The top ten male solo artists EVER

5/02/10 | Phil.K

[Jakarta ex-pat]

OK. So which male artists NOT associated with duo, group etc would make your top 10. Here's mine..in no particular order..Non opera please!

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Frank Sinatra..Ol' Blue Eyes is always worth a listen to, regardless of mood.

David Bowie..What a tome of work; possibly unprecedented.

Harry Chapin...I wish I could have seen him live.

Roger Whittaker...

Elvis Presly..THE king ( I really enjoyed that "bodyguard" movie)

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan..Haunting

Stevie Wonder..Nuff said

Ray Charles...More Nuff said

Tom Jones...Am I showing my age yet?

Leonard Cohen!

[RexBeach]

Hey! What about Slim Whitman? He saved the planet.

[Celerity]

While the Female singing voice is my favorite, Duncan Sheik is someone with an incredible voice.

[earlJam]

Larry Platt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc

[jessduntno]

The Wilsons...Jackie Wilson and The Wicked Wilson Pickett.

No list is legitimate without Roy Orbison.

David Bowie was a performer not a singer.

I don’t see any Jazz in there. Chet Baker.

[Celerity]

While the Female singing voice is my favorite, Duncan Sheik is someone with an incredible voice.

[Renegade]

Fats Domino

[ml/nj]

Bill Clinton !

ML/NJ

[Trust but Verify]

Aack! Aack! Aack!

Love that crazy movie!

[Joe 6-pack]

Although they are probably more closely associated with their respective groups, both David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler have some incredible solo stuff.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Barry Manilow

Duck and cover time...

[BlueLancer]

Al Stewart.

Year of the Cat
Time Passages
etc, etc ...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Frankie Valli ?

[BlueLancer]

Barry Manilow would be in my top 10 ...

probably around 7 or so.

[JohnLongIsland]

American Idol

[Wyatt's Torch]

Jeff Buckley

[Notary Sojac]

B.B. King

John Hiatt

Ry Cooder

Warren Zevon

Stevie Ray Vaughan

[screaminsunshine]

You left out Reekie Nelson. And Cab Calloway.

[acoulterfan]

Tim Buckley
Johnny Mathis
Al Green
Jackie Wilson
Eddie Levert (Ojays)
Nat King Cole
Otis Reading

Can’t think of any others right now. Maybe after my coffee!

[pgyanke]

John Denver!

[jessduntno]

“Barry Manilow...Duck and cover time...”

Hahahahaha...not my cup of tea as a singer, but put on some great shows...hard to argue with the numbers he rang up in sales, too...I think he is still near the top sales all time?

[theDentist]

Jim Croce

[JimSEA]

Neil Diamond's absence from the list is a song sung blue for sure.

[zwerni]

jammes Taylor
Billy Joel
Dan Fogelberg

[La Lydia]

Vicente Fernandez

Luis Miguel

Pepe Aguilar

[aruanan]

Bruce Cockburn

[Krankor]

Bing Crosby is supposedly the greatest singer ever. He was good.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

No list is legitimate without Roy Orbison.
AND for that I will Apologize!
ROY ORBISON...ROY ORBISON.
I CONCUR!

[jessduntno]

Yeah, Al Green...definitely...

[acoulterfan]

“No list is legitimate without Roy Orbison.”

You are sooooo right. This guy was stars above Presley!!!

[Lurker]

Sammy Hagar.

[SnakeDoctor]

Josh Groban has to be on that list. He honestly has among the best voices I’ve ever heard. I’d put Harry Connick Jr. on there, too.

I like Toby Keith and Brad Paisley a lot ... but I won’t pretend they’re even in the ballpark.

SnakeDoc

[capt. norm]

Forget Roger Whitaker. He was the creation of a company similar to K-tel to sell albums on TV.

I think WGN in Chicago was the only station I knew that played his stuff.

[AFreeBird]

The Man in Black

The Great Satchmo

[Jakarta ex-pat]

You don’t believe in if anymore?

[VastRWCon]

Larry Platt Snow parody - Snow on the ground

[Radagast the Fool]

Glad there are some other Tim Buckley fans here; so yeah, he’s on my list.
For sheer vocal beauty, he’s without peer!
God rest his soul!

[Frantzie]

I would rather listen to - and I will get flamed for it - Cat Stevens work versus Leonard Cohen. A lot of it was lefty crap and he has beccome a hard core Muslim but some of the songs were quite good. So weird because I think he was born a Christian Cypriot? He totally lost the plot.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

32 posts and no mention of Sam Cooke?

[Mr. Lucky]

A list which omits Bing Crosby was obviously made up by a baby boomer.

[Lando Lincoln]

Others have pointed it out but oh man... Roy Orbison. And Chris Isaak.

[AFreeBird]

Slow Hand

[william clark]

While there are more that I like, I probably just have three favorites:

Sam Cooke
Nat King Cole
Neil Diamond

I also like Chris Tomlin a lot.

[Liberty Valance]

Johnny Cash
Merle Haggard
Nat King Cole
Roy Orbison
Marty Robbins
Frank Sinatra
Ray Charles
Verne Gosdin
James Taylor
Buddy Holly

just to name a few

[jessduntno]

“You are sooooo right. This guy was stars above Presley!!!”

I heard someone slam him once because his voice was “too operatic for rock and roll” and thought I would laugh my ass off...the sweetest duet ever was that version of Crying” he did with kd lang, too...but is there a more classic song than “Pretty Woman?” The version on Black and White Night is really great;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw0fngpM2GY

The solos half way through are unbelievable, a wholle other thread on rock and roll films like this and Last Waltz; but the song is a classic.

[BlueLancer]

You’d better have your ship rigged and ready in the harbor ...

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Cat Stevens has a tremendous tome...Even as Yusuf Islam!
He would definitely be in my top 20.

[csmusaret]

Sam Cooke and Merle Haggard. My two favorites all time!

[LRS]

Chuck Berry

Hank Williams (sr)