Plane", "Grateful and Thankful", "Haunted", "Jonah", "Kiss Me", "Little Tears from a Big Pair of Brown Eyes", "The Middle of Life", "My Old Friend Love", "Someone Like Me", "Staring at the Whitewash", "Still Life in Mobile Homes", "Too Much Saturn", "Turn Me Loose", "Underneath Your Pillow" Vampires Album Version, "Yellow Christian" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version)
B2 ("Climbing Up the Love Tree", "Crazy Is a Pitstop", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "Fade Away", "Give Up Your Day Job", "Having a Good Day", "Heartache Reborn" The Gulley Flats Boys Album Version, "Hunting the Whale", "I Got You Eating Out of My Hand", "I've Been Evil", "Jackal in Your Mind", "King of the Blues", "Midnight" Vampires Album Version, "The Mother and Father of Love", "Mr. No No", "The Old Man and the Angel", "Once Around the World", "Peace for Our Time", "Positively Animal", "The Possibilities of Loving You", "Screaming on the Beaches" Vampires Album Version, "Seventeen Fires of Love", "Stormy Weather", "Sunflowers", "Underneath Your Pillow", "Welcome to the Wild Country")
B♭2 ("Crazy Little Heart of Mine", "Heartache Reborn" Return to the Wild Country Album Version"Hometown", "I Believe I Can Change My World", "In My Father's Eyes", "Jackal in Your Mind" Return to the Wild Country Album Version, "The Johnny Podell Song", "Living in New York City", "My Old Friend Love", "The Old Man and the Angel" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "Rain or Shine", "Staring at the Whitewash" There's a Whole New World Out There Out There Version)
A2 ("All I Ever Wanted Was You", "Another Day", "Close My Door", "Crazy Is a Pitstop", "Everyone's a Star", "Flower Girl", "Give Up and Let It Go", "Haunted", "Heartache Reborn", "I Don't Want to Be Alternative", "In My Dreams", "The Johnny Podell Song", "Just a Man", "Just Like My Father Said It Would Be", "Peace for Our Time", "Sunflowers", "Underneath Your Pillow", "Whole New World", "Wounding and Healing")
G♯2 ("Bobbie Jo", "The Gulley Flats Boys", "In My Father's Eyes", "Only New York Going On", "Positively Animal", "Sunshine", "Yonder Mountain")
G2 ("Castles", "Everyone's a Star", "Father and Son", "Having a Good Day", "I'95", "I'm In Love", "Just Like My Father Said It Would Be", "Rain or Shine", "Someone Like Me", "Whole New World" There's a Whole New World Out There Album Version, "You'll Never Go to Heaven")
F♯2 ("Homegrown", "Jackal in Your Mind", "Jack Won't Let You Go", "Still Too Young to Remember")
F2 ("Castles", "Grateful and Thankful", "The Gulley Flats Boys", "Only New York Going On", "Leaving Without You")
E2 ("Climbing Up the Love Tree", "Homegrown", "New Vibration", "Once Around the World")
E♭2 ("Jackal in Your Mind")
D2 ("Mr. No No")
B1 ("Heartache Reborn")
Francis Dunnery is one of my favorite kinds of artists to highlight on The Range Planet, because he is one of those individuals who is just under the radar of many people yet has an influential and active career of nearly 40 years. Most known as the guitarist and frontman for English progressive rock/pop fusion act It Bites in the 80s, he's proven himself to be an equally formidable session player and band leader in the years since their disbanding. His solo career spans a wide range of genres including memorable forays into hard rock, electronica, R&B, pop, and others all while maintaining his distinctive songwriting voice. Often mixing a tone of satire with personal and philosophical lyrical subjects, Dunnery has a distinctly English sense of artistry and it manifests in all aspects of his music.
While perhaps more celebrated as a virtuosic lead guitarist, there's quite a bit of substance to be found in Dunnery's singing as well. Early on he was quite an eccentric, often switching between a sort of wacky snarl and a more earnest clean tone and sometimes even going straight into character voices ala Peter Gabriel (whom he is often compared to). He then spent some time experimenting with grittier tones particularly on the Eat Me in St. Louis album before settling into a more reserved, almost folk derived vocal approach that characterized the acoustic era of his career. Nowadays he's prone to mix it all, but it's interesting that his low register saw a lot more use in his 20s and 30s compared to recent memory. This is especially notable in his 2016 re-recording of the Welcome to the Wild Country album wherein the low notes of the original are largely omitted, yet by contrast his belting register seems as strong as ever. An unusual vocal trajectory to be sure, but it cannot be denied that Dunnery's commitment and enthusiasm as a singer has remained a defining aspect of his music.
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*Underlined notes are found in backing vocals or otherwise obscured in the song mix.
*Blue marks soft and/or disconnected sounding falsetto notes.
*Boldface indicates notes that are notable examples of this singer's capabilities.
*Italics mark non-sung notes.
{Questionable Notes}B♭5 ("Strange But True" [1][3], "Wanna Shout" [4])
F♯5 ("Bullet in the Barrel" [3])
E♭5 ("The Possibilities of Loving You" Return to the Wild Country Album Version [2])
C5 ("Chocolate Heart" [2], "Nobody Else Like You" [2], "Vampires" [1])
C♯3 ("Calling All the Heroes" [2])
B♭2 ("Soldier" [1])
A2 ("Hometown" [1])
G2 ("Autumn the Rain Man" [1], "Because I Can" [1], "The Middle of Life" [1], "Welcome to the Wild Country" [3])
E2 ("Peace for Our Time" [1])
C♯2 ("Jackal in Your Mind" [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.
F♯5 ("Bullet in the Barrel" [3])
E♭5 ("The Possibilities of Loving You" Return to the Wild Country Album Version [2])
C5 ("Chocolate Heart" [2], "Nobody Else Like You" [2], "Vampires" [1])
C♯3 ("Calling All the Heroes" [2])
B♭2 ("Soldier" [1])
A2 ("Hometown" [1])
G2 ("Autumn the Rain Man" [1], "Because I Can" [1], "The Middle of Life" [1], "Welcome to the Wild Country" [3])
E2 ("Peace for Our Time" [1])
C♯2 ("Jackal in Your Mind" [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.
{Album Ranges}It Bites
The Big Lad in the Windmill (1986): G2-B2-F♯5
Once Around the World (1988): E2-B2-C5-D5-E5
Eat Me in St. Louis (1989): F2-B2-B4-F♯5
Francis Dunnery
Welcome to the Wild Country (1991): B1-D2-B4-E5
Fearless (1994): E2-B4-C5-D5
Tall Blonde Helicopter (1995): F2-C5
Let's Go Do What Happens (1998): G2-B4-C♯5
Man (2001): G2-G♯2-C♯5-D5
The Gulley Flats Boys (2005): F2-B♭4-C5-D5
There's a Whole New World Out There (2009): B♭2-E♭5-F5
Made in Space (2011): A2-B4-E5
Frankenstein Monster (2013): B2-D3-D5
Vampires (2016): B2-C5-D5
Return to the Wild Country (2016): B♭2-B♭4-B4C♯5
The Big Lad in the Windmill (1986): G2-B2-F♯5
Once Around the World (1988): E2-B2-C5-D5-E5
Eat Me in St. Louis (1989): F2-B2-B4-F♯5
Francis Dunnery
Welcome to the Wild Country (1991): B1-D2-B4-E5
Fearless (1994): E2-B4-C5-D5
Tall Blonde Helicopter (1995): F2-C5
Let's Go Do What Happens (1998): G2-B4-C♯5
Man (2001): G2-G♯2-C♯5-D5
The Gulley Flats Boys (2005): F2-B♭4-C5-D5
There's a Whole New World Out There (2009): B♭2-E♭5-F5
Made in Space (2011): A2-B4-E5
Frankenstein Monster (2013): B2-D3-D5
Vampires (2016): B2-C5-D5
Return to the Wild Country (2016): B♭2-B♭4-B4C♯5
