FW: Question about Silver Jubilee Album

[Alice DuBois <Adubois@NILESLIBRARY.ORG>]

There's a machine ... it dates easily from GG's days ... it raises or
lowers the pitch of a recorded voice without changing the speed.
It was first used (maybe even invented for) when the adolescent pop singer
from
the Partridge Family, David Cassidy, who was breaking the hearts of the
world's 12-year-old girls, went through his voice change
and his register dropped; this let him keep singing normally, but
reproduced his old pre-change boy soprano. Nowadays this is commonplace
digital technology, but it was revolutionary then and saved his career
(?). I don't know if GG employed it in this case, but he would certainly
have known about it and been curious about it as a nifty studio toy.

Elmer / Bob

*Gee, I listened to said Cassie Mackerel part of "A Glenn Gould Fantasy"
again and i'm still befuddled!  It just sounds like a woman's voice so much-
there is even this charming crack in it every so often....  I guess either
answer is believable:  technically enhanced or plain vocal prowess on
Gould's part.  The above Pop Culture tidbit about David Cassidy is
fascinating. David should thank his lucky stars he didn't live in the age of
Castrati-  EE-YOW!

Sorry, ill stop now:

-Alice