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    • 21st Century Paul
      21st Century Paul last edited by

      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

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        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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          • dance-tonight
            dance-tonight last edited by

            Noel Gallagher - Don't Look Back in Anger

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            • CMackbird
              CMackbird last edited by

              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.

              Sir Paul McCartney....Thank You!!

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              • Fan4-45years
                Fan4-45years last edited by

                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

                Atlanta, GA, Omni, George Harrison, Thanksgiving 1974
                Atlanta, GA, Paul and Linda McCartney, May 1, 1993
                Missoula, MT, (sound check), Paul McCartney, August 5, 2014
                Cleveland, OH, Ringo's Rock Hall Induction, April 18, 2015

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                • 21st Century Paul
                  21st Century Paul last edited by

                  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. I forgot 2 european metal monsters, Matijevic and Kiske. Michael/Milinko Matijevic She's Gone (live unplugged), even thought the chewing gum!

                  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

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                  • 21st Century Paul
                    21st Century Paul last edited by

                    dance-tonight:

                    Noel Gallagher - Don't Look Back in Anger

                    my fav version

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                    • CMackbird
                      CMackbird last edited by

                      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.

                      Sir Paul McCartney....Thank You!!

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                      • 21st Century Paul
                        21st Century Paul last edited by

                        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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                        • 21st Century Paul
                          21st Century Paul last edited by

                          I just must add some from Thom Yorke Exit Music

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                            21st Century Paul last edited by

                            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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                            • 21st Century Paul
                              21st Century Paul last edited by

                              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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                                • 21st Century Paul
                                  21st Century Paul last edited by

                                  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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                                  • walliebaby
                                    walliebaby last edited by

                                    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

                                    My lyric video for "New":

                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2IdNtNWs5s

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                                    • CMackbird
                                      CMackbird last edited by

                                      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

                                      Sir Paul McCartney....Thank You!!

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                                      • walliebaby
                                        walliebaby last edited by

                                        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 Love

                                        Forgot "Landslide" on my list--such a beautiful song and vocal performance.

                                        My lyric video for "New":

                                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2IdNtNWs5s

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                                        • 21st Century Paul
                                          21st Century Paul last edited by

                                          Another one Ted Neeley Gethsemane (Jesus talking/praying to God in Jesus Christ Superstar)

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                                          • CMackbird
                                            CMackbird last edited by

                                            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 Love

                                            Forgot "Landslide" on my list--such a beautiful song and vocal performance.

                                            Really gorgeous song!

                                            Sir Paul McCartney....Thank You!!

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