Word: nasality
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...anything, the show proved that one full hour of Streisand's peculiarly nasal voice is about 45 minutes too much, and that her choice of songs-Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long; Animal Crackers in My Soup-can be appalling. The Streisand talent is considerable, but it is getting lost in a myth...
DONOVAN: CATCH THE WIND (Hickory). At 19, Donovan (born Donovan Leitch) is already known as the British Dylan for his original composition, his crude, nasal voice and whining harmonica. Unlike Dylan, he is more blue than bitter, ignores contemporary complaints to mine the more traditional folk lode-unrequited love, loneliness and rootless ramblings...
...Smile, Earl!" commanded the photographer in a nasal Brooklyn accent...
...hall of the Meikles Hotel. Before him sat the leaders of Salisbury society, formally attired. They had raised glasses in a toast to their Queen, but nodded approvingly when he warned that they might soon be leaving her realm. Now they listened silently as Ian Smith, in the flat, nasal accent of the settler, read from the eve-of battle speech of Henry V: "That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart. He today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother, and gentlemen in England, now abed, shall think themselves accurs...
Many Traumas. Clara Bow and the '20s ran out of luck at about the same time. Fans who saw her first talkie, The Wild Party, co-starring Fredric March, were shocked to hear her flat, nasal voice and unlovely Brooklyn accent. It was the first of many traumas...