The Beatles or The Rolling Stones or who ? ( or even the Who ? )

They aren't claiming Zepplin stole the entire song. Just the intro. They played them together back-to-back. Sounded sorta similar. But likely just coincidence.

I will never forget standing in line for Page/Plant tickets. There we are, all lined up, waiting for them to open the window. Then a guy comes out from the office, holds up two tickets, and shouts, "Who asked for the Barry Manilow tickets??"

Everybody started laughing. "Ahhhhhhhhhhh_______"

The guy who collected them was beat red. "They're not for me! No!" "Sure! That's what they all say!"

Was priceless.

Wait...what? Nope, he's still alive and kicking (or singing, or whatever), according to my research.

Amerika by Tonio K (1978 - Arista Records)

"Called 'a rousing original' by Rolling Stone when he burst onto the scene in 1978 with the classic Life in the Foodchain album, Tonio K. has had a rabid following since that release (Stereo Review called his debut 'the greatest album ever recorded,' then said that Amerika replaced it in that spot when it was released two years later!)."

Steve Krikorian may be the best artist you never heard of!

                              it was Jerry Vale.  Sorry if I got the name wrong Javan. One of the doh-wap singers from the 50's. NBC said he was good friends with Sinatra.  He was the singer in the movie Goodfellas.

Here's a fun interactive page.  It lists current and past male and female singers by vocal range, widest to narrowest, based on all of their recorded material.  The bar graph shows the range of notes, and if you move the cursor over a bar for a particular singer it identifies which are their lowest and highest known notes and which songs each occurred in.

There are some surprises (to me)-- for instance, Karen Carpenter was known for her low rich notes, but I thought she also ranged up to notes more normal to female singers.  Yet this shows her way down near the bottom of the list, with one of the narrowest ranges of all.

The top 5 widest vocal ranges?

1) Axl Rose
2) Mariah Carey
3) Prince
4) Steven Tyler
5) James Brown

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/20/top-artists-vocal-range_n_5357698.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

                    2 tunes come to mind with range. "Wave"-jazz tune. And The Star Spangled Banner.   Mel Torme had a good range, Tony Bennett had a good range. Steve and Eddie Gorme, Linda Ronstade, and of course, Strisand.   Lou Rawls had one of the deepest voices in history. Classical people would say Pavarotti, Placico Domingo. I know there' tenors, but the're wide ranging tenors. Let's not forget Ella Fitzgerald.

I would have guessed Paul McCartney, and he is pretty high on the list.  And yeah, MInnie Riperton ... five octave range!  She could hit and hold an F7.

A pretty wide range of singing styles on this group who all have B1 as the lowest note in thier recorded range:

Johnny Cash
Roger Daltrey
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Iggy Pop
Elvis Presley

And I find this interesting-- Jim Morrison and Robert Plant have almost identical ranges.  Same lowest note (E2) and Morrison goes one note higher than Plant (B-flat5 vs A5).  Plant and Mick Jagger do have identical ranges, and Nina Simone also matches their range at both ends.

Well, popular music stars do have a reputation of getting frisky with one another . . .

Cystem

Interesting post on the vocals.

Many surprises. I would have expected legemds such as Robert Plant and Steve Perry to rank much higher. And was Frank Sinatra even listed?

RonaldJosephCote wrote:

                    2 tunes come to mind with range. "Wave"-jazz tune. And The Star Spangled Banner.   Mel Torme had a good range, Tony Bennett had a good range. Steve and Eddie Gorme, Linda Ronstade, and of course, Strisand.  

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Did uou know Barbara Striesand and Bobby Fischer went to high school together?

She even admits having a crush on Bobby. But she never spoke up, so nothing happened.

What might have been.....

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                     I remember, Barbra admitted that in an old 60 Minutes segment. Your talking about early high school for them, mid 60's.

He wasn't on the list.  I see elsewhere his range is listed as from D2 to G#4, about 2.5 octaves, which toward the more narrow ranges on the list.  His low of D2 is shared with 5 male singers on the graph, but his upper range is substantially short of all five of them.

Sinatra: D2 to G#4
Eminem: D2 to F5
Lou Reed: D2 to F5
Buddy Holly: D2 to G5
Marvin Gaye: D2 to E-flat6
Steven Tyler: D2 to E6

Anybody who ranked below eminem should just find another job.

Lol

Thanks for the recent posts.

Sometimes info comes out about the lives of performers that can make a person rather sad. It seems that the 84 year old Australian singer Rolf Harris ( " Tie Me Kangaroo Down " ) is now on trial for the sexual abuse of 4 teenagers back in the 1968 to 1986 period. 

So did Frank Lentini

Thanks for the recent posts.

I see that the band " Queen " is now out touring with their new lead-singer. I gather that he won 1st place on a reality show and is quite talented so I hope that all goes well.

I'm having a great deal of trouble imagining anyone with a voice like Freddie M.