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The album was an unexpected hit, quickly selling over 125,000 copies and eventually going multi-platinum, becoming the most popular nature recording in history. [8] [11] Sales from the album benefited the Whale Fund of the Wildlife Conservation Society, then known as the New York Zoological Society. [12]
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
Another milestone was hearing Roger Payne's 1970 album, Songs of the Humpback Whale, which popularized the whale songs, and was perhaps the greatest single contribution to awakening humanity to whales. The grandfather of all natural sound recordings, and a bestseller, it touched the hearts of millions of people throughout the world.
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 ...
Songs in A Minor; Songs in the Key of Life; Songs of the Humpback Whale (album) The Sound of Music (soundtrack) Sounds of Silence; Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years; Stand! Star Wars (soundtrack) Straight Outta Compton; Super Fly (soundtrack) Surrealistic Pillow; Switched-On Bach; Synchronicity (The ...
Then comes the first of the tapes of the songs of the great humpback whale, recorded specially, followed by the first huge climax, very impressive except that the pentatonic melody which roars out on trombones (leading to whale-song imitations) is not distinctive enough, almost banal, punctuated by glockenspiel. [7]
A male humpback whale has made an extraordinary journey from South America to Africa — traveling more than 13,046 kilometers (8,106 miles) — the longest migration recorded for a single whale ...