The special name for the vocal intro that doesn't appear anywhere else in the song

Ebberman

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What is the special name for the vocal intro that doesn't appear anywhere else in the song?
Two examples: Take Good Care Of My Baby,Bobby Vee, and If I Fell, Beatles.
 
Unless there's some official Latin or Italian term for it, it's just a vocal intro. If I was describing the start to "If I fell" I'd just call it that lovely vocal intro at the start. You'd know what I meant !
 
Thanks, guys. Yes, they are vocal intros. Someone once told me that there was a special name, but didn't tell me what it was.
 
Funnily, most of the preludes I know {eg, the one on Pavlov's Dog's debut Lp or Styx on "Equinox"} are instrumental.
 
OTTOMH do you mean..."The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay. The glory that was Rome is of another day. I was terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan and so I wander back to my city by the bay..." (best I remember it)

#l left my heart in Sanfrancisco...# Most of the old songs 40s 50s radio stuff I was brought up with had such 'pre intros' but you rarely heard them.

'k knows if it has a name?

Dave.
 
Maybe a "Slate" ? I've done this for VO auditions. Not sure it is commonly called that for songs and tend to agree with the Intro/prelude suggestions.
Dale
 
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