Why we'll never hear another voice like Judy Garland's

Judy was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

It would be interesting to hear Judy’s OTR pitch corrected.

Very interesting video,thanks ,another Judy fan.

Judy's and Billie Holliday's voices were special because you could hear the pain in them. In Judy's case, also a great deal of warmth, which sat particularly poignantly beside the pain.

With the possible exceptions of Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse, you don't get that complexity of timbre any more, with or without pitch correction. The worst thing that ever happened to Taylor Swift was evidently that her ex-boyfriend looked better in her scarf than she did, and the worst thing that ever happened to Beyonce was Taylor Swift.

Pitch correction is not the issue. The issue is that pop singers are not trained correctly and don’t have techniques. The art of singing has been lost for pop singers, and most musical theater singers.

She was alright, I guess ...

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Voish.

ha! ha! ha! I'll say

R5 is right. There's lots of singers that still hit the notes. Luis Miguel and Mark Anthony for instance. In Latino culture the old operatic sense prevails so people become fine tuned, literally. American music is mechanical and pedestrian.

I'd put (Little) Esther Phillips on the list of memorable 20th Century female voices. She's like a rawer Dinah Washington

Very interesting, OP! Thanks for posting.

You learn something new every day -- if you're paying attention.

Here's another interesting comparison.

In this one, he notes how Karen Carpenter's pitch is so good, it almost sounds like she's lip synching a live performance until you look closely at the wave forms. The consistency of her voice is amazing.