The Greatest Note Ever Hit? (12,324 views)

[Steingrim]

This one, all of it. Which includes the B4 at the end.



Jussi Björling wasn't a gospel singer, he was an opera star. Possibly the greatest tenor who ever lived. Understanding the Swedish language when sung, helps.

[apollo]

These are very obvious choices if you listen to opera;

Franco Corelli's endless diminuendo in E Lucevan le Stelle (Tosca) live at Parma 1967:


Franco Corelli - Victoria, Victoria! (Tosca) Parma 1967 A#4


Franco Corelli - Celeste Aida (Aida) (Going from forte to diminuendo Bb4)


Giuseppe Di Stefano - Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (Faust) (Going from forte to diminuendo on C5)

[fountain30]

Since I discussed it in her thread youtu.be/N1UdbcYsmow?t=449 hitting particularly hard here on "run to"

[Goober]

youtu.be/87Q042KlxI4?t=271 Man I really like this note, One of my Favorites for sure.

[Yojojo]

Obvious pick

[Yojojo]

On a more serious note:

Eric Bloom's G4s from "Veteran of the Psychic Wars"
Eric Bloom's E5 from "After Dark"
Elvis Presley's C5 from "School Days"
Brad Delp's G5 from "More Than a Feeling"
Bill Withers' E4s from "Lovely Day"
Justin Hawkins' A5 from "Rock and Roll Deserves to Die"
Jack Black's F#5 from "Master Exploder"
Nathan Sharp's C#5 from "The Day"
Dan Avidan's B4 from "Rock with You"

[Yojojo]

I realise all the notes I listed are highs... let's fix that.

Macca's A1 from "The Girl is Mine"
Cab Calloway's B1 from "Minnie the Moocher"
Johnny Cash's D2s from "You Beat All I Ever Saw"
Tennessee Ernie Ford's C2 from "Brown's Ferry Blues"
Tex Williams' G1 from "Walkin' on the Wind"
Seth MacFarlane's C#2 from "Mr. Booze"
Ivan Rebroff's F1 from "Im Tiefen Keller"

Also literally every low note Eric Hollaway has ever hit lmao

[Homelander]

Barry Gibb's G5 from Reaching Out

Robin Gibb's A4 from Rings Around the Moon

Maurice Gibb's B♭2 from Every Time I See You Smile

Perhaps not technically impressive, but Barry Gibb's D5 from Search, Find was always one of my favourites.


I'll have many more by the time I finish their threads.

[123]

This a really nice F2 from Frank Sinatra
[Skip to 2:45 I forgot how to do the embed exact time thing again] 

[Steingrim]

Effortless F2s from Bing Crosby. They are sprinkled throughout the song.

[Yojojo]

feast your ears on this succulent lil auditory berry and weep, mortals

[SpeedDemonJi]

Love how he completely changes this song’s atmosphere in the live acoustic version

Only other song that can give me even a sort of closely similar experience to “Black Sabbath”

youtu.be/7R8LbdIhb-g?si=p9kWQSrhH5GCpRZn&t=136

[Macca]

Here's some of my candidates:
While not greatest note, This D4 is Linnell greatest note by far.

This classic Mitch A5.

And the grand daddy of them all, this F5 from Caleb Hyles. I bet nothing can top this.

[Yojojo]

Ah what the hell here's more

Dan Avidan's C5 in "Kaleidoscope"
Rivers Cuomo's G4s in "Longtime Sunshine"
Billy Cobb's Bb4s in "Ghost"

[amadeusd]

I have two; one operatice, one "pop".

Operatic: Jussi Bjorling's G#4 in La Donna e Mobile here:



Largely for the Dynamics.

And Cornell's E5 in Call Me A Dog. I simply have never heard a better E5. The run up, the breath control, the tone, the vibrato, the subsequent leap and melismatic control. Ahh *chefs kiss*

EDIT: Whoops. Forgot, entirely, Mario Lanza landing on the most perfect (I think, but this is entirely from memory) C#3 in the final line of his version of Schubert's Ave Maria: 

[Homelander]

G4 from Seal

G4 from Chris Rice

A♭4 from Leo Sayer

D5 from Carola

B4 from Harry Nilsson

E5 from Barry Gibb

[Baronessa]

The way he completely shits the bed on that D4. Beautiful.

[Yojojo]

[VocalDudeGuy]

The vibrato at 1:49 go crazy