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Thanks Skip but I just realised that I left Lou Gramm off the list...............he has to be in the top 10. His vocal stylings incorporate old fashioned crooning with hard rock edge. A man with perfect pitch and a delivery that send chills down your spine. He would probably sit in 10th spot for me.

Even though I don't really care much for the music of Journey, I must say that Steve Perry is another brilliant singer that some might consider top ten material.

There's just no way I could even begin to pick 10 and put them at the top...

antipodean wrote:KD Lang? Aretha Franklin?

Methinks you missed the word "male" in the thread title Aitch!

Umm.... yeah. Senior moment!

cjj wrote:There's just no way I could even begin to pick 10 and put them at the top...

I thought the same thing CJ but.................I eventually put a list together. I bet you can too.

Yeah, I probably could, but I'm sure it would change from day to day depending on what I'm in the mood to be listening to...

winston wrote:No love for Sam Cooke or Nat King Cole so far.

Too hard to put one's favorites in a top 10 list. A top would be 25 difficult.

1. Glenn Tilbrook
2. Ian Hunter
3. Jon Anderson
4. George Harrison
5. Levon Helm
6. John Waite
7. Paul McCartney
8. Matthew Sweet
9. Eric Clapton
10. Jeff Tweedy

1. Phil Ochs
2. Blind Willie McTell
3. Blind Blake
4. Roy Orbison
5. Gene Clark
6. the trios of Crosby, Stills, & Nash
7. Timothy B. Schimdt
8. Rick Nelson
9. Paul McCartney
10. the gospel quartets of Marley's Ghost

JimK

Stevie Wonder
Paul McCartney
Al Green
Tom Jones
Eddie Kendricks
Chuck Negron
Bobby Darin
Harry Nillson
John Lennon
Mick Jagger

In no particular order:

Ray Charles
the trio of Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Neil Diamond
Vince Gill
Merle Haggard
George Jones
Tom Jones
Roy Orbison
Marty Robbins
Frank Sinatra

Hmmm... quite a task to name only 10, but I'll give it a go -

In no particular order:

Otis Redding
Steve Marriott
O.V. Wright
Little Richard
Van Morrison
Boz Scaggs
Howlin' Wolf
Jack Bruce
Ray Charles
Roger Daltrey

** honorable mention to McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, Elvis and early period George Jones **

Nobody mentioned Johnny Hartmann, who is my all-time number one.

2. Nat Cole
3. Frank Sinatra
4. Roy Orbison
5. Ray Charles
6. Van Morrison
7. George Jones
8. Tom Jobim
9. Robert Plant
10. Steve Marriott

Now, ask me again next week...

Tom Jobin. That name took me a minute to realise who he was.

His collaboration with Stan Getz and the quality of his compositions provided to the album Getz/Gilberto is what I remember him for. "The Girl From Ipanema" is probably one of his best remembered tunes.

TGFI was written by Tom and Vinicius DeMoraes while sitting at an outdoor cafe in Ipanema, a couple of blocks from the beach, while they watched a young and well-ogled local girl, Helo Pinto, walk by on her way to the beach. Helo became famous in Rio and at one time ran for mayor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_from_Ipanema

Vinicius was at one time the Brasilian Vice-Consul in Los Angeles, and was known for taking meetings while in his bath, cigar in mouth. Quite a character.

A great set of names. My love goes out to these singers for differnet reasons. Sorry for any that are redundant.

Sam Cooke
Marvin Gaye
Al Green
Robert Plant
Freddy Mercury
Leonard Cohen
Rob Halford
Ian MacKaye
Maynard James Keenan

and my Fantasy Frontman #1 pick is the Howlin' Wolf