OT: great voices

[Halloween]

Blondie - Heart of Glass

 

[Halloween]

Queen - Love of My Life with only Freddie and piano.

 

[Ex Nutmegger]

Those were the days my friend by Mary Hopkin. Mary owned this song the way Frank Sinatra owned “My Way”.
Us older boneyarders(I’m 83) can easily identify with the general theme of this song.

 

[stormsurge]

Paul Frees was great

 

[Scud49]

The MonaLisa twins have delighful voices IMO:

 

[Beemer]

Glad you posted this - there are a lot of voices out there that no one would call 'great', but they carry so much more than just the tune. One of my favorites is:

Bob Dylan - Lay, Lady, Lay (Official Audio)

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This is the one Dylan song I enjoy hearing him sing. Otherwise I don't like his voice.

 

[Beemer]

Ive always thought Steve Winwood had the clearest most pure voice in Rock.

Love Steve Winwood. I don't know how many copies of his "Back In The High Life" cd I've gone through but it's a lot!

 

[Beemer]

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

I think that is the best thing about these music threads- all the artists you've never heard before

 

[McFly]

Is it real, or............?

 

[McFly]

Eleven pages of great voices and nobody mentioned this guy?

 

[Ozimoto]

I was wondering that too!

 

[Bigboote]

I was wondering that too!

Shhhh . . . don't tell Geno we're not opera fans.

 

[FairView]

Here's a voice millions of us know, but don't know it's a wonderful singer named Marnie Nixon "She is now recognized as the singing voice of leading actresses on the soundtracks of several musicals, including Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, although her roles were concealed from audiences when the films were released."

 

[Bigboote]

And here’s one from Julie Andrews, the original Eliza Doolittle on Broadway:

 

[Scud49]

Oh boy, here's one I think we missed - the wonderful Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention:

 

[Ozimoto]

I don't remember seeing Isaac Hayes....

 

[Ozimoto]

Curtis Mayfield had a unique voice.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

If you are mentioning Isaac Hayes, you got to mention Barry White. Both of them are on this song together with a cameo of Ray Parker at the end of the video.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

I always thought El Debarge had a great voice.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Brilliant song by Quincy Jones with the awesome voices of Take 6. Their voices sound like musical instruments.

 

[Jackcatscal]

Is it real, or............?

The last castrati actually lasted into the twentieth century, in the Vatican choir. See Castrato - Wikipedia.

Here's the only known recording of a castrato:

Alessandro Moreschi sings Ave Maria (no scratch)

Cavaliere Moreschi singing. Here we can hear more ease his voice and how he can sing mostly in chest voice. That's a thing that today listeners can no t unde...

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[Jackcatscal]

Oh boy, here's one I think we missed - the wonderful Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention:

Sandy Denny is the only person to have appeared on a Led Zeppelin recording, other than the band members. See Sandy Denny - Wikipedia.

Here's the song:

Led Zeppelin - The Battle of Evermore (Official Audio)

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[Scud49]

Always loved Bob Weir's voice with groups like Kingfish and the Greatful Dead:

 

[Bigboote]

Oh boy, here's one I think we missed - the wonderful Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention:

We all trusted you, Scud!

 

[Sifaka]

Joan Manuel Serrat, superb Catalan singer, based this on poetry written by Spanish poet Antonio Machado and published as Campos de Castilla.

This performance was recorded in 1970.