"Blue Velvet" vocal

Just listened to the classic rendition of that song by Bobby Vinton. I was struck by the way he executed the long drawn-out glissando from the close back rounded vowel to the voiced labiodental fricative.

The vocal tract as a sort of trombone.

 

Selected readings

• "Video of Trombone Shockwave" (5/28/11) 
• "The sounds instruments make" (10/7/10)
• "Woo" (11/24/17)
• MNOZIL BRASS | Lonely Boy (2 years ago) — Austrian brass septet
• "What do you hear?" (3/1/20)
• "Names of Chinese birds" (11/16/14)