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The top ten male solo artists EVER
5/02/10 | Phil.K

Posted on 02/05/2010 7:55:13 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat

OK. So which male artists NOT associated with duo, group etc would make your top 10. Here's mine..in no particular order..Non opera please!


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To: Jakarta ex-pat
Chick Corea

Bob Marley

BB King

161 posted on 02/05/2010 9:03:36 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: aruanan

Bruce Cockburn
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Good for you.

Richard Thompson in my top 10, along with Bruce.


162 posted on 02/05/2010 9:04:19 AM PST by dmz
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To: Jakarta ex-pat

Dion, Frank Sinatra, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, Rick Nelson, Eric Clapton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Joe Cocker, Luciano Paverotti.


163 posted on 02/05/2010 9:08:28 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Jakarta ex-pat

Francis Albert Sinatra. No other 9 come close. Remember folks, it’s STILL Mr. Sinatra’s world, and we are just lucky to be here.


164 posted on 02/05/2010 9:08:36 AM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Jakarta ex-pat
Gotta throw this guy in there...

Conway Twitty

165 posted on 02/05/2010 9:13:05 AM PST by houeto (Remember in November!)
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To: houeto

Conway actually sounded better as he got older, but he never could find a good hairdresser. Methinks the Gay Mafia were offended by something he said one day, and resolved never to allow him to get a decent haircut again.


166 posted on 02/05/2010 9:14:54 AM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Clemenza

"I got chunks of guys like you in my stool!"

167 posted on 02/05/2010 9:15:24 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Baynative
I was into Rhythm and Blues and not so much rock and roll. Also Fats Domino has been on a lot of lists...Several black singers made it over to popular music...But many good black singers songs were covered by white singers to make it acceptable to people...But when you mention Peggy Sue, I do remember hearing that at some time...There was a black radio station in Detroit that only played R & B. But its been so many years ago, my old brain cannot remember them all..

The other songs by B. HOlly that you mentions I never heard..

168 posted on 02/05/2010 9:16:15 AM PST by goat granny
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To: PzLdr

Enrico Palazzo.

169 posted on 02/05/2010 9:16:46 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dead

Thanks thanks.


170 posted on 02/05/2010 9:16:55 AM PST by Quix ( POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Jakarta ex-pat

Any list without Bob Seger on it is incomplete. And just from a storytelling-standpoint add Gordon Lightfoot.


171 posted on 02/05/2010 9:17:09 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: jessduntno
Got all of those...I played harp a little bit when I was a kid...and I think he was as good a white harp player as Jerry Portnoy, Charlie Musselwhite or William Clarke...right until the end...well, until the FIRST Better Days album...saw him once at the Ash grove (before the first fires) so f’d up he couldn’t make the second set and he was STILL great.
William Clarke to me is a very badly underrated harmonica player and songwriter. (I had the chance to play "Pawnshop Blues" on my radio show recently; I do a radio comedy show but I mix in blues and jazz playing the blues on the show.) And if you're talking about the great white harmonica players, Magic Dick (the J. Geils Band) should be up there as Butterfield and Clarke's equal. Come to think of it, John Mayall was a hell of a harmonica player in his own right . . .
172 posted on 02/05/2010 9:21:28 AM PST by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: Jakarta ex-pat

In honor of New Orleans going to the Super Bowl for the FIRST TIME EVAH, I nominate Harry Connick, Jr.


173 posted on 02/05/2010 9:22:54 AM PST by sportutegrl (VETO PROOF MAJORITY)
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To: Jakarta ex-pat

Although he is best known of course for The Who, I think Pete Townshend’s solo work over the past 30 years has blown away anything the Who did post-Quadrophenia.


174 posted on 02/05/2010 9:24:15 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Clemenza
Conway actually sounded better as he got older, but he never could find a good hairdresser.

I have to agree.

175 posted on 02/05/2010 9:25:31 AM PST by houeto (Remember in November!)
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To: dfwgator

Enrico was a little heavier last time I saw him. Hmmmmmm...


176 posted on 02/05/2010 9:25:37 AM PST by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: Clemenza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAA_LUCb0QE


177 posted on 02/05/2010 9:26:46 AM PST by houeto (Remember in November!)
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To: Jakarta ex-pat

Elvis and Roy Orbison


178 posted on 02/05/2010 9:29:21 AM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: bolobaby

Yep. Still the best SBowl halftime show ever, for my money (in the pouring rain, no less); and I predict he still will be after this sunday too!


179 posted on 02/05/2010 9:30:31 AM PST by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: dmz; Squawk 8888; Psalm 73
Cockburn was OK until his songs went full-on marxist.

He was pretty much that since In the Falling Dark back in 1978 (that's when I read about it in Time). I look at his politics as a sad derangement that doesn't necessarily detract from the worth of his music and other lyrics. He's got the right attitude toward injustice (as in If I Had a Rocket Launcher) and human lostness (as in Broken Wheel), but he's focussing on the wrong group as the perpetrator of that injustice. We must pray for his healing.
180 posted on 02/05/2010 9:32:00 AM PST by aruanan
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