🎶 Sound on 🎶 In 1970, Dr. Roger Payne released the album “Songs of the Humpback Whale.” It was exactly what it sounds like—36 minutes of strangely melodic grunts and growls, clicks, squeaks, and whistles. Dr. Payne distributed the recordings to as many human songwriters as he could, and soon singer Judy Collins used a humpback whale accompaniment on her album “Whales and Nightingales,” which sold 500,000 copies. When these whale recordings were played to a group of activists in the then-young
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🎶 Sound on 🎶 In 1970, Dr. Roger Payne released the album “Songs of the Humpback Whale.” It was exactly what it sounds like—36 minutes of strangely melodic grunts and growls, clicks, squeaks, and whistles. Dr. Payne distributed the recordings to as many human songwriters as he could, and soon singer Judy Collins used a humpback whale accompaniment on her album “Whales and Nightingales,” which sold 500,000 copies. When these whale recordings were played to a group of activists in the then-young
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