Posted on 11/06/2010 9:21:42 PM PDT by Sparky21555
1) Roger Daltry 2) Robert Plant 3) Paul McCartney 4) Frank Sinatra 5) Neil Diamond 6) Dean Martin 7) Roy Orbison 8) David Clayton-Thomas 9) Bing Crosby 10) Otis Redding
Donning my asbestos suit now. Good thing I have a beer in my hand to put out thre flames!
Roy is da man! I love listening to him sing. Musicians would clamber to play and sing with him.
There are a lot of singers here who ‘bat for the other team’. Freddie Mercury, Barry Lamalow, half the country singers listed...
I HATE that guys voice geeeez
“The claim is that Jay Black was in command of the most octaves of any male singer.
Just go and listen to Cara Mia sometime
The crazy thing is is that he did that song without resorting to falsetto.”
Jay has to use falsetto to hit the high notes, but Gene Pitney does it in full voice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sFy5_kmEi4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8_2Jy-wv5Q&feature=related
Johnny Cash
First, listen to Nat, then listen to Luther. It becomes VERY obvious that Luther stylized himself after Nat.
At first blush, I didn’t consider Van Morrison’s voice among the greats. But over time, I came to appreciate his phrasing and inflection in the context of the song as a musical instrument, which it is.
Setting aside his gifts as a lyricist, not to mention his massive longevity, his tone and pitch are masterful. Check his performance on 2005’s “Stranded”. Superb.
I don’t know. That sounds like falsetto to me.
Don't care much for the Bon Scott years. I wore out Back In Black and Hells Bells
LOL true my bad. Insomnia can make one say the darndest things.
After I went to bed, I realized I should have added Chuck Berry.
I listened to a lot of radio and records in the 60s obviously...
I practically went into mourning when Otis Redding died.
That honkey has got the SOUL of a sista'.
She has got a clarity of voice and MOST DEFINETLY a delivery of the song. She's not just singing. She's SINGING.
There's no way I could create a list of top male vocalists that contained ONLY 10. :)
There are still many, many more that haven't been mentioned.
George Jones... the vocal acrobat
You have to be pretty much off your rocker to think Daltry has talent of any sort; unless the ability to stand around swinging a mic by its cord, and not much else, in the middle of another crappy concert is considered talent
I respectfully disagree. I don’t know how he is live, but in the studio he has few peers. For instance, Daltrey’s vocals on the Who’s Quadrophenia album were superb. This was before the days of Autotune.
While I’m at it, if being a top male vocalist means talent, then Jim Morrison (Doors) is somewhere near, if not at, the top of the list.
Jack Jones- YES!
Great singer. Very underrated.
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