Vote for the sexiest voice ever

Subject: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Bert
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:02 AM

On the romantic songs thread LEJ says...
Dusty (Springfield) had the sexiest voice ever recorded.

My vote would go to Ruby Murray.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Fadac
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:15 AM

Sean Conry. He has the VOICE.

-Fadac

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Margo
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:19 AM

I agree, Fadac. Sean Connery has an attractive voice with an attractive accent. I love a good, vibrant bass voice. I have been attracted to men in the past because of their voice. (You listening SandyBob? :o)

Margarita

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:33 AM

There was a time when I might have gladly taken the ribbon from Rita Coolidge's hair. But I would most certainly have done ANYTHING Linda Ronstadt asked. M-m-m-m-m...and there was something about the way Merrilee Rush sang "Angel Of The Morning". But at this particular moment, Lucy Kaplanski could have me pretty cheaply. No particular reason that I can think of.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:34 AM

Sean Connery - yes, and I really love the accent.
Gordon Bok
John Rhys Davis(sp?) - he was on the TV show "Sliders" in the early days, and he does narration for documantaries (maybe Nat'l Geographic?)

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: paddy
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:46 AM

my vote is for dolores keane.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Winters Wages
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:48 AM

I know Im dating myself but here goes..Joanie Sommers (she also did Pepsi jingles) I still trimble when I here her played on the oldie stations.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Mudjack
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:54 AM

Sexy? Julie London, Those were my impressionable years but she was really sexy. I'm getting to old to wonder about who's sexy today and folk singers don't usually come off being or sounding sexy. Since the question is sexiest ever, I have to go with Julie London the pop/jazz songtress.
Mudjack

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: annamill
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:55 AM

I used to love this voice and I have never heard any that compare. I even went out and bought a record of his speeches.

Speaker of the house. Senator Everet(?) Dirkson.

Does anyone remember him? I used to listen just to hear him speak.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:58 AM

I forgot to mention Maria Muldaur who once offered, "Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon and kick up a little dust." On an album of hers she sings a song about "If you touch my knee". I can't quite remember what she looks like. I have an image in my mind of her singing in a flowered sarong with a hibiscus in her hair. But anyway, her inflection gets me every time.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 12:00 PM

Evidently this is not limited to singers? Okay.....Ann Sothern.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 12:26 PM

Dinah Shore, in her early days before she lost her southern accent and started selling Chevrolets. Oh, MY!
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Dale Rose
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 12:47 PM

Annap, yes, I certainly do remember Everett Dirksen, and I have that same album ~~ ran across it the other day, and considered playing it, but haven't yet. He was possibly the last of the old time orators ~~ certainly in today's television age there is no one like him, but that is another story. I lived most of my life in Illinois, so was fortunate to hear him many times.

Paddy, your choice of Dolores Keane certainly suits me. I'll have to think a bit to see if I can top that one.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Vixen
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:00 PM

Somehow I think the opinions on this thread may reveal some gender preferences, but for male voices, I fell in love with Sean Connery when I was about 3. For women's voices, I really like Lauren Bacall. And for singers, the male voice of my current fancy is Vance Gilbert, the female voice, Emmylou Harris or Linda Rondstadt, though I like Alberta Hunter on Handyman too.

V

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: LEJ
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:09 PM

Wonder why Kevin Costner isn't getting any votes? :)

LEJ

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Pete Curry
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:15 PM

Lauren Bacal (speaking); Lee Andrews, of Lee Andrews & The Hearts (singing).

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Doctor John
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 02:26 PM

Radio 2's (UK) Fran Godrey: never seen her though. Dr John PS If you're on the Mudcat, Fran, please send photo!

Subject: Thank you for your Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Fran Godfrey
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 02:41 PM

Hello, Doctor John - sorry I don't have a better photo to send you, but if you click here, I promise you'll never regret it....
love,
-Franny-

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: bob schwarer
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 02:47 PM

Mae West

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 02:55 PM

Jimi Hendrix ...

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Mike Strobel
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 03:04 PM

John Prine

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From:
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 03:05 PM

Tori Amos mmm...

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Easy Rider
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 03:21 PM

ELVIS PRESLEY

"I just wanna be...your teddy bear"

MARILYN MONROE

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Bert
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 03:29 PM

Then there's Eartha Kitt. "I wanna be evil"

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Matthew B.
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 03:33 PM

Ingrid Bergman

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Vixen
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 03:42 PM

Just to be campy...how about Tim Curry in Rocky Horror?

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Llanfair
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 03:48 PM

Alan Rickman. Richard Burton.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 04:41 PM

I like Tim Curry's voice too.
Julie Newmar

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 04:45 PM

Marilyn Monroe? MARILYN MONROE?? Haven't you guys YET figured out that it was an ACT?? probably her best performance??

MA

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Tony Burns
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 04:49 PM

MAG, guys don't care if it's an act.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Bryant
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 04:55 PM

Margot Timmons who sings for the Cowboy Junkees. Voice like velvet and Southern Comfort. Lordy my.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Melodeon
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 05:42 PM

Marlene Dietrich, the one and only (with apologies to Dai)

Melodeon

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 05:54 PM

Catspaw

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 05:55 PM

Right on, Mudjack!!! I can't imagine only one vote for JULIE LONDON. O, does she bring back memories. Julie Sommers is also pretty sexy.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 06:00 PM

You know, I received a CD last year that leads me to believe that the winner of this "sexiest voice" contest might well be the FAIR ONE, otherwise known as Alison.
-Joe Offer, shamelessly stealing Mick's very words-

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 06:04 PM

why has no one mentioned Edith Piaf?

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 08:00 PM

There was a recent thread about 'Is That All There Is'. I fell in love with Peggy Lee and 'Fever' at age 9.

Margarita, give me a call some time and I'll show you my rich, vibrant bass radio voive, with an Australian accent. In fact come out to the Woodford Festival here between Christmas and New Year and escape Winter for a while.

Regards
John

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: SandyBob
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 08:10 PM

I second Dinah Shore in her earlier years...goodness me...warm, sexy and vulnerable. And I've never heard her sing but would happily listen to Thiona Ritchie read the entire Chicago phone book.

SandyBob

note to margarita: you make me blush, you silver-tongued devil-ette :-)

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Don Meixner
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 08:18 PM

Too many to choose.

Male: Edward Woodward, James Earl Jones, Gordon Bok, Paddy Reilly, Arnold Stang.

Female: A young Tammy Grimes, Julie London, Keely Smith, Priscilla Herman Martha Raye

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 08:19 PM

I agree with Mudjack and Banjoman about Julie London--I was listening to a CD of her singing "Cry Me a River" a few weeks ago. Fantastic.

And with Bert about Eartha Kitt--"The Birds Do It" and "Santa Baby."

And just to be original, the one I thought of when I first saw the thread: Peggy Lee. Remember "Lover"? Not only her voice, but her performance style--she didn't move her feet, she just seemed to writhe inside her skin. Wow.

--seed

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Mudjack
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 08:55 PM

Sandy Bob....Sex symbols don't blush, they just get sexier. So sing low...er.
Mudjack

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Mike Billo
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 09:18 PM

Not exactly a household name, but '40's Jazz and Blues vocalist Ella Mae Morse. WOW!

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: CarlZen
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 09:32 PM

I'll have to ditto Maria Muldaur. When I first saw her perform she drove me nuts (it was with the Kweskin Jug Band). I've seen her a couple of times in the past few years. She just gets sexier (better) and sexier (better) all the time - and she's still singing "Don't you feel my leg".

Maura O'Connell is right up there, too.

On the male side, I'd have to say the bass singer for the Fairfield Four (gospel quartet). He's another one who could just read the phone book and send electrodes through the system.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Mary Kate
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 09:44 PM

Ah, yes, Sean Connery definitely!

As far as singers go, the other day when I listened to the Irish Tenor cd I was struck by the sexiness of John McDermott's voice. (Though it amazes me how he can get such wonderful sound out without hardly opening his mouth...)

Then there is a friend of mine who I think has a very sexy voice, though you'll all have to take my word for it.

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Snookadive
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 10:26 PM

I'm a big, brawny, hetero- construction worker of a guy but hearing Dick Gaughan sing The Snows They Melt the Soonest too many times could probably turn me. In which case I hurriedly throw on some Cowboy Junkies and Margot Timmons would retrieve me.

Snookadive

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: thosp
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:35 PM

i'd have to say ---- Minnie Pearl----

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: thosp
Date: 27 Jul 99 - 11:38 PM

just kidding !!!!--------------i'd really have to say ------- for a woman (i agree with an above) Marlene Dietrich--------and for a guy ---Ronald Coleman

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: Les B
Date: 28 Jul 99 - 12:10 AM

From the days of radio - Miss Monitor from CD's Mary Black

and possibly a combination of Ernest Tubb & Tiny Tim

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Jul 99 - 12:51 AM

Right now, male: the guy with the group in the top 40's who sings "Lullaby" He kinda speaks part of it about a young girl crowing up in Hollywood and then he sings her a Lullaby "Everything gonna be alright, rockabye, rockabye" Don't knwo the name of the group or the song, but he has got one very sexy voice.

Marlene Dietrich, definitely and I really like Ferron's voice, too.

My girlfriend asked me to call her boyfriend, whom I had never met, on his birthday and sing the sexiest rendition of Happy Birthday I could. He didn't know who I was until later, but he wanted to meet me. We joked about it for several years after.:-)

katlaughinginasultryway

Subject: RE: Vote for the sexiest voice ever
From: j0_77
Date: 28 Jul 99 - 01:44 AM

AT&T information hehe