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56-989: Sister Mary may refer to: Arts [ edit ] Sister Mary (album) , album by Irish singer Joe Dolan "Sister Mary" (song) , title track of above album Sister Mary (film) , 2011 American comedy musical film directed and written by Scott Grenke People known as Sister Mary [ edit ] Sister Mary Ignatius Davies (1921−2003), Jamaican nun Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996), American nun and mathematician Sister Mary Laurence (1929–2024), New Zealand nun Sister Mary Leo (1895–1989), New Zealand nun Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon (1823–1896), England-born American nun Sister Mary Melanie Holliday (1850–1939), American nun See also [ edit ] Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You , 1979 stage play by Christopher Durang Sister Mary Explains It All , 2001 film adaptation of above and directed by Marshall Brickman Sister Mary Elephant ,

112-541: A B side by Del Shannon ) was released in September 1964, reaching number 4 in the Irish charts. Dolan and his band were managed by Seamus Casey. In the summer of 1968, however, some of the band left, with Dolan and Casey citing "musical differences" as the reason, although in the official biography by Ronan Casey (Seamus Casey's son) further elaboration includes references to unhappiness about financial issues. Dolan's first US tour

168-519: A bicycle shop proprietor, died when Joe was ten; his mother when he was nineteen. He sang in school, and his mother had encouraged him to take up the piano. He made his first stage appearance at a talent show held in a marquee on the Fair Green in his native Mullingar . Dolan's voice was high with a comprehensive range without the use of falsetto and he made comprehensive use of a technique known as melisma . Vocal ranges such as this were not common in

224-551: A charity auction before his death and it was later sold on eBay. Casey, Ronan, Joe Dolan, The Official Biography , Penguin Ireland 2008, ISBN   9781844881963 Falsetto It is produced by the vibration of the ligamentous edges of the vocal cords , in whole or in part. Commonly cited in the context of singing, falsetto, a characteristic of phonation by both sexes, is also one of four main spoken vocal registers recognized by speech pathology . The term falsetto

280-477: A comedy skit by Cheech and Chong Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sister Mary . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sister_Mary&oldid=1230076530 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

336-426: A falsetto register, the issue of 'female falsetto' has been met with controversy among teachers of singing. This controversy does not exist within the sciences and arguments against the existence of female falsetto do not align with current physiological evidence. Some pioneers in vocal pedagogy, like Margaret Green and William Vennard , were quick to adopt current scientific research in the 1950s, and pursued capturing

392-444: A fax from Aer Lingus refusing to fly the star back to Dublin. Newspaper headlines in Ireland proclaimed the star's airline ban for life although, as it transpired, the ban only lasted for close to two years, eventually being lifted after the airline negotiated with the star following his continued references to it on stage and in the media. Dolan's health began to decline after he underwent a hip replacement in 2005, which put him off

448-411: A few hours for a "champagne breakfast". The men took exception to this and became abusive. Dolan and his companion tried to leave but were prevented from doing so. During the following fracas Dolan was headbutted, (breaking his nose) kicked, punched and slammed into lavatory fittings and a wall in a sustained attack which was only halted when the sound of police sirens could be heard. It took six weeks for

504-493: A low blood platelet count and Dolan began a series of blood transfusions, after each, he felt better for a period, but would begin to feel weaker after a period. At this same time, Dolan was also suffering from unexplained nosebleeds. In Autumn 2007, on advice from his doctors, Dolan cancelled his Vicar Street concerts due to "exhaustion". On 16 December 2007, the front page of the Sunday Independent reported that Dolan

560-413: A much stronger falsetto sound production, which has more "ring" to it. The modal voice, or modal register, and falsetto register differ primarily in the action of the vocal cords . Production of the normal voice involves vibration of the entire vocal cord, with the glottis opening first at the bottom and then at the top. Production of falsetto, on the other hand, vibrates only the ligamentous edges of

616-405: A stroboscope) are seen to contact with each other completely during each vibration, closing the gap between them fully, if just for a very short time. This closure cuts off the escaping air. When the air pressure in the trachea rises as a result of this closure, the folds are blown apart, while the vocal processes of the arytenoid cartilages remain in apposition . This creates an oval gap between

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672-487: A tiny slit appears on the highest pitches. The mutational chink type of falsetto is considered inefficient and weak, but there is little information available about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the other two types. Both sexes are physically capable of phonating in the falsetto register. Prior to research done by scientists in the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely believed that only men were able to produce falsetto. One possible explanation for this failure to recognize

728-407: A type of falsetto, according to many singing professionals. These days, head voice is typically defined as a mix of chest and head voice, therefore created a stronger sound than falsetto. The falsetto can be coloured or changed to sound different. It can be given classical styling to sound as male classical countertenors make it sound, or be sung in more contemporary musical styles. In opera , it

784-584: A wheelchair. Dolan spent Christmas Day 2007 at his home in Foxrock in southeast Dublin with some friends. Later that evening, his illness suddenly worsened, and he was rushed by ambulance to the Mater Hospital. En route to the hospital, Dolan suffered a massive intracerebral haemorrhage , at which he became unconscious, and was connected to life support equipment upon his arrival. At approximately 14:30 hours on St Stephen's Day , surrounded by family and friends,

840-410: Is believed that the chest voice , middle voice and head voice occur in women. The head voice of a man is, according to David A. Clippinger generally equivalent to the middle voice of a woman. This may mean the head voice of a woman is a man's falsetto equivalent. Although, in contemporary teaching, some teachers no longer talk of the middle voice, choosing to call it the head voice as with men. Falsetto

896-418: Is capable of producing much more complex waveforms and infinite varieties of tone color. Falsetto, however, does involve less physical effort by the singer than the modal voice and, when properly used, can make possible some desirable tonal effects. The ability to speak within the falsetto register is possible for almost all men and women. The use of falsetto is considered uncommon in normal Western speech and

952-551: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sister Mary (album) Joseph Francis Robert Dolan (16 October 1939 – 26 December 2007) was an Irish entertainer, recording artist, and pop singer. Chiefly known in Ireland for his association with showbands and for his innovative style and high pitched singing voice, he had a wide appeal with many international fans. His energetic and charismatic stage performances influenced his long standing advertising slogan: "There's no show like

1008-418: Is engaged (the singer is singing using the voice). In skilled countertenors , however, the mucous membrane of the vocal folds contact with each other completely during each vibration cycle. The arytenoid cartilages are held in firm apposition in this voice register also. The length or size of the oval orifice or separation between the folds can vary, but it is known to get bigger as the pressure of air pushed out

1064-420: Is increased. The folds are made up of elastic and fatty tissue. The folds are covered on the surface by laryngeal mucous membrane , which is supported deeper down underneath by the innermost fibres of the thyroarytenoid muscle . In falsetto, the extreme membranous edges (i.e., the edges furthest away from the middle of the gap between the folds) appear to be the only parts vibrating. The mass corresponding to

1120-705: Is interred in Walshestown Cemetery, Walshestown North, County Westmeath . A 540 metres (1,770 ft) bridge was named after him in the Clonmore Industrial Estate in his hometown of Mullingar, it opened officially on 6 September 2010. It is the second longest bridge in the Republic of Ireland. There is a statue of Dolan in Mullingar's Market Square. Dolan's hip bone is the only body part to ever be sold on eBay. The singer had initially sold his bone at

1176-509: Is most often employed within the context of humor. However, the use of falsetto speech varies by culture and its use has been studied in African Americans and gay men in certain contexts. Its use has also been noted in the U.S. South. Pitch changes ranging to falsetto are also characteristic of British English. Some people who speak frequently or entirely in the falsetto register are identified by speech pathologists as suffering from

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1232-614: Is most often used in the context of singing to refer to a type of vocal phonation that enables the singer to sing notes beyond the vocal range of the normal or modal voice. The typical tone of falsetto register or M2, usually has a characteristic breathy and flute -like sound relatively free of overtones —which is more limited than its modal counterpart in both dynamic variation and tone quality. However, William Vennard points out that while most untrained people can sound comparatively "breathy" or "hooty" when using falsetto production, there are in rarer cases individuals who have developed

1288-437: Is not generally counted by classical purists as a part of the vocal range of anyone except countertenors . There are exceptions, however, such as the baryton-Martin which uses falsetto (see baritone article). Falsetto is more limited in dynamic variation and tone quality than the modal voice. Falsetto does not connect to modal voice except at very low volumes, leading to vocal breaks when transitioning from modal voice. In

1344-454: Is used by male countertenors to sing in the alto and occasionally the soprano range and was the standard before women sang in choirs . Falsetto is occasionally used by early music specialists today and regularly in British cathedral choirs by men who sing the alto line. There is a difference between the modern usage of the " head voice " term and its previous meaning in the renaissance as

1400-407: The vocal ligaments . The tension can be increased in order to raise the pitch even after the maximum length of the cords has been reached. This makes the vocal folds thin so that there is negligible vertical phase difference. The vocalis muscles fall to the sides of the larynx and the vibration take place almost entirely in the ligaments. In the modal register, the vocal folds (when viewed with

1456-499: The 16th century the term falsetto was common in Italy. The physician, Giovanni Camillo Maffei, in his book Discorso della voce e del modo d'apparare di cantar di garganta in 1562, explained that when a bass singer sang in the soprano range, the voice was called "falsetto". In a book by GB Mancini, called Pensieri e riflessioni written in 1774, falsetto is equated with " voce di testa " (translated as ' head voice '). The falsetto register

1512-420: The 1960s and 1970s but were later made popular by artists such as Mariah Carey , Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston , among others. The Irish chat show legend Gay Byrne famously described Dolan’s voice as “butter mixed with honey”. In 1958, as well as securing his first (and last) "real" job as a compositor in the local Westmeath Examiner newspaper, Dolan got his first guitar. After learning some skills on

1568-558: The 1980s and subsequently lived with. She was with him when he became ill on 25 December 2007. In September 1970, Dolan and his band were performing at the Wookie Hollow Club in Liverpool . Dolan and a member of his road crew stayed in the venue for drinks and to chat to their fans. Some people at a nearby table were attempting to bully the (by now closed) bar into providing them with champagne. Dolan joked that they should come back in

1624-1078: The Blue in Your) Pretty Brown Eyes which Dolan released on the Pye label in 1966. A second US tour in 1967 led an offer to appear in Las Vegas, but he turned it down. Eventually in 1980 he accepted $ 10,000 a week plus board and lodgings to perform for six weeks over September and October at the Continental Lounge of the Silverbird Casino on the Strip in Las Vegas. Eventually playing 64 shows and selling out most of them, he and his band returned to Ireland to be immediately rebooked for Vegas in January 1981. Although he turned down subsequent offers to return to Vegas, other venues approached him with increased offers, thinking he

1680-555: The German school of voice teachers had largely embraced the idea of a female falsetto into pedagogical practice, there is division within the French and English schools and a complete rejection of the idea of female falsetto in the Italian school of singing. In his 2004 book, Solutions for Singers: Tools For Performers and Teachers , Miller said, "It is illogical to speak of a female falsetto, because

1736-593: The Joe show”. The only Irish singer to reach number one in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Dolan was a persistent presence in the music charts in Ireland and overseas. Dolan was born at the County Hospital, now known as the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar , County Westmeath on 16 October 1939, the youngest of nine children in a Roman Catholic family. He was orphaned at a young age – his father,

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1792-528: The UK. Further hits including "Crazy Woman", "Sister Mary", "Midnight Lover", "Hush Hush Maria" and "I Need You" followed. Reflective songs such as "If I Could Put My Life on Paper" were a collaborative attempt to show a more maturing artist, whilst definitive versions of songs such as "Danny Boy" maintained a touch of Irish on disc and in concert. In any given month Dolan could be touring the Middle East one week, Australia

1848-418: The absence of modern vocal training to hold back the volume of modal voice, in this overlapping area a given pitch in modal voice will be louder than the same pitch sung in falsetto. The type of vocal cord vibration that produces the falsetto voice precludes loud singing except in the highest tones of that register; it also limits the available tone colors because of the simplicity of its waveform. Modal voice

1904-537: The biological process of female falsetto on film. They went further to incorporate their research into their pedagogical method of teaching female singers. Others refused to accept the idea, and opposition to the concept of female falsetto has continued among some teachers of singing long after scientific evidence had proven the existence of female falsetto. Celebrated opera singer and voice teacher Richard Miller pointed out in his 1997 publication National Schools of Singing: English, French, German, and Italian that while

1960-470: The decade he refined his voice for the 21st century when he hooked up with EMI for a series of albums (such as Joe's 90s , 21st Century Joe and Home Grown ) which saw him tackle more contemporary music from acts as diverse as Oasis , Pulp , Blur , U2 , Bruce Springsteen , The Coral , R.E.M. , Mundy and his old pal Robbie Williams . At the Oxegen Festival 2009, Blur's Damon Albarn dedicated

2016-633: The female falsetto sooner is that when men phonate in the falsetto register there is a much more pronounced change in timbre and dynamic level between the modal and falsetto registers than there is in female voices. This is due in part to the difference in the length and mass of the vocal folds and to the difference in frequency ranges. However, motion picture and video studies of laryngeal action prove that women can and do produce falsetto, and electromyographic studies by several leading speech pathologists and vocal pedagogists provide further confirmation. While scientific evidence has proven that women have

2072-515: The female is incapable of producing a timbre in the upper range that is radically different from its mezza voce or voce piena in testa qualities". However, other writers of singing have warned about the dangers of failing to recognize that women have a falsetto register. McKinney, who expressed alarm that many books on the art of singing completely ignore or gloss over the issue of female falsetto or insist that women do not have falsetto, argues that many young female singers substitute falsetto for

2128-398: The folds and some air escapes, lowering the pressure inside the trachea. Rhythmic repetition of this movement creates the note. In falsetto, however, the vocal folds are seen to be blown apart, and in untrained falsetto singers, a permanent oval orifice is left in the middle between the edges of the two folds through which a certain volume of air escapes continuously as long as the register

2184-414: The front two-thirds of the vocal ligaments enter the vibration. The resulting sound, which is typical of many adolescents, may be pure and flutelike, but is usually soft and anemic in quality. In others, the full length of the glottis opens and closes in each cycle. In still others, a phenomenon known as damping appears, with the amount of glottal opening becoming less and less as the pitch rises, until only

2240-419: The innermost part of the thyroarytenoid muscle remains still and motionless. Some singers feel a sense of muscular relief when they change from the modal register to the falsetto register. Research has revealed that not all speakers and singers produce falsetto in exactly the same way. Some speakers and singers leave the cartilaginous portion of the glottis open (sometimes called 'mutational chink'), and only

2296-563: The instrument, he and his saxophone-playing brother Ben started to play in local bands. They soon formed a band of their own – The Drifters. Not long afterward, the band was renamed Joe Dolan and the Drifters and finally Joe Dolan and His Drifters to avoid legal action from the American band of the same name. The Irish musical landscape in the 1960s was dominated by the showbands . The first single "The Answer to Everything", (previously released as

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2352-563: The machines were switched off and Dolan died within 20 minutes, on December 26, 2007, never regaining consciousness. He was pronounced dead at 15:03 hours. He was 68 years old. His funeral mass was held at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar , on 29 December 2007. Attendees of Dolan's funeral included singer Ronnie Drew from The Dubliners , comedian Frank Carson , snooker player Dennis Taylor and former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds . Dolan

2408-551: The mid-1970s produced more singles which made little impact on the British domestic market but did well internationally. "Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller" (1974) was the first of a number of reasonable successes for this team but wasn't a major hit in the UK until later recorded by Showaddywaddy , who had a Top 20 hit with the song in 1979. His next single, "Lady in Blue" was his biggest ever hit, winning five gold records and selling one million copies. It charted in parts of continental Europe, Africa and South America but not in Ireland or

2464-399: The next, then South Africa and then back to Europe and Ireland. Further international successes and tours followed, with hits such as "More and More" and "It's You, It's You, It's You". With his own record label, studio and material Dolan became one of the biggest selling independent artists of the 1990s with albums such as 'Endless Magic' keeping him near the top of the charts. At the end of

2520-417: The party remembers they were "quite merry". The singer was asked several times by cabin staff to return to his seat and, finally, after being threatened with being "restrained" he did so. Upon landing, he attempted to leave the airport without his luggage and passport but was prevented from doing so by security staff, one of whom drew his pistol and pointed it at Dolan. The tour operator subsequently received

2576-442: The road for 12 months and led to the discovery of Type 2 Diabetes which appeared to account for the low energy levels he had been experiencing. Following a discussion with Keith Duffy of the boyband Boyzone , the hip bone which was replaced was signed and auctioned for €650, the proceeds being given to Irish Autism Action. Dolan returned to his schedule in 2006, but he began to report further signs of low energy. Doctors diagnosed

2632-449: The singer to recover well enough to return to work. The club was sued but went into liquidation. The police attempted to identify the perpetrators and held identity parades which Dolan attended but no-one was ever prosecuted. In October 1976, Dolan and a group of friends were flying with Aer Lingus to Corfu for a golfing trip. On several occasions during the flight Dolan was moving around talking to other passengers who knew him. One of

2688-412: The song "The Universal" to Dolan. Dolan never married and dealt with speculation about his sexuality throughout his life. He spent much of his life dismissing persistent rumours that he was gay. The official biography suggests that he had a quiet offstage presence and preferred to keep romances out of the public eye but cites a long relationship with Isabella Fogarty whom he met in 1977, started dating in

2744-637: The upper portion of the modal voice. He believes that this failure to recognize the female falsetto voice has led to the misidentification of young contraltos and mezzo-sopranos as sopranos , as it is easier for these lower voice types to sing in the soprano tessitura using their falsetto register. Use of falsetto voice in western music is very old. Its origins are difficult to trace because of ambiguities in terminology. Possibly when 13th century writers distinguished between chest, throat and head registers ( pectoris, guttoris, capitis ) they meant capitis to refer to what would be later called falsetto. By

2800-415: The vocal folds while leaving each fold's body relatively relaxed. Transition from modal voice to falsetto occurs when each vocal cord's main body, or vocalis muscle , relaxes, enabling the cricothyroid muscles to stretch the vocal ligaments. William Vennard describes this process as follows: With the vocalis muscles relaxed it is possible for the cricothyroids to place great longitudinal tension upon

2856-539: The world at that time". The song eventually became a number one hit in 14 countries as well as reaching Number 3 in the UK, becoming Joe Dolan's only British Top 10 hit and one of only four hit singles Dolan ever had in the UK (all of these hits performed better in the Irish Charts). In Ireland, the song peaked at number 2 in August 1969, the same week it was Number 3 in the UK. After the recording of Make Me An Island Dolan

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2912-526: Was approached and signed by the MAM Agency whose major star was Tom Jones . Follow-up singles "Teresa" and "You're Such a Good Looking Woman" also made an impact. Other single releases such as "It Makes No Difference" and "You and the Looking Glass" were not big hits at home in Ireland or in the UK, but they were international successes. A collaboration with writers Roberto Danova and Peter Yellowstone in

2968-477: Was in 1965 and followed an offer, which he refused, to play in Las Vegas. Instead, he decided to play a whistle-stop tour of Irish-American venues in places such as Chicago, New York and Boston . An added benefit to this string of engagements was the opportunity to hear American music which hadn't yet been played in the UK and Ireland. The first song gleaned in this fashion was the Jim Reeves song, (That's When I see

3024-635: Was merely hunting around for the best deal, but Dolan refused them all. Several other attempts were made through the years to entice him back but he never returned – except on holiday. In 1978, he became the first Irish artist and one of the first Western acts to tour the USSR. He played 23 concerts in 23 nights in Moscow, Leningrad and the Moldovan capital, Kishinev . Dolan toured the segregation era in South Africa and

3080-502: Was on a UN blacklist for defying the artists' ban. After reforming the band Dolan recorded a song called "Make Me an Island", written by the songwriting duo Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, for Pye Records in conjunction with Shaftesbury Publishing. The track was a hit in the UK and led to Dolan's first appearance on the BBC's Top of the Pops which helped to make him "the biggest Irish star in

3136-526: Was suffering from a "bad virus" and had been forced to cancel his entire Christmas tour. Dolan's website received messages from well wishers in the wake of the article, which was reproduced in several newspapers the following day. Despite the blood transfusions and other medical interventions, Dolan became weaker and he was finally discharged from the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin on 23 December 2007 in

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