Posted on 02/05/2010 7:55:13 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat
He also did a song during the closing credits of the South Park movie.
LOL!
Ray Stevens
gets an honorable mention
“Before Elvis there was nothing”...John Lennon.
Without Elvis, none of us could have made it...
Buddy Holly
He was a unique artist — an original in an era of imitators...Mick Jagger.
It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I’ve been an Elvis fan since I was a kid...Elton John.
He was the firstest with the mostest...Roy Orbison.
That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain’t no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book...Bruce Springsteen
save
Nobody mentioned Andy Williams? The guy has the greatest voice and is still cranking them out at his theater in Branson.
Glen Campbell
Larry Gatlin
Mac MacAnally
“Sonny Boy Williamson”
Whole separate class...still performing while spitting blood into a can he kept on the stage...
Billy Joel was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. His band was the best.
Lou Rawls:
Louis Armstrong (put out some singles):
Jackie Wilson (started with Billy Ward and the Dominos):
Tom Jones
Elvis is Everywhere - Mojo Nixon
Add four years and I'd say the same for Otis Redding.
"Rock and roll's been going down hill ever since Buddy Holly died."
Pffttt...
Earl Scruggs
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Enrico Caruso
Luciano Pavarotti
Robert Merrill
Tiny Tim
Keith Green
Steven Curtis Chapman
Randy Stonehill
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yeah.
I would add Clapton to my list of all time great guitar players.
“Sonny Boy Williamson”Whole separate class...still performing while spitting blood into a can he kept on the stage...
Separate class as a singer, harmonica player, and songwriter.
I don't know about spitting blood into a can on stage, but I do know that---before they were enlisted to become Bob Dylan's support group (before Dylan's motorcycle crash)---the quintet then known as Levon and the Hawks were making plans to become Sonny Boy's touring group (they'd just ended their tenure, though some said sentence, with Ronnie Hawkins), when Sonny Boy returned to the U.S. knowing he was going to die soon. ("We's just like elephants. We knows.") They got together for a couple of rehearsals (it was here that Sonny Boy made his famous remark about maybe two-thirds of the British blues groups he'd seen---though he wasn't talking about either the Yardbirds or the Animals, both of whom played shows with him and backing him---"Those English kids want to play the blues so bad, and they play the blues so bad!) and Helm and company noticed the can and the blood.
It's a shame Sonny Boy didn't live a little longer. It would have been hugely interesting to hear what he would have done with the quintet who became the Band . . .
I agree about Leonard Cohen but I’d put him at the top of the list, with Al Stewart at #2.
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