OT: great voices

[Bigboote]

For years, the great blues/rock artist Robin Trower had a terrific lead singer, his bass player, James Dewar. Sadly, Dewar died in 2002. One of my favorite songs by them:

And Robin Trower started out in Procol Harum, who had their own lead singer with a great voice:

 

[JSB60]

Look at Miss Ohio Gillian Welch Look at Miss Ohio - Google Search

 

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[RSHERMVIKES]

Thanks to all you posters for presenting such awesome talent!
Many I hadn't heard before!

 

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[YoDore]

It takes guts to cover one of the most beautiful songs ever written. David Draiman has guts, and he crushed it.

 

[UcMiami]

I thought this singer would have showed up already - Joni Mitchell: (Hard to choose just one.)

 

[UcMiami]

And another one missing: Again how do you choose just one

 

[Scud49]

I thought this singer would have showed up already - Joni Mitchell: (Hard to choose just one.)

I was planing on posting this gem from Joni this morning.

 

[Bigboote]

This is the first thing I heard by Loreena Mckennitt. That first part still gives me chills thirty-odd years later.

 

[Bigboote]

This is a band I discovered about a year ago. Unfortunately this lead singer had quit the music industry several years earlier to teach full time.

 

[Bigboote]

Andrea Cowan and the other members of Seven Spires met at Berklee. They're all immensely talented.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Nat King Cole THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU

 

[Bigboote]

Ronnie James Dio actually started out as a crooner in the early 60's. He discovered Deep Purple and began to veer toward hard rock. His band opened for Deep Purple and soon after Ritchie Blackmore and Dio formed Rainbow.

 

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[Scud49]

Della Reese - she had one very powerful, very beautiful voice:

 

[JeannoCT]

Nat King Cole THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU

I was just going to add Nat King Cole as my favorite male singer. As for female singers, I am really liking the songs/voice of Patsy Cline. I really enjoy listening to her. Not saying she's the best, but a great voice.

 

[SalinasV]

I am a devotee of many artists, including the great Joan Baez. This is a brief poem from her Baptism album.

 

[Buzzyboy]

My brother turned me on to Eva Cassidy and her version of this song .... became the number one song in England years after her death at the age of 33 from cancer when it was introduced to a local London DJ who decided to give it some air time based on a recommendation by a friend .... I tried to drop it here to play but couldn't ... her version of "Over The Rainbow" is simply magical and bewitching ... maybe someone could do it for me ... THANKS

 

[YoDore]

My brother turned me on to Eva Cassidy and her version of this song .... became the number one song in England years after her death at the age of 33 from cancer when it was introduced to a local London DJ who decided to give it some air time based on a recommendation by a friend .... I tried to drop it here to play but couldn't ... her version of "Over The Rainbow" is simply magical and bewitching ... maybe someone could do it for me ... THANKS

Here you go. And, you're right. It's beautiful.

 

[Hoops66]

Here's one for Bigboote, who may be the only one who remembers her and her 5 octave voice. I still have 3 of her albums, but I have to search deep in the archives to find them. It's only a minute and a half long, but you'll get the idea.

 

[Steve UConn72]

Another technically challenged old guy (me), but Jay Black of Jay and the Americans had my favorite voice of all time - "Come a little bit closer," "Cara Mia," "Some Enchanted Evening," the list goes on and on. And the lead singer from the Vogues was no slouch, either.

 

[64Zcode]

Another technically challenged old guy (me), but Jay Black of Jay and the Americans had my favorite voice of all time - "Come a little bit closer," "Cara Mia," "Some Enchanted Evening," the list goes on and on. And the lead singer from the Vogues was no slouch, either.

I'm with ya! I posted Jay Black back on #23.
I never noticed the similarities between Jay and the Vogues until I went looking to find this one to post.
5 O'Clock World from The Vogues

 

[Scud49]

Angela Bofill always impressed me with her gorgeous voice:

 

[Scud49]

The Irish / Norwegian group Secret Garden, this beautiful song by them is "Nocturne".

The gorgeous vocals are by Fionnuala Sherry:

 

[Aluminny69]

Jesse Colin Young is most known for his hit single with the Youngbloods, GET TOGETHER. However, a dorm mate at UConn introduced me to this album from 1964. This 11-track acoustic-guitar-and-vocal debut album. Young proved to be an adept guitarist conversant with all the basic fingerpicking folk patterns, and to have an expressive, elastic tenor voice with just a touch of graininess to keep him from sounding too smooth.

 

[Bigboote]

Here's one for Bigboote, who may be the only one who remembers her and her 5 octave voice. I still have 3 of her albums, but I have to search deep in the archives to find them. It's only a minute and a half long, but you'll get the idea.

You got me there -- never heard of her. This is why I post threads like this. I love to be clued into stuff like this, although this one really isn't my cuppa.

 

[Bigboote]

I think of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap along with Jay and the Americans and the Vogues. Here's my favorite of theirs: