Any Michael Bub'le fans.......

Thanks Tom, I will grab that and the Robbie Williams right after the holidays. I love to buy stuff I am not familiar with even though I end up not liking 70% of it, but the gems I do stumble across keep me happy for years and sometimes after a while I pop in some of the stuff I didn't like and surprise, surprise. Being open-minded is the big secret. It is important to experiment or you never know what you are missing. Previous to having my system (only a few months now) I was heavily into electronica, underground hip-hop, various rock and a bunch of alternative stuff (Tom Waits etc) it's all good though. I rarely listen to any of my previous tastes lately as the quality of the recordings have a big impact on my listening enjoyment. These days I am after well recorded music that I can get into and lucky enough I enjoy a whole range of stuff and the chase is as good as the kill.

Hey Tom, have you been reading my diary? (hehe). Can't believe you just said that - Peter Cincotti is playing this minute on my system!!!!....right as you sent this post off.
Never heard of the guy but picked up "East of Angel Town" on a whim a couple of weeks back and this fell way into the 30% of the stuff I ended up liking a lot. Great songs and done well and avoids the cheese factor. I intend getting more of his stuff on my next raid of the record store.
Now Michael Ball - was that the guy who used to sing in a bunch of west end type musicals etc, I am sure he is British. If so, back in the day when I lived in Ireland (I am Irish) he was a big name and could really yodel. Very good looking guy in those days too. Anyway, we used to have a weekly TV show called "Jim will Fix It" and the idea was that, say if you had always wanted to fly a plane, have dinner with a rock-star or whatever you could write in and Jim would try to fix it. Anyway, this nurse who worked in emergency wrote in saying she would love to meet Michael Ball. Jim set it up. He had Michael all bandaged up head to foot and he was rushed into the emergency room and the nurse proceeded to unwrap the bandages from his face - she nearly fainted. Very good set-up.
Anyway, I think you and me are on the same wavelength, so keep the recommendations coming.

Michael Bolton redux

Frankie Lymons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ZiVLWs65o&feature=player_embedded#

If you like romantic soulfull slowjam etc you may investigate some of my favorites.

Usher, Brian Mcknight, Gerald Levert, Maxwell, Keith Sweat and Montell Jordan. Many of their songs also contain excellent bass and very good percussion and rhythm lines. All are great singers in their field. Please no flames I did not say they were Sinatra or Cole, but very respectable in their genre.

If you like 70-80's remember Eric Carmen, Richard Marx, Harry Nilsson, Otis Redding, Paul Anka and Robert Guillet (sp)??

I heard Bubble plenty of times, but Frank is Frank, not the greatest range in the world, but great non-the-less.