Highest note belted on a cast recording?

[Parks]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 11:42am

So I was listening to Once Upon a Time from Brooklyn, and Eden's voice really blows me away. I believe that is the highest note I've heard belted before. Does anyone know of a song that has a higher note that has been belted before (on a recording, so I can find it and hear it)? Eden sounds like she was screaming the last note in the song. I know many people on here will probably critcize me, saying that belting is overrated and whatnot, but I'm just curious. Thanks

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 11:44am

I'd say Kristin's high note in Thank Goodness is one of the higher ones.

[Joshua488]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 11:45am

You specifically want the highest note belted? It gets a little wishy-washy there because Eden sings with her crazy mix voice, which isn't a true belt, blah blah blah...

And regarding Kristin's note in "Thank Goodness"... What note? First, she doesn't belt in that song and, second, if you're talking about one of her operatic notes, there are definitely higher notes on cast recordings (the high E in Phantom). Updated On: 7/20/06 at 11:45 AM

[Parks]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 11:46am

That was belting that Kristin did? I thought that was her head voice in Thank Goodness..

[Bret]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 11:54am

It is her head voice on TG. And I'm with Joshua. As impressive as Eden's note may be, despite its slight nasality, its a head/chest mix. I'm curious as to what the highest purely belted not eis.

[ruprecht]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 11:56am

You said "belted" right, so I would have to add Orfeh's note on "Make Like A Nail" from the Trailer Park CD the moment she sings "I wanna make like this day never happened". It's darn high. If any of my music lessons paid off, i'd venture a guess that it's a "G", that's pretty sick.

[HOUFlip04]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:00pm

I may be wrong, but most belting nowadays is a mix. Unless you want to ruin your vocal chords you gotta mix - especially that high.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:02pm

Yea, this question is pretty impossible to answer, because most high belt stuff is really a mix.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:06pm

On a similar note, what is the highest note done in a male's chest voice on a cast recording? What is the lowest note?

[bjh2114]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:07pm

Courtesy of my musical Encyclopedia:

"The term "belt" in music is misunderstood by some to mean the use of "chest" voice in the high register of the voice, rather than using the "head voice," etc. This is a misconception. The proper production of the "belt voice" is accomplished in the upper range by a modulation (music) of vowels and change of typical placement of the voice sound in the mouth. In a higher range all vowels are modulated to one of two vowels: "eh" as in "ape" or "ah" (bright vowel) as in "ChicAgo." Depending on the range of the singer, the vowels will be more or less modulated. Hence, in a male voice, a belted A-flat might not have the same amount of modulation as a belted B-flat."

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:08pm

There is no answer to this question, because there is no finite way to determine what is pure "belting" or what is "mixed" belting what techinque each singer uses, or any of that lingo-jingo.

You would probably really only be able to determine, what, "on paper" is the highest note that was intended by the composer to be "belted."

URINETOWN, EVITA, BROOKLYN all have extremely high "belted" notes.

Melba Moore used to hit a crazy high belted note at the end of "I Got Love" in PURLIE.

[maybethistime]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:08pm

Not that it's on a real "cast recording", the note Ana Gastyer belts in "The Stuff" from REEFER MADNESS is VERY high!

[JBSinger]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:33pm

Some front runners -
"Privaledge to Pee" Urinetown (G)
"Defying Gravity" Wicked (F's)
"New Argentina" Evita (3 strings of E's, with a Gb on the last)
"Buenos Aires" (2 F's)
"Dance of the Robe" AIDA (F)
"What's the Buzz" JC Superstar (Mary Magdalene's freaky wail/scream goes up to an A)

Have you heard Lillias White riff on the Hercules soundtrack. That stuff is crazy high ("A Star is Born").

[bigbigbill]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:46pm

I don't know if it's the highest note ever belted, but Sherie Rene Scott in "Love Is My Legs" from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels holds a pretty high note towards the end of that song.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:48pm

One note by Linda Hopkins singing "Deep In the Night" from Inner City

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:49pm

i'm sorry, but i must add kecia lewis in once on this island. the end of "mama will provide" is a g.

[camfatkin_]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:50pm

this isnt the highest one but its what popped into my head when i read the thread title.

Heather Headly singing the last note in "dance of the robe" from aida.

even though shes not belting...i still think its a damn fine note she hit =)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:54pm

Just for clarification purposes, the last note in Dance of the Robe is a high F. Still pretty damn high. :)

ETA: Didn't see that it was mentioned earlier in the thread. Updated On: 7/20/06 at 12:54 PM

[RentHead2]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 12:59pm

Since I am a fan of the belting: I will have to jump in on this one. I am gonna vote for:
(and agree with) Sherie Rene Scott's Love is my Legs

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 1:05pm

What note does Michael Ball sings in "Love Changes Everything" ?

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 1:06pm

Belting, isn't where you sing a note (head/chest), but how you sing it from the chest. Updated On: 7/20/06 at 01:06 PM

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 2:25pm

CoolKid: It's an Ab or an A.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 2:36pm

I'd say it was Idina Menzel in the 1st song from SWIWS. She belts a very high note at the end of that opening number.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 2:40pm

I don't know a belt from a ascot (okay, not so funny), but what about Raul Esperanza's octave-plus jump during the word "new" while singing:

"I'm your new commander, you now are my prisoner
We return to Transylvania. Prepare the transit beam".

in Rocky Horror. Always impressed the hell out of me.

[RentHead2]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 2:42pm

hahaha okay Idina and Sherie are tied best belters of all time. I don't know about all the technical stuff, but Idina belts it out in SWIWS, Wicked, Rent and Wild Party.