Okay, so - your vote. Best voice, ever.

[tinydancer]

Gordon is Canada's troubadour.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT ~ The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ~ - YouTube

GORDON LIGHTFOOT ~ Bitter Green ~.wmv - YouTube

Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy (Lyrics ) - YouTube

Gordon Lightfoot - Black Day in July - YouTube

He's truly amazing. I've seen him so many times when I was young. And he never ever ceased to amaze me. I was rocking with Alice Cooper but I still loved Lightfoot. He transcended sp? categories.

His songs were for true. I can't explain it any other way.

I hope that makes sense.

 

[tinydancer]

OK back to vocals.

Smack me upside the head but I'll run with Julie Driscoll for female voices. She was and is amazing.

 

[tinydancer]

My mom and her friends dragged me to the Maple Leaf Gardens to see the Beatles. true story. I was their "go to" teenager/tweenager/kid companion (I figured this out when they took me to Blue Hawaii/don't ask don't tell when you are only a kid and I got as much popcorn as I wanted I think I was only around 10 or 11 at the time)

BUT when it came time to drag me off to the Beatles, okey dokey my mom and my baba ( who adored Ringo) were dying in anticipation for these guys hitting the stage, there was a woman who opened for them called Dusty Springfield. I'm not sure if I've put her up on this board yet.

She killed me. A voice to die for. I was just a kid. But her voice wa surreal.

Oh and the next thread I should start, should be good moms go bad and drag their daughter to see Englebert Humperdink at the Okeefe center with Marianne Faitful as the super opener, followed by Harry "yes you got it banana boat" Belafonte.

I could sue my mom now for damages for the mental anguish I suffered.

NAH my mom was cool even dragging me around.

 

[tinydancer]

Having computer problems again. Apologies for the delay to put up some of Dusty Springfield's hits.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwSN0Yw5l0]Re: Dusty Springfield-you don't have to say you love me - YouTube[/ame]

 

[tinydancer]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYbzW-6tvIM]Dusty Springfield - i only want to be with you (V.RARE) 60s - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbgHM1mI0k]Dusty Springfield - Wishin' And Hopin' - YouTube[/ame]

There's more out there on you tube but this will give you a taste of her vocal range.

 

[Ropey]

I forgot about another Barbara..

Barbara Bonney - S'altro che lagrime

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dvqyrn9mF8]Barbara Bonney - S'altro che lagrime - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Big Fitz]

Okay, let's line this bad boy up.

Men:

1. Freddie Mercury (can sing rock AND opera with incredible range and emotive power)
2. Frank Sinatra (set the standard for standards for an entire style)
3. Lucciano Pavarotti (best Tenor in the last 150 years)
4. Elvis (dude, come on! Gospel to Rock)
5. Andreas Boccelli (The man's voice melt's souls)

Honorable Mentions to: Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Mel Tillis, Jim Nabors, Little Richard, Wayne Newton, Bing Crosby, Barry White, Teddy Pendergras, Marty Robbins, Harry Chapin Jr., Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, Peter Gabriel and Stephen Tyler (yes Stephen Tyler).

Women

1. Kate Bush (So versatile with range, power and uncompromising creativity)
2. Tori Amos (incredible power and expression with delicate touches)
3. Shirley Bassey (Such emotion in that voice a torch singer's, torch singer)
4. Annie Lennox (power of a torch singer with the soul of a punk rocker)
5. Kate Smith (The most powerful and iconic Alto voices that ever lived)

Honorable Mentions to: Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Eartha Kitt, Ethel Merman, Grace Slick, Chrissy Hinde, Charlotte Church, Bjork, Enya, Billie Holliday, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Shania Twain, Pink, Whitney Houston, Sade and Pat Benatar.

 

[Ropey]

^ Where's 'The Voice"?

 

[hortysir]

Josh Groban
Martina McBride
David Phelps
Stevie Nicks
Nancy Wilson

 

[Big Fitz]

^ Where's 'The Voice"?

James Earl Jones doesn't sing. Otherwise I'd have tossed Burl Ives on my list of Hon. Mentions.

 

[Ropey]

Gordon is Canada's troubadour.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT ~ The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ~ - YouTube

GORDON LIGHTFOOT ~ Bitter Green ~.wmv - YouTube

Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy (Lyrics ) - YouTube

Gordon Lightfoot - Black Day in July - YouTube

He's truly amazing. I've seen him so many times when I was young. And he never ever ceased to amaze me. I was rocking with Alice Cooper but I still loved Lightfoot. He transcended sp? categories.

His songs were for true. I can't explain it any other way.

I hope that makes sense.

Of course it does. Gordon was and is a rapscallion. He's telling his truth much of the time. He loved them and left them and let them know he was leaving them while he was loving them.

Then he wrote songs about them.

I mean when I was young, that's what the music and poetry were for. He just never stopped.

 

[Ropey]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV6d154LpXA]CARA MIA PAR JAY BLACK de Gil Allard - YouTube[/ame]

I still find him pretty amazing at 72.

 

[Zander]

Giuseppe De Stefano.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHkiVtQhd7Q]GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO "Torna a Surriento" April 1953 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Ropey]

A fine blues voice. Gone far too soon, as so many who emote the blues...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L9-AvjsB6g]Amy Winehouse - Love is a Losing Game - YouTube[/ame]

Amy, it was not at all right, It was bloody perfect...