What’s New Pussycat? by Tom Jones
What’s New Pussycat? by Tom Jones runs C3 to F#4 (18 semitones), rated easier for karaoke. Hum for 30 seconds to see your exact percent fit before you step up.
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Singing What’s New Pussycat?: what your voice is in for
What's New Pussycat? is a Burt Bacharach waltz weaponized by the biggest voice in Wales: Tom Jones treats the researched C3 to F#4 range like a bullring, swaggering through the verses and detonating the title phrase with full-chested glee. Eighteen semitones, every one of them sung like it owes him money.
The deciding moment is the title exclamation, a leaping figure that must be attacked with total commitment: half-hearted delivery turns the song from exuberant to embarrassing instantly, because the whole joke is the excess. The technique is confident chest-voice attack, clean glottal onsets, wide-open vowels, and dynamics that go from purr to roar inside a bar. The waltz meter adds a trap: the swagger must swing in three, not stomp in four. Tenors fit the stored range outright. Baritones stretch a single semitone at the top, effectively home, and inherit the resonant boom the song rewards. Altos sit five semitones below the stored floor; a four or five semitone lift restores the strut. Basses should take it two or three down and enjoy the purring registers.
Practice cue: sing the title phrase with an actual grin and one eyebrow raised. The face is not decoration; it changes the resonance, and this song can hear it.
Written from this song's researched range on file, C3 to F#4 (18 semitones). July 2026.
Sing What’s New Pussycat? by Tom Jones With Lyrics
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Can I sing What’s New Pussycat? at karaoke?
What’s New Pussycat? covers 18 semitones top to bottom, good for a top-73% placement among pop songs HumMatch tracks.
Highest and lowest notes
The available song-fit estimate places the low note around C3 and the high note around F#4. If either edge feels tense, try a different key.
Vocal style
F#4 is What’s New Pussycat?'s ceiling: out of a baritone's comfort zone, but well within a tenor's.
Karaoke difficulty
What’s New Pussycat? is a more familiar karaoke pick than the typical pop song HumMatch tracks (scores 64/100 vs. a median of 50).
Who it likely fits
That top-73%-widest span for pop is a big part of why What’s New Pussycat? scores 54/100 for karaoke difficulty.
Who may struggle
Dropping 1 semitone would bring What’s New Pussycat?'s peak note inside a typical baritone's comfortable range.
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Range Guide
What’s New Pussycat? is estimated around C3 to F#4. Compare that with your Vocal ID before choosing the original key. If your comfortable high note is below the song’s hardest section, try a lower key or one of the safer alternatives below.
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Best when your Vocal ID overlaps the main melody without strain.
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Song fit FAQ
What’s New Pussycat? spans roughly C3 to F#4: about 18 semitones. Your safest move is to compare that against your own Vocal ID.
Across the 3 Tom Jones songs with researched vocal ranges on HumMatch, the sung notes run from C3 to A4, about 21 semitones (roughly 1.8 octaves). See the full Tom Jones vocal range guide for voice type and the hardest songs.
What’s New Pussycat? scores 54/100 for karaoke difficulty on HumMatch, which rates as easier. What’s New Pussycat? is a more familiar karaoke pick than the typical pop song HumMatch tracks (scores 64/100 vs. a median of 50).
F#4 is What’s New Pussycat?'s ceiling: out of a baritone's comfort zone, but well within a tenor's.
That top-73%-widest span for pop is a big part of why What’s New Pussycat? scores 54/100 for karaoke difficulty.
What’s New Pussycat? may work at karaoke if the original key sits comfortably for you and you know where the risky chorus or low phrases happen.
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