Posted on 11/06/2010 9:21:42 PM PDT by Sparky21555
I second that. Lifestyle notwithstanding, he was a tremendous vocalist.
Hank
Van Morrison.
Your list has a definite seventies arena rock slant, and no one could claim the “best” of anything musical came out of the seventies with a straight face. I’ll suggest you’ve got a bit of selection bias due to overexposure to artists of that genre and era, and underexposure to those that are not.
Only Frank Sinatra, Roy Orbison and Otis Redding plausibly belong on such a list, and I honestly wonder about Redding. Lo and behold, they’re the only ones with origins outside the apparent bias. Saccharine Paul McCartney is arguably not purely of that decade, but he is as a solo artist.
Then, there’s the lack of anyone post-seventies. I suppose it’s possible that sufficient time hasn’t passed for greatness to be bestowed upon those coming later.
Paul McCartney? Really!?
Tom Jones should be on the list!
Jay Black!!
McCartney over Sinatra. Where is Morrison. Not a Doors fan.
Post ‘60 ‘Kentucky Rain’ and “In The Ghetto’ were okay numbers by the King, not in the trash category imho.
uhh, WOW!
You forgot Tom Jones, Bing Crosby, Smokey Robinson
Oops, I just realized you included Bing Crosby - sorry, my bad!
Heck, I’d event put Luther Vandross way ahead of Paul McCartney’s sappy bubblegum pop. At least Luther had a groove and some genuine depth of emotion, on top of a buttery smooth voice.
Bobby Caldwell and Boz Scaggs. If you’re under 40, you should look them up as they were # 1 artists from the mid ‘70s to the late ‘80s.
Elvis had a four octave range, Orbison was good, but not that good.
Paul McCartney??? WTF???
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