Best Singer of All Time is...

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20 hours ago, fas42 said:

Frank Sinatra ... for all the obvious reasons - how to do so much, with so little apparent effort.

Johnny Hartman makes Frank Sinatra look like a pretender.

 

For pop vocalist, Whitney Houston had the greatest voice, but horrible taste in music. 

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5 hours ago, fas42 said:

 

Thanks for pointing to him! I was completely unaware of the man - as you say, a truly remarkable voice ...

Aside from his mesmerizing voice, the other thing I love about Hartman is that he is mostly backed by small jazz groups, not a Nelson Riddle-type Big Band with excessive horn shots. The "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" album is one of the greatest in jazz.

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8 hours ago, Audiophile Neuroscience said:

Diana Ankudinova, shades of Cher but unique. Only 17

I see similarities:

- Cher was 19 when I Got You Babe hit #1

- Both are pretty

- Restricted vocal range, no high notes

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I don't know how good Karen Carpenter's voice was, even though I heard her on the radio throughout her short career. The music was such awful pap that I automatically changed the channel when The Carpenters came on.

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IMO, Picasso's work was a joke perpetrated on the art world. They still haven't gotten it, but in the future I believe it will be revealed as a hoax. 😶

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24 minutes ago, Bill Brown said:

Yes, must they "suffer" for their work to be the most creative?  A very interesting concept to consider. Certainly many jazz musicians ended up on heroin following Charlie Parker's use.

I doubt the Beatles would have been as creative without LSD, and pot use is pretty endemic among musicians. Neither of those induce suffering though, at worst a bad acid trip can be unsettling for several hours. 

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I know for sure who is not the "Best Singer Of All Time". I just listened to It Had To Be You... The Great American Song Book, by Rod Stewart. OMG, talk about awful! I knew Rod was not very talented but he's had his moments. These old standards however, make his voice sound bad, really, really bad.

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2 hours ago, Allan F said:

I have not listened to The Great American Song Book by Rod Stewart as I tend to avoid such collections by pop/rock artists. But I strongly disagree that Rod Stewart is "not very talented". IMO, Every Picture Tells a Story is an all-time classic and he has put out a number of other very good albums during his lengthy career. To each his own.

As I said, Rod Stewart has had his moments. I love Atlantic Crossing, but mostly Rod covers material by other, more talented artists, especially Tom Waits. The originals are mostly better. 

 

American Songbook really exposes his vocal shortcomings. He's an amazingly talented marketer with great taste in music.

 

If you want to hear good interpretations of American classics by pop artists, try Moonlight Serenade by Carly SImon and But Beautiful by Boz Scaggs.

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9 hours ago, gmgraves said:

Yeah, it’s a terrible movie!🥴

Pacino has become a cartoon caricature of himself. Hooah!