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January 25

Song please

Can't google a relatively known song from the 90s or early 2000s, sung by a female, chorus lyrics are approximately: "All over day / All over night / You [...] to make the things alright / The sun is... / The sun is..." Slightly reminiscent of "Genie in a Bottle", but not that. Thanks. 78.11.167.237 (talk) 15:45, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

There's a song which goes something like "the sun is red... the moon is white" but I don't think that's quite it because I can't find it in Google. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:18, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

On Keep on Loving You (song) how does the guitar sound like an airplane landing?

Or there may be another term for it. I feel it belongs in the article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzNZ1c5C9c 2:12— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:04, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean by "airplane landing" do you mean the pick scrape? You actually can watch him perform the pick scrape in the video itself. This is a common tool in any lead guitarist's repetoire, and it's common enough to not bear mentioning. Could also be a string bend, a form of glissando which is even more common. You can see the guitarist performing many of those as well. --Jayron32 16:11, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

I guess I was looking for the terminology. Yeah, I can see him doing it, but I didn't know exactly what was involved. The sound of an airplane landing was what it sounded like on the radio.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:55, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Pages For "Whiteheart" & "Petra" & Billy Smiley & Leader Of Petra

Hi;

I wanted to let you know that you need to update the pages for these 80's groups so that their lifer fans like myself know that they are still performing as a collaborated group! "The Union Of Sinners & Saints" & have released a Medley CD & a new CD of this new combined group!

This is Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit. If you have reliable sources for that information, feel free to add it to articles where it's relevant. See here if you have any questions about editing. Matt Deres (talk) 17:33, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Tinny vocal effect on songs

I occasionally hear an effect in music where the singer's voice gets altered to make it sound tinny, almost what you'd hear on an old radio. Is there a name for that effect and/or how is it produced? It's not too uncommon, but the song that inspired the question was CCR's version of Susie Q where, about two minutes in on the version I've got (run-time of about 4:45), the voice shifts for about twenty seconds and then goes back. The instrumental music doesn't change (so far as I can tell). Matt Deres (talk) 17:31, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes, bands will actually playback the bit through a crappy radio and re-record it. You can use an in-line effects filter to a similar effect; a High-pass filter will attenuate bass signals and allow higher frequency signals through; I believe that's how David Gilmore recorded the guitar intro for Wish You Were Here Analogue high-pass filters have been used for decades, with modern music it's all modded electronically now, usually. --Jayron32 19:18, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Or, you can just "sing through your hands" as in Winchester Cathedral (simulating a megaphone sound). —107.15.152.93 (talk) 20:10, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Cool - thank you. Matt Deres (talk) 18:27, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

John Lennon did an "old radio" or "old phonograph" voice effect early in the song "Honey Pie". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:11, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

• Nowadays this is commonplace with singers who either never could sing in the first place (almost any hit pop act of this century) or singers like Cher and Madonna who use it to bend their notes either to key or to a range which they can no longer reliably hit. See pitch correction which is an effect that first became widely popular after after (and parodied in) Believe (Cher song) which topped the charts in 1998 and which she is unable to perform live for concerts, where she lipsynchs. See also, It's not a glitch; it's a feature. μηδείς (talk) 05:39, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

  Well, there a difference. Sometimes such effects are used for what one might call legitimate creative purposes. Sometimes they are used because the singer is pretty, but can't really sing. I wouldn't discount all such uses of the tools. Tools can be used for good or evil; it's what they are being used for, not the tool itself, which is the problem. --Jayron32 17:39, 31 January 2018 (UTC)