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Stuttering and the Singing Curre

Reference #: 1,662
Submit Date: 15 May 2008
Browse Category: stuttering
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Treatment used: singing
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Country of Remedy: USA
Remedy Source: folklore
More Links about this Remedy: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200805/20080514_simon.html
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Text of PBS Tavis Smiley interview of Carly Simon May 14,2008

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200805/20080514_simon.html





Carly Simon began stuttering severely when she was eight years old. She blames her stuttering on her then 44-year-old mother's affair with their 20-year-old

live-in tennis instructor. The affair caused jealousy, anger, "lies and a train of deception" in the Simon's affluent household.





"So I would try to say (stammers). And as soon as my mother said, "Just tap your thigh and add the please - please pass the water. Please pass the water right

now, yeah. Please pass the water." And there was a little bit of syncopation added to it, which was just naturally genetic, possibility, and I just learned to

talk with a very bizarre sense of rhythm that my teachers could never quite figure out. (Laughter)



But so these things together, which is one of the ways I got through my stammering in the rest of high school, by the time I went to college I was adding melody

to these Italian poems and adding my almost jazz-like rhythm to them. So it'd be, (singing in Italian). (Laughter)



(And therest is history. Carly went on t0 write some of the most-loved songs of the 1970s, including "Anticipation" and "You're So Vain." She won an Oscar and a

Grammy. )



Tavis: It's funny you should mention this, or ask this, because as a child, at the age of 12 or 13, I'm in Indiana, an all-White community. Long story short, I

end up discovering this guy named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who's long since been dead, but he really helped bring me back to life because I got over my

stuttering problem by listening to all of his records.



There was a guy who went to my church who bequeathed to me, gave to me as a gift, a lot of the recordings of Dr. King that Barry Gordy from Motown had recorded.

And so there was a collection of King LPs, and it was listening to those King LPs and learning how to emulate Dr. King's cadence, which was slow and deliberate

and methodical.



It was listening to King on the living room floor of the trailer that I grew up in that I learned how to slow down. And it wasn't just a stutter, but it was a

stutter and talking fast, which I still do. But it was the combination of two that was causing me a problem. So listening to King and getting into his cadence,

getting into his rhythm, into his style helped, and little by little, I got better at it.



Simon: Fascinating

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