# Besides "Lovin' You"- pop songs where the sings hits a really high note? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227 "2007-08-03T01:54:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/41 "2007-08-03T18:09:47Z")
No one mentioned Frankie Valli yet? oo OO oo oo ooo oo oo _OOOOOOOOOOOOO…_ [QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] “Take On Me” by a-ha. That’s a dangerous one, because I always feel compelled to sing along and then I end up nearly hurting myself. [/QUOTE] Also risky to play outdoors because all the dogs in the neighborhood start barking. Another one - “Baron Samedi” by 10CC, where the last syllable in this couplet soars upward and merges into an ungodly electronic shriek: _Take a sip of dripping red Make it with the living deaaadeaaaaaeaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAD_ ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/42 "2007-08-03T18:13:02Z")
[QUOTE=Jonathan Chance] Oddball Queen Fact! The truly high notes on Bohemian Rhapsody (and a lot of the other stuff) is done by Roger Taylor, the singing drummer. For a guy who wore his testosterone on his sleeve he has the ability to hit higher notes than just about anyone. Example: The ‘galileo’ bit in BR. Deep notes: Freddie. High notes: Roger. [/QUOTE] Roger goes even higher in _'39_. Ball-bustingly high. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/43 "2007-08-03T18:17:59Z")
Dennis DeYoung hit a high note on at least half the songs he sang for Styx, maybe just to show he can. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/44 "2007-08-03T18:23:35Z")
Speaking of Styx, I just picked up Larry Gowan’s “Strange Animal” CD, and went to YouTube to watch him perform “A Criminal Mind.” I was surprised to see that it was him doing the very high voice at the end on the line “just like these prison walls.” I always thought it was a woman singing that, but he’s one of those guys who can sing obscenely high. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/45 "2007-08-03T18:50:48Z")
Steelheart - "I’ll Never Let You Go " That dude just keeps going up and up and up… ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/46 "2007-08-03T19:09:19Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I thought Dolly’s whole version of it was overall higher than Whitney’s. Whitney’s big note wasn’t crazy high. (She may have been, but the note wasn’t.) [/QUOTE] Two other Dolly Parton songs that I remember having high notes is the plaintive _Jolene_ and _Love is Like a Butterfly_. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/47 "2007-08-03T19:27:28Z")
Del Shannon on Runaway – _I wah-wah-wah-wonder, why, why, why, why, why, she ran away_. We used to hurt ourselves singing along with that. At least two octaves on that song, right? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/48 "2007-08-03T19:37:05Z")
Of course there’s [Licorice McKechnie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xgBs4RNXFA) (youtube), from my favorite band. She can summon bats. Wouldn’t exactly call her “pop,” though. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/49 "2007-08-03T19:39:17Z")
Most of the songs sung by Chris Cornell. ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/50 "2007-08-03T20:06:14Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] We were talking about tortured canine utterances? Or high notes? 😃 [/QUOTE] Well, if those count, I’ll add the end of “When I’m With You” by Sherrif - I’m sure it was supposed to sound good, in theory. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/51 "2007-08-03T20:14:48Z")
Several songs by Prince come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/52 "2007-08-04T00:33:18Z")
aaron neville. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/53 "2007-08-04T00:56:52Z")
[QUOTE=Valgard] Rob Halford (Judas Priest) in many songs - I’ve got “Exciter” playing right now for example and he sings the whole thing in a pretty high pitch, then at the end keeps ratcheting it up over and over again. [/QUOTE] Guitarists Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing were talking about that a while back. They said, (paraphrasing from memory) “We kept pushing him, telling him to ‘go higher! go higher! higher!’. And you know, he always did.” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/54 "2007-08-04T17:58:02Z")
Guinness says the Brazilian singer Georgia Brown holds the record for highest note and largest vocal range. There’s a link to a video of her in the wiki article (not to her record note, though). > **[Vocal range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_range#World_records_and_extremes_of_vocal_range)** > > Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate. A common application is within the context of singing, where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into voice types. It is also a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech-language pathology, particularly in relation to the study of tonal languages and certain types of vocal disorders, although it has little practical application in terms of speech. > While the broadest definition of... ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/55 "2007-08-04T22:12:39Z")
Darren Hayes, ex-Savage Garden singer, hits some pretty high notes in both SG and solo stuff. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/56 "2007-08-04T22:27:29Z")
The Star Spangled Banner The Impossible Dream Hard to sing for any one. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/57 "2007-08-04T22:28:15Z")
The Darkness has quite a Freddy Mercury-esque lead singer. I’ve only heard one of their songs and it contains the lyrics, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love.” This guy can hit some serious high notes! ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/58 "2007-08-04T23:10:39Z")
Erasure’s Andy Bell hits a good one in “A Little Respect.” ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/59 "2007-08-05T10:28:18Z")
“Lovin’ You” by [Minnie Ripperton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Riperton). She hastened the move to solid state stereos in the 70’s when her extremely high pitched “AAahhhaaaahhhaaAAaaAAh” shattered glass electronic tubes in older hi-fi’s. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227/60 "2007-08-05T14:02:37Z")
Dude, have you read any of the posts in this thread? The very first one says, in bold type, “Besides “Lovin’ You”- pop songs where the sings hits a really high note?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-lovin-you-pop-songs-where-the-sings-hits-a-really-high-note/414227.md?page=4)