![]() ![]() Some cannot believe it could ever come from a place as silent as the sea. People are often moved to tears on their first exposure to such intensity. From high wails to deep growls to rhythmic scratches to tearful moans, it encompasses the full range of emotions in the longest song performed by any animal, a tune that can go on for nearly 24 hours at a time. ![]() Humpback whale song fit the bill perfectly. Well, for one, humans knew nothing of this fabulous sound until the US Navy released its classified recordings at the end of the 1960s, at the very moment the world was most open to sounds from the unknown: the psychedelic and the trippy. No human pop star has ever received such magnanimous treatment, so what is it that is so special about the songs of the humpback whale? ![]() In 1979 National Geographic magazine inserted a flexible sound page inside the back cover of all of its editions in 25 languages, and that is supposedly how many they printed. ![]() What album was so important that ten million copies of it needed to be pressed at once? Readers of a music magazine might be surprised to learn the identity of the greatest single pressing of any album of recorded music was Songs Of The Humpback Whale. ![]()
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