The real american idols

[arrr&bee]

Gang we've covered this subject before but it's always a fun topic...i want your top ten best voices ever..no falsettos-frank sinatra..johnny mathis..nat king cole..ella fitzgerald..aretha..mahalia jackson..sarah vaughan..jackie wilson..nancy wilson..whitney houston...that's my list and keep it at ten only!!

[splanky]

I'll apologise in advance for including some immigrants and a Canadian but my top ten best at this time would be:

Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughn
[[those I share with you Jai...)
Betty Carter
Miriam Makeba
Celia Cruz
Aster Aweke
Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw
Cleo Laine
and tied:
Jeri Brown [[the Canadian)/Rene Marie

These women could sing the ingrediants off of a can of pasta sauce and I'd listen...

[soulster]

No falsettos? No Brits? Why the exclusion? That forces me to leave out Philip Bailey and James Dewar.

Anyway, if you wanna play it that way, and you didn't specify genre, here's some off the top of my head:

Dinah Washington
Teddy Pendergrass
Teena Marie
Aretha Franklin
Frank Sinatra
Nancy Wilson
Lou Rawls
Marvin Gaye
Karen Carpenter
Olivia Newton-John

[Jerry Oz]

Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holliday
Smokey Robinson
Sam Cooke
Luther Vandross
Johnny Wilder, Jr. [[Heatwave)
Phillip Bailey
Aretha Franklin
Al Green
Patti LaBelle

But this could all change by tomorrow. It's too hard to pick just ten.

[soulster]

Smokey Robinson
Johnny Wilder, Jr. [[Heatwave)
Phillip Bailey

But, these guys sing falsetto. That's not allowed in arr & bee's thread. No hooch for you!

[Jerry Oz]

But, these guys sing falsetto. That's not allowed in arr & bee's thread. No hooch for you!

I guess I cheated, eh? Although on Phillip Bailey's album "Continuation" he sings falsetto, tenor, and baritone at different times. I'll leave him on the list and replace the other two with David Ruffin and Al Jarreau.

[soulster]

Aw man! I kept thinking of who's name I was forgetting, and it is David Ruffin!

[Jerry Oz]

Late in their careers/lives, when David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks released their album, I recall hearing the single on the radio and thinking "Good God, what's wrong with Eddie Kendricks?!" while also remarking how good David Ruffin still sounded in comparison.

[144man]

But, these guys sing falsetto. That's not allowed in arr & bee's thread. No hooch for you!

Smokey Robinson has said that he doesn't sing falsetto, that's his normal voice.

[destruction]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPXFsWf10I4

Hooch for me?

[soulster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPXFsWf10I4

Hooch for me?

Aw I hate opera! OK, you got your hooch!

[destruction]

Aw I hate opera! OK, you got your hooch!

Cool......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vQBh5WxFlc

Hooch for Motown?

[tamla617]

barry white
gladys knight
chaka khan
dennis edwards
mavis staples
eddie levert
isaac hayes
sugarfoot
edwin starr
ron isley

and thats taken an hour out of my life!