Your favorite vocalist...

[PaulCISSA]

Karen Carpenter
Dean Martin
Bing Crosby
Patsy Cline

Spoiler

They're all dead.

Oh Kathy....what a dream list. Right on.

 

[PaulCISSA]

I miss Invalid Link Removed...RIP.

 

[Sixgunn]

I have a real weakness for clean, melodic female voices over heavy music. These two have bands have been my ear worms for a while. Beautiful, talented ladies

 

[Inara]

Aretha, first and foremost. Then Peter Gabriel and Chris Cornell.

 

[C_Becker]

Ronnie James Dio
Rob Halford
Bruce Dickinson
Johan Hegg
Matt Barlow
James Hetfield

 

[Versatek6]

Joe Williams. No one else like him.

 

[JLW]

Paul McCartney. Super under-rated as a vocalist (Beatles)
Otis Redding
Stevie Wonder
James Brown
Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon (in that order)
Bob Dylan
Zack De La Rocha (Rage Against the Machine)
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys)
Aretha Franklin
Chris Cornell (Audioslave)
Amy Winehouse

 

[Ostie]

All of the above! Linda, Smokey, Jon Anderson, Joe Cocker, Patsy, so many more. As far as live goes The hair on the back on my neck stood up and I had goose bumps throughout the entire Joe Cocker concert when he opened for Tina Turner a few years ago. OMG!

Oh Yeah another one of the great live perfromances that I have been fortunate enought to witness ia Ann Heart...I never bought a Heart album but saw them a few years ago in their old age. What a voice!

Just thought of another...Timothy B Schmit (and he's one of us)!

That would be Ann Wilson of Heart.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Allison Krauss....
Angelic, mesmerizing.

 

[john_g]

Saw several people say Karen Carpenter...her voice always killed me. So melancholy and great.

 

[Mark_70]

Went to see Elton JOhn last week and have to say - the dude is getting a little older and fatter (aren't we all) but his voice is still epic.
So, Sir Elton John on #2.

#1: James Taylor for being such a fantastic story teller.

Regards
Mark

 

[NOVAX]

David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie

 

[rtslinger]

Alice Cooper

 

[rtav]

Freddie Mercury



(The rest are in no particular order)

Greg Lake
Annie Haslam
Jeff Buckley
David Pack
Ann Wilson
Steven Tyler
Robin Zander
Paul McCartney
John Wetton
Robert Plant
Brad Delp

 

[nightchef]

Impossible to name one....but I'll name two that I love and whose names I don't think I've seen in the thread so far. Both fairly recent artists even though I'm a geezer.

Tom Chaplin:



Regina Spektor:

 

[bikeplate]

Dug

 

[tubedude]

STEVE MARIOTT

 

[Drucifer]

Male - Paul Carrack
Female - Emmylou Harris

 

[Drucifer]

Male:

• Paul Carrack
• Paul McCartney (in his prime; he hasn't aged that well)
• Freddie Mercury
• Steve Winwood
• Al Stewart

Female:

• Emmylou Harris
• Alannah Myles
• Amanda Marshall
• Aimee Mann
• First Aid Kit (can't tell the two apart)

Amazing, your first male and female were my top two as well. Great minds et al

 

[yaksonator]

Chris Cornell.