most captivating vocalists.......Ever

[Mick Mac]

Its a close run thing between:

Maria Callas and Bon Scott

[Muley]

Didn't that Maria Callas peg it in a car in East Dulwich?

[Keef]

Strawbs Wrote:

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> Julie Cruise (same one of the main soundtrack

> songs to twin peaks)

She sang most of the songs in Twin Peaks, "Falling" was the theme. She did a song called Questions in a world of blue" for the Fire Walk With Me soundtrack, viet song has had me sobbing before now!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Noddy Holder

Claire Tory

Mario Lanza

Janis Joplin

[Mick Mac]

Muley Wrote:

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> Didn't that Maria Callas peg it in a car in East

> Dulwich?

Yes I think it was Overhill Road. She had just had a heavy night drinking in Camden, all seems very odd.

[Keef]

Solomon Burke does it for me. Fans of The Wire may know his version of Fast Train, and fans of Dirty Dancing will know Cry to me, which is beautiful.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Piers. It's not unpronounceable. You are just racist

I rest my (neko) case

Ps. Ooh look... I see my man gets good press in todays guardian

[mockney piers]

Oh it's pronouncable all right, just you'd never guess from the spelling. and 10/10 btw ;)

[Keef]

Freddy Mercury had an absolutely amazing voice, with a range as good as any. Just a shame Queen released so much shite.

[annaj]

Moten Harkert.

Yes, I'm emtirely serious.

Ok, so it was mostly pretty light weight pop, but that's an amazing voice.

Eva Cassidy

Tori Amos

[HonaloochieB]

Actually Anna Morten Harket did have a good voice and Take On Me is a fine pop song.

Billy McKenzie - Country Club

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

Tom Waits - Downtown Train

The Rack - Cathal Coughlan

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

Hymn For The Dudes - Ian Hunter

Black Dog - Robert Plant

Luka - Suzanne Vega

First We Take Manhattan - Jennifer Warnes

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Every Day - Noddy Holder

Michael Picasso - Ian Hunter

Get It On - Marc Bolan

All vocal performances that captivated me.

[SeanMacGabhann]

2nd Coughlan mention today Mockney - and where is Neko!? (who I like a lot btw)

Take on me a fine song - but it's no Manhattan Skyline

Good shout on Billy McKenzie too Mr Loochie

[Windom]

Tom Waits

[mockney piers]

Weirdly, thinking about it, it's only female vocalists that do the shiver thing that Citizen describes.

My favourite song writers are generally men, but for that literally go weak at the knees effect it had to be female. And yes, Neko Case is definitely in that category.

I was going to say Jenny Lewis too but I don't think she's actually that good, I just fancy her that much!!

[bigbadwolf]

"but for that literally go weak at the knees effect it had to be female."

Thank me later Mockney. (He p.m'd me the request, honest)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGC003Xz3CY

[Ted Max]

Not sure about "ever" but I watch

too often. Love the pure joy at the end.

[bigbadwolf]

I didn't know you wore an ear ring Ted.

[Keef]

The bird from The Sundays, singing Wild Horses.

[Ted Max]

BBW, imagine yourself in 15 years' time, half destroyed through drugs and cut adrift from the important relationships in your life, finding this one place of joy left in your life, and transmitting that joy so fully it makes grown Bus Conductors like HonaB weep salt tears.

Surely worth a dangly ear ring or two.

[Jeremy]

Boy George could be captivating at time, look where that got him.

[Fear 'n boozin]

Mary-Kate "MayKay" Geraghty! Coz we all love the oirish.

[Ted Max]

Boy George could be captivating at time, look where that got him.

Do keep up, soft lad.

[Jeremy]

Oh yeah, didn't see your earlier post.

But... "soft lad"?? Que?

[HonaloochieB]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> BBW, imagine yourself in 15 years' time, half

> destroyed through drugs and cut adrift from the

> important relationships in your life, finding this

> one place of joy left in your life, and

> transmitting that joy so fully it makes grown Bus

> Conductors like HonaB weep salt tears.

>

> Surely worth a dangly ear ring or two.

Driver Ted. Driver.

[Ted Max]

But... "soft lad"?? Que?

Sorry, nothing meant by it, I promise. Too much exposure to the Royle Family in my youth, I think.