Most moving vocalists and performances ever
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Anytime, anywhere, anyhow... I mean no matter where they're from, no matter their gender, vocal style, nation... Not the most beautiful voices or the most technical ones but the ones that get the job done of causing feeling with their singing. I'm gonna list a few, and add one or some (or none, lol) performance I find especially moving them, and when I consider them to be at their peak of that... when they sang with more feeling. If I know about it, I only know little about some of these. We can all add singers and performances... Paul McCartney 1968-69 Oh Darling (vocals only), etc
John Lennon 1970-1971 Mother, etc Freddie Mercury 1986-1987 In My Defence Who Wants To Live Forever The Great Preternder Barcelona Jackie Wilson Jeff Buckley Steve Perry Don't Stop Believin in Tokyo Ian Gillian Child In Time Jim Morrison Roy Orbison 1964 Pretty Woman Elvis Presley 1968-1969? If I Can Dream An American Trilogy How Great Thou Art Marvin Gaye Yesterday Star Spangled Banner (Paul's fav version!) Stevie Wonder Isn't She Lovely Dio Rainbow In The Dark Carl Wilson God Only Knows Billy Joel Honesty David Bowie Lou Gramm I Want To Know What Love Is Elton John 1991 Show Must Go On Believe Justin Hayward Nights In White Satin Prince Purple Rain John Farham You're The Voice Springsteen Born To Run Born In The USA Don Henley Desperado Steven Tyler Dream On live 1991 or so Mick Jagger Angie orchestral version Gary Cherone More Than Words Jon Bon Jovi Living On a Prayer watch out now, out of rock on roll, lol Frank Sinatra New York New York Barbra Streisand The Way We Were Tom Jones Delilah Peter Cetera 25 or 6 to 4 George Michael Freedom 1984 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go Somebody To Love Nino Bravo Libre Esa Sera Mi Casa Al Bano La Aurora Mariah Carey 1990-91 My All Emotions Withney Houston 1985 How Will I Know Karen Carpenter Close To You Janis Joplin 1971 Me and Bobby McGee Summertime Cry Baby Vanessa Amorosi Heroes Live Forever Piece Of My Heart Celine Dion It's All Coming Back To Me Now, produced by George Martin All By Myself Tina Turner The Best Proud Mary Ann Wilson Crazy On You live Etta James I Just Want to Make Love to You Aretha Franklin Think Olivia Newton John Hopelessly Devoted To You The Long And Winding Road Xanadu I could post Olivia all day lol... Bob Dylan 1963-65 It Ain't Me Babe Like A Rolling Stone Maria Callas 1954? La Mamma Morta O Mio Babbino Caro Rocio Jurado Señora Que No Daria Yo Muera el amor/Lo siento mi amor Monica Naranjo O Mio Babbino Caro Empiezo A Recordarte Ray Charles Georgia On My Mind Pasion Vega and Ana Belen too Piano Man Adam Lambert Who Wants To Live Forever Show Must Go On Whole Lotta Love last but not least Marilyn Monroe These lists are not perfect but they're excellent, about music (or movies) and they help you remind some. http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_vocalists.html http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_vocalists-fe-rr.html http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_vocalists-fe.html http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_vocal-perf.html http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_vocalists-fe-pop.html http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_vocalists-ma-pop.html http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_vocalists-trapop.html http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_lead_singers_of_vocal_groups.html -
Roy Orbison - Crying Johnny Cash - Hurt Lou Reed - Perfect Day Edit: Gonna add some more Eric Clapton - Layla, Tears In Heaven John Lennon - God Morrissey/The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain Bob Dylan - Sara
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Willie Nelson singing "Always On My Mind".
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Noel Gallagher - Don't Look Back in Anger
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Paul McCartney - Tomorrow/Wanderlust/Little Lamb Dragonfly Billy Joel - Tomorrow is Today/Miami 2017/Through the long night/She's Always A Woman John Lennon - Mother Art Garfunkel - Bridge Over Trouble Water Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Freddie Mercury - Somebody to Love Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble To name a few and off the top of my head.
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CMackbird:
Paul McCartney - Tomorrow/Wanderlust/Little Lamb Dragonfly Billy Joel - Tomorrow is Today/Miami 2017/Through the long night/She's Always A Woman John Lennon - Mother Art Garfunkel - Bridge Over Trouble Water Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Freddie Mercury - Somebody to Love Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble To name a few and off the top of my head.
Mother is definitely one. Also, WOMAN IS THE N OF THE WORLD
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I could have posted lots of John, but I didn't want this to turn into a John vs Paul thing... there are already discussions about that... Mother, God, Give Me Some Truth... I've noticed that a singer sings with more feeling when he really feels the song (it may be obvious, I know, lol). I mean when he believes in the lyrics or has been through the story (and that's why singer-songwriters use to sing with more feeling...). Actually the complicated thing is singing with feeling something you are not living in that moment, and is even more complicated if one have never lived that. ("I'm just a singer with a song how I can try to right the wrong" is the line that sums Freddie for me.) Like Elvis after singing If I Can Dream, "From now on I'm only going to sing things I believe in", kind of. Billy Joel's Tomorrow Today is surely one of those and Clapton with Layla and Tears In Heaven.. and even Wonderful Tonight I don't know many of what you have posted, now I've got new interesting stuff to listen to.
Michael Kiske Eagle Fry Free Pavarotti hardly moves me, but I guess he felt this song as it's about Caruso (it helps that it's not so operatic in this one, it's not like this ) and everybody knows this one... Adele Someone like You and talking bout Paul... I think (well, I FEEL), he's better in happy stuff, that uplifting rockers like Figure of Eight or Rinse The Raindrops, So Glad To See You Here... and when he sings old time rock and roll like Lucille, Long Tall Sally... kind of in like at the Cavern Rinse The Raindrops
I forgot 2 european metal monsters, Matijevic and Kiske. Michael/Milinko Matijevic She's Gone (live unplugged), even thought the chewing gum! -
dance-tonight:
Noel Gallagher - Don't Look Back in Anger
my fav version
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Tomorrow is Today is just so beautiful and the melody is just so painful but kind of comforting at the same time. It was released when he was only 21 and was about his attempted suicide. -
JordanOnTheRun:
Roy Orbison - Crying Johnny Cash - Hurt Lou Reed - Perfect Day Edit: Gonna add some more Eric Clapton - Layla, Tears In Heaven John Lennon - God Morrissey/The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain Bob Dylan - Sara
Roy is ranked is that website as the most influential rock and roll singer of all time. I think they're right, he's the one who teached rockers to sing instead of shouting, Elvis, Paul, even Springsteen were fascinated about him. Do you know any link to Dylan singing Sara?, there's lots of covers but I can't find Bob.
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I just must add some from Thom Yorke Exit Music
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CMackbird:
Tomorrow is Today is just so beautiful and the melody is just so painful but kind of comforting at the same time. It was released when he was only 21 and was about his attempted suicide.is very McCartneish, ain't it? a bit like Warm and Beautiful, the way he sings it, the melody, and even that bridge like in You Never Give Me Your Money.
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CMackbird:
Paul McCartney - Tomorrow/Wanderlust/Little Lamb Dragonfly Billy Joel - Tomorrow is Today/Miami 2017/Through the long night/She's Always A Woman John Lennon - Mother Art Garfunkel - Bridge Over Trouble Water Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Freddie Mercury - Somebody to Love Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble To name a few and off the top of my head.
I don't know many of these... No woman no cry live used to be terrific. I'm not adding more of Freddie, I could get hammered, but of course I've got lots on my mind... hmmm... so I will. This is the last song Freddie recorded. Just 2 weeks before dying. He writed it and, as Queen knew they had no time left cause Freddie was about to die (he couldn't even stand) they did it on one live take. you can skip to 3.00, that's when Freddie sings "It's aaaaalll allll so beauuutifulll" just before dying, as I said. After the lines "the dream of the child is the hope of the man"
this is so obvious I forgot Percy Sledge When A Man Loves A Woman, even the keyboard is moving talking bout Dylan, I've always found this one moving. An example of someone singing great with a bad voice or so. I love how he sings the cynical/evil lines "of the chemical dust""then fire them we must" etc. , he kind of means them, and then end at the end he goes "he'll stop the next war" like that. 
It's Bob at his MTV Unplugged 1990s With God On our Side what bout this? "today's music ain't got the same soul!" Bob Seger, you know the song
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I can't find a link sorry! But it's gotta be Dylans version, his most personal song. Sings it to his wife Sara, and they were going through a troubled time in their marriage (divorced a year later I think), you can really feel it in his voice.
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the great thing about Give Me Some Truth is we have a video of when John recorded it, you can see it all on his face
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Paul: Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight John: Julia Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah Elton John: Tiny Dancer Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues Morrissey: Asleep Queensryche: Silent Lucidity Art Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water Paul Simon: Cathy's Song ETA: Janis Joplin: Me and Bobby McGee Guster: Parachute
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21st Century Paul:
CMackbird:
Tomorrow is Today is just so beautiful and the melody is just so painful but kind of comforting at the same time. It was released when he was only 21 and was about his attempted suicide.is very McCartneish, ain't it? a bit like Warm and Beautiful, the way he sings it, the melody, and even that bridge like in You Never Give Me Your Money.
Yeah, I would agree with that. I think he was heavily influenced by Paul. This is a vocal/music masterpiece He said it was heavily influenced by the Abbey Road Medley.
I could list tonnes more Macca but as this is in Band on the Run section I will give a few more by others. Stevie Nicks - Landslide Christine McVie - Songbird Noel Gallagher - The Masterplan Elvis Presley - Burning Love -
CMackbird:
21st Century Paul:
CMackbird:
Tomorrow is Today is just so beautiful and the melody is just so painful but kind of comforting at the same time. It was released when he was only 21 and was about his attempted suicide.is very McCartneish, ain't it? a bit like Warm and Beautiful, the way he sings it, the melody, and even that bridge like in You Never Give Me Your Money.
Yeah, I would agree with that. I think he was heavily influenced by Paul. This is a vocal/music masterpiece He said it was heavily influenced by the Abbey Road Medley.
I could list tonnes more Macca but as this is in Band on the Run section I will give a few more by others. Stevie Nicks - Landslide Christine McVie - Songbird Noel Gallagher - The Masterplan Elvis Presley - Burning LoveForgot "Landslide" on my list--such a beautiful song and vocal performance.
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Another one Ted Neeley Gethsemane (Jesus talking/praying to God in Jesus Christ Superstar)
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walliebaby:
CMackbird:
21st Century Paul:
CMackbird:
Tomorrow is Today is just so beautiful and the melody is just so painful but kind of comforting at the same time. It was released when he was only 21 and was about his attempted suicide.is very McCartneish, ain't it? a bit like Warm and Beautiful, the way he sings it, the melody, and even that bridge like in You Never Give Me Your Money.
Yeah, I would agree with that. I think he was heavily influenced by Paul. This is a vocal/music masterpiece He said it was heavily influenced by the Abbey Road Medley.
I could list tonnes more Macca but as this is in Band on the Run section I will give a few more by others. Stevie Nicks - Landslide Christine McVie - Songbird Noel Gallagher - The Masterplan Elvis Presley - Burning LoveForgot "Landslide" on my list--such a beautiful song and vocal performance.
Really gorgeous song!
