Mind-Blowing Reaction to Pink Floyd's Iconic: The Great Gig in the Sky

[@scottchapin2323]

Clare Tory on vocals and she is a white woman. Goes to show, sometimes you really can't tell. For that matter it doesn't matter. Great song, the stages of grief.

[@jessdati1]

agreed...

[@lipby]

Black people invented a unique way of singing. But like anything else, once invented, it's a skill that can be learned by anyone with natural talent and discipline. Same applies to the many great black opera singers in the opposite direction (Marian Anderson, Jesseye Norman, Leontine Price, Paul Robeson, etc.)

[@scottchapin2323]

@@lipby great singing is great singing, doesn't matter who it is

[@RoadDoug]

Just blown away to find out music was invented.

[@jrb4935]

Shut up

[@wesalker3479]

It's about coming to terms with a terminal diagnosis. She was asked to improv and THIS is what she came up with.

[@RedDawnDaily]

Thanks for watching!

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

​@@RedDawnDaily You are not alone because for many many years until just maybe 5 or 6 years ago I also thought that this was a black woman singing this part!! But surprise surprise and here is a link to an interview with Clare herself telling of how this historical piece of music was made!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3q6aKuQiNGNpa8si=qN4EFNEf2NXgBriy

[@z-man2343]

Nervous cackling due to a lack of understanding and/or the maturity to just listen and absorb what you're hearing is a far cry from being "mesmerized." I wish you well...

[@marlew6629]

spot on. sadly

[@torstenlaumen5766]

This song was performed live at the funeral of Richard Wright, Pink Floyd's keyboardist, in 2008. Durga Mc Broom, a backing singer on the Pink Floyd World Tour, was asked by Rick Wright to do this during his lifetime. As I am in personal contact with Durga Mc Broom, she confirmed this to me. Unconfirmed, however, is the fact that she was accompanied by Jon Lord, keyboardist of Deep Purple, on the piano during the performance.

[@RoadDoug]

Did not know this. It was his song after all.

[@Frank-pe9pk]

One day we will see all the great bands again in the Great Gig in the Sky. In our final transition of our soul.

[@davidboivin7996]

Clare was asked to come in for one afternoon and improvise a vocal solo with no words. She came up with this and improvised it in only two takes. Check out the live version from the Pulse Concert with three women covering Clare's masterpiecè..

[@pauljohnstone180]

You nailed the concept of the song. The singer is Claire Torey a British singer, white. She does have a soulful voice doesn't she. They told her to just vocalize what the different stages of dying would sound like and they recorded it, amazing, huh? Great reaction, thank you, PJ

[@TerenceShortman]

The first person I have seen laugh most people cry its the three stages of death its about a person who is dying Anger, Fear and the quite acceptance. If I am in the right mood, it still brings a tear to my eye as it did when it was first released when I was just 17 years old in 1973.

[@CoolCoyote]

never ever sounded black to me. she sound scottish to me. shes white and an opera singer obviously

[@JaquelineGoodspeed]

Oooh the comments are harsh. I hear what you meant. Pink Floyd has diverse back up singers. One thing about then is groups choose the best regardless of race. Singer here is white rhough. You lost out focusing on elements that not only didn't matter but concealed the genuis of this song. We all die eventually

[@myownchannel247]

Clare Torry on scat vocals, she’s white. She eventually got added to songwriting credit for her amazing contribution ✨

[@mspicer3262]

The Great Gig in the Sky is the sound of your soul leaving your body...

[@mikefetterman6782]

I read that the 3 verses represented Birth, Life, and Dying. Very emotional song.

[@kenrutherford1109]

I almost cry when I hear this song 😭😭😭

[@jaxwins]

You might like Led Zeppelin, Since I've been loving you, live at Madison Square Garden 1973 and also Stairway to heaven live at the same concert.

[@wesalker3479]

Clare Torrey - - - - - not black. . . . .

[@RedDawnDaily]

Thanks !

[@kaydee63]

You should check out the live performance, just as mesmerizing as the album version

[@RedDawnDaily]

Thanks for watching!

[@Pomdownuder]

When you do listen to the album start to finish , - stop thinking and just listen, this particular song is the 5 stages of grief. This was improvised by Clare Tory, given a brief, this is what want to convey. In 2004, Torry sued Pink Floyd and EMI for songwriting royalties on the basis that her contribution to "The Great Gig in the Sky" constituted co-authorship with keyboardist Richard Wright. In 1973, as a session singer, she was paid only the standard flat fee of £30 for Sunday studio work (the equivalent of £400 in 2022) it was an out of court for an undisclosed settlement.

[@caplondon]

Yes, amazing performance by Clare. Give PF credit for thinking of and using it. Definitely something different, and it works. Have a fun weekend ! 😊🎉❤

[@darrellmatz1111]

it about the stages of death the frustration, denial then acceptance and then transcendence song by Clair Torrey in one take she is white Love your reactions 🤓

[@hoodatdare7039]

clare tory blue eyed soul

[@johnallen869]

DSOTM, IMO, is the best album ever made. I've been listening to it since 1973. Try Echoes live at Pompeii, you will love it!

[@RedDawnDaily]

Thanks for watching!

[@philshorten3221]

If you want to see the guys playing in an empty ancient Roman Amphitheatre with No Audience, No Lights, No Pyrotechnics just Gods playing to the Gods kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioXSmpiGjc-oiJosi=bvzBSyr2WOXJIXtC Pink Floyd "Echoes (Part 1) live at Pompeii 1972, a little song about all life on the entire planet and how we are all related and should be better human beings. " strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me "

[@jonathansmith3742]

The greatest female vocal of all time.

[@mikewatts867]

This is not the first time I’ve heard someone ask if this is a guy or a black woman or whatever. The reality of who sang it and the context is for you to discover on your own.

[@softshallow7435]

That bend in the sound is not supposed to be there. it runs smooth as butter till the end. I dunno why this has it, probably because of copyright and no it’s not a black woman it’s a white woman.

[@rancidcrabtree.]

The strange 'time bend' at the end was definitely part of the original LP. I've always assumed it was Alan Parsons trolling listeners as it sounds just like someone lightly adding RPMs to a turntable with a finger. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who looked at my turntable in concern on the first listen.

[@flossiehoward7615]

The sound bend is on purpose - saw an interview with Alan Parsons who said it was his post production nod to the idea of ascending after death .

[@stevenruvolo499]

react to their next album Wish You Here. Another great album by them.

[@kimberlyrineer6822]

5 stages of grief

[@Lorinda212]

She is not black ))

[@davidsouth9979]

Try their live at Pompeii 1972 track Careful With That Axe Eugene. Don’t watch it before you go to bed though.

[@kimberlyrineer6822]

5 foot tall white English girl

[@seanhaywood4597]

great reaction but i would higly recomend that you react to the live version from the pulse concert, it will blow you away

[@campbeld63]

Not sure I'd bother - not yet. If you don't get the original, the live version is just another three minutes or so of meaningless wailing.

[@ade3628]

Clare tory did the vocals, shes white

[@randyobrien2836]

It’s stages of death.

[@davidsouth9979]

And English.

[@paulward1799]

I've always thought of this as aural sex!

[@RedDawnDaily]

Thanks for watching!

[@eugenesouza3819]

First person i ever saw hate this song

[@stevea2639]

White women singin. some of us got some soul as well🙂

[@martinhotze4917]

You‘re ridiculous.

[@larsforsman6224]

The sound when you fill up your car at the gasstation.😂

[@bullseycarttoob]

Please see the live version

[@AndreDavila]

When u laugh it is cause u are fake react

[@BullwinkleFromHell]

I heard that this song was originally called The Great Pig In The Sky but the giant inflatable letter P Broke it's moorings and floated away and the only other giant inflatable letter they had was a G so they changed it to The Great Gig In The Sky. The song is about one time when Roger Waters booked them a lucrative gig on a dirigible but there was a helium leak that caused the original singer David Gilmour to sound like a wailing girl.

[@henrymerino3369]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Torry