Post by funnypun on Sept 15, 2024 22:43:48 GMT
Sheldon Allan Silverstein (September 25, 1930 - May 10, 1999)Vocal Range: A1 - A5 (4 Octaves)
Significant High Notes:
A5 ("The Smoke Off", "One More Ride" (Live 1971), "Someday's Here")
G♯5 ("A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing", "Drain My Brain", "The Father of a Boy Named Sue", "The Floobie Doobie Doo", "Freakin' at the Freakers Ball", "Handy Man", "I Got Stoned and I Missed It", "Polly in a Porny", "Thumbsucker", "True Love")
G5 ("Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me", "The Floobie Doobie Doo", "The Grizzly Bear", "Modern Talk" (live), "Plastic" (live), "Thumbsucker", (live))
F♯5 ("Dance to It", "The Dope", "Fuck 'em", "The Grizzly Bear", "I Got Stoned and I Missed It", "Masochistic Baby", "Raquel Welch", "Someday's Here", "Workin' It Out")
F5 ("Alimoney", "Boy Named Sue", "Fuck 'em", "Julie's Working", "Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh" Songs and Stories, "Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" (Album Version), "Show It At The Beach")
E5 ("All About You", "Boa Constrictor live", "Beans Taste Fine", "Crocodile's Toothache", "Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me", "Goin' Up To Charlie's", "The Grizzly Bear", "I'm So Good That I Don't Have To Brag" (live), "Masochistic Baby", "The Mermaid" (live), "Paranoid", "Polly in a Porny", "Raquel Welch", "Say That I'm Your Fella, Stella", "Show It At The Beach", "Stacy Brown Got Two", "The Terrible Thing", "They Held Me Down", "True Love", "Workin' It Out")
E♭5 ("A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing", "Alimoney", "All About You", "Beans Taste Fine", "Bigtime", "Captain Hook", "Drain My Brain", "Eighteen Flavors", "Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me", "The Floobie Doobie Doo", "Julie's Working", "Lemmebesomethin'" (live), "Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh" Songs and Stories, "Quaaludes Again", "Sausalito Witch", "Somebody Else, Not Me", "The Terrible Thing", "What if the Sun Stops Shinin'" Johnny Cash Show)
D5 ("25 Minutes to Go", "Bigtime", "Bury Me in My Shades", "Crouchin' on the Outside", "Folk Singer's Blues", "Handy Man", "Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too", "I Love My Right Hand", "Liz", "Pass Me By", "Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" (Album Version), "Sister Kate", "The Smoke Off", "True Love", "You Ain't Here")
C♯5 ("A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing", "Alimoney", "Backward Bill", "Boy Named Sue", "Broken Down Mama", "The Cat And Rat", "Diet Song", "Dirty Ol' Me", "The Dope", "Drain My Brain", "Freakin' at the Freakers Ball", "Fuck 'em", "Goin' Up To Charlie's", "The Great Conch Train Robbery", "I Got Stoned and I Missed It", "I Love My Right Hand", "I'm Satisfied With My Girl", "Kick It Again", "Lemmebesomethin'" (live), "One More Ride" (Live 1971), "Pass Me By", "Quaaludes Again", "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out", "Say That I'm Your Fella, Stella", "Thumbsucker", "The Unicorn", "Workin' It Out")
C5 ("Ations", "Boa Constrictor", "Bury Me in My Shades", "Captain Hook", "Folk Singer's Blues", "Go Back Where You Got It Last Night", "Hoodoo Voodoo Lady", "Melinda May", "My Hobby", "I'm Satisfied With My Girl", "I'm So Good That I Don't Have To Brag", "Kitchen Man", "One More Ride" (Live 1971), "Sister Kate", "Somebody Stole My Rig", "Thumbsucker", "Time", "The Unicorn", "Who Walks In")
B4 ("25 Minutes to Go", "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", "Bigtime", "Boa Constrictor", "Boy Named Sue", "Broken Down Mama", "Dance to It", "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most", "Don't Go To Sleep On The Road", "Freakin' at the Freakers Ball", "The Great Conch Train Robbery", "Going Down To Texas", "Good Whiskey", "Handy Man", "It Does Not Pay to be Hip", "I Love My Right Hand", "Kick It Again", "Kitchen Man", "The Mermaid" (live), "Modern Talk" (live), "Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh", "No Room For Me", "Pathetic Way of Getting Over Me", "Piece Of Mind", "Plastic" (live), "Polly in a Porny", "Ragged But Right", "Sausalito Witch", "Scum of The Earth", "Somebody Stole My Rig", "Someday's Here", "The Ugliest Man In Town" (live), "The Unicorn", "Workin' It Out")
B♭4 ("Beans Taste Fine", "Bigtime", "Crocodile's Toothache", "Dance to It", "The Grizzly Bear", "Go Back Where You Got It Last Night", "Handy Man", "It Does Not Pay to be Hip", "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now", "Kitchen Man", "Liberated Lady 1999", "The Slitheree-Dee", "Thumbsucker", "You Ain't Here")
A4 ("A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing", "Alimoney", "Backward Bill", "Blue Eyes", "The Changing of the Seasons", "Civil War Song", "Cloudy Sky", "Crocodile's Toothache", "Crouchin' on the Outside", "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most", "Drain My Brain", "The Father of a Boy Named Sue", "The Floobie Doobie Doo", "The Flying Festoon", "The Great Conch Train Robbery", "I'm So Good That I Don't Have To Brag" (live), "I Once Knew A Woman" (live), "Kick It Again", "Modern Talk", "The Peace Proposal", (live), "Quaaludes Again", "Sister Kate", "Somebody Else, Not Me", "Stacy Brown Got Two", "What if the Sun Stops Shinin'" Johnny Cash Show, "Wreck of the Old '49", "Yowzah" (live))
G♯4 ("Dirty Ol' Me", "Don't Go To Sleep On The Road", "Ever Lovin' Machine" (live), "Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me", "Lemmebesomethin'" (live), "Liberated Lady 1999", "Lookin' For Myself" (live), "The Ugliest Man In Town" (live), "Scum of The Earth")
G4 ("Bananas", "Comin' After Jinny", "Don't Go To Sleep On The Road", "Ever Lovin' Machine" (live), "Folk Singer's Blues", "Going Down To Texas", "Goodnight Little House Plant", "He Buys The Wine", "Liz", "My Mind Keeps Movin'", "No Room For Me", "Piece Of Mind", "Plastic" (live), Testing The Bomb (live), "The Ugliest Man In Town" (live), "Yowzah" (live))
Significant Low Notes:
G3 ("Alimoney", "The Cat And Rat", "Daylight Dreamer", "Folk Singer's Blues", "It Does Not Pay to be Hip", "Julie's Working", "Lemmebesomethin'" (live)", "Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh", "Sausalito Witch", "Somebody Else, Not Me", "Testing The Bomb" (live), "Show It At The Beach")
F♯3 ("Goodnight Little House Plant", "My Beard", "No Room For Me", "The Farmer and the Queen", "Someday's Here", "Workin' It Out")
F3 ("Beans Taste Fine", "Civil War Song", "Dance to It", "Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me", "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now", "Somebody Else, Not Me", "The Terrible Thing")
E3 ("25 Minutes to Go", "26 Second Song", "Better Not Ask Me" (live), "Cloudy Sky", "Daylight Dreamer", "Goin' Up To Charlie's", "Handy Man", "Have Another Espresso", "My Hobby", "I Can't Touch The Sun" (live), "I Got Stoned and I Missed It", "I'm So Good That I Don't Have To Brag" (live), "Liberated Lady 1999", "Lookin' For Myself" (live), "Paranoid", "Quaaludes Again", "Sausalito Witch", "Scum of The Earth", "Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter", "The Terrible Thing", "Testing The Bomb" (live), "There's No One I Hate", "Time")
E♭3 ("Broken Down Mama", "Comin' After Jinny", "Don't Go To Sleep On The Road", "Ever Lovin' Machine" (live), "Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me", "It Does Not Pay to be Hip", "I'm So Good That I Don't Have To Brag" (live), "Liberated Lady 1999", "Ridiculous Rose", "The Slitheree-Dee", "Somebody Stole My Rig", "Thumbsucker", "Yowzah" (live))
D3 ("Blue Eyes", "Civil War Song", "Comin' After Jinny", "Fuck 'em", "Going Down To Texas", "Hoodoo Voodoo Lady", "I Once Knew A Woman" (live), "Masochistic Baby", "My Mind Keeps Movin"', "Paranoid", "Piece Of Mind", "Say That I'm Your Fella, Stella", "Scum of The Earth", "So Good To So Bad", "Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter", "The Unicorn", "Workin' It Out", "The Worst", "Yes Mr. Rogers", "You Ain't Here", "You're Always Welcome at Our House")
C♯3 ("All About You", "Bury Me in My Shades", "Civil War Song", "Diet Song", "Goin' Up To Charlie's", "Goodnight Little House Plant", "I Can't Touch The Sun" (live), "The Father of a Boy Named Sue", "Modern Talk" (live), "So Good To So Bad", "Twistable, Turnable Man", "Yes Mr. Rogers")
C3 ("26 Second Song", "Backward Bill", "Blue Eyes", "Boa Constrictor", "Eighteen Flavors", "The Flying Festoon", "Fuck 'em", "The Great Conch Train Robbery", "June 25 At The Fourth Of July", "Liz", "The Mermaid" (live), "Rough On The Living", "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out", "They Held Me Down", "What if the Sun Stops Shinin'" Johnny Cash Show)
B2 ("Blue Eyes", "I Can't Touch The Sun" (live)", "I Love My Right Hand", "The Smoke Off", "Thumbsucker")
B♭2 ("Bananas", "Crocodile's Toothache", "Eighteen Flavors")
A2 ("Ations", "The Changing of the Seasons", "The Dragon Of Grindly Grun", "I Can't Touch the Sun", (Studio Version) "Melina Mae", "The Unicorn")
G♯2 ("Diet Song", "The Dragon Of Grindly Grun", "The Man Who Got No Sign", "The Peace Proposal")
G2 ("Bananas", "Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too", "Liz", "Rings of Brass", "The Smoke Off")
F♯2 ("Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out")
E2 ("The Changing of the Seasons", "No Room For Me", "Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" (Album Version)")
D2 ("Goin' Up To Charlie's")
B1 ("True Love")
A1 ("The Dope", "The Smoke Off")
{Questionable Notes}E♭7 ("Polly in a Porny"[wheeze])
A6 ("Fuck 'em"[wheeze], "I Got Stoned and I Missed It"[2])
C6 ("Stacy Brown Got Two"[1])
B♭5 ("Julie's Working"[1])
A5 ("Dance to It", Thumbsucker"[3], "True Love[1]")
G♯5 ("25 Minutes to Go"[1], "Pathetic Way of Getting Over Me"[1], "Workin' It Out"[1])
G5 ("Beans Taste Fine"[1], "My Mind Keeps Movin'"[1], "Folk Singer's Blues"[1])
F♯5 ("Plastic" (live)[1])
F5 ("Hoodoo Voodoo Lady"[1])
C♯5 ("Ever Lovin' Machine" (live))[1])
E♭3 ("Beans Taste Fine"[5])
D3 ("Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh"[5])
F2 ("Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too")
E2 ("Sausalito Witch")
D2 ("The Worst")
B♭1 ("Melina Mae"[5])
A1 ("Blue Eyes", "Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" (Album Version)"[5])
G♯1 ("The Man Who Got No Sign", "Sure Hit Songwriter's Pen"[3])
G1 ("The Smoke Off"[3])
F♯1 ("Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"[5] (Album Version)", "True love"[5])
A0 ("Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"[5](Album Version))
C0 ("Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh"[3][5])
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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.
.......................................................A6 ("Fuck 'em"[wheeze], "I Got Stoned and I Missed It"[2])
C6 ("Stacy Brown Got Two"[1])
B♭5 ("Julie's Working"[1])
A5 ("Dance to It", Thumbsucker"[3], "True Love[1]")
G♯5 ("25 Minutes to Go"[1], "Pathetic Way of Getting Over Me"[1], "Workin' It Out"[1])
G5 ("Beans Taste Fine"[1], "My Mind Keeps Movin'"[1], "Folk Singer's Blues"[1])
F♯5 ("Plastic" (live)[1])
F5 ("Hoodoo Voodoo Lady"[1])
C♯5 ("Ever Lovin' Machine" (live))[1])
E♭3 ("Beans Taste Fine"[5])
D3 ("Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh"[5])
F2 ("Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too")
E2 ("Sausalito Witch")
D2 ("The Worst")
B♭1 ("Melina Mae"[5])
A1 ("Blue Eyes", "Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" (Album Version)"[5])
G♯1 ("The Man Who Got No Sign", "Sure Hit Songwriter's Pen"[3])
G1 ("The Smoke Off"[3])
F♯1 ("Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"[5] (Album Version)", "True love"[5])
A0 ("Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"[5](Album Version))
C0 ("Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh"[3][5])
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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 notes.
Grey marks growl/fry/subharmonic notes.
Italics mark non melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this singers vocal capabilities.
