Robin Zander (3,483 views)

[SailorBlue]

Robin Wayne Zander (23 January 1953 - Present)
Vocal Range: D2 - B5
Associated Acts: Cheap Trick (1974 - Present)

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{Album Ranges}Cheap Trick:

Cheap Trick (1977): D3 - G♯5
In Color (1977): C♯3 - A5 - B5
Heaven Tonight (1978): E3 - D5 - F5
Dream Police (1979): D3 - G♯5
All Shook Up (1980): E♭3 - G5
One on One (1981): D3 - G5
Next Position Please (1983): D3 - E5 - F♯5
Standing on the Edge (1985): B2 - E5 - G♯5
The Doctor (1986): C3 - F♯5
Lap of Luxury (1988): E3 - D5 - F♯5
Busted (1990): C3 - C♯5 - F♯5 - F♯5
Woke Up with a Monster (1994): F2 - D5 - G5
Cheap Trick '97 (1997): G♯2 - E5
Special One (2003): E2 - G5
Rockford (2006): E2 - E5 - G♯5
The Latest (2009): C3 - D5 - F♯5
Sgt. Pepper Live (2009): C♯3 - C5 - F5
Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello (2016): G2 - E5
We're All Alright! (2017): A2 - A5
Christmas Christmas (2017): C3 - E♭5 - F5
In Another World (2021): E2 - A5

Solo:

Robin Zander (1993): G2 - B4 - C♯5
Countryside Blvd (2011): D2 - D5 thx Seb for the assist.

Significant High Notes:

B5 ("Clock Strikes Ten")
A5 ("Another World (Reprise)", "Brand New Name On an Old Tattoo", "Clock Strikes Ten")
G♯5 ("Ain't That a Shame" Live Nippon Budokon 1978, "The Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy)", "Gonna Raise Hell", "Loser", "One More", "Radio Lover", "She's Got Motion", "The Summer Looks Good On You" Live Sydney 2018)
G5 ("A Place in France", "Best Friend", "Can't Stop it But I'm Gonna Try", "Cry, Cry", "Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School", "ELO Kiddies", "Girlfriends", "Heaven Tonight" Live Passaic 1978, "Lookin' Out For Number One", "You Got it Going On")
F♯5 ("Baby Talk", "Busted", "California Girl", "Cold Turkey", "The Doctor", "Fly Me to the Moon", "Gimme Some Truth", "Heaven's Falling", "Just Got Back" Live Daytona 1989, "Name of the Game", "Never Had a Lot to Lose", "No Mercy", "Scent of a Woman", "Stop This Game", "Such a Good Girl", "Up the Creek", "You Drive, I'll Steer")
F5 ("Christmas Christmas", "Fixing a Hole", "Ghost Town", "I'd Give it Up", "Spring Break", "Takin' Me Back")
E5 ("3-D", "All I Really Want", "Are You Lonely Tonight", "Back 'N Blue", "California Man", "Come On Christmas", "Cry Baby", "Dancing the Night Away" Live Rockpalast 1983, "Day Tripper" Various Live Performances, "Do You Believe Me?", "Four Letter Word", "Get Ready", "Girlfriends", "Heart On the Line", "If You Want My Love", "I'm the Man", "I Must Be Dreamin'", "I Saw Her Standing There" Live Las Vegas 2011, "I Want You", "Just Got Back", "Listen to Me", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Oh Caroline", "Don't Make Our Love a Crime", "It's Up to You", "Long Time Coming" Live Jim Thorpe 2017, "Long Time No See Ya", "Reach Out", "Rebel Rebel", "Rock All Night", "Spring Break", "Stop That Thief", "Stop This Game", "Tell Me Everything", "Twisted Heart", "Violins" Live Los Angeles 1977, "Welcome to the World", "Wild Wild Women", "Won't Take No For an Answer", "World's Greatest Lover", "Yeah Yeah", "You Let a Lotta People Down, "Younger Girls")
E♭5 ("3-D", "Can't Stop Falling Into Love", "If You Want My Love", "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)", "Oo La La La", "Woke Up With a Monster")
D5 ("Anytime", "A Place in France", "Auf Wiedersehen", "Baby Loves to Rock", "Baby Talk", "Born to Raise Hell", "Brand New Name on an Old Tattoo", "Can't Stop Falling Into Love", "Come On, Come On", "Come On, Come On" Rockford Version, "Day Tripper" Various Live Performances, "Didn't Know I Had it", "Don't Hit Me With Love", "Dream the Night Away", "Eight Miles Low", "Everybody Knows", "Father Christmas", "Final Days", "Fortune Cookie", "Get Ready", "Heart On the Line", "High Priest of Rhythmic Noise", "If You Still Want My Love", "I Need Love", "Let Go", "Listen to Me", "Love Comes a-Tumblin' Down", "Man-u-lip-u-lator", "Merry Christmas Darlings", "My Gang", "No Mercy", "One More", "One On One", "Pamela Jean", "The Party", "Please Come Home For Christmas", "Pop Drone", "Radio Lover", "Rearview Mirror Romance", "Ride the Pony", "Rock All Night", "Run Rudolph Run", "Say You Will", "She Said, She Said", "Sick Man of Europe", "So Good to See You", "Standing On the Edge", "Take Me I'm Yours", "Takin' Me Back", "That 70's Song", "This Time Around", "This Time You Got it", "Through the Night", "Twisted Heart", "Voices", "Wrong Side of Love", "You're All I Wanna Do", "You Talk too Much", "You Want it")
C♯5 ("All Wound Up", "The Animal in Me", "Baby No More", "Borderline", "Boys & Girls & Rock N Roll", "California Girl", "Cover Girl", "Dancing the Night Away", "The Doctor", "Don't Blame it On Love", "Every Night and Every Day", "Everything Works if You Let it", "Go for the Throat (Use Your Own Imagination)", "Heaven's Falling", "I Can't Take it", "If You Need Me", "I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends", "I Want Be Man", "I Will Survive", "Jet", "Kiss Me Red", "Little Sister", "Long Time No See Ya", "Never Run Out of Love", "Next Position Please", "No Mercy", "Reach Out", "Rebel Rebel", "Rock 'n' Roll Tonight", "Scent of a Woman", "She's Tight", "Show Me Heaven", "Special One", "Take Me to the Top", "Tonight it's You", "Up the Creek", "Walkin' Shoes", "Wherever Would I Be")
C5 ("All Those Years", "All We Need is a Dream", "Ambush", "Automatic Soup", "Baby Talk", "Blood Red Lips", "Can't Stop Falling Into Love", "Can't Stop it But I'm Gonna Try", "Cold Turkey", "Decaf", "Don't Make Our Love a Crime", "Do You Believe Me?", "The End" Various Live Performances, "Fixing a Hole", "Fly Me to the Moon", "Ghost Town", "Girlfriends", "Give it Away", "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)", "Had to Make You Mine", "High Priest of Rhythmic Noise", "The House is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)", "I'm the Man", "It's Only Love", "Kiss Me Red", "Lolita", "Love Comes a-Tumblin' Down", "Love's Got a Hold On Me", "Mandocello", "Mighty Wings", "My Gang", "O Claire", "On Top of the World", "Remember Christmas", "Rock All Night", "Rock 'n' Roll Tonight", "Saturday at Midnight", "Sorry Boy", "Spring Break", "Stone Cold Rhythm Shake", "Stop That Thief", "The Sun Never Sets", "Surrender" Outtake, "Through the Night", "Woke Up With a Monster", "Won't Take No For an Answer", "Yeah Yeah", "You Let a Lotta People Down", "You Say Jump", "You Want it")
B4 ("Alive", "All We Need is a Dream", "All Wound Up", "Anytime", "Arabesque" Live Bloomington 1976, "Are You Lonely Tonight", "Baby Loves to Rock", "Baby No More", "Back 'N Blue", "Best Friend", "Big Bang", "Busted", "Can't Stop Falling Into Love", "Christmas Christmas", "Come On, Come On" Rockford Version, "Cry Baby", "Cry, Cry", "Dancing the Night Away", "Didn't Know I Had it", "Don't Make Our Love a Crime", "Dream the Night Away", "Everlasting Love", "Everyday You Make Me Crazy", "Every Night and Every Day", "Father Christmas", "The Flame", "Floating Down", "Four Letter Word", "Go for the Throat (Use Your Own Imagination)", "Gonna Raise Hell", "Had to Make You Mine", "Heaven's Falling", "Hot Love", "The House is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)", "How About You", "I Can't Understand it", "I'd Give it Up", "I Don't Love Her Anymore", "If I Could", "If it Takes a Lifetime", "If You Need Me", "I'll Be With You Tonight", "I Need Love", "Invaders of the Heart", "I Want Be Man", "I Will Survive", "Jet", "Just Got Back", "Let Her Go", "Light Up the Fire", "Like a Fly", "Little Sister", "Long Time Coming", "Lovely Rita", "Love Me for a Minute", "Magical Mystery Tour", "Man-u-lip-u-lator", "Money is the Route of All Fun", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Name of the Game", "Never Had a Lot to Lose", "No Direction Home", "Nowhere", "Oh Boy", "One On One", "Pamela Jean", "Pop Drone", "Quit Waking Me Up", "Reach Out", "Reactionary Girl", "Rearview Mirror Romance", "Roll Me", "Say Goodbye", "Say You Will", "Scent of a Woman", "She's Alright", "She's Got Motion", "She's Leaving Home", "So Good to See You", "Space", "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace", "Spring Break", "Standing On the Edge", "Stop That Thief", "Stop This Game", "Such a Good Girl", "Take Me to the Top", "Takin' Me Back", "Tell Me Everything", "This Time Around", "Through the Night", "Time Will Let You Know", "Tonight it's You", "Walk Away", "Walkin’ Shoes" Countryside Blvd Version, "Way of the World", "Welcome to the World", "What's in it For You", "When You Need Someone", "Wherever Would I Be", "Wild Wild Women", "World's Greatest Lover", "Wrong All Along", "You Drive, I'll Steer", "You Let a Lotta People Down")
B♭4 ("A Place in France", "Baby Blue" Various Live Performances, "Big Eyes", "Cry Baby", "Ghost Town", "Give it Away", "I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends", "Jump into the Fire", "Lolita", "Love Comes", "Oh Caroline", "The Party", "The Rest of My Life", "Ride the Pony", "Sabre Dance", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Show Me Heaven", "Time is Runnin'", "When the Lights Are Out", "Writing on the Wall", "You Got it Going On", "You're All I Wanna Do", "You're All Talk")
A4 ("Alive", "All I Really Want", "The Animal in Me", "Another World", "Another World (Reprise)", "Arabesque", "Auf Wiedersehen", "Baby Loves to Rock", "Back 'N Blue", "The Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy)", "Borderline", "Born to Raise Hell", "Brontosaurus", "California Girl", "Can't Stop it But I'm Gonna Try", "Clock Strikes Ten", "Cover Girl", "Cry Baby", "Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School", "Dancing the Night Away", "Decaf", "Didn't Know I Had it", "Don't Be Cruel", "Don't Hit Me With Love", "Down On the Bay" Live Los Angeles 1977, "Do You Believe Me?", "Eight Miles Low", "ELO Kiddies", "Emily", "The End" Various Live Performances, "Everything Works if You Let it", "Fan Club", "Father Christmas", "Fortune Cookie", "Getting Better", "Ghost Town", "Gimme Some Truth", "Golden Slumbers" Various Live Performances, "Gonna Raise Hell", "Good Morning Good Morning", "Had to Make You Mine", "Hard to Tell", "Heart of Glass", "Hello There", "Here's Looking at You", "He's a Whore", "High Priest of Rhythmic Noise", "High Roller", "Hot Love", "How Are You?", "I Can't Take it", "I Dig Go-Go Girls", "If I Could", "If it Takes a Lifetime", "If You Still Want My Love", "If You Want My Love", "I Know What I Want", "I'll Be With You Tonight", "I'll See You Again", "I Must Be Dreamin'", "It All Comes Back to You", "I Want You to Want Me", "I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day", "Like a Fly", "Lookin' Out For Number One", "Loser", "Love Comes" Countryside Blvd Version, "Love Me for a Minute", "Lovin' Money", "Mandocello", "Man-u-lip-u-lator", "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)", "Merry Xmas Everybody", "Mighty Wings", "Miss Tomorrow", "Mondo Ragga", "Name of the Game", "Need Your Love", "Never Had a Lot to Lose", "Never Run Out of Love", "Next Position Please", "Oh, Candy", "Oh Claire", "One On One", "Oo La La La", "Pamela Jean", "Please Mrs. Henry" Various Live Performances, "In This Country", "Reactionary Girl", "Rearview Mirror Romance", "Rock 'n' Roll Tonight", "Run Rudolph Run", "Scent of a Woman", "Secret", "She Said, She Said", "Sing My Blues Away", "Smile", "So Good to See You", "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace", "Special One", "Stiff Competition", "Stone Cold Rhythm Shake", "The Summer Looks Good On You", "The Sun Never Sets", "Surrender" Outtake, "Surrender to Me", "Takin' Me Back", "Taxman, Mr. Thief", "Tell it to the World", "Tell Me Everything", "This Time You Got it", "Time is Runnin'", "Twisted Heart", "Up the Creek", "Voices", "Walk Away", "Walkin' Shoes", "Walkin’ Shoes" Countryside Blvd Version, "Warriors Hymn", "Welcome to the World", "When You Need Someone", "Wherever Would I Be", "Won't Take No For an Answer", "Words", "Writing on the Wall", "Wrong All Along", "Wrong Side of Love", "Yeah Yeah", "You're All I Wanna Do", "You Say Jump", "You Talk too Much", "Y.O.Y.O.Y.")

Significant Low Notes:

G3 ("3-D", "Baby Blue" Various Live Performances, "The Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy)", "Blood Red Lips", "Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School", "Don't Be Cruel", "Every Dog", "Hard to Tell", "Heaven Tonight", "How Are You?", "If You Want My Love", "I Must Be Dreamin'", "It's Up to You", "Listen to Me", "Mandocello", "Man-u-lip-u-lator", "My Gang", "My Obsession", "In This Country", "So Good to See You", "Such a Good Girl", "Through the Night", "Up the Creek", "When I Wake Up Tomorrow", "Wherever Would I Be", "Words", "World's Greatest Lover", "You're All Talk")
F♯3 ("Are You Lonely Tonight", "Auf Wiedersehen", "Blackberry Way", "Carnival Game", "Eight Miles Low", "Fan Club", "Father Christmas", "Final Days", "Let Go", "I Don't Love Her Anymore", "It's Up to You", "I Want You to Want Me", "I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day", "Like a Fly", "Mondo Ragga", "Never Run Out of Love", "Our Father of Life", "Quit Waking Me Up", "Radio Lover", "Reactionary Girl", "The Rest of My Life", "She's Leaving Home", "Show Me Heaven", "Silent Night", "Sing My Blues Away", "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace", "Surrender", "Take Me I'm Yours", "Tell it to the World", "This Time You Got it", "Time Will Let You Know")
F3 ("Cry, Cry", "Don't Be Cruel", "Fixing a Hole", "Ghost Town", "Heaven Tonight" Various Live Performances, "The In Crowd", "Mighty Wings", "On Top of the World", "So it Goes", "When the Lights Are Out")
E3 ("A Day in the Life", "All I Really Want", "All Those Years", "All You Need is Love" Live Las Vegas 2011, "Another World", "Another World (Reprise)", "Back 'N Blue", "The Ballad of Jean & Me", "Big Eyes", "Borderline", "Brontosaurus", "Busted", "California Man", "Can't Stop it But I'm Gonna Try", "Carnival Game", "Christmas Christmas", "Cry Baby", "Dancing the Night Away", "Decaf", "Don't Hit Me With Love", "Don't Make Our Love a Crime", "Everlasting Love", "Fan Club", "Floating Down", "Good Morning Good Morning", "Heart On the Line", "Heaven's Falling", The House is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)", "I Believe in You", "I Can't Take it", "I Can't Understand it", "If I Could", "If You Still Want My Love", "If You Want My Love", "I'll See You Again", "I Saw Her Standing There" Live Las Vegas 2011, "It All Comes Back to You", "Jet", "Let Her Go", "Listen to Me", "Little Sister", "Loser", "Lovin' Money", "Miracle", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Need Your Love", "Never Had a Lot to Lose", "No Mercy", "Passing Through", "Please Come Home For Christmas", "The Rest of My Life", "Saturday at Midnight", "Scent of a Woman", "Secret", "Shelter", "So it Goes", "Sorry Boy", "Standing On the Edge", "Stone Cold Rhythm Shake", "This Time Around", "Too Much", "Violins" Live Los Angeles 1977, "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Yeah Yeah", "You Drive, I'll Steer", "You Let a Lotta People Down", "Younger Girls", "Y.O.Y.O.Y.")
E♭3 ("Everybody Knows", "If You Want My Love" Live Australia 1988, "I Wish it Was Christmas Today", "Just Got Back", "Show Me Heaven")
D3 ("A Day in the Life", "The Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy)", "Cold Turkey", "The Doctor", "Get Ready", "Golden Slumbers" Various Live Performances, "The In Crowd", "I've Always Got You", "Let Her Go", "Money is the Route of All Fun", "Oh Caroline", "Ohm Sweet Ohm", "Perfect Stranger", "Saturday at Midnight", "She Said, She Said", "Silent Night", "Through the Night", "Times of Our Lives", "Voices", "Walkin’ Shoes" Countryside Blvd Version, "You Say Jump")
C♯3 ("Baby No More", "The Ballad of Jean & Me", "Hello There", "I Wish it Was Christmas Today", "Kiss Me Red", "Love Comes", "She's Leaving Home", "Special One", "Take Me to the Top", "Tonight it's You")
C3 ("Ambush", "Baby No More" Live Merrillville 1998, "Every Dog", "It's Only Love", "Love Comes" Countryside Blvd Version, "Miracle", "Remember Christmas", "Sabre Dance", "Secret", "Stone Cold Rhythm Shake", "Warriors Hymn", "Wherever Would I Be")
B2 ("All Strung Out", "Anytime", "Hummer", "I've Always Got You", "Low Life in High Heels", "Magical Mystery Tour", "She's Alright", "She's Got Motion", "Special One", "This Time Around", "Too Much", "What's Her Name")
B♭2 ("Ambush", "Fly Me to the Moon", "Heaven Tonight" Various Live Performances Post-1996)
A2 ("Best Friend", "I'll See You Again", "I Want You to Want Me" Live on the Howard Stern Show 1996, "Mondo Ragga", "Radio Lover", "Save the Last Dance For Me", "Say Goodbye")
G♯2 ("Wrong All Along")
G2 ("Automatic Soup", "Boy (I'm So in Love With You)", "The In Crowd", "I Wonder What You're Doing Tonight", "Was I Wrong")
F2 ("Ride the Pony")
E2 ("Best Friend", "Decaf", "I'll See You Again", "Save the Last Dance For Me", "You Are My Sunshine")
D2 ("I Wonder What You're Doing Tonight")

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{Questionable Notes}C7 ("Everlasting Love" [6])
E♭6 ("She's Got Motion" [6])
D6 ("Writing on the Wall" [2])
B5 ("Wild Wild Women" [2]/[4])
A5 ("A Place in France" [1], "Four Letter Word" [2], "Writing on the Wall" [1])
G♯5 ("Stop This Game" [1])
G5 ("I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends" [1], "I Must Be Dreamin'" [1], "Long Time Coming" [3], "Rock All Night" [1], "Light Up the Fire" [1], "Wrong Side of Love" [1])
F♯5 ("I'll Be With You Tonight" [1], "Jet" [1])
E5 ("Brontosaurus" [1], "Emily" [1], "If You Need Me" [1])
D5 ("I Want You to Want Me" [1])
C♯5 ("Walkin’ Shoes" Countryside Blvd Version [1])
C5 ("I Wish it Was Christmas Today" [3])

B2 ("Heaven's Falling" [1], "Miss Tomorrow" [1], "One On One" [2], "Reactionary Girl" [1], "These Days" [1], "You Drive, I'll Steer" [1])
B♭2 ("Everybody Knows" [1], "Times of Our Lives" [1])
A2 ("Everlasting Love" [1], "Shelter" [1], "Too Much" [1], "Walkin' Shoes" [1])
G♯2 ("I Wish it Was Christmas Today" [1])
F♯2 ("Please Come Home For Christmas" [3], "She's Leaving Home" [1])
E2 ("Sorry Boy" [2])
E♭2 ("Secret" [1])
D2 ("Walkin’ Shoes" Countryside Blvd Version [1])
C♯2 ("I'd Give it Up" [2], "She's Got Motion" [3])
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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.
[6] marks notes that are most likely produced via reverse phonation (inhaling).

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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Green marks harsh and distorted 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.

[Macca]

What Are Your Thoughts on The F8 In Writing on The Wall?

[SailorBlue]

Jun 26, 2022 3:22:21 GMT Macca said:

What Are Your Thoughts on The F8 In Writing on The Wall?

I try not to think about it, else it brings violent emotions including (but not limited to) confusion, anguish, pain, suffering, agony, and a touch of nostalgia for a bygone time.

In all reality, idk what's going on there and it's probably not him (also possibly overtones affecting whatever the hell 'it' is). The Everlasting Love C7 is the highest that I know is him and real. The other C7 in the previous thread is most likely a synth or sumn and the "C8" from the same song seems to have never existed at all and that I must've been on significant amounts of copium when making the original version of his thread.

anyway yeah that about sorts it 

[Brenda]

dude has a supposed F8 and his range caps at B5 😭😭

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Starting lows at G3 seems a tad excessive for a male singer with sung lows down to D2, no? Nice work otherwise though!

[Karen’s Kickassarole]

Considering he never went below B2 for the first 16 years of his career I’d say it’s pretty justified. How he made it down to D2 at all is beyond me.

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Eh yeah, I've done threads for singers that took longer than that to even get down to B2, but I usually consider E3 an acceptable starting point unless they're RIDICULOUSLY high-placed male voices or just have barely any lows throughout their entire career. Cause G3 is legitimately just not a low note at all for most men.

It's your thread so it's your call of course, but I just figured I'd give my two cents.