Your top 5 best voices in music (and why)

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4. Tom Waits


5. Marvin Gaye

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Nat King Cole is the best I've ever heard.

[spurraider21]

Nat King Cole is the best I've ever heard.

Yep he definitely deserves a spot on these lists

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Funny thing is this....

There is no way in , Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Howlin' Wolf, Joe er, John Lee Hooker, Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix (there are others) would stand a chance on any of those American Idol type shows, but there will never be anyone come from there that will compare to the success they had.

I'd much rather listen to Johnny Winter over Tom Jones who was a far better singer. I can't stand Neil Diamond, but love Neil Young.

Then again, some songs take a Gogi Grant, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine, Ella Fitzgerald.

No way in Sinatra could pull this off.



Tony Bennett could never sell this.






A great sound, pretty much lost in obscurity.

[spurraider21]

janis joplin could easily win a show like american idol ... i agree with the other vocalists you mentioned though

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janis joplin could easily win a show like american idol ... i agree with the other vocalists you mentioned though

I don't see it. She's way too raw for what they look for there. Yes yes and yes she was great but not surpy enought for what they seem to like.

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The late Natalie Cole.

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I don't see it. She's way too raw for what they look for there. Yes yes and yes she was great but not surpy enought for what they seem to like.

PERIOD

Screamin' & yellin' & higher than a kite. Whoop-dee-do.

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[JMarkJohns]

Cat Stevens
Peter Gabriel
Eva Cassidy
Lauren Hill
Johnny Cash
Ben E. King

Didn't see them mentioned. Each is in my top-10 with a few others already discussed.

I like soulful voices, ones with a story before a word is ever spoke.

I'd have paid money to hear Ben E. King sing the ABCs.

Eva Cassidy and Lauren Hill are their own soul. They sing from their gut, tinged with a grief that's been polished smooth from anguish. Stevens and Cash are the an hesis of each other in tone, but each's voice was the best part of the song.

And I've said for years that the greatest instrument on earth is Gabriel's voice. Unlike anything I've ever heard.

[Avante]

10 totally unique voices.

Charley Partton....King of the Delta Blues, he has to be heard to be believed.
Elvis
Frank Sinatra
Janis Joplin
Bob Dylan
Howlin' Wolf
Marty Robbins
Delbert McClinton
Roy Orbison
Willie Nelson

[SpursforSix]

10 totally unique voices.

Charley Partton....King of the Delta Blues, he has to be heard to be believed.
Elvis
Frank Sinatra
Janis Joplin
Bob Dylan
Howlin' Wolf
Marty Robbins
Delbert McClinton
Roy Orbison
Willie Nelson

Hey old timer...I stumbled on this a couple of weeks ago...you might dig it...maybe Janis Joplin lite...

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Hey old timer...I stumbled on this a couple of weeks ago...you might dig it...maybe Janis Joplin lite...

I doubt an old timer would care for that so why bother?