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In this month's edition of Q Magazine listed the finest voices of all time and their ultimate songs - as chosen by Q. It features everyone from Liam Gallagher, Bono and Kate Bush to Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, each one complete with their own 10 track essential listening play list.

The Top 10 from the Top 100 Greatest Singers:

1. Elvis Presley

2. Aretha Franklin

3. Frank Sinatra

4. Otis Redding

5. John Lennon

6. Marvin Gaye

7. Kurt Cobain

8. Robert Plant

9. Mick Jagger

10. Jeff Buckley

Source: Email / Updated: Mar 2, 2007

 

Obviously I agree with the Number 1 choice :thumbup: Think there's some other great singers that should have made the Top 10 though :unsure:

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Read this on the bus home today - great that Elvis is no 1 but what a load of c**p. The hack that "wrote" the synopsis of Elvis' career seems to just have cut n pasted the usual rubbish from other hackneyed peices. How can they rubbish whole parts of his career and still vote him no 1 :angry:

 

Also a few non singers are in Ian Curtis and Johnny Rotten and people like Bing Crosby and Lous Armstrong are not included and some are totally rubbished Ozzy and Yoko (have they never heard O'Oh or Spec of Dust). Q morons :rolleyes:

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Have to confess I haven't read the article, but quite frankly, it doesn't surprise me at all, Martin :rolleyes:I'll have to have a look at the piece as I haven't see the full 100. I was just amazed at the inclusions and omissions of the top 10 <_<
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The ten Elvis songs listed in Q as "key songs" are:

 

1. That's All Right

2. Baby, Let's Play House

3. Mystery Train

4. Heartbreak Hotel

5. One Night

6. Jailhouse Rock

7. It's Now Or Never

8. In The Ghetto

9. Suspicious Minds

10. I Just Can't Help Believin' :wub:

 

Great songs, but what frustrates me at times, is that there are so many more fantastic Elvis songs that the general public and the more casual fan has never heard of :(

See Elvis is getting slated in the other thread on this especially by one or two members who are too young to know a good singer if they were standing right in front of them. <_< You know who you are ;)
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See Elvis is getting slated in the other thread on this especially by one or two members who are too young to know a good singer if they were standing right in front of them. <_< You know who you are ;)

Doesn't surprise me in the least :rolleyes: I was only saying to someone today that I bet they only know a small percentage of the total songs Elvis recorded. I was the same until I started to really listen to him and collect his music ;) Don't think they realise what a versatile singer he was in terms of different genres of music. Who cares if he didn't write any songs, he didn't need to with a voice like he had :thumbup: I might not have agreed with all the choices of Q Magazine, it's just opinions after all, but they sure got it right with the #1 :dance:

Top 100 Greatest Singers

 

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/mag_q_200703.jpg

 

In this month's edition of Q Magazine listed the finest voices of all time and their ultimate songs - as chosen by Q. It features everyone from Liam Gallagher, Bono and Kate Bush to Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, each one complete with their own 10 track essential listening play list.

The Top 10 from the Top 100 Greatest Singers:

1. Elvis Presley

2. Aretha Franklin

3. Frank Sinatra

4. Otis Redding

5. John Lennon

6. Marvin Gaye

7. Kurt Cobain

8. Robert Plant

9. Mick Jagger

10. Jeff Buckley

Source: Email / Updated: Mar 2, 2007

 

Obviously I agree with the Number 1 choice :thumbup: Think there's some other great singers that should have made the Top 10 though :unsure:

 

 

I agree with the number1 as well Carole. I was reading this in the paper the other day. :thumbup:

I see you have put a few people straight about Elvis, Carole :lol:
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I see you have put a few people straight about Elvis, Carole :lol:

Hehe! Thought it was about time that Tilly bared her teeth :lol: Elvis rules, OK :thumbup:

 

 

Hehe! Thought it was about time that Tilly bared her teeth :lol: Elvis rules, OK :thumbup:

 

:thumbup: good for you, are you biased, i don't think so :dance:

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:thumbup: good for you, are you biased, i don't think so :dance:

Me biased?? :lol: And I never got on to Freddie ;)

1 Elvis Presley

2 Burton Cummings

3 John Lennon

4 Shania Twain

5 Agnetha Faltskog

6 Barry Gibb

7 Ricky Nelson

8 Little Richard

9 Norma Jean

10 Bob Seger

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Nice to see you, Jim and welcome to the Elvis Forum :thumbup: I think we're all agreed on the Number 1 Greatest Singer :D
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