5 most recognizable voices in American music?
Darlene Love, one of my absolute favorite singers! Her vocal on "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is astoundingly great!! She sang for Phil Spector, who kept all the money his label made, sending the artists out on the road to work for peanuts. That's the way the music business worked in those days, is wasn't just Phil. Springsteen said he was trying to make his Born To Run album sound like Roy Orbison as produced by Phil Spector. |
@dweller Thanks for the tip!! Downloaded Silver Apples onto my Pono, some real crazy stuff! If it was a CD I would have put it next to my Japanese mini-LP boxes of Cluster/Roedelius CDs. Not "droning" by my definition but definitely (like Cluster craziness and Deepchord and Klaus Schulze drones) the kind of music I tend to listen to thru the headphones so that my family won't sign me into the loonies bin! ;-) once again, thanks for the tip, I did not know that some Americans are as loony as Germans! Until now the Talking Heads/David Byrne were the craziest US tunes in my collection. |
Sevs: If you don't know Captain Beefheart, check out his "Spotlight Kid" album. He is the best-of-the-best of "out there" americans (IMO of course). Check out this footage from German TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpHgG4jILa0 P.S. I've recently learned of 4-5 previously unheard Silver Apples albums! Overwhelming! |
I'm a little surprised that no one cited Bobby Darin. Didn't his "Mack the Knife" hold the record for most played single on American radio for decades? @bdp24 , He also played "Then He Kissed Me" for one interviewer and proclaimed "That's the sound of universes colliding!" (Not Darlene; but not far removed.) |
