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!
“In the Garden” was my maternal grandmother’s favorite gospel song. It was played at her funeral in 1953.
Yeppers.
I'm also voting Elvis, o'course.
Josh Groban
Enrico Caruso
Tony Bennett
Nat King Cole
Get out!
:-)
Reginald Kenneth Dwight [the EARLY days].
[Poor quality, but vintage]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ayolhaLMUI
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David Phelps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vX3HHtytDo
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Wow, yeah. BOTH of my grandmothers had it at their funerals too. Sweet.
Gordon Lightfoot: Early Morning Rain
Plus he has written a million songs; I just picked up 4 CDs full of his originals.
Oh man ...I’ll but the drinks if you’ll just sit down and tell me some stories. I can’t carry a tune in a basket, but I grew up on blues and have been a big fan of the American music genre all my life.I guess my best story from that time---I spent only a year in Louisville---was, when I first started getting out and playing out there, I noticed there was just about only one blues guitarist who wasn't trying to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan: me. Well, maybe two. You could almost tell who wasn't trying to become an SRV clone by the instruments they played. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm as big a fan of SRV as anybody, but with these guys you'd have thought it was a religious test. And I came into town slinging an SG Custom and a style that had nothing to do with SRV and I used to get some very weird looks, at least until I started to play. And people would ask me why I didn't seem to care about anything SRV. My answer, invariably, was, "Friend, there already was a Stevie Ray Vaughan."
(Once in awhile, I'd get hit back with, "Well, what do you have against the best?" And I'd hit that one out of the park, I thought, with, "It isn't a question of being against the best, never mind that your putting it that way tells me you're not old enough to have heard the guys who influence Stevie Ray Vaughan, but it's a question of being yourself. If I want to listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan I can stay home and listen to the albums. I don't come out here to hear Stevie Ray Vaughan and I'm not looking to re-form Double Trouble." And yet . . . and yet . . . even the SRV clones were rather impressed with my SG. They were always asking me to let them play one number on it. Their attitude got me so cheesed off after awhile that when they'd ask to borrow my SG for a number, I'd say, "I'll make a deal with you---you let me take your wife to bed and I'll let you take my instrument on stage." That shut them up real fast. They weren't sure what to make of me, and I wasn't around long enough to give them that much of a handle, but at least people knew that when I played I wasn't trying to put on a bullshit act. They knew that when I was playing the blues I meant business.)
Not long after I was settled in for my stay (I returned to California after a year---long story behind it all, and I don't like telling it), I ran into one of the organisers of the local blues festival and we had a nice conversation about the state of the music, and SRV invariably came up. I told her I liked the man but had no intention of becoming another one of his Louisville clones, such as I'd seen dominate the festival that had just gone down. And she replied to the effect that, from then on, any SRV clones would not be welcome to play the festival. (It was a local-talent thing, no name players.)
Long as you’re not saying anything of JB beyond 1973. It just wasn’t the same . . .
Derek & The Dominos, "It's Too Late"; Derek & The Dominos with Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, "Matchbox" (from The Johnny Cash Show, 1970)
Try out the Million Dollar Quartet; Elvis, Cash, Lewis and Perkins together in the Sun Studios.
Sir Frank! I don’t know about the guys who follow but Sinatra is the ne plus ultra of male soloists. And the top female vocalist would be Patsy Cline.
I think Matt Monro would be in the top ten, very near Sinatra, but Sinatra is numero uno.
Anyone remember the scene in the movie The Diner when the character played by Mickey Rourke is asked who is the best singer, Sinatra or Pat Boone? Rourke eanswers “Presley.” Sublime.
Bing Crosby
Andy Williams
Perry Como
Dean Martin
Sammy Davis Jr.
Al Martino
Vic Damone
Tony Bennett
Matt Monro
John Gary
Elvis
Tom Jones
Engelbert Humperdinck
Gary Puckett
Gordon Lightfoot
Glen Campbell
Kix Brooks
Neil Diamond
John Denver
Ronnie Milsap
Yea, those old formica sets, if in great condition can bring in quite a few bucks...I do remember shows like The Shadow, The little Threatre Around Time Square, of course The Lone Ranger and Fibber Mcgee and Molly, and Amos and Andy....Using your own imagination was lots better than watching TV and seeing someone else’s imaginations about the story... We had a large floor model radio and you laid on the floor with your ears glued to the speaker....what fun it was....Gee, I am starting to sound like an old foggie, but then I guess I am. :O)
Sting. Just wish he would forget about the politics.... in that he’s dumber than a box of rocks, but then, no one’s perfect
Sammy Haggar too, that guy ROCKS on stage.
HAHA Right on dude! You go to any of the Tahoe shows? 800 of your best friends and lotsa .... ONE MORE SHOT...... LOL
Bobby Vinton
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