OT: great voices

[Aluminny69]

I saw the We Five live in concert at Jogensen Theater back in the late sixties. $2 a ticket! Immediately fell in love with the lead singer, Beverly Bivins. Boy this lady could sing! Love this version:

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[jimazee]

Cindi's shows her range here with Girls Just Want to Have Fun... and
among her others, very different, Time After Time is a Classic.

Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick and think of you
Caught up in circles, confusion is nothing new.
Flashback, warm nights almost left behind Suitcase of memories, time after...

 

[FairView]

How about some more non-professionals. Check out Foxes and Fossils - a combination of older full-time musicians and a daughter of one and her friends. Varying quality, but some are amazing. Their live performances show real talent. The day I discovered them on youtube, I wasted hours listening to song after song. It's also cool to watch the "foxes" grow up and the "fossils" age. All seem like nice people, too.

Foxes and Fossils® | Music

 

[McFly]

 

[uconnfan68]

This thread has tickled my memory. There are really a lot of great voices in the pop worod. I guess I’m partial to female voices. Adele, Kelly Clsrkson, great voices. This link is to a good young British singer. This is a bit old now, Ella Henderson was 17 when this was recorded still pretty young. I like this song. As ann aside, I was at Johnny Mathis at UConn in the mid-60s (gulp) his voice was great but he had the worst stage presence of any great singer and I gather he never improved. You had to just close your eyes and listen.

Adele has a powerful voice. Gives me goosebumps when she hits some notes.

 

[Scud49]

I just loved Bobby Darin's voice:

 

[Scud49]

The late David Crosby - he's the lead voice on "The Lee Shore" with Graham Nash:

 

[Scud49]

Grace Slick of the Airplane has been mentioned a couple times already, and rightfully so.

Listen to her voice as it magically interweaves with co lead singer Marty Balin on "She Has Funny Cars":

 

[FairView]

 

[Jackcatscal]

Saw Beth Hart in concert a few months ago. A blues singer who sends chills down your spine.

I was surprised to read that Tina Turner wrote this song.

 

[Jackcatscal]

Billie Holiday had a completely unique voice and presentation.

I've told my kids that this is the song I want played at my funeral.

 

[Jackcatscal]

Gregg Allman was maybe the greatest white blues singer. I'm proud of the fact that I saw the Allman Brothers Band before Duane was killed.

 

[UpstateNY]

Eva Cassidy

 

[quavik]

Grace Slick had an enormous set of lungs in her small body, i offer up another who is way up there with her (watch Mama Cass' reaction at ~3:30, herself owner of a great voice):

 

[quavik]

I like the sound of Steve Perry's voice:

 

[quavik]

This one has gotten heavy rotation in our song lists, but man!

 

[quavik]

Brandi singing her guts out on this Radiohead song. Two things: 1) the song drops -bomb (if that's a concern) and 2) there's a little issue with the recording level, but i chose this over the studio version because of the intensity of this version. See what you think:

 

[quavik]

Remember them?

 

[quavik]

Last one for now - sorry to hijack this thread! Here's one by today's youth (Jadyn Rylee), paying homage to Stevie:

 

[Scud49]

This one has gotten heavy rotation in our song lists, but man!

And rightfully so....! Bobby Hatfield knocked it out of the park on that night.

 

[64Zcode]

There are numerous female singers that can raise the goosebumps when they sing, especially when they lift the safeties and
let it fly: Laura Branigan, Patty Smyth, Ann Wilson, Jennifer Nettles , Martina McBride and many more.
Maria McKee can really get to me when she goes for it...

 

[Aluminny69]

Going old school, very powerful, almost operatic voice.

 

[Aluminny69]

Giving a whole new meaning to "blind" audition, 18 year old, legally blind, Rachael Leahcar performs a moving rendition of La Vie En Rose.

 

[Aluminny69]

17 year old Allie Sherlock busking on the streets of Dublin. ( look it up.) She's been performing since a little girl. Amazing.

 

[Magy Cannon]

I think Dolly Parton has a beautiful voice.

 

[JRRRJ]

I cannot believe I've gotten to the end of this thread and Tori Kelly hasn't been mentioned. She has as much range as Linda Ronstadt (in a slightly higher register) and makes every song she sings her own, no matter what the genre. I offer two: one quiet, one raucous.

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[JRRRJ]

The second one:

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[Scud49]

Justin Hayward's voice can be other-worldly:

 

[JRRRJ]

What the heck, one more.

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