Elton John's Voice Evolution (1969 - 2017)
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Elton John's Voice Evolution (1969 - 2017)
This video depicts the evolution of Elton John's voice from 1969 to 2017.
In the video, all songs contain only the vocal part, to analyze it better and to enhance its differences between the years.
Sails
(1969)
Your Song
(1970)
Take Me to the Pilot
(1970)
Tiny Dancer
(1971)
Rocketman
(1972)
Honky Cat
(1972)
Daniel
(1973)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
(1973)
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
(1974)
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
(1975)
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
(1976)
Strangers
(1978)
Dear God
(1980)
Elton’s Song
(1981)
Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)
(1982)
I’m Still Standing
(1983)
Breaking Hearts
(1984)
Cry to Heaven
(1985)
Memory of Love
(1986)
Japanese Hands (
1988)
Sacrifice
(1989)
The Last Song
(1992)
Belfast
(1995)
The Big Picture
(1997)
The Messenger
(1999)
I Want Love (
2001)
All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful)
(2004)
The Bridge
(2006)
Home Again
(2013)
Blue Wonderful
(2016)
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I understand why some people miss Elton John's early voice. It had a more joyful, carefree tone to it. But the familiarity of the music and lyrics has a lot to do with that feeling of nostalgia. I like his late 90's voice more. It was technically the best in his career, imo.
Huh ? Elton's heyday was in the 70's, his range was way better before cocaine destroyed his voice in the 80's
@@LordGandor3cocaine didn’t destroy his voice, he had surgery to remove a benign polyp on a vocal cord in early 1987
He only reverted to his early-to-mid 1970s voice for one song -- "Latitude" -- from his 1995 album Made in England.
@@LordGandor3i hate the 70s voice it sounds hella generic every cover artist sounds like that these days he sounded like a pop singer and the voice wasnt even unique. and his live performances sucked until 1979. i mean check out every show from 1975 hes hitting flat notes in every song
elton has A very recognizable voice. the first note he sings I know it’s him!
Yes!
Honestly I'm still amazed that he's still performing to this day
I like his 1970-1975 voice... it had a certain cool to it that was lost over time.
It had less strain on it which helped it get that certain not over trying things and gave him a bigger range
It sounded good in the studio but if you listen to live shows from that era on tour I'd argue they are even worse than the dreadful 86 australia shows vocally
Elton's early voice was best. Up to and including 1976. It doesn't sound strained like in later years.
He did bring it back briefly in 1995, on the song "Latitude" from the album Made in England.
1969-1976 are the best years of elton
My favorite is his voice in 90s - early 2000s
That falsetto was clean
Its beatifull to hear how much hes voice changed❤️
I wish his voice stopped aging after 2005. It didn't get any better after that until the long break he's had.
Great job putting this together! I've always thought Elton's voice was like a fine wine...you can tell what year he recorded a song, based on the ever-changing sound of his voice. My personal favorite era of his voice is 1974-1975, especially the Captain Fantastic album.
I think the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road clip might be out of phase, however. That was the only clip that was silent when played on my smartphone (I think the left and right channels canceled each other out, when played on a mono speaker).
Thanks! I also had a phone that didn't let me hear the sounds of a mono speaker. But now with the new phone it works. Thanks again.
I feel the 90s is his best era, he learned lots of new techniques after the surgery and he was sober
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Thank you for letting us to listen Elton's voice with akapera.🎵🎤 What a wonderful voice he has!
I also love Elton who close with Freddie.💞 Both Freddie and Elton
entertained to us also costume. 😍
As for Freddie, he was almost shirtless in the second half of the concert, right? 🤭💕
By the way, The top 3 of Elton's my favorite song is ....
1. Your song
2. i'm still standing
3. Sorry seems to be hardest word.
Thank you. 🤗💝
Hello Jun. Thank you ☺️🤗
I also love Elton John and Freddie more than any other singer 😌💓
What you have listed are also some of my favorite songs 👍😘🎹🎤
You must know that in 1986, John began to experience serious problems with his voice more and more and more hoarse and in January 1987 he underwent a complicated throat operation to remove nodules from the vocal cords; initially there was talk of an infection, but recently the star said it was all caused by excessive abuse of various drugs. The operation made Elton's voice deeper (as a baritone) and completely eliminated his falsetto 😱😰😞
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Thank you for teaching me about Elton underwent voice trouble. (ToT)
I didn't know that! 😨
I think it's painful incident for singer.
However, He has good singing ability that doesn't make us feel that.
I was moved to listen "Show Must Go On" Elton singing at Freddie's tribute concert.👏👏👏😍🎵🎶
Thank you for this!
Thanks to you!
1969-1986 the best years of Elton John
Gosh, Home Again was released TEN years ago! It feels like yesterday.
I love Elton's voice before and after. I'm young, so I know him by his voice of the 90s-2000s, and when I heard his early recordings, I generally thought that another person was singing. His voice was different all the time, but he always sings very beautifully! In his youth, his voice was gentle and sweet, but already in 1978 his voice began to sound lower and more voluminous after the Thom Bell sessions. In 1986, his voice became lower and hoarser due to problems with his vocal cords. After the surgery, his voice became even better, clearer and stronger. He could still use falsetto, but he rarely did so. In the late 90s and now he stopped using falsetto. Maybe he's afraid it won't sound good. And now his voice has certainly become lower due to age, and this is not surprising. He is 76 years old and sings well for his age. He still sings many songs in the same key, but does not use falsetto.
You are so beautiful!
The voice is interstar,
And you sing and play piano as an Angel.
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1:20 nice picture
Great video, where did you get the Stems to create this?
acapella-ectractor and vocalremover
1968-1976 is so soft/high but manly 1978-2002 is like a deep and matured but with hints of the old tone.
Too much cocaine/drug use does that
There's one song from his 1995 album Made in England that found himself using his pre-1978 voice: "Latitude," which was arranged by Sir George Martin and featuring a French horn solo.
In 1977-78 as I understand a man by the name of Thom Bell gave vocal training to Elton John thus the darkened tone, in studio your preference can go either way but on touring you can see a massive improvement after the training 78 onwards basically
@@infernow2125 That's correct; he was telling Elton he was singing too high for himself (referring to songs like "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road").
I remember firsts review for the new star Elton John at begin of careeer and his voice and interpretation was often compared to Jose Feliciano, of which he said he was a fan at the time in multiple interviews.
Let's just all take a moment to take in how strange honky cat sounds without music...
We’ve lost so, so many, we just have to accept that if they don’t die young they fade away
I wish you could have made the photos match the era.
80,s 90,s and all the years after are amazing I prefer Elton with hes deeper voice tbh but he’s still amazing
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What app do you use to remove the instruments from vocals?
Moises.ai or vocal remover
Two of his early albums are complete masterpieces, Tumbleweed Connection and Madman across the water. Not a single dud track on either.
How come you didn't include any of the songs from _The Lion King_ or _The Road to El Dorado_ in this video? Copyright?
Yes
What happened with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?
What is interesting about Elton John is that he gives me the impression of someone who's constantly having high HGH (Human Growth Hormone) in his body. This hormone basically makes all your bones grow thicker, once your growth plates have fused when people reach biological adulthood. The thing is that together with his voice, also his face structure has changed. Apart from any weight gain, it's also noticeable that his skull became thicker and square looking whereas it as more delicate before. Normally Skulls do not change at such pace like his in adulthood'. Some people purposefully use HGH in order to combat aging (as it's used in anti aging clinics). However, it's a double edged sword for aging, because on one hand the skull growth will lead to less saggy skin as it's stretched more. However, on the other hand, HGH does 'age' you become less neotenic (biologically childlike) from using it. So your brow ridge will grow.
So my guess is that he's on HGH and has been for a long time
he got lower but wasn't trying to sing high like what was in vogue at the time. Almost has a good country resister later on.
1988 onwards 😊
2:25 fail
Elton had a major throat operation in the 80s that would change his voice forever.
That is a myth people spread for no reason.
Elton damaged his voice in 1986, due to wear and tear from touring and excess from smoking marijuana. His voice was already deeper in tone, way before he developed the polyps and he changed the way he sang to adapt to it.
That was when his voice was still clean, but you can watch or listen to gigs where he didn't sing with a falsetto and his tone was already lower than his old high tenor tone he had before. His vocal cords were not damaged yet, but his voice was changed forever.
He then later developed vocal cord polyps, which destroyed his voice completely and there are several examples you can hear that show him literally not being able to sing many parts.
The surgery didn't change his voice, it restored it to how it was in early 1986, prior to the development of vocal polyps in his throat. That is an indisputable fact and you can hear it in his Reg Strikes Back and Sleeping With the Past. His voice is clean and he could still do the falsettos.
His tone had already changed slightly after he reached 30 and you can easily tell the difference between 25 year old Elton from the early 70s, and Elton from the early 80s, who was in his 30s. While the tone is still intact, it is already thicker and slightly lower, even though he could still hit the high notes and sing in the normal tuning.
So it's safe to say that his voice would get deeper with age eventually. The surgery didn't have anything to do with it.
Agreed with the guy above
He had throat surgery in 1987-88 which resulted his voice to be more lower
No, it did not. The surgery saved his voice and it was a success.
His voice was already lower in 1986, prior to him developing vocal polyps and while the voice was still clean in tone, it was lower than how it used to be.
His voice was destined to go deeper as he aged, but the wear and tear from over-singing in tours and the excess in smoking marijuana was the factor that led to his *sudden* voice change in 1986.
That is something attested by the doctor that treated him and contrary to what people spread on the internet, the surgery saved his voice.
You can also easily listen to the gigs and performances from before and after the surgery. His voice from 1988/89 is nearly identical to how it was in 1986, prior to the damage he did in the Ice on Fire tour and he also used falsettos in that tour. Hell he used falsettos up until 1997, when he performed Goodbye Yellow Brick Road again after 13 years.