JD Sumner vocal range (D-2 to D5)(read pinned comment)

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  • Hii !! I wanted to share with you the vocal range of JD Sumner. I tried to select some unknown clips of him singing low and high. By listening to albums on youtube, I found rare recordings that I used in this video. I wanted to make this video to make people discover the real talent of JD, that he's not only extremely low but also he could sing high and because nobody's okay with which note is his lowest and highest. I noticed that in the old recordings he sometimes used falsetto at the end of songs so it's usually there that I found high notes. It's not impossible that I made mistakes on the notes he hit so please excuse me if it happens. It is hard especially with the low ones because it's difficult to find the exact note and with the high notes I now recognize his tone in his upper register as it is generally pretty weak and recognizable compared to others.

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  • @JDSumnerStuff
    @JDSumnerStuff  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Little corrections :
    Lowest note : D-2 fry note at 9:03
    th-cam.com/video/TZcHfUj510M/w-d-xo.html
    Lowest chest note : seems to be a G0 at 7:53
    th-cam.com/video/xf6zANxm1TE/w-d-xo.html
    Highest chest note : F4 at 4:10
    th-cam.com/video/dvht5EbR7dg/w-d-xo.html
    Highest falsetto note : D5 at 15:30
    th-cam.com/video/Zm-1QKfPtyo/w-d-xo.html
    Making a chest range of 3 octaves and 10 semitons and a total range of 7 octaves.

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/Eibu91j5uE8/w-d-xo.html Here's a clip where I think could be useful in terms of finding a low note, at 2:48. Unfortunately, the audio was cut out towards the end of the slide.

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks a lot! The note is between F1 and F#1 and he seems to hold it. Most of the time JD slides to an F1 or E1, but in some rare recordings he has gone lower than that. th-cam.com/video/Qx0dgqDPino/w-d-xo.html, in this recording I recently discovered, at 6:19, he slides to a very low chest note between A0 and B0 then he slides up to an E1. It's hard to determine the exact note, but it's a good recording for the lowest chest notes he reached in his life.

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JDSumnerStuff I am curious as to what his lowest note would've been in the 90's, as his voice as dropped a bit since these Elvis concerts. Like Tim Storms, JD as stated that he's never really gone through a voice changing phase and it's just deepened as he got older.

    • @antoniodonacardozo6984
      @antoniodonacardozo6984 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@VanerovThe voice of J.D. it also got more serious as he got older, as well as age, which is common the voice deepens and becomes hoarse as we get older, as well as cigarettes and whiskey, which also deepens the voice and makes it deeper.

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@antoniodonacardozo6984 Yeah, but even in his younger days He was singing very low chest notes in the 1st octave relatively easy. As He got older, you could always hear Him breathing in a lot as well, and He lost the tone He once had.

  • @TheLowest
    @TheLowest 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Where most other bass singers try to artificially shape their voices when going low and maintain as much resonance as possible, jd is literally the only one to sing in a neutral position, he doesn't resonate too much and if anything can sound breathy and soft because he's simply just got a low voice and doesn't need to strain. He had such a haunting and amazing tone to his voice, it's wisdom and peace captured in audio form.

  • @srcmadmanhrgmadgirl8179
    @srcmadmanhrgmadgirl8179 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Only Sumner could have a compilation on high notes start on a F3

    • @BassManMatteo
      @BassManMatteo ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Richard Sterban’s vocal range had the high notes start at D3. But nobody else has a low note compilation start at F1.

    • @srcmadmanhrgmadgirl8179
      @srcmadmanhrgmadgirl8179 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@BassManMatteo *Only Richard could have a compilation on high notes start on a D3

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      @lowlightpiano7110 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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  • @jrk1666
    @jrk1666 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Only Sumner could have a compilation on low notes start on a F1

    • @SouthPawBowler24
      @SouthPawBowler24 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Actually his lowest chest note is a G0 he doesn’t use fry it’s just a really thin deep chest note down in A0

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@SouthPawBowler24 I would agree, seeing how easy his B0-Bb0 notes are for him, I know for a fact his lowest chest note is lower then a Bb0. One time in a clip with Ralph Emery, an interviewer, he did a Bb0 just straight out of his mouth without any sliding with a straight face.

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      @lowlightpiano7110 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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      @artv4nd3l4y 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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    • @johndeeregreen4592
      @johndeeregreen4592 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SouthPawBowler24, his G0 is chest-fry. Run a note through a spectrum analyzer and it will tell the full story. JD was, however, still in full chest voice at C1, which I know of only one person lower and that's the great Oktavist Mikhail Zlatopolsky, who's chest range extended down to Bb0.

  • @thebassmanadam
    @thebassmanadam 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a really good compilation and even some notes I had never heard before. I want to clarify that JD Sumner did not need or use fry. His speaking voice alone was lower than most of these clips. Anyone who can nail a B0 and act like he could go another octave doesn't need fry. His notes were too well sustained and no flip to fry can be heard. Some people like JD and Tim Storms just have a very rare abnormality that allows them to hit natural lows no one else can. I am sure that JD much like Tim had a vocal cord and vocal fold abnormality that allowed
    such extremes.

  • @accousticdecay
    @accousticdecay 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I witnessed JD Sumner & the Stamps live in July 1965, and he sang much lower than F1, as it seems you admit. In the solo "Jesus Will Be There" he hit a solid D1, and in another instance he swaggered down to a G0, which is 2 notes lower than the piano.

  • @BassManMatteo
    @BassManMatteo ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Great video! Nice to hear lots of clips that I’ve never heard before.

    • @untappedwolf1366
      @untappedwolf1366 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi!! did you see my post I made in discord?

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you a lot !! I like your videos too keep on singing.

    • @BassManMatteo
      @BassManMatteo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JDSumnerStuff Thank you!

    • @BassManMatteo
      @BassManMatteo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@untappedwolf1366 Hi, I’m not sure who you are so I don’t know what post you are talking about.

    • @untappedwolf1366
      @untappedwolf1366 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BassManMatteo I am ceiling fan the one who post this video

  • @TaigaMoriBass
    @TaigaMoriBass ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow! I’ve always thought that his highest was C#4. Definitely subscribing 👍

  • @garethsmyth6593
    @garethsmyth6593 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    11:03 JD nearly broke the speakers LOL.

  • @smashmonster6929
    @smashmonster6929 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I like how it STARTS on an F1

    • @user-ji4cv9lc7f
      @user-ji4cv9lc7f 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Reasoning behind that i actually find really cool, it starts on F1 bc hes not a bass hes a subcategory of bass called basso profundo, aka contrabass, while bass range goes down to C2 basso profundo goes to G1 so F1 is lower than that range

    • @smashmonster6929
      @smashmonster6929 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-ji4cv9lc7f isn’t he an Oktavist though?

    • @user-ji4cv9lc7f
      @user-ji4cv9lc7f 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@smashmonster6929 i have absolutely no clue, all im saying is on the vocal range chart hed be basso profundo/contrabass

    • @BassManMatteo
      @BassManMatteo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@smashmonster6929Oktavist is a choral note, not a voice type. You can be a baritone and also an oktavist.

    • @smashmonster6929
      @smashmonster6929 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BassManMatteo oh right I forgot about that. Thanks

  • @melissastruxness512
    @melissastruxness512 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Elvis only had the best. Period. He loved JD and JD loved him. This is amazing!!

  • @lowluvver
    @lowluvver ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know folk my mother brother and father who just don't "get" JD but I do ever since I first heard him when I was about 9 or 10 in the late 60s early 70s and I still "get" him to this very day. He was incredible and I heard no one to touch him save perhaps Ivan Reboff or Tukka Happenimen(?).

  • @BassManMatteo
    @BassManMatteo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Someone recently pointed out to me that J. D. Sumner hit a chest F4 on Invisible Hands uploaded by “Bass Singer Eric Winston” on TH-cam.

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah I've seen this comment, but thanks anyway

  • @arthurculver2773
    @arthurculver2773 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Funny thing is the older he got the better he got

  • @ailtonsouzadearaujojunior2210
    @ailtonsouzadearaujojunior2210 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video!

  • @MultiKamil97
    @MultiKamil97 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:33 Is actually E1 but other than that, really good job!

  • @ailtonsouzadearaujojunior2210
    @ailtonsouzadearaujojunior2210 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:30 Finally I'm seeing that in a compilation!

  • @jr2k2rj
    @jr2k2rj 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Either sounds like a jet 🛩️ passing; a motorcycle stopping or lurch from the Adam’s family

  • @ictdpowerstroke4591
    @ictdpowerstroke4591 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Most of the notes that jd sang are A0 and lower are actually not fry notes,,they just sound like it because his voice is sooo deep

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't know, there's a big difference of air flow between the chest notes and the fry notes and they don't sound the same. But I may be wrong and you may be right as some people claim he could hit notes below the piano in chest voice

    • @ictdpowerstroke4591
      @ictdpowerstroke4591 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@JDSumnerStuff I personally think his lowest chest note was G0 and his lowest subharmonic note was C0 and every note below C0 he hit is fry .hope this makes a little sense,,great job on the video

    • @ictdpowerstroke4591
      @ictdpowerstroke4591 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JDSumnerStuff overall,his lowest standard note is C0

    • @kennyhuskisson2684
      @kennyhuskisson2684 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@ictdpowerstroke4591 Hi, isnt a CO five or six notes below the AO on the piano?👍✌️

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kennyhuskisson2684 Yeah, it's 5 notes lower then a A0.

  • @ferziovelazquez5254
    @ferziovelazquez5254 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    its ridiculous how he speaks a octave below from a bass or baritone man

  • @Dadood_Frumcheers
    @Dadood_Frumcheers หลายเดือนก่อน

    The D5 was so good that it wasn’t even in the video

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I made this video before discovering the recording. There's the link in the pinned comment

  • @matthewdockray9745
    @matthewdockray9745 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice vid

  • @crymsonyt5686
    @crymsonyt5686 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The g0 was actually not a chest fry it was his lowest chest note

  • @leonardotrevisam2662
    @leonardotrevisam2662 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    8:48

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  ปีที่แล้ว

      At 14:46 from Bass Man Matteo : th-cam.com/video/PbAy4NESIQA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=BassManMatteo%F0%9D%84%A2

  • @Johnlarryshorts
    @Johnlarryshorts 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you tell me what's this song at this clip in 14:59 (by the way i like how gets closer and smile to the camera 😂😂😂)

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah I also found that funny that's why I put it in the video🤣. The song is "Funny How Time Slips Away" from a concert at Antwerp, Belgium
      At 35:23 : th-cam.com/video/UFRtEVZOFWc/w-d-xo.html

  • @Johnlarryshorts
    @Johnlarryshorts 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At 14:33 it's not jd Sumner who did a A3, it's Big Chief Wetherington who did it

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Possible, the bass is indeed Big Chief but I thought the tone on the A3 sounded like JD, I may be wrong thanks for pointing that out

  • @Johnlarryshorts
    @Johnlarryshorts ปีที่แล้ว

    18:18 hey um, can you give me a link of this clip please, I've been finding this song but nothing found. So please 🙏

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a little commercial made in 1960 with the Blackwood Brothers at 1:11:51 : th-cam.com/video/8QZvZEiR8ng/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=COUNTRYGOSPELBenSound

    • @Johnlarryshorts
      @Johnlarryshorts 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@JDSumnerStuffok thanks

  • @ictdpowerstroke4591
    @ictdpowerstroke4591 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What song was that at 18:03 please

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is a live version of "The Old Country Church" in 1964

    • @ictdpowerstroke4591
      @ictdpowerstroke4591 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JDSumnerStuff thank you!

  • @Johnathan-hj3mm
    @Johnathan-hj3mm 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    me turning up the volume so i can harmonise with JD:
    the dickhead tenor yelling at the top of his lungs in the next clip:

  • @Alexad3
    @Alexad3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    18:26 no sera qué Sumner estuvo con Tim Storm😳?

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sorry to disappoint you but I think it's Ronnie Mabe, the pianist for the Stamps, either way Tim Storms would have been only 8yo since this show was recorded in 1980.

  • @Vanerov
    @Vanerov 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am curious as to where 9:50 where takes place, as in the year.

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't know. I took it from Bass Man Matteo at 10:02 : th-cam.com/video/KL5JOuWQs8E/w-d-xo.html . Maybe he could give us more information about it

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JDSumnerStuff It sounds like it was taken most likely from a Elvis concert here on TH-cam, in many of the Elvis concerts here on TH-cam that I've watched Elvis always showed off his voice in the 70's.

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He says "man" so I guess it's from "I got a women/Amen" that Elvis used to sing with him

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JDSumnerStuff I can also tell, since that's how JD did the slide at the concerts when Elvis told him to do it. Usually saying, "Go do it JD." or "Help out JD.", and goes down into the slide.

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JDSumnerStuff I can also tell, since that's how JD did the slide at the concerts when Elvis told him to do it. Usually saying, "Go do it JD." or "Help me out JD.", and goes down into the slide.

  • @melissastruxness512
    @melissastruxness512 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Called subharmonics now more than fry. That one with Elvis was subharmonic

    • @SouthPawBowler24
      @SouthPawBowler24 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nope it’s chest note full chest

    • @Vanerov
      @Vanerov 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's chest voice, he can hit a Bb0 rather easily and with a straight face. Just putting it out of his mouth and he wasn't singing.

    • @accousticdecay
      @accousticdecay 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nope. I heard him in person and it is his real voice. Subharmonic is weak and without timbre; JD never used that or fry because he didn't need to.

  • @wyattwilliams2457
    @wyattwilliams2457 ปีที่แล้ว

    What song at 0:51?, and at 0:22

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  ปีที่แล้ว

      At 0:51 it is "I Am A Pilgrim" that I took from The Wait Is Over at 45:12
      th-cam.com/video/E5TC37YOwdk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=COUNTRYGOSPELBenSound
      And at 0:22 it is "When God's Chariot Comes" with the Blackwood Brothers
      th-cam.com/video/StgM8xpi8lo/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TheBlackwoodBrothers-Topic
      Any other that you want ?

  • @themachine7557
    @themachine7557 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    03:17 pls can I get the full video

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a live version of "I got a woman/Amen" from this video : th-cam.com/video/ipySxFAFlOw/w-d-xo.html

    • @themachine7557
      @themachine7557 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JDSumnerStuff Thanks

  • @adnasilva9323
    @adnasilva9323 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whats song in 8:19?

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's “Tell Me The Story Again” from “Songs you requested” at 3:32 in this album : th-cam.com/video/1rKi-gkXKXI/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=wvnative

  • @Johnlarryshorts
    @Johnlarryshorts 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What's this song at 15:34?

    • @JDSumnerStuff
      @JDSumnerStuff  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's a live version of "Roll On Jordan" : th-cam.com/video/NRHWBJzc4G4/w-d-xo.html

    • @Johnlarryshorts
      @Johnlarryshorts 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JDSumnerStuff ok thank you, i appreciate it 🙂👍

  • @lowlightpiano7110
    @lowlightpiano7110 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him.
    John 3:16
    Romans 3:23❤😊❤😊❤