Re: Love-Hounds digest V12 #22

[Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@nursepo.medctr.ucla.edu>]

cbullard@HiWAAY.net (Len Bullard) wrote:
>
> Not having read those, I don't know if this was debated,
> but sometimes a bit of grammatical fudging is done
> to get the notes to sound correctly.  The rule of thumb
> is, vowels carry sound, consonants chop air.  So a morph
> combination like "..se mo.." comes out as "smoo" unless
> an extra rest beat is stuck in and that kills the phrasing.
> We don't pay much attention to these things in speaking,
> but in singing and particularly in recording where the
> performance is listened to and analyzed *to death*,
> a singer often chooses phrasing over grammar.  

Is this why it sounds as if one of those cheery blue Smurfs is
"playing his guitar refrain" in the middle of "MoP"?

:-)

Robb