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Singer with the most distinctive voice

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  1. InWalkedBud

    InWalkedBud Well-Known Member

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    Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Mark Murphy, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Aretha, Mavis Staples, InWalkedBud. That last one is distinctive, but not in a good way.
     
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    Leonard Cohen, Billy Corgan, Steven Tyler.
     
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    Robert Plant
     
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    Tom Waits
     
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    Axl Rose.
     
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    Lewis Capaldi but I am not sure if I like it or not.
     
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    If most distinctive is the only criterion here, the answers that come most quickly to mind are Louis Armstrong & Jimmy Durante.


    EDIT: Oh, and Tiny Tim!
     
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    Stevie Nicks should be on the list.
     
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    ~ Donald Fagen . ( Steely Dan ) Can't sing for shiito — but the stuff he writes would not be good without him.
     
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    I can't believe no one has mentioned Janis Joplin yet
     
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    What about Bob Dylan?


    And, to somewhat lesser degrees: Bing Crosby (who I don't much care for), Freddie Mercury, Bruce Springsteen, and Mick Jagger (though he doesn't have that good of a voice, IMO). Also David Bowie.
     
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    How have I left out Ethel Merman?
     
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    My jazz geek credentials should be revoked for leaving Satchmo off the list.
     
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    Michael McDonald
    Joe Cocker
     
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    Loved her! I think many on here may be too young to remember her music
     
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    Distinctive vs superb (not always the same)

    easiest singers to recognize

    Neil Young

    Bob Dylan

    Greg Allmän

    Marty Balin

    Jorma Kaukonen

    John Prine

    Maddy Prior
     
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    Though I am not personally a fan, I can't believe that you left out Johnny Cash!
     
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    I never listened to him other than his Ring of fire (brilliantly covered by social distortion) and his redemption song with Joe Strummer and that was at the very end of his career so I couldn't tell if that was representative of his works. You can tell a Neil Young, Jorma Kaukonen or Dylan song after two words. Marty Balin as well
     
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    Geddy Lee (Rush). Can't stand his voice, but it's distinctive fo sho.
     
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    I agree-- on both counts.
     
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    Owwww...I feel Good

    James Brown

    :)
     
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    His cover of Hurt is one of my all time favorite songs, other than that, not a fan
     
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    OK, I have been planning to get around to your and Turtledude's Cash covers, but had assumed you both to be fans of his. If it is the case that you both see the songs you posted on the other thread as exceptional, I won't put off any longer, my checking them out.
     
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    Trent Reznor who wrote the song

    Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning," going so far as to say "that song isn't mine anymore."

    Also - the video takes on more meaning when you realize that both Johnny & his wife passed less than a year later
     
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    Buddy Holly, certainly had a distinctive voice.

    Elvis Costello is easily recognized, by those who know who he is.

    I would say Roy Orbison-- except, I just found out, myself, that I'd mistakenly thought that the song, "You're Only Lonely," was Orbison's singing when, in fact, it is J. D. Souther.
     
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