Bob Kanefsky interview cont'd

Vocals

I attended most of the Roundworm studio sessions and made comments on the vocals until Eli was almost ready to strangle me, so it's within 85% of being exactly the way I wanted it to sound. Julia was very consistent about patiently explaining to me why it was physically impossible to get the effect I wanted), and then doing exactly the right thing on the next take. Cacie, now a teen whose singing voice normally sounds more polished and adult than 99% of the adult filkers I know, said "Oh, you want me to sound young again? I can do that," and proceeded to prove her ability to sing the parody exactly like she used to sing the original when she was 7. I think they backed off on that slightly by the final recording. And Leslie Fish, who always resisted the idea of a second take as though there were some union rule against it, always did a second take that was amazingly more rich than the first,