I don’t know if they’re the best, but my faves are:
Linda Ronstadt
Ethel Waters
Karen Carpenter
Don’t Laugh Engelbert Humperdinck
Dean Martin
Glen Frey
**Don’t Laugh Engelbert Humperdinck**
Yes, his voice is right up there with the best. One of my mom’s favorites, and she used say, “If they don’t sound manly, I don’t listen to them. And how good are they without a band and microphones. That’s when you find out who can sing and who can’t.”
Robert Plant ?? (Always a homely dude, in my wife’s opinion). Roger Daltrey ?? (displayed a tough persona, but probably a wuss). Both good at yelling into a mic, I guess. Both my dad, and my wife’s dad were manly men. That’s why my sister, and my wife were never attracted to these wussie singers. They had seen real men in action in the real world, not the make believe entertainment world.
A big reason this country is in the mess it’s in is because of celebrity worship (that includes phoney baloney ‘preachers’ too). A lot a young men think they have to look and act like these wussies, and therefore the nation is inundated with these unmanly men.