tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post676289300339250530..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Rexing a song instead of singing it - A phenomenon surprisingly common, but seldom noticed (when done with panache)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-32981424858240227972020-12-21T06:25:23.986+00:002020-12-21T06:25:23.986+00:00Oh, I'll bet Harrison could have Rexed Nessun ...Oh, I'll bet Harrison could have Rexed <i>Nessun Dorma</i> but it would have worked better if a tenor sang the first verse and Harrison then prefaced his rendering with "The words mean..." and followed with an English translation.<br /><br />Your brother performed the only broadly-comical Major-General Stanley I've enjoyed. W.S. Gilbert once dressed down an actor for playing Stanley with lots of little pratfalls and other business. The actor protested, saying that the audience had laughed. Gilbert replied that they would have laughed if he'd sat in a pie.<br /><br />Gilbert died decades before the Monty Python phenomenon. Your brother was 'Palining' it.a_probsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16197411067925016452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-4868348888240554572020-11-21T07:37:53.397+00:002020-11-21T07:37:53.397+00:00@Joseph - My sister is probably the most naturally...@Joseph - My sister is probably the most naturally droll member of us Charlton siblings IRL, but does her only public work in a context of writing the annual nativity play for her primary school. She may well have been the one to invent the term 'Rexing' (and would certainly *claim* to have done so...). Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-80319616011880736862020-11-21T03:44:20.976+00:002020-11-21T03:44:20.976+00:00Thanks for the links to the other Charlton. Very f...Thanks for the links to the other Charlton. Very fun. Christmas must be quite a hoot with your family.Joseph A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-83473237477500491342020-11-18T14:53:16.542+00:002020-11-18T14:53:16.542+00:00Well, I for one certainly noticed that Rex Harriso...Well, I for one certainly noticed that Rex Harrison wasn't singing. When the Doctor Dolittle film came out, I had just learned to carry a tune myself and reveled in my superiority. Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06030980000235824571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-84812962184393432692020-11-18T06:37:55.875+00:002020-11-18T06:37:55.875+00:00@Wm - It is interesting how many singers weren'...@Wm - It is interesting how many singers weren't. And there are plenty who do sing who I wish would learn Rexing instead.<br /><br />There is, of course, a continuum between Rexing and singing - about halfway is a thing where one 'speaks the note', and avoids all sustained production of tone - just 'touching' on the notes, rather than 'voicing' them. This, too, is quite common. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-43799494453570506512020-11-18T03:05:52.070+00:002020-11-18T03:05:52.070+00:00Leonard Cohen Rexed almost all of his songs.Leonard Cohen Rexed almost all of his songs.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.com