Music #06 - special singing skills

Swiss yodeling

* by Taylor Ware  - in America's Got Talents
* by Taylor Ware  - 4 years later

Lonely Goatherd
* in Sound of Music

Lovesick Blues
* by Charley Pride  - originally by Hank Williams

Mongolian throat singing - khomeii (呼麦)

* Foreign Land
* Ode to Genghis Khan
* Four Mountains
* Ode to the Great Khan

Inuit (an Eskimo tribe) - throat singing

* medley 1

* medley 2

Scottish mouth singing - diddling 

* Puirt a Beul - mouth music    
* Mouth Music Medley
They were once banned from singing (with lyrics); singing music could get away, though.
     When we were in grade school, knowing close-to-none English, but trying to mimic singing English pop songs, we sang just like that: making up English-like meaningless words.  Haha!

Jazz scat singing 

(vocal mimicking of trumpets) 

* by Ella Fitzgerald ＆ Mel Torme
* Anita O'Day singing and scat singing in Sing, Sing, Sing

Gregorian chants   

Some hundred years ago, the Catholic friars (brothers) sang 'plainsongs' in the monastery, without the accompaniment of musical instruments.
        Pope Gregory I used his authority to collect and compile them, leaving behind a collection of songs or a singing style called the 'Gregorian chants'.

* Himno a San Juan Bautista 

- origin of Ut(Do)-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La
* Asperges Me  

* Ave Maria  

One could sing along, as the notes simply run up and down the 4-line staff invented by Guido de Arezzo, and with rather straightforward Latin lyrics.

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* Beatboxing  
* My brother Ben can do some Blue Danube with his armpits, whereas this guy similarly played with his hands.

* In case you missed this funny occasion (like I did) on “American Idol”.  Hohoho!  Forget it!  Else, you will never forget it.