Nell Carter - Mean To Me

The late, great Nell Carter with her torch song from "Ain't Misbehavin""

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Broadway
• showtune
• diva

[drednm]

SUPERB

[Queerassfolks]

I came to love her because of her show, "Gimme A Break." It is only recently that I've seen her do anything else. I've caught two version of this song by her and loved them. Such a loss.

[bloodandwinearered]

Absolutely stunning performance. 

[ttmor]

That echo is just dodgy analog recording equipment.

Don't start thinking that it was any kind of effect. Singers could SING in those days. Not like these sad autotuned overamplified times.

[Mondia87]

@evangar no actually, she was just pulling back on her voice to make it softer. It's a technique used in some singing styles. It was very abrupt and I see why you might think it was an error, but she did it with her voice on purpose.

[Mondia87]

@evangar no actually, she was just pulling back on her voice to make it softer. It's a technique used in some singing styles. It was very abrupt and I see why you might think it was an error, but she did it with her voice on purpose.

[Mondia87]

@evangar no actually, she was just pulling back on her voice to make it softer. It's a technique used in some singing styles. It was very abrupt and I see why you might think it was an error, but she did it with her voice on purpose.

[yaffytaffy12345]

Oh yeah!! I hear that! It sounded like some sort of an echo.

Weird.

[LoyalTideFan]

Sublime.

[anniebaby99]

let that go.

[evangar]

listen very closely at 2:31. Either it is a youtube error or it's the soundtrack she was using as a base skipping. She wasn't totally lip synching but I think she was using it to make her voice sound more robust.

[iboudiop]

We love ya Honey!