Your favorite vocalists of all time

[The Cysko Kid]

Well that's cool you can do it any way you want I just want to avoid unnecessary discussion about who fits into what category or who is better than whom

[The Cysko Kid]

Each respondant has given at least one name I'm not immediately familiar with and that's great. That gives me some stuff to discover.

[Westside Steve]

@the-cysko-kid said:

Well that's cool you can do it any way you want I just want to avoid unnecessary discussion about who fits into what category or who is better than whom

I understand. That's just a list of guys I respect for their talent and ability. I put stars beside my very favorites.

WSS

[The Gipper]

Elvis

Freddie Mercury

Roy Orbison

Eric Carmen

Paul McCartney

Subset:

Carl Wilson

Roger Daltry

Mama Cass Elliot

Art Garfunkel

Barry Gibb

I stuck with the Rock n Roll genre...

[The Cysko Kid]

Roy Orbison certainly had a killer voice

[Chicopee John]

I don't know that I have favorite vocalists - kind of like having a favorite flavor of ice cream I guess - but any list has to include both Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt, IMHO

[The Cysko Kid]

@chicopee-john said:

I don't know that I have favorite vocalists - kind of like having a favorite flavor of ice cream I guess - but any list has to include both Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt, IMHO

Your honest opinion is fine that's what I asked for. On another note you don't have a favorite flavor of ice cream? I like ice cream but I can't go wrong with chocolate peanut butter ribbon

[The Gipper]

[The Gipper]

[The Gipper]

To me, I have always felt that this is perhaps THE perfect Rock n Roll song. It has the great Roy Orbison vocals. A really top notch guitar riff, a great, short drum solo, and a perfect subject: Watching Pretty women.....and Daisy Duke counts here for that.

The only problem is that they made this song the subject of a decidedly mediocre movie with a not very pretty Julia Roberts in the title role.

But that does not take away from the song.

[Chicopee John]

@chicopee-john said:

I don't know that I have favorite vocalists - kind of like having a favorite flavor of ice cream I guess - but any list has to include both Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt, IMHO

I guess you have to add Patsy Cline and Lou Rawls

For 'today's version' of Roy Orbison, you have to add Raul Malo of The Mavericks (can't wait to see Raul & the boys in June)

[Westside Steve]

I really love the Mavericks!

WSS

[Chicopee John]

@westside-steve said:

I really love the Mavericks!

WSS

Have you ever seen them live, Brother Steve? They are fantastic and play a long show to boot.

[Browns149]

Freddy Mercury

Bruce Dickinson

Ray Charles

Bob Marley

Johnny Cash

[The Gipper]

@chicopee-john said:

I guess you have to add Patsy Cline and Lou Rawls

For 'today's version' of Roy Orbison, you have to add Raul Malo of The Mavericks (can't wait to see Raul & the boys in June)

Nice.....he sort of seems like the Country Pavarotti.

[tiamat63]

Freddy

Perry

Cornell

Boyd

Cash

[The Cysko Kid]

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

[Canton Mike]

Just some of my favorites for vocals listing my absolute favorites for each. I could name several for each, especially Joplin & Cocker:

Janis Joplin.. Down on Me

Joe Cocker..Delta Lady

Larry Gatlin..Broken Lady

Otis Redding..Dock of the Bay

Bob Seger..Main Street

Aretha Franklin..RESPECT.. is also right there.

I MUST add my single all time favorite...Eric Clapton. I'm not sure he ever did a song I didn't like, whether solo or as part of a number of groups.

Mike

[calfoxwc]

Joe Cocker - "You are so beautiful"

anything by Garth Brooks.

http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=220443

Garfunkel, "so much in love"

Merle Haggard "That's the way love goes"

Trisha Yearwood

Mellissa Lambert

and my favorite singer of all time....

Alison Krauss

and Brad Paisley - together in a Paisley song:

[calfoxwc]

and one of my favorite songs of all time,

by Alison Krauss and the Union Station..

from the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou"

the Soggy Bottom Boys "singing" the song.

Great movie, with George Clooney...