He did a book called "Humming," where he went to different neighborhoods in Germany and across Europe for about 10 years now. RASCOE: (Laughter) But he studies humming. MOREL: It's, maybe it's - I mean, I'm saying that euphemistically mainly. RASCOE: There's a humologist? You found out there's a humologist? MOREL: I did some research and spoke to an actual, like, humologist (ph), if you will.
And it's a very short hum, but in that, it kind of sets off what would then become one of the biggest memes of his career. MOREL: Kid Cudi's father passing away was a really big moment in his life. KID CUDI: (Rapping) Took a turn to the worse when my father left me lonely (humming). Kid Cudi has been humming since his debut album, "Man On The Moon Part I" (ph). MOREL: (Laughter) He's going to - you know, he's taking notes. RASCOE: He going to have to have a word, but OK. Rager might have to have a word with that. When you said that there isn't anybody that could hum like Teddy Pendergrass, I was like, Mr. You've actually done a deep dive into another artist who is really into humming. OK, so, I mean, obviously, I could talk about Teddy for hours, but we're not going to just leave it there. RASCOE: "Don't Leave Me This Way." Like, he needs you, and he's going to - I love that. First, that there's an intro and, two, that, like, it really is - he's setting himself up for those three big choruses. MOREL: But with that new context, listening to this song sounds completely different to me. PENDERGRASS: (Singing) Now can't you see it's burning out of control? MOREL: And it's almost like he's steeling himself. And I feel like Teddy Pendergrass spends a minute of that song humming because the rest of the song is him trying to convince his lover to not leave him. It's something - it's, like, a mindless thing you do as you're working out a puzzle or you're cleaning, right? And if you'd - before the days where you're just constantly wearing headphones, right? Or if you're trying to, like, soothe a baby to sleep and you can't be too loud, you hum. It's something that you do for - only when people are around you or if you're by yourself. And my theory is humming is an intimate act. But then when it got to the chorus, I was like, oh, I've totally heard this song - sing to every single movie ever. MOREL: I think it's absolutely amazing because I showed my youth in - I had never heard at the beginning of the song. I just have to say - I mean, thoughts on that. PENDERGRASS: (Singing) Don't leave me this way. RASCOE: Jacques, let's just listen to a little more of Teddy first 'cause I can't get enough. It's a challenge we put to music commentator Jacques Morel. But it did get us to thinking about what other artists are great hummers. RASCOE: And let me tell you, can't nobody hum like Teddy Pendergrass. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY") Before Teddy starts singing, he actually hums. One of his hits with Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. (SOUNDBITE OF HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUENOTES SONG, "DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY") I was on a road trip a few days ago listening to this song.
The others were “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Galveston”.OK, confession time. Per Webb – “And it’s almost as though the song was waiting for the singer and the singer was waiting for the song.” The song was one of three great hits written by Webb for Glen Campbell, all about three cities in the south. One of those rare songs that seems somehow to exist in a world of its own – not just timeless but ultimately outside of modern music…“Wichita Lineman” falls somewhere between pop and country music, without really being either.įrom the album with same name, where it was the only original Glen Campbell song. The song constantly ranks high on the lists of “best of all times”, with a nice [BC take on it – The song’s accolades are deservedly split between the singer and the songwriter, Jimmy Webb and included from a “great moment in music history” to “"Wichita Lineman” just might be the best song ever written" and “The first existential country song”. The 1968 song by Glen Campbell (reached #3 on the Billboard charts).
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