{"id":1170,"date":"2004-07-25T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2004-07-25T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T04:08:00","slug":"popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Popeye, Tuvan Singer&#8230; so says Billy West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got to hear a panel with a series of respected members of the voice-over industry. Among them were: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0016085\/\">Joe Alaskey<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0074185\/\">Gregg Berger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0743719\/\">Neil Ross<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0448624\/\">Tom Kenny<\/a> and of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0921942\/\">Billy West.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On an unrelated note, I got to see a tribute to voice GODDESS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004931\/\">June Foray<\/a>, later that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>West (besides ranting viciously on the influx of &#8216;celebrities&#8217; into the world of voice-work) talked about getting the job for voicing Popeye. He was listening to recordings and realized that there were two parts to Popeye&#8217;s voice. These two parts were offset by an octave. He was further amazed when at a concert demonstrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotuva.org\/music\/\">Tuvan throat singing<\/a>, he&#8217;d come to the realization that Popeye&#8217;s voice worked the same way.<\/p>\n<p>After a great deal of time and practice, he&#8217;d managed to get the octave buzzing in his throat, each vocal chord hitting a different octave. This gave the voice that high voice with a lower octave buzz.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the last thing I was expecting was to hear a lecture on Tuvan meditation from the guy who voiced Stimpy the Cat and Fry from Futurama.<\/p>\n<p>I have only ever seen one other entertainer do this. There was a ventriloquist&#8230; who&#8217;s name I will never remember. He did a routine with 2 dummies. A Mortermer Snerd style and a prissy female. At one point he swaps their voices. Towards the end of the routine he sings, &#8220;Wherever we go, we&#8217;re gonna go thru it together.&#8221; He does it as a trio, singing one voice at a time. At one point he sings (in his own voice,) &#8220;Wherever&#8230;&#8221; the two dummies follow him in chorus, &#8220;Together&#8230;&#8221; With one voice the deep silly bass and the other falsetto. At the time I thought it had to be looped&#8230; But the Sound is unmistakable.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could remember the name of the ventriloquist, because the performance was stunning. <\/p>\n<p>Just random notes while procrastinating on a sunday evening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1170\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1170\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1170\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to hear a panel with a series of respected members of the voice-over industry. Among them were: Joe Alaskey, Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Tom Kenny and of course Billy West. On an unrelated note, I got to see a tribute to voice GODDESS June Foray, later that afternoon. West (besides ranting viciously on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1170\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1170\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1170\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/25\/popeye-tuvan-singer-so-says-billy-west\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1X6ba-iS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}