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  • ive heard colm wilkinson hold the end note in music of the night for 40 seconds

  • Jonsi holds a note for 50 seconds in Sigur Ros' live performance of Festival on the INNI DVD

  • @GeorgeMaier I'd love to see it. Can you post it?

  • @omegacds vimeo dot com /28814716 will get you there - 2:25 - 3:15 if I remember rightly :)

  • longest? no way! search "barbra streisand - a piece of sky"....

  • @rosenbergbenadretti A) not sure it's as long, B) it's not live Anyway there are plenty of claims to the longest note, this is easily the longest I have seen done live and unassisted that is sung, not some little hum or squeak.

  • @ArashiFan4Ever No problem, at least you are Polite! I should put some more recent stuff up from the Oslo gig.

  • @ArashiFan4Ever Yes he is, sorry about the piss poor quality. It was raining in Norway and on my old camera.

  • Christina Aguilera does better and more time

  • @gaara125able higher maybe, not longer. Better is a question of taste....

  • I agree, don't go hatin' just 'cause there are others than can sustain a note with their voice longer. This guy did something you probably could never do in a century, so what gives you lot the right to come here and speak a load of rubbish? Go back in your pits, you filthy flamers.

  • i love the morten's voice, pure, sweet... i will love him always. you can't compare opera to pop, it's not the same ! but for me, he is the best !

  • I held longer in my car today..

  • I didn't hear a voice.

  • thats like ilegal!

  • Singers who can/could hold a really long note: Slim Whitman (over one minute!), Frank Sinatra (Live Version of Ol Man River), Chris Isaak (Wicked Game) and of course Morton Harket.

  • He is MortEn Harket

  • I see a couple of people have mentioned Montserrat Caballe's impressive long notes. She is a marvellously talented singer. Can someone point me to any good performances of hers on YouTube for long notes?

  • local joke for Mexico: "se me fue el aire... fue horrible... fue horrible".

    2 the 1's who say "nah, Mr. I-don't-know-who holds the note for longer" are just loosers who just are looking 4 what to criticize. Conceded, there`s people who can actually hold long notes like Caballe or whoever; the point is: why not better say that this is something not anyone can do and recognize it, and not just throw crap. amen.

  • Amen brother.

  • Sista, actually.

    By the way, the same kind of people I was talking about would be eager to thow back that me, poor loser, wrote "looser" and that probably i don't even know Monserrat Caballe. Well, I happen 2 know the lady, wonderful opera singer who sang along with Freddy Mercury.

    Useless, but I had 2 say it.

  • Apologies.

    Amen sister.

  • Hahaha fue horrible!!! pero no, la nota es hermosa, AMEN!

  • This is the longest note held in a charting song, having beaten Bill Withers' 18 seconds in Lovely Day. People can hold longer notes. The record for the longest is held by Dean Frenkel who held a note for 57 seconds, but it wasn't in a song let alone a charting one.

  • And wasn't that more like a hum?

  • pure noise, pure shit. don't lie the people men

  • thanks! very erudite!

  • Ghastly

  • Totally agree!!!:)

  • Thank you! New gigs soon!

  • Montserrat Caballe can easily do 28 seconds on an operatic stage and continue to sing the heavy role throughout.

  • there is a longer note than that in phantom of the opera

  • FUCKING BULLSHIT

  • Cheers!

  • it was 20.2 seconds long

  • This version? I know the studio recording was 20.2 seconds and it's usually about the same live... maybe fractionally longer here? I haven't timed this so precisely! Morten's 20.2 seconds was the longest vocal note in a hit record (Summer Moved On - plenty of clearer versions on YouTube), and the really awesome bit is that he follows it up with a high note after only a tiny pause for breath... but it's not the longest note ever. Not even close.

  • what the hell

  • Looks like a big mess.

    Just like your bedroom in mummies house.

  • Sad to say this video was a waste of time uploading, the quality is terrible.

  • Glad you like it.

    If it takes that long to upload I suggest a new PC.

  • That doesn't even make sense - as I was talking about why you even bothered uploading that crap, it was a waste of your time - if it had been audible in anyway then maybe it would have been worth it. What an insult to Aha, Poor Morten lol

  • takes no time man! I went to the loo.

    I think you need to lighten up my friend. It only takes a second to switch it off.

    I suggest a nice foot spa and bottle of wine.

  • lol

  • Harket held the record for the longest single note, for a man, in a hit-song, having held a note for 20.2 seconds in a-ha's 2000 song "Summer Moved On". This overtook the previous record of 18 seconds held by Bill Withers in the song "Lovely Day".[1]. He held this record until Sahaj Ticotin of the band Ra broke the record, holding a note for 24 seconds.

    Wikipedia. Must be true!

    Never heard of this Werner dude.

  • never heard of werner - god you've missed something

  • I may well have, I'll go have a listen later.

  • RememberJan has quite a few nice vids, go ahead - you won't regret, I promise

  • how long the longest continuous note for a female artist?

  • some utube guy did it for 1:04

  • that was more of a hum that singing.

  • It's not just a matter of length, it's also a matter of volume. It's much harder to hold a note that long when you're singing that loud.

  • Agreed!

  • Jan Werner held a live note for 30 seconds, blank.

  • Not anymore. This record has been beat twice already :(

  • ok but it says a record for a hit song and this is alive tht counts is not is a studio recording

    greetings^-^

  • Regardless of the vid quality -

    he holds that note for forever and three days!

  • Indeed. I did take it on my camera in the middle of a Norwegian storm.

    They were awesome.

  • You got this from your camera? Nice.

  • actaully yes the vid is awesome this is a material´s fan only;)

  • I agree.  Sorry. :o(

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