JD Sumner vocal range (D-2 to D5)(read pinned comment)
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2023
- Hii !! I wanted to share with you the vocal range of JD Sumner. I tried to select some unknown clips of him singing low and high. By listening to albums on youtube, I found rare recordings that I used in this video. I wanted to make this video to make people discover the real talent of JD, that he's not only extremely low but also he could sing high and because nobody's okay with which note is his lowest and highest. I noticed that in the old recordings he sometimes used falsetto at the end of songs so it's usually there that I found high notes. It's not impossible that I made mistakes on the notes he hit so please excuse me if it happens. It is hard especially with the low ones because it's difficult to find the exact note and with the high notes I now recognize his tone in his upper register as it is generally pretty weak and recognizable compared to others.
![J.D. Sumner • Interview (Elvis Presley/Stamps Quartet) • 1989 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](/img/n.gif)
Little corrections :
Lowest note : D-2 fry note at 9:03
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Lowest chest note : seems to be a G0 at 7:53
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Highest chest note : F4 at 4:10
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Highest falsetto note : D5 at 15:30
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Making a chest range of 3 octaves and 10 semitons and a total range of 7 octaves.
czcams.com/video/Eibu91j5uE8/video.html Here's a clip where I think could be useful in terms of finding a low note, at 2:48. Unfortunately, the audio was cut out towards the end of the slide.
Thanks a lot! The note is between F1 and F#1 and he seems to hold it. Most of the time JD slides to an F1 or E1, but in some rare recordings he has gone lower than that. czcams.com/video/Qx0dgqDPino/video.html, in this recording I recently discovered, at 6:19, he slides to a very low chest note between A0 and B0 then he slides up to an E1. It's hard to determine the exact note, but it's a good recording for the lowest chest notes he reached in his life.
@@JDSumnerStuff I am curious as to what his lowest note would've been in the 90's, as his voice as dropped a bit since these Elvis concerts. Like Tim Storms, JD as stated that he's never really gone through a voice changing phase and it's just deepened as he got older.
@@VanerovThe voice of J.D. it also got more serious as he got older, as well as age, which is common the voice deepens and becomes hoarse as we get older, as well as cigarettes and whiskey, which also deepens the voice and makes it deeper.
@@antoniodonacardozo6984 Yeah, but even in his younger days He was singing very low chest notes in the 1st octave relatively easy. As He got older, you could always hear Him breathing in a lot as well, and He lost the tone He once had.
Where most other bass singers try to artificially shape their voices when going low and maintain as much resonance as possible, jd is literally the only one to sing in a neutral position, he doesn't resonate too much and if anything can sound breathy and soft because he's simply just got a low voice and doesn't need to strain. He had such a haunting and amazing tone to his voice, it's wisdom and peace captured in audio form.
Only Sumner could have a compilation on low notes start on a F1
Actually his lowest chest note is a G0 he doesn’t use fry it’s just a really thin deep chest note down in A0
@@SouthPawBowler24 I would agree, seeing how easy his B0-Bb0 notes are for him, I know for a fact his lowest chest note is lower then a Bb0. One time in a clip with Ralph Emery, an interviewer, he did a Bb0 just straight out of his mouth without any sliding with a straight face.
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@@SouthPawBowler24, his G0 is chest-fry. Run a note through a spectrum analyzer and it will tell the full story. JD was, however, still in full chest voice at C1, which I know of only one person lower and that's the great Oktavist Mikhail Zlatopolsky, who's chest range extended down to Bb0.
I witnessed JD Sumner & the Stamps live in July 1965, and he sang much lower than F1, as it seems you admit. In the solo "Jesus Will Be There" he hit a solid D1, and in another instance he swaggered down to a G0, which is 2 notes lower than the piano.
This is a really good compilation and even some notes I had never heard before. I want to clarify that JD Sumner did not need or use fry. His speaking voice alone was lower than most of these clips. Anyone who can nail a B0 and act like he could go another octave doesn't need fry. His notes were too well sustained and no flip to fry can be heard. Some people like JD and Tim Storms just have a very rare abnormality that allows them to hit natural lows no one else can. I am sure that JD much like Tim had a vocal cord and vocal fold abnormality that allowed
such extremes.
Wow. He’s truly amazing
Wow! I’ve always thought that his highest was C#4. Definitely subscribing 👍
Great video! Nice to hear lots of clips that I’ve never heard before.
Hi!! did you see my post I made in discord?
Thank you a lot !! I like your videos too keep on singing.
@@JDSumnerStuff Thank you!
@@untappedwolf1366 Hi, I’m not sure who you are so I don’t know what post you are talking about.
@@BassManMatteo I am ceiling fan the one who post this video
I like how it STARTS on an F1
Reasoning behind that i actually find really cool, it starts on F1 bc hes not a bass hes a subcategory of bass called basso profundo, aka contrabass, while bass range goes down to C2 basso profundo goes to G1 so F1 is lower than that range
@@user-ji4cv9lc7f isn’t he an Oktavist though?
@@smashmonster6929 i have absolutely no clue, all im saying is on the vocal range chart hed be basso profundo/contrabass
@@smashmonster6929Oktavist is a choral note, not a voice type. You can be a baritone and also an oktavist.
@@BassManMatteo oh right I forgot about that. Thanks
Funny thing is the older he got the better he got
Elvis only had the best. Period. He loved JD and JD loved him. This is amazing!!
Great video!
I know folk my mother brother and father who just don't "get" JD but I do ever since I first heard him when I was about 9 or 10 in the late 60s early 70s and I still "get" him to this very day. He was incredible and I heard no one to touch him save perhaps Ivan Reboff or Tukka Happenimen(?).
Someone recently pointed out to me that J. D. Sumner hit a chest F4 on Invisible Hands uploaded by “Bass Singer Eric Winston” on CZcams.
Yeah I've seen this comment, but thanks anyway
11:03 JD nearly broke the speakers LOL.
0:33 Is actually E1 but other than that, really good job!
1:30 Finally I'm seeing that in a compilation!
Either sounds like a jet 🛩️ passing; a motorcycle stopping or lurch from the Adam’s family
Nice vid
its ridiculous how he speaks a octave below from a bass or baritone man
Most of the notes that jd sang are A0 and lower are actually not fry notes,,they just sound like it because his voice is sooo deep
I don't know, there's a big difference of air flow between the chest notes and the fry notes and they don't sound the same. But I may be wrong and you may be right as some people claim he could hit notes below the piano in chest voice
@@JDSumnerStuff I personally think his lowest chest note was G0 and his lowest subharmonic note was C0 and every note below C0 he hit is fry .hope this makes a little sense,,great job on the video
@@JDSumnerStuff overall,his lowest standard note is C0
@@ictdpowerstroke4591 Hi, isnt a CO five or six notes below the AO on the piano?👍✌️
@@kennyhuskisson2684 Yeah, it's 5 notes lower then a A0.
The D5 was so good that it wasn’t even in the video
I made this video before discovering the recording. There's the link in the pinned comment
Can you tell me what's this song at this clip in 14:59 (by the way i like how gets closer and smile to the camera 😂😂😂)
Yeah I also found that funny that's why I put it in the video🤣. The song is "Funny How Time Slips Away" from a concert at Antwerp, Belgium
At 35:23 : czcams.com/video/UFRtEVZOFWc/video.html
The g0 was actually not a chest fry it was his lowest chest note
18:18 hey um, can you give me a link of this clip please, I've been finding this song but nothing found. So please 🙏
It's a little commercial made in 1960 with the Blackwood Brothers at 1:11:51 : czcams.com/video/8QZvZEiR8ng/video.html&ab_channel=COUNTRYGOSPELBenSound
@@JDSumnerStuffok thanks
8:48
At 14:46 from Bass Man Matteo : czcams.com/video/PbAy4NESIQA/video.html&ab_channel=BassManMatteo%F0%9D%84%A2
At 14:33 it's not jd Sumner who did a A3, it's Big Chief Wetherington who did it
Possible, the bass is indeed Big Chief but I thought the tone on the A3 sounded like JD, I may be wrong thanks for pointing that out
me turning up the volume so i can harmonise with JD:
the dickhead tenor yelling at the top of his lungs in the next clip:
What song was that at 18:03 please
It is a live version of "The Old Country Church" in 1964
@@JDSumnerStuff thank you!
18:26 no sera qué Sumner estuvo con Tim Storm😳?
Sorry to disappoint you but I think it's Ronnie Mabe, the pianist for the Stamps, either way Tim Storms would have been only 8yo since this show was recorded in 1980.
I am curious as to where 9:50 where takes place, as in the year.
I don't know. I took it from Bass Man Matteo at 10:02 : czcams.com/video/KL5JOuWQs8E/video.html . Maybe he could give us more information about it
@@JDSumnerStuff It sounds like it was taken most likely from a Elvis concert here on CZcams, in many of the Elvis concerts here on CZcams that I've watched Elvis always showed off his voice in the 70's.
He says "man" so I guess it's from "I got a women/Amen" that Elvis used to sing with him
@@JDSumnerStuff I can also tell, since that's how JD did the slide at the concerts when Elvis told him to do it. Usually saying, "Go do it JD." or "Help out JD.", and goes down into the slide.
@@JDSumnerStuff I can also tell, since that's how JD did the slide at the concerts when Elvis told him to do it. Usually saying, "Go do it JD." or "Help me out JD.", and goes down into the slide.
03:17 pls can I get the full video
It's a live version of "I got a woman/Amen" from this video : czcams.com/video/ipySxFAFlOw/video.html
@@JDSumnerStuff Thanks
Called subharmonics now more than fry. That one with Elvis was subharmonic
Nope it’s chest note full chest
It's chest voice, he can hit a Bb0 rather easily and with a straight face. Just putting it out of his mouth and he wasn't singing.
Nope. I heard him in person and it is his real voice. Subharmonic is weak and without timbre; JD never used that or fry because he didn't need to.
What song at 0:51?, and at 0:22
At 0:51 it is "I Am A Pilgrim" that I took from The Wait Is Over at 45:12
czcams.com/video/E5TC37YOwdk/video.html&ab_channel=COUNTRYGOSPELBenSound
And at 0:22 it is "When God's Chariot Comes" with the Blackwood Brothers
czcams.com/video/StgM8xpi8lo/video.html&ab_channel=TheBlackwoodBrothers-Topic
Any other that you want ?
Whats song in 8:19?
It's “Tell Me The Story Again” from “Songs you requested” at 3:32 in this album : czcams.com/video/1rKi-gkXKXI/video.html&ab_channel=wvnative
What's this song at 15:34?
It's a live version of "Roll On Jordan" : czcams.com/video/NRHWBJzc4G4/video.html
@@JDSumnerStuff ok thank you, i appreciate it 🙂👍
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