# Notable High Notes in Rock Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-high-notes-in-rock-songs/472465 "2008-11-13T02:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-high-notes-in-rock-songs/472465/61 "2008-11-13T23:30:29Z")
@Flander: You may be right. I haven’t followed her stuff but “Someday” stuck in my mind. [hijack] So I researched Mariah a bit via Wikipedia. She’s singing in the “Whistle Register.” Here’s a youtube explanation…I guess they checked Wikipedia as well. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pA9KuzeBMd8/hqdefault.jpg "What is a Whistle Note?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA9KuzeBMd8) And the record for highest notes apparently belongs to Georgia Brown of Brazil. _Georgia Brown is a Brazilian singer noted for her extensive vocal range. She currently holds the Guinness World Records for hitting the highest vocal note and for possessing the greatest range, which spans exactly 8 octaves from G2-G10 using scientific pitch notation.[1] She also has 5 octave of singing voice.[2]_ > **[Georgia Brown (Brazilian singer)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Brown_(Brazilian_singer))** > > Rossana Monti, better known by the stage name Georgia Brown, is a Brazilian singer noted for her extensive vocal range. > At the age of fifteen, Brown toured as backup vocalist for Brazilian singer Jorge Ben, during his "W Brasil Tour" in 1995. Following the conclusion of the tour, she entered in contests "Skol Rock" and "Fest Valda". In 1997, Brown relocated to California in the United States of America to begin recording her first album. In 2001, Brown released her debut album "Black Nature". ... A sample: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wSyIdwCFM) A cornucopia, titled so you know what pitches she’s hitting: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRClw495tIs) Wikipedia also says: _Also, rare singers like Georgia Brown from Brazil, who sang up to a G10 (25087Hz), can sing much higher in the whistle register.[2]_ > **[Whistle register](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_register)** > > The whistle register (also called the flute register or flageolet register) is the highest register of the human voice, lying above the modal register and falsetto register. This register has a specific physiological production that is different from the other registers and is so called because the timbre of the notes that are produced from this register is similar to that of a whistle. > In some sopranos, the modal register vocal production may extend into what is usually thought of as the whistl... I thought human hearing was 20Hz to 20,000Hz. I guess they have a dog corroborating this 😃 ? Adam Lopez/Highest note by man [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJ6kythzQs) [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-high-notes-in-rock-songs/472465/62 "2008-11-14T11:50:40Z")
Pat Benatar- “We Live for Love.” Especially the “live” in the chorus. Sad note: saw her on a TV special a couple of years ago. She skipped the highest note completely. So it went “We \ live love.” Awkward. You think people aren’t going to notice the mangling of the title lyrics? Lately they (Pat and Neil) do an acoustic version. No high notes at all. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-high-notes-in-rock-songs/472465/63 "2008-11-14T12:11:43Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwYBQGsiBP0) More than Words/Extreme. Overall, the song is high. Check in at about 5:00 for great guitar solo. Vocal harmony at 5:16 ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-high-notes-in-rock-songs/472465/64 "2008-11-14T13:48:10Z")
“Grace Kelly” by Mika. The singer actually channels Freddie earlier in the song, and then in the chorus gets higher and higher–every time you think that he can’t stretch out another note, he does. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-high-notes-in-rock-songs/472465/65 "2008-11-14T14:12:21Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > Also “Exciter”: > > Stand by for exciter… > [/higher]Stand by for exciter… > [/even higher]Stand by for exciter… > [/omfg]Stand by for exciter… > > Not only did he have a pretty wide range but his vocal cords and lungs must have been made by the local ironworks. I can’t believe I forgot “Exciter”! My husband can hit that note. :eek: Not with quite the same fury as Halford, though. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-high-notes-in-rock-songs/472465/66 "2008-11-14T14:33:43Z")
“Shambala” by Three Dog Night. “Tell me HAAAAAAAOOOWWWWW (does your light shine)” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-high-notes-in-rock-songs/472465.md?page=3)