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| I just got through listening to some "oldies but goodies" and I thought to myself I wonder what voices you all have liked over the years.
So let's share our favorite voices (1950s to today), the voices that have truly touched our hearts, for one reason or another. One post at a time, with a link attached if possible.
Doris Day. I was born in the mid-50s, so heard her angelic voice alot in my early years. Que sera sera, remember that one? For some reason, there are not many videos of her singing, but I did find this one. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Doris Day
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| People can say what they want about the life that Elvis lived but when he sang a slow song it was beautiful. |
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| Elvis and Doris I loved Eddy Howard |
Here is a link that might be useful: Careless (Opening Theme) and To Each His Own -
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- Posted by ladyrose65 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 23, 12 at 21:03
| I love David Ruffin. Live a Turbulent life, but I would of been his girl even if it was only for a day. http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/David Ruffin.html I don't know about links and hypertext taking a class in the fall. |
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| all you have to do is copy the link like you did but paste it outside Underneath the message box the messsage at the bottom where it says OPtional Link URL and on the next line give it a name Try it with what you posted |
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- Posted by brains_mcnuggets (My Page) on Sat, Mar 24, 12 at 4:58
| Gotta go with this dude. He's got the trained voice, style, and technical perfection. But, he's got that intangible quality to his performance. It's as if he cares about what he's singing just as much as he cares about hitting the right notes. Otherwise, this would be just another sappy love song. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Ed Ames
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| For an old smoothie I don't think you can beat Andy Williams, although perhaps Perry Como comes a close second. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Andy Williams
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| Joni Mitchell has a voice that resonates with me. She expresses humor, pain, longing, strength, wistfulness and more. Eva Cassidy sang so beautifully. Gone too soon. I'll come back later with a couple more. |
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- Posted by clairabelle (My Page) on Sun, Mar 25, 12 at 21:43
| weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell, we were, uh, um sorta, uh, working our way thru the fifties, for starters... Some more voices I remember fondly from my early years growing up in the fifties were: Burl Yves (There was an old Lady, remember that one?), Bobby Darin (Mack the Knife) and how distinctive is Roy Orbison's voice? |
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| Sorry about that. In the '50s, Billie Holiday was a big favorite in our home, as was Judy Garland. Both were unmistakable and uniquely expressive. I really liked Julie London too. She had such a smooth, sultry tone to her voice. |
Here is a link that might be useful: listen to Cry Me A River
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| Ah, the fifties when my musical taste had not yet coalesced...I listened to everything. I remember all the performers mentioned so far. I especially recall being hit up the side of my head with Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange." I was all of seven years old. I begged my mother to buy me that record. It was probably more the guitar-playing of Mickey that enticed me, but I also loved the interplay of Mickey & Sylvia's voices: (Mickey) "How do you call your loverboy?" (Sylvia) "Come here loverboy." I didn't know innuendo, but I knew something was going on. My mother wouldn't buy the record for my me. But my eldest brother did!! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Mickey & Sylvia
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- Posted by clairabelle (My Page) on Wed, Mar 28, 12 at 16:38
| Good one friedag and welcome to the show ;D Oh dear, I got caught in my own game by listing more than one answer. We're all so dang enthusiastic that we rattle off more than one... so be it. No worries! :) Peggy Lee's distinctive come-hither voice was another revelation for my young ears... I also liked "Is that all there is?" by same songstress. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Fever
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- Posted by ladyrose65 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 28, 12 at 21:29
| This Lady is new to me for the last 5 years. I love her voice and style. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Edith Piaf
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- Posted by clairabelle (My Page) on Sun, Apr 1, 12 at 17:40
| Good one, ladyrose65! If you like her, you should read her biography or see the movie LA MOME (the kid in French) with Marillon Cotillard. Both fascinating... and tragic. Another French voice from the fifties and sixties is Yves Montand. Wonderful singer and actor. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Yves Montand Les feuilles mortes
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- Posted by ladyrose65 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 3, 12 at 17:11
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| I liked Dean-o too. Rosemary Clooney became popular in the early fifties, and I enjoyed her distincive voice (she was also George Clooney's auntie): |
Here is a link that might be useful: Rosemary sings
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- Posted by ladyrose65 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 7, 12 at 22:13
| Jerry Butler "The Iceman Cometh" I grew up listening to his deep, soulful voice. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Jerry Butler
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- Posted by clairabelle (My Page) on Mon, Apr 30, 12 at 16:44
| Ooh, nice, ladyrose65. Never heard of him before. Then there this fella, maybe you've heard of him... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Wonderful World
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- Posted by ladyrose65 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 30, 12 at 21:48
| I love Louis Armstrong! People need to pass their knowledge to their children. I asked the professor was she planning on seeing Todd Rundgren if he comes to town. Not one student knew whom I was talking about. I was like whoaa...! I love the lyrics to his songs: |
Here is a link that might be useful: Todd Rundgren
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- Posted by clairabelle (My Page) on Mon, May 7, 12 at 19:49
| Alrighty, working our way into 1960s now... So, obviously ENTER the Beatles and Elvis... I'll start the 60s off with... Brenda Lee I'M SORRY |
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- Posted by clairabelle (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 10:08
| Alrighty... moving this along... I guess it's better that we mention more than one person, so... Some of my favourites from the sixties: Care to add? :) |
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| Loved the voice of Judith Durham who used to sing with the Australian group The Seekers. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Judith Durham 'The Olive Tree'
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| Marianne Faithful was another I liked, and I'll put a link below to her first hit: |
Here is a link that might be useful: As Tears Go By
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- Posted by clairabelle (My Page) on Mon, Jun 4, 12 at 21:18
| Then there's the sweet sound of Pat Boone's Moody River... (I think my Mum was secretly in love with him... or was it Mario Lanza??)lol |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 (My Page) on Sat, Jun 30, 12 at 23:28
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| Aw! I see it's been more than a month since the last post, but this thread is too good to let fizzle. I want to hear more voices! I'll add a few of my favorites from the 1960s. Through the 1950s my taste in music was most heavily influenced by what my mother listened to. Then my oldest brother (born in 1943) became my music connection -- he was a folkie so through him I absorbed Seeger, Dylan, and Peter, Paul & Mary in the early 1960s. But by 1964 my taste diverged sharply from that of mom and big bro. Part of the reason was influence of friends and peers, of course; yet I like to think that I knew good music when I first heard it. Funny how most of the ones I'm listing still give me thrills. Anybody remember 'I Ain't No Miracle Worker' by The Brogues? There was an Italian!! version too: Un ragazzo di strada by I Corvi. 'You Don't Own Me' by Lesley Gore 'Dirty Water' by The Standells I love that dirty water...Don't know of an Italian version, but there could be one. Heh! 'She's About a Mover' by Sir Douglas Quintet |
Here is a link that might be useful: Where the Action Is Dancers Do Miracle Worker
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- Posted by leslie_gardener (My Page) on Mon, Aug 13, 12 at 11:40
| A few who come to mind: Charles Aznavour |
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| Oh, since this thread is about voices, which I seemed to lose sight of while concentrating on particular songs above in my listing, I want to add that I mentioned The Brogues for a reason. I never knew who the singer was on 'Miracle Worker' -- I just knew that I fell in love with his voice. For a long time I though it was Eric Burdon of the Animals because of the similarity to 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood'. Recently someone told me that he was Gary Cole, later better known as Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service. I have listened to early Quicksilver songs with Duncan as the vocalist, and I think it was the same guy but I'm not absolutely sure. If it was Cole/Duncan, he would have been only eighteen or nineteen years old when 'Miracle Worker' was recorded, and he already had a manly voice. It's possible, of course, for a young guy not to sing like a pipsqueak pretty boy. Steve Winwood was still in his teens when he was with The Spencer Davis Group, singing 'Gimme Some Lovin' and 'I'm a Man'. I've always loved Winwood's voice, too. I will appreciate any information on who sang 'I Ain't No Miracle Worker'! Note on Doug Sahm: He's been accused of 'plagiarizing' Ray Charles's style -- "Oh yeah, what I say!" I'm assuming the accusers don't know the difference between plagiarism and homage. |
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