| Torry sang the wordless vocals of "The Great Gig in the Sky"
on Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon.
- Thom Herlin |
| Clare Torry also performs on Tangerine Dream's "Le Parc" album with a solo very similar to her Pink Floyd number. If you can find the album, she appears on the last track - "Yellowstone Park".
- Patrick Saunders |
| From the Rolling Stone website, interview with Alan Parsons. What do you remember about recording "The Great Gig in the Sky"? You found Clare Torry, the female vocalist on that track. She had done a covers album; I can remember that she did a version of "Light My Fire." I just thought she had a great voice. When the situation came up, they started head-scratching, saying, "Who are we going to get to sing on this?" I said, "I've got an idea -- I know this girl." She came, and in a couple of hours it was all done. She had to be told not to sing any words: when she first started, she was doing "Oh yeah baby" and all that kind of stuff, so she had to be restrained on that. But there was no real direction -- she just had to feel it.
- kym |
| Clare Torry also performs (just like on the Pink Floyd album) on the danish rockgroup TV2's album "En dejlig torsdag" (One Lovely Thursday), produced by Greg Walsh, 1987.
- Claus Lind Rasmussen |
| I was at school (Battle Abbey) with Clare. She was a year or so below me. What she and I were doing there (private school for rich and untalented girls) I don't know. She was always in minor trouble because she wouldn't, very understandably, conform. She sang once with a guitar at an end of term concert and she was brilliant. She had a truly wonderful voice. But as far as i know none of the staff gave her the acclaim and encouragement she deserved. I am so glad that she went on to made such a success of her talents. My name was Catherine Rycroft then. I am now a fiction writer.
- Catherine Merriman |
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| In the mid seventies, living in New Zealand there appeared an advert on television for an instant coffee product (the brand was Gregg's) and the accompanying audio was "that screaming lady on the pink floyd record". The sound track was the last 45 seconds or so (the slower and more serene part) and featured a red ribbon swirling around in circles. Even now at 48 years of age,when I drink that hideous muck I think of that sound track.
- Martin Gardner |
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