Clare Torry what a beautiful voice! I was 16 and had a part time job in 1976, I saved my money for a cheap 8 track $100.00 stereo. I bought this album in 8 track and I still have the 8 track recording! I loved listening to this late at night in the dark with just the glow of my stereo!
The 3 ladies that sing on the Pulse live album all sound beautiful as well. Floyd always did a great job of finding great talent to accompany them on tour.
The piano and organ parts are written by Richard Wright r.i.p. Now ,on to the incredible Clare Torry vocal performance. The whole vocal arrangement was IMPROVISED ,in one masterful take. The bassist,vocalist,lyricist atmosphericist and arranger,was sitting in the control room behind the board,when Clare began to sing some improvised words.Roger Waters, the genius behind the architecture of Pink Floyd sound,ABRUPTLY stopped the music.He jumped out from behind the mixing console,and burst into the vocal booth.He told Clare , that there must be NO WORDS and only VOCAL SOUNDS.He then told her that he would assist her by CONDUCTING her vocal,and he put on a set of headphones with his "conductor cue sheet"in hand ,and motioned to producer Alan Parsons to begin recording.Over the next 5 minutes,according to Clare ,Roger was an animated"wild Englishman with arms flailing about and emotional facial expressions, the next ,during the quiet parts,finger to his lips and the soulful eyes reaching deeply into her own soul;with the both of them in a tender moment of tearful eyes and a heartfelt embrace.Roger helps Clare ,out of the booth and they walk silently to the control room and as they enter,Alan cues the start of the track;one of the most iconic moments in music history,is alive. Thank U4 your valuable time.Hope U enjoyed the history.🌚🌝✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨
Clare Torry...she was paid 30 British Pounds for the studio session. She won a settlement from Pink Floyd in 2005 and all subsequent releases of Dark Side of the Moon give her a vocal credit.
@@dtennow Not bad for a morning's work. Session musicians get to work with bands or artists that have popular careers and they use that exposure to advance their own career. Alan parsons was an engineer on that album and using his own creativity used it as a springboard for a successful career of his own. That's the deal, I don't remember Parsons suing Floyd cos he came up with the idea of recording all those clocks at the beginning of Time. Many session musicians improvise their parts but would never expect writers credit, Floyd must have caved real easy for her to win that case.
@Direnova Parson's recording of the clocks was reportedly done apart from his work with Pink Floyd, as an experiment he was doing with the then-trendy new quadraphonic surround sound format. It was simply a happy accident that it came to be used for _Time_ . And no, Parsons didn't sue, but in later interviews it was apparent that he sure wasn't happy that the Floyd had pretty much taken all of the creative credit for _DSOTM_ for themselves, when his efforts and genius were as integral to the "sound" of that album as George Martin's were to the Beatles.
Yup, this is one of those albums that needs to be heard from start to finish, that's the full journey. The tracks segue into one another, it's like a classical piece of music with some recurring lyrical and musical themes.
Telynn S Yes my mother an opera fan suddenly took to listening to this frequently after my father died. She had me get the album for her too. When she was coming out of her grief a couple of years later she suddenly stopped listening to it and in fact could not bare to hear it anymore.
My father passed away in 2017. He introduced me to Pink Floyd. His favorite album was The Wall. After he passed away, I listened to this song. It hit me so hard. God..... life is so short.
Ah, you’re here! I have played this for friends who could not tell Pink Floyd apart from the Pink Panther...and they all love this one... And Claire Torry will be the first person you hear in Heaven...
@@smyffmawzz "So you keep telling us" And so he bloody well should ! Clare's voice had ME fooled for decades................................................
@@grantdumas4076 No way, the studio version is not even lose of how iconic it's the live version. And she listend only studio versions so far, and Pompeii 1992 is considered for many the best show of the band. i would be ok with only part 1.
Whilst Clare Torry deserves (and always got) credit for her performance, the fact that is she was a session singer. She came in to do some vocals, and was paid the going rate for her time and use of her voice. It's easy to say she should have been paid more etc, but session singers and musicians contribute something to many very successful musical artists. They don't get huge recognition or vast sums of money. If they want those, they need to forge their own musical careers.
I've read she was paid £30 for her hour of session work. She didn't even know if Pink Floyd would use her work on the album because they didn't say anything to her about it. Sometime later, she passed a record store with a Pink Floyd ad, so she stopped to look at the album. She saw her name for vocal credits, and bought the album.
@another3997 a session singer comes in and sings a written lyrics and leaves with their session fee. Clare Torry came in and was told roughly what they were looking for. At that point she basically composed that solo. If she recorded that today she would have walked out with a writers credit. But it was a different music industry back then. So yes she finally got a writers credit for the song and made millions.
It is a guitar solo, but vocally. The performance is technically great, but is inspired by Gilmor's solos; that is where the art is derived. The soul comes from his playing/inspiration..
Pink Floyd need to use three backup singers to perform this live. There are not many that can perform all three parts, even in a studio, even with auto-tune. The Australian Pink Floyd show performed this live with one singer, Amy Smith, and she completely NAILS IT! Do yourself a favor and check this out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ltt_YScyCVg.html
Yes, damn right, Pink Floyd definitely take you on a journey. To go on the whole journey though, you need to experience the album in one go, just as the band intended. All the tracks musically flow non-stop into one another. Each track telling it's own part of the full message.
Yes, for Pink Floyd album is like a book and songs are chapters in it. It starts in the beginning goes through different stages and ends at the end when everything comes together and gets sense, stands firmly as a rock. Still you are making a great job here. I love to watch you how hear songs for the first time and how they effect you. And for that I guess it does not matter in which order you are listening to songs, a lot of us know them already. While for your understanding when reacting to Pink Floyd is best to later hear whole album, maybe in private not public time so you get answers for a lot of questions that you come across while reacting to songs. But so far you get the point each time because you are listening with your heart.
Richard Wright on the keyboards. One of the great composers of our time. He had this written and didn't know what to do with it. Amazing what was done with it, no? Floyd always surprises.
It's like somebody's sadness put to life in a song but instead of lyrics There's crying and wailing because of all the sorrow and then when she slows down in the middle it's kind of like when you cry yourself out and you just can't cry no more and then it starts up again and then just kind of Fades out
Claire Torry. She was a session singer who got called in the middle of the night and arrived at the studio in pjs and dressing gown with curlers in her hair and did this mega masterpiece in ONE TAKE! It’s a journey Birth to Death...This is why we oldies have trouble dealing with your generations music!😁
I believe she won her case for the argument that her "wailing style" actually created the lyrical side of the song in 2004. She now is credited on all DSM albums , as she should be . IMHO
Claire Tory. Began listening to this album when I was 15 in 1973. I always thought this was a black woman singing. Never crossed my mind it was a little British girl. Blew me away
@@fordprefect9296 Yeah I was just talking about how I consider them to be one and the same, just like how I consider Brain damage and Eclipse to be one song as well as Happiest Days of our Lives and Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2 to be one and the same.
This song is about after you die, and what you think about before you die. The great gig in the sky means heaven, and how even when you die, you still have music to play.
I remember listening to that recording the first time. When the first singer hits that screaming high note I instantly, compulsively started sobbing. It just nailed through my heart.
Clare Torrey walked into the studio as a mere session backup singer. She walked out a little while later unsure whether Pink Floyd would use her work. When Alan Parsons performed the magic that became Dark Side Of The Moon, she became a goddess.
The musicianship and her voice are staggering but pay attention to the composition and construction of this masterpiece. I believe they are musical geniuses. Makes me proud to be English.
you are right about Pink Floyd music being a journey - Dark Side of the Moon is a concept album that tells a story, and each song segues smoothly into the next - it a great experience to take the full journey and listen to the entire album in one sitting
So Nice to hear someone giving Richard Wright the credit he deserves on this great song, Tori teared it with her fabulous voice but this couldn't be possible without Mr wright.
You can find a concert from 1990 where Clare Torry-the session singer who laid down this masterpiece got out on stage and played with them. After all that time she could STILL rock it... Glad you dig this stuff! Your eclectic taste shows you don't settle for staying in lanes or paying attention to boundaries, cheers ma'am!
you are so lucky to have stumbled upon rock's TOP 5 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME.....THIS IS JUST ONE OF SEVERAL INCREDIBLE MOMENTS IN ROCK HISTORY.......all this song needs is a hammock , a joint , and a beer....remember.....you don't listen to pink floyd.........you experience them.......act accordingly......
I grew up with all this stuff, pink floyd, led zep, black sabbath, judas priest. Seen most of them live at various venues in london, so i'm really into this. I luv watchin your face when you listen to it, makes me smile!!!
This singer ( Clare Torry ) did this song in ONE take. (1) and if that wasnt enough.... This lady never heard this song before she did it. The pushed play at the recording studio and as it was playing for her to hear she just started in and did the whole thing. The did other takes but it was that first one they used. It felt just right.
Clare Torrey such a most brilliant singer I heard was paid $40 U.S to do this pick up gig. And because of this we have music like the world will never forget. Bless Clare and bless Floyd
I heard this song over 40 years ago for the first time and have been mesmerized by it since then. Watching your reaction brings back the feelings from back then. Thank you for sharing your musical expertise and your emotions.
Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright wrote this song, which is about life, gradually descending into death. Hence the angrier and more intense first half with a dying person refusing to "go gently into that good night." The second half is gentler, as the dying person gives into the inevitable and fades away.
I understood what the guy at the beginning of song since I first listened to this in the 70s. Bit it was today I understand the whisper near the end of the song. "If the can hear this whisper, you are dying. "
Everyone should listen to the entire DSOTM album, alone, headphones, no distractions, w/o stopping. It changed my view of music when I did this back in 1973.
You took the word “screaming” quiet literally there, there are no words “content” in the way she expresses itself, it’s very much up too the listener how you hearing it, don’t get me wrong i love it, Pink Floyd are masters in encoring different sounds, and make em beautiful, just take the number “Time” as a example start whit a bunch of alarm clock and transcending from there, masterfully
This album is the greatest selling album since Thriller, and it was recorded in ONE take, these guys had no idea what they were going to do that day, the singer was hired by word and she came in and did her thing, she came out the studio crying thinking she had made a mess of it, the producer must of had the best day of his life absolutely. Pink Floyd aren't a T shirt they are one of the greatest music ever.
Wow! Really dig your understanding of music . Don't take this the wrong way, but really mature, really developed for such a young person! Greetings from northern California.
Production Quality was perfection with Pink Floyd, this album was done by Alan Parsons creator of The Alan Parsons Project, you might have heard "Eye In The Sky"
