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(on producing records with Jim Reeves, aka "Gentleman Jim", who joined RCA in 1955 after recording several years for Abbott Records) When I first met and started working with him, he was singing too high. He was a great baritone, but he wasn`t a very good tenor. I always tried to keep him down in a low key, because when he did that, he sounded wonderful to me. He knew I liked it when he sang in that low key, but occasionally he`d kid me a little and pitch it up a little too high.

- Chet Atkins

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

- Plácido Domingo

John sets it for Gerry (Gerald Finley, the baritone singing Oppenheimer) and full orchestra as a personal chaconne. Of course, you know that Robert Oppenheimer would be somebody who would have gone to an Alfred Deller concert or would have Alfred Deller records,

- Peter Sellars