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     Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3660 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Who'd be in your top 10? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113301632 In January 2010, NPR will launch a year-long exploration of 50 of the great voices in recorded history. With the series, we're hoping to discover and re-discover awe-inspiring vocalists from around the world and across time. Through archival material, interviews and music, NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered will spend the year delving into the lives and legacies of these voices. But we don't know yet whose voices they'll be. Between Oct. 5 and Oct. 16, we're asking you — NPR listeners and readers — to tell us who in the whole world possesses the most beautiful, singular voice you have ever heard. Leave your picks, along with a sentence defending each choice and a link to an audio clip if possible, in the comments below, or email GreatVoices@npr.org. | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2269 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: |
This is tough. If I stayed away from the lyrics of a song (which plays on many emotions), and just concentrated on the voice, I could pick a few that burns in my memory. Also, I will assume they are talking about singers/vocalist, but I am going to expand my selections and add in a couple of voices without songs. Minnie Ripperton Mariah Carey Luther Vandross James Earl Jones Paul Harvey BeBe & CeCe Winan (gotta get my gospel in there) Barry White Martin Luther King **Distinct voices** Tina Turner Aretha Franklin Rev. James Cleveland Willie Nelson Truman Capote A dollar bill | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3663 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Good list, and nice interpretation on "voice." There are many actors who would fall into that category if we went beyond music, as well as some newscasters and comedians... | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 14148 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson both had very resonant and distiguishable voices. Also Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Rod Stewart, Macey Gray, Nat Cole, Mel Torme, Ray Charles, Billy Eckstein, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong... Katharine Hepburn, Orson Wells, Morgan Freeman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Shirley Temple, Lauren Bahcall, Tallulah Bankhead, Carole Channing, Bea Arthur... More to come... There is a black woman named Felicia Middlebrooks who is the anchor on a all-news station here in Chicago and listners, critics, her peers all agree that she has one of the most beautiful soothing velvety voices they have ever heard. | ||
| Abm "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Abm Post Number: 10412 Registered: 04-2004 Rating: N/A |
Michael Jackson, the child Michael Jackson, the adult Barbara Streisand Whitney Houston (PRE-crack) Al Green Bing Crosby John Wayne Phillip Bailey (Earth Wind & Fire) Marvin Gaye James Earl Jones Patsy Cline John Facenda (NFL Films) And for those who you who don't know who the late great John Facenda was, remember that "The Autumn Wind is a RAAAADah...".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKbYjyKOoR4&feature=player_embedded |
