Line #38 Music/ShelbyFlint


1	[[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shelbyflint_823.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:280:The quiet girl.]]
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4	->''"Come along''\
5	''Will there be sunshine shinin'''\
6	''will we find a silver lining?''\
7	''Come along. Sing a song''\
8	''When today becomes tomorrow''\
9	''will we find joy or sorrow?''\
10	''Sing a song..."''
11	-->--"[[SettingOffSong Tomorrow Is Another Day]]"
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13	Shelby Flint (born September 17, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician with a distinctive, airy, and emotive soprano voice. She is arguably best remembered for her song performances in films such as ''[[MayDecemberRomance Breezy]]'', ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', the latter of which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1977. Notably, her serene, heartfelt vocal delivery and born-and-bred folk sensibilities were a huge influence on Music/JoniMitchell, who in turn influenced countless female singers to come. Shelby has recorded music in a variety of styles, from doo wop and folk pop, to disco and jazz.
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15	Initially, Flint became known during the [[TheSixties '60s]] for minor hits such as "Angel on My Shoulder" and "Cast Your Fate to the Wind". [[CelebrityIsOverrated Never one for fame and fortune]], after three albums she put her musical career on hiatus in order to raise a family. Her career started afresh with her aforementioned [[TheSeventies '70s]] soundtrack appearances, and during the [[TheEighties '80s]], with a genre shift to jazz, Shelby gained significant critical acclaim, with her self-titled jazz ensemble becoming one of the most in-demand jazz groups in the greater UsefulNotes/LosAngeles area. Since, Shelby has appeared as a session vocalist for a number of artists, and more recently, a reunion of her old jazz group took place, ostensibly with an album on the way.
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17	!!Discography:
18	* ''Shelby Flint [The Quiet Girl]'' (1962)
19	* ''Shelby Flint Sings Folk'' (1963)
20	* ''Cast Your Fate to the Wind'' (1966)
21	* ''Don't Stop the Music'' [with Ian Jack] (1978)
22	* ''You've Been on My Mind'' (1982)
23	* ''Providence'' [with Tim Weston] (1993)
24	* ''The Complete Valiant Singles'' (2011)
25	* ''Yesterdays'' (TBA)
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27	!!Tropes associated with Shelby Flint:
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29	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: '''''S'''helby '''F'''lint '''S'''ings '''F'''olk''. Whoever designed the cover caught on and made a nice little creative logo.
30	%%* AStormIsComing: "Sinner Man".
31	* AwardBaitSong: "Lila's Theme (Do You Remember Me?)" and "Someone's Waiting for You" both qualify. In the latter case, they took the bait. Enough for a nomination, at least.
32	* BeautifulAllAlong: "Ugly Duckling", combined with SheIsAllGrownUp.
33	* BreakupSong: "Softly, as I Leave You".
34	* ChristmasSongs:
35	** She appeared on smooth jazz pianist Gregg Karukas' 1994 seasonal offering ''Home for the Holidays'', both as a re-interpreter of Christmas classics, as well as the writer/performer of some original compositions.
36	** ''WesternAnimation/RudolphAndFrostysChristmasInJuly'' (in which she also voices the character of Laine) features a performance of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree".
37	* {{Conscription}}: "Pipes for Keith".
38	* TheCoverChangesTheGender: "I've Grown Accustomed to ''His'' Face".
39	* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Her version of "What's New, Pussycat?" is, as you'd expect, LighterAndSofter than the hit Music/TomJones version. But having the lyrics rendered by a demure-voiced woman rather than a macho guy changes the song from TheCasanova brazenly coming-on to his love interest to a meek woman who's being playfully seductive.
40	* CoverVersion:
41	** Quite a few, most of them standards. Notably, "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" was the first (and arguably, ''most'') successful vocal version of Music/VinceGuaraldi's instrumental jazz classic. Furthermore, there's "[[Music/TheBeatles Yesterday]]", "[[Theatre/MyFairLady I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face]]", and "[[Film/WhatsNewPussycat What's New, Pussycat?]]", among a host of others.
42	** Together with guitarist Tim Weston, with whom she had earlier recorded her first album in a decade, she recorded a cover version of "[[Music/TheBeachBoys The Warmth of the Sun]]" for a Music/BrianWilson tribute album.
43	* DrivenToSuicide: The "Ugly Duckling" was so teased for her looks that she ''wanted to die''. She got better, but ''damn''.
44	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Her first single was a doo-wop rendition of "I Will Love You", with none other than the legendary Jordanaires as her backing singers. The single failed to catch on, and Shelby was summarily dropped by her label.
45	* HaveAGayOldTime: Plenty on ''Sings Folk'', since the lyrics have been left unaltered.
46	* {{Instrumentals}}:
47	** "Buzz Off" and "The Blue Dolphin" off of ''Don't Stop the Music''.
48	** Her jazz albums also tend to include a few.
49	* TheIngenue: The persona she projected on her material in the TheSixties, with her calm singing style and song lyrics that conveyed innocent yearning.
50	* InnocentSoprano: Her image in the sixties, as her airy soprano voice fit well with her innocent, romantic lyrics.
51	* {{Irony}}: Vince Guaraldi, who composed "Cast Your Fate to Wind" as noted elsewhere, was known as the primary composer for the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' animated features and specials. ''Snoopy, Come Home'' (for which Shelby performed Lila's theme, "Do You Remember Me?") was the only one he did not score during his lifetime, due to series creator Charles M. Schulz opting for a Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon approach to the whole thing. And that's not all; five years later, Shelby would ply her trade in a real Disney film.
52	* ListSong: "Angel on My Shoulder" is rather famous for its laundry list of good-luck charms, including wishing wells, fortune cookies, and even the oft forgotten mustard seed.
53	* MurderBallad: "Lady Isabel".
54	* NewSoundAlbum:
55	** ''Cast Your Fate to the Wind'' shifts the focus from guitar-oriented folk pop to contemporary, sort of baroque pop with some touches of proto-new age meditative moods. And that's not to mention the change in Shelby's voice itself.
56	** ''You've Been on My Mind'' marks Shelby's style shift towards cool, dreamy West Coast jazz, which is mostly what she's been doing ever since.
57	%%* NotStayingForBreakfast: "Our Town".
58	* RearrangeTheSong:
59	** Shelby first recorded "I Will Love You" as a doo-wop style number on Cadence Records, before it was re-recorded in a style similar to "Angel on My Shoulder" for her first album.
60	* RecordProducer: Barry De Vorzon, who went onto a long career in virtually every aspect of the music business, discovered her, produced all of her Sixties material, and even owned the label she recorded for (Valiant Records).
61	* {{Scatting}}: As a jazz singer.
62	* SelfTitledAlbum: Though neither is a completely straight example.
63	* SettingOffSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvoDOHhgaGY Tomorrow Is Another Day]]", a Disney classic on the subject, and that's saying a lot!
64	* ShoutOut: Several of her songs feature lyrical references to Disney movies, or at least the original material they were adapted from.
65	* ShrinkingViolet: "Ugly Duckling", "Lonely Cinderella".
66	* StandardSnippet: "Pipes for Keith" makes use of "Scotland the Brave" for its chorus, on real bagpipes even.
67	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "The Blue Dolphin" and "Chameleon" are the two chill-out cuts on ''Don't Stop the Music'', more closely resembling poppy jazz than the disco stylings of the rest of the album.
68	* TheQuietOne: Her first album's liner notes nicknames her "The Quiet Girl", which has become sort of an official subtitle for the album upon re-release.
69	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Basically all of her pre-mid '60s work, but particularly ''Sings Folk'', which invokes this trope quite literally at times.
70	* VocalEvolution: It was around the mid-'60s that Shelby's voice acquired that airy "whispering wind" quality that made "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" so haunting.
71	* WanderlustSong: "Far Away Places".
72	%%* WarIsHell: "Two Brothers".

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