I Heard It Through THe Grapevine - A Capella
Man that Marvin Gaye had some serious pipes.
(, Mon 24 Sep 2012, 21:16, Reply)
Nice, although I think it less a capella than an isolated track used on a television show.
You can see he's listening to something else, music, backing tracks, etc.
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BrokenCoccyx get your hands off macaque, Mon 24 Sep 2012, 22:22,
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Yeah, but he's still singing it. In a studio, undoubtedly, you can hear the mic pops, but still.
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gingerfreak Pan Book Of Horror 12 was my favourite, Mon 24 Sep 2012, 22:49,
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don't get me wrong, it showcases his voice, just A Capella is a bit mislabelling.
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BrokenCoccyx get your hands off macaque, Mon 24 Sep 2012, 23:08,
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there is another sense of a capella
which doesn't show up in dictionaries, but you'll notice it immediately if you go to a record store or look at some r+b or hip hop music online. A capella tracks released on albums and singles are just the isolated vocal track(s) of a studio session. The way the youtube upload is titled makes it look like that's the sense they intended.
(, Mon 24 Sep 2012, 23:26, Reply)
Actually I assumed this is a mash-up.
Isn't it an isolated vocal track somebody has got hold of, and dubbed over a tv performance which had the song in its entirety? His movements suggestto me that there was backing music involved.
(, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 2:50, Reply)
I think so too
I haven't listened to the original for a while, but the performance here sounds exactly like the recorded version, so I'd guess it's that vocal track dubbed over the video.
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pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 13:46,
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Yeah man! Serious pipes!
And his voice ain't bad either. *cue homo-erotic giggle*
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Sweeplovesfisting veni, vidi, mum tuum futui, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 7:33,
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