Perfect singers

Subject: RE: BS: Perfect singers
From: Bugsy
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 08:46 PM

As far as folk goes, It's Roy Bailey, Stan Roger, and Lorena McKennet for me. (Just off the top of my head). Maybe add Dan Seals, especially since he's gone acoustic.

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Perfect singers
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 08:43 PM

I don't think I'd agree with Don's criteria here. Which is ok, because I think that threads which turn into lists of artistes run into the ground for me. (Especially when they are people I've never consciously heard in my life, which a good number of the ones mentined above are.)What I think is interesting is to work out what the qualities are that make you want to put a singer in a list.

If I was going to name one singer, it'd be Christy Moore. And the reason is the way he can open up meanings in a song you've heard before that you didn't realise were there, and make you want to sing it yourself. There's some singers put a mark on a song that seesm to make other people feel compelled to echo them when they sing it, and Christy doesn't do that. Yet he's got a way of singing that is unique - and I don't understand how those two things can be true at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: Perfect singers
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 08:07 PM

Roy Orbison and Ronnie Milsap.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Perfect singers
From: Gary T
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 08:02 PM

Waylon Jennings, Patsy Cline, k d lang.

Subject: RE: BS: Perfect singers
From: SeanM
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 07:47 PM

How about those that while they may not be overall perfect, are abosolutely perfect for individual songs?

M

Subject: RE: BS: Perfect singers
From: MK
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 07:36 PM

Frank Sinatra
Barbra Streisand
Ella Fitzgerald
(young)Judy Garland
Anita Baker
K.D. Lang
Al Jareau
Art Garfunkle
Patsy Cline
Whitney Houston

(...a few that come to mind anyway...)

Subject: RE: BS: Perfect singers
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 07:10 PM

Karen Carpenter, Brad Delp, and Neil McCoy.

--Mbo

Subject: Perfect singers
From: DonMeixner
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 07:04 PM

Geoffrey (#2 son and identical twin except in musical taste to brother Greg.) and I were driving to my office and discussing singers. He allowed as how he like Paddy Reilly's as we listened to "The Rose of Allendale". I told him I felt that Paddy'e was a perfect voice. Effortless in range, void of affectation or innatural dialect, just pure singing. There are also some intangibles I can't describe. I then realized as to how few people there are that fit this criteria I have described. This doesn't mean that I think there are no other good or great songers singers. There are many. And I may be very subjective here as well.

I would add Piscilla Herdman, Glenn Curtin, Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Anne Murray, Gordon Bok, Tim Spencer, and Ken Curtis to this list. May be Mel Torme and Ronnie Browne.

Some of these folks aren't favorites by a mile but certainly skill is skill whether you like the style or no. Who else fits the bill?

Don