The four best non-lyrical vocal moments in pop music – from la la las to duh duh duhs

By Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester

My professional life revolves around the academic study of song lyrics. So it may seem like a strange move to write about how some of the most powerful and emotive vocal moments in popular music have come when singers reject words. But it’s impossible to ignore that sometimes a song needs something more universal, more innate and more guttural than language.

Some vocalists have eschewed words entirely in their songs, like Ella Fitzgerald scatting throughout Flying Home (1945), or David Crosby da da dumming his…

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