thrilled Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Best singer that would be elvis.Best band beatles by far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Joe Cocker for range and emotional content You are joking, sings in the key of yale and shouts in the key of chubb, quite possibly one of the worst voices of all time, annoying when sane, passable when stoned (in the first person) rode on the backs of real talent for all his life, a worthless contribution to music in general. Only Leonard Cohen or the Smurfs sound worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulmercke Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) Lennon on Twist On Shout is pretty amazing. Add also Lee Hazlewood - Eric Burdon - Tammy Wynette singing Stand By Your Man. Edited February 18, 2011 by bulmercke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulmercke Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Aretha Franklin. Aretha has everything — the power, the technique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi6dqhi8Ptw&feature=BF&list=MLGxdCwVVULXe61HUKknk3PSUElDACS3Z4&index=4 Thanks for the reminder WAYNEandAEI. Aretha. Sheer gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJIC Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 The main thing about choosing a great voice is that often the songs they sing have appeal only for the relatively few, Frank Sinatra, and Matt Monro,both have top class,marvellous voices,but for me,and for the most part,their songs leave me cold. Whereas Robbie Williams and Elvis had both, Great Voices,Great Songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJIC Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Joe Cocker for range and emotional content You are joking, sings in the key of yale and shouts in the key of chubb, quite possibly one of the worst voices of all time, annoying when sane, passable when stoned (in the first person) rode on the backs of real talent for all his life, a worthless contribution to music in general. Only Leonard Cohen or the Smurfs sound worse. I would agree with you, Lenard Cohen,in the days when you he sang those awful,mournful, Dirges, but see him now on stage,in his latter years with full backing group,and fair to say,he has matured very well,and a great pleasure to listen to. Never thought he had it in him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyHarsip Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 is? was? not sure.. but Mr. Excitement himself must be near the top of the tree.... (sorry Joe, he's even better than you.. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johninbkk Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 No better voice than............................................ Tony Bennett, even old blue eyes had to admit he was the best Crooner of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) It will always be debatable who is best in quality but my list of favourites would include Ray Charles Dinah Washington Aretha Franklin James Carr Walter Jackson Bill Medley (Rightous Bros) Minnie Ripperton Elvis (depending on the material and the period) Garnett Mimms Anthony -from Anthony and the Johnsons in a weird way he has a great voice Nat King Cole An incomplete list at best !!! Edited February 19, 2011 by xen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endure Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 It will always be debatable who is best in quality but my list of favourites would include Ray Charles Dinah Washington Aretha Franklin James Carr Walter Jackson Bill Medley (Rightous Bros) Minnie Ripperton Elvis (depending on the material and the period) Garnett Mimms Anthony -from Anthony and the Johnsons in a weird way he has a great voice Nat King Cole An incomplete list at best !!! Otis Redding Curtis Mayfield Darrell Banks Jerry Butler Stevie Nicks Linda Ronstadt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Impossible to choose, maybe if we could vote 10 out of 100 But I think these two should make this list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trickcyclist Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Mulligan and O'Hare Tiny Tim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traxster Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Gladys Knight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrella Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) It seems we have a very narrow range of what most people think is classed as an amazing Singer even though some of the people metioned so far have good voices. If I was to use the standard western way of looking at this then at present I would say Mariah Carey. This is not to say that I like her music as i do not care for it much anyway. The reason for me choosing her is mainly her vocal range and power is off the chart. She can sing higher than most living people on the planet (on pitch) and sing as low as the average male baritone voice but some experts disagree on her lower range. Added to this her use of melismas and voice inflections added to her pure vocal control makes her for me the number 1 in the public eye at the moment and if not she cannot be far off it. If I was to use more eastern ways of looking at music then hands down cannot be beaten is a man called "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan" He has some famous performances where he sings for hours and hours only one sentence over and over again using only his large vocal range and a never ending set of improvisational techniques but never sounds the same or boring. He in my opinion is the best exponent of using what we call in the west the standard 12 tone music system and weave in and out into a quarter tone system without sounding out of tune to the western ear, which is a totally amazing thing to do, 100% genius. Shame he died in 1997. Even if you do not understand non western style singing, listening to him is still a pleasure. Edited February 19, 2011 by barrella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon10 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Al3iJdtIQOne of them is Roger Hodgson as well I think (Supertramp) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjip Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Without doubt Elvis Presley. Great voice, great range and also a velly hansum man. Agree - "If I can Dream" is one of my all time favorites and still gives me shivers each time I hear it. I give a vote for Dean Martin, cool good looking guy with great voice. He was always so relaxed. Dean Martin relaxed ???? Always drunk....yes But I admit...one of my favourites and a very warm voice ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechboy Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Neil Young. But Orbson's "Danny Boy" available on you tube is something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyHarsip Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 i've resisted long enough.... Sam the Eagle.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Impossible to say the best ever but Mirella Freni is the best I ever heard sing live. I'm far from an opera queen, but hearing her live was ear-gasmic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aridion Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Jeff Buckley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAYNEandAEI Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 If I was to use more eastern ways of looking at music then hands down cannot be beaten is a man called "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan" Agree..Im a big fan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvQVxrMZB18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryLime Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Few vocalists have had the perfect pitch or rich voice of the great Dinah Washington. http://www.youtube.c...feature=related I love this YouTube track because it's from a recording session and you hear Dinah spatting with a guy (I believe her manager) in the control booth. A white singer (Julie London) had recorded this song and it was very popular, but most would agree Dinah's version blows her away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Roy Orbison http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Tj6y1PyPg84 Have to agree, loads of stuff by him that really hasn't been heard by the masses. Elvis also, his live stuff is great. Classical and other, Andreas Boccelli. (think l spelt it right) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I really liked sarha brightman at the opening of the olympics. Dame Joan has a serious voice Well if anyone has heard me at the karaoke after a skinfull then this thread would have finished after one post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I really liked sarha brightman at the opening of the olympics. Dame Joan has a serious voice Well if anyone has heard me at the karaoke after a skinfull then this thread would have finished after one post. You haven't heard my rendition of '' My Way '' yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Few vocalists have had the perfect pitch or rich voice of the great Dinah Washington. http://www.youtube.c...feature=related I love this YouTube track because it's from a recording session and you hear Dinah spatting with a guy (I believe her manager) in the control booth. A white singer (Julie London) had recorded this song and it was very popular, but most would agree Dinah's version blows her away. I agree. She is one of the greatest. Heard an interesting theory that she would have been better well known and accepted by the population at large if she had not have the double misfortune of dying two days before the death of a certain blonde bimbo who's greatest talent was crooning a very outof tune Happy Birthday Mr Peasident and then shagging him. To the media it was Dinah who ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianwuk Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Michael Jackson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007 Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Classical: Caruso, Maria Callas Pop: Mariah Carey, Beyonce... And no, I'm neither Italian, nor Greek, or American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpi78 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Robert Plant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issanman Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 female - Sarah Vaughan male - Roy Orbison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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