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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]
Singer Kate Bush's debut album The Kick Inside in 1978 features a portion of 'slowed-down solo whale' (from Songs of the Humpback Whale) as an intro to the opening track "Moving". [ 30 ] Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) features Payne's recordings, in a plot about rescuing humpback whales from extinction by moving a breeding pair from 1986 ...
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 (album) , a 1970 album produced by bio-acoustician Roger Payne
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.
This category lists the music included in the two identical NASA Voyager Golden Records, sent into space in 1977. ... Songs of the Humpback Whale (album)
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]
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 ...