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...Songs of the Humpback Whale," Capitol Records, $2.99 at the Coop...
THEY LAUGHED when I bought a recording of humpback whales' songs. I laughed when I played it. At first I thought trucks were screeching their brakes outside, but then I saw that the needle was on the record. They told me it would be an emotional experience-the zoologist who recorded the songs said he'd seen people who listened to them for the first time actually cry because they were so moved. I laughed-I'd been rooked on a Coop $2.99 special...
None of the sounds are songs in the melodious sense that one would expect. The album might be better entitled Calls of the Humpback Whale, for they are calls as birds' songs are calls...
...focusing on the whale songs." And once again, the blurb is right. There you are, thinking as a whale does, splashing along just under the surface. You may soon drive your roommates mad by screeching through the halls, sounding more like an elephant in a Tarzan movie than a humpback whale. But that point comes weeks after the first listening...
...after you're thoroughly hooked on this music, you'll start hearing it everywhere. Take me, for instance. When I hear the screech of a narrowly-averted three-car collision. no longer do I flinch. I just think that someone. somewhere, is playing Songs of the Humpback whale...