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!

 

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!

Frankie Valli.

Otis Redding.

Jackie Wilson

Chuck Jackson

Dee-Dee Sharpe

Florence Ballard

Dusty Springfield

I CAN'T pick just one of each!

 

Male:  Ray Pollard, Nat Cole, Rudy West, Sollie McElroy, Richard Street, Sonny Til, Jackie Wilson, Eugene Pitt, Garnett Mimms

 

Female: Dee Dee Warwick, Baby Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Carolyn Crawford, Darlene Love, Gloria Lynne

for me it's ray pollard and linda jones.

stewart.

Near impossible to answer. For me soul has never been how "nice" a voice is but how a voice gets the lyrics and feeling over. 

 

So off the top of my head without thinking about it too much, and sorry I can't break it down to just two or three

 

O.V. Wright

James Carr

Otis Clay

Otis Redding

Wilson Pickett

 

Nice smooth, natural and effortless voices

 

Jerry Butler

Levi Stubbs

David Ruffin

Joe Simon

 

 

Linda Jones

Aretha Franklin

Ella Washington

Edited March 24, 201411 yr by Dave Turner

Wanda Young - listen to 'The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game'….wow

 

Darrell Banks

 

 

Ask me tomorrow and I'd say someone else - depends on my mood.

For me its got to be

 

Tammi

    &

marvin

 

with out a doubt

Otis & Aretha / Curtis & Mavis (Staples)

Nicholas Caldwell - Etta James - Patti Hamilton - Darrow Fletcher - 

 

Brains stopped working but this will do for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_MSi0MhM_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_MSi0MhM_c

yes but thats not there best

 

back on topic 

 

marvin gaye

otis reading

jerry butler

 

gladys knight

carla thomas

aretha franklin

 

to many to mention

Marvin Gaye

David Ruffin

Teddy Pendergass.           

 

 

whitney Houston

Dusty Springfield

Aretha Franklin.

Levi Stubbs

Ben E King

Lou Johnson

 

Cissy Houston

Lorraine Chandler

Bessie Banks

Levi Stubbs

 

David Ruffin

 

Otis Redding

 

 

Brenda Hollaway

 

Gladys Knight

 

Barbara McNeir

Walter Jackson and Junior McCants - at opposite end of the voice ranges but unique and stupefyingly good 

Donny Hathaway

James Brown

Jackie Wilson

 

Lolleatta Holloway

Aretha Franklin

Teena Marie

 

Today that is, may well change by next week

J.Blackfoot. and Millie Jackson.

so hard to narrow it down to a couple of singers as there has been so many ,i narrow it down to someone who can do all the styles of music while still having a soulful feel to the song im going for  ETTA JAMES & DAVID RUFFIN , thats not taking away from anyone;s chojces as in the past 50/60 years we on this forum have been spoiled to have lived in an era where there was so many quality singers  that so many slipped through the cracks and never got to be major stars it has taken the soul detectives to discover that cult artist and bring it to our attention and we say to ourselves how was he/she not a huge star ,thats why look at everyones choices and nod my head and say good call .  

For today,I'll go with:

 

Jackie Wilson

Sam Cooke

Solomon Burke

 

 

Tina Turner

Patti LaBelle

Aretha Franklin

Bobby Bland

David Ruffin

Paul Williams

Darrell Banks

 

Etta James

Dee Dee Sharpe

Gladys Knight

Carolyn Gill

 

Sam Cooke

Jackie Wilson

Otis Redding

 

Aretha Franklin

Gladys Knight

Etta James