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Songs of the Humpback Whale is a 1970 album produced by bio-acoustician Roger Payne. It publicly demonstrated for the first time the elaborate whale vocalizations of humpback whales .
Roger Searle Payne (January 29, 1935 – June 10, 2023) was an American biologist and environmentalist famous for his 1967 discovery (with Scott McVay) of whale song among humpback whales. Payne later became an important figure in the worldwide campaign to end commercial whaling .
Songs of the Humpback Whale may refer to Whale vocalization, sounds are used by whales for different kinds of communication; Songs of the Humpback Whale, a 1970 album produced by bio-acoustician Roger Payne; Songs of the Humpback Whale, a 1992 novel by Jodi Picoult
Roger Payne, the scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing, has died. Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip ...
The Paynes released the best-selling Songs of the Humpback Whale in 1970, and the whale songs were quickly incorporated into human music by, among others, singer Judy Collins, as well as George Crumb, Paul Winter, and David Rothenberg. The humpback whale produces a series of repetitious sounds at varying frequencies known as whale song.
It is one of Earth's most haunting sounds - the "singing" of baleen whales like the humpback, heard over vast distances in the watery realm. Baleen whales - a group that includes the blue whale ...
[1] Specially recorded whale vocalizations play intermittently throughout the work and include the songs of humpback whales and bowhead whales. [1] The whale recordings were done by Roger Payne and Frank Watlington, from the album Songs of the Humpback Whale. [citation needed]
Payne again opens the song, but shines on the evenly harmonized chorus — and the gauzy “oohs” and “ahhs” that play out in-between — with the rest of his bandmates.