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Can become an [[Overly Long Gag]] if held ridiculously long—and it often ''is''—unless, of course, it's not meant to be a gag at all. A parodic version, for instance, would demonstrate just how unbearably long the character is holding that note for, and other characters will probably try to stop it. Doesn't have to be the last note of the song, by the way—long notes tend to appear in the middle of the song as well.
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* [[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]] has the song "Canaan Days." The end features the brothers holding a note for a very long time, running out of breath (possibly making a joke about cigarettes), ''and then resuming the note.''
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{{quote|''I'm still goiiiiiiiiiingg...''}}
* A radio station in Troy, N.Y., once edited Jay and the Americans' "Cara Mia" so that the long note near the end stretched to over a minute. It's still a long note either way, though, and an incredibly high one at the very top of Jay Black's vocal range.
* [[Glee|Kurt's audition]] features this gem from [[Chicago]]: "Never! Even! Knooooooooooooooooooooo [[Camp Gay|* fixes his hair*
** The score for the song "Mr. Cellophane" actually says "vocalist continues note after orchestra stops"; though there is no indication that this is a gag, it is often played that way to emphasize the injustice of the character's invisibility.
* "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" by the ''Bonzo Dog Band'' ends with Vivian Stanshall hitting a dramatic high note that goes on and on and on (and is clearly a looped tape), after the band itself has stopped, and cuts off abruptly at songs' end.
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* [[Sesame Street|"L'AMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]][[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]][[Carmen|OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR-"]][[Nightmare Fuel|(face explodes)]]
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* [[Cab Calloway|"The Saint Louis Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuues!"]]
* Jim Gillette, Lead singer of Michael Angelo Batio's former band, Nitro, belts out a simultaneously awesome and hilarious 30 second falsetto scream in their song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537hCRIhQKw Machine Gunn Eddie]" (starting at about 49 seconds in).
* Morten Harket, lead singer of [[A-ha]], holds the record in Europe for the longest note ever held in a pop song- namely, their song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiWkqeGuJ0A Summer Moved On]". That note is held for about ''20.3 seconds!''
* John Linnell of [[They Might Be Giants]] singing the end of ''Fingertips'' in [http://tmbw.net/wiki/Podcast_2A this] TMBG podcast starting at 6:18 and ending at 6:37, a full ''19 seconds'' of him singing the letter "I"... He becomes noticeably out of breath the last few seconds.
* "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from ''[[Dreamgirls]]'' is one of the best-known examples in modern theater; it includes not one but '''two''' Incredibly Long Notes at the end, back to back. This is the reason Jennifer Holiday won a Tony in 1982 and Jennifer Hudson an Oscar in 2007. ''There is no mediocrity with this song.'' Performing it is either a singer's [[Moment of Awesome]] or biggest [[Epic Fail
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb0mRXY6ngs This guy's audition] on ''[[American Idol]]''. Funny for us, but the guy was completely serious.
** Likewise, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwz9e8Uu9tk This guy] on his ''[[The X Factor|X Factor]]'' audition. Like the ''American Idol'' example below, people think it's funny, but he thinks he's serious.
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* Anthony Stewart Head, of all people, gets a tremendous one in [[Repo! The Genetic Opera]], during the song Let The Monster Rise. Sarah Brightman, as seen below, also gets a few.
* In the [[Tool]] song "The Grudge," singer Maynard Keenan holds a primal scream for 24 seconds, though it degrades significantly by the end. At concerts, the audio technicians loop the live scream back on itself so it lasts longer and causes less strain.
* Warren Zevon enjoyed holding the last syllable of "Berkeley" in live versions of "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"
* [[Manowar|Hold your hammers]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjhNWAo6DN8 HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH]
* Kitananx is pretty fond of this.
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* [[The Prodigy]]'s "Smack My Bitch Up" has a note sung by Shahin Bada (and almost certainly stretched out digitally) that lasts for 63 beats at approximately 132bpm, making it just under 30 seconds.
* There is a film shown to high school music classes that has a segment by an oboe player, talking about how he used to ask children in classes he visited to try to hold their breath as long as he does as her plays the beginning of a Tchaikovsky piece. He then said he had to stop doing that particular demonstration after a child actually passed out.
* Sonata Arctica's "Draw Me"
* [[Roza Rymbaeva]] draws it out in "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGll0KmTW2w Alia]". "AAAAAALIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Aru qyzy sen khaaaaalqyyyyyymnyyyyyn! AAAAAALIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Batyr qyzy sen khaaaaalqyyyyymnyyyyyn! Yerke kusy sen daaaalaaaamyyyyn! AAAAAALIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' has a lot of these:
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* The last note in the song ''Meditation'' from the musical version of ''[[Shenandoah]]''.
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* Amy Lee of [[Evanescence]] uses this trope so much.
* Anthony Warlow
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* [[Roza Rymbaeva]]
* Patti LuPone
* [[Kenny G]] holds the world record for the longest saxophone
* [[Jessica Simpson]], especially on her third album In this Skin.
* Corrine Drewery of Swing Out Sister, usually as an act of improvisation in live concerts, as she revealed in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzZeU_SZ9NI&feature=player_detailpage#t=438s interview]
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