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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 8, 2010 - 09:03pm PT
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I always like IHP contests, even though I've only won once.
This is probably too easy, and someone here will get it right off, but she's a hero of mine. So let's see how many minutes it takes.
Who is Clare Torry?
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Think Dark Side of the Moon and you've got it.
Bruce
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 8, 2010 - 09:39pm PT
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I shoulda known some dude named Bruce would get it.
Apparently nobody else knows exactly what the connection is?
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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No idea, but if Bruce gave us a clue then is she the gal that sang on Pink Floyd, Dark side of the Moon album. Nice voice. Who the hell is she?
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Yup! If you listen carefully, you won't hear her utter a single word.
Bruce
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Truly, a classic piece of vocal talent. Did she do anything else?
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2010 - 01:13am PT
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She was the talent behind the vocals on "Great Gig In The Sky."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM1Tp8ZtGXU
This is her being interviewed about that piece.
It's fascinating!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1LTSLbhyoY
She was paid 50 pounds for that recording session, geez!
Sadly it took until the late 90's for the Floyd to come to a settlement with her so she could have a share in the massive royalties from 25 yrs of Dark Side Of The Moon being played.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Did she ever reveal the Big Secret? Was that song about life after death? Or was it just a vocalization of her best orgasm?
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2010 - 04:10am PT
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She does say that they asked her to reflect on life and death, but I don't think she ever made a specific reference to life after death.
I could be wrong.
Roger Waters has said it was about dying.
It's very interesting that she says she was lost when they told her they didn't want any words. She decided to make herself "an instrument".
They didn't say much to her after the session, and she was sure her part would never get used.
Roger Waters said he thought it was done in one take.
David Gilmour said it was closer to 5.
Clare said it was done in about 3.
She saw the album cover in a record shop window and went inside.
Surprise!!
I loved that album immediately, but her part really blew my mind, in the best sense of the term.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2010 - 04:22am PT
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Truly, a classic piece of vocal talent. Did she do anything else?
From wiki:
Since then, Torry has also performed as a session singer (singing on a number of 1970s UK TV adverts) and as a live backing vocalist with Kevin Ayers, Olivia Newton-John, Shriekback, The Alan Parsons Project (for which she also sang lead vocal on one track on their 1979 Eve album), Procol Harum mainman Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, Cerrone, Culture Club (on their hit "The War Song"), Meat Loaf and Johnny Mercer. She reprised her Pink Floyd appearance during a few 1980s concerts with Roger Waters' band, and also contributed to Waters' 1986 soundtrack When the Wind Blows and to his 1987 album Radio K.A.O.S.. She sang with the David Gilmour-led Pink Floyd at a 1990 concert at Knebworth.
Clare Torry also sang the Dolly Parton song "Love Is Like a Butterfly" as the theme music to the 1970s Wendy Craig/Geoffrey Palmer sitcom Butterflies.
In 1975, Torry reportedly sang the lead female vocal part on Guys n' Dolls' hit "There's a Whole Lotta Loving", rather than any member of the actual group.[citation needed] Her voice can also be heard singing "Love to Love You Baby" (originally by Donna Summer) during the opening scene of the cult BBC Play for Today production of Abigail's Party in 1977.
She sang in a fashion similar to that of "The Great Gig in the Sky" on the track "The War Song" on Culture Club's Waking Up with the House on Fire album in 1984, as well as on the track "Yellowstone Park" on the Tangerine Dream album Le Parc in 1985. She is also credited on the 1987 album En Dejlig Torsdag (A Lovely Thursday) by the Danish pop rock band TV-2, where she sings in fashion similar to that of "The Great Gig in the Sky" at the end of the tracks "Stjernen I Mit Liv" ("The Star in my Life") and "I Baronessens Seng" ("In the Bed of the Baroness").
In February 2006, Clare Torry released a CD Heaven in the Sky, a collection of her early pop tunes from the 1960s and 1970s
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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When the picture first showed up on my screen, before I scrolled down to the name, I thought it was Bev Johnson.
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