My Favorite Songs With Distorted Vocals (Part One)

This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite distorted vocals. See if you agree with any of these!

“A Song for Jeffrey” is a bluesy, psychedelic rock track by British band Jethro Tull, written by frontman Ian Anderson and released in September 1968 on their debut album This Was. The song—titled for Anderson’s friend and future Tull bassist Jeffrey Hammond—blends blues-rock with jazz touches, featuring Mick Abrahams’ slide

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Meco

Meco’s Star Wars Theme proved so popular that it outsold the original William’s score. It also became the first number one hit for Casablanca / Millennium Records and went platinum.

Domenico Monardo is best known as Meco (sometimes Meco Monardo). He is an American musician and producer born in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania November 29, 1939. Building model ships, science fiction, and movies were his childhood hobbies. His dad played the trombone in a small Italian band but young Meco chose the slide trombone.

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