"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" […]