The simplest premise, who are your top two (or three, we'll have no fighting here) male and female vocalists of all time? There is no such thing as a wrong answer!!!

 

Male

 

Chuck Jackson 

Frank Beverly

 

Female

 

Dee Dee Sharp

Thelma Houston

 

Go!

 

Hard to put out the best singers but my most listened to are

Marvin gaye

Billy Paul

Gene chandler

And recently cash mcCall

Betty wright

Ann nesby

Jean carn

Aretha

But in reality loads and loads more to numerous to name ie

Walter j

L Stubbs

Dee dee etc etc etc etc etc

Slightly ironic that I'm posting this from Seoul, but on the BA flight over Richie Havens album Alarm Clock was on the video thingy which was a pleasure listening to and got me thinking that he would make a superb nomination to this thread.

Glad you mentioned Edwin.   Way back when Greg Tormo had his own  chat group, the magazine  Mojo posted up their 100 top vocalists - black artists featured heavily with the usual suspects featured highly Marvin, Aretha etc  I ran our own poll and we all voted for our top 10 (maybe 20) - I then compiled quite a long list.   Edwin featured very high indeed.  But the artist that was highest in our poll (not top) that did not feature in the Mojo 100 was Chuck Jackson.

 

If anyone is interested I'll dig it out and post it up.

 

Mike

I'd love to see that!

Glad you mentioned Edwin.   Way back when Greg Tormo had his own  chat group, the magazine  Mojo posted up their 100 top vocalists - black artists featured heavily with the usual suspects featured highly Marvin, Aretha etc  I ran our own poll and we all voted for our top 10 (maybe 20) - I then compiled quite a long list.   Edwin featured very high indeed.  But the artist that was highest in our poll (not top) that did not feature in the Mojo 100 was Chuck Jackson.

 

If anyone is interested I'll dig it out and post it up.

 

Mike

 

Please Mike.

Chuck is just class.

male Marvin

     

         Levi

 

 

female Tammi

 

            etta

 

Marvin and tammi  best couple

besides the obvious, jackie wilson, edwin starr etc

 

freddie butler

cecil washington

 

 

linda jones- perfection in a voice

Almost impossible  but these bring tears to my every time I hear them sing,

 

male Marvin Jr & Chuck Jackson, female Linda Jones & Maxine Brown.

 

Cheers jim.