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Isaac Willis (12.11.1955 - )
Associated Acts: Frank Zappa
Vocal Range: D2 - A5
Significant High Notes:
A5 ("Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?")
F5 ("Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?" live Buffalo, "Keep It Greasy")
E5 ("Love of my Life" live Barcelona 1988, "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up", "Outside Now")
E♭5 ("Cosmik Debris" live Rotterdam 1980, "Drop Dead", "Inca Roads" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88)
D5 ("Advance Romance" Make a Jazz Noise Here, "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?", "You Are What You Is" live Rotterdam 1980)
C♯5 ("Andy" live Buffalo)
C5 ("The Illinois Enema Bandit" live Barcelona 1988, "Inca Roads" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88, "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up", "Who Needs The Peace Corps?" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88, "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?")
B4 ("Be In My Video", "Cosmik Debris" live You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 3, "Dinah-Moe Humm" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "[Venting the] Krypton Gas"")
B♭4 ("Any Kind Of Pain", "The Evil Prince" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, "You Are What You Is")
A4 ("Artificial Rhonda", "Dickie's Such An Asshole", "I Am The Walrus" live Barcelona 1988, "Keep It Greasy", "Outside Now", "Sleepy")
G♯4 ("Carol You Fool" live You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 3, "Sy Borg", "The "Torchum" Never Stops")
G4 ("Any Downers?", "Any Kind Of Pain", "Bamboozled By Love" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Dirty Love" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6, "Do / Don't", "I Am The Walrus" live Barcelona 1988, "Joe's Garage", "Keep It Greasy", "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up", "The Mammy Nuns", "Miss You Well", "Sleepy", "Stick Together", "Sy Borg", "The Torture Never Stops Medley" live Barcelona 1988, "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?", "You Didn't Try to Call Me" live Rotterdam 1980)
F♯4 ("Any Kind Of Pain", "The Beatles Medley" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88, "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, "Catholic Girls", "City Of Tiny Lites" live Buffalo, "Dickie's Such An Asshole", "Doreen", "Easy Meat" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Fine", "Foreigner From Boston", "Inca Roads" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88, "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing", "Packard Goose", "Pick Me, I'm Clean" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Resolution", "Promiscuous", "Ride My Face To Chicago" live You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 3, "Sleepy", "[Venting the] Krypton Gas", "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?")
F4 ("Advance Romance" Make a Jazz Noise Here, "Any Downers?", "Bad Time", "Biznis as Usual", "The Blue Light" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Cosmik Debris" live Rotterdam 1980, "Dancin' Fool" live Buffalo, "Easy Meat" Tinseltown Rebellion, "I Ain't Got No Heart" live Barcelona 1988, "The Mammy Nuns", "Ms. Pinky" live Buffalo, "Ounces O' Prevention", "Outside Now", "Stick Together" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, "Tell Me You Love Me" Tinseltown Rebellion, "The "Torchum" Never Stops", "Trouble Every Day" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "We're Turning Again", "You Are What You Is")
E4 ("Andy" live Buffalo, "Be In My Video", "The Blue Light" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Do / Don't", "Fembot In a Wet T-Shirt", "Fine Girl" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Foreigner From Boston", "Galoot Up-Date", "Hollow Earth", "Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "I Am The Walrus" live Barcelona 1988, "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" live Buffalo, "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88, "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk", "Joe's Garage", "Love of my Life" live Barcelona 1988, "Magic Fingers" live Berkeley Community Theater 1980, "Packard Goose", "Resolution", "Stairway To Heaven" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88, "Stick Together", "Tell Me You Love Me" Tinseltown Rebellion, "The Torture Never Stops Medley" live Barcelona 1988, "Trouble Every Day" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Who Needs The Peace Corps?" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88, "Why Don't You Like Me?")
E♭4 ("Biznis as Usual", "Catholic Girls", "Charlie's Enormous Mouth", "Cosmik Debris" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Harder Than Your Husband", "I Ain't Got No Heart" live Barcelona 1988, "I'm a Beautiful Guy", "Jezebel Boy", "Love of my Life" live Barcelona 1988, "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing", "Miss You Well", "Ounces O' Prevention", "Planet Of The Baritone Women", "Society Pages", "Stick It Out", "Teen-age Wind", "Tinsel Town Rebellion" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Truck Driver Divorce" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4)
Significant Low Notes:
C♯3 ("Andy" live Buffalo, "Charlie's Enormous Mouth", "Dumb All Over", "He Used To Cut The Grass", "I'm a Beautiful Guy", "Miss You Well", "Mudd Club", "Rhymin' Man", "Tell Me You Love Me" Tinseltown Rebellion)
C3 ("Advance Romance" live The Palace Theater 1984, "Any Kind Of Pain", "Bobby Brown" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Charlie's Enormous Mouth", "Cosmik Debris" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "The Crab-Grass Baby", "Dinah-Moe Humm" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Dirty Love" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6, "Drafted Again", "The Evil Prince" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, "For The Young Sophisticate" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Goblin Girl", "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk", "Outside Now", "Planet Of The Baritone Women", "Sleepy", "Stick Together", "Sy Borg", "When The Lie's So Big", "Yo Cats")
B2 ("Artificial Rhonda", "The Beatles Medley" live At Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/25/88, "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" live Buffalo, "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Dancin' Fool" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Fembot In a Wet T-Shirt", "I Ain't Got No Heart" live Barcelona 1988, "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" live Buffalo, "If Only She Woulda", "I'm So Cute" live Buffalo, "In France", "No Not Now", "Packard Goose", "Planet Of My Dreams", "SEX", "Stick It Out", "Sy Borg", "The Torture Never Stops Medley" live Barcelona 1988, "We're Turning Again", "What Kind Of Girl?")
B♭2 ("Any Downers?", "The Blue Light" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Brown Moses", "The Closer You Are", "Galoot Up-Date", "Heavenly Bank Account", "He's So Gay" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Ms. Pinky" live Buffalo, "Teen-age Wind", "Truck Driver Divorce" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, "Why Don't You Like Me?")
A2 ("Baby, Take Your Teeth Out", "Bamboozled By Love" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Camarillo Brillo" live You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 6, "Carol You Fool" live The Palace Theater 1984, "Drop Dead", "Easy Meat" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Fembot In a Wet T-Shirt", "Fine Girl" Tinseltown Rebellion, "For The Young Sophisticate" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "In France", "Inca Roads" live At Nassau Coliseum, "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk", "Joe's Garage", "Jumbo Go Away", "Stick It Out", "Tinsel Town Rebellion" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "Suicide Chump", "The Torture Never Stops Medley" live Barcelona 1988, "We're Turning Again", "What Kind Of Girl?", "The White Boy Troubles", "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?", "Willie The Pimp" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, "You Didn't Try to Call Me" live Rotterdam 1980, "Zomby Woof" The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life)
G♯2 ("Brown Moses", "Dickie's Such An Asshole", "Doreen", "Fine Girl" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Heavenly Bank Account", "The Mammy Nuns", "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing", "Tinsel Town Rebellion" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "A Token Of My Extreme")
G2 ("Artificial Rhonda", "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" Tinseltown Rebellion, "Drowning Witch", "Galoot Up-Date", "I Ain't Got No Heart" live Barcelona 1988, "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk", "Little Rubber Girl" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, "Luigi & the Wise Guys", "Sharleena", "Stick Together", "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, "The "Torchum" Never Stops", "The White Boy Troubles", "Willie The Pimp" You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4)
F♯2 ("Beauty Knows No Pain", "Catholic Girls", "Doreen", "Harder Than Your Husband", "Packard Goose", "A Token Of My Extreme")
F2 ("Any Downers?", "Be In My Video", "The Closer You Are", "Dumb All Over", "Keep It Greasy", "The Mammy Nuns", "Outside Now", "The "Torchum" Never Stops")
E2 ("Baby, Take Your Teeth Out", "Bobby Brown" live Saratoga 1984, "Dong Work For Yuda", "Joe's Garage", "Love of my Life" live Barcelona 1988, "No Not Now", "Packard Goose", "Stick It Out")
E♭2 ("The Illinois Enema Bandit" live Berlin 1984)
D2 ("Baby, Take Your Teeth Out", "Beauty Knows No Pain", "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" live Capitol Theatre 1978, "Keep It Greasy", "Tinsel Town Rebellion" live Does Humour Belong in Music?, "The "Torchum" Never Stops")
{Questionable Notes}
F♯4 ("Stick It Out" [2])
C2 ("Keep It Greasy" [4])
B1 ("No Not Now" [2])
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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♯4 ("Stick It Out" [2])
C2 ("Keep It Greasy" [4])
B1 ("No Not Now" [2])
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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.
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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.