Originally Posted by
sup_fan
IMO Jean really began to open up and express much greater range as the lps continued.
RO is a wonderful album and the songs are just great. but there is a certain degree of uniformity to Jean's leads. all of them are wonderful but all of them are fairly similar. she doesn't really explore a broader range of interpretations and sounds
by the time Touch was released - oh my goodness!! Listen to the anguish she conveys on This Is The Story, the light heartedness on Here Comes The Sunrise, the confidence on NJ, the resignation on It's So Hard. there's much more variety in her performances. and as such you get many different sounds from her voice. her lower range is front and center on Love It Came To Me This Time. the happiness and warmth in Sunrise. the cries and pain in TITS with it's more piercing upper vocals
I think on the song Touch, her upper range is more shrill against Mary's mellow alto. there's a nasality too that makes the duet seem a bit incongruous. perhaps a softer tone from jean would have helped. and i think giving Cindy some lead lines here and there would have helped too
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