Unknown Singer SHOCKED #1 Band with EPIC WORDLESS Vocal…It Spent 18 Yrs On CHARTS!-Professor of Rock

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Improvisation is the X factor behind some of the greatest tracks of the Rock Era—moments of spontaneous genius nborn from gifted talent and instinct. On this episode, we’ll get ninto the captivating stories of how a teenager walking down the street decided to visit a studio that caught his eye. His name was Barrett Strong and he laid down a scratch vocal on a song he improvised… That scratch vocal became Money (That's What I Want), the first big hit for a label that npretty much became it’s own genre… Then a fiddle player got a random invite to a session and the band, The Who, had no idea who he was but he started playing and it was so powerful it put the finishing touches on 1 of the greatest rock anthems ever... Baba O'Riley. Plus the 16 year old opera singer who was supposed to sing a small part in a lower octave but decided to sing it much higher and it became thedefining vocal of the famous hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight… Plus the unknown singer Clare Torry who was supposed to sing a couple of notes over a musical bed but just belted out a wordless display of sounds that astonished Pink Floyd and became a crucial part of The Dark Side of the Moon, an album that spent 18 and a half years on the charts. Improv Magic…Part 2, is NEXT on Professor of Rock!

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A few months ago, we did an episode on IMPROV MAGIC.. We counted down some of the most iconic songs ever that came from crazy circumstances, including BON SCOTT, who was the Chauffeur for an up-and-coming band called AC/DC, and one night just jumped on stage on jammed with them, and became their lead singer the next day because they killed it. And then the story about Strawberry Alarm Clock when they recorded the #1 hit Incense and Peppermints, and nobody in the band could sing it, so a 16-year-old friend who wasn’t even in the band stepped up and tried it and made it a smash.

Well, after that, I got an email from a viewer who shared a couple of other stories that I had heard and said you should do another episode like it… So I went down the rabbit hole and re-familiarized myself with these stories, and wow! I love these types of stories, SO here is another countdown of IMPROV MAGIC! 6 of the greatest moments of Improv Magic that led to some of the greatest songs ever… Starting at #6, I have the story behind one of the most amazing guest vocals on a track ever…Let’s go behind the story of Clare Torry’s remarkable performance on “The Great Gig in the Sky” from Pink Floyd’s landmark Dark Side of the Moon album: In January ’73, just a few weeks before The Dark Side of the Moon was set to be completed, the band found themselves searching for something special—a way to add an emotional edge to one of the album’s most haunting tracks, but they didn’t know what they were looking for, exactly. They decided it would be cool to have a singer come in and sing a few notes over the music of Richard Wright’s composition “The Great Gig in the Sky.” Nothing too much, just to deepen the song’s cosmic sense of mortality. As they began searching for the right singer, studio engineer Alan Parsons remembered a talented vocalist he’d worked with previously—Clare Torry, a 25-year-old songwriter and session singer. She had a reputation for her soulful, expressive voice, and Parsons thought she might be perfect for the